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"The white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only." "There is no stopping in the red zone." "The white zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only." "There is no stopping in the red zone." "Hello." "Take this flower from the Religious Consciousness Church." " Would you care to make a donation?" " No, but thank you anyway." "The red zone is for loading and unloading of passengers only." "There's no stopping in the white zone." "No." "The white zone is for loading and unloading." "There's no stopping in the red zone." "The red zone's always been for loading and unloading." "There's never stopping in a white zone." "Don't tell me which zone's for stopping and which is for loading." "Listen, Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again." "Hello." "Take this flower from the Religious Consciousness Church." "Would you like to make a donation?" "No, thanks." "We gave at the office." "Would you put all your metal objects into this dish, please?" "There's just no stopping in a white zone." "Really, Vernon, why pretend?" "We both know what you're talking about." "You want me to have an abortion." "It's the only sensible thing to do." "If it's done properly, therapeutically, there's no danger involved." "Taxi!" "I'll be back in a minute." "Hello, sir, take this flower from the Religious Consciousness Church." "Would you care..." " Hey, Larry, where's the forklift?" " Forklift?" "It's over there by the baggage loader." "Look out!" " Elaine." " Ted!" "I came home early and found your note." "I guess you meant for me to read it later." "I've got to talk to you." "I don't want to go over it any more." "Things haven't been right for a long time, but it'll be different, like in the beginning." "Just be patient and I'll work things out." "I have been patient and I've tried to help, but you wouldn't even let me do that." "Don't you feel anything for me any more?" "It takes so many things to make love last." "Most of all, it takes respect." "I can't live with a man I don't respect!" "What a pisser." "Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone." "Captain Clarence Oveur, white courtesy phone." "No, the white phone!" "This is Captain Oveur." "One moment for your call from the Mayo Clinic." "Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone." " I've got it!" " Thank you." "Go ahead with your call." "This is Dr Brody at the Mayo Clinic." "There's a passenger on your Chicago flight, a little girl named Lisa Davis, en route to Minneapolis." "She's scheduled for a heart transplant." "Tell her mother we found a donor." "The heart is ready for surgery." "We must have the recipient on the operating table within six hours." "Make sure she's kept in a reclined position, that a continuous watch is kept on her IV." "It's very important she remain calm..." "Excuse me, this is the operator." "I have an emergency call on line five from Mr Hamm." "Give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo." "You'll be back tomorrow night." "We'll have dinner." "We'll talk things over." "I won't be back." "I've requested the Atlanta run." "Elaine..." "I promise I can change." "Then why didn't you take the job that Louie Netz offered you at Boeing?" "I haven't been able to get near a plane since the war." "And they wouldn't hire me because of my war record." "War record?" "You're the only one keeping that alive." "For everyone else, it's ancient history." " You expect me to believe that?" " It's the truth." "What's hurt you the most is your record since the war - different cities, different jobs - and not one of them shows you can accept any real responsibility." " Elaine, just give me one more..." " It's too late, Ted." "When I get back to Chicago," "I'm going to start my life all over again." "I'm sorry." "Excuse me, take this flower from the Church of Religious..." "Hi!" "Well, good evening." "There you go." "Just follow them to the back." "Any word on that storm lifting over Salt Lake, Clarence?" "No, not likely, Victor." "I just reviewed the area report for 1600 hours through 2400." "There's an occluded front stalled over the Dakotas, backed up all the way to Utah." "If she decides to push over the Great Lakes, it could get plenty soupy." "What about that southern route around Tulsa?" "I double-checked the terminal forecast, and the wind's aloft and IFR ceilings all the way." "Where do they top out?" "Light scattered cover at 20,000, icing around 18." " Looks like over Denver is best." " Denver it is." "Sorry, Clarence." "Latest report shows everything's socked in from Salt Lake to Lincoln." "Hi, Roger." "Glad to have you aboard." "Victor, this is Roger Murdock." "Victor Basta." " How do you do?" " Nice to meet you." "I was telling Victor I reviewed the area report for 1600 hours through 2400." "There's an occluded front stalled over the Dakotas." "There you go." "Thank you." "Is Elaine Dickinson on this flight?" "The whole flight crew has boarded." "Let me see." "Oh, yes." "She is on board." "I'd like one ticket to Chicago." "No baggage." " Smoking or non-smoking?" " Smoking, please." "There." "Have a nice trip." "Striker, this is Red Leader Four." "Primary target covered by fog." "Decision to proceed is yours." "The decision is yours... is yours... is yours..." "Golly, that white fellow should stay away from my wife, or I will punch him." "Yes, he is wrong for doing that." "I knew a man in a similar predicament, and he ended up being sorry." "Don't be naive, Arthur." "Each of us faces a clear moral choice." "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." "How true!" "Golly!" "Nervous?" "Yes." "First time?" "No." "I've been nervous lots of times." "Hi." "We'll be taking off real soon, so I better fasten you in tight." "Thank you." "Oh, Mother, this is so exciting!" "I know, but remember, you must get some rest." "That's good advice." "You relax, and I'll be back after takeoff." "Thank you." " I'm going to miss you so much." " I'm going to miss you, too." "Promise you'll write?" "Every day." "Bill!" "Better get on board, son." "All aboard!" "209er to ground control." "We're ready to taxi." " Goodbye, Bill!" " Goodbye, darling!" "I love you, darling!" "209er, taxi to runway 19er." "Goodbye, darling!" "Have your picture taken the minute you get there and send me one." "OK." "Here, hurry." "It's your watch." "You shouldn't." "You're going to need this." "It's all right." "It doesn't work." " Bill!" " Goodbye, darling!" "Bill!" "Bill!" "Bill!" "I'll keep it with me all the time." "Goodbye, darling." "Take care of yourself." "Goodbye." " Flight 209er - clear for takeoff." " Roger." " LA departure frequency 123.9er." " Roger." " Request vector." "Over." " What?" "Flight 209er, clear for vector 324." " We have clearance, Clarence." " Roger, Roger." "What's our vector, Victor?" " I want radio clearance." "Over." " That's Clarence Oveur." "Over." " Roger." " Huh?" " Roger." "Over." " Huh?" "Who?" "Do you feel all right, sir?" "Oh, I haven't flown for a long time." "Good evening." "This is Captain Oveur speaking." "We'll be cruising at 36,000 feet this evening..." "Relax and enjoy your flight." "Would you like something to read?" "Do you have anything light?" "How about this leaflet, "Famous Jewish Sports Legends"?" "Yes." "Thank you." " Ted!" "What are you doing here?" " I've got to talk to you." "You shouldn't have come." "I don't have time now." " Stewardess?" " Excuse me." "But..." "No wonder you're upset." "She's lovely." "And a darling figure." "Supple, pouting breasts, firm thighs." "It's a shame you two don't get along." "Yes, I know." "Things used to be different." "I remember when we first met." "It was during the war." "I was in the air force, stationed in Drambuie, off the Barbary Coast." "I used to hang out at the Magumba Bar." "It was a rough place." "The seediest dive on the wharf, populated with every reject and cut-throat from Bombay to Calcutta." "It was worse than Detroit." "The mood in the place was ugly." "You wouldn't be there unless you knew how to use your fists." "A fight broke out almost every night." "I didn't go there that night to fall in love." "I just wanted a couple of drinks." "And suddenly, there she was." "I was captivated, entranced." "It hit me like a thunderbolt." "I had to asked this guy to pinch me to make sure I wasn't dreaming." "I was afraid to approach her, but that night, fate was on my side." "We laughed, we talked, we danced." "I never wanted it to end." "I guess I still don't." "Enough about me." "I hope this hasn't been boring for you." "Whenever I talk about Elaine, I get carried away." "I lose all track of time." "Would you like to order dinner?" "Joey will have steak." "We'll have fish." "When can I see the cockpit?" "The pilots are probably too busy flying the plane for that." "Aw, gee whizz!" "I'll talk to the captain and see what I can arrange." "Gee, that'd be swell!" "Would you care to order your dinners?" "I would like the steak, please." "I'll have the fish." "Excuse me, I happened to be passing." "I thought you might like some coffee." "That's very nice of you." "Thank you." " Won't you sit down?" " Thank you." " Cream?" " No, I take it black." "Like my men." "Ted, I never knew I could be so happy." "These past few months have been wonderful." "Tomorrow, why don't we drive to that little seafood place and..." " What's the matter?" " My orders came through." "My squadron ships out tomorrow." "We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours." "We're coming in from the north, below their radar." "When will you be back?" "I can't tell you that." "It's classified." "Oh, Ted, please be careful." "I worry about you so much." "I love you, Elaine." "I love you." "Flight 209er, this is Denver flight control." "You're approaching rough weather." "Please climb to 42,000 feet." " Roger, Denver." " We have a visitor." "Hello." "Captain Oveur, Mr Murdock, and Mr Basta, this is Joey Hammen." " Hi, Joey." " Come up here." "This is for special visitors." "Would you like to have it?" " Thank you." "Thanks a lot." " Sure." "Ever been in a cockpit?" "No, I've never been up in a plane before." "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?" " Shall I check the weather?" " No, why don't you take care of it?" "Joey, do you ever hang around a gymnasium?" " We'd better get back." " No, Joey can stay for a while." " Could I?" " OK, if you don't get in the way." "Flight 209er to Denver, climbing to cruise at 42,000." "Will report again over Lincoln." "Over and out." "Wait a minute, I know you." "You're Kareem Abdul Jabbar." "You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers." "Sorry, you have me confused with someone else." "My name's Roger Murdock." "I'm the co-pilot." "You are Kareem!" "I've seen you play." "My dad's got season tickets." "You should go back to your seat now." "Right, Clarence?" "No, he's not bothering anyone." "Let him stay here." "All right, but just remember my name is Roger Murdock." "I'm an airline pilot." "I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defence." "And he says lots of times you don't even run downcourt." "And you don't try, except during play-offs." "The hell I don't!" "Listen, kid, I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA." "I'm out there busting my buns every night." "Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes." "Joey..." "Do you like movies about gladiators?" "Elaine, just hear me out." "Things haven't been right for a long time, but it'll be different, like in the beginning, remember?" "I remember everything." "All I have is memories." "Mostly, I remember the nights we were together." "I remember how you used to hold me, and how I used to sit on your face and wriggle, and... afterwards, how we'd watch till the sun came up." "When it did, it was almost like... like each new day was created only for us." "That's the way I've always wanted it to be." "But it won't be." "Not as long as you insist on living in the past!" "You're too low, Ted!" "You're too low!" "The mind plays tricks on you." "He looks so happy today, doesn't he?" "You look so happy today." "OK, Robert, slip them down." "This won't hurt much." "You got a telegram from headquarters today." "Headquarters?" "What is it?" "A big building where generals meet, but that's not important." "They've cleared you of any blame for what happened on that raid." " Isn't that good news?" " Is it?" "Because of my mistake, six men didn't return from that raid." "Seven." "Lieutenant Zip died this morning." "But Dr Sandler says you'll be out in a week." "Isn't that wonderful?" "I wish I could say the same for George Zip." "Be patient, Ted." "Nobody expects you to get over this immediately." "Hey, Striker, how about a break?" "I'm getting tired." "Yeah, all right." "Take five." "Thanks." "I found a wonderful apartment for us." "It has a brick fireplace and a cute bedroom with mirrors on the ceiling and..." "Red Leader!" "Red Leader, I'm going down!" "Captain Geline." "He think he's a pilot, still fighting the war." "I've found the tunnel, Johnson!" "It's this way!" "$25 for a cigarette is too much!" " What's his problem?" " It's Lieutenant Hurwitz." "Severe shell shock." "He thinks he's Ethel Merman." "War is hell." "Excuse me, sir." "Would you like coffee before dinner?" "No." "No, thank you." " Would you like another cup?" " I will, but Jim won't." "I think I will have another cup of coffee." "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home." " Excuse me, sister." " Yes?" "There's a little girl onboard who's ill." "Oh, yes, I saw." "Poor child." "Could I borrow your guitar?" "I thought maybe I could cheer her up." " Of course." " Thank you." " Hi." " Hi." "Do you mind if I talk to your daughter?" "I think that'd would be nice." " Hi, I'm Randy." " I'm Lisa." "Oh, you have a guitar!" "I thought maybe you'd like to hear a song." "I'd love to." "OK." "Let's see..." "This is one of my favorites." "You're late." "We've been waiting." " Who's first?" " Go ahead, Clarence." "How's the weather?" "We got some heavy stuff ahead." "We've got to climb on top." "Yeah, after the war, I wanted to get as far away as possible, so Elaine and I joined the Peace Corps." "We were assigned to an isolated tribe, the Molombos." "They'd never seen Americans before." "It was really a challenge, introducing them to our western culture." "At first, they didn't know what to think of us." "But soon, we gained their trust." "It'll help you better prepare storing foods for the up and coming monsoon months." "Also, Supperware products are ideal for storing leftovers to help stretch your food dollar." "This two-quart "Seals-M-Rite" container keeps hot dog buns fresh for days." "These people had been completely isolated from civilization." "No one had outlined a physical fitness program for them, and they had no athletic equipment." "I started them on simple calisthenics, worked up to rudimentary game skills, and finally, advanced competitive theory." "I was patient, and they were eager to learn." "They seemed to enjoy themselves." "Probably due to advanced American teaching techniques, we bridged the generations of isolation, and communicated successfully with the Molombos." "They're getting the hang of it." "When we re-enlist, I'll teach them baseball." "Ted, I don't want to stay here." "It's time to go home to the plans we made before the war." "A lot of people made plans before the war." "Like George Zip." "At that moment, I realised Elaine had doubts about our relationship." "And that, as much as anything else, led to my drinking problem." "We did come back to the States." "I tried a number of jobs." "I could go on, but I'd probably bore you." "I couldn't blame Elaine." "She wanted a career." " I can't stand it." " What is it?" " Yes?" " It's my stomach." "I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film." "I'll see if I can find some dramamine." "Captain, a woman passenger is very sick." "Airsick?" "I think so, but I've never seen it so acute." "Find out if a doctor's onboard as quietly as you can." "Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" "I shouldn't have had that second cup of coffee." "Jim never vomits at home." "Sorry to wake you." "I'm looking for a doctor." "There's nothing to worry about." "Stewardess, I think the man next to me is a doctor." "Sir, excuse me." "Sorry to wake you, are you a doctor?" " That's right." " We have sick passengers." " Could you come look at them?" " Yes." "Yes, of course." "Let me see your tongue." "I'll be back in a minute." "Tell the captain to land." "She must go to a hospital." "A hospital!" "What is it?" "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important." " I must speak to the captain." " Certainly." "Victor, we're running into heavy..." "Roger, take over!" " Captain, how soon can you land?" " I can't tell." " You can tell me." "I'm a doctor." " No, I'm not sure." " Can't you take a guess?" " Not for another two hours." "You can't take a guess for another two hours?" "No, we can't land." "Fog has closed down everything." "We've got to get through to Chicago." "Get him out of there!" "What is it, Doctor?" "What's going on?" "I'm not sure." "Haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant Concert." " What did we have for dinner?" " We had a choice - steak or fish." "Yes, I remember." "I had Lasagna." " What did he have?" " He had fish." "Doctor, two more are sick." "The other passengers are worried." "We'll handle the passengers." "Find out what the sick people had for dinner." "This is Captain Oveur speaking." "It's bumpy, but we'll be past it in a few minutes." "We're now flying over Hoover Dam, and later we'll pass south of the Grand Canyon." "Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight, OK?" "Chicago, this is flight 209er." "We're in trouble." "We need traffic below us cleared and priority landing in Chicago." "Yes?" "My husband's very sick." "Can you do something?" "The doctor will be with you in just a moment." "Do you know what he had for dinner?" "Yes, we both had fish." "Why?" "It's nothing to be alarmed about." "We'll be back to you very quickly." "Doctor, Mr Hammen ate fish, and Randy said there are five more cases, and they all had fish." "The co-pilot had fish." "What did the navigator have?" "He had fish." "All right, now we know what we're up against." "Those who had fish for dinner will soon become violently ill." " Just how serious is it?" " Extremely serious." "It starts with a slight fever, dryness of the throat." "When the virus penetrates, the victim becomes dizzy, and begins to experience an itching rash." "From there, the poison works on the central nervous system, causing severe muscle spasms, followed by the inevitable drooling." "At this point, the digestive system collapses, accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence." "Until, finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering, wasted piece of jelly." "Put it on... automatic pilot." "Automatic pilot, automatic pilot..." "There it is!" "I'll go back to the passengers." "Come in, 209er." "This is Chicago." "Flight 209er, come in." "This is Elaine Dickinson, the stewardess." "Captain Oveur's passed out." "We've lost the co-pilot and navigator, too." "We're in trouble." "Roger." "I'm Steve McCroskey, Chicago air control." "I'll be back in a moment." "Hold all takeoffs." "When 508 reports, bring it straight in." "Suspend all meal service on flights leaving Los Angeles." "Tell all dispatchers to remain at the post." " How about coffee?" " No, thanks." "I want the weather on every available landing field." "You understand?" "Any place available to land that plane!" "Go to the tower and get a runway diagram." "Check down the field for emergency equipment." "Chief, we got fog every place east of the Rockies." "They'll have to come through to Chicago." "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking." "Get the best available man who won't crack under pressure." "How about Mr Rogers?" "Get me Rex Kramer." "Next to the throttle is the air speed gauge." "What speed does it indicate?" " 520 miles per hour." " Good." "Very good." "Now, check your altitude." "That's the dial below and right of the speed indicator." "35,000 feet." "No, wait. 34,000 feet." "No." "It's dropping!" "It's dropping fast!" "Why is it doing that?" "Oh, my God!" "The automatic pilot, it's deflating!" "Elaine, don't panic." "On his belt line there's a hollow tube." "That's the manual inflation nozzle." "Pull it out and blow on it." "What the hell's going on up there?" " Elaine." " Yes, Doctor?" "Elaine, you're a member of this crew." " Can you face some unpleasant facts?" " No." "Unless we hospitalise those people quickly," "I can't be sure of saving their lives." "Is there anyone on board who can land this plane?" "Well..." "No." "No one I know of." "You ought to know our chances." "Our lives depend on just one thing - finding someone to fly this plane who didn't have fish for dinner." "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking." "We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement caused." "This is due to periodic air pockets." "There's no reason to become alarmed." "We hope you enjoy your flight." "By the way, is there anyone on board who can fly a plane?" "Hello." "I'm Paul Carey from the airline." " I'm here to pick up Captain Kramer." " Yes." "Come in, Paul." "Rex will be right out." "Shep, sit." "Sit!" "I understand there's an emergency." "Something like that." "There wasn't time to tell me very much..." "Shep, no!" "I'll bet exciting things happen all the time down there." "Airline business does have its moments." "After a while, you get used to it." "Shep!" "Come!" "He gets so excited when new people are here." " Are you a pilot?" " No, I'm in... a training program." "It's unbelievable." "It's just unbelievable." "How many times have I warned about food inspection?" "You'd think someone would listen to you." "Well, airport management, the FAA, and the airlines... they're all cheats and liars." "All right." "Let's get out of here." "I'm sorry, I was just looking for someone with flying experience." "When they built those roads, they didn't think about drainage, so we had to take a special jeep up to the main road." "We were lucky to get a jeep, since, just the day before, only one we had broke down." "It had a bad axle..." "Excuse me, sir." "There's a problem in the cockpit." "The cockpit?" "What is it?" "The little room where the pilot sits." "That's not important." "The first officer is ill, and the captain needs someone to help him with the radio." "Do you know anything about planes?" "I flew in the war years ago." "I wouldn't know anything about it." "Would you go up, please?" "The stewardess said..." " Both pilots?" " Can you fly this plane and land it?" "Surely, you can't be serious." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley." "Doctor, I've checked everyone." "Mr Striker's the only one." "What's your flying experience?" "I flew single-engine fighters, but this plane has four engines." "It's an entirely different kind of flying... altogether." "It's an entirely different kind of flying." "I haven't touched any kind of plane in six years." "Mr Striker, I know nothing about flying." "You're the only one on this plane who can possibly fly it." "You're the only chance we've got." "That's right." "That's what I said." "You heard me." "Tell Omaha to acknowledge and stand by." "Every piece of emergency equipment available." "Alert rescue units every mile of the way, from here to the Rockies." "Chief!" "We'll need a free-landing flight check." "Fast." " It's your wife." " I want the kids in bed by nine, the dog fed, the yard watered, the gate locked." "Get a note to the milkman - "No more cheese."" "Where the hell is Kramer?" "No, he can't do that." "The risk of a flame-out's too great." "Keep him at 24,000..." "No, feet." "A passenger is going to land that plane." " Is that possible?" " It's a hundred to one shot." " I know this guy." " You do?" "Who is it?" "Ted striker." "I flew with him during the war." "It won't make my job easier." "Ted Striker was a crack flight leader." "He was one of those men who..." "felt too much inside." "Maybe you know that kind." "He went all to pieces on a particular mission." "Let's just hope that doesn't happen tonight." "Let's see..." "Altitude, 24,000 feet." "Level flight." "Speed, 520 knots." "Course Zero Niner Zero." "Trim, mixture." "Wash, soap, rinse, spin." "Ted!" "What are you doing here?" "You can't fly this plane!" "That's what I'm trying to tell them." "Elaine." "I don't have time to be gentle, so I'll be very direct." "Everyone is in a desperate situation." "Mr Striker is the only hope we got." "Those are the flaps." "This is the thrust." "This must turn on the landing lights." " Mayday!" "Mayday!" " Mayday?" "What the hell is that?" "May Day's the Russian new year." "We'll have a big parade and serve..." "I can't stand it any more." "I've got to get out of here!" "Calm down!" "Get a hold of yourself!" " Please let me handle this." " I've got to get out..." "Calm down." "Get to your seat." "I'll handle it." "Calm down." "Get ahold of yourself." "Doctor, you're wanted on the phone." "Everything will be all right." " Sister, I can handle this." " Got to get out of here!" "We'd like you to have this flower." "Excuse me, sir, would you..." "Donations for Reverend Moon?" "Jews for Jesus?" "Read about Jehovah's Witness?" "How about Buddhism?" "Help Jerry's kids?" " Scientology?" " For nuclear power?" "Your attention, please." "No-frills passengers now arriving." "Please have your baggage claim checks ready to show upon leaving the terminal." "This guy has no airline experience." "He's a menace to everything in the air." "Yes, birds, too." "OK, he's a terrible risk, but what other choice have we got?" "That's the whole story, Rex." "Everything we know." "Let's face a few facts." "I flew with Striker during the war." "He can't afford to worry about those times when... things weren't so good." " Right now things aren't so good." " Let me tell you something." "Striker was a top-notch squadron leader long ago." "Get on the horn and talk that guy down." "Let him get the feel of that airplane, then you'll have to talk him right down to the ground." "Very well." "Put Striker on the speaker." "Use my radio." "I took the wrong week to quit drinking." "You can work them direct from here, Captain." "Striker?" "Striker, this is Captain Rex Kramer speaking." "Yes, Captain Kramer." "Read you loud and clear." "All right." "It's obvious you remember me." "What do you say we forget about everything, except what we must do?" "Let's not kid each other, Kramer." "You know I've never flown a bucket like this." " I'll need all the luck there is." " Stand by, Striker." "Our one hope is to build this man up." "I've got to give him confidence." "Striker, you ever flown a multi-engine plane?" " No, never." " Shit!" "It's a goddamn waste of time." "There's no way he can land it!" "You got to talk him down!" "You got to!" "Route him into Lake Michigan." "At least avoid killing innocent people." "You're the only chance they've got." "All right." "Striker, you listen, and you listen close." "Flying a plane is like riding a bicycle." "It's just harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." "First, get the feel of the plane." "Later, we'll run down the landing procedure." "All right." "Disengage the automatic pilot." "Make no violent control movements like you did in the fighter planes." "All right." "I'll unlock the automatic pilot." "The controls will feel very heavy compared to a fighter." "Don't worry about that." "It's perfectly normal." "Now, one more thing." "Can somebody work the radio and leave you free for flying?" "The stewardess is here with me." "Good." "Have her sit in the co-pilot seat." "Elaine, he wants you to sit in the co-pilot seat." "What's going on?" "We have a right to know the truth." "All right, I'll level with you all." "The most important thing is that you remain calm." "There's no reason to panic." "It's true one of the crew members is ill." "Slightly ill." "The other two pilots are fine." "They're flying the plane, free to pursue a life of religious fulfilment." "The radio is all yours." "Keep an eye on number three engine gauge." "It's running a little hot." "Striker, first I'd like to say something." "I know things must look pretty rough up there." "If you do what I tell you when I tell you, there's no reason you should lack confidence in your chances of coming out alive and in one piece." "What weather are you in?" " Rain." " And a little ice." "And a little ice." " How's it handling?" " Sluggish." "Like a wet sponge." "Sluggish." "Like a wet sponge." "All right, Striker." "You're doing just fine." "It's damn good he doesn't know I hate his guts." "It's damn good you don't know he hates your guts." "Can I get you something?" "I'm sorry." "I don't understand." " Stewardess." "I speak jive." " Good." "He said he's in great pain, and he wants to know if you can help him?" "Tell him to relax." "I'll be back with some medicine." "Call Captain Oveur's wife and let her know what's going on." "This weather bulletin just came off the wire." "What can you make out of this?" "This?" "I can make a hat or a brooch or pterodactyl..." " Hello?" " Mrs Oveur?" "Yes, this is Mrs Oveur." "This is Ed Macias calling from the airport." "There's trouble on your husband's flight." "We don't know how serious it is, but Steve McCroskey thought you'd want to come over right away." "Yes." "I'll be right down." "I've got to go to the airport." "You can let yourself out the back door." "There's juice in the refrigerator." "Doctor says the sick people are getting worse." "We're running out of time." "I've got to concentrate." "I've got to concentrate." "Hello?" "Echo!" "Pinch hitting for Pedro Bourbone," "Manny Mota." " How you doing, honey?" " Jack, I'm so hot, I'm burning up." "I'll turn on some air." " What's going on?" " Close the window!" "Chicago, the passengers are panicking." "When do we start down?" "Not yet." "You'll be in radar range any second now." "They should have been in range 10 minutes ago." "Gunderson, check the radar range." "Anything yet?" "About two more minutes, chief." "Two minutes?" "They could be miles off course." "Impossible!" "They're on instruments." "This is going to be a real sweat." "Gunderson, let me know when you get anything." "Got a cigarette, Nels?" "I can't take much more of this." "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines." " Johnny, how about some more coffee?" " No, thanks." "These reporters want a statement." " How much longer can they hold out?" " 30, 45 minutes." " Who's flying the plane?" " A passenger." "He's an experienced air force pilot." "No cause for alarm." " Take over." " What kind of plane?" "It's a big, pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains and wheels." "It looks like a big tylenol." "OK, boys." "Let's get some pictures." "This bulletin just handed to me." "Stricken airliner approaching Chicago..." "Shana, they bought their tickets." "They knew what they were getting into." "I say, let them crash!" " Would you like some whisky, ma'am?" " Certainly not!" "How are the passengers?" "I won't deceive you, Mr Striker." "We're running out of time." "Surely, there's something you can do." "I'm doing everything I can... and stop calling me Shirley." "Randy, are you all right?" "Oh, Dr Rumack." "I'm scared." "I've never been so scared..." "And besides, I'm 26 and I'm not married." "We're going to make it." "You've got to believe that." "Dr Rumack, do you have any idea when we'll be landing?" "Pretty soon." "How are you bearing up?" "To be honest, I've never been so scared, but at least I have a husband." "Stay in formation." "Target's just ahead." "Target should be clear if you go in low enough." "You'll have to decide." "You'll have to decide." "You'll have to decide." "Stay in formation." "Target's just ahead." "Target should be clear if you go in low enough." "You'll have to decide." "You'll have to decide." "You'll have to decide." "Oh, rats!" "Lost number four." "What happened?" "What went wrong?" "I forgot to check the oil pressure." "When Kramer hears about this, the shit's going to hit the fan." "I told him to watch that oil temperature." "What's he doing?" "Stiker, that plane can't land itself." "Ease off." "It's not his fault." "It could happen to any pilot." "It happened to Barbara Stanwyck." "Can't push him too hard." "Might break." "Remember who you're dealing with." "Nick, Pete, Jerry, there's a fire in the barn." "He's right." "I can't take the pressure." "I was crazy to think I could land this plane." " But, Ted, you're the only..." " I don't care." "I don't have what it takes." "They would be better off with someone who's never flown before." "Bad news." "Fog's getting thicker." "And Leon's getting larger." "I know what you're going to say, so save your breath." "Well, I don't have a thing to say." "You've done the best you could." "You really have." "The best you could." "We can't expect to win them all." "I want to tell you something I've kept to myself through these years." "I was in the war." "Medical corps." "One night, they brought in a badly wounded pilot from one raid." "He could barely talk." "He looked up at me, he said," ""The odds were against us there, but we went in anyway." ""I'm glad." "Captain made the right decision."" "The pilot's name was George Zip." "George Zip said that?" "The last thing he said to me," ""Doc," he said, "Sometime..." ""...the crew is up against it." ""The breaks are beating the boys." ""Tell them to give it all they've got" ""and win just one for the Zipper." ""I don't know where I'll be then," he said..." ""but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."" "Excuse me, doc." "I've got a plane to land." "You'd better stay up there a bit." "When the fog lifts, we'll bring you in." "I'll take it, Elaine." "Listen, Dr Rumack says the sick people are in critical condition." "Every minute counts." "We've got to land now." "Don't be a fool, Striker." "You know what landing like this means." "I'm ordering you to stay up there." "No dice, Chicago." "I'm giving the orders, and we're coming in." "I guess the foot's on the other hand now." "He'll never make it in this soup." "But it's his ship now." "He's in charge." "He's boss, head man, top dog, big cheese, head honcho..." "Captain, look at this." ""Passengers certain to die."" ""Airline negligent."" "There's a sale at Penny's!" "I'll need three men in the tower." "You, Neubauer, you, Macias." "Me John." "Big tree." "Striker, we're going to the tower." "Good luck." "They're going to the tower." "The tower!" "The tower!" "Rapunzel!" "Rapunzel!" "Stewardess, how soon till we land?" "It won't be long now." "Try not to worry." "We're all ready, sir." "Captain McCroskey, this is Captain Roberts." "Captain Kramer, this is Captain Colosimo." "Captain Hinshaw, this is Captain Gantz." "Captain Kramer, Captain Gantz." "Captain Hinshaw, Captain Roberts." "Colosimo, you work the relay." "Roberts, check air traffic." "Get that finger out of your ear." "You don't know where it's been." " Steve!" " Got a cigarette, Nels?" "Linda, your husband and the others are alive but unconscious." "Just like Gerald Ford." "There's a chance we can save them if Striker lands that plane in time." "That isn't much of a chance." "I don't know." "We're doing everything we can." "Now excuse me." "Where did you get that dress?" "It's awful!" "And those shoes and that coat!" "Geez!" "8 miles." "Turn right to heading 044." "We're now at 2,000 feet beginning our descent." " Pour every light onto that field." " It's being done." "Tower to emergency vehicles, runway is niner." "Airport vehicles, take positions one and two." "Civilian equipment, number three." "Air force, positions four and five." "All ambulances go to number three." "Air Israel, please clear the runway." "In a moment, we'll ask you to assume crash positions." "Life jackets are under your seat." "Place it over your head." "When I give the word, pull the cord on the right side flap." "Your seat cushions are also equipped with a flotation device." "WZAZ in Chicago, where disco lives forever." "Your altitude's too erratic." "You can't come straight in." "You've got enough fuel for two hours." "I'll take it, Elaine." "Listen to me, Kramer." "We have people up here who will die in less than an hour." "I may bend your precious airplane, but I'll get it down." " The passengers are ready." " Thanks, Randy." "You better leave, sweetheart." "You might get hurt up here." " Ted..." " Yes?" "I wanted you to know... now..." "I'm very proud." "Tell them the gear is down and we're ready to land." "The gear is down, and we're ready to land." "He's on final now." "Put out all runway lights except niner." "Captain, maybe we ought to turn on the searchlights." "No." "That's just what they'll be expecting us to do." "I want to tell you both good luck." "We're all counting on you." "Now listen carefully." "You'll see the runway at 300 feet." "Touch down a third of the way." "A slight cross wind, so be ready." "Land too fast, use your emergency brakes." "Red handle's right in front." "If that doesn't stop you..." "If that doesn't stop you, cut the four ignition switches." "Can you see us now?" "You should be able to see the field." " Sure is quiet out there." " Yeah, too quiet." "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." "There it is." "There he is!" "Striker, you're coming in too fast." "I know, I know!" "He knows, he knows!" "Below 700 now." "Still going down." "675, 650, 625, he's holding." "No, he's down, he's down." "Sound your alarm now." "Now, everybody, get in crash positions." "Put down 30 degrees of flap." "All right, listen to me." "Remember your brakes and switches." "Get ready to flare it out!" "He's all over the place." "900 up to 1,300 feet." "What an asshole." "More left rudder." "Put down more flap." "Just kidding!" "Striker, lift your nose." "Straighten your wings." "Coming in too fast." "Watch your speed." "He's coming right at us!" "Coming in too hot." "Ease up on the throttle." "Watch out for that cross wind." "Level it out." "You'll have to dip your left wing." "You're drifting." "Keep your eyes on the far end of the runway." "You're too low, damn it!" "Watch your stall speed." "Flare it out!" "Ease her down." "Down!" "The brake!" "Pull the red handle!" "I want to tell you both good luck." "We're all counting on you." "Flight 209 now arriving at gate eight." "Gate nine." "Gate ten." "Pull out of it!" "Push that button!" "Gate 13..." "Gate 14." "Gate 15..." "Auntie Em!" "Toto!" "It's a twister!" "Gate 23, 24, 25..." "I want to tell you both good luck." "We're all counting on you." "Striker?" " Striker, are you all right?" " Yeah." "We're OK." "Ted, that was probably the lousiest landing in the history of this airport." "But some of us, particularly me, would like to buy you a drink and shake your hand." "And, Ted, when the going got rough..." "Have a nice day." "OK." "Have a nice day and thank you for flying TransAmerican." "Loneliness, that's the bottom line." "I was never happy as a child." "Christmas, what does that mean to you?" "Mine was living hell." "Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head by an iron boot?" "Of course not." "It never happens." "Sorry." "That's a dumb question." "Skip that." "There you go." "Have a nice day." "Municipal bonds, Ted." "Talking double "A" rating." "Best investment in America." "Well, I'll give him another 20 minutes, but that's it."

"Daiei Motion Picture Company" "SANSHO THE BAILIFF" "Produced by Masaichi Nagata" "Based on a story by Ogai Mori" "Screenplay by F. Yahiro and Y. Yoda" "Director of Photography Kazoo Miyagawa" "Art Direction:" "Kisaku Ito" "Music:" "Fumio Hayasaka" "Cast" "Tamaki:" "Kinuyo Tanaka Zushio:" "Yoshiaki Hanayagi" "Anju:" "Kyoko Kagawa" "Bailiff Sansho:" "Eitaro Shindo Taro:" "Akitake Kono" "Masauji Taira:" "Masao Shimizu Prime Minister Fujiwara:" "Ken Mitsuda" "Namiji:" "Noriko Tachibana" "Norimuna:" "Kazukimi Okuni" "The guard:" "Goro Nakamishi" "The farmer:" "Eiji Ishikura" "The courtesan:" "Keiko Koyahagi" "Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi" "The origin of this legend of Sansho Dayu (The Bailiff) goes back to medieval times when Japan had not yet emerged from the Dark Ages... and mankind had yet to awaken as human beings." "Zushio, be careful!" "OK" "Mother." "What is it, dear?" "How did it happen that father ended up in faraway Tsukushi?" "He's a great man, isn't he?" "Certainly." "He is a man of justice, a fine man." "I thought so!" "Father!" "Zushio-sama!" "Zushio-sama!" "Don't be wild!" "Make room!" " We're not trying to do anything wild." " We came to appeal." "Then calm down!" "You're the Governor General?" "Master,please show us your face!" "We're all here for you!" " What good will that do?" " We'll have Master's transfer canceled!" "Transfer is a pretense!" "It means exile!" "What kind of nonsense is that?" "They punished him because of us!" "We can't be silent!" "Let's all go to the General's office to appeal!" "Wait, wait!" "I know you love our Master." "But this would be against his wishes!" "Be sensible and listen to us." "For thirteen years, famines have caused you sufferings." "To live, you need every working hand you have." "That was why the Master opposed the Governor General's demand for more men to fight wars and more rice to tax." "His attempt to help you was overruled." "If you make a false step now, you too will be punished!" "That's right!" "If you riot, he'll be blamed!" "He'll be accused of rebellion!" "So return to your homes!" "You're too lenient!" "This is a revolt!" "Kill them!" "What are you talking about?" "I will not approve that!" "Never!" "What insolence." "You're no longer the Governor, remember?" "Zushio-sama." "It's roasted." "I am sorry I have caused you trouble, Uncle." "You've involved us all." "Aren't you sorry for your wife and children?" "Peasants are to be pitied as well." "Nonsense!" "Peasants are peasants!" "You fool!" "Take the children to your parent's home, to Iwashiro, Tamaki." "Yes." "Tell them..." "I'm sorry they trusted a man such as I." "Zushio." "You will become a stubborn man like me?" "You may be too young to understand." "But listen," "Without mercy, a man is not a human being." "Be hard on yourself, but merciful to others." "Men are created equal." "Everyone is entitled to happiness." "Our family treasure... the Goddess of Mercy." "Keep it as a remembrance of my principle...and of me." "Now, repeat what I've just told you." ""Without mercy, man is not a human being."" ""Be hard on yourself, but merciful to others."" ""Men are created equal." "Everyone is entitled to happiness."" " Do you remember your father's face?" " Yes." " And his teachings, do you remember them also?" " Yes." "Zushio, you have to say goodbye now." "Anju, you will be a lovely lady, hmm?" " Take care of your sister and mother." " Yes." "We're not parting forever." "Be hopeful and brave." "I never dreamed that I might have to leave this province." "Governor!" "..." "Master!" "Come on, let's hurry." "We must find an inn." "We are traveling, children, the road Father walked." "Father." "My lady!" "My lady!" "No lodging is available in this area." "Is that so?" "Bandit gangs and slave dealers frequent this place, posing as travelers." "They've been kidnapping women and children." "So the Governor has prohibited accommodating travelers, I hear." "Bandits and slave dealers?" " What trouble we're in." " What can we do?" "Let's find a place to camp." "We have no other choice." "Camp, ma'am?" "Yes." "Lets build a shelter before it gets dark." "Zushio, Anju, help us, will you?" "Here you go." "Mother, do you need more?" "Yes, get more thatch and soft grass for our beds." " Come, Anju." " Yes." "This branch, Brother." "You can't break it by yourself, Anju." "Mother is calling us." " C'mon, it's just the sound of the wind." " No, it's Mother!" "Anju!" "Come back here quickly!" "Zushio!" "..." "Anju!" "..." " You two must be famished." " This should help some." " What's that?" " Wolves, ma'am." "Don't worry." "They won't come near a fire." "Stop worrying." "It's all right, dear." "It's all right." "I'm sorry we haven't any hot food." "I'll get some rice gruel from a farmer." "And some bedding, if I can." "I'll be right back." "I appreciate your effort." "Who is it?" "What on earth are you doing here?" "We are travelers." "We are here as no lodging is obtainable." "Oh, I'm so sorry." "The cold night wind is harmful to children." "Come to my place." "I can give you some hot gruel." "I appreciate your kindness." "But I don't want to involve you." "Just come quickly." "The authorities will overlook us, if it's only for a night, I'm sure." " Come, quickly." " Thank you... but, there s one more person with us." "Another person?" "Is this person...a man or a woman?" "A woman, the children's nurse." "Then it's all right." "Imagine a man lodging with a priestess." "I was able to get some straw mats, but no food, my lady." "It's all right." "The priestess has generously offered us shelter." " Oh, really?" " All right, let' go." "Thank you." "It's more than our pleasure." "Thank you." "Thank you." "How can I ever thank you enough!" "No problem." "Better than wasting my time serving God..." "But even my family..." "Hard times..." "You stayed six years at your brother's home in Iwashiro?" "That's right." "Even brothers and sisters, when they get married..." "Thanks to your meal, they could fall asleep." "And what's your plan of travel?" "Go by sea." "By land it's impossible." "Huge waves snatch the travelers away from the shore road." "And the hills are infested with bandits." " Is the sea quite safe?" " Certainly." "I know reliable boatmen." " I'll ask them for you." " Thank you." "I made all the arrangements while you were asleep." " How can we thank you?" " Not at all." "Thank you." "Here they are." "Please take good care of them." "Certainly." "Come this way." "Please get on the boat." "I'll never forget your kindness." "Zushio, Anju, thank the lady." " Thank you, ma'am." " Farewell." "Farewell, farewell." "I'll be praying for your safe voyage." "Thank you." " Com, lady, you are first." "Miss Anju, Master Zushio, hurry." "Get back, I'll help the children." "The children will ride this boat." "Sailing is faster with fewer people." "That won't do." "I must ride in the same boat as my children." " Please!" " Shut up!" "Mother!" "Priestess, are you sure they're reliable?" "You'll be taken together to the right place!" " Mother!" " Mother!" "I'll give you all the money." "Please go back." "Please row back." "Please!" "Mother!" "Row back, please!" "Mother!" "Mother!" "Go back!" "Go back!" "Ubatake!" "Ubatake!" "Those kids." "These kids?" "They're too small!" " They're smart, very useful." " How much?" "Four fifty for one." "Eight for two." "They look weak." "Sick?" "Where'd I be?" "No way." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Enough of the sobbing." "Your Ma's sold to Sado Island." "She cannot hear you crying." "Stop it!" "Or you'll get no food!" "Please, I must dispose of them." "Have a heart!" "Go to Tango Province." "See Bailiff Sansho." " Bailiff Sansho?" " He's the richest person there." "He'll buy from you." "Don't waste your time around here." "Hurry!" "Hey!" "Don't be standing around!" "The kids are here." "Bow to the master." "You paid for these weaklings?" "You fool, what can they do?" "They're unfit for rough work, Pa." "Let them sweep the yard." "No, they cost me money." "They have to work." "They must." "What are your names?" " They won't tell, Master." " Why not?" "Stubborn kids, eh?" "Take them away." "Go, get up!" "Have no mercy on them!" "Walk!" "Walk!" " Brother!" " Anju!" "Brother!" "Anju!" "Where are you going?" "Come here!" "Kayano, get this newcomer started." " She should be playing with dolls!" " What's that?" " No kidding." " Don't argue." "Put her to work." "I can't believe this." " Here, come try." " Okay." " Can you walk?" " Yes." "Beast!" "That heartless demon!" "I don't know who sold you, but..." "Poor thing!" "Get up." "Come on." "Brother!" "Forgive me please!" "I beg you!" "I wasn't trying to escape!" "I really wasn't!" "These kids reminded me of mine back home." "I just went to the third gate." "Fool!" "That's as bad as trying to escape!" "Forgive me!" "Forgive me!" " What are going to do?" " Give her what's due, of course." "It's Namiji?" "Will they kill her?" " Of course not." "They won't kill us." " They hate to lose a worker." "Confine her?" "Don't you know what a caught runaway slave gets?" "Look at this." "I won't do it again!" "Forgive me!" "I won't do it again!" "She's apologizing." "You don't need to stigmatize her!" "Those one's should be given a lesson." "You do it, Taro." "You weakling." "Don't look." "Eat your supper and start your night work, you!" "Get in here." "Where were you sold from?" "Come here..." "Tell me." "Don't be afraid." "You got parents?" "They sold you?" "My father never would!" ""Father" you say?" "Evidently no peasant's kids." "How were you sold?" "Tell me everything." "Here, have some rice cake." "It's even roasted well." "Put that over there." "When a messenger from the Minister of the Right is coming, Taro chooses to disappear!" "Kichiji!" "Kichiji!" "Where's Taro?" "Go find him!" "The visitor will be here any moment." "Bring the women, put some make-up on them!" "Bring some sake!" "Are you ready?" "Children like you...are bought and sold treated like animals and nobody questions it." "What a horrible world!" "Tell me your father's words again." ""Without mercy, man is not a human being."" ""Be hard on yourself, but merciful to others."" "I wish I could get you to your parents." "But Sado is far" "Tsukushi is even further." "No children can go." "Wait until you grow up!" "Be patient during the while!" "I see why you kept your names secret." "But you'll need names all the same." "I'll name you." "You are... "Young Mutsu," after your birthplace." "You'll have many hardships to endure." "So "Shinobu," (endure)." "Ok?" "Master Taro!" "The messenger from the Minister is coming." "You have to go back to the Hall." "Tell my father you couldn't find me." "He's an important visitor from Kyoto!" "Come with me." "I thought you came suddenly to reprimand us, sir." "Nonsense." "Why reprimand you?" "We have to thank you." "You collect rice and tax for us most shrewdly." "You send us gifts and bribes more and more every year." "I feel honoured, sir." "You're the most trusted man among all his bailiffs." "I've been instructed to carefully study your methods of handling your men." "Oh, heavens." "I hardly deserve such praise." "I'm only doing my duty managing his Lordship's manor." "Which is seldom done nowadays." "The Minister appreciates you work so much he said he'd like to invite you to Kyoto as a reward." " Oh, it that true, sir?" " Yes." "My Goodness!" "I appreciate his kindness." "Kichiji, bring the chest here!" "As a humble token of my gratitude, sir." "I appreciate it." "May I present my son Taro." "Offer thanks." "You are so lucky to have such a good father." "Be a dutiful son." "Girls, begin your dance." "Gone to sleep?" "Take care of yourselves." "Open the gate!" " Where are you going so late?" " Shut up." "AFTER 10 YEARS, THE YOUNG CHILDREN" "IN SPITE OF THEIR HARDSHIPS AND MISERY," "HAVE DEVELOPED INTO STURDY YOUNG ADULTS." "ZUSHIO IS 23 AND ANJU IS 18." " What?" " The alarm!" "That way!" "He ran that way!" "This way!" "This way!" "Let me escape!" "Let me escape!" "For fifty years I've been working patiently!" "Fifty years!" "I'm seventy." "My days are numbered!" "Let me die a free man...even in a ditch." "Young Mutsu, you handle this." " Who did the branding?" "Young Mutsu." "How cruel of him!" "He'll die a miserable death." "Mutsu is a bad one." "Must be the son of a bandit or brigand." "You're not to blame, so stop worrying." " Teach this newcomer." " Pleased meet you." "Take care of her." "Look." "This way..." "Try it." " What is your name?" " Kohagi." " Your age?" " Sixteen." " From a peasant family?" " Yes." " Where were you sold from?" " Sado." "Sado?" "You didn't happen to know a woman named Tamaki?" "No." "Sold to Sado ten years ago." "She was thirty-five or thirty-six..." "Now she must be forty-five or forty-six." "I don't know." "Sado is a big island." "Namiji, are you feeling pain again?" "I feel as if a heavy stone is in my stomach." "But you're getting worse..." "I can't rest until I die." "We're not human beings." "Why does the rest of the world turn its back on us?" "Don't be silly." "You're talking like a newcomer." "Now work hard or you too will be..." "Zushio, how I long for you..." "Isn't life a torture " "Anju, how I long for you..." "Isn't it so hard?" "One moment, what was that song?" "Say it again, will you?" "It goes, How I long for you, Zushio and Anju." "Who taught you that?" "It was once popular in Sado." "Such a sad song, who first sang it?" " A courtesan, they say." " Courtesan?" "One named Nakagimi." "Do you think she is still alive?" "Well..." "I don't know." "You say it goes How I long for you, Zushio and Anju, right?" " Will you sing it again?" " Yes." "Zushio, how I long for you..." "Isn't life a torture... " "Anju, how I long for you..." "It's Mother!" "Isn't life a torture..." "Isn't it so hard?" "..." "Wait!" "Wait for me!" "Take me along!" "Please take me!" "Here is all I have." "Row off quickly!" "Quick!" "Please!" "Nakagimi, for goodness sake!" "Let's go home!" "She is impossible!" "Cut her tendon so she can't run away." "Please, Boss!" "I won't do it again!" "Have mercy on me!" "Shut up!" "Forgive me!" "Watch this girls." "All runaways meet this fate." "Nakagimi, too bad today you can't see the mainland." "Zushio!" "Anju!" "Anju, stop it!" "It's useless." "That was the first news about Mother." "You are horrible!" "Don't you think of Father and Mother anymore?" "Don't you long for them?" "What's the use of longing for them?" "If we escape from here..." "there will be..." "How?" "Without any money, how will we look for them?" "Look at us now." "It's better if we not meet up with them at all." "So, we'll first go to Kyoto and become somebodies." "Somebodies?" "Fantastic." "We're servants, despite our birth." "Slaves!" "Who'd bother with us?" "You'd be sold to a brothel." "I'd become a thief." "Or we'd both be beggars." "You have the heart of a bandit already!" "A soul baser than that of a beggar!" "How could you brand a man's forehead like that?" "How could you be so brutal?" "Did you forget Father's words?" "Aren't you ashamed before the image you keep close to your heart?" "Zushio!" "How could you?" "The Goddess did me no good!" "It's better to be loyal to the Bailiff and look to his favor." "You have changed." "Mutsu, Namiji is past cure." "Dump her in the forest." "Namiji is like our sister." "Please let her breathe her last here." " Mutsu, take her." " Yes." "Brother, don't take her." "She's still alive." "Don't give her to wild birds." "It's the Bailiffs order." "Another dead one?" "This one is still alive." " You take her." " Yes." "Hey, open the gate!" "Not you!" "Next time you're reborn, come to a family like the Bailiff's!" "Be born to a rich family, remember!" "Hey, hurry up." "I tied this to the Buddha, so hold it tight." "This is an image of the Goddess of Mercy." "You'll be born fortunate in the world to come." " Ready?" "That's too ruthless." "Can I at least cover her with a roof against the frost?" "Ok, but be quick." "Brother." "Brother, don't you remember the time when we camped off the Naoe Port?" "Mother had us gather sedge and grass like this, remember?" "Zushio " "Anju " "Oh, Mother is calling us!" "Anju." "Escape!" "Do you mean it?" " Then hurry!" " What?" " Go alone." " What about you?" "Together we would be caught." "I'll delay the pursuers." "Meanwhile, run as far as you can." "Go to the State Temple at Nakayama for protection." "I can't leave you." "They'll torture you." "They don't kill slaves very often." "Don't worry." "We can't both get away." "If you go alone, you'll be all right." "Don't worry about me." "Save Namiji." "Try your best to save her." "Go while I talk to the watchman." "The amulet is on Namiji's breast." "Wait for my return." "I'll come back if it's the last thing I do." "My brother will do the rest." "What?" "Sorry I'm late." "Mutsu will do the rest." "Let's go." "Let's hurry." "I sure don't hope I don't end up like that." "Let's go." "Courage, Namiji!" "Isn't your brother terribly late?" "He'll come soon." "What's happened?" "He's late." "You go look." "He's gone!" "He's gone!" " Escaped!" " What?" "You slut!" "You must be behind this." "Kayano, watch her!" "Get more men!" "Master!" "Bailiff!" " What happened?" " What is it?" " Mutsu the slave escaped!" " Mutsu?" " Shinobu too?" " No, she's at the gate." "Torture Shinobu." "She must know." "Hurry and search throughout the village!" "Hurry up!" "You know where Mutsu went, don't you?" "You're determined not to tell at any cost, I believe, but you'll be telling after they torture you." "No torture can make a dead person speak." "It's too late for you to outrun them." "Tie me up here and go before its too late." "Thank you, Kayano." "Now go!" "Hurry, hurry." " Farewell." " Farewell." "Search throughout the gorge." "Which way?" "Zushio, how I long for you..." "Anju, how I long for you..." "Isn't life a torture" "Move away!" "Go to the back!" "Where is he?" "..." "Don't lose him!" "..." "Damn!" "Look!" "This way!" "Where has he gone?" "We're the Bailiff's men after the runaway!" " He must be hiding here!" " Give him up to us!" "Or you'll be punished by the Minister." "Why come bearing arms like this, as if a revolt had started?" "Seeking one of your servants, eh?" "No layman gets shelter here without my permission." "Since I haven't given any, he can't be here." "May I remind you, this is an Imperial shrine." "Look." "THE IMPERIAL TEMPLE OF TANGO PROVINCE" "The Imperial autograph..." "Trespassers will be severely punished!" "Leave quietly, for your own good." "I saw such a man!" "He went in that direction." "Southward, along the wall." "Hurry!" "You'll probably get him." "Let's go!" "Left!" "Go in the back alley!" "How is she doing?" "Thanks to your medicine, she has rallied." " Good, I'm glad to hear that." " Thank you very much." "I'm so glad." "What is your plan now?" "Master Taro, may I ask you a special favor?" "Would you keep Namiji here in safety?" "I can do that." "But what about our future?" "I'm going to Kyoto." "Who is the most powerful person there?" "Well..." "The Prime Minister, but why?" "Master Taro." "With what purpose did yo leave your father's place?" "You plan to appeal to the Minister?" "At that time I had the same ideas as you;" "I went to Kyoto." "But it wasn't as easy as I thought." "My single-handed efforts proved futile." "I found humans have little sympathy for things that don't directly concern them." "They're ruthless." "Unless they're hearts are changed, the world you dream of cannot come true." "If you're desirous of living honestly with your conscience just hold close to the Buddha." "I hate to disagree with you." "But I want to give my life to achieve my dream." "I see." "Then...do as you wish." "It will be hard, though." "I am well prepared for that." "In that case, I shall ask my bishop to write a special letter to the Prime Minister." "Thank you." "Thank you so very much." "I have a petition, my lord!" "Please, my lord!" "Please, my lord!" "I am the son of the former Deputy Governor of Mutsu!" " Get back!" " Please!" "I have here a letter from Bishop Donmyo of the State Temple." "I'm doing this because I was refused at the gate!" " Please, I beg you!" " Call the guards!" " Please!" " Stay away!" "Please!" "Please!" "I beg you!" "You stole this?" "No, sir!" "It's our heirloom treasure!" "Return it to me!" "That's my father's keepsake!" "Please give it back to me!" "Please, for God's sake, give it back to me!" "Come out." "Don't send me back to Bailiff Sansho!" "Please!" "Please!" "Don't worry." "His Lordship is going to hear you himself." "What a luck fellow." "Come on out." " I brought him." " Come this way." "He's here, your Honor." "Good." "Raise your face." "You claim you are the son of Masauji Taira, of Mutsu Province, is that right?" "Yes, your Lordship." "The image you possessed originally belonged to my forefather, Michinaga." "He gave it to your ancestor in recognition of his good work." "You knew that?" "No, I only know that it was our family heirloom treasure." "My father left it with me when he was sent to Tsukushi." "Your Lordship!" "Was what he did a crime?" "Is pitying and loving so unlawful?" "It is not." "Only one must obey his superior officer." "However, your father reasoned with arrogant military men." "A man of extraordinary courage, I must say." "You knew about that my lord?" "Had I been in office, it would have been different." "Could you pardon him now?" "It is too late now." "That is impossible." "Zushio...don't let this dishearten you...." "Your father has already departed this world." "When did it happen, my lord?" "I investigated, reading your appeal." "It was last spring that he passed away in exile." "I sympathize with you.." "And also about your own hardships too...." "In recognition of his achievements and efforts I am arranging for you to succeed his title." "Would you mind?" "For me?" "For me, my lord?" "Fortunately, the post of Governor of Tango is vacant." "I will name you to that appointment." " Governor?" " Right." ""Masamichi Taira is created a peer of the Junior Grade of the Fifth Rank."" ""Masamichi Taira, of the Fifth Rank, is hereby appointed Governor of Tango."" "This is the Imperial rescript of your appointment." "Come closer." "I have chosen a name befitting a Governor." "Call yourself Masamichi Tairo from now on." "Visit your father's tomb." "Thank you, my lord." "My father is dead, but my mother and sister will be delighted." "Now I can make these two happy." "Not only that I can liberate the slaves from the infernal house of Sansho." "What?" "Liberate slaves?" "Nonsense!" "Yura Manor is the property of the Minister of the Right." "A Governor isn't authorized to interfere with a private manor." "You should know that to carry out your duty." "Reconsider your limitations." "Understand?" "Imagine, the governor of Tango coming all the way to Tsukushi." "Hi Lordship is the son of Lord Masauji who died here." "He came before going to his post." "A really dutiful son." "My regret is that I could not come while he was still alive." "I see so many flowers!" "Have you been keeping them on his grave like this?" "No, they are from those who remember his kindness." "Your father was kind to everyone he came across." "Especially those ill-fortuned peasants." "Your father taught them how to read and write.." "...and to live a moral life" "I am Police Chief Norimura,my lord." "Welcome your Excellency." "Congratulations on your safe arrival." "Thank you for welcoming me." "I'm Murotsuna, my lord." "Narisada, my lord." "Toneyasu, my lord." "I want to do something in lieu of announcing my arrival." "All bu Norimura and his staff may go." "I issue a decree." "Take this." ""In this Province, the sale of human beings is forbidden on penalty of the law."" ""Both on Government land in private manors, the use of slaves shall be prohibited."" "Is that a Government order, sir?" "No, it is my order." "Yours?" "Are you sure you want it published?" "You doubt it?" "I believe you know what you are doing." "But you must admit this is too reckless even if you are young." "Reckless?" "Never." " I have more." "One moment." "A governor's jurisdiction is only the Government land." "A manor is private property, sir." "Interfering with it can be a difficult situation." "Especially the large manor of the Minister of the Right." "Its bailiff, Sansho Dayu, is really tough to deal with." "I want to liberate his slaves." "What my lord?" "He is appointed by the Minister, an official as it were." "All the slaves there belong to the Minister." "The Bailiff, in charge, will fight you!" "." " I don't listen to that." " Not only that." "Should this reach the capital, you will undoubtedly be discharged." "You may be exiled!" "Your very life might be in danger!" "I do not understand where you get such an extraordinary idea but please give it up for your own good." " Disobey me?" " No." "Continue." ""The liberated ones, if they wish, will be sent home, or permitted to stay and be justly paid for their work in money or land."" "That is all." "Publish this throughout the province." "All right?" "Norimura." "You shall go to Bailiff Sansho's and fetch a girl named Shinobu." "A girl named Shinobu, sir?" " Yes." " Yes, sir." " No such girl here!" " No?" "Are you sure?" "Even if she were, a local official can't demand her." "Remember,this is the manor of the Minister of the Right." "No Governor can intrude here." "Go while the going is good!" "Off with you!" "..." "Go away..." "Go!" " Refused?" " I told him plenty, sir." "The fool." "Why did he demand Shinobu anyway?" "Be on the alert." "What nonsense." "Can't understand it at all." ""Buying and selling of human beings and use of slaves in Tango is prohibited under law."" ""Violators will be severely punished." "November twenty-fifth, the eleventh year of Kanji, the Governor of Tango."" "Who is this lawless new Governor?" "He must be completely crazy!" "Let him have it in a big way!" "Dispatch a courier to Kyoto to the Minister at once." "Yes, sir." "Be sure the slaves are ignorant of this." "Those morons are liable to start meaningless trouble." "And destroy the notice board as fast as you can." "Go away." "Not to buy and sell slaves?" "What nonsense!" " What does this sign say" " I can't read." "Destroy it." " Governor's notice!" " We're free!" "Hold it there!" "Let's go!" "Ready my men!" "Please sir!" "Noble as your idea is..." "You won't understand!" "Never!" "Think of the who rot in that earthly hell!" " Are you ready?" " Yes, sir." "They've arrived, Master." "This is a privilege to welcome you here." "I'm afraid we've little to offer you, as this is too sudden." "Yes, Bailiff, we meet again." "Mutsu!" "I am Masamichi, Governor of Tango." "You have changed." "Don't blame me for not recognizing you." "Do make yourself at home, please." " Bring some drinks." " Don't bother." "I am not here as a friend." "You and your men are under arrest." "Preposterous!" "What have I done wrong?" "Destroying the Governor's signpost is enough of a crime." "Oh, you mean that lawless notice, eh?" "I see." "Now I know how that was conceived." "But this manor belongs to the..." " I know!" " It's much the worse!" "Such recklessness is sure to rebound on you!" "Cancel the proclamation at once." "Then I might intercede for you with the Minister of the Right." "I don't know how you rose to this position of yours." "But it's like a fairy tale!" "A slave becoming a Governor!" " Don't spoil it." " That's all you have to say?" "That's my affair." "If that's it, come with us." "Your property is confiscated and you'll be exiled." "Arrest him!" "Release me!" "Whose house do you think this is?" "Attacking a manor like this.." "Prepare yourself for punishment!" "Release me!" "Listen carefully, friends." "In this Province of Tango, the slave trade has been banned." "Both on government land and in manors, the use of slaves is forbidden." "From this minute, none of you belong to Bailiff Sansho." "You are now all free men!" "You may go home, if you wish." "You may stay here and work." "And you will be paid." "Or you will be given land as your own." "Niou." "Mutsu!" "My sin in stamping that iron on your forehead cannot be erased, but I hope you will let this make up for a fraction of it." "Anju." "You heard all that?" ""Shinobu", you heard that?" "Kayano" "Where is my sister?" "Where is she?" "what happened?" "Tell me." "She is no longer alive." "He killed her?" "No." "Why didn't you wait for me?" "I truly believed you would." "It was your great faith that gave me back my life." "Why didn't you wait for your brother's return?" "Sansho's house is on fire, sir." "What?" "He and his family have already been exiled, sir." "Submit this letter to the Prime Minister." "It is my resignation." "Perhaps you may think it very strange." "But those who have suffered here will appreciate my action." "I am going to Sado tomorrow, so help me pack." "Yes, sir." "SADO ISLAND" "All aboard." "We are leaving now." "You are not coming aboard?" "What is the matter?" "I am looking for a woman named Nakagimi." "Can you help me?" "Nakagimi?" "Hmmm, she must be the courtesan." "There are brothels over there." "They can tell you." "I want to see Nakagimi." "Is she on of you?" " Yeah, she is." " Where?" "Where?" "That house." "She's making up her face now." "Nakagimi?" " Nakagimi?" " Who is it?" "Welcome." "Come here." "Are you really Nakagimi?" "Of course." "I'm the one and only Nakagimi." "Come here." "Well?" "What's the matter?" "Come and have a good time." "Why are you leaving?" "Why, you brazen...!" "Are you penniless?" "You big idiot!" "He didn't like you." "What happened to you?" "Not that one." "I'm looking for a woman over forty-five." "Oh, you mean the former Nakagimi, eh?" " You know her?" " She's dead now, I think." "She was found dead by the cape." "Or was it she jumped into the sea?" "You're all wrong." "She was kill by the tsunami wave two years ago." "Are you her relative or something?" "Where did it happen?" "Beyond that cape over there." "I've heard that this area was hit by a tsunami." "Yes." "Eight or nine out of ten were killed by that devilish wave." "Many bodies haven't been discovered yet." "Why do you want to hear about that tidal wave?" "Zushio, how I long for you..." "Anju, how I long for you..." "Mother!" "It's me..." "Zushio!" "Scram!" "You can't fool me anymore." "Go away." "Mother." "You can't fool me again and again like that." "Mother!" "Here." "The sacred image Father gave me." "Zushio." "Are you truly...?" "Do you recognize me?" "I came to take you with me, Mother." "Zushio." "Are you..alone?" "Anju is with you, right?" "Where is Anju?" "Bring her to me." "Right away." "Anju has gone to join Father." "How is father?" "Is he all right?" "No." "Mother, just you and I. We are alone now." "I could have come as a Governor to take you away." "But I had to choose between Father's teaching and my position." "Please, Mother, forgive me!" "Forgive you?" "I don't know what you did." "But I do know that you followed your father's teaching." "That is maybe why we can meet here this way now."

"That's gonna leave a mark." "So what am I doing here?" "Brooke, that's two weekends in a row you don't remember what happened the night before." "Oh, please tell me I didn't make a fool of myself with Lucas." "Nope, that would be me." "Wait." "You two were totally hot for each other." "Were." "Until about halfway through ripping each other's clothes off I bailed." " Because?" " Because he got all serious." "He was talking about this intense commitment or I don't know." "I don't want to live in a world where two fine and willing girls like ourselves can have such a lame Friday night." "I gotta change my karma." "Maybe you should make some changes too." "I didn't wake up with a foggy memory." "Well, you didn't wake up with Lucas, either." "Luke, did you ever hear of a UHF or their SARA?" "Yeah, UHF." "They're from Portland, right?" "They're good." "Um, but with SARA, they're great." "Cool" "You okay?" "Yeah, I can handle it." "I called your house." "Your mom said you're here." "Crap." "I should lie to her next time." "Look, I didn't know until Brooke read that note, okay?" "I didn't even know there was a note until later." "I wouldn't do that to you." "Okay." "Great, so... cool?" "No, no." " Well, you believe me, right?" " Yeah, I believe you're sorry." "Well then, what..." "Look, this whole tutoring, hanging out, whatever it is, thing." "It's just a bad idea." "I'm done." "I'm just done." "So explain to me how this fixes your karma again." "It doesn't but it's a total pick me up, don't you think?" "Now, try this on." "Now the karma thing comes next." "I figured out a master plan." "If I can fix the damage I've done to certain people's love lives, maybe the universe will kick in and fix mine." "Pretty long list." "Yeah, and Nathan and Haley are at the top of it." "I screwed them over royally last night." "Double karma points if I can undo that one." "Fabulous!" "You know not everybody can pull off the sceezy in the jungle vibe." "Now I can fix you up to." "No thanks." "I am done with the drama of dating." "I just wanna have fun." "Then you'll be happy to know that I got us invited to a party at Duke tonight." "So much for you changing your ways." "What?" "You promised to have fun, and I promised to indulge in boys, not booze." "And now we have something to wear." "My omelet was perfect, Karen." "Oh, thanks." "And it's on the house." "It gives me an opportunity to repay you for your hospitality last night." "Oh, not necessary, I had fun." "Gotta love the mail service." "Is everything okay?" "I just um, I had applied to this amazing cooking circle in Florence and they just had a last minute opening." "Oh, well congratulations." "I've not even been waitlisted before." "Wait a minute." "Six weeks in Italy?" " Aren't you excited?" " Starts next week." "It's not like I can go." " Then, why did you apply?" " As a lark." "It's just not a good time with Lucas and the café." "It's the opportunity of a lifetime." "Yeah, well, I guess it will have to wait until some other lifetime." "What do you want, Brooke?" "To apologize." "For what I did to you." "You and Haley." "You're apologizing?" "Yeah, I know." "Kinda weird, right?" "But I'm trying to appease the gods so..." "I'm sorry." "Whatever. *** for drunken high school girls sick, so..." "Okay, I totally had that coming." "I want you to know I'm going to fix it." "Get you and Haley back on track." "Not gonna happen." "She made that pretty clear this morning." "Leave it to me." "What do you want to do on your date?" "What date?" "Never mind." "No time to waste." "I'll call you later with details." "What's with the boxes?" "Oh, bookshelves." "And they were supposed to come assembled." "You gonna put them together all by yourself?" "Actually, I was going to offer you dinner to help me." "Sold." "Perfect." "I'll be closing the café around seven." "So it's a date?" "It's a date." "We're closed." "Oh, I get it." "Closed to me." "I don't blame you." "I'd be a bitch to me to after last night." "Knock yourself out." "You're feisty." "I see what Nathan likes about you." "Look, you're blaming Nathan for something that I did and that's not fair." "Okay, I was drunk and I was pissed and I found your note and you know the rest..." "I want to make it up to you." "By going away?" "By hooking you and Nathan up tonight." "What's your idea of a perfect date?" "Watching you get hit by a bus." "And that sense of humor..." "Nathan's really lucky." "He'll be here at 7." "Have fun." "Bonjourno." "I am Marcello Vivari of the Genoculudidian Institute in Florence." " I call for Seniorina Karen Roe." " When's that 'do not call list' kick in?" "Excuse me, but we haven't heard from you." "We sent a letter inviting you to start next week and, we haven't heard a word so would you be call enough to call me back." "Isn't that that school you've been talking about forever?" "Yeah..." "Mom, that's great!" "It's no big deal." "I'm not gonna go." "It is a big deal, Mom." "Come on, it's a huge deal." "Well maybe I'll just go some other time." "No, Mom." "Now's the time." "Come on, you've put your whole life on hold for me." "Every choice you've made has been about me." "That's the way it's supposed to be." "I'm your mother." "And I want you to have this." "It's time for you to do something for yourself." "I'll think about it." "Don't think about it, Mom." "Do it." "We're young, we're fun." "Lets do some damage." "Want some while it lasts?" "No thanks." "Designated driver." "Too desperate..." "Too geeky..." "Hello, Abercrombie." "Wow," "Fugazi, Sparta... on vinyl." "Do you mind?" "Milo Goes To College." "This is a great album." "You know The Descendants?" "Yeah." "I'm Peyton." "I'm Gabe..." "You wanna hear it?" "That's too easy man, you gotta play some defense." "The prodigal son returns." " Hey, Mouth, how you doing, baby?" " Hey sir remembers my name... heh." " Have we met?" " How's it going, Junk?" "Ferguson Thompson." "Okay, guys, come on, it has not been that long." "It feels like forever, dawg." "I mean, do you still play street ball?" "Better than you." "Aw, baby, he's been back two seconds and he's already talkin' right." " Ooh..." "lets see what you get." " Fine." "Shoot for teams." "You know what, why don't you and Fergie just take it, cuz, you gonna need it." " Oh really?" "Like that." " Just like that." "Lock him up, man." " So what are you drinking?" " I'm not tonight." "Yeah?" "Me neither." "Killer exam on Monday." "Really?" "On what?" "Psychology." "Human sexuality, actually." "What a coincidence." "I specialize in sexuality." "Maybe we can be studypartners." "So there's no way you have this one." "Please." "I've got it on colored vinyl." "Okay." "I was wrong about you." "I guess the, uh, clothes through me off." "I'm into the music, not the uniform." "Same as me." "Yeah?" "Well maybe some of us can love the song without painting our fingernails black." "Let me get you a drink." "I'm not really drinking tonight." "So that's why we haven't met before." "You're still in high school." "Yeah." "I'm a regular cheerleader." "Right, right... you're a straight edge?" "Not really." "How about it?" "One drink." "We haven't even gotten to my bootleg collection." "Why not?" "Okay." "Done." "Catch." "I'm gonna head" "Out." "What are you doing here?" "Didn't Brooke tell you I was going to come?" "I try to block out everything that Brooke says so whatever you guys are up to" " I'm just not in the mood." " I'm not up to anything." "Look, I apologized and I told you the truth." "The rest is Brooke." "She set up this whole serial date thing." "One card leads to the next." "Well, what does the first one say?" "Convince Haley to go." "How am I doing so far?" "I don't know." "It depends on what the second card says." "Go to 1423 River Street and find your next envelope." "On the way, tell three things you like about each other." " I don't know..." " Look, I'll go first." "You're the most patient person I know." "You don't go postal on me during tutoring and you don't treat me like some kind of a moron." "I really appreciate that." "Look, I know I have no right to ask, but we never do anything just fun together." "And plus, this is Brooke." "I mean, you can bet it's not gonna be boring." "I'm free to bail whenever?" "A bsolutely." "Trust me." "Okay, what the hell." "Brooke, lets go to your room." "Um, you know what, yours is better." "Sick roommate." "You live in this dorm?" "Across campus." "Way across." "I got my car." "Okay." "Great." "Lets start there." "It's you." "Hello?" "I can't hear..." "Right now?" "But you said that I could stay until midnight..." "This sucks." "I'm sorry, was that you mom?" "What, are you in high school?" "Yeah... but these parties are a great place to meet college girls." "Can I get your number?" "What kind of loser pretends he's in college?" "I'll take that for a no." "Real funny." "Hey." "Are you okay?" "I don't know." "What's this?" "Why?" "You like it?" "Did you slip me something." "Oh god I..." "Lie down." "Good idea." "Leave me alone." "Get off me..." "Get off me..." "Peyton!" "Are you looking for someone?" "Yeah." "No, my friend's in here." "Get it open." " Hey!" " Get out!" "Get off of her." "Peyton!" "Oh my god, this perv attacked my friend." "She's lying." "Her friend's just wasted." "Peyton, come on." "She shouldn't drink so much." "What's on your mind, Keith?" "What?" "Is it that obvious?" "Well, you just seem a little preoccupied." "Yeah, well, last night after Dan's party I realized something and I'm tired of settling." "How so?" "Well, I developed a bad habit somehow just, uh, letting things happen to me instead of going after what I really want." "Yeah, I know what you're saying." "Sometimes I feel like I'm too old to take risks." "Well, yeah, but we're not." "Hell, why can't we still be as fearless as we were when we were kids?" "Because we have mortgages and businesses and more responsibility than we ever dreamed of back then." "Well, yeah, but don't you think we should still take a chance every now and then." "Find something you want and... go for it." "Like what?" "Oh, that's the bread." "Hold that thought." "And Scott is back with a vengeance, showing the locals how it's done." "That was nice, Lucas." "Man, you got a cell phone too, dawg?" "Dang, you sure have changed, man." "Hello?" "Lucas, Peyton's in trouble." "Somebody drugged her drink and I can't wake her up." "Okay, Brooke." "Slow down." " Where are you?" " We're on the steps of Chapman Hall." "Alright, call the campus police." "I can't." "She's been drinking!" "Okay, I'll be right there." "Gotta go, guys." "Yo, Luke!" " Nathan joining us?" " No, he had a date with Haley." "His tutor?" "Must be a mercy thing." "Okay... you did not just say that." "Come on, she's from Westover." "Her father works for the power company." "So, what are you saying?" "That she's somehow... beneath him?" "Don't be so dramatic." "I'm just saying Nathan could do better." "Hmm, funny, that's what my parents said about you." "And I proved them wrong." "Well that may be." "You should give Haley a chance to do the same." "And number three?" "Your loyalty." "To Lucas." "I know I'm not always wild about how it plays out, but it's cool." "Okay, three things I like about you." "My good looks." "I like the way you let me in, past all the bluster you give everybody else." "And I like your smile when you solve a problem." "And... you're not horrible to look at." "This is where we're going?" "Nice work, Brooke." "Is your friend okay?" "I don't know; she can't stay awake." "Do you know where you are?" "Do you know your name?" "Just... dizzy." "Brooke!" "Sorry, I didn't know who else to call." "Is she okay?" "She's not drunk." "I think he gave her a sedative." "We just need to know what it was." "I'm a med student." "Okay, Brooke." "I need you to show me what room she was in." "Okay." " Can you stay with her?" " Sure." "Alright, come on." "It's this one." " Hey, open the door." " Piss off." "Piss off." "Is this your dorm?" "Go get your R.A." " Hey man!" " It's him." "What did you put in her drink?" "I didn't put anything in her drink." "You can tell me, or you can tell the police." "It was nothing, man." "Alright?" "It was one roofie." "Where are they?" "I said where are they!" "They're over there." "In the box." "Oh." "You better hope to God she's alright." "This would go a lot faster if you helped." "I'm gonna kill Brooke." "Okay, here it is." "Congratulations." "Now, buy each other a gift and exchange them on the way to..." " there's another address here." " This is so wrong." " You want to do it?" " I didn't say that..." "Lets shop." " Did you see what that saleswoman was wearing?" " Or not wearing." "Here." "You go first." "Alright." " Socks." " I was playing it safe." "What did you get me?" "Open it and see." "Oh my gosh." "This is really nice." "Thanks." "Okay." "If we go to this next place and we hate it, then we can just get some pizza, alright?" "Okay." "Says here she'll be disoriented, may have some short term memory loss, which is maybe not a bad thing." "How long 'til it wears off?" "Overnight, probably." "Think she'll be okay?" "I don't know, Brooke." "I feel terrible." "It's all my fault." "Yeah, well, what's done is done." "The med student says she's gonna be okay, right?" "So we just need to watch her until she wakes up." "I can do it." "You've done way too much already." "I don't mind hanging out." "Besides, I'd worry about her too much if I took off anyway." "Okay." "Look." "It's not your fault, okay?" "And hey, you did get her out of there." "Here you go, Miss..." " Sir." " Thanks..." "To be honest, I'm a little afraid." "Order your favorite dish for the other person." "Any chance your favorite dish it... prime rib?" "Yeah, we have a lot of that at my house." "I'm not very experienced with this so, uh..." "Ordering food?" "No." "I mean, with Peyton, it was all just parties and games and drama." "I never really did anything like this." "This is different." "Different... good?" "Different weird?" " No, good." " Okay." "I'm really glad you decided to come." "So the other night, after the SPL banquet, you said something." " Yeah, I know." " You said that you... you weren't the person you want to be." "I feel the same." "Yeah, well, maybe it's time we change that." "I want to." "I'm a little scared." "You don't need to be." "I promise." "Good." "Because there's something I want to talk to you about." "Me too." "You first." "I got accepted to this cooking program in Italy." "It's been a dream of mine since I was a teenager." "Well, that's... that's great." "When would you leave?" "Oh." "Right away, actually." "I'd have to leave the day after tomorrow." " Well, for how long?" " Six weeks." "But I mean, do I have a right to go traipsing half way across the world when I have a son and a business to worry about?" "Well, you've got good instincts, so what does your gut say?" " That I should go." " Then you should trust that." "I mean, you know, you spent your whole life putting Lucas first and he's a good kid, but now you need to go after a dream of your own." " That's what Lucas said." " Well he's right." "Here's to your great adventure." "Still sleeping?" "Here, I made some coffee if you want..." "I don't know how you do it." "It's easy." "The directions are on the bag." "You know what I mean." "You'd give up everything to help her after what happened at Nathan's house." "She told you about that?" "A little..." "Look, the thing about Peyton; it's really hard for her to let her guard down but once she does, she's got this amazing heart, you know." "Sounds like something the two of you have in common..." "Who knew." "So you don't have any brothers, do you?" "You mean... besides Nathan." "Yeah..." "How'd that work anyway?" " I mean, are you..." " I'm three months older." "My mom got pregnant right after her senior year." "Dan moved on to Nathan's mom the first semester of college." "That must have been really hard for your mom." "So you two are pretty close." "Yeah." "We do a lot of stuff together." "We talk..." "She's really great." "Sounds nice." "My parents would rather throw cash at me and send me on my way then spend any time with me." "Listen, you can grab some sleep if you want." "I'll watch her for a while." "Okay." "I'd rather stay and talk to you if you don't mind." "I don't mind..." "I thought you'd be into lobster." "Dude, macaroni and cheese is food of the gods." "Yeah, if the gods are five year olds." "Ready for this next envelope?" "Yes." "Reveal a secret that nobody else knows about you." "Okay." "When I was in second grade, I stole some candy." "Come on, that's not a secret." "Tell me for something to real." "I cheated on a Geometry test last year." "Haley James cheated?" "Yeah." "My dad was out of town and um, my mom was sick and I had to take care of her so I didn't really have time to study." "Did you get caught?" "No." "That wasn't the point." "I mean, I knew what I had done and that didn't sit right for me." "So you started tutoring?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I guess I thought it would be like, penance, or something." "But it turns out I really liked it." "I thought it was just to get to me." "So, what about you?" " What's your... secret?" " What's up, Nathan?" " Hey." " What's up, guys?" "What's this?" "Well, you know Haley's my tutor, right?" "Looks more like a date to me." "No, dude, it's definitely not a date." "Okay." "If that's your story." "Hey, I'm sorry about that." "Are you really that embarrassed to be seen with me?" "No." "He just, he was gonna" "Why are you only nice to me when we're alone?" "You know, for a few hours there I was actually starting to think that you weren't a son of a bitch and you just, God, fooled me again." "No!" "Haley, wait." "Hey." "How are you feeling?" "Like hell." "What are you doing here?" "You don't remember last night, huh?" "I remember Brooke took me to a party." "A guy slipped you something in your drink." "Brooke called me to help out." "No, nothing happened!" "Brooke stopped him." "Alright, I'm gonna go wake her up, okay?" "Wait!" "Thanks." "Again." "I just wanted to make sure you were okay, alright?" "Lucas..." "I'm sorry." "For what?" "All sorts of things." "You want me to follow you home?" " No." "I'll be okay." " Okay." "So why'd you call me, anyway?" "I'm not Nathan or one of the guys..." "Because I knew you'd come through." "You're a good friend to her, Brooke." "You sound surprised." "Sorry, I just..." "I guess I just figured that you were..." " A brainless slut." " No." "You're not." "What I was gonna say was that I just..." "I didn't think that you were... that tough." "But I was clearly wrong about you." "It's okay." "Most people are." "Hey Brooke... call me." "If you need anything, okay?" "Count on that." "Please tell me that you were somewhere in the land of no phones." "I know." "I should've called." "Coming home would've been another option." "You're right." "I'm sorry." "You looked me in the eye and said 'Go to Italy." "I can take care of myself.'" "Look, I can, Mom!" "A guy drugged Peyton's drink at a party." "Brooke called me for help." "I took her home, waited until she felt better." "Truth." "As excuses go, that's pretty solid." " Is she okay?" " Yeah, she'll be fine." "Drugs, parties, and I'm supposed to leave the country." "Hey, don't not go to Italy because of this." "Okay, Mom, please?" "We'll see." "But if I do decide to go I'm going to have Keith come and stay here while I'm gone." "Great, just as long as you go." "I went on Peyton's computer and booked you a flight on the emergency credit card, non-refundable." "I want you to have something for yourself, Mom." "You've earned it." "Trying to wake up my parents?" "That's their room." "Wait!" "Haley, look, I need to apologize, okay?" "You should write them in bulk if you're going to hand apologies out that often." "Can we just" " I don't know how to do this, alright?" "I'm not like you." "What does that mean?" "I screw up a lot, alright?" "And being around you, I just, I don't want to be that guy anymore." "Well who do you want to be, Nathan?" "I want to be someone who's good enough to be seen with you." "Well you should've thought of that last night." "You know, I keep putting myself out there, and you keep blowing it, it's probably a good thing because at this point there's nothing you could say or do that's gonna surprise me." "Except that." "You shouldn't have done that, Nathan." "I wanted to." "Yeah." "Have I lost my dining privileges?" "Why would you?" "Oh, because yesterday I popped off about how you should drop everything and go to Italy." "I can be a tad bit pushy." "Actually, I was all set to go." "But then this morning I was going over the numbers and there really is no way" "I can afford to shut down for six weeks." "Well then don't." " Hire me." "I can take over." " Right..." "Well why not?" "I've got the time and the management experience, and if that's all that's keeping you from going." "Deb, be serious." "I have two things in my life." " Lucas and this café." " I know that." "And because of that you know I take it seriously." "You can walk me through the big stuff today and Haley can help me with the rest." "I can't." "I can't." "Karen." "I'd like to believe we're friends." "And, I know that's happened quickly, but it has, and it means a lot to me, so I'm going to say this and then deny it if it ever gets out." "There are things in my life I would change if I could, and running from opportunity is one of them." "Go to Italy." "Let me help you go." "Your life is now." "Okay..." "Okay." "Are you going to play D?" "What?" "She aint coming to watch me play, dawg." "Mmm-mmm." "Hey." "What's your name again?" "Mouth." "Really?" "That was my nickname in summer camp." "Because I slept with my mouth open." "Right." "Of course..." "You know, you're kind of cute." "Do you have a girlfriend?" "I've got a real knack for hooking people up." "Mmm." "What smells so good?" "I got takeout from Karen." "What's all this?" "I'm going back to work for a while." "Oh." "Deb, that's great." "The foundation must be thrilled." "Uh, no, not with the foundation." "Um, I'm going to run the café for Karen while she's away at cooking school in Italy." "Keith is moving in with Lucas while she's away and I told Karen..." "Oh, um, what are you doing?" "I'm looking for the hidden cameras." "Because you can not be serious." "Uh, I am, serious." "Karen has had enough taken away from her and if I can give just some tiny part of that back" "And you did all this without discussing it with me first?" "The way you discussed all those decisions you made about Nathan with me?" "Payback's an ugly emotion, Deb." "I thought you were going for six weeks." "So, you sure you're okay with Deb taking over?" "Yeah." "If it means you get to go." " Oh." "I love you." " I love you, too." " You ready to go?" " Yeah." "Great... got a little present for you." "This is all that's left of my backpacking trip through Europe." " 10,000 lyre." " Yep." "It's only worth about 6 bucks but you can, uh, get yourself a gelato." "Don't worry." "It will all be waiting for you when you get back." "Around six o'clock people get out of work, they want to come by..." " Six o'clock." " Yeah." "That's when it starts getting really busy." " I'll just..." " Yeah." "Bye..." "Sorry." "What up, Nathan?" "Haley!" " Don't forget to call when you land, okay?" " Alright." "You remember when you said the other night that I had good instincts and that I should trust them?" "Yeah." "You were right." "Hi." "I owe you." "So, been to any bad parties lately?" "Come on, I'll walk you to history."

"The School of Bastøy existed from 1900 - 1953" "It was a school for misfitted young boys" "This film was based on true events." "I once saw a whale swim with three harpoons in it." "It took an entire day to die." "We found the wale again, and proceeded to to come closer;" "closer than we had ever come before." "He was weaker due to the harpoon I shot him with, covered with scars from all the the battles he had fought." "It is not as strict as they say it is." "They have Sundays free." "Shut up." "The King of Devil's Island" "They will enter cell C. That is your responsibility, until you leave." "What is it now, three weeks?" "Yes, Bestyrer." "Ensure that they learn." "No tobacco, No alcohol, No civilian clothes," "No games, cards, or dice." "No discussion during work." " No obscene behavior, No personal belongings." "What is this?" "Private asset?" "Address me as House-Father Bråthen." "C5, C19, These are is your numbers." "Take off your clothes, fold them, and place here." "You will receive new clothes down below in the barracks." "One thing." "I observe everything." "I see everything, I hear everything." "And I write everything down in my book." "Is that understood?" "Sit on your hands." "Stand straight." "Take down your hands." "What happened to your face?" "Police." "It could have been a lot worse if you had been in prison." "Hence why I ensured that you made your way here." "Since you're a sailor you know how important discipline is." "You're part of the crew with one common goal." "Yes." "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer." "Yes, bestyrer." "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer." "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer." "I am your captain, and this island is my vessel." "The House-Parents are my mates, the boy C1 , Olav Fossen, he is one of you." "However, he is your leader." "Our goal, and your goal." "Is to find," " the honorable, humble, useful, Christian boy inside you." "And we're going to shape and polish him." "If we do not find him... you'll remain here." "Do you understand?" "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer." "At this island, we don't speak about what anyone has done, or participated in." "There is no past nor future." "There is only the present." "If whole world crumbles under the waves, it has nothing to do with us, isn't that true, C-1 9?" "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer." "Learn the rules and follow them." "So we see that you get what you need." "Bråthen." "Bråthen!" "Cabin coordinator C1 will perhaps leave us soon, and his space will soon be available." "What an ambitious and dedicated young man." "You can go now." "Is that him?" "I don't like the idea of having someone like him here." "This place is about to disintegrate." " I can no longer be here." "Stop." "C-1 to 6 will clear the northern field." "C-8 to 12 will shovel fertilizer with Bjarne." "Hey!" "Anyone who complains, will receive the same job tomorrow." "New-boy, C-19, you have outhouse duties." "Is there anyone here who will volunteer to show 19 how this will be done?" "I'll show him." "We call it America." "Because the House-Parents don't come down here." "This is where we live in peace." "You'll get used to it." "I'm not going to be here very long." "C-5, come with me, We need a man in laundry." "There was someone who tried once." "However, it hasn't happened since I've been here." "It's too far across." "When did you come here?" "Six years ago." "You must love it here." "Is it true that you killed someone?" "I thought we didn't talk about what we've done before." "The boathouse is closed." "You can't get in there." "The only way out from the island is the manager's signature" "And you're getting it?" "Yeah, I get it when the committee comes." "You're like the captain's cabin boy." "Arni, come." "Arni!" "Put up your hand." "Hold it still!" "He hasn't learned the rules yet." "But he wants to, right?" "Yes, bestyrer." "He wants to get away from here, and he will." "When he's earned it." "Yes, bestyrer." "Is that your mom?" "Lights out." "I can't find it." "I can't find it." "My clock." "House-Father!" "Be quiet." "Go to bed now." "I can't find it." "Help me." "Get up!" "Down, down, down!" "Let." "Let me go." "Hand's down." "Hand's down." "C-5." "Thanks, House-Father." "Be quiet!" "I see everything." "I hear everything." "Up!" ""Thus began my life now what which was just comfortable."" ""So that I occasionally, say to myself that i could just be safe from multiple visits by the savages, so it would not bother me if I moved from the place where I lived."" "C-19." "C-19." ""I was certainly out of order to kill a kid of my flock."" ""Carry it home and make it right."" ""But along the way, I saw a goat's shadow with to young kids with him"" "Want me to read them for you?" "C-5?" "Congratulations." "The manager decided that you'll sing for the committee." "That means we must practice." "Who is Elsa?" "Just read." ""Dear Erling." "I'm frightened when I look beyond the ocean"" " and think that you're out there."" ""I miss you terribly now."" "Keep reading." "" I'm trying to remember you." "How you laughed when you were last here."" ""When you didn't even know what a harpoon was."" "Harpooner." "The man which stands in front of the boat and shoots it." "Was that you?" "Just continue." ""I thought I saw you the other day." "I see you everywhere."" ""I hope you come back before christmas." "Like you promised."" "Long before christmas." "Haven't you told her where you are?" "I think there is more." "Read it then." "If you're going to be here, you must learn to behave yourself." "Are you going to teach me that?" "What have they done to you?" "Stand still." "Everything okay, C-5?" "The ear." "It doesn't look like we're going to get rid of your smell." "That's how it is when you're born out of your mothers ass." "Liquor?" "Is that liquor I smell?" "Section C." "We're going to continue this inspection every day, until there is peace in barracks C." "Is it funny?" "Then we will find something funny for you." "C-19." "Stand straight!" "Stand straight!" "Yes." "This is quite meaningless, huh?" "Just like your behavior this morning." "I'm sorry, Mr. Bestyrer." "No, you're not." "It's just that I don't belong here, manager." "Yes, you do, you see." "You belong here." "You can put down the stone." "Now take these stones, and place them back in a pile where they belong." "So you think your strong do you?" "We will see." ""Dear Erling, I'm frightened when I look beyond the ocean"" " and think that you're out there."" ""I miss you..."" "Erling, let him go!" "Særavdelingen." "Forestry.." "Half rations." "Your mother lives in Horten, right?" "I thought maybe she could invite me over." "too dinner, for example." "Maybe six or seven days?" "Stop turning the saw, you idiot." "You'll break the blade." "That is isolation." "Ow, shit!" "The last boy which was put in isolation, he hit his head against the wall so he couldn't talk anymore." "Have you never tried to run away?" "Yea." "One time." "I jumped on the mail boat, but I was only eleven." "What'd you do when you were eleven, in order to come here?" "I stole from a church." "Help me to write a letter." "A story." "To whom?" "Somebody." "About what?" "A story of the sea." "Sailors on a ship." "With me on board." "Did you see the whale?" "I saw a whale swim with three harpoons in it." "It took an entire day to die." "What should I be then?" "Deck boy...." "And I will be the harpooner." "You shouldn't eat that." "You'll get sick." "Bestyrer." "We've learned." "And what have we learned?" "That we're all on the same ship, Mr. Bestyrer." "Give me your rabbit, Aksel." "I'm hungry, I need more food." "Stay away!" "I just want to pet him." "Stay away." "I'm just going to pet him." "It's a her, not a him!" "C-9 and C-19 requesting permission to use the outhouse." "C-19 is a problem." "We should be harder." "They should punish him more, and keep him separate." "Discipline without compassion is heartless, we've talked about this." "We are role models for these boys, we must not be heartless." "Bestyrer." "Now I speak not only for myself, I have really nothing to complain about." "I have been here for 9 years." "I haven't asked for a penny more in pay, but ..." "The parliament church and School Committee sets the salary." "You have to talk to them." "I know that, but ..." "To be a house-father is important, but it is no lifetime job." "An ambitious man, would have left a long time ago." "Good Night." "Bråthen?" "Bråthen, you're doing a great job." "Good night." "We need help to bring in the wheat." "You're doing the laundry." "Please, let me help you in the field." "Please." "Can you handle a pitchfork?" "Yes." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Where did you hide the saw blade?" "They won't find it." "Promise me that you wont escape before I leave?" "Yes." "It's not long from now." "Hey, what are you looking at?" "Bastøy Boy." "Here you are." "C-5?" "C-5?" "Let me see your hand." "Come here." "They're wrapping it together." "What is it?" "Turn on the lights!" "Get help!" "Hurry!" "Come on." "Come on, we gotta leave now." "We're leaving now." "Do you want to stay here?" "Do you want to stay here?" "Go back to the infirmary, Ivar." "Take me with, Erling." "Please, I'm begging you." "Go!" "I want to come, I can help you row when you're tired." "Please!" "I don't want to be here anymore, I can't do it!" "Please, Erling." "Please!" "Go back, lvar." "I can't have a wussy with me.." "What?" "You're not in the infirmary?" "Where have you been?" "I have been talking to someone." "Have you been down to the beach?" "Have you been with C-19?" "Gossip pussy!" "Bråthen?" "Yes, Mr. Bestyrer?" "How long have you been on Bastøy?" "9 years -9 years .. ." "Has anyone managed to escape during that time?" "No." "So this boy, C-19, has to be a kind of hero." "The first to successfully escape Bastøy." "But he is no hero." "He is selfish, egotistical and cowardly." "He can not see himself in the face and stand for what he has done, so he runs away." "And leaves you all again to take the consequences." "He risked your privileges, which you have worked so hard for." "And where does he run to?" "What will he find when he finally stops running?" "He will find nothing." "Nothing!" "For he will be taken and sent right back here." "I can promise you that." "Am I disappointed?" "Yes, I'm." "I disappointed in you." "I am disappointed in C-1 , Olav Fossen, whom is responsible for barracks C." "But those who really should be disappointed, are you." "Half rations." "He did it." "He got away." "Erling escaped, for heavens sake!" "I heard that the chef had talked with the captain of the mail boat" "He said he had found the manager's rowboat across the mountains by Rørestrand." "... with an Our Father in covenant" "If you never shudder" "Fight for everything you hold dear" "Die as it comes!" "C-5." "The hero is back." "Come on, let's work." "C-1 will read this, and then carry out the punishment." "Read." ""Penalties for serious offenses such as escape attempt, theft " " Or repeated use of tobacco, " " Shall receive 12 strokes to the back or until the blood seems."" "Hands on the table!" "Yes, between the lines." "Do it!" "C-1 , do it properly!" "Where are you going now?" "Managers galley boy." "Don't blame me that you broke the rules." "Was it easier for you to read me the rules, than to tell the manager what Bråthen does with Ivar in the laundry room?" " Or are the rules like that too?" "You promised me, you devil!" "Or do you dare not say anything, now that you are about to get your signature?" "What is going on?" "What are you doing here?" "House-Father . .." "Be quiet!" "You are so close to being released, and you come running in here without permission." "Have you lost your mind?" "I saw C-5 and ... .. . and House-Father Bråthen in ..." "Bråthen?" "What is he doing?" "He puts C-5 in pain." "Pain?" "Well, speak up!" "House-Father Bråthen and C-5 .. ." "I saw them in the laundry cellar." "What are you trying to say?" "What are these hideous fantasies?" "It's not allowed!" "What he does with Ivar in the laundry cellar." "Get out!" "Go!" "Ivar!" "I want you and I to go to the manager right now." "Do you not see that I'm working?" "If we go together, he will believe us." "Then I'll never go home." "C-5." "Bestyrer." "Stand straight." "I am just wondering if your hand is better?" "Yea, it's a little better." "Thanks, manager." "Good." "Then everything is okay." "Excellent." "Nothing to complain about." "But there are no other problems?" "No." "No, because I thought you should maybe ..." "I believe it will be better for you, if you work in the forest with you friends." "Thanks, manager." "Yea, I believe that the forest will better suit you." "Yes, manager." "Great, then!" "Good." "You owe me money." "What money?" "Bråthen and I are having a bet." "If you are back in laundry in the morning." "Go and help Bjarne with the fire." "What are you doing with Ivar's clock?" "He gave it to me." "Get back!" "Get the nurse now." "Right away!" "Run!" "Get them to the sleeping hall." "To the sleeping hall." "Go to the sleeping hall!" "It is absolutely terrible what has happened." "We suffer from everything that has happened with the poor boy." "I understand that you feel guilty." "But I have to admit that he didn't have it so easy before he came here." "And it was no less turbulent here." "He was not as strong." "He was one of those whom did not fit to live among other people." "And maybe it was God's will that he finally let go." "We tried to help him, and find easy work for him." "But he tried to swim away from here, a desperate act that could only end in disaster." "And we all know where he got the idea from to flee." "Escape is just a childish fantasy." "But he is in peace now." "He is in God's place." "Sit down." "C-19, sit down!" "Send C-19 to my room." "Are you looking to go to prison?" "If you can't decide, then you don't understand what a prison is." "He didn't try to escape." "He drowned himself." "What's the difference?" "He's gone." "Forget him!" "And help the others to forget him also." "You've seen little of the world and you think you understand." "But you don't." "No, manager, there is a lot i don't understand." "Bastøy or prison." "The choice is yours." "Get him out." "Why have you been here so long, Bråthen?" "They talk." "There are rumors that I don't even want to speak about." "Accusations." "You can't listen to them, They say whatever they want." "A child has died." "And you have been accused of actions which are so horrible .. ." "The only thing I have done ss to try to help a boy who could not help himself." "C-5 was not scared of me." "It was these animals he lived with in barracks C." "I can't have a house-father who is suspected of such a thing as this." "It's disgusting." "Bestyrer." "Please .. ." "You are accused of fornication with a child." "Do you understand what that means?" "Is there much truth there, shall I see that you rot away in a prison for the rest of your life." "I understand how difficult a man of your position must have it." "With a young wife here." "And all the responsibility." "And all these options to take." "And the funds that would get the boys and the island destroyed for good." "The funds you've used up to make your life a little easier." "I know that." "But others could maybe misunderstand it." "Now you're leaving!" "You bastard!" "Leave, you bastard!" "Now it's too late." "What are you going to say when the committee comes?" "When they begin to ask questions." "They will certainly question and dig." "You have to tell them the truth." "You don't give up, Astrid." "You don't give up." "Are you Erling Kaspersen?" "I am C-19, mam." "Have you learned anything here?" "Yes, mam, I have learned many things." "Could you tell me what kind of things?" "I learned that I would rather be here than in prison." "And why is that?" "Don't you see what great good we get, mam?" "The boys, are they always so quiet at the table?" "No." "You see them now as they will be seen." "Clean and neat." "Especially the boys who may be out in society." "For them, this is more of great importance." "The boy that died recently." "It must have made an impression on them?" "I'm the first to recognize that it isn't easy being a BastøyBoy." "It's a brutal environment." "We do what we can." "We help and we support them." "But one can not be everywhere all the time." "And children could be very bad." "The boy who tried to escape turned out to be a chop chicken." "He was not strong enough to take care of himself." "Yea, it is tragic." ""If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just."" ""So, he forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."" ""What hurts is when it is. .."" ""If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just."" "Nervous?" ""So, he forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."" "Good." "Congratulations." "Do you have something you want to say to us?" "You need not be afraid, it is only just to speak out." "Yes, I want to say something to Mr. Bestyrer." "I will never forget all he has done." "I want to say something." "There is a boy here who died on this island." "I understand manager that you were not directly involved in harassing this kid." "But I'm speaking as a leader of hall C, you had a responsibility." "Do you understand that?" "Those were wise words, Fossen." "You could have taken better care of that boy." "Yes, bestyrer." "When do you leave?" "In one week." "What is it with you?" "You're going out in the world now." "You can do what you want." "Get yourself a wife." "Do you know what the committee said?" "Do you know what the manager said about us?" "Doesn't matter what they said." "Bastøy is only a small stone in the water." "You can be what you want." "You can be a priest, you are so smart in reading rules." "Goodbye." "Goodbye." ""We sailed for several weeks before we saw him again."" ""Our food ran out."" ""And Øystein, the chef, was not so much to brag about in the beginning."" ""Should have seen how thing I've become." "I can't eat anymore fish."" ""But we found the whale again, and we came right on top of it."" ""Close than we had before."" ""He was weaker due to the harpoon I shot him with."" ""At close range, he was great, 25 meters long at least."" ""And covered with scars from all the battles he had fought."" ""He had already killed the new deck boy."" ""The Captain have a high opinion of himself."" ""But deep inside he is a damned coward."" ""The rest of the crew are afraid of him."" ""I have become acquainted with one boy whom is soon to sign off."" ""For six years he has worn on the ship, He has done everything right. "" ""Now he is going home."" "Forgive us our debts, who also have forgiven our debtors." "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." "For thine is the kingdom, and power and the glory forever." "Amen" "Sit down." "Sit down!" "We shall now take leave of two friends." "Two good friends." "By tomorrow they will be out in the world meeting new sorrows, new joys, new lessons." "Aksel Johnsen." "God bless you." "And may you take care of the opportunities he gives you." "Olav Fossen." "Go!" "Olav Fossen." "Go." "Go while you can." "C-1?" "Do you have any more wise words that you want me to take with me?" "Behave yourself, now." "See you around." "We never finished the story." "Maybe I will see you again." "On a ship somewhere." "I hear you guys are leaving" "Good luck." "Good luck." "C-1 , towel." "Did the manager know that Bråthen is back?" "Of course he did." "He had been in land to shop for the manager." "It's that simple." "If only you had done that you were asked, had it not been a problem." "Everything had been fine." "You damned liar!" "Do you remember when you first came here?" "A little brat who was so afraid that he shit on himself and peed in his pants." "Every day." "Worthless." "Just like the whore of a mother you had." "And your petty criminal father." "You were nothing." "For six years I have struggled with you." "And all that is of value to you, " " I created." "Bjarne!" "You must help us." "You're one of us." "Bjarne?" "Bjarne, you are one of us!" "Øystein, eat your food." "Come on, Øystein, you must eat." "Are you sleeping?" "Do it." "Or freeze up." "There was just blood everywhere." "He swallowed them down until he died." "Harpoon shooter, cook and cabin boy." "Everything, swallowed by the whale." "And everything went back the way it used to be." "The captain was admiral." "And could command a crap bowl." "And sailed to America." "And the crew was on deck and had their own number." "Lined with mackerel and herring." "Olav!" "Take his key!" "Help!" "Help!" "Runaway!" "Olav!" "Olav!" "Olav!" "Runaway!" "Stop!" "Enough!" "Get up." "Enough." "Get up!" "Back to your places." "Back to your places!" "Back!" "Come on!" "Don't do anything dumb now, boys." "What are you looking at?" "Fucking BastøyBoy." "Get up on the chair." "The manager is coming!" "Let him through." "You do not belong here, either." "Goodbye, manager!" "Let him go!" "He said we should let him burn." "Get out!" "Get out!" "C-19." "Are you going to kill me now?" "So?" "Can I get your signature?" "Lieutenant?" "I have to talk to someone higher up." "I want to speak to the King of Norway." "Tell him that it is ..." "That is it the king of Bastøy." "They're coming back!" "And there are many of them." "Do you understand what I am saying, Olav?" "Take the paddles." "Come on!" "Come on!" "They're coming." "It came over from the mainland." "I can't do this anymore" "The sea is frozen over." "I can't stand it." "We can cross over!" "I can't go on it." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Come on!" "The letters were to my sister." "Let me go." "Let me go ..." "Olav." "Olav." "Olav." "Olav?" "We are approaching Christiania." "Bastøy, port." "I once saw a whale swim with three harpoons in it." "It took the entire day to die." "He was weaker due to the harpoon I shot him with" "And covered with scars from all the battles he had fought." "I have become acquainted with one boy whom is soon to sign off." "For the six years he has been on the ship, He has done everything right." "And now, he is going home."

"Previously on Defiance..." "First we need to secure his marriage." "If they're against us, we'll never be able to take control of the McCawley mines." "I'm thinking about our son's future." "Wanna come back to my place later?" " What's at your place?" " Me." "No." "Come back and work with me." "I can't do this alone." " No thanks." "Not interested." " You sure about that?" "I finally got my hands on one of the artifacts." "Yeah!" "You'll never please your bride with that shriveled worm of yours." "Your mother didn't seem to mind." " Who's next?" " Well, look at you." "You ain't worthy of Christie McCawley." "Yes, he is!" "Defend my honor, Alak." "Kick his ass." "On the eve of your wedding, you've defeated your savage brothers." "Now it's time to taste the fruits of your victory." "I'm ready for you, husband." "Rembu!" "Rembu!" "Rembu!" "Boys." "____________" " Claim your wife." " Another round, Jared." " Koni shots for everyone!" " Casti punk." "Not until we get to see you pony-mount your bride." "Ritual coitus is so old-school." "It's 2046." "Wait, are you saying no to your bride?" "Are you?" "Look, the thing is, Tirra, my real bride would probably have a problem with this." "Come on, man." "Nobody's gonna know." "Let it go, kupack." "I guess that's what happens when you hook up with a Human." "Pink meat makes your jondura go soft." "Hey!" "Is that a hand?" "_________" "Holy shtako." "S01 Ep10 = The Bride Wore Black =" "Christie." "You are a vision." "It's all because of Kenya." "She made this dress." "She does have an amazing touch." "Well, it's only been worn once, and it looks much better on you than it ever did on me." "Kenya, I'm sure you were a stunning bride." "In another lifetime." "I'll see you both tomorrow." "Christie, in Human tradition" "I understand the mother of the bride gives her daughter something borrowed to wear during the ceremony." "As your mother's not with us," "I thought I would give you something I wore at my wedding." "When we boarded the ark, we were only allowed to bring three items." "I took my family gem, my diary, and this." "It's called a telo." " How do I wear it?" " I'll show you." "My mother wore it, and her mother before that." "You know, the Human phrase daughter-in-law is so cold, so distant." "Our word, hanya tavo, means "heart daughter."" "You are my hanya tavo, Christie." "I can't see anything." "You're not supposed to." "In Castithan tradition, the bride is blind until her betrothed opens her eyes at the end of the ceremony." "I'll never forget the moment my handmaidens lifted my telo." "At first, the light was so bright." "But then, after a moment, he came into focus." "My new husband." "It was magical." "It's beautiful." "I'm looking forward to this wedding tonight." " This town needs a party." " Weddings are stupid." "Okay." "See, most people, Irisa, they don't do everything alone." "They think life's more meaningful with someone at their side." "Some even like to celebrate this idea with friends and family." "You're going, right?" "You're going." "You're gonna be my date." " I don't date." " Why not?" "I'm from the badlands." "You see, when I first came to Defiance," "I was nothing but a card hustler." "Couldn't read or write, never thought I'd amount to anything." "Now I'm wearing a badge." " People change." " You're an idiot." "So are you." "Wound's triangular." "Paperweight?" "Possibly." "Whatever it was, our John Doe took one pretty hard to the coconut." "That's one hell of a big damn rock." "Obviously robbery wasn't a motive." "I've seen that ring before." "This is no John Doe." "His name is Hunter Bell." "Who's that?" "He owned the needwant back when it was just a hotel and bar." "Slow down, hot shot." "Nobody cheats in my establishment but me." "I'm not cheating." "__________" "Back off, Datak." "I got this." "Kenya, bring these gentlemen a free round." "Let's go." "What are you thinking trying to hustle my poker table?" "I'm thinking, damn, I'm gonna get rich off these Casti punks." "They're crap players." "You got that right." "You gonna cut me?" "First lesson's free." "So is this one." "You're not as slick with the cards as you think." "Come with me." " Hey, lawkeeper." " Clancy." "Hey, Hunter." "Who's the kid?" "My friend here just got off the truck from Yosemite." "Needs a bed and a job." "Does he mind scrubbing toilets?" "He can't get enough of it." "So you and this guy were close?" "Not exactly, but he helped me." "I owed him." "When did he go missing?" "About seven years ago, give or take." "I'd only been on the job three days when I caught my first case." "My husband's missing." "Hunter had a lot of enemies..." "And most people figured he'd blown town." "Except me." "I found one drop of blood, and that's it." "If it was murder, why isn't there more blood?" "Somebody cleaned the floor." "They missed a drop." "Yeah." "Look, Hunter was a..." "He owed money." "He got into a fight, he lost a little blood, and he hightailed it out of Defiance." "No, look." "Okay, I've never owned a home." "Never owned a business." "But in this day and age, a man doesn't simply walk away from their accomplishments." "Yeah, right." "Yeah, not a man like Hunter." "I think someone killed him." "Turns out, I was right." "We've been in town, what, four months?" "Never heard Kenya mention a missing husband." "How do you know it's Hunter?" "I'm sorry." "Hunter owned the needwant." "When he was gone, you took over, right?" "It was in his will, which is the same answer that I gave you seven years ago." "Tommy, you wanna give us a minute?" "People thought that he ran off, but I knew that he wouldn't do that." "You guys had a good thing?" "Stop!" "I miss him a lot." "I feel weird officiating this wedding." "Well, Rafe asked you personally." "Yeah, but that was before Datak was my opponent." "The whole town will see you standing up there looking authoritative and elegant." "It's good politics." "You know, Datak's putting all his resources into this campaign." " Should I be worried?" " Now listen." "You have a very strong track record and my endorsement." "If Datak's going to beat you, he's going to need a lot more ammunition than he's got right now." "Madam mayor?" "Nolan." "Tommy." "You boys excited about the wedding?" "I hope you're both going to save a dance for me." "Yes, ma'am." "We found Hunter Bell's corpse." " My God." " Where was it?" "He'd been murdered." "Body stashed in a hollow wall in the needwant." "What is this?" "I thought you said he stopped." "This is just something I got caught in a drawer." "Here's to my big sister, the new assistant mayor." "Hunter's never gonna stop." "Someday you're gonna be running this town." "He's never gonna change." "Hunter sees something in me that no one else does." "Stop being so stupid!" "He's gonna kill you!" "Look at the choices that you make with your life." "Look what you did to Connor." "Look what you did to your own baby." "You don't even want to let anybody into your life." "I have someone in my life." "You." "And I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you." "I think I'm old enough to look after myself." "No, you can't, Kenya." "And if it comes to it, I will do whatever it takes to make sure he never lays a hand on you again." " You okay?" " Yeah, I'm fine." "Mayor Nicky," "I'm gonna have to ask mayor Rosewater some questions." "Yes, of course." "I'm really sorry about Mr. Bell." "Hunter Bell was your brother-in-law, right?" "Yes." "You woulda known him pretty well." "What was he like?" "Charming, rich, handsome." "Maybe a little bit dangerous." "He was a bully." "Did he..." "Did he bully your sister?" "No." "He loved her, she loved him." "She was devastated when he disappeared." "They're lying, both of them." "Maybe." "You know, I think that Hunter was beating on Kenya, and Amanda could've killed him to protect her sister." "Or Kenya killed him, and Amanda's lying to protect her." "So what are you gonna do about it?" "I'm gonna go home, put on some fresh clothes, and go to a wedding." "Nolan." "A man was killed." "A bad man, long time ago." "You're gonna try to bury this, aren't you?" "It's my job to keep the peace, not run around like Sherlock Holmes chasing old ghosts." "What about justice?" "Make sure you wear a tie tonight." "My daughter is not wearing this hockey mask at her wedding." "This is an heirloom." "Show some respect." "She'll be able to see when she's walking down the aisle, and folks will be able to see her." "A Castithan wedding isn't a wedding if the bride doesn't wear her telo." "I'm the one footing the bill for this thing." "Christie wears what I say she wears." "You Humans believe you're so superior." "The truth is you're primitives." "Your minds are dull, your hands are clumsy." "The scent of your pink skin sickens me." "Does this skin look pink to you?" "You all look the same." "Let me ask you something." "You hate Humans so much, why are you letting your boy marry one?" " Well, Alak wishes it." " No." "You've been good with this the whole time." "So I gotta ask myself, what's your angle?" "What do you get out of this wedding?" "I believe in love." "You know, I was thinking about how the McCawley mines are built on land stolen from Irathient settlers." "Now that's a tainted legacy that I do not want to leave to our kids." "So when I die, my mines go to a trust benefiting the Irathient population of Defiance." "You do think I'm doing the right thing, don't you, Datak?" "Well, they're your mines, Rafe." "I don't care what you do with them." "Good." "Breakfast is on me." "The wedding is off!" "Datak, I understand you're upset, but if Christie does not want to wear the telo..." "It's not about the gwoking telo." "Rafe McCawley has written Christie out of his will." "The mines are going to the I-raths." "Rafe may say that now, but be patient." "Once his first grandchild arrives, he'll reconsider." "I will not wait." "Instead I will win this election." "Then when I'm mayor, I will find a way to take the mines away from Rafe McCawley." "How does Alak feel about this?" "Alak's a child." "He'll get over it." "My parents would not have wanted me to marry you." "And yet, here we are." "Alak is more pliable than either of us at his age." "We were immigrants." "We were strong because we had to be." "Alak will never have to endure the same hardships we did, and I thank Rayetso for that." "Don't you want him to be happy?" "Our son loves this Human girl." "She makes him smile." "She lifts his spirits in a way that nobody else can." "A Castithan woman can lift his spirits... just fine." "Alak is of this New World." "He doesn't see the Humans the way we do." "He sees beauty in them." "Kindness." "Then he's lost the sense of smell." "Maybe you have too." "I'm calling the priest." "Perhaps Alak should be the first to hear of your decision." "You know, Nolan should really be here right now." "It's a waste of time." "Yeah, looking for evidence is a big waste of time." "You want evidence?" "You know, if I ran things" "I'd have five deputies combing over every inch of this place." "You don't need five deputies." "What is that, a hair?" "Whisker." "Liberata." "Jered." "Jered the bartender was working here when Hunter owned it." "Jered, it's Tommy." "You around?" "Jered?" " It's locked." " So?" "So we've got to go back to Nolan and get a warrant or something." " We can't just..." " Can't just what?" "Poor Jered." "His throat's been slit earlobe to earlobe." "Just like Elah Bandik." "Someone didn't want him to talk." " Why are his fingers like that?" " I don't know." "Maybe nitrogen depravation." "This has all the markings of a Casti hit." "When I was about your age, the arks were going through their final preparations." "I had just won passage playing ivali." "But my father refused to leave home." "I don't understand." "Why would he stay on a dying planet?" "He said if the suns were to swallow up our world, he needed to be inside the walls of the holy temple." "He could not leave the Castithan scrolls unattended." "Not even in the face of death." " Do you know why?" " No." "Because he'd made that promise to his own father." "Fine." "I'll talk to Christie about the telo." "When I gave you permission to marry outside of our race," "I knew it was a dishonor to my father's memory." "But I let you and your mother sway me." "I was wrong." "Dad." "No." "I regret allowing it to have come this far." "But you are my only son, Alak." "And our Castithan blood will not be diluted." "Do you understand?" "No, no, no, I don't understand." "Okay, I love her." "This is bullshtak." "Watch yourself." "Without the name Tarr, you're nothing." "Nothing but a street haint with dyed hair and a record collection." "Street haint?" "Isn't that how you see yourself?" "You're always talking about how you pulled yourself out of the mud and made the Humans respect you." "I said to watch your tongue." "I don't give a kanga rat's ass about the sacred scrolls." "All right, maybe your father chose to die guarding a bunch of stupid papers, but I wasn't born on Casti" "I was born on Earth, just like Christie." "And we're getting married." "I didn't expect you to be happy about this, but you will obey my wishes." "Or what, you're gonna slit my throat?" "That's the Casti way." "I'll give you time to cool off." "Datak." "Not now, lawkeeper." " Can't wait." " Will wait." "Datak Tarr, you're under arrest." "On what charges?" "For the murder of Jered Kikema and Hunter Bell." " Hey." " Hey." "I'm so excited." "I even decided to wear the telo." "I know I said I didn't want to, but then I was thinking, my wedding..." "My dream of what I wanted it to be like when I was a little kid..." "That's never gonna happen because my mom won't be there, my brothers won't be there." "All that matters is that you're there." "And if it makes your parents happy for me to wear a metal mask over my face," " then so be it." " Christie..." "There's something that I need to tell you." "Christie?" "What did you do?" "What did you say to her?" "It's my father." "He... he's trying to stop the wedding." "I don't know what to do." "I can't live without her." " You really love her, don't you?" " Yes, sir." "Then that's all that matters." "Why in the three hells would I kill a knee-high Liberata bartender?" "Maybe because he knew you killed Hunter Bell." "Or maybe because he helped you hide the corpse." "I have no idea what you're talking about." " You don't recognize this?" " No!" "Really?" "'Cause we found that in your closet." "And that handle, that matches the caved-in part of Bell's skull like a key fits a lock." "Well, I've never seen it before in my life." "Tommy tells me that you and Bell were in business together." "Yeah." "You might say that." " You're asking for a raise?" " I'm asking for a stake." "I built this tent." "Quadrupled profits every month." " I deserve it." " Look who's all grown up." "When I first came to town, you were running brawls in dark alleys, jacking rollers on Urdu street." "My money made you, Tarr." "Don't ever forget that." "With all due respect, I suggest you reconsider." "You know, in some cultures when a man challenges the chief, there's a fight until only one of them is left standing." "You want power?" "Power isn't seen." "It's felt!" "How does that feel?" "What's wrong, can't win a fair fight?" "I win." "That's all that matters." "Drop the blade or I drop you." " Thank you." " You're welcome." "I believe your life expectancy has taken a turn for the worse." "Why did you do it?" "Yeah, well, call me old-fashioned, but I believe in a fair fight." "Yes, you are old-fashioned, right down to your choice of antique weapons." "Well, I like to hit what I'm aiming at, and my aim isn't always too good." "I'll try to remember that." "That clown's making a move on my mines." "I imagine you have no intention of allowing that to happen." "See, normally I wouldn't think you and I have much in common, but when it comes to our friend Hunter Bell," "I think we do." "Let me buy you a drink." "I wish I had the pleasure of hearing Hunter Bell's last breath, but I'm afraid someone else beat me to it." "Whoever it is, they're trying to frame me." "They planted that walking stick in my closet." "Any idea who?" "I pay my taxes so people like you can figure things like that out." "Get out of here!" "Go on." " What was that?" " Theater." "Datak Tarr is an egomaniac." "If he had killed Hunter Bell, that body wouldn't be holed up in a wall." "It'd be on display in the town square." "So then why did we bring him in here?" "Now he's good and riled up, maybe he'll lead us to the person who framed him, the real killer." "You knew this this whole time?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "Thought you'd be more convincing this way." "Where I come from, framing a man is the act of a coward." "Tarr, I don't know what you're talking about." "Hunter Bell." "You had as much reason to kill him as I did." "Why not just have the jondura to admit it instead of implicating me?" "You really think I killed that sack of shtako?" "Well, if you didn't do it, who did?" "Don't know, don't care." "I have a wedding to attend." " The wedding is off." " That's what Alak said at first." "Then we started talking." "Your son loves my daughter, and my daughter loves him, and that's good enough for me." "He may never get my mines, but I will look out for him." "And I will make sure that those kids have a wedding that they will always remember." "Please." "We should get over there." "The ceremony's about to begin." "Dr. Yewll?" "I got your message." "I'm just on my way to the wedding." "I won't keep you long." "Would you mind locking the door?" "Have you come to a decision?" "Are we partners again?" "We'll get so much farther working together." "This isn't about the artifact." "Our favorite Liberata bartender was killed today." "No, how sad." "A Casti charge blade slit his throat." "Datak Tarr." "Why am I not surprised?" "Nicolette." "It's me you're talking to." "I had no choice." "He was the only person who knew that we killed Hunter Bell." "There was no reason to hurt him." "Jered has known the truth for seven years, and he never said a word." "It was preemptive." "I was exposed once, doctor." "I couldn't risk that happening again." "Well, vision seems to be functioning okay." "I told you, I'm fine." "It's just this damn ache in my arm and leg." "Okay." "Let's take a look at it." "Okay, wiggle your fingers." "How did you get in here?" "Kenya slipped." "I needed some salve." "Well, get out." "This is a sterile environment." "Thought you might come by." "Excuse the renovations." "Drink, ladies?" "Or should I call you something else?" "I'm afraid there's been a misunderstanding." "Yes, there certainly has." "The citizens of this town believe their mayor is a Human being." " What do you want?" " Well, let's start with the truth." "'Cause I am bubbling over with curiosity." " I am an Indogene, Mr. Bell." " Nicky..." "Camouflaged biologically to appear Human." "What are you, some sort of spy?" "There is something very important in this town, Mr. Bell." "In the wrong hands, it could be very dangerous." "We're here to prevent that happening." "We're here to protect Earth." " Yeah?" "For my kind or your kind?" " For all kinds." "Well, I don't want to get in the way of your important job, so why don't you give me a cool hundred "G"" "to keep that secret of yours nice and safe." "I've heard what an enterprising young man you are." " Quite the negotiator to boot." " This isn't a negotiation." "You're right about that." "You psycho piece of shtako." "You chuping killed him." "I was afraid I hadn't hit him hard enough." "Jered, dear." "Would you mind helping us clean up this mess?" "Relax, doctor." "It's all cleaned up." " It's over." " Yes, I suppose it is." "You know, when I first came to this town," "I wanted to start over." "I wanted to right my wrongs, and you..." "Well, you told me everything that I wanted to hear." "You were my inspiration." "But you changed." "You unleashed the Volge, Nicky." "You murdered a harmless bartender." "It has become painfully clear to me that there is no end to the lives that you're willing to sacrifice for what you call the greater good." "If I can't trust you with a simple walking stick, how am I supposed to trust you with a genocidal weapon?" "The first needle was a paralytic." "It'll stop you from struggling and also from experiencing pain." "You know, I've changed too." "I've become a healer instead of a destroyer." "And that's why I'm so sorry for what I have to do." "But it's for the greater good." "Good-bye, old friend." "There." "You look beautiful." "Didn't think I'd be this nervous." "You have nothing to be nervous about, as long as you remember that your husband is your partner and your equal, and you are never gonna let him treat you as anything less." "No." "Christie, can I have a word with you, please?" "Good luck." "Bye, Stahma." "I understand you're not comfortable wearing the telo." " It's all right, really." " So I made this for you instead." "An old world bridal veil?" "I copied it from a book." " Stahma, you didn't have to." " I wanted to." "As my grandmother said to my mother on the day of her wedding..." "__________" "__________" "__________" "Datak accused Rafe of framing him." " I don't buy it." " Nor do I." "Dad." "It's okay, Alak." "Here, give me your hand." "You okay?" " Weddings are just weird for me." " Yeah, I get that." "No knives?" "Why is she not wearing the telo?" "I don't know." "Nicky isn't here." "That's strange." "Red's fingers." "I knew I'd seen that somewhere before." "The Liberatas during the war when the EMC used oxygen bombs..." "That's what they looked like." "Liberata breathe nitrogen, not oxygen." "Oxygen poisoning." "Today is a special day, an important day for Defiance." "That's why I didn't want to spoil it with my presence." "I killed Hunter Bell for what I thought was the betterment of this town." "When his body was recently discovered," "I killed Jered Kikema, whose only crime was witnessing my own." "I realize it's only a matter of time before the lawkeeper discovers the truth." "With my health, I'll never survive Vegas prison." "So I've decided to end my life." "I told myself I was acting for the greater good." "But that kind of thinking leads you down a dark road." "I can only hope I've left the town I love in better hands than my own." "I'm sorry." "She used to be good people." "Sometimes good people do bad things." "Congratulations, kid." "You solved your first case." "Yeah, I just can't believe it." " Mayor Nicky." " I know." "People are a mystery, kid." "Sometimes even to themselves." "And they all have secrets." "Only rule I know is that every time you think you have them figured out, they change." "We all do."

"I'm goin' down to South Park" "Gonna have myself a time" "Friendly faces everywhere" "Humble folks without temptation" "I'm goin' down to South Park" "Gonna leave my woes behind" "Ample parking day or night" "People spouting howdy neighbor" "Headin' on up to South Park" "Gonna see if I can't unwind" "Mrph rmhmhm rm!" "Mrph rmhmhm rm!" "Come on down to South Park and meet some friends of mine" "Hey, guys, thanks." "Support your team?" "Thank you." "Hey, guys, did you get one of these?" " Hope you can make it." " What's this?" "The girls' volleyball team has a big game tonight, and we're just asking for people to come cheer us on." "Girls' volleyball?" "Uh, sorry." "We're actually busy." "What's wrong with supporting girls' athletics?" "Dude, girls should totally be allowed to play sports." "You just can't expect people to want to watch." "Okay?" "All right." "You know, we're actually in the playoffs, and all we keep hearing is, "We're too busy."" "But we actually are busy." "Tonight's the big fight." "What fight?" "Dude, Kenny is fighting Slaughterhouse tonight." "I mean, no offense, but we're not gonna miss the fight for girls' volleyball." "Yeah, so, sorry you're not getting any spectators, but there's hard-core dude shit to watch." "All right, I'm going to play a fifth mana card." "And then I'm going to attack with my Elder Beast." "Hold on." "Wait." "Hold on." "Can Kenny block his Elder Beast?" "Not with his Shapeshifter." "It's already tapped." "This asshole needs to make a move already." "Quiet in the peanut gallery, please." "I am attacking, but with a newly summoned Spark Ghast who has trample." "Four damage to your Planeswalker." " Ohh!" " Ohh!" "Oh, no!" "Kenny!" " Shh!" " But he's dying!" " What's that?" " He's playing an enchantment." "This late?" "He's just stacked his Shapeshifter with an Elven Blade!" "I can block that with Uprooted Minotaur!" " Ohh!" " Ohh!" "Serendib Sorcerer unblocked." "Winner..." "McCormick!" " Yeah!" " Yeah!" "No!" "Dude, it was complete brutality." "You've never seen anything so ruthless." "It was seriously almost hard to watch." "At one point, Kenny actually polymorphed the dude into a blue frog with an instant attack card." "It was carnage, bro." "Wendy, did you hear about last night?" "Yeah, I heard the girls' volleyball team won by like 20 points." "Not that." "Did you actually go to that?" "Yeah." "You should show your support, too, sometime." "Whatever." "Dude, I don't think people are appreciating this." "It was such "pwnage," it was almost repulsive." "Hey!" "Psst!" "Come over here." "You guys like hard-core stuff, huh?" "Yeah, we like hard-core stuff." "We're fucking dudes, bro." "Yeah, well, you boys want to get in on some real action?" "If you like excitement." "I'm not talking about that little-boy stuff." "I'm talking real man shit." "We're men." "Well, then, if you want to see real fights with real brutality, go here." "This is the underground stuff, so keep it quiet." "And you might want to pack a barf bag." "Cool!" "Should be the next one..." "2778 Mala Vista Drive." "Wait." "This is City Wok." "What's exciting and hard-core about shitty shrimp?" "It doesn't even look like they're open." "We crose!" "We crose for the night!" "Go away, prease!" "Uh, Mitchell the janitor sent us." "You porice?" " Rmh?" " Dude, do we look like police?" "Okay, come on." "Come on." "Five darra." "Five darra each!" "Come on!" "Five darra!" "Five darra?" "!" "You go down." "Go down, find seat." "We in the sixth fight." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Scrambles plays a Black Swamp mana card." "Fluffy counters with a mana card of his own." "And he plays a Fugitive Wizard!" "More mana from Scrambles." "And yes, that is Crippling Blight!" "Crippling Blight to the Fugitive Wizard!" "Creature now has minus one to strength and defense!" "More mana from Fluffy." "Now he'll attack with Fugitive Wizard." "And there's an instant attack from Scrambles!" "That is Peel from Reality!" "Fugitive Wizard is literally torn apart from the battleground!" " Whoa!" " Whoa!" "The mana is flying now, as both roosters play sorcery spells!" "It's Mass Calcify against Into the Void!" " Dude, that was total carnage." " That was freaking hard-core." "Can you believe that rooster played a Kalonian Twingrove with half his mana tapped?" "It was just decimation." "It was really about the most man thing" "I think we've ever been a part of." "We're going again on Friday, right?" "Hell yeah!" "What's the matter, Kenny?" "Mrph rmhmhm." "Rmh rmphm rm." "What's mean about it?" "Mrph rmhmhm rm mrph rmh rmphm." "You feel bad for the roosters?" "Rm." "Mrph rmh rmphm mrph rmhmhm." "Look, who's to say the roosters don't want to play?" "I mean, they were going at it pretty hard." "Yeah." "Maybe that's just kind of what they do naturally." "Guys, I think maybe Kenny's a little hurt because he was the big Magic champion and now chickens are stealing his thunder." " Rm." " Huh?" "A little bit?" "Rm!" "Dude, you know what we should do?" "We should all go in on a rooster." "Dude, totally." "With Kenny's Magic skills, we could probably kick serious ass!" "What do you think, Kenny?" "Would that make you feel better, huh?" "Come on." "Where's that smile?" "Where's that smile, Kenny?" "I think he's smiling, you guys." "Hello, Mr. McCormick." "Surprised to see us?" "What do you mean?" "Let's cut the crap, huh?" "We know there's an illegal Cock Magic ring going on in town." "We just want to know who's leading it." "What's Cock Magic?" "Right." "Roosters are being forced against their will to play Magic:" "The Gathering, and you know nothing about it because you're white." "Let's get something straight." "Cock Magic isn't an Asian thing or a Mexican thing." "White people do it, too, if they're poor enough." "You got a junked car in your front yard, Mr. McCormick." "Care to tell us where the Cock Magic fights are being held?" "I don't go to any Cock Magic fights." "Do you have sympathy at all for the animals, Mr. McCormick?" "Can you imagine being kept in a small cage, barely able to turn around, and then finally let out, only to be blasted by Arctic ice spells and legendary creature cards?" "It's illegal, and it's wrong." "And anyone I find involved with this filth is going down!" "Now, I don't want to lecture anybody, but what you boys are getting involved in is dangerous." "Dad, it's not that big a deal." "It is a big deal, okay?" "People can get hurt." "Believe it or not, I was into cock magic back in college." "You were?" "Yeah, so I'm not some fuddy-duddy who doesn't get it." "I just want to make sure if you boys do it, you do it right and safely." "Dad, that's not..." "that's not Cock Magic." "Oh?" "Not impressed?" "How about this?" "What is it?" "Hello?" "We're looking to buy a rooster that can play Magic:" "The Gathering." "Never heard of Cock Magic or roosters!" "Uh, we aren't cops or anything." "Come on in the back." "Don't mind the smell." "We only deal in the highest quality poultry Planeswalkers." "Are you looking for a New Hampshire or a Cornish breed?" "We don't really know the difference." "Well, your New Hampshire broiler chickens are the best for white mana." "These here have been raised to play mostly protection spells and do well with sorcery cards." "And here you got your green mana necromancers... lots of earthy growth and hindering incantations that are good against blue- or black-stacked decks." "You think they're happy?" "Do I think they're happy?" "Yeah, like, you think they mind being made to play Magic:" "The Gathering?" "They're fucking chickens." "Well, our friend here has some animal-rights concerns." "You have any free-range chickens?" "Free-range chickens are primarily control-deck players that slow the game down with board-control cards." "Oh, screw the free-range chickens, huh, Kenny?" "Hey, how about this little guy?" "That one's kind of young." "I don't even know what kind of cards he prefers." "Then he's perfect for us." "What should we name him, Kenny?" "I know." "How about McNuggets?" "Hey, McNuggets." "You want to come play for us?" ""Yes, I do, you guys."" "Oh, wow." "Did you hear him, Kenny?" "Mom, will you tell Dad to get out of the bathroom?" "He's been in there for an hour!" "Randy?" "Hey!" "Hoo!" "Ooh, thank you!" "Randy, what are you doing?" "!" "Oh!" "Nothing, Sharon!" "Just going to the bathroom, if you don't mind." "Hey!" "Randy, why are there drums playing?" "All right, Sharon." "I'm practicing." "Cock magic is making a comeback." "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." "Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes." "Sharon, I don't know why or how, but people all over town are talking about it again." "Now, you know that I was one of the best back in college." "I know that's why you got kicked out of college." "Because people didn't understand." "People were afraid, Sharon." "But now culture has caught up, and even our son is discovering what cock magic has to offer." "Stanley?" "People are going to do it, Sharon, and it's up to the professionals to make sure it's handled the right way." "Oh!" "Oh, my gosh!" "Reuben casts Silklash Spider." "Silklash Spider can block as if it had flying." "And now he casts Geistflame, dealing one damage to McNuggets!" "Come on, McNuggets!" "Fight!" "You can do it, McNuggets!" "Quiet, please." "Wait!" "McNuggets has cast Punishing Fire, absorbing the Geistflame and dealing two damage to the opponent!" "Game, set, and match, McNuggets!" "Whoa!" " All right!" " Yeah!" "All right, McNuggets!" "Did we pick the right rooster or what?" "That was goddamn manly." "I mean, no offense to Kenny, but that shit made regular Magic:" "The Gathering look like girls' volleyball." "Excuse me." "That was pretty impressive down there." "You boys have a nice cock." "Thank you so very much." "I've never seen a rooster throw down spells with such raw brutality." "How would you like to move him up to the big time?" "You mean there's more to this?" "Oh, yes, and I'm not talking about the basement of some seedy Chinese restaurant." "I'm talking about the basement of a well-established Chinese franchise." "Saturday night." "Here's the address." "Let's see what kind of money your cock can really make." "Gee, thanks." "You hear that, McNuggets?" "You're going to the big leagues." "Okay, kids, it's time for our birthday show." "Everyone, let's be quiet now." "Come on." "Yay!" "A show, a show!" "Do you kids like magic?" "Yeah!" "Yay!" "Yeah!" "Okay, well, let's all give a cheer for the Amazingly Randi!" "Hey, kids, are we having fun?" "Oh, where'd my hat go?" "Anyone seen my hat?" "Okay." "The magician started." "Let's get the cake ready." "Now, some of you might think that this is a little crazy." "But if you believe in magic..." "You'll find that..." "Ow!" "Ow!" "Oh, God!" "Can somebody help?" "!" "Please!" "They're getting a kick out of the magician, huh?" "God, somebody help me out!" "Can somebody..." "You!" "Little girl!" "Can you please just..." "just check behind your ear?" "Oh, it was behind her ear!" "And there we go, we're all better, and I am the Amazingly Randi." "Thank you." "I hate you!" "Dude, it was so badass." "Our guy slaughtered every other fighter there, and now he's moving up to the real hard-core shit." "It was seriously about the greatest night of our lives." " Where was all this?" " We can't tell you, bro." "It's, like, hard-core, underground shit." "Yeah." "You got to know people." "Dang it." "I wish I knew people." "All right, kids, before we get started, the coach of the girls' volleyball team is here and would like to say a few words." "Thank you, Mr. Garrison." "Listen, uh, last night, we had a pretty big game against Evergreen." "The girls really hammered them, but once again we're, uh, a little disappointed in the turnout." "Oh, Jesus." "Give it a rest already." "Yeah." "You know, when you put your all into something, it's kind of a bummer when people don't seem to care." "Kind of makes you feel like the sport you love is becoming a joke." "Dude, girls' volleyball isn't a joke." "Jokes are hard and require skill." "Oh!" "Fantastic girls' volleyball joke, Stan." "The girls wanted to say something, so we're now gonna hear a few words from the captain of the girls' volleyball team." "Hey, guys." "These games coming up are really big, and it would mean a lot to us if you could try and make it." "Thanks." "Dude, Wendy plays volleyball." "Did you know that?" "I don't think you knew that." "And then he, uh, took his penis from behind our daughter's ear and, uh, we, uh..." "that's when we saw him with, uh, the three rings and his penis." "He was pulling it through them somehow." "Uh-huh." "And what about the Cock Magic?" "Where was that?" "That's what I'm telling you." "It was right here." "Except..." "Except for the thing where he poured the milk into his penis." "He did that over there." "All right." "All right." "Let's try and focus." "What kind of decks were they using?" " Decks?" " Who?" "There..." "There weren't any decks." "Oh." "I get it now." "Do you know what the penalty is for calling in a false Cock Magic report?" "I'm so confused, babe." "Who paid you to call us and take our focus away from the investigation?" " What color were they?" " Nobody paid us anything!" "Now, there has been a crime here, and you better do something about it!" "Agreed." "Who first called 911?" "Please!" "Don't take me away from my child!" "Mommy!" "This is it." "1421 Plaza de Estereotipo." "Wow." "Here we are, McNuggets." "You've reached the big time." "Sorry." "Panda Express is crosed." "We crosed." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "We're here for the Cock Magic." "Oh, okay." "Come on." "10 darra. 10 darra." "10 darra?" "!" "For the next round, it is Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds, versus Clucky." "Who is that?" "That's Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds." "He's never lost a fight." "Hell, he's never even lost one health." "What do you mean?" "Is he a Red Mage or a Green Mage?" "Dude, he's, like, a beast." "He's got more legendary creature cards than I've ever seen." "McNuggets is scared!" "He doesn't want to play!" "McNuggets is scared, dude." "Can you stack his deck with more mana?" "Can you stack McNuggets' deck with more mana?" "!" "He didn't stand a chance." "Not one spell cast before he was obliterated by health drains." "That thing isn't human!" "All right." "Your rooster's up next, boys." "I don't think he wants to play, dude." "He doesn't have a choice." "But this isn't even a fight." "This is just a slaughter." "What do you think all these people are here to see?" "Holy shit, dude!" "Dude, we forfeit!" "We forfeit!" "The hell you do!" "Get your cock in there." "You're watching ESPN Illegal, your source for bull fighting, dog fighting, and Cock Magic." "And a warm welcome back to the Cock Magic championships." "Certainly an electric atmosphere here in the basement of Panda Express." "The fight we were expecting, of course..." "Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds, versus 10-month-old Cornish rooster McNuggets." "In a complete shocker, the challenger, McNuggets, has been scratched, and substituting for him is 9-year-old Kenny McCormick." "Never a dull moment in the illegal sport of Cock Magic." "Let's rejoin the battle now as we wait for Gadnuk's sixth move." "Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds, plays a creature card." "Jesus, Paragon of Fierce Defiance." "Now every red creature Gadnuk plays will have a plus-one attack." "Come on, Kenny." "What did he play?" "Did he tap all his mana?" "Dude, he just cast Psychogenic Probe." "Now every time the other rooster has to shuffle his deck, he loses two health." "He just had to shuffle it." "Did you hear that?" "He's shuffling the deck already." "The only thing he's got on the battleground now is an Overseer." "Does an Overseer have trample?" "A second Elvish Mystic now, and Gadnuk attacks with Merciful Pretender." "McCormick sends Charging Rhino to the graveyard." "He's desperate now." "Not too much he can..." "Oh!" "And he's just laid down Life's Legacy!" "That was not expected!" "Gadnuk doesn't know what hit him!" "McCormick follows with Crackling Doom and Abzan Battle Priest!" "Holy shit, dude!" "Gadnuk tries to block with Living Totem, but..." "Oh!" "There is Terra Stomper!" "This is absolute savagery!" "Frenzied Goblin has been sent to the graveyard, and now there is no one to block Pearl Lake Ancient!" "My God!" "Someone has to put a stop to this!" "Freeze!" "Well, well." "Looks like I finally caught the big boys." "You're all going to jail for a long time, especially you, scumbag!" "Lousy cops." "How did you find us?" "We saw your flyers." ""Panda Express." "Cock magic at 9:00 p.m."" "We didn't put those flyers out." "And now, for your half-time entertainment, please welcome the incomparable, the beautiful, the Amazingly Randi." "Uh, dude, your dad's here." "Thank you!" "Hey!" "You know, we live in a world of brutality and violence." "And some people think there's no room for wonder anymore." "Well, just for a moment, I want you to think one thing... whatever you believe is real, is real." "I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world" "Life in plastic, it's fantastic" "Come on, Barbie, let's go party" "Ah ah ah, yeah" "Come on, Barbie, let's go party" "Ooh oh oh, ooh oh oh" "Come on, Barbie, let's go party" "Ah ah ah, yeah" "Come on, Barbie, let's go party" "Ooh oh oh, ooh oh oh" "Ooh oh oh" "Ew!" "AII right, for this last bit, I'm gonna need a volunteer." "Anybody?" "I'll volunteer." "AII right." "Come on up here." "What's your name?" "I'm Detective Harris, South Park Police." "AII right, a hand for Detective Harris." "You know, if there's one thing I could leave you all with, it's this... let cock magic be done by the professionals." "Sir?" "It was so hard-core, you guys." "Kenny laid waste to Gadnuk, Breaker of Worlds." "It got so out of hand that the fucking cops had to come and break it up." " Wow!" "The cops came?" " Yeah." "It was seriously the most manly thing that's ever happened." "Kenny cast Glacial Crasher, and then Stan's dad shot his dick off." "I just..." "I seriously don't know where we go from here." "You all right, Kenny?" "Mrph rmh rmphm." "Mrph rmh rmh rmphm mrph rmphm." "Hey, yeah." "What about poor McNuggets?" "What's he gonna do now?" "Wait a minute." "I've got it, you guys." "Got what?" "A way to finally do something good for other people." "South Park serves, and McNuggets plays a Plains land card." "1-nil, South Park." "Another serve." "And McNuggets summons Dawntreader Elk." "One South Park player is eliminated." "You, the girl with the ponytails..." "You are dead."

"We'd like to make you an offer to buy the luncheonette." "I am not selling." " What if we up that offer?" " Oh God don't." "What about that?" "Our son is coming." "Do you understand how this looks?" "Crosby Braverman, I've always loved you." "I never stopped loving you." "Will you still marry me?" " Yes, I will marry you." " Yeah?" "♪ to go away for quite a while ♪" "♪ if that is what will make you smile ♪" "♪ is something I will gladly do ♪" "♪ because I am in love with you ♪." "I hate you." "Lily, hey, hey." "This is not fair to you, and I'm sorry." "I don't hate you." "♪ that is what it's going to take ♪." " I'm really sorry." " No, don't." "♪ what it's going to take ♪" " we're getting married!" " Aah!" "No!" " Yes!" " Oh, congratulations." "What is going on?" " Finally." " Hey, what happened?" "My mom and dad are getting married." "No way." "What are you talking about?" "How did that happen?" " Camping!" " Camping, of course!" "We went on this... we went on this camping trip, and I realized how much I love this man here, and that, no matter what happened," "I want to spend the rest of my life with him." " That is so sweet." " You..." "Realized it?" " Yes." " Yeah, dad." "She proposed to me." "Yeah, we want to do it right away." " This summer?" " No." "Well, no, actually, we were thinking later this week." "Yeah." "Yeah." " This week?" " Oh, my God." "Well, I mean, we'll have a big party in a couple months, but we're gonna go down to city hall this week." "Uh, no." "No." "Let's do it here." "What do you say?" " Yeah." " Are you sure?" " Right here." "Yeah." " This seems like a... oh, no." "We could do it outside." "We still have to talk to Renee about that, but, yeah, I mean, I think... it'll work." "Well, in my mind it's settled." "Let's go have some champagne." "We'll have a toast." "Okay, I'll get the champagne." "So a family wedding is quite a big event." "Oh, gosh, I'm just so excited." "You know what a lot of people do in preparation for a wedding?" " What?" " Shower." "That's funny." "Because you think I'm dirty?" "No, no." "I know you are." "Okay." "Yes." "Uh..." "And I understand, I mean, you're going through something..." "I'm going through something." "Yeah, clearly it's not my finest hour." "Have you talked to him?" " No..." "I haven't." " Why not?" "Because..." "What am I gonna say?" "He's called me." "I just..." "I don't know if I can work there and still be with him, and I... maybe you have to pick one." "Yeah, therein lies the problem." "I mean, he's a..." "he's a pretty cool guy." "So..." "Well..." "That's pretty rare." "Yeah." "♪ special kind of sadness ♪" "♪ you got that tragic set of charms ♪" "♪ that only comes from time spent in Los Angeles ♪" "♪ makes me wanna wrap you ♪" "♪ in my arms ♪ hey." "Dude, you just scared the crap out of me." "You should announce yourself before you..." "I didn't get a chance to tell you earlier that I met with Richard gilchrist while you were away." "You met with..." "Gilchrist while I was away." "Yeah, he called me, and he wanted to meet, said right away, so... look, the important thing is he upped the offer, and I think that we should discuss it." "Look..." "I was away for one day." "He more than doubled the offer." "I want to sell." "I'm getting married this week." "I know." "As everybody knows, in 72 hours, we're having a very big wedding here." "I need everybody's undivided attention." "Okay." " Undivided." " Here we go." "Now, thanks to Renee and Camille, we have a crackerjack list of wedding assignments." "Thank you very much, ladies." "Here we go." "Julia." "Sir!" "Honey, you are in charge of cake." " Mmm." " Yum." " On it, boss." " Oh, it's a good one." "And you gotta make it big enough for 40 people, sweetheart." "Actually, it's more like 57." "Wait, how did we get to 57?" "The church group." "The whole church?" "The church has to be up in here." "Shh!" "Hey." "Hey, hey." "Amy." "Amy, Amy." "Could I separate you and drew for just a second?" "You guys are gonna be on the Jordan almond wedding favors." " Ooh, yay." " Sarah." " I'm Sarah!" " You are on a rose-petal duty, my darling." " Oh, nice one." "Wait." "What is rose-petal duty?" " The rose-petal path that the bride and groom go down." "Bummer." "That's the embarrassing job." "Joel, Joel, are you paying attention?" " Yes, sir." " In deference to our partial" "Jewish ancestry, you will be making the chuppa." "It's "khuppa," dad." "It's not even Jewish." "Why do we keep pretending we're even... well, the "hoopa." "Huppa."" "I'll make them both." "Great, all right." "Adam!" "As best man, you are in charge of the bachelor party." "I need you to keep watching over, make sure he's safe and sound." " Will do." " All right?" "There's, um, actually been a change in the wedding party." "So, uh, Billy's in town." "He's gonna be the best man." "I'll tell him about the bachelor party." " What?" " Who's Billy?" " Billy?" " Seriously, I'm not joking." "Come on, Crosby." "Yeah, well, you weren't being very best manly, so I replaced you with someone who is up for the job." "Oh, my God, are you serious?" " Don't do this right now." " Wait, is this real?" "You wanna talk about this, we can talk about this, but let's not talk about it here." "Let's take it outside." "No, let's talk about it right here if you wanna talk about it." "Yeah, I'm sure they would all love to hear about it." "What the hell's going on here?" "What the hell is going on..." "Adam met behind my back and negotiated to sell the luncheonette." "I didn't try to sell the luncheonette." "That is not even how it happened." "Well, how did it happen, and how would you know?" "Are you a partner?" "Excuse me?" "Are you the one who told him to take the money?" "'Cause that's so important!" "I did not!" "Do not talk to my wife like that!" "Billy's gonna be the best man." "Just move on." "Fine." "You know, Billy's an idiot, just like you, so it should work out perfectly." "Oh, really?" "He may be an idiot, but he's never screwed me over, okay?" " I didn't screw you over!" " Someone flashes money in front of your face, and then everything changes?" "How do you live with yourself?" "Do not... mom, I didn't do anything!" "It's all him!" "It is all him!" "You didn't do anything because I met behind your back?" "No, I think you met behind my back." "Do not speak to me like this in front of my family." "Then why don't you just leave?" "You know what?" "We will." "Haddie, Max, Kristina, let's get going." "Let's get out of here." "All right?" "Yeah, we're leaving." "I'll see you later." " You know what?" " Oh..." "Oh, my God." " Honey..." " Did that just happen?" "You like that?" "!" "Yeah, oh, that was real good." "Oh, man, that was real..." "just great!" "Let's go." "Crosby." " Hey, hey, hey!" " Ow!" "Let him go!" "Adam!" "Let him go." "Let him go." "♪ may God bless and keep you always ♪" "♪ and may your wishes all come true ♪" "♪ may you always do for others ♪" "♪ and let others do for you ♪" "♪ may you build a ladder to the stars ♪" "♪ and climb on every rung ♪" "♪ and may you stay ♪" "♪ forever young ♪" "♪ may you grow up to be righteous ♪" "♪ may you grow up to be true ♪" "♪ may you always know the truth ♪" "♪ and see the lights surrounding you ♪" "♪ may you always be courageous ♪" "♪ stand upright and be strong ♪" "♪ and may you stay ♪" "♪ forever young ♪" "♪ may you stay ♪" "♪ forever young ♪" "this is tough." "Yeah." "I'm so sorry, Joel." "Thank you." "Thanks, Camille." "This is what we were worried was gonna happen, what we were hoping wouldn't." "Yeah." "I just want to put my arms around her, but..." "You know Julia." "I'm worried that she needs her space." "I... and sometimes I just don't know what to do." "You guys don't have to do this, you know." "Got it?" "I'm okay." "Sure." "It's wedding week." "You just gotta keep me busy." "Yeah, you got it." "No problem." "Yeah, I mean, 8,000." "We could make it an even 10,000." "For the trail legacy level." "Then we could have a company sponsor to match it." "10,000?" "Yep, think big." "Vote little." "Wonderful." "You have a great day." "Bye-bye." "Kristina, we need to talk." "Yes, we do." "I just got you $10,000 more for this campaign." "This is a pretty good system I've come up with." "Kristina, we still work together." "We're 15 feet away, and you're sending me emails." "Yes, I am." "Bob, look, I'm just gonna be honest with you, okay?" "I think that you're..." "you're a great politician, and I think that we have a great shot at winning this election." "I do, but..." "I don't trust you any more." "I just don't, I mean, everything that happened with Amber in Sacramento... and it's really hard to look at you face-to-face every single day, and... and lie about it." "That I will not do." "I put my little girl in day care to come work for you, and I like my job, I really do, but this is..." "Amber's my niece." "Kristina, we've known each other for a long time." "You know I'm not a bad guy." "Now, forgive me that I've developed feelings for a capable, smart, beautiful, young woman whom you put into my life because you trusted her and you believed in her." "So I hope you'll be able to accept that and move on, because I need you on this campaign." "Those are your favorite muffins from golden's bakery." "They're delicious." " So they're getting married?" " Yep." " That's crazy." " Yeah." "I love that." "Uh, where are they doing it?" "Uh, at the house in the backyard." " Very nice." " Yeah." "Will you be my date?" "Yes, please." "I just thought it would be cool to have, if you're gonna do a last-minute wedding, have it in Ireland." " Really?" " Yeah." "Why?" "It's so romantic out there." "Home of Thomas Moore and van morrison." "How would you get everybody, you know, there?" "Let's say there's a baby." "Is there... the baby... baby can come." "Strap on the back." " Uh-huh." " Or carry-on." " Yeah." "It changes, you know." "Being able to do something last-minute, you know?" "It's not like that for a while." " Yeah." "No, I-I... and it's possible that I, you know, won't get pregnant, you know?" "No, you will get pregnant." "Look, I was saying that I think" "Ireland is a cool, romantic place." "But we could just go there." "Mm." "Just take our baby and go there." "Okay." "I'll be right back." "Okay." "So dad was winning, right?" " He doesn't seem pleased." " No, 'cause he was... guys, we're not gonna discuss it, okay?" "No, then Uncle Crosby was on top of him." "Neither one of them won, because they both lost track of their emotions and acted like children." "Well, that doesn't make any sense." " Thanks for the help." " Both people can't lose." "Stop... stop it!" "You stop fighting." "That is not what we learn here, okay?" "Yes, it is." "Dad just did it." " Grandpa!" " Hey, honey, how you doing?" " Say, "it's me!"" " Grandson." "I didn't know he was coming over for dinner." "Do you want some dinner?" "Hey, pop." " Adam." " How you doing?" " Good." "How are you?" " We're good." "We're just making some beef bourguignon." " Ooh." " We're peaceful here." " Beef bourguign... what?" " Beef stew." "Hey, Adam, can I talk to you for a second?" "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were coming." " Yeah." " I would've made stew." "I'll finish up." "Does dad get a consequence for fighting with Uncle Crosby?" "'Cause I think he should, 'cause I got a consequence for fighting with Jabbar." "All right, what do you want to talk about?" "Well, your brother's getting married in less than 48 hours." "I'm well aware." "I really don't want the two of you arguing during the week he's gonna get married." "Well, I don't either, but it was his decision to announce to the entire family that I'm no longer his best man." "Well, you went behind his back to meet with that guy." "You know what?" "This is our business, all right?" "You don't need to be involved." "All of a sudden, I am involved." "I mean, my God, I had a world federation wrestling match in my living room, for Pete's sake." " Well, I'm sorry about that." " Adam, Adam, please." "Listen." "Just listen to me!" "You know what?" "We got a significant..." "Would you listen to me for a minute?" "I need you to make up with him." "We don't want that crazy bastard Billy... you guys sound like you're fighting." " We're not fighting." " If you're fighting, mom's got some salsa in the kitchen." " We're fine, Max." " No, it's not a fight." "Hey, do you have a new pet or something?" "Yes, I have a bearded dragon." "It's upstairs." "Do you wanna see it?" "Yes, I'd like to see the bearded dragon." " Yeah, you should check it out." " Let's go." "Fix it, please." "Grandpa, let's go!" "You wanna see it, let's see it." "Have I ever told you how much I love the way you load a dishwasher?" " Really?" " Yeah." "'Cause if you're not happy with it, I can..." "I can change it..." "No, it's perfect." " If that's better for you." " No, it's so good." "Hey, I hope you're not bummed about my mother doubling the size of the wedding." "Um, I had nothing to do with that." "No, no, no." "The more church folks and relatives, the better." " You sure?" " Yeah." "Okay." "Now what's going on with you and your brother?" "You mean other than the fistfight and me replacing him as best man?" "Yeah." "Yeah, other than that." "That's pretty much all the developments." "Come on, babe, you need to figure that out." "You can't be arguing with your brother on your wedding day." "Okay, well, you go fix him, and I'll stop fighting with him." "This is the same cycle we've always been in, where he's right and I'm wrong." "No matter what I do, he's right." "I mean, it was my idea to start the luncheonette, not his." "I'm the reason that we have this thing that's worth millions, okay, not him." "Yet somehow, he still doesn't see me as his equal." "Baby, you are taking this way too personal." "It's not personal." "It's business." "Your brother wants to be in a business, and you want to be in thbusiness." "And maybe it's not the same thing, but..." "It's not personal." "He's still your brother." "What?" "I think I'm ready." " Y-yeah, me..." "me too." "Should I get, like..." " Yes." " Stuff?" "Okay." "Meet up on the weekend or... who is that?" "No." "Make her wait." "Honey, I'm not gonna..." "Julia, just... just..." "honey, come on." "No, Joel, I need to talk to her." "Zoe." "Is that your mom?" "Yeah." "That's good." "She's helping." "Troy?" "No Troy." "Good." " I didn't know." " Um..." "I..." "I swear to you I didn't know until he was born." "And I'm so sorry." " ♪ I don't know ♪" " How is he?" " ♪ how deep ♪" " He's beautiful." "♪ the well runs ♪." "Julia... ♪ in my heart ♪ you changed my life." "♪ drop another penny ♪" "♪ in the dark ♪" "♪ I don't know ♪" "♪ how far ♪" "♪ my tired legs can walk ♪" " hi." " Hi." "I'm glad you're alive." "Yeah, sorry I didn't call." "What, is your brother getting married in a couple days?" "Um, I'm glad you're here." "I need to ask you a serious question about expiration dates." "These are just them covering their bases, right?" "They don't actually go bad?" "All right." "You hungry?" "Mm, I don't know." "What's going on?" "You okay?" "What's wrong?" "Sarah." "Hmm?" "What are you thinking about?" "I was..." "Up all night." "Yeah?" "Honey, what if I can't have children?" "Then we..." "then we can't have them." "♪ I don't know ♪." "I'm not sure I want to..." "Have any more." "I mean, I want to..." " ♪ my hopes have ♪" " For you." "♪ flown themselves ♪ but I'm not sure it's the right thing for me." "I..." "I thought..." "I thought you were..." "I'm sorry, I thought you were sure." "I..." "I thought I was too." "♪ signal to the sky ♪ well..." "Then, uh... then I don't..." "I don't have to have kids." "Don't say that." "I don't." "I don't need that." "You don't know that." "I mean, you don't know, you know?" "And ten years from now, it may be too late to..." "Change your mind." "I don't care, I love..." "I love you, and you love me, and that's..." "that's all that matters." "No, it's not." "♪ if I find ♪." "I couldn't take that away from you." "Do you understand?" "So are you breaking up with me?" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "It's better that I do it now." "You know?" "I'm sorry." "*** um, just any qualification can go." "Great, well, that definitely accelerates the process." "All races, ethnicities, boy, girl." "We're open." "We just want a baby." "I understand." "May I talk to you about one other option?" " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Do you know what a sky baby is?" " Uh, no." " No." "Sometimes a mother hasn't made arrangements in advance to have her child adopted, and so that can happen really suddenly." "Would you be open to that?" " Yeah." " Yeah, definitely." "Yeah." "Uh, I have a question." "In these situations, is it ever possible that they..." "Take the child back from you?" "Honestly?" "Yes, that can happen." "It's rare." "But...it is something you need to know." "Um, we're ready for anything at this point." " Hey." " Hey." "Look, I've, um..." "I've thought about it, and I can't make you want to work at the luncheonette forever." "So you have my blessing to sell it." "You know, if you want to call Richard and take the offer, then..." "Feel free." "Uh..." "Crosby, listen." "I'm really sorry I went behind your back." "Can we..." "At least have a couple beers and talk this thing through?" "Well, there's nothing really to talk about." "You know?" "I'll..." "I'll see you at the wed..." "I told you to stay in the car." "It was either that or crap on the front lawn." "I'm not in high school any more." "What's up, buddy?" "How you doing, little guy?" "What's up little guy?" "Hi, buddy." "Yeah, he's a girl." "Cool." "Hey, um, I just want to say thanks again for abdicating the old throne there." "You know what I mean?" "Yeah." "All right, Crosballs, you ready, bro?" "Bachelor party time." "Bachelor party!" "I mean, come on." " Sorry, my bad." " Yeah, it's his..." "All right, have a good time, guys." " I'll see you in the car..." " Hey..." "Can I use the crapper real quick?" " Really?" " Yeah." "What?" "Yeah, go ahead." " Thanks." " Make it quick." "Appreciate it." "No, no, no." "I'm on it." "Oh, man!" "♪ when the rain is blowing in ♪" "♪ your face ♪" "♪ and the whole world ♪" "♪ is on your case ♪" "♪ I can offer you ♪" "♪ a warm embrace ♪" "♪ to make you feel my love ♪" "♪ when the evening shadows ♪" "♪ and the stars appear ♪" "♪ whoa oh ♪" "♪ and there is no one there ♪" "♪ to dry your tears ♪" "♪ dry your tears ♪" "♪ I could hold you ♪" "♪ for a million years ♪" "♪ to make you feel my love ♪" "♪ I know you haven't ♪" "♪ made your mind up yet ♪" "♪ oh ho ♪" "♪ but I would never ♪" "♪ do you wrong ♪" "♪ I've known it from the moment ♪" "♪ that we met ooh ♪" "♪ no doubt in my mind ♪" "♪ where you belong ♪" "♪ I'd go hungry ♪" "♪ I'd go black and blue ♪" "♪ I'd go crawling down ♪" "♪ the Avenue ♪" "♪ no, there's nothing ♪" "♪ that I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ to make you feel my love ♪" "♪ the storms are raging ♪" "♪ on the rolling sea ♪" "♪ and on the highway of regret ♪" "♪ the winds of change are blowing ♪" "♪ wild and free ♪" "♪ you ain't seen nothin' like me yet ♪" "♪ I could make you happy ♪" "♪ make your dreams come true ♪" "♪ nothin' that I wouldn't do ♪" "♪ go to the ends of the earth ♪" "♪ for you ♪" "♪ to make you feel my love ♪" "♪ party rock is in the house tonight ♪" "♪ everybody just have a good time ♪" "♪ and we gonna make you lose your mind ♪" "♪ everybody just have a good good good time ♪" "♪ oh oh ♪" "♪ oh oh ♪" "♪ I can feel it, babe ♪" "♪ oh oh ♪" "♪ what's your answer ♪" "♪ what's your answer ♪" " Dance with your dad?" " Okay." "We go out here?" " Haddie." " Yes?" "You don't have to be worried about Cornell any more." "It's all gonna be fine." "I wasn't worried." "Oh, yeah, well, me neither." "Okay." "I love you, kid." " Are you drunk?" " No." "A little bit?" "Not at all... haven't had anything to drink." "I love you too." " Sarah bear." " ♪ as time goes on ♪" "What?" "You haven't called me that in a million years." "Hmm." "What happened to mark?" "♪ to me ♪ we broke up." "It's..." "I didn't want anybody to know." "♪ and now ♪ hmm." "♪ now that you're here ♪ you okay?" "♪ promise your love ♪" "♪ that I've waited ♪ we heard about Cornell." "That's so exciting." " So exciting." " Mm-hmm, I know." "Kristina, you and Adam must be so proud." "We are." "We're gonna miss her, though." "♪ I'm so hot for her ♪ ooh." "Damn, woman." "You still look every bit as fine as you did the day I met you." "It's still there, isn't it?" "The chemistry." "Is that what it is?" "God, I've been wondering what that feeling I had was." "You wanna get out of here?" "You know, I would, but, um..." "It's my brother's wedding, so... ♪ I'm so hot for her ♪." " I think no for tonight." " Nah, nah..." "Very, very charming offer, though." "Check back with you later." "♪ yeah, tried rewiring her ♪" "♪ tried ref iring her ♪" "♪ I think her engine is permanently stalled ♪" "♪ she's so cold, she's so ♪" " what is it?" " I tasted it." "It's chocolate and rosewater frosting." " Ooh." " And are we ever gonna get it?" "It's getting late." "Are we gonna cut that thing open?" "Yeah, yeah." "Dig into that?" "Oh, look at..." "My hubby." "Cheers." " ♪ for so long ♪" " Um..." "Do you wanna go to my room?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" "♪ that a star would guide you my way ♪ thank you." " Hey." " Hey." "So did you talk to gilchrist?" " I did." " You did?" " Yeah." " So it's... it's all done." "Well, there's..." "Paperwork." "We gotta make it legal." "But, basically, yeah, it's done." "Okay." " Cros..." " No, no, you know." "I shouldn't have even brought up business at the wedding." "I wasn't gonna do that, so I apologize." "I shouldn't have said anything." " Crosby." " Yeah?" "Congratulations." "Congratulations." "♪ I been waiting ♪" "♪ all my life ♪" "♪ for this feelin' ♪" "♪ to be mine ♪" "♪ no more searching' ♪" "♪ no more cryin' ♪" "♪ for this feelin' ♪" "♪ surely is mine ♪" "♪ ooh ooh ooh ♪" "♪ ooh ooh ♪" "♪ ooh ooh ooh ♪" "♪ ooh ooh ooh ♪" "♪ 'cause you ♪" "♪ make my heart go wild ♪" "♪ set the sun on fire ♪" "Jasmine, you have always been there for me and in more ways than I care to mention, especially with mom standing right there." "I'm so happy for you, to see your dreams come true." "My man, Crosby..." "We've definitely tussled." "But, uh, we're cool now." "And Jabbar's in good hands." "We straight?" "We good?" " Yeah." " Okay, cool." "To the bride, to the groom." "Congratulations." " Cheers." " Cheers." " Cheers." " Hear, hear!" "Okay, so now I'm supposed to hand it off to the best man," "Billy garner." "Billy!" "Billy." "Billy!" "Billy!" " Billy." " Bill..." " Billy?" " Oh, wow." "Okay, okay." "There he is." "He, uh... he's enjoyed the evening a little too much, and he's over there sleeping it off, so..." "I'm gonna hand it back over to the dj, and we can just keep this party rolling." "Okay?" "Thank you." "Oh." "Okay, cool." "Hi, I'm..." "I'm, uh," "Crosby's older brother Adam." "Uh, Crosby, uh, is a unique character, and he's taken a lot of flack over the years for a lot of different things." "Uh, for letting his mom do his laundry well into his 30s." "Being careless, when borrowing things from his brothers and sisters and forgetting where they are and borrowing money and not paying it back." " Such a nice toast, thanks." " Ah, I know." "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." "But he's a great guy." "And I was lucky enough this year to go into business with him." "And because of all those things," "I told my wife, she looked at me like" "I was out of my mind." "But, uh, the business did very well." "So well, in fact, that we got an offer recently... a huge offer from someone to buy the business from us." "Last couple years have been really tough for me, my family." "I lost my job, and..." "Boy, this business came along at a great time." "And, uh, this offer, boy, it's... it's an offer that changed my life." "Standing here looking at my brother and the rest of my family... ♪ last night you were in my dreams ♪." "I don't want my life to change." "'Cause not only do I have three wonderful kids and a perfect wife... ♪ and I woke up ♪." "I get to go to work every day with my brother Crosby." "♪ oh, heart and bones ♪ and every day, he makes me laugh about life, about myself, and I don't know what I'd do without that." "So, uh..." "Believe it or not, this is how I got the offer." "I got it on a napkin, originally." "Here it is." "And here's what I think about this life-changing offer." "Well, what's Billy gonna do?" "I already decided to go into business with him." "I love you." "Thank you." "Hey, congratulations, Crosby and Jasmine." "♪ oh, heart and bones ♪" "♪ you can't touch this ♪." "I understand." "Now?" " ♪ can't touch this ♪" " Right now?" "♪ break it down ♪." "I'm going to the bar!" "Do you want anything?" "Hey!" "Where have you guys been?" "Uh, it was super, super loud." "I just had to go to the bathroom." " Uh, - what?" "Super, su- what?" "D." " Are you okay?" " Yeah, are you?" "Yeah." "Why are you all sweaty?" "Ow." "Um... the lights look so gorgeous." "Don't they?" "Yeah." " They do." " Yeah." " Okay." " Okay." "♪ can't touch this ♪" "♪ we outta here ♪" "♪ can't touch this ♪ hey." "Hey, Amber." "Sorry I haven't called you back." "Just been..." "Trying to figure stuff out, you know?" "And I want you to know that" "I like you so much." "I think you are incredible, and I want to be with you." "Um..." "But..." "I feel like my whole life," "I've..." "Been making decisions based on emotions and not really paying attention to what is good for me." "I can't..." "I can't work here and be with you." "It's... it's too much." "I can't do it." "And so I have to somehow now ask you if I can work here, um, as your assistant." "And..." "Just your assistant." "Amber..." "You have a job here." " Really?" " Yeah." "And I'm disappointed..." "But..." "Be a privilege to have you come back..." "As my assistant." " Okay?" " Okay." "♪ be my witness ♪ yeah." "Don't get dizzy." "Pretty." " Sarah." "Hey." " Hey." " Hey, Sarah." " Uh, hi." " I've been looking for you." " I've been looking for you." "I want to get a drink." "You go this way." "I'll go that way." "I'll meet you." " All right." " Okay." "Billy, seriously, I... hi." " Hi." " Hi." "♪ would you go there ♪ um... ♪ if I go there too ♪." "I think I made a tactical..." " No, it's me." " Error with you." " No, it's not." "I-I think..." "I think we skipped over something when we started talking about having a baby." "And, uh, the truth is that I..." "I wanna be with you." "And I also..." "you know," "I would like..." "Children, but..." "People who want to be together..." "They make a decision to..." "To be together." "And then..." "and then they see, and then life brings what it brings, but at least they're together." "And, um, that's..." "That's where we belong." "And I wanna..." "I wanna do this right." "And..." "I wanna take it one step at a time but in the right order." "So..." "Sarah Braverman, will you marry me?" "Hey!" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪ Wow!" " ♪ to be happy ♪" " Bye, buddy!" "You be good!" "Oh!" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪" "♪ to be happy ♪" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪" "♪ are you ready, yeah ♪" "♪ to be happy ♪" " Hey." " Hi." "What's the, uh..." "what's the situation?" "His mother's been incarcerated." "She's released the rights of her child to keep him out of the foster system." "I can tell you more later, but what I need from you now is a verbal confirmation that this is something you want to do." "Yes." "Yes." "This is Victor." "Hi." "Hi, Victor, I'm..." "I'm Joel." "And this is Julia." "Hi." "Do you want to come inside?" "Sure." "All right." "All right." "This way." "Hey, Victor, are you hungry?" "A little bit." "All right." "We can... we can deal with that." "♪ da da da da ♪" "♪ da da ♪"

"Ladies and gentlemen... tonight, Mr. Stenborg and I leave for our homes in Sweden." "And, while in a few months, I must start again on another tour..." "Thomas has decided to settle down at home... and to give to young artists the benefit of his wisdom and his genius." "New York has always been kind to us." "And so I am glad that New York is the scene of my last concert... with a man, who, for many years, has been for me more than an accompanist." "A man whom I am proud to claim... as a friend and a teacher... whose loss, I am sure, you'll regret as keenly as I do:" "Thomas Stenborg." " Did you ever see an impresario cry?" " I never did, Mr. Moler." "Well, watch me." "Well, Thomas, here we are, home." "Yes, home." "The reporters are waiting." "Get ready for the cameras." "Let's stand on our heads for the press." "Step lively." " Where, Mommy?" "Where is he?" " Look, Margit, here he is." "There he is, darling." " Daddy." "I remember him." " My baby." "My little Ann Marie." "Hello, darling." "Welcome home, Holger." "Hello, Greta darling." "Hello, Greta." "How are you?" " Thomas, it's good to see you." " Wonderful to see you." " Dad." " Good heavens!" "It's Eric." "I didn't recognize you." "I can't kiss you anymore." "What do we do?" "How do you do?" " It's good to have you home." " Thanks very much." "It's good to be home." " Hello, Emma." " Emma, here's our wanderer." "You've taken wonderful care of them." " It's good to have you back, sir." " Thank you." "Hello." "Who is this?" " His name's Angus, Daddy." "He's my dog." " So the family's grown since I've been away." "How are you, Angus?" "Come on." "I'm really home at last." "I can't believe I've ever been away." "Look at it." "Nothing's changed." "We have a game we play while you're away... that you haven't really left us at all." "There's better air to breathe in this room than anywhere else on earth." "It's the truth." "I play the piano, Daddy." "I take lessons." " Do you indeed?" " Yes, I already play Mozart and Beethoven." "That's wonderful, Ann Marie." "Who's your teacher?" "A Miss Hoffman." "She's a very clever pianist." "Greta Stenborg wants Thomas to take her for a pupil." "She has talent." "She'll be lucky if Thomas takes her." "Do you want to hear me play, Daddy?" "I've been waiting to play for you so long." "I'd love to hear you play right now." "If you knew the times I've thought of this moment, back home, with you." " You played some wrong notes." " You mean this?" "Those are known as dissonant chords." "You'll learn to play them in time." "I don't want to." " Tell me some piece you do like." " I will." " What is it?" " Wait." "You'll hear." "This one I like best of all." "We play it almost every evening when you're away." "This is a brand-new record." "The other one wore out." "I see." "Show me." "Wait." "It's beginning." "You made that music yourself, didn't you?" " Yes, Daddy wrote that piece." " That's why I like it the best." "I know this so well." "Here comes the prettiest part." "Good morning, Miss Hoffman." " We haven't met, have we?" "How do you do?" " How do you do?" "You've been teaching your pupil plenty of self-confidence." "She's been correcting me." "She tells me I play false notes." "He did play something funny, Miss Hoffman." "Some notes all mashed together." "Come along." "Do your lesson well." "I'll be listening outside." "I will." "Now we must begin." "And one, two, three, four." "Watch those fingers, three, four." "One, two..." " Eric!" "Where are you going?" " Never mind." "I'm going to school, and then to a football game." "Football?" "Isn't he stupid?" " But he's a boy." " What's that to be so stuck up about?" "Come, come." "You know what I'm going to do?" "I'm going to do what Thomas has done:" "Settle down." "When you're ready for that, you won't say it so desperately... with that determined look in your eye." "All right, then you're coming with me." "Yes, that's it." "We're going away together." "Everything will be just as it was in the beginning." "Remember the first time we went away?" "It was winter when we left here." "We crossed the Alps, and suddenly it was spring." "You said the blossoming locusts in Capri made everybody sing." "Remember?" "It's as if you were telling me a fairytale:" ""Once upon a time. "" " Once upon a time." " Yes." " Things are different now, Holger." " How?" " We have a home." " We'll run away." "When we come back, we'll be all the more appreciative of it." " The children?" " They can get along without you for a while." "It does children good to take care of themselves." "Take care of themselves." "Ann Marie is only six." "We'll take them with us." "That's it." "Why didn't I think of that before?" "Eric would lose a year at school." "Of course if you're going to make all kinds of difficulties..." "No, please." "You know how I'd love to come with you." "But, darling, you must realize that our home is my responsibility." "Just as concerts and practice are yours." "Yes, I suppose you're right." "And that spring you spoke of... that sort of happiness could only come once in one's life." "Mommy, I've just thought of something." " Something important, Mommy." " What is it?" "May I invite Miss Hoffman to my birthday party?" "But, Ann Marie." "Tell Miss Hoffman she'll be very welcome to come to your party." "Thank you." "Miss Hoffman, you're very welcome to come to my birthday party." "We're going to have ice cream and cake." "But really, Mrs. Brandt, I didn't mean to..." "Ann Marie will be very disappointed if you don't come." "And so will we." " Won't we, darling?" " Yes." "You must come, Miss Hoffman." " How many candles are there?" " Seven." " No, eight." " There's one to grow on." " Take a deep breath." " No, wait." "Did you make a wish first?" "All right, then, blow." " Keep going." " Come on." "She gets her wish." "You must cut the first piece, darling." " Don't watch." " Help her, Charles." "Who's the engineer in the family?" " Who gets this?" " The first piece is for Daddy." " No, darling." "Mother must have it." " It's your birthday." "Keep it yourself, silly." " I'll cut the rest." " All right." "Not so long ago, your daddy and I went to a birthday party in China." " In China?" " At a mandarin's house." "His name was Cho-Ching-Chang-Chip-Chop." " Did you have ice cream and cake?" " No, indeed." "We had swallows' nests, some roasted silkworms... snake soup, and cricket eggs." "You didn't eat that?" "We had to take a double helping of everything... or the mandarin would have murdered us." "Well, Uncle Charles, nobody will murder you here." "Please, may I have your attention for a moment?" "I have a wonderful surprise for you tonight." "You've all sat enraptured by the music of Rachmaninoff and Paderewski." "Now you are going to be thrilled... by being present at the very first recital of someone..." "I'm convinced is going to join that distinguished company." "I trust you'll extend an appropriate welcome." "Miss Brandt, will you do me the honor?" " I must sign her up immediately." " I can't wait to hear her." "Wait, Daddy." "Remember, darling?" "How did I do, Mommy?" " Daddy and I were very proud of you." " I'm so glad." "You did very well." " Will you play for my party now?" " No." " Mommy, make Miss Hoffman play, too." " Would she play for us?" "Really, Mrs. Brandt, not now." "Why shouldn't you play?" "I want to show off my pupil." "Do play for us." "We'd all enjoy it." "Well, maybe they won't listen, anyway." "Isn't that child astonishing?" "Frankly, I was amazed." "So was I." "Here, you little monkey." "I want to talk to you." "It's fantastic." "The child's become a pianist since I've been away." "I'm sure..." " What are you shushing me for?" " Miss Hoffman." "Miss Hoffman next on the program?" "Having a regular concert, aren't we?" "When Miss Hoffman finishes, Daddy, do we play again?" "But, Daddy, you promised." "Go on." "Why do you stop?" " Bravo!" " Thank you." " Weren't they wonderful, Mommy?" " Yes, darling, they were." "Someday, I'm going to accompany Daddy that way." "Of course you are, darling." "I beg your pardon." "Why, it's Miss Hoffman." "Look who's here." " Hello, Miss Hoffman." " Hello." " Did you sleep as soundly as I did?" " Charles hates music." "Poor fellow." "Has to make his living out of people like us." " How are you this evening?" " Thank you, very well." " Isn't Mrs. Brandt with you?" " No." "We had social obligations." "I'm a fugitive from a very dull dinner party." "What are we going to do?" "How about a glass of wine?" " I was going home." " And so was I. Charles, how about you?" "No." "Leave me out." "After all that music, I'm ready for my bed." " Good night, Miss Hoffman, Holger." " Good night." "We'll have a glass of wine without him." "There must be a café about." " It's late for me." " It's never too late for a glass of wine." " I adore that part." " You did like that concert, didn't you?" "You have a look in your eye of someone who has made a feast of music." " I envied her so." " You'd like to do that, wouldn't you?" " Be up on that concert stage?" " Yes." "I'll tell you something." "I'd rather it had been you up there playing." " You're not joking?" " Of course I'm not joking." "Good heavens, what a fool I am!" "Of course!" "Why don't you accompany me?" " Accompany you?" " Yes, on the tour." "Take Thomas' place." " You're not serious?" " I'm perfectly serious." "Why didn't I think of it the first moment I heard you play?" "What are you thinking about?" "What do you say?" "No, I couldn't do it." "Even if you mean what you say." "But I do mean it." "Why couldn't you?" "Mr. Stenborg wouldn't forgive me if I gave up my studies." "Thomas knows that I'm desperately in need of an accompanist." "He'd be delighted to think that you're taking his place." "Don't you think it's best for me to stay and work as hard as I can for a scholarship?" "A scholarship?" "I didn't know." "Now, that's different." "In that case, I think you should stay here and study." "That you would even consider me..." "Yes, I know." "You're profoundly honored and all that." " I am, really." " I understand." "You know, I'd forgotten all this." "The look one sees on these people's faces." "Yet, it's scarcely any time at all since I sat in places like this... with just such boys and girls... remaking the world to suit ourselves." "Just as they're doing now." " I would like to have known you then." " Would you?" "You wouldn't have liked me then." "I was poor and awkward." "Much too earnest, worked too hard." "All in all, not a very fetching fellow." "Please don't laugh at me if I tell you something." "Why should I laugh?" "You see... ever since I first began to care about music..." " Yes, it seems strange." " What does?" "I had only one idea." "For years I saved every penny I could... to be able to hear you whenever you played." "Did you?" "How nice of you to tell me that." "Nice of me?" "Think of my being able to tell it to you." "That's what I can't get over." "Here I am, talking to you as if you were an old friend." "I'm a friend, anyway." "But only a little while ago, I looked at you from such a distance." "And now..." "You don't know how fantastic it seems to me to be here." "Does it?" "No." "Don't drink any more of that stuff." "Waiter!" "Bring us some champagne." " Champagne?" " Yes, champagne's what we need." "A couple of glasses of champagne... and two strangers have a rich and happy past." "You know, there comes a night each year... when one senses that winter is suddenly over." "Yes, that spring has come." "How I look forward to it through the dreary months." "Look, there goes the winter now... broken, rushing to the sea." "Don't you feel when spring comes that the world is yours just for the asking?" "That there's nothing that you couldn't be?" "Tonight, I would dare anything." "Or, perhaps, it's only the champagne." " Do you know what you remind me of?" " No." "Tell me." "A Viennese waltz." "Smiling but melancholy." "A melody of the days when Vienna was a happy city." "How poetic you are." "At twilight, in the spring, the music poured through the café doors." "Melodies of carefree youth." "It was there I saw you for the first time." "Phantom of a Viennese waltz." "No, I was wrong." "It wasn't there at all that we first met." "It was in Budapest, on a summer's night." "They were playing the Rustle of Spring." "Yes, that was you." "You are far away." "What are you thinking of?" "I'm listening to something." " I don't know what." " Spring, perhaps." "Yes, perhaps." " Aren't you giving it too much importance?" " What do you mean?" "You were going at it as if it were the climax of a tremendous symphony." "You'll frighten my neighbors." "I wasn't conscious of it." "I'm thinking of going away." "Are you?" "For long?" "I have been invited to visit relatives in Denmark." " I can stay as long as I want." " I see." "They won't divert you too much?" "You'll be able to study still?" " Lf I like." " Don't talk as if that weren't important." "You've applied for that scholarship in Paris." "Yes, of course." "If I get it, I'll just go on straight to Paris." "I'll try to study by myself." "I shall miss your help, but..." "You're running away from it all." "Perhaps it's best that way for both of you." "I've been watching Holger suffer, too." "I thought I was going straight to my goal... thinking of nothing but my work." " And now..." " Will this be our last lesson?" "If you'll excuse me..." "I think I ought to go and see Mrs. Brandt." "Certainly." "Certainly, do that." "You're waiting for me to say something very wise and helpful at this point." "I'll say to you what I've always said to myself when things seem too difficult:" "Courage, my friend." " Good morning, Miss Hoffman." " Good morning, Emma." " You're very early today." "I'll call Ann Marie." " No, please don't." "May I see Mrs. Brandt?" " I think she's upstairs." "I'll go and see." " Thank you." " Good morning, Miss Hoffman." " Good morning." " Emma said you wanted to see me." " Yes, Mrs. Brandt." " Won't you sit down?" " Thank you." "I wanted to tell you that I can't go on giving lessons to Ann Marie." "Why not?" "I have been called to Denmark by relatives." "But your own studies?" "Your work with Mr. Stenborg?" "It seems such a shame not to continue with him." "I know, Mrs. Brandt." "I'm not happy about it." "We were all very impressed the night you played for us here... with my husband." "I'm afraid I have no choice." "I see." "I'm sorry." "Little Ann Marie has come to mean so much to me." "Yes, and you mean a great deal to her." "I'm afraid she'll be very upset." " Will you tell her for me, please?" " Of course." "I'll try to explain." "Goodbye, Mrs. Brandt." "Goodbye, Miss Hoffman." "I'm sure you're doing what's right." "I hope all goes well with you." "You are very kind." "I thought you were never coming." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Never mind." "May I have a glass of wine?" "There is something wrong." "Tell me." "All along I've been hating this kind of thing." "Always meeting you like this, in out-of-the-way places." "Little dark corners." "Sneaking about in fear of being seen." "It's not the way I'd like it to be, either." "I'm ashamed." "And I hate being ashamed." "Ashamed?" "Look in the mirror." "How do we look to you?" "Don't be so dramatic." "You don't like it any more than I do." "We look what we feel:" "Two guilty people." "Why?" "Because we're in love?" "I haven't any right to be happy the way I am happy with you." " Anita, please, listen to me." " No, I can't." " I'm fighting to be sensible." " Sensible?" "That's a strange word from those lips." "Love isn't sensible." "There are some things I can't bring myself to say." "I know." "I have a home." "I have children." "I'm a respected, responsible man." "When I sit here and look at you..." "I only know one thing." "We must end it." "We've got to stop seeing each other." "I see." "We just say goodbye, never see each other again." " It's very simple, isn't it?" " We must." "We can't go on lying to ourselves, and to people who trust us." "It's impossible, unbearable." "You're right." "Goodbye, Anita." "Not sitting here like this." "Let's go." "Let's walk." "No, someone may see us." "Does it matter now?" "They won't see us together ever again." "There are so many people in the world." "The days are long now." "There used to be a shop near here." "I always stopped to look in." "All kinds of funny lost things in the window." "Here it is." "What a strange collection of things." "Look at that curious clock." "Holger, I'm going." "I'm going now." "Quickly, as if it didn't matter." "Don't touch me... or say anything." "Don't turn around." " Why, that's 750." "You've beaten me." " Did I?" "Don't feel bad about it, Mommy." "Isn't it time for Daddy to come home?" " Mommy." " What?" "Isn't it time for Daddy to come home?" " Yes." "Come on, let's play another game." " Yes." "Let's keep on playing till Daddy comes home." "Isn't it somebody's bedtime?" "Hello, Daddy." "Hello, my funny little monkey." " Good evening, Margit." " Good evening." " Daddy." " What is it?" "Why are we looking like a thunderstorm?" " Daddy, Miss Hoffman..." " Yes?" "She's never going to give me piano lessons again." "What does she mean?" "She came this morning and went right away." "I'll tell Daddy, darling... about how we have to find a new music teacher." "But why is Miss Hoffman going away?" "Come along, darling." "It's bedtime." "Just what did Miss Hoffman say?" "Miss Hoffman has to go and visit relatives in Denmark." "She came to tell me that." "We've had difficulty all day." " Say good night to Daddy, darling." " Yes, that's right." "Good night." "Come along." "Run along, darling." "Emma's waiting for you." "Is there anything you'd like, Holger?" "Coffee, brandy?" "No, thank you." "Are things going along well?" "With the tour, I mean." " Is everything settled?" " No, not yet." "You haven't found an accompanist?" "No, it's all..." "It's not definite yet." "Will you be away long this time?" "I don't know." "I can't say." "It depends on how Charles has arranged the bookings." "I hope it won't be a long tour." "But I've been home longer than I usually stay." "For that very reason... the days are going to seem so much emptier." "You know, you have your own busy life." "You've mentioned it so often." "Yes, I know I have." "You think I'm getting old?" "Old?" "What an idea." "What a thing to say." "Of course I suppose we're..." "We're all of us a few months... days, weeks older than we have been." "I want to go with you this time." "We will go back." "We'll have some of those lovely, gay, irresponsible days." "We'll be together in strange places as we used to be." "I still want something of life." "I don't want to be left behind." "Does that sound very vain and frivolous coming from me?" "I see." "You're answering me." "You might just as well be saying it." "I know what it is." "Margit, I must talk to you." "No, it's nothing." "Forget what I said." "No, Margit, we must talk." "Hello, Dad." " Did you ask him for me, Mother?" " No, I forgot." "Eric wants to know whether he can see a picture this evening." "What?" "Yes, go ahead." "Thanks, Dad." "Margit, I must talk to you." "Excuse me, Eric." " Anita, you can't, you mustn't go." " How could you do this?" "I couldn't face it." " I couldn't face being without you." " But we promised each other." "Yes, I know we did." "Is it as easy as that?" " Can you just ride away from life?" " Please, Holger." "What you'd leave behind would haunt you, haunt us both forever." "You're not being fair." "It's no easier for me." " All aboard." " Goodbye, Holger." "At this very moment my fate's being decided:" "A life with you, or a life alone." " You are not alone." "It is I who am alone." " Yes, now we're both alone." "Anita, I've broken with my past, with everything." " I have no home any longer." " All aboard." "Holger, you couldn't have." "What did you say to her?" "She couldn't have borne the lies any more than we could." "I know her." "Besides, she knew the truth already." "She told me first." " How could you hurt her like that?" " The train's leaving, miss." "What will happen now?" "The concert is over." "Will you be good and go to sleep now?" "No, leave it on." "Just a minute." "Perhaps he'll play another encore." "He's played three." "He hasn't played Intermezzo yet." "Encore!" "Intermezzo!" "You see?" "Ann Marie, you're still awake." "You ought to have been asleep a long time ago." "It's Daddy, playing all the way from Cannes." "Please, darling." "Emma, make her go to sleep." "You were superb!" "Thank you." " Well, what did you think?" " It's true." "You played better than I've ever heard you play." " And you played wonderfully yourself." " Do you really think so?" "I hope it's true that I've helped you a little." " I hope it's not only that." " Only what?" "What am I?" "Your shadow." "I don't exist without you." "You're not a shadow." "How can you talk such nonsense?" "But it's enough." "Let me be with you like this..." " always." " And will that be enough always?" "The tour is over." "Now we can rest awhile." "It has been the greatest happiness I've ever known... and the greatest I'll ever know." "Such happiness couldn't come more than once in one's life." "I know it couldn't." "Could it?" "Let's not speculate about happiness." "We're here, and work's over for a while." "How lovely it is." "So peaceful and unreal." "Like a place in a dream." "Isn't it exquisite?" "Look, Holger." ""My love endures..." ""after death. "" "That was written for us." "And for everyone on earth who will ever feel... as we do now." "Monsieur has two violins." "And never plays even one." "Yes, I play them." "But just now I'm on a holiday." " I play the zither." " Zither?" "That's wonderful." " Is this your little girl?" " Yes, that's my little girl." " What's her name?" " Her name is Ann Marie." "Ann Marie." "How sweet." " Mine is Marianne." " What a pretty name." "You know, today is my little girl's birthday." "Really?" "And you're so far away." " She'll be unhappy at that." " I hope not." "I hope today that she'll forget that I am so far away." "I would not forget that." "Hello." "Where have you been?" "Off on your own?" "Would you believe it?" "I couldn't find a single piano around here." "Only an organ with four pipes missing." "Serves you right." "You're not here to work." " Madame, a letter for you." " A letter for me?" " Shall I make it descend?" " Yes, make it descend." "Voilà!" " What's all the excitement?" " This!" "What is it?" "If it's an invitation, you can just turn it down." "I'm not going to let you out of my sight for one moment, young lady." " Aren't you going to tell me?" " No." "No, I'm not." "It's nothing to get excited about." " I want to know about that letter." " I'll tell you later." "By the way, your letter." "What was it about?" " I don't want to make you jealous." " Jealous?" " It was from Mr. Stenborg." " From Thomas?" " What did Thomas have to say?" " It's only that I was awarded a scholarship." "Only!" "And you weren't even going to mention it?" "That's extraordinary." "But I don't want it now, Holger." "No, I'm not taking it." "I see." " And what did Thomas advise in the matter?" " Let's forget it." "It's so pleasant out here." "What's that fragrance?" "Mimosa?" "Yes?" "What did you do with the letter?" "This is how I feel about the letter." "About anything... that could come between us." " What are you thinking of, Holger?" " Nothing." "Just..." "I was thinking we should've brought Ann Marie with us." "She would have loved this." "What's the matter?" "You said "Ann Marie. "" "Did I?" "I meant Marianne of course." "How stupid of me." " Well, skipper, let's make for home." " No, I don't want to go home." " Not yet, please." " What's the matter, Anita?" "I'm afraid." "I don't know why, but I am afraid." "I wish we could stay out here forever." "You're just imagining things." "Here, come here." "Sit down." "Come here." "What a wonderful day this has been." "Yes." "A day to remember always." "I can't bear to see it end." "We'll have others, darling." "Millions of them." "Hold me close, Holger." "Let's do something wonderful tomorrow again." " All right, darling, what shall it be?" " I don't know." "We might watch the sunrise on the mountains." "All right." " We can have a picnic." " Yes." "I'm game for that." "I'll go and buy things." "What would you like to have?" "Let me think." "I'd like some of that wonderful bread... a bottle of Provençal wine, some sardines." "Anything you like." " Goodbye, darling." " Bye." " Where did you come from?" " I took the chance of finding you." "Greta wanted a little holiday." "I'm joining her at Antibes." "This is a surprise." " I traced you through Charles." " Yes." "It's good to see you, Thomas." "Come in." "You'll be comfortable at this little inn." "Mind you, it's very simple." " It'll be very pleasant for overnight, I'm sure." " Overnight?" "You're not going to run away like that." "We're planning a picnic on the mountain tomorrow." "You're going to join us." "It's lovely, isn't it?" "You enjoying it here?" "It's perfect." "Cut off from the world." "The kind of life I thought I'd never have." "What news of my family, Thomas?" "I have a message for you from Ann Marie." " Nothing wrong?" " No." "She'd like you to bring her a camera when you come home." " Would she?" " Yes." "A camera." " Holger." " Yes, Thomas." "I have some papers with me." " Papers?" " Yes, divorce papers." "Yes, of course." "I asked Margit to let me bring them." "I thought, perhaps, I might be able to persuade you to sign them without delay." "Yes, indeed." "Put them down, Thomas." "I'll sign them later." "Why not sign them now, Holger, and get it over with?" "Why this extraordinary rush?" "Now, Holger, you really must try to think a little of Margit." "Margit?" "You don't mean to say that she wants to..." "Marry again?" "No, not she." "But I imagine she feels it'll be better for all of you, including the children... if she's legally separated from a man who..." "Well, I needn't say..." "I suppose you think I've behaved disgracefully?" "It's easy to criticize, Holger." "I don't pretend to account for someone else's feelings." "Won't you sign these now?" "Do you think it's as easy as that... to cut out the best part of one's life?" " Tear up the last roots?" " I thought you had done that long ago." "Yes, my dear, what is it?" " Aren't we going to have our lesson today?" " I'm coming right down." " Who is that?" " It's a little girl who lives here." "We play together every afternoon." "Have you been giving lessons during your vacation?" "No, she's teaching me." "I'm waiting for you." "You must excuse me, Thomas." "Like all ladies, she hates to be kept waiting." "She's 8 years old and her name is Marianne." "Excuse me." "But, Mr. Stenborg." " Hello." " This is wonderful." "When'd you get here?" " Have you seen Holger?" " Yes, he just left me." "How well you look." "And how are you, my dear?" "Happy?" "But of course." "I'm divinely happy." " This country's very beautiful." " Yes." "You must come with us tomorrow and see the sunrise." "Holger and I..." "Perhaps we'll bring Marianne." "She's a little girl Holger has grown fond of." "I know." "I've been watching him with her." " He misses Ann Marie." " Did you think that he wouldn't?" "I've tried not to think of it at all." "I've tried to pretend there was no past." "And no future?" "By the way, let me congratulate you on your scholarship." " You must be very happy about it." " But I don't want it." " It means nothing to me now." " Really?" "It meant everything to you once." "Anita, my dear, you have great talent." "It saddens me to think that it'll be wasted." "If I can only be with Holger, nothing else matters." "And Holger, does he feel the same way?" "He loves me." "I know we can be happy." "I wonder if anyone has ever built happiness on the unhappiness of others." "What shall I do?" "That's not for me to say." "You must make your own decision." "And whatever it may be, I know that it will be... the right decision." "What is it?" "You don't look real in this light." " Monsieur Brandt." " Yes?" "It is morning." " I'm ready." "Go and call the others." " Yes." "Mademoiselle, it is morning." "Are you ready?" "Yes." "I'm coming." " Good morning, Marianne." " Good morning." " Miss Hoffman ready?" " She'll be coming right away." " And where is the picnic basket?" " Downstairs." "Everything's ready." "Come on." "Mr. Stenborg, you must help me." " There is a train leaving in an hour." " My dear." "When you and Holger come back, I shall be gone." " Have you really made up your mind?" " Yes." "And you're not doing this just because of what I said?" "No." "We both know where Holger belongs." "Well, I have been an intermezzo in his life." "You gave me a good word once:" "Courage." "I'm trying to remember it." "I'm trying..." "Come on, hurry up." "The sun is rising." " Holger, I'm not coming." " Not coming?" " But why not?" " I didn't sleep very well." "I think I have a cold coming on." " Shall we postpone it?" " No." "You go without me." "Marianne has been looking forward to it so much." "And Mr. Stenborg will be here such a short time." " You're sure you'll be all right?" " Quite sure." "Really, Holger, go along." "It seems such a pity." "Perhaps you're right." "Au revoir." " Goodbye, Holger." " Goodbye?" "Don't you like my French?" "What's the matter?" "I hope you have a good time." " See you soon." " Yes." "But you can't mean you're going after her." "That wouldn't be fair, and you know it." "Yes, you're right." "I must let her go." "What could I do but spoil her life?" "Just as I've spoiled the lives of all those dear to me." " I know you'll always think kindly of her." " Kindly?" "I think my feelings will go a little deeper than that, Thomas." "As time goes on..." "I suppose the memory of her will grow vague in my mind." "But always in my heart will remain the image of her loveliness." "And now you'll come back home with me, won't you?" "Home?" "I have no home, Thomas." "How can I go crawling back home just because I'm alone?" "But, Holger..." "Have you got those papers you wanted me to sign?" " There's no need for them now." " Give me those papers." " Please..." " Give them to me." "Don't argue with me." "Thanks." " It's good to have you back at last." " Thank you." "It's nice to see you again." "Here." "Where's your baggage ticket?" " Here, I have it." " I know, in the usual place." " Where do they go, sir?" " Let's see." "I think..." "Why, to my place, of course." "Thank you, Thomas, it's good of you, but I..." "Just take them to the baggage room." "I'll check them there." "You see, I've decided to leave again tonight." " But, Holger..." " I only came back just to bring this." " Remember the camera for Ann Marie?" " Yes." "Thomas, I wonder if you'd do me just one more favor." "Why, of course, Holger, anything." "If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to drive out to the school alone." "I'll see you later." "I've told them never to cross here!" "I've told them!" "Send the doctor to my house." "I'm her father, Holger Brandt." "Hurry." " Mr. Brandt!" " Where's my wife?" "Where's Mrs. Brandt?" "Emma, I should be back..." "It was an accident at the schoolhouse." "The doctor's coming immediately." "Isn't there anything we can do to help?" "Is there anything you'd like?" "I think I'd just rather be left alone." "Thanks." "Daddy." "Daddy, you've come." "He's here." "Won't you come in?" "Eric, look at me." "Talk to me." "Why did you come back at all?" "We don't need you anymore." "Eric, listen to me, please." "You know, when we're young... we expect the people we love to behave like gods." "Most of all, I suppose, our fathers." "And then, sadly, as we grow older... we realize we are none of us gods." "We're all human... tragically human... and that we all of us make mistakes right up to the end of our lives." "You may understand this one day." "When you do... you may also understand what it is to forgive... perhaps even your father." "You see, Eric... even if you don't need me anymore... now it's I who need you." " Doctor!" " Mr. Brandt." "Mr. Brandt, your little girl will recover." "What?" "Say that again." "She'll be well again after a long rest." "I'll be back at noon." "Good morning." "Welcome home." "Holger, welcome home."

"Mister Sinha, this is a case of liver cirrhosis" "The liver is badly damaged." "The patient is under observation lt's difficult to say anything yet" "But, you can do something?" "The problem is, we can't do a liver transplant...on such short notice" "If you wish to inform her family or relatives you may use my phone" "Hey buddy, how are you?" "Where are you?" "I'm at the hospital" "Hospital!" "Are you okay?" "Ya, I'm OK" "So, what's wrong then?" "Just hang in there. I'm coming" "By the way, Akash is back in Bombay." "I'll bring him along" "He won't come" "Don't be silly.Forget what happened" "He'll be very happy to know you're here." "Ya Sameer, tell me" "Maybe you should go meet him alone." "I don't want to come." "You are right." "Let bygones be bygones..." "But what's happening now isn't wrong either, is it?" "I am living my life and Sid his I really think you should go meet him alone" "Sameer, come home quickly." "Now." "At once" "Sameer!" "Akash!" "What's wrong?" "What's the rush?" "How do you like it?" "Have you gone mad?" "On the phone you sounded like somebody's broken into your house!" "What do you mean beautiful!" "?" "But Sid...don't you think she resembles someone?" "Resembles whom?" "What do you think, Sameer?" "I think everybody resembles some one or the other." "But she resembles Miss." "Kashyap" "Our Economics teacher?" "Yes, sir." "Our Economics teacher" "No man!" "Ya man. I know Miss.Kashyap better than you" "Tuitions... I used to go to her for tuitions" "At these tuitions, were there other students or just the two of you?" "What do you think?" " Just the two of you?" "You are right, Akash" "She does resemble Miss.Kashyap. But guess where l've messed up?" "You've got her figure wrong" "What do you know about her figure?" "I'm looking for Sid" "Sinha..." "Siddharth Sinha" "When did you return to Bombay?" "This morning." "Can't imagine what 'd have happened if I wasn't here" "How is she now?" "Don't know. lt's hard to say" "Tell me about you." "What're you up to these days?" "I'm working with Dad in his computer business" "Everything else is the same..." "And you?" "Still at your uncle's place in Poona?" "Ya. it's a very nice." "You must come there sometime" "Definitely man" "Are you just saying that or do you really intend on coming?" "I intend on doing a lot of things ...like getting married" "I always knew that the first to ge married among us three would be you" "Guess what!" "So is Akash" "What!" "Akash !" "Getting married!" "?" "That's funny I'm not kidding!" "No way!" "But to whom?" "That girl who was crazy about him in college?" "Don't you remember her?" "She used to say Akash's name in that peculiar way!" "God!" "Deepa is coming here!" "Akash, let's dance. lt'll make the other couples jealous" "Sure!" "Why not!" "Go ahead." "I'll be right with you" "In three lifetimes from now" "Sameer, please get me a drink." "I'm ever so thirsty" "And throw in a dance or two with Deepa while you're at it" "What're you sketching?" "Priya, isn't Sameer taking too long to get your drink?" "Did somebody just die?" " Yes...you!" "Did I send you to get a drink or chat up other girls!" "I'm sure you have something going on with her I remember you were never home when I was away on holiday" "You've got it all wrong, Priya" "How do you know her?" "Did somebody just die?" "Who is she?" " l don't know" "You must have seen her somewhere!" "That I have." " Where?" "She's over there" "Priya, do you know her?" "Forget it man." "She doesn't seem your type I don't plan on marrying her!" "Big deal about my type" "And may I know what your type is?" "One who lives her life and lets me live mine" "Someone not overtly emotional" "Oh, I remember." "You once met such a girl" "The affair lasted for two weeks!" "That itself was too much" "Anyway, I'm off or she'll have had grandchildren by the time I get there" "Think about it." "I don't see her biting the hook lt's called the good-ole Akash charm and it never fails" "is the mike leaking., where has 3 gone?" "Today, on this all important graduation day... I have decided to sing a song" "And because we are stepping into a new world where the responsibility to be somebody will be thrust on us..." "The title of the song is:" ""A hundred ways to get a job"" "Relax guys!" "I was only kidding!" "If people say....that we are crazy, then let them" "We don't give a damn about what they think" "When we can play music When we can sing..." "Then why should we hesitate?" "We will sing the melody that's in our hearts" "If the world gets angry..." " Let it be angry lf the world quarrels..." " Let it quarrel lf the world fights..." "Just it fight." "Just keep right on singing lf the world sulks..." " Let it sulk lf ties are broken..." " Let them break lf someone leaves you..." " Let them go" "Don't ever be afraid We are today." "Why should our style be old?" "There's lightning in our eyes." "A storm in our breath" "What's fear, what's defeat?" "We don't know what they mean" "The earth and sky, are created for us" "I'm sure we could even pluck the stars out of the night" "Our abode is beyond the sky" "We are today." "Why should our style be old?" "We have been raised in the land of dreams" "We can be as shy as we are openly affectionate" "Mesmerising everybody wherever we go teaching you lovely women the art of love" "We know how to steal a woman's heart and her sleep" "We are today." "Why should our style be old?" "If people say..." "...that we are crazy, then let them" "We don't give a damn about what they think" "When we can play music When we can sing..." "Then why should we hesitate?" "We will sing the melody that's in our hearts lf the world gets angry..." " Let it be angry lf the world quarrels.." " Let it quarrel lf the world fights..." " Let it fight" "Just keep right on singing lf the world sulks..." " Let it sulk lf ties are broken..." " Let them break lf someone leaves you..." " Let them go" "Don't ever be afraid" "We are today." "Why should our style be old?" "Shalini...that's a lovely name I haven't seen you before." "You're not from our college" "You're right. I'm here with somebody" "And now would you say yes to dancing with this somebody?" "The fact is that Rohit..." "Rohit!" "Okay!" "So you are Rohit's sister?" "No." "Actually I..." "Rohit and I are very good friends." "Why, he's more like a brother" "Not even if I told you that I love you?" "Yes, Shalini. I love you and only you" "My every breath every heartbeat every moment, is for you, Shalini I'm sure that I was born so that I could love you" "And you were born to become mine" "You are mine, Shalini" "And if you ask your heart you will know that I speak the truth." "Who are you?" "Don't you recognize your brother Rohit?" "You are Rohit?" "I mean, you too are Rohit?" "I thought Shalini was that other Rohit's sister." "Look, he's over there" "Sameer...!" "Your name is Sameer?" "So you've being lying to me all along!" "That's really wrong of you" "What can I say now..." "You can see for yourself" "He got me to believe that his name was Rohit" "Neither is he Rohit nor Shalini my sister" "Shalini is my fiancee" "Fiancee...!" "I don't like you being friends with Akash at all" "His behaviour the other night..." "You know how embarrassed I was?" "Let him do what he wants." "Just keep away from him" "But Akash is my friend, Priya!" "Like you don't have any other friends?" "Yes, I do..." "But he..." "Just decide, Sameer." "You can either be with Akash or me!" "I am thinking..." "You need time to think if you want to be with me!" "Okay." "So you want some time?" "No!" "I'm going out with friends." "I'll be back by 2.00 lf l don't hear from you before that, I'll know what your answer is" "Don't you think you are over-reacting?" "No" "You've never seen me over-react." "If I do...then God help you!" "What are you doing!" "Your bruise has turned a strange colour." "Have you seen it, Sid?" "I'm glad you like it!" "Do you want one?" "Hey!" "Don't get that anger out on me man" "Did I ask you to speak to Shalini?" "No." "But you could've at least helped me." "You just sat there!" "Such a true friend!" "I think I'd be better off befriending Rohit I'd at least get some protection!" "May God bless your unity. I'm off." "Where to?" "Home." "Why?" "What's the hurry?" "Right, Sameer?" "Ya, man, chill. it's only 1O' clock ln which country?" "It's nearly 4 here!" "I forgot to call Priya!" "Why are you so scared of Priya?" "I'm not scared of her I don't want to hurt her or lose her" "Sameer, I can't understand how you tolerate her" "She seems more a boss than a girlfriend!" "Akash, I'm asking for help, not your expert comments" "What should I do?" "What do you think?" "I'll tell you what." "Call Priya and apologise" "Tell her you will never meet Akash again" "You know I won't do that!" "What if she gets hurt..." "What if you lose her!" "You'll never improve, will you" "Why are you turning this into such an issue?" "Just call her, talk to her." "It'll all be okay" "The thing is...but listen..." "You're not ...but I...what I'm saying... I'm at Akash's" "She hung up" "What did you expect?" "She'll say Sorry darling!" "Enough is enough, Sameer." "Listen to me" "Just go there and tell her these tantrums won't work lf she wants to be with you, she must follow your wishes" "She's challenged your self-respect, buddy" "What are you doing?" "Be a man!" "That's exactly what I'm going to do." " That's the way to go!" "He's dead!" "Oh, Priya?" " Please give Sameer the phone" "But Sameer hasn't come here. I too am looking for him since last night" "What?" "Didn't he come there?" "Careful man!" "Only this eye is working" "We need to talk" "There's no need for that. I know what you have to say" "You know?" " Yes I spoke to Akash after our talk" "Right!" "And?" "He said you weren't at his house" "Stop pretending!" "I can't believe I did this to myself I never knew you were such a liar I don't want to see your face ever again!" "Could I be of any assistance?" "It's not a problem at all" "Oh God !" "What's in here?" " My things" "Hang on. I'll get it from this side" "If just one suitcase has reduced us to this condition, then..." "There's only two more like this ls that all?" "Just two more?" "Let's go" "It's a nice house" "It belongs to the company I work for l am an interior designer..." "Tara Jaiswal" "What do you do?" "I work as a porter on Sundays" "And the rest of the week?" "Normally if anyone asks me that, I say anything that pops into my head" "But I'll tell you the truth because I think it might be of interest to you I don't quite understand?" "I mean you have three paintings in your luggage and that's my vocation" "May I see your paintings?" "Of course" "Where do you live?" "The last house down this road." "You can come whenever you wish" "Sid, I'm going to the office." " Just a minute, Ma I'm coming along." "Just drop me off at Sameer's" "By the way, it's Anju's wedding anniversary today" "She'll be very disappointed if you don't come" "is Siddharth home?" " Yes" "You are...?" " l am Tara" "Ma, this is Tara" "Well, I'd better be going" "Ya, you go ahead, I'll go myself." "All right." "But you are coming this evening, aren't you?" "Where?" " To Anju's!" "Mom, I get extremely bored there" "There are very few places in this world where you don't get bored" "Fine !" "Have it your way." "Please have a seat I'd like to see your paintings first" "The same theme here too" "What theme?" "I have learnt something about you today" "Something I couldn't see at our first meeting" "What's that?" "The thing is, you meet people, talk to them, laugh..." "But there's a world within you full of dreams, of fantasies that you don't share with anyone" "I wonder if those, who claim to know you really know you at all" "What makes you say that?" "The door is not open..." "Entry is forbidden..." "The box is tightly bound..." "No one can steal anything..." "And who can tell what feelings reflect behind those shut eyelids... I wonder what other secrets your paintings hide within them..." "Or within you perhaps" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "Anyway, which do you think is your best?" "I have yet to create that one" "Look at your face!" "White as a sheet!" "Look, I am very angry right now and all because of you" "Hey!" "I saved your life and you are angry with me?" "Saved my life?" " Absolutely!" "This was bound to happen" "Priya would've left you tomorrow if not today." "Know why?" "Because she didn't love you, she loved some other Sameer" "He looked like you but was someone else" "You are not that Sameer." "You are the Sameer I know, Sid knows..." "And Priya could only hope to know lf you became that Sameer, our this Sameer would be defeated!" "I never thought of it like that.." " l know" "Then pack your bags and let's go" "Sid and I are waiting for you in the car" "Where are we going?" " Goa!" "Goa...?" "!" "The heart wants..." "The heart wants..." "May these sparkling days never end" "The heart wants..." "May we never have to be without our friends" "May our days be full of poetry our evenings dance and nights sing." "May our time together always be fun and exciting" "May every path we tread bring us happiness" "The heart wants..." "May these sparkling days never end" "The heart wants..." "May we never have to be without our friends" "Our paths dazzle with their glitter" "May this joy and light be ours by right" "Where's Akash?" "There...behind the plant" "Are you guys staying here too?" "Not are...we were." "We are checking out" "We've been staying here for a week." "Isn't that right, guys?" "Yes, we've been here for a week" "But Akash just got here today." " Yes. I got here today" "Akash!" "It's nice to see you haven't lost your sense of humour!" "Hey Sid, look over there!" "Sid, did you hear that?" "Someone's calling out my name" "Go faster, buddy." "Faster This is the top speed" "What an amazing place!" "We should come to Goa every year, for a week at least" "What say, Sid?" "What are you thinking?" "I'm looking at that ship that's about to disappear over the horizon" "The three of us are like that ship" "Soon, we'll set out looking for our destinations.... ...and it might just be that our destinations are different" "I don't understand why you're saying all this" "Sid, we are all friends for life" "Of course we are" "But who knows where life will take each one of us" "Ever wondered, let alone come here every year for a week... lt may be difficult to meet even once in 10 years" "That won't happen, Sid" "We were, are and will be friends." "Always" "Anyway, shall we go?" "Deepa must be waiting for you" "Don't say must be waiting." "She is!" "I told her Akash will meet her by the poolside at 8 sharp!" "How strange is this journey!" "If you just think..." "Each one of us is so unaware of where he is destined to go of what the future holds for each of us" "The heart wants..." "May these sparkling days never end" "The heart wants..." "May we never have to be without our friends" "May our days be full of poetry our evenings dance and nights sing" "May our time together always be fun and exciting" "May every path we tread bring us happiness" "Our paths dazzle with their glitter" "May this joy and light be ours by right" "Deepa, why do you like Akash so much?" "What do you mean?" "Sometimes I wonder why we like and want someone" "Why do you like him?" "I don't know..." "I just do" "Even knowing that Akash..." " ...doesn't love me" "Yes...then too" "Deepa you are a good-looking, intelligent girl." "You can get anyone you want... ln that case, why can't I have Akash!" "I don't know that..." "But I do know that if you're ever in trouble," "And need Akash's help or support, he'll do whatever he can for you." "But Deepa, you shouldn't hope for things that..." "Take a look at this sand" "The tighter you try to grip it the faster it slips through your fingers" "Have you donated your bag to the hotel?" "Actually, I've decided to stay back for a few days" "What?" "Er..." "Kristine wants me to stay for some more time" "Kristine?" "...that girl who..." "Sid!" "Are you listening?" "Our friend has decided to become a hippie!" "If you hadn't brought me here, I'd have never met her" "She's Swiss. I was wondering..." "why not go there and start a bee farm." "Swiss honey is world famous..." "Let's go Akash" "What have I done!" "He was better off with Priya" "One more thing..." "Please don't call my house till I get back" "So, did you have fun in Goa?" "It was great." "Have you been there?" "Yes." "Many years ago" "Whose photographs are these?" "Esha...my daughter" "Oh, I haven't met her." "Where is she?" "She lives with her father" "9th April 95...exactly on my birthday..." "My husband gave me a gift..." "You do meet your daughter, don't you?" "No" "The Court doesn't permit me to meet my daughter" "Why?" "My ex-husband is a very rich man" "His lawyers were very smart and capable" "With the help of many false witnesses, he proved that I am not a good mother." "That I'm an alcoholic" "An irresponsible woman who drinks" "You're nothing like that!" "Oh for you to have been the judge!" "Anyway, what else did you do there?" "I'd like to paint you" "Paint me?" "Be back in two minutes" "Are you going somewhere?" "Sorry, I have to go I just got a call from the site." "There's a problem" "Have you given any thought to your future?" "No I know it's my fault I always thought, I'd give you some time..." "You needed it." "It's my pampering that has spoilt you lf this goes on..." "You'll definitely have signed a cheque till my retirement" "Dad, there are more things to life than signing cheques" "Really!" "And what are these things?" "I don't know yet but the moment I do, you'll be the first to know I have had enough of your jokes I've decided that you will go to Australia" "Cool!" "Another holiday?" "You'll manage our business there" "Mom, Dad's joking now" "No, Akash." "Dad is serious and you better be serious too" "You are going to Sydney" "And you will manage the office there" "Sameerji's Mummyji is on the phone" "Akash Baba says that..." "Yes, Aunty" "What's wrong with Sameer?" "Nothing's wrong with Sameer." "He's perfectly OK" "What OK!" "?" "He's shut himself in his room" "He hasn't eaten and just doesn't come out" "Sameer is in Bombay?" "Didn't you all come back last night" "Yes, Aunty. lt was last night but..." "I'm so distracted now..." "Akash, are you and Sameer on drugs?" "Of course not, Aunty." "Don't worry." "I'll be there right away" "The least you could've done was call." "I didn't know what to say to your Mom" "What's happened to you?" "I'm in no mood to talk now" "Okay." "How's Kristine?" "Don't even mention her name in front of me!" "Why?" "What happened?" "Get it off your chest lt's not good for health to suppress such emotions" "Well, after the two of left the other day... I met Kristine on the beach" "It felt so good..." "Just Kristine and me... I loved her so much..." "How happy I was..." "We watched the sunset and she came back to the hotel with me I invited her in I could never have imagined what happened next" "I don't think she was from Switzerland either I'm glad to have amused you guys!" "That truck driver who gave me a ride to Bombay was far more sympathetic!" "You came back in a truck!" "?" "What did you think?" "That I sit on this pillow every day?" "I'm pissed off travelling 12 hours in a truck" "Mother, he is Mr.Shankaran. Art India magazines." "I was telling Siddharth about my friend who lives in Kasauli" "He hosts a painting workshop every year" "And you feel that he must go there" "Absolutely lt'll be a very good experience for him" "Oh, you're here!" "You're a strange boy!" "you invite me and act surprised when I come." "Ma, this is Tara!" "Tara Jaiswal." "You introduced us before" "How long will you go around with that glum face..." "Come." "Let me introduce you to these sweet girls" "Forget it man." "I'm not in the mood" "Are you fine?" "Look..." "Kristine!" "Do you like it?" "I like them all lt's difficult to say which one is your best" "I haven't painted my best yet" "Why not?" "You don't seem to have the time?" "On such a big day in your life I've to agree to your wish." "Tell me, when you will start my painting?" "Tomorrow" "Wait, I'll be out in a minute." " No problem" "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower." "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower." "...in which the colours merge and all the fragrances blend" "Moonlight, brooks and clouds..." "Songs, rain and butterflies..." "They all seem favourable to me" "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower" "Oh look!" "Banks of a river..." "A bird calls out to another bird" "Look, at the river itself..." "She flows on to unite with the sea" "All these journeys are part of love's caravan" "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower" "Oh how can I explain..." "How can I make you understand what love is!" "There are no attachments in love" "And neither are there any barriers" "Love's saga is extraordinary" "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower" "..in which all the colours merge and all the fragrances blend" "Moonlight, brooks and clouds..." "Songs, rain and butterflies..." "They all seem favourable to me" "What season is this in which the heart blooms like a flower" "Greetings, Aunty." "Are you going out, Sameer?" "Ya, to Akash's..." "Why?" "I'll be back" "Mom!" "What's the matter?" "The fact is, Nareshji's daughter Pooja is coming here" "And we want the two of you to..." "What!" "Fixing my marriage...!" "An arranged marriage!" "No, Mom." "Not for me" "Why not?" "Your Daddy and I had an arranged marriage" "Listen to me." "We are not forcing you to get married" "We have known them for years" "And we thought we'd turn friendship into a marriage alliance" "You don't lose anything by meeting Pooja, do you?" "Okay." "But you know my answer." "And that's NO!" "Who is it, Sameer?" "Er..." "Sameer, we have something important to discuss" "Nareshji, is that all right?" "Anyway, they'll get bored sitting with us oldies" "Are they your friends?" "Please sit down" "This is Akash and this is Sid" "Seems like a deep friendship" "Either the friendship is deep or it's a 3-D photograph" "Pooja, you do know why you're here, don't you?" "Yes." "Mom and Dad told me" "Look, honestly speaking..." "When Mom told me about this..." "I felt it wasn't right at first but now..." "I'm so happy you said no to this arranged marriage bullshit!" "I think marriages shouldn't be made like this lt's so important to love somebody to get married" "What do you think?" "Yes, absolutely" "Why?" "Are you in love with someone?" "There is this guy in my life" "But I guess I don't love him enough so far to marry him I pretty much feel the same but not about the guy in your life!" "And then?" "Then what!" "She went home lt's a problem man" "Please don't tell me you've fallen for her after all this!" "Look, Sameer... I have no doubt whatsoever you have fallen in love with her" "But I'm equally sure that after 3 months you'll be in love with some other girl" "No, Akash I always thought I knew what love was I realized today that I was completely wrong ls that so!" "Akash, when Pooja told me about that guy in her life ..." "For the first time I thought about all those girls in my life... I was attracted to all of them..." "But I was wrong to think the attraction was love" "And now you love Pooja?" "Yes." "That's it!" "I love Pooja" "Then tell her" "Take my advice." "Don't say anything to anyone" "There's no trusting you" "Today it's Pooja, tomorrow it'll be some Ahuja!" "How did you know it's my birthday?" "Didn't you mention it?" "I am so happy today" "Guess what?" "Esha called me" "She is coming to see me today" "My daughter is coming here..." "Sid, she remembered it's my birthday today I'll be seeing her after 5 years!" "I've cooked everything myself." "I baked a cake I'm so happy ls Esha coming alone or your..." "Oh no." "She told him she's going to a friend's birthday party..." "Because Ajay will never let her come here" "Would you like to meet her?" "It'll make me happy" "How dare you teach my daughter to lie?" "Have you no shame?" "Thank God I heard Esha talk to you over the phone" "Why don't you stay away from her?" "I am her mother!" "You were her mother but now Kiran is her mother lt'd be wise of you to understand this" "Don't ever try to meet Esha again" "Not unless you want me to take you to court... again" "You understand what I'm getting at, don't you?" "He tells me I am not Esha's mother!" "That Esha is not my daughter!" "I am her mother..." "He married again" "He destroyed all my dreams." "I said nothing" "Because I had everything... I had my Esha" "But now..." "I have nothing" "I have nothing at all I am nothing." "Nothing." "You know, crying doesn't suit you at all" "What else can I do!" "You can come with me" "You two must be wondering where Siddharth has brought you!" "No such thing." "We'd go anywhere to eat cake" "Will you dance with me?" "Where?" " Right here there's lot of space, come." "Sid, we've reached your house" "What?" "You're joking, right?" "Hey Akash, he's serious man!" "Have you gone mad?" "Sid, my knowledge of such things is a bit sad but this is a but much, isn't it?" "is that because she's older?" "No. I mean that too" "Wait a minute!" "Why are we even discussing this nonsense?" "Because I thought that may be you guys would understand" "Hey Sid!" "Understand what?" "You say you love a woman who is 10 to 15 years older than you has a daughter, had a husband" "You've told us she has a drinking problem" "What should we understand?" " Just this... I know all this and still love her" "But Sid, think about it." "This isn't love, it's insanity" "No." "This is love I don't expect her to be mine or marry me I don't expect any such thing" "Even if she doesn't love me, it's okay because I... okay!" "I get it" "Remember, Sameer?" "Even I had started off like this" "Started what off?" "Oh." "Of course." "Okay, Sid. lf that's what it's about then I have no objection ln fact she's perfect for you" "She's experienced, lives alone." "You visit her everyday" "Learn from him, Sameer" "Really, Sid." "You couldn't have chosen better..." "How disgusting can you get!" "Here I am telling you I love her and you make it sound so sick and dirty" "We don't have to approve everything our friends do" "But there is a line in every friendship that shouldn't be crossed" "And you have crossed it today" "At some point in life everyone experiences true love" "Then all the things you said..." "about her age and stuff..." "They don't mean anything." "They all seem trivial" "You won't understand this today" "But some day you will know..." "You don't decide to fall in love lt just happens" "Are you finished?" "Sameer, are you coming?" "I still remember that night" "I never thought things would go that far" "I couldn't sleep all night I went and met Akash the next morning" "These things happen between friends" "Let's go meet Sid." "He must be feeling bad too" "You're sure to run into him somewhere" "What'll you do?" "Ignore him?" "You're coming to meet Sid" "Leave me alone, Sameer!" "I have to see Sid" "He's gone" "Where?" " Kasauli" "They called yesterday to say his application was accepted." "So he..." "What is it, Sameer?" "is everything alright?" "Of course. I should go" "I didn't realise that things would never be the same again" "You went to Kasauli..." "A week later, Akash left for Australia" "Take care of yourself" "You remember the name of the man who'll receive you in Sydney?" "Mr.Mehta..." "Relax, Dad." "I remember" "Bye. I'll call you from there I must tell you something" "What's it?" "I always made fun of your endless romantic entanglements" "Never stopped to think how you must feel" "You know I was just kidding, don't you?" "Don't worry about it" "You weren't the only one who was kidding" "You remember Shalini?" "I remember Shalini..." "And Rohit's punch as well l knew she was Rohit's fiancee" "Why didn't you tell me?" "Why didn't you stop me?"

"Previously on AMC's "Turn:" "Washington's Spies"..." "Explain yourself, Captain." "Man:" "We're hanging a traitor, sir." "Get out of my town." "I'm gonna come back to New York soon, and when I do, be ready." "Peggy:" "A woman stealing Major John André's heart." "Can you style me exactly like this?" "Youth, Philomena." "André has been captured." "I must flee." "Arnold's a traitor, sir." "The future of our cause lies in peril." "Man:" "Do we have a man in the city..." "Robert Townsend?" "Benedict:" "Well, I'll find his spies, and I'll drag them screaming to the gallows." "Hold up." "She was a beauty, eh?" "Nah, she was a jack whore, that one." "A regular horse godmother." "Make your thing look like a noodle, with paws like that." "Petty Officer James Kilroy." "Hey, where are you taking him?" "Come on, he hasn't done anything." "Where are you taking him?" " Where is he going?" " Down at the wharf." "Back after lunch, Cato." " Tommy." "Good morning, Tommy." " Mr. Mulligan." "Five shillings for two inches?" "It's highway robbery." "Honestly, I don't know why you buy space in that dishrag." "No one reads it." "Our subscribers are double theirs." "Hugh Gaine is an old friend, James." "I'll do you a deal, Mulligan." "Stop all advertising in the "Mercury"" " and we will name you..." " The official clothier of his "Majesty's Royal Gazette."" " Good morning, Townsend." " Good morning, sir." " Ale or sherry?" " Sherry." "On the house." "May I show you the placement?" "Hmm?" " Near the masthead?" " You wish to see it?" "Drink your sherry." "I'll be right back." "You look due for a new suit, Townsend." "We Quakers keep our dress plain." "We have little need for "superfine cloths" of the most fabulous colors." "Bit much, eh?" "Well, still... to the right reader, sends the right message." "Just like your advertisement for, say," "French raspberry brandy?" "You really should stop by." "We have much to discuss." "I'm sure I don't know what you mean." "They said you'd be guarded." "Forgive me, who said?" "We have friends in common, Robert." "And you have more friends in this city than you may know." "Benedict:" "Hercules Mulligan." "Good day, sir." "I don't believe we've met." "Oh, I think you know who I am." " I most certainly know who you are." " Ah, wonderful." "Stop by Queen Street, we'll take your measure." "You'll be coming with me now, sir, to answer for your questionable contacts with the enemy." " On what grounds do you harass me, sir?" " General." "You will address me by my rank, tailor." "And where is your regiment, general?" "Cross the Hudson wearing rebel blue?" "Wandering where their commander scarpered off to?" "Man:" "He had it coming." "I know precisely who and what you are." "Please, this is where we report the war, not wage it." "Print this!" "By order of Lord Clinton," "I have been appointed Spy Hunter General, and have been tasked to arrest hidden traitors to the Crown." "Their names will be made known, and they will learn to fear mine." "Get up." "Please." "Please continue." "♪ There's snakes in the garden ♪" "♪ Blood on the vines ♪" "♪ I know there will come a day ♪" "♪ They're hiding in the color of night ♪" "♪ I can't wait anymore ♪" "♪ I can't wait anymore ♪" "♪ I can't wait anymore. ♪" "♪ Hush ♪" "Adams, Little, Mulligan," "Beddows, Kilroy, Hunter." "Now, Beddows, Kilroy, and Hunter were all agents of Robert Howe, who entrusted Arnold with their names when he took advantage of West Point." "Howe didn't know Mulligan!" "No one knew Mulligan except for us." "Ben:" "Arnold doesn't know Mulligan." " His name is right there." " Yes, along with 40 others." "Arnold doesn't have the evidence for 40 men." "He's grasping." "He failed to deliver them West Point, and so he's putting on show, he's puffing out his chest." " How can you be sure?" " Because I..." "Because he wrote to me." ""As I know you to be a man of sense," "I am conscious you are, by this time, fully of opinion that the real interest and happiness of America consists in a reunion with Great Britain." "I have taken a commission in the British Army and invite you to join me with as many men as you can bring over with you." "If you think it proper to embrace my offer you shall have the same rank you now hold, in the cavalry I am to raise."" "If he knew Woodhull's name, or Townsend's, then he surely would have boasted as much." "The Culper Ring is secure." " His hunt has just begun." " Alexander:" "He will be the hunted." "We will lure him out of the city and kill him." "No." "I will not lower us to assassination." "He must be captured alive and returned to camp." "Sir, you wish to kid... to capture General Arnold from New York City?" "We must make a public example of him." "I want a report on how this may be best achieved by week's end." "Leave the letter here." "Laundry." "Two shillings." "Payday, you trulls." "Maybe I'll buy me a kettle." "Boil up some rat shit." "Save me seconds, love." "Hey, princess, you got kettles for sale or not?" "Princess." "She got spunk in her ear?" "Save me seconds." "Yes, kettles are three shillings." "I'll be right back." "If something's missing, I'll know." "Why look at me, eh?" "Why look at me?" "Hey!" "Bitch." "Don't ruffle her feathers, Hest." "It's her cart." "Ever wonder how that is?" "She didn't come to camp but five months ago, and she weren't no peddler then." "Answer's right there." "Young Major Tallmadge." "You said she was yoked to some fat cull in Philadelphia." "Says the scuttlebutt." "But she don't act married, now does she?" "You can't be certain they're safe." "No, I'm not certain, but there's nothing I can do that I haven't already done." "Oh, and you're not the only one who's worried sick." "What's this?" "I received a few unexpected letters this week, that one is from Philadelphia, from Selah." " You told him I'm here?" " What?" "No, no, he still thinks you're in Setauket serving as signal, but with Arnold on a rampage rounding up spies, he's fearing for your life." "He's demanding that I pull you out of there." "I have to write him back." "If he learns I'm in camp, he'll send for me." "Or come for me." "And I won't be able to help with the ring." "Selah's my friend, I don't want to have to lie to him." "If you write that I'm safe, and don't wish to risk more than that in a letter, it won't be a lie." "Your choice." "I'm more worried about Abe." "I know Washington wants him to stay where he is, and you have to follow orders," " but Abe doesn't." " Anna." "If a boat was to just show up..." "Anna, I told you there's nothing I can do..." " No, but..." " that I haven't already done." "Caleb left for Setauket early this morning in a boat with plenty of room." "He should be with Abe as we speak." " Brewster?" " Shh." "Is that Caleb Brewster?" "I was right!" "What about that Arnold, eh?" " What a bastard he is." " Come here." "What are you doing?" " Someone's coming." " What?" "Oh, no, it's just my father." "Listen, listen." "We gotta work out a new way to signal, a way for me to signal you without Townsend," " Shh!" " without anybody else involved." "Just shut your hole." "We have to go now." "All right?" "Where's Mary and Thomas?" "Whitehall." "It's nearly lunch, she's probably going to be making..." " hey, you hungry?" " What?" "I mean, you smell like arse, but uh..." "Ah, she'll be fine." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Where are you going?" " Who are you talking to?" " It's Caleb Brewster!" "He'll be joining us for lunch!" "Come on." "Sugar?" "Whiskey?" "So..." "I take it the lobsters have gone?" "No, no, they're not gone." "Wakefield moved his billet to Strong Manor." "He threw up a stockade, he's calling it Fort St. George." "He runs the garrison from there now, though" " they still hold the church." " Right." " What about the rangers?" " Mm." "Gone but not forgotten." "As long as Simcoe still lives, they can return." " Cooke wouldn't allow it." " As long as he still lives." "Do you think Simcoe would try something?" "You don't?" "Wait." "You don't want to leave?" "Well, we discussed it, but when the latest "Gazette" came, it was a comfort." "Listen, if they knew about Culper, I'd be on the masthead." "They snatched some poor fellow from Coram just south of here, but not me." " That means they don't know." " He knows." "Well, yeah, he knew when he was a king's man." " And he ain't one now?" " He's sitting right here!" "And no, he is no longer a king's man." "Not after the repeated violations of common law and common decency by those who claim to serve the Crown." "Well, about time." "All right, all right, listen." "It's better this way than the other." "But we have a way to strike back, right here, in Setauket." "What do you got?" "They're stockpiling hay at the fort." "Three hundred tons of it, straight from local farms, and due to be shipped to York City on Monday." "Now, that is enough to fuel the entire British Army through the winter, I reckon." "Three hundred tons?" "Jesus." "That's too much to steal." "And too much to burn." "No, it ain't." "No, it ain't." " Did you say Monday?" " Mm-hmm." "Well, I go... camp, get lads, come back..." "No, it would be Tuesday." "Can you delay the shipment?" " What, can I?" " No, he can't." "No, for one day." "For half a day even." " I..." " It'll be all I need." "Mary:" "It could be done." "The officers, they move much slower after a night of heavy drinking." "Such as banquet thrown in their honor." "Get going." "Your mother's very clever." "Yow!" "Doorman:" "May I take your coat, sir?" "Peggy." "Peggy!" " Hello, dear." "I've missed you so." " Hi." " Becky, oh, you look beautiful." " You do." "No, look at you." "Look at that dress." "My love, this is Rebecca Franks and Freddy Morgan, dear friends from Philadelphia." "And this is my husband, General Arnold." "General Arnold, how do you do?" "General, an honor." "And you have many dear friends here, madam, eager to make your acquaintance." "How do you do it, general?" "Colonel Cooke." "Good to see you." "General Arnold." "We met at your office." "Right, right." "Beg pardon, general." "I have to take a slash." "My apologies, sir, but have you had a chance to see Sir Clinton?" "I just lost another hand to him." "In his study, in a closed game." "Senior officers only." "I'm sure he doesn't wish to be disturbed." "Yes, of course." "It's only that as we discussed" "I have been commissioned to raise regiment, but haven't granted the funds for the recruitment." "Have General Clinton sign the order and my office will release the money." "That's just the problem, I can't seem to schedule a meeting with him." "I was hoping you would put in a word." "Do you know if he's read of my exploits in the "Gazette"?" "Ah, yes, the Spy Catcher General." "Scourge of farmers and tailors everywhere." "Not farmers, spies!" "Traitors to the Crown." "You know, you might be on to something there." "We haven't been able to find a new head of Intelligence since poor Major André fell." "Perhaps a spy hunter is exactly who we need." "With all due respect, colonel, I am a veteran of the field." "I do not seek an administrative post like some invalid or coward." "I hold an administrative post, sir." "With all due respect." " That's her?" " Becky, please." "Becky:" "Freddy didn't want to upset you, but I knew you'd want to know." "Of course I didn't want to upset her." "I'm not upset." "Major Dundas, pardon my intrusion, but I promised to introduce you to my dear friend from Philadelphia." "Mrs. Margaret Shippen." "Arnold." "Forgive me, Arnold." "Welcome to New York, Mrs. Arnold." "Thank you, major." "Oh, and may I have the honor to present Miss Philomena Cheer." "Renowned actress of the New York stage." "Miss Cheer, the famed actress." "Truly your reputation precedes you." "As does yours, Mrs. Arnold." "Peggy, please." "Call me, Peggy." "You know I admire your craft so, so much." "To be an actress, and a truly great one such as yourself, you have to become the women you portray even though you know you're nothing like them." "And then, once you've created the illusion of them through costume, through hairstyle, you have to create feelings out of thin air." "Fear, anger, love." "And then convince your audience that those feelings are, in fact, real when we know quite well they are not." "I could never do what you do." " Thank you." " My pleasure." "Would you excuse me?" "Caleb:" "Along with the hay, they got dry goods and weapons." "And they're all due for export to the city." "According to Culper, who is now verified secure, the boat arrives Monday." "I reckon with 40 or 50 men, we could demolish the stockpile and the fortress." "But you require my permission, unlike your last raid in Setauket." "Yes, sir." "Why 50?" "Why not more?" "Well, Culper... they said they ain't got no cannon at the fort, sir, only muskets." "Sir, do you think that we should not risk this action or do you not trust me to lead it?" "How did you wait before showing me this letter from General Arnold?" "One day, sir." "And only that because I gave it no regard." "I never once gave him cause to think me a defector." "I'm as disgusted by the insinuation as you must be." "The hay in Setauket is of so much consequence that the attempt must be made." "Colonel Sheldon will furnish you with a detachment." "And I commit to you the execution of this order, major." "We won't fail you, sir." "Sedition?" "The only seditious sentiments Mr. Mulligan ever made to me were those encouraging defection from my beloved barnyard." "I reminded him this was a holy..." "My inquiry is not a joke, sir." "No, it's very important." "It's very necessary." "Do you know who you should be investigating?" "Hugh Gaine." "The man is a secret patriot, everyone knows it." "I am convinced he is sending secret messages to the rebels through that unreadable tabloid." "John:" "Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe." "I'm the commander of his Majesty's Queen's Rangers." "I see that." "No militia." "Provincial forces, not militia." "Sorry, sir, only commissioned officers or sponsored guests." "The barman knows me, I rescued his life last Thanksgiving." "Hello, friend." "Good Quaker fellow." "You know this man, Mr. Townsend?" "Yes, Tommy, I do." "Welcome to Rivington's, Colonel Simcoe." "Thank you, Townsend." "How does your father?" "In poor health, I'm afraid." "May I show you to a table?" "Ah, Townsley, I was just coming to inquire of you." " Do you have a moment..." " Oh, I..." " or am I interrupting?" " Not at all." "Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe, Queen's Rangers." "General Benedict Arnold, American Legion." "Yes, I'm a great admirer of your field tactics, general." "Oh, really?" "Well, pray then, won't you join us?" "That is, if you don't find talk of snakes and spies too distasteful." "Mr. Mulligan comes in two or three times a week to have a drink or to have something printed in the "Gazette."" "He is a loyal customer." "Loyal, yes." "But to whom?" "I had heard some gossip of some Whiggish leanings before the war." " And?" " It was just that." "Gossip." "Which the good Lord counsels us to ignore." "Yes, of course." "Gossip is a sin." "And is also the tool of a spy." "I would imagine that this coffee shop would be the perfect place to spy upon military officers." "Perhaps that was the reason behind his frequent visits." "I hadn't considered that." "But Mr. Mulligan was never here long enough to engage in any such activity." "It was always just one drink and gone, really." "He always seemed to me a very busy man." "Busy with his shop on Queen Street." "But anything is possible, I suppose." "Everything is possible." "Thank you, Townsends." "You are quite welcome, sirs." "If you will excuse me." "Yep." "What do you suppose them two gob about?" "Barnes:" "God knows." "but that's the girl who brought poor André his redcoat so he could hang in it." "André?" "Didn't see him hanged, but I did see him hung, if you catch my meaning, eh?" "Come on, you grass widow." "Give a titter for that one." "Cheeky." " York City?" " I need to earn a wage." "A little more if I ever hope to get to Canada." "That's not gonna happen here." "You've decided then?" "Cicero's at that age where he's talking about joining up." "Soldiering, like he saw Akinbode do." "I can't risk losing him, too." "Abby, you don't know that Akinbode is lost." "He said he'll come back for you, he still could." "Even if he did, he wouldn't look for me here." "You still have that pass from the British to enter the city?" " Anna..." " No, don't say it." "There's no need." "You've taken great risks for us, for the cause." "And like you said, you can't take anymore." "Mrs. Arnold?" "Hey." "Is Abigail in?" " Who?" " Major André's girl." " Runs the house." " André?" "He's dead." "This is General Arnold's house, but he ain't home and we all hired up." "Wait, wait." "You don't know Abigail or the boy, Cicero?" "Who's asking?" "Mountain Joe?" "King George." "You want your gal back, you gotta cross the river to the rebel side." "They sent her with a pass to help clean up her boss for the rope." "Took the boy with her." "A pass?" "So, she'll be back?" "I absconded from Mount Vernon in Virginia." "Old man Washington not letting no negroes go, pass or no pass." "Don't come around here again." "Ah, this is the place." "They're aren't near the quality of Habersham's, but there are some good pieces." " This one in particular..." " Peggy?" "Peggy, it's so good to see you!" " Miss Cheer." " Oh, Philomena, please." "I do hope we can be friends." "After I apologize, of course." " Peggy, this is the shop I wanted to..." " In a moment, Freddy." "Apologize?" "Well, yes, for my behavior last night." "I thought it improper to correct someone paying me such a gracious compliment, so I excused myself quickly, which was even more improper," " so I..." " Not at all." "I wasn't offended, and if I gave offense, I surely wasn't aware." "This is what I came to realize." "Though I am curious as to the correction you speak of." "If only to avoid such impropriety in the future." "Just this." "After much applause and many encores," "John testified that in portraying you," "I, in fact, outshined the original." "Perhaps that's because I chose to play you as the woman you might become, rather than the fumbling child he knew." "Apart from that, you're absolutely right." "You could never do what I do." "Good day." "Halt." "Just here is good, Mr. Woodhull." "Mr. Woodhull." "Welcome to Fort St. George." " Is your father well?" " Ah, he's well enough, yeah." "Just likes me to run his errands for now." "The reimbursement for the farmers?" " Yes" " I have it right here." "That's a lot of hay." "A lot of wagons in York City, and they all need pulling." "Ah, here we are." "Thank you, Appleton." "Sir." "Mr. Woodhull." "Thank you, captain." "Now, if you'd permit me, I'd like to host you and your officers at Whitehall tomorrow night." "Since I'll be handling more of my father's business," "I should like us better acquainted." "We'd be honored, Abraham." "Thank you." "Oh, and since you'll be handling more, this is for your father." "Compliments of Colonel Cooke." "Well, half now and half when the pork reaches the city." "Oh, yeah, well, he'll be happy to hear it." "No wonder you didn't want this raid to come up." "How much more you think you can get for selling out my friends?" "If I told Wakefield about your friends," "I'd be turning you in as well." " You know I won't do that." " Oh, why not?" "You did it before." "And you're still in bed with Cooke!" "I am gouging Cooke." "I'm charging him three times the going rate so his officers can eat ham this winter, and I'm doing it for you." "This is the deed to Whitehall, which I have now signed over to you." "If you want this to be worth anything at the end of this..." "I told you, I don't care about your money." "No?" "What do you care about?" "Our family." "Our country." " And this town." " Oh, this town." "Yes, and I'm sick of seeing it bled dry" " by these leeches!" " If you burn that hay before the farmers are paid for it, they will bleed and starve!" "Oh, no, no, no." "No, they won't starve." "King's promise." "It's all right here in writing." "You know they would never be paid." "That's why you let their crops be destroyed so you could paint Simcoe as a madman." "Simcoe is a madman." "Wakefield is just doing his duty." "As are his men who you would have slaughtered." "Slaughtered?" "They're not sheep, they're soldiers." "And they're on the wrong side." "You're in the war now, Father." "This is how it's done." "Ben:" "So, we land at Old Man's and then we march inland?" "Mm-hmm." "It's the only place to hide that many boats." "Aye, but the field here, it's too open for us to advance with any surprise." "The closest we can get is here, the tree line, right?" " Right." " Then it's up to you and your pioneers" " to cross the field and break the gate." " Yep." "You can get closer than that." " What, where?" " Here." " Anna, there's no cover there." " Yes, there is." "There's brush along the shore and an incline to conceal you." " No, there isn't." " Yes, there is." " I don't remember that." " Well, you didn't live there, did you?" "Ooh, careful, you two." "Keep fighting like that," " folks will say you're in love." " Ben:" "Caleb, enough." "No, he's right." "People are already talking." "At least the doxies are." "And who can blame them?" "I'm allowed further into camp than they are." "And I'm in this tent long enough for..." "well, for women to talk." "Well, I'll speak to them." "I'll put an end to that." "Don't, please." "As long as they think I'm..." "That we are..." " Knocking?" " Then they won't dig any deeper." "You think there are spies among the camp followers?" "More like I don't trust them to keep secrets." "I don't want them to think I'm working for the ring." " That we even have a ring." " So, what are you asking me to do?" "Nothing, just let them believe their gossip." "All right." "Can we get back to the raid?" "Ah, yes, let's." " Can I joke about this later, though?" " Both:" "No." "Sorry I missed supper." "I had to make an inspection at Bridewell Prison, where we'll be housing some guests." "That's all right, dear." "I know you've been hard at work." "This is Freddy Morgan." "You remember meeting him at Kennedy House?" "I know it's late, but I expected you earlier, and, well, Freddy has something very important to tell you about someone." "He's read your mention in the "Gazette."" "And..." "Well, Freddy?" "General, sir," "I'm a coiffeur, or a friseur... hairdresser if you like." "And I have plied this trade both in Philadelphia and now in New York, where I took on a client by the name of Philomena Cheer." "An actress." "And..." "And while I was arranging her high roll," "I heard her say many a thing, which was, well... treasonous, sir." "And I came to believe her a spy." "She's been seen on the arm of several bachelor officers." "And so we believe she may be seducing them for secrets, which she then passes on to her rebel masters." "A woman spy amongst the officers?" " Who would suspect?" " Indeed." " Miss Philomena Cheer?" " Yes." " Come with us." " What's this?" " Are you having some sort of laugh?" " No." "What are you doing?" " Stop." "Unhand me!" " Man:" "What are you doing?" "Woman:" "You're tearing her!" " More wine, gentlemen?" " Hmm, no, no." " I couldn't possibly." " Ah, you could, you could, and you should." "I've been saving this for a special occasion." "Honestly, too much wine and I can't be woken the next morning." "Not even with fire and drum right outside his door." "We have to fire off a cannon." "Excellent meal, madam." "Very satisfying." "Thank you, captain, there's more on the way." "Oh, we are stuffed, but thank you." "Perhaps your father wants some, he's hardly eaten." " Not feeling well." " What about dessert?" " I baked a custard pie." " Oh, you have to try that." "It's her specialty, you have to." "Ah, custard and brandy." "Warms you right up, and heaven knows" " it's cold outside." " Oh, it's frigid." "Well, maybe just one spoon." "Judge, there's some gentlemen here to see you." "Who is..." "Oh, heaven blast!" "What day is to... this is why I ask to be informed should you decide to host guests." "If you'll excuse me, gentlemen." "Sorry, Richard, but it's cold out there, and we heard something... oh." "Hello." " Is this..." " A mistake." "I quite forgot that tonight was the night for our discussion." "I'm afraid I don't have enough prepared for all..." "Oh, that's all right, we only expected warm cider." "Oh, cider?" "We can do cider." "Can we?" "We can do cider, yeah." " We really must be going." " Going?" "I thought we'd toast to his majesty" " now that we're all..." " Martin, this was a mistake." "I had meant to have a separate meeting with you all concerning the army's reimbursement." "You mean the reimbursement we're collecting tonight?" "That's what I hoped to speak to you about." " We'll leave you to your business." " Our business." "Our business, captain." "You speak to the magistrate, we must prepare for a shipment tomorrow." " The shipment's tomorrow?" " No, no." "It can't be tomorrow because we are not paid yet." "And it was made very clear that we should be paid before the shipment leaves!" " Just wait." " Wait?" "We have waited." "We have waited too long." "You'll have to wait a little longer as I must wait for a stipend from New York in order to pay you." " We can't wait!" " Don't take that tone!" " Gentlemen, please." " We will block the road with our wagons, we will block it." "Any man who approaches that fort will be shot!" "Captain, these men are loyal Tories." " Their crops feed your army." " Ja." "And their army protect you from the rebel horde." "Of course, we remember the abuses of Colonel Simcoe, and we respect the man who stood against him." "In the spirit of that respect" "I suggest that we adjourn for the night and have a proper sit tomorrow morning." "No one will approach the fort." "We will have it at the tavern." "We will come to you and resolve the matter of recompense." "I'm sure the hay can wait while we sort it out." "I can spare you the morning, but not the day." "We will honor a discussion." "I am not..." "Simcoe." "And for that, we are grateful, captain." "Tomorrow then." "Excuse me." "Tomorrow." "Dr. Mabbs:" "First, there are the hay collectors, then the hay inspectors, then the hay weighers." "There are five clerks for the work of one man." "I do not make the law, I mere enforce it." "If I may speak to the law, the regulations are quite clear." "Section One, and I quote..." "Anna was right." "Tower's empty, break the gate." "No, wait." "Caleb!" "Charge!" "Charge!" "Give us quarter!" "Quarter!" " Sit down." "Man:" "Washington and glory!" "Washington and glory!" "Man:" "Washington and glory!" "Sergeant, take your men and clear the house." "Yes, sir." "Pioneers, demolish the enemy's works." "And the rest of you, burn the hay." "All of it." "Man #2:" "Yes, sir." "What?" "Do you know how much these are worth?" ""A promise to reimburse at a set price for regulation cords of four feet, nine inches" " within 30 days."" " There's a fire." "On the fort." "It's burning down!" "Bloody bastards!" "Why didn't you tell me about your plan?" "Because I was playing it against you." "Well, you'll be pleased to know I learned a thing or two." "When the consequence of today rears its head, then we'll know what we've learned." "What are you doing out of bed?" "Wow, you startled me." "Those are John André's." "I'm to hand them off to the new head of intelligence, whenever they find some idiot to fill that post." "Well, I was so invigorated to help you catch that spy," "I found my curiosity fired up." "It seems that John was on the hunt for a particular ring of spies who report directly to Washington." "Look here." "They mention a lady named 3-5-5." "Perhaps that's Philomena Cheer." "It's all guesswork." "Informants, tipsters, cheats." ""Tallmadge."" "These are Tallmadge's dogs." ""7-2-3 man in New York." "7-2-2 man on Long Island." "7-2-5 whaleboat courier."" "Whaleboat." "I know who his courier is." "You do?" "Brewster." "His name is Brewster."

"=Episode 4=- -=Towards Tomorrow=" "What will the performance be like?" "I thought that we would all be in the Music Team." "Don't ask me." "So annoying." "=Narcissistic Prince=" "Who is it?" "=Narcissistic Prince=- Is it Lee Sin?" "Quickly answer it." "Forget it." "He is going to make me do something weird again." "If you don't pick up, I will." "I said forget it." "Hello?" "Hey, Cha Bo Un." "Yeah..." "Regular cup?" "All right, I'll tell her." "What did he say?" "Well?" "He wants you to buy him a cappuccino, a regular size cup." "What?" "That's just like our Lee Sin." "Even his taste is elegant." "Really, I'd be crazy, if I bought it for him." "Come on, let's go." "What?" "You're not going to buy it for him?" "I'll just tell him I'm in class." "=Narcissistic Prince=- Hello?" "I'm in class now." "I'll call you later, okay?" "=Oh, so you're wandering around during class?" "=" "What are you sa..." "Wow!" "It's Lee Sin!" "It's Lee Sin!" "Bring it over in 10 minutes." "Don't let the foam disappear." "Hurry back, Gyu Won." "I'd like a regular cappuccino." "Yes." "He has a grudge against me." "A cup of cappuccino, please." "Hello." "You're from the Traditional Music Department, right?" "Yes." "Gayageum or geomungo?" "Gayageum." "You didn't bring it today?" "I see you carrying it everyday." "Oh." "I only bring it for special performances." "There's also one in the practice room." "Is it possible... that you know Director Kim Seok Hyeon from before?" "Yes, because of some incidents..." "So it's like that." "Here you go." "So, he was watching from here." "What are you looking at?" "Where did you go after making people run errands for you?" "Did you buy the coffee?" "2 800 Won." "Give back the change." "You're not going to?" "So stingy, even wanting 200 Won." "Sorry, I'll give it to you next time." "I charge interest." "So stingy." "And in the future don't ask me to do these things." "How about settling this with money?" "I'll give you some money." "Then we can treat it as if the contract never happened." "How much will you give me?" "How much?" "Um, around 5 000." "I'll consider it if it's 100 000 Won." "You want as much as 100 000 Won?" "Wait a moment, Lee Sin." "But, do you sing well?" "What?" "Never mind." "If you return the change tomorrow, it'll be 500 Won." "What?" "That doesn't make any sense." "You swindler." "Stop!" "This is the room." "The majority has already been moved here." "If you need anything, please let me know." "Not bad." "This is quite peaceful." "What are your plans for the future?" "What?" "The one from the Traditional Music Department." "She hasn't even acted in a play before." "Not having any acting experience will make it more interesting." "Plus she is able to express herself well." "That is what you're hoping for." "Same goes with Gi Yeong." "You should be more realistic." "Although an audition can be sloppy, that can't be said of a performance." "Do not let your stubbornness lead to a sloppy performance." "I think you've forgotten." "The one who ruined the performance was hyeong, not me." "(Hyeong - older brother)" "I know you're worried about me, but hyeong, just leave it to me." "Hyeong, you being like this makes me very tired." "Don't think that because you're the director, you can have it all your way." "I'm the person in charge." "About Gi Yeong and that Traditional Music Department kid, you should reconsider." "It's Lee Gyu Won." "That's the name of "that Traditional Music Department kid"." "Yes." "Lee Gyu Won." "What is this?" "Even cats and dogs want to be in the play?" "She is that person, right?" "That time at the One Day Tea House event hosted by the Traditional Music Department, she sang with The Stupid." "Her singing's not bad." "Even karaoke singers can sing on that level." "Well, in the end she won't be selected as the female lead, right?" "What do you think, Han Hui Ju?" "There's no way she would be selected, even if she had the chance." "It looks like you are angry." "Of course." "The lead actress role is already threatened." "If this continues, then aren't our roles also threatened?" "What should we do?" "Destroy her immediately." "Hi." "Are you trying to have a conversation with me right now?" "Maybe." "Don't make me laugh." "Traditional Music Department!" "What is your relationship with the director?" "We don't have any type of relationship." "Oh, so you don't have any relations, yet he still gives you special treatment." "I'll tell you in advance." "If you use the director's name to get ahead, you're really dead." "You're dead." "Pay attention!" " Hello!" " Hello!" "Script." "If you carefully read the script, then you'll know it's about wandering between one's love and one's dreams." "The plot is a love story between three people." "Before we go into the formal training process, you will first go through basic training." "Any questions?" "The lead female character was dumped?" "That's why she followed her dream instead." "Is love really such a wonderful thing?" "That's right." "Crying because of love doesn't suit me." "Who said you were the lead actress?" "If it's not me, then who?" "We'll decide after we see how well you do during practice." "Let's not get too ahead of ourselves." "So where's Gi Yeong sunbae?" "Is he not going to participate in the training?" "(Sunbae - senior, mentor)" "For personal reasons, he is unable to participate in these next few days." "He will come in the future." "You know Gi Yeong oppa has stage fright, don't you?" "(Oppa - older brother, boyfriend)" "It's not like stage fright is an incurable disease, right?" "He'll come for sure." "No need to worry about this." "Just do the training well." "Then, I'll leave it to you." "Yes..." "We already met last time, right?" "Yes!" "Okay, today let's first relax a bit." "Let's start with vocal training." "Okay!" "Very good." "Start." "Freely sing out, freely." "Ready to sing?" "1, 2, 3." "Once more." "1, 2, 3." "Stop, stop." "Stop for a moment." "Stop for a moment." "Let's continue singing in groups, okay?" "Let's start with you and you." "Start from here." "Ready... start." "Looks like that will do." "Everyone together again, how about that?" "Gyu Won!" "How was it?" "Was it fun?" "I feel like I entered enemy grounds by myself." "Precisely." "You may be able to sing a bit at karaoke, but it sure is hard to come here without properly preparing." "What?" "I'm afraid you might have the wrong impression, so let me say this." "I don't consider you a friend or a colleague." "So don't talk to me so freely." "And I already told you last time, right?" "Don't act weak in front of Lee Sin." "I already had enough of a headache when you weren't around." "What are you talking about?" "Lee Sin, he likes someone who you can't even compare to." "So that means, get lost." "Han Hui Ju." "What?" "I'm afraid you might have the wrong impression too, so I have something to say." "I also don't see you as a friend." "And Lee Sin, I'm not interested at all." "So, don't gossip about me as you please." "Let's go, Bo Un." "Seriously!" "So infuriating!" "That was too cool, Gyu Won!" "Let's go to Owner Gu's." "I'm not in the mood to listen to that guy's song right now." "Today Jun Hui is going to sing." "We have to go." "Come on." "Music sheet." "Music sheet?" "Should we go back to the Music Department?" "Yeah, I need to practice it tonight." "Oh, Jun Hui!" "You sang really well." "Right." "Was I great?" "Yes, you are the best." "Are you going home?" "I'll take you." "Really?" "Hello." "I've finished working now." "Why?" "You're not hurt, are you?" "I'll go there right away." "Stay there." "Let's go." "Gyu Won, we're going first." "Eonni, we're going." "See you tomorrow." "Music sheet." "Ajussi, quickly." "Professor." "I'm sorry." "I really didn't know who else to call." "You didn't get hurt, right? Aigoo, you should have turned on the lights." "(Aigoo - oh dear, oh my god)" "I didn't know Professor was in here." "I'm sorry." "Next time I will be more careful." "Let's go, Professor." "Lee Sin?" "Thank you." "No matter what happens next time, call me." "I'll run over immediately." "Be careful on your way home." "Is that Sin?" "But, why did you come at this time?" "Did something happen?" "No." "It's just..." "They said it wasn't visiting hours, but I wanted to sit for a while before I go." "If I'm disturbing you..." "Take a seat." "Yes." "Do you have... some good news?" "I really don't know what exactly that director is thinking." "=Didn't you say you're glad to have auditioned and that you're very happy?" "=" "=Didn't you even say it was fun?" "=" "That time, I only thought I need to play the gayageum." "Singing and dancing..." "You know that I can't dance at all." "Of course, I know." "=What should I do?" "=" "Aigoo, what to do?" "=Dad?" "=" "Oh, Gyu Won." "I'm very sorry." "Let's talk again later." "=All right, I'll call you again, okay?" "=" "Oh, all right..." "Mr. Seon Gi?" "Mr. Seon Gi." "You saw me?" "Why did you come here?" "Because of school?" "Oh, because of some school-related matters, I was in the neighborhood." "You should have just called me!" "Originally I was going to, but then thought it was too late." "Have a cup of tea before you go." "Should we?" "When did you move to Seoul?" "Do you plan to keep living like this?" "Are you still waiting for love?" "You've also been single for a while now." "You don't have any plans to re-marry?" "What marriage?" "Just thinking of it makes me feel tired." "Mr. Yeon Su..." "you haven't visited his hospital yet, right?" "Yeah." "Oh right, isn't he called Lee Sin?" "You haven't said anything yet, right?" "Not yet." "I don't know how to bring it up." "The family relationship is quite complicated." "And it's alcohol poisoning." "I really don't dare say it." "Are you sure he doesn't know?" "I don't think he does." "That person wouldn't say anything about this." "But they are ultimately father and son." "It's possible he has already figured out." "Surely not..." "So you like that Dance Department's Professor." "Yes." "I used to have a woman I liked as well." "She was the girlfriend of a friend." "In order to forget her..." "I married another woman." "But I still think of her often." "So, I stole her heart." "So, did you spend your life with that person?" "No." "Why?" "I don't know either." "That's just how I lived." "Then aren't you a bad person?" "Yeah, I'm just living as a bad person in this world." "Don't be like me." "Be good to her." "I plan to." "I will be good to her." "You're only coming home now?" "It's a bit late." "Who was that?" "A friend." "Have you eaten yet?" "Let's go inside." "I want a cup of cappuccino." "Here." "200 Won." "It's only 200 Won." "Next time I'll give it to you." "Sin hyeong, are you serious?" "You say you want to do the play?" "Yeah, it might be fun." "That's good!" "I really wanted to do it." "You really want to?" "Yeah." "I don't mind." "But don't you normally hate this kind of stuff?" "Looks like Lee Sin is changing." "It's not like that." "I just feel like it will be fun." "Don't tell me it is because of Gyu Won eonni?" "What?" "Surely it's not... for a woman right?" "It's not like that!" "Absolutely not." "If you say so." "I have heard, that Director Kim Seok Hyeon used to be the lover of someone famous." "The director?" "He's also been in love?" "With who?" "I don't know about that either." "Could it be someone from the same department?" "Then it's someone from the Drama Department?" "This is my spot." "It won't fit us both, so go find another spot." "Where?" "Here?" "Sorry, this is also my spot." "So why not go over there?" "All the spots here are eonni's?" "That's right." "If you don't want to practice, just give up." "Why should I give up?" "You do not have your own strength, so you rely on the director's support." "So just give up." "Got it?" "That's why, because of rockheads like you rolling in as you like, civilians like me have to pay the price." "Isn't it because of lack of talent?" "Look at this bitch!" "Have you seen it before?" "Have you ever seen me without any talent?" "You tightwad!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Did you just push me?" "So what if I did?" "Let's make it clear, you instigated this first." "So, what are you going to do about it?" "You this fellow." "Don't you know where you stand?" "So annoying!" "Take it outside!" "Hey!" "You're not leaving?" "I am sorry." "This fellow only has brute strength." "What?" "These two want to revolt together." "Hey!" "Go get them! What happened?" "Who are they?" "What are you all doing?" "!" "Yun Su..." "Oh, Sunbae..." "Don't you have practice?" "Oh, something happened and it was cancelled." "Oh, is that so?" "Performing won't be easy, then?" "It is still unsure..." "But I feel like it will become interesting." "Glad to hear that." "Are you free on Thursday?" "Let's have dinner together." "Do you already have plans?" "It's nothing like that." "Then let's just have dinner together." "Okay?" "I'm sorry." "It's just that..." "It's settled then." "Thanks to you, I'll get to enjoy a luxurious meal." "Then it's set." "Glad to hear that." "You aren't grade school kids anymore." "Good job!" "Director is the grade school student, not us." "Can't we just put our hands down?" "You committed a grade school level mistake, so you should be punished like grade school kids." "This is all your fault, Director!" "How come?" "We all have passed the audition." "Of course we will not be able to accept it." "So, just because you are unable to accept it, does it give you the right to ostracise others?" "I am the victim here." "So am I." "What have you done that's right?" "What are you doing?" "All of you, count to 100 while reflecting." "Haven't started?" "1, 2, 3, 4," " I will be monitoring you guys from the front." " 5, 6," " Whoever slacks off in between will be eliminated." " 7, 8," " Understand?" "!" " 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15..." "This is all your fault!" "Why are you blaming me?" "It was obviously those eonnis who started this." "Just like what Sa Rang eonni said." "It's because of people like you that others who want to perform are being denied the chance." "No matter how you look at it, everyone here has been working hard with all their might." "So you should quickly chase after your own dream too." "Start counting faster!" "Can't you just do the counting?" "36, 37..." "This bunch of fellows with brawn and no brains." "Sin, have you eaten yet?" "Want to go grab a bite together?" "I ate already." "Then, how about tea?" "Forget it." "Professor Jeong Yun Su, do you know who she has dated before?" "I heard that she was once madly in love with Professor Kim Seok Hyeon." "But in order to follow her own dreams, she left her man and went to New York." "What?" "It's true!" "The performance is based on Professor Jeong's story." "Although she is stronger than those women who hang themselves over men, she definitely isn't as weak as you think she is." "Hui Ju." "I finally understand why you're so lonely and have no friends." "What?" "You fool!" "Just keep on chasing for your unrequited love until you die!" "Oh, good job." "I already said before that I wasn't the instigator." "What kind of girl are you?" "Come here." "You're fooling around now, aren't you?" "No, I'm not." "Believe me." "Stop playing around." "Hey, this suits you." "In the future, just go around like this." "Forget it, Director you really..." "I'm just kidding." "I'll help you fix it again." "Uh, it's okay." "Don't be angry, okay?" "I'm just pulling your leg." "I don't care." "Oh, Su Myeong." "What?" "How bad is the injury?" "All right, I'll head over there now." "See you." "What's wrong?" "Are you looking for me?" "The performance..." "I want to participate." "Oh, good." "That's really great." "We'll talk about the details again in later." "I'll just ask you one question." "What is it?" "Can't you ask it next time?" "Treating the woman you once loved as a laughing stock, is it really that fun?" "Now I understand why Professor Jeong..." "left." "Wait a second, you couldn't possibly..." "I like Professor Jeong Yun Su." "It seems like Professor Jeong's popularity is really explosive." "Explosive." "What's going on?" "Well, we were fooling around and it got out of hand." "Did you guys fight?" "We just had a serious disagreement." "It's not broken, right?" "Yes, luckily it was only a slight fracture." "How long does he have to stay like this?" "He has to stay in a cast for a month." "He will be discharged in a few days though." "Seems like he will still be able to do the performance." "I'm sorry." "It's because of people like you that others who want to perform are being denied the chance." "No matter how you look at it, everyone here has been working hard with all their might." "Hey, Lee Sin!" "Applied Music Department Lee Sin's coffee... hassalivain it ." "Ptooie, ptooie." "Come in." "Hello." "Are you available right now?" "Come in." "Actually..." "Did you fight with Park Sa Rang again?" "No." "I... feel that it would be better if I quit." "Are you feeling upset about being ostracized?" "No." "It's not because of that." "I only participated because I thought I'd be playing traditional music." "This wasn't really what I had in mind." "The Traditional Music Convention is just in a few more days." "If you only had to play traditional music, would you do it then?" "What?" "No." "Why?" "There's no meaning if Lee Sin isn't around?" "No." "It's not like that." "It's just..." "I feel that I have troubled the people who really want to perform well." "I'm sorry." "Coffee!" " No way." " Why?" "Just one sip, just one." "This... has saliva in it." "Don't drink it." "Stingy." "I wonder if he drank the coffee." "What do I do if another person drank it?" "Whatever." "There are a lot of off pitches in the melody." "Focus." "Yes." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." "1, kick, 3, kick, 5, 6, stop." "It's too slow." "Slow, Sa Rang is too slow." "Head up." "Let's do it again." "Treating the woman you once loved as a laughing stock, is it really that fun?" "Sa Rang, you're slow again." "Hui Ju, use a bit more strength." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." "1, kick, 3, kick, 5, 6, 7, 8." "Stop." "Good job." "That's all for today." "ItseemsthatLee Gyu Won reallyquit ." "One look and you're scared off by me, Park Sa Rang." "That is great!" "Lee Gyu Won, did she quit?" "It's lacking impact." " What?" " The whole thing was very unorganized." "There was no sense of unity." "If you don't want to get fired, you need to work harder." "They said that you would be sleeping here." "You said you wanted to perform, right?" "Yes." "On one condition." "Follow me." "What is it?" "The performance." "What?" "If you don't want to trouble other people, just putting in more effort will do." "I will take care of the rest." "I'm sorry." "I originally did not plan to use this method when coming here." "Lee Sin said he wants to participate in the performance." "Although I'm pretty sure I know your reason for participating... you can only participate if Lee Gyu Won participates." "What type of nonsense are you saying?" "Isn't she your slave?" "You try to convince her." "I'm going now." "Director!" "Hey!" "Come and convince me." "Don't want to." "Just now the director..." "It doesn't matter if you participate or not." "I must participate." "Maybe there's a good side to this?" "What?" "Anyway, aren't you Hui Ju's rival?" "You've seen how hard she's working, right?" "Her dancing abilities are even more amazing." "If I practice, I can do it too." ""Ruthless person", "crazy woman", "practice freak"..." "These are her nicknames." "Others can't even bear to look at how intensely she practices." "But, you..." "What?" "Why'd you sigh?" "I will participate." "You just figure it out for yourself." "Why?" "Why do you suddenly want to join?" "Because there is a person I want to see." "What?" "A person he wants to see?" "Don't tell me..." "That's impossible." "The script for this time's performance, and also the music sheet." "Look it over." "These things have no use." "Whether or not they have a use, you have to look for yourself and see." "I understand you better than you do yourself." "You can do it." "I will attend school." "That is fine." "After the performance ends." "Why do you have to be so stubborn?" "I already said that I'm not doing it!" "Even if you can easily give up on yourself..." "I can't." "You are the one I chose." "Even if it's aggressive," "I will make you stand on the stage." "Is there anything you'd like to see?" "Well, can you show me this one?" "Because there a person I want to see." "Grandfather." "I have something to tell you." "This time's Traditional Music Convention, next time I'll..." "Good night." "Boo!" "How come you're scared like this?" "Have you decided?" "Well..." "If because of me, Lee Sin is unable to participate..." "Well, I'm not doing this completely because of Lee Sin." "It would also be unfortunate about the scholarship." "Go." "You wouldn't want to be late." "Yes." "When I was speaking, did you even listen?" "Seriously..." "Hello." "That's why I said this won't do." "Did you think this was some community show?" "Quit when you want to quit, join when you want to join?" "I am sorry." "Hello!" "Hi." "Has everyone been practicing very hard?" "Yes!" "Let's take a look at it." "Get ready." "Start now." "5, 6, 7, 8." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8." "Stop." "Gyu Won, follow Hui Ju's steps." "Yes." "From the top." "Ready." "What's going on?" "What are you doing?" "What did I do?" "Eonni, didn't you trip me just now?" "Do it all over again." "From the beginning." "Don't." "Today's practice ends here." "Everybody go wait outside." "I said to get out!" "Why did he get angry?" "Seriously." "Because of her, we're all being reprimanded." "This is just infuriating." "Why is Lee Gyu Won the only special one?" "What?" "That's what it seems like." "Seok Hyeon, you're really biased." "Professor Jeong Yun Su." "I'm only asking because I'm not sure." "Are you jealous of Lee Gyu Won?" "Even if it's true, don't make it too obvious." "It wouldn't be good if people saw that." "What are you doing?" "Not coming in?" "These people that you see here... are all trainees who have never been on a proper stage." " Really?" " That can't be." " How is that possible?" " The singing is so good." "Even if you're trying your best like them, the chance of ever getting on a stage is as rare as plucking a star out of the sky." "Hey, Han Hui Ju." "Do you think that you're better than them?" "Are you confident that you're better than them?" "There are many in this industry with talent like yours." "Stop using your self-assumed talent as an excuse to keep boasting around here." "And you... saying that it was because of Lee Gyu Won that you didn't manage to get a role." "Being a make-up artist everyday, still you have complaints." "Do you know how many people want to be the make-up artist?" "What are you?" "A person who dares to destroy their dreams." "Do you think that you are that great?" "No." "Hey, Lee Gyu Won." "Yes." "When are you going to stop being dragged around by others?" "You are obviously the rookie, yet you dare to have this attitude?" "What did you say?" "That you didn't want to trouble others?" "Lee Gyu Won, don't have foolish sentiments." "I picked you, simply because of my daring personality." "It wasn't because you had the skill or that you are great." "All of you, listen carefully." "You guys right now aren't even crap." "If you want to blame or belittle others, you have to first boost your own skills." "In the future, if anyone dares to interrupt practice again, I'll just stop the performance." "If you guys want this result, then do whatever you want." "Straighten your knees, no need to be afraid." "Down again, down again." "Stand up." "Down again, down again." "Down again, down again." "Down a little bit again, down a little bit again." "Down again." "Right, you're doing good, down again, down again." "I did it." "I did it!" "You've worked hard." "See?" "You just have to do it like this." "Is someone out here?" "There's no one?" "Are you all right?" "Yes." "I'm all right." "Thank you." "You will be more sore tomorrow." "Before going to bed, massage it with cold water." "Yes, thank you very much." "You did well." "Just go on ahead." "Why did he stop?" "What?" "Is there something to see here?" "Want a ride?" "Who wants your..." "What?" "Get off." "Thanks." "Do you weigh 60 kilograms?" "What?" "So heavy." "It's killing me." "What did you say?" "Lee Sin, you jerk!" " What?" " What did she say?" "She's was with Lee Sin, did you see..." "Everybody, get ready." " Yes." " Yes." "You've worked hard." "Oh, you too." "Yun Su." "Last time, I said too much." "Even so, I would never have thought that you would sympathize with me in that way." "Do you have plans today?" "If you're free, let's grab a drink." "Sorry." "I already have plans." "Oh I see." "I knew that you had plans." "Go then." "Mr. Seok Hyeon." "I bought red wine, if you're free..." "Yes, that's fine." "Then I'll go to your place in an hour." "See you then." "Hello?" "Tae Jun sunbae." "Oh!" "Where are you not feeling well?" "Do you need me to buy the medicine for you?" "No need, it's fine." "I'm sorry, how about next time?" "Oh, yes." "This can't be helped." "Don't worry about it." "Yes, yes, it's all right." "Yes, take good care of yourself." "You look pitiful enough!" "Director." "Get in." "I'll take you home." "I'm all right." "I'll just ride the bus." "But you don't look all right." "Get in." "Then, I will get in." "How long are you going to follow me?" "Just go home." "What's that?" "Open it and see." "Give it to me." "I'll help you wear it." "No need." "I'll do it myself." "If anyone ostracizes you again, just let me know." "Lee Gyu Won has the director to support her." "That will only create more opportunities for others to bully." "Really?" "Then you and Joan of Arc are the same, battling alone." "Lee Sin, he likes someone who you can't even compare to." "So that means, get lost." "=Next Episode Preview=" "What's wrong?" "Is it something bad?" "Actually Yun Su used to be the girl of every boy's dreams." "The person who broke through defense line of this ice princess was Kim Seok Hyeon." "You'vefallenforMe By CTS"

"Previously on "Switched at Birth"..." "She's known since 1998 that the girls were switched?" "I found out when Daphne was three." "You kept my daughter from me for 13 years!" "I will never forgive you for that." "And the more that I know you, the more I realize I was right to keep it a secret." "You would have taken both girls away from me." "You are damn right I would have." "John!" "John?" "John?" "Can you hear me?" "9-1-1." "What's your emergency?" "It's my neighbor." "I can't get a pulse." "Start compressions." "Okay." "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14..." "Bam!" "Come here, you." "Oh, sweaty!" "Yeah, and I beat my best time." "How about that?" "Those rookies better watch their backs." " Yeah, they'd better." " There you go." "Toby, Bay!" "Time for breakfast." "Breakfast." "Oh now, don't run." "Don't run." "Hey, curly." "How are you this morning?" "Mmm!" "Ready for breakfast?" "All right." "I hope everybody's hungry." "Here you go, my little skunkerroo." "Your purple one." "And here you go, my little squirrel." "All righty." "Just muffins?" "I want the purple one." "The purple one is hers, honey." " I want it." " But, honey." "I don't understand." " I want it." " You can have the purple one tomorrow." " I want it!" " Quiet." "What is it?" "Is something wrong?" "The other mother discovered the little girl wasn't hers about six weeks ago." "She alerted the hospital, they investigated to find out who the other baby might be, and..." "It's our Bay." "How'd she find out?" "The little girl got sick with meningitis." " She okay?" " She's healthy, but as a result of the infection, she went deaf." "Oh, God." "What do we do?" " We fix it." " How?" "I don't know." "But we will." "So what happens now?" "Do we meet the other parents?" "I believe it's just the mother," "Regina Vasquez." "We're still trying to find out about the father." "What exactly do we know about this woman?" "She has two drunk driving arrests." "What?" "Including one when Daphne was in the car with her." "Are you kidding me?" "!" "Oh my... this is unbelievable." "How do we get our daughter back?" "We can't lose our Bay." "We can't lose her." "Of course not." "Okay, you know what?" "We want custody of both girls." "And on July 28, you were arrested for driving while intoxicated." "Daphne needed stitches." "She fell on the front steps, and I had to get her to the free clinic." "They closed at 7:00." "I had to get her there in time." "Maybe if you'd been supervising your daughter instead of drinking, she wouldn't have been injured." " Objection." " Overruled." "I was a tenth of a point over the limit." "Don't you think that with a child in the car, any amount of alcohol is over the limit?" " Of course." "But..." " How many times have you driven your daughter when you thought you were sober?" "It was an emergency." "Your Honor, my client is..." "Objection sustained." "Do you know the current whereabouts of Bay's biological father?" "I believe he's somewhere in Italy." "Angelo left when the DNA test proved that Daphne wasn't his." "He thought I had cheated on him." "So you're raising Daphne by yourself?" "Yes." "But my mother is in Puerto Rico, and I'm sure she's willing to move here." "Aren't the two of you estranged?" "Well... we haven't spoken in awhile, but..." "And isn't that because you resisted her attempts to help you get sober?" "Objection." "No, that's... that's all right." "No further questions." "It is the opinion of this court that it would cause undue harm to Bay Kennish if she were removed from the only home she has known and then placed in an environment that is unstable at best." "Therefore, custody will remain with the Kennishes." "As to the matter of Daphne Vasquez, the court recognizes that Regina Vasquez has raised her for the past three years." "But it cannot ignore her substance abuse problem and disregard for the child's safety." "I'm granting custody of Daphne to the Kennishes." "Now I am willing to revisit the issues of custody and visitation of Bay and Daphne if and when Miss Vasquez can demonstrate that she is clean and sober." "Please, she's already lost her hearing and her father." "You can't take me away too." "I am all she has." "Please, don't do this to her." "Kathryn, you're a mother." "You understand, please." "You wouldn't even know about her if I hadn't said anything." "Please." "Please, don't!" "The best thing you can do right now is get treatment and get sober." "It's the only way you're gonna be part of her life." "The other little girl too." "She doesn't even understand what's happening." "She's confused." "I mean, can't you see that?" "I'm sorry." "I really do have to take her now." "Okay." "Can you look at me?" "I love you." "I really do." "I will always love you." "And I promise..." "I will come for you real soon, okay?" "Okay." "Take your doggy." "Go on." "Where's mama?" "Where did mommy go?" "Hi, sweetheart." "Come on in, sweetie." "There you go." "Hey." "Hello, honey." "I want mommy." "I want mama." "Honey, come on over here." "Come on over here, guys." "I want you to meet your new sister." "This is Toby." "Daphne, this is Bay." "Bay, Daphne." "Daphne?" "Daphne." "Put your cochlear in, honey." "So, do you want some bacon?" "What?" "Do you want some bacon?" "Does Christian Louboutin make great shoes?" "Look." "Ooh. "The Falconer's Mistress." "A tale of lovers and other birds of prey."" "If you don't like it, you better tell me because 100,000 of them are about to go into print." "Are you kidding me?" "Look at my hot mom." "You think so?" "Yes!" "So, um..." "Alisha Jelline's sweet sixteen is Friday night." "Everybody's gonna be there." "And I was hoping maybe I could get an extra hour on my curfew?" "It's parent chaperoned." "And I did pass my chemistry test." "Whoa, if her "C-minus" gets her an extra hour, my 98 should cover me until Sunday." "Honey, are you going to the party?" " What party?" " Mom, we have different friends." "It could be really fun." "Then you should go." "And if you look like that, you'll probably be asked out to the prom." "Dad, come on." "I gave you money last week." "What happened to that?" "I have expenses." "I want to take Jenna out." "I need like 100 bucks." "Your back seat costs 100 bucks?" "Make do with that, my friend." "Oh, I got to go." "Oh, me too." "Bye mom." "Bye daddy." " Bye." " Bye." " Have a good day." " Later." "Love you." "So this is the new book jacket, huh?" "Yeah, I was hoping the Senate majority leader could weigh in on it." "Oh, it's... oh." "Oh, God." "I gotta take this." "All right." "Bye." "Okay." "So we all set for Friday?" "Oh yeah." "What'd you tell your parents?" "That we're going to a college party." "The truth?" "So much for getting our stories straight." "As long as I don't drive drunk, always carry pepper spray on me, and don't take drinks I didn't mix myself, they trust me." "Should we invite Wilke, or is that like bringing sand to the beach?" "What?" "Okay, it's better I tell you." "Kaylee saw Wilke hooking up with Clover Ramberg." "They're like a thing now." "I'm sorry." "Hey." "French?" "You know what?" "Let's ditch." "Get something hot to wear to the party." "I was thinking if I take three extra credits, and do summer school, I could graduate a semester early." "Why?" "Just get a jumpstart on college." "Start all that learning a little bit faster." "Challenge the old noggin." "Bay, college will come soon enough." "And I bet your parents aren't gonna want you to fly the coop six months early." "You sure about that?" "What do you mean?" "Look, everyone wants to pretend that we're this happy little family." "Two bio kids, one adopted." "Perfectly blended." "But I'm not one of them." "They know it." "And I know it." "Honey, I've spoken to your parents numerous times." "And I've never gotten the impression that they think of you any differently than Daphne or Toby." "You can't erase history." "I'm the charity case." "The kid that they got stuck with because my bio mom is a train wreck." "You and your family are in... a very unusual situation." "It may feel like they're trying to vilify your birth mother." "Oh, they're doing it." "Trust me." "And it's not just them." "I hear my grandmother say to my mother all the time" ""Remember, Kathryn, she's Puerto Rican." "They're not great at school."" "Well, I think you've proven your grandmother wrong about a hundred times over." "I understand this is important to you, but I don't think it's realistic to graduate early." "I think you're gonna have to sit tight for a while longer." "Yeah." "Uh, okay." "Thank you." "Daphne." "John?" "Your daughter's here." "I'd like to see what you spent $479 on." "The credit card company called, warning us of possible fraudulent charges." " So..." " At 11:00 A.M., which I'm pretty sure is during school hours." "You guys, I'm so sorry." "I was having a terrible day, and so Simone and I decided to go off campus for just 10 minutes to get smoothies, and I saw they were having this sale, so I went in to see if they had one of those purses" "that you wanted..." "No no no no no no no." "You need to know that there are consequences." "You can forget about going to that party." "What?" "Guys... guys, come on." "I said I was sorry." "20 bucks says she gets out of it." "Oh... no way." "Skipping school and charging up their credit card?" "Dad's the weak link." "He can't say "no."" "He says it to me all the time." "And if he missed out on the first three years of your life, maybe he wouldn't." " It wasn't my fault." " This is serious, Daphne." "We need to be able to trust you." "I know." "I really screwed up." "I am so so so sorry." "We appreciate you coming clean." "She didn't come clean." "She got caught." "I just wanted to look cute for the party." "'Cause there's gonna be so many people there, and it's hard for me." "I mean, you guys know how self-conscious I get in crowds." "And trying to keep up with everybody talking." "She did not just play the cochlear card." "Hey, if you've got an ace, use it." "Sweetie, there is no reason for you to be self-conscious." "You are an amazing young woman." "Okay, this is your one" ""get out of jail free" card." "John." " What?" " She skipped school to buy a $500 jacket." "Yeah, and she can return the jacket." "So I can go to the party?" "Yeah." "You have to take Bay with you." "No way, mom." "Come on." "That's the deal." "Plus it'd be nice to see you include your sister." "She will have a terrible time." "Then it's up to you to make sure that she doesn't." "Have fun." "A fraternity party?" "You're welcome." "Um, I seem to remember that returning that was a condition of your release." "I will return it." "Tomorrow." "Simone has a tag gun she got off eBay." "You have a closet full of jackets." "What makes this one so special?" "I don't know." "It cures cancer." "Let's hit the keg." "There you are." " Hi!" " Hey." " Hey, Simone." " Um... hi." "I'm her hostage." "Okay, you're not gonna believe who's here." "You've had a crush on him forever." "He graduated two years ago." "Plays a little sport with an orange ball." "Graham Vendoris?" "!" "Oh, where where where?" "Ditched in under two minutes." "New personal best." "Hey, you want to do a beer bong?" "Uh, no, thank you." "I have no need to get alcohol into my system that quickly." "Come on." "Not to be technical, but isn't that more of a beer funnel?" "With a tube." "Beer bong?" "Graham?" "Oh, my God." "Daphne Kennish." "You probably don't remember me." "No no no." "I do remember you." " You do?" " Yeah." "I just didn't see your, uh..." "Your ear thing." "Uh... when you were at Buckner," "I went to every one of your games." "Must be a pretty big basketball fan." "Yeah, pretty much." "What's it like playing college ball?" "I actually blew my knee out the second game of the season." "Oh, no, that's terrible." "Yeah, I was pretty pissed." "Had to sit out the rest of the season, but I took some pre-med classes and it turns out I'm pretty good at the stuff." " Awesome." " It's funny." "One little thing happens, and... knocks your life off into a completely different direction." "I mean, how cool is the butterfly effect?" "Butterflies are cool." "No no, the butterfly effect." "Oh, that Ashton Kutcher movie." "Right." "He was so funny in "dude, where's my car?"" "That's, like, the story of my life." "Except for with my phone." "I think I've lost like four of them." "It's not like you can call it and be like," ""hey, where are you?"" "Uh, Bay, you remember Graham." "Yeah." "Hi." "I want to go home." "No, we just got here." "So far I have spoken to one guy who wants me to do a beer bong, and I've spoken to another guy who wants me to play beer pong." "But my point being... these guys are just like the ones at Buckner." "Only drunker." "Please, I want to get out of here." "Okay, I am in the middle of..." "Damn it." "Thank you so much." "I'm sorry... how is it my fault that he ditched you?" "Why do you always have to be the weird, downer girl?" "It's like you don't want people to like you." "Daphne, you are the most miserable person that I know." "You just hide it behind $400 sunglasses." "Yeah, well, at least I don't see a shrink two times a week." "Maybe you should." "You could figure out why you're so empty." "I have pepper spray, and I'm not afraid to use it." "I shouldn't be walking here." "Are you, um, uh... deaf?" "__" "Well, that's a relief." "This place... bad." "Ride home?" "No." "Thank you." "No, actually." "I'm not." "I've had a really crappy night." "I don't fit in anywhere." "Not at home, not at school, and now I'm rambling to some hot, deaf guy who's probably going to dismember me and throw me into a shallow grave." "Not dismember me." "And now we know you can read lips." "What the hell?" "I live in Mission Hills." "Uh, better safe than sorry, I guess." "We keep running into each other." "Yeah." "It's a great party." "Yeah, it's okay." "Do you want to go up to your room?" "Don't go." "Don't you have important state business to attend to, Senator?" "Yes." "But I'd much rather stay here and ravish you like "The Falconer's Mmistress."" "Very funny." "Speaking of... so... the character of Manuel, is he based on me?" "Maybe." "Oh... aren't you afraid John might suspect something?" "No." "He never gets around to reading 'em." "Well, he doesn't know what he's missing." "Well, thank you." "Thank you." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, I..." "I paint." "Camera?" "Pictures?" "Oh... photography." "Well, uh... tomorrow you can come back here, and I could show you some of my paintings." "And you could show me some of your photography." "I'm assuming that's a yes?" "Yes." "Yes!" "Hey." "I covered for you... with mom and dad." "You know, 'cause I was on the hook too." "Thanks." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "Hi." "__" "Uh..." "Bay, some guy's here to see you." "__" "Oh, um, I'm..." "I'm not deaf." "Hi!" "Come on in." "Oh, uh..." "My sister." "Yeah, I..." "I stayed up late learning a few signs." "We don't look alike." "Yeah, she's not really my sister." "It's a long story." "I keep drawing pictures of what I imagine my real mom to look like." "Like, does she have my hair?" "Or my eyes?" "I pass people on the street, and I keep thinking," ""that could be her."" "Oh!" "I remember this one." "Ah... oh, find!" "Find." "I've tried." "But my parents won't talk about her." "List?" "Papers!" "Yeah." "I figured there had to be something from the trial, but it's not in any of my dad's files." "Box... turning, turning a door." "Like a tiny house." "Like a lock... a safe, a safe!" "Ah!" "I'm getting good." "We don't have a safe." "Ah... but there's one in the car wash." "Uh, the combination?" "It's probably one of my dad's old baseball stats." "So... no." "What the hell are you doing here?" "What the hell are you doing here?" "Just a little poker game." "With the Sons of Anarchy?" "Who's he?" "A friend." "He was asking who you are." "Why doesn't he talk?" " He's deaf." " So you and your deaf buddy just decided to break into dad's office?" "I'm trying to find out more information about my birth mom." "Well, that's not where he keeps that stuff." "You know where he keeps that stuff?" "Toby, unless you want dad to find out about whatever's going on in there, you better tell me everything you know." "Okay, a long time ago," "I was looking for dad's "Playboys" in the guest house." "Nice." "And I ran across... a bunch of legal stuff about your birth mom." "Why didn't you tell me?" "You know how it is." "Everybody tries to forget any of that every happened." "Bay, this is going to take forever." "Dad." "Those are my parents." "You... you... oh... your parents." "Separate... separated... oh, they divorced." "Your parents divorced." "Chicken dance?" "Oh, accordion." "Accordion." "Okay, so, your parents divorced and the court papers were in an accordion." "Okay, it's like sections... oh, like... oh, an accordion folder." "So that's what we're looking for." "We're looking for an accordion folder." "Uh..." "let's see." "I don't know why we have so many boas." "Oh!" "There it is." "Okay." "Uh... custody agreement." "Restraining order?" "These are letters she sent to Daphne." "And to me." "She wanted me." "What are you doing?" "Just giving some stuff away." "What are those?" "Letters from Regina." "Who?" "You know... my other mom." "Your other mom." "You want to see them?" "She was my mom for, like, two seconds." "And it was all a big mistake anyway." "There are dozens of letters." "Birthday cards, references to Christmas gifts that she sent you." "She thought of herself as your mom." "Where did you get those?" "In the guest house." "Hidden." "I'm sure there's a reason that they didn't show us." "Whatever." "All I know is they put a restraining order on her." "Threatening that if she ever contacted us directly, they'd have her arrested." "Okay, what's the point of all this?" "What do you want me to say?" "All my life I've thought that she didn't care about me." "That she wanted nothing to do with me." "And that was all a lie." "Well... that sucks for you." "But she wasn't anything to me." "Just some woman who took care of somebody else's kid for a few years." "Don't you even want to meet her?" "Hey." "So what do you want for dinner?" "Pork or sole?" "Did you make the hotel reservations?" "What are you talking about?" "You know... the ones Chip asked you to make?" "You really should be more careful about logging out of your email account." "You went through my account?" "I saw an email from Chip Coto, so I just assumed it was my account." "That is, until I realized that it wasn't me that he wanted to see in the blue dress." "How long?" "Seven months." "Seven months." "You look shocked." "I'm not supposed to be shocked?" "You can't have thought that I was happy." "That we were connecting." "Oh, please." "Are you going to tell me now that he listens to you?" "He does." "He doesn't steamroll me every time we disagree." "He values my opinion." "Stop that right now!" "You cut that crap, Kathryn." "I ask you your opinion all the time." "Like with Daphne?" "When I wanted us to learn sign language?" "You shut that down right away." "Are you going to go back to that?" "Seriously?" "Putting her in a deaf bubble?" "What the hell good would that have done?" "I read a lot about it." "I thought it was important." "And you undercut me at every turn." "And now... look what's happened." "Look what happened." "I'll tell you exactly what happened." "We got great girls." "In case you haven't noticed, our daughters are a mess." "And banging Chip Coto is going to fix that?" " Is this it?" " I think so." "Do you remember it?" "Bet no one does from when they were three." "I do." "I remember when you came to live with us." "You do?" "Yeah, you were crying." "All the time." "Why didn't you ever tell me that?" "I don't know." "I mean... we never really talk." "Look, you were ripped away from everything that you ever had known." "And then stuck with these people you had never met before." "I'd probably be crying too." "Let's go see." "Hi." "We're looking for Regina Vasquez." "My name's Bay Kennish." "This is Daphne." "We're..." "I know who you are." "You're gorgeous." "Thank you." "This is my sister, Daphne." "You don't remember." "I haven't seen you since you were a baby." "What a beautiful young lady you grew up to be." "Thanks." "So you know Regina Vasquez?" "I am her mother." "So you're..." "Your grandma." "You look so much like your mother." "Really?" "I've never looked like anyone in my family before." "Is she here?" "Do you know where she is?" "She died on my birthday." "Our birthday." "Little late, don't you think?" "Where you been?" "We went to look for Regina Vasquez." "Who told you about her?" "Did something happen?" "Did she try to contact you?" "What is going on?" "We found Regina Vasquez." "Okay, tell me exactly what happened." "What did she do?" " She didn't do anything." " John, calm down." "I am perfectly calm." " Why did you hide her from us?" " Did she come to your school?" " Did she come to this house?" " It's natural for them" " to want to meet her." " Then why didn't you let us?" "You were children." "It was too much to handle." "It was not a safe home." "That woman was an alcoholic." "Maybe if you would have let us get to know her, she would have gotten herself better." "She had two D.U.I.s." "I wasn't going to let her take my kids on visits." "You didn't give her a chance." "Okay." "Okay, I made a mistake." "I'm sorry." "We can have her over for dinner." "Invite her." "It's too late." "What do you mean?" "She's dead." "Oh, my God." "What happened?" "We don't know." "I..." "I had no idea." "I'm... that's terrible." "I'm sorry." "Girls..." "I hope they both realize that I was just trying to do the right thing." "The right thing for them?" "Or the right thing for you?" "I love both of those girls more than anything in the world, and you know that." "Now I can make this better." "I can fix this." "There's no fixing it this time." "__" "__" "Can I come with you?" "__" "I don't care." "Daphne." "I want to know more." "About what?" "Everything." "Come inside." "Kathryn." "Hey." "Honey!" "You're in the hospital." "You're okay." "I love you." "I love you." "How are you feeling?" "Thank God you're here."

"You've reached Doug." "Sorry I missed your call." "Please leave a name and number and I'll get back to you." "Hi, you've reached Dr. Stuart Price with Divine Dentistry." "Please leave a message after..." "Hey, this is Phil." "Leave me a message or don't." "Do me a favor, don't text me." "It's gay." " Anything?" "I tried them all." "It keeps going straight to voicemail." "Well, there has to be an explanation." "Sweetie, it's Vegas." "You lose track of time in casinos." "There's no windows, there's no clocks." "He's probably on a heater." "And you never walk away from the table when you're on a heater." "You do if you're getting married." " Hello?" " Ahem, Tracy, it's Phil." "Phil, where the hell are you guys?" "I'm freaking out." "Yeah, listen." "Uh..." "We fucked up." " What are you talking about?" " The bachelor party, the whole night." "It..." "Things got out of control, uh and we lost Doug." " What?" " We can't find Doug." "What are you saying, Phil?" "We're getting married in five hours." "Yeah." "That's not gonna happen." "To my left a little." "Thank you." "Okey-dokey." " Whoa, watch it, pervert!" " Alan, he's just doing your inseam." " He's getting very close to my shaft." " All done." "You can change now." "Right." "Thanks, Floyd." "Thank you very much." "All right, buddy, we should get a move on." "You know, Doug, I was thinking..." "If you wanna go to Vegas without me, that is totally cool, you know?" "What are you talking about?" "You know, Phil and Stu, they're your buddies, and it's your bachelor party." "Come on, Alan." "Those two love you." "And also, I don't want you to feel like you have to hold back because your wife's brother's there." "I just..." "It's not like that." "It's not like that." "I already told you, Alan." "Okay?" "We're just spending the night in Vegas." "It's no big deal." "Besides, you're not just my wife's brother, you're my brother now." "I want you to know, Doug, I'm a steel trap." "Whatever happens tonight, I will never, ever, ever, speak a word of it." "Okay." "Yeah, I got it." "Thank you." "I don't think that..." "Seriously." "I don't care what happens." " I don't care if we kill someone." " What?" "You heard me." "It's Sin City." "I won't tell a soul." "Okay." "I got it." " Thank you." "No, thank you." "I love you so much." " Ha." "I knew it." " Dad." "Oh, stop it, I'm just jerking around." "Alan, put some pants on." "You have weird legs." "Yes, Daddy." " His legs look fine, Dad." " Oh, please." "He has his mother's legs." "It's just freaky." "Alan, I'm just teasing." "You have wonderful legs." "They're better than your mother's." "They're beautiful." "Can you believe this?" "Just two more days." "I know." "You getting nervous?" " You wanna back out?" " Shut up." "Just tell me." "Oh." "Mm." "You know, I don't need to go to Vegas." "It's dumb." "It's not dumb." "It's one night." "Have fun, you deserve it." "I know, but we should have gone last weekend." "We have so much to do." "L..." "I'm gonna cancel." "My brother packed his bag two weeks ago." "You're not canceling." " Really?" " Yeah." " Two weeks?" " Yeah, he's excited." "Thanks again for bringing him, by the way." "You don't need to thank me, it's nothing." "He's a cool guy." "It's not nothing and he's not a cool guy so thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Hey, Sid." "I just wanted to thank you guys again for everything you're doing this weekend." " We couldn't be more excited." " Ah, that's great." "Yeah, okay." "You love us and we love you." "Terrific." "So talk to me about Vegas." " Uh..." "It should be pretty mellow." " Mm-hm." "Do some gambling, maybe catch some rays, have a few laughs." "Yeah, some laughs." "I got you." "How you getting out there?" "Uh, we're gonna take my car." "Gonna pick up my friends after this." " Prius?" "You're taking a Prius to Vegas?" " Yeah." "You know, when you go to Vegas you gotta go to Vegas." "No." "Sid." " Really?" "Come on, we're family now." " You sure?" "I mean, you love this car." " Doug, it's just a car." "Just make sure to put some Armor All on the tires so the sand doesn't seep in." "Absolutely." "That's easy." "Oh, and, uh, don't let Alan drive, because there's something wrong with him." "Understood." "Oh, and Phil either." "I don't like him." "I will be the only one driving this car." "I promise." "Good." "Remember, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." "Ah!" "Except for herpes." "That shit'll come back with you." "All right." "Hold on." "I still need some of your permission slips and $90 for the field trip to the Griffith Observatory next weekend." "Pay now, or forever regret missing out on the experience of a lifetime, guys." "You're good, you got it." "Thanks, Mr. Wenneck." "Thank you." "Hey." "You really came through, thank you." "Whoa, Max." "What gives?" "What, no planetarium?" "My mom won't give me the money." "I'm grounded." " Well, how much you got on you?" " I don't know." "Like, 20 bucks." "Well, give me the 20 and I'll cover the rest." " Really?" " Yeah." "Well, we'll talk about it." "But give me the 20 so I know you're serious." " Cool." "Thanks, Mr. Wenneck." " Yeah." "Hold on, I got it." "Ahem, do you have to park so close?" " Yeah." "What's wrong?" " I shouldn't be here." "Why is that, Alan?" "I'm not supposed to be within 200 feet of a school." " What?" " Or a Chuck E. Cheese." "Mr. Wenneck, I was..." " It's the weekend." "I don't know you." "You do not exist." " Shit." "Heh, heh, heh." " Nice car." "Yeah." " I'm driving." "Whoa, no chance, buddy..." "Don't step..." "God." "Watch the leath..." "Shut up and drive before these nerds ask me another question." " Animal." " Who's this?" " It's Alan." "Tracy's brother." " I met you, like, four times." "Oh, yeah." "How you doing, man?" "Don't forget your Rogaine." "Rogaine, check." "And don't forget to use it." "I can totally tell when you forget, your hair just looks thinner." "Using of the Rogaine, check." "Make sure to call me right when you get to the hotel not like that conference in Phoenix." "I had to wait two hours for you to call me." "Yeah, I was the keynote speaker." "I was late to the podium." " Still?" " Yeah, you're totally right." "I'm sorry." " What is the matter?" "I don't know." "I hope you're not gonna go to some strip club when you're up there." "Melissa, we're going to Napa Valley." "I don't even think they have strip clubs in wine country." "Well, I'm sure if there is one, Phil will sniff it out." "It's not gonna be like that." "Besides, you know how I feel about that." "I know, I know." "It's just boys and their bachelor parties, it's gross." "You're right, it is gross." "Mm-mm." "And you know what else, honestly?" "Why would I risk this for, you know, a couple of minutes of some 19-year-old hard body in a schoolgirl outfit?" " Yeah." " Why would I ever need, like..." " You're right." "And if you ever do..." " What?" "...I will fucking kick your ass." "Thank you." "Thank you for that." "That is exactly what I needed to hear." "Not to mention it's pathetic." "Those places are filthy." "And the worst part is that little girl grinding and dry humping the fucking stage up there that's somebody's daughter up there." " I was just gonna say that." "See?" "I just wish your friends were as mature as you." "They are mature, actually." "You just have to get to know them better." "Paging Dr. Faggot." "Dr. Faggot!" " I should go." " That's a good idea, Dr. Faggot." "Have a good weekend." "I'm gonna miss you." "Whoo!" "Road trip!" "Vegas!" "Vegas, baby!" "Vegas!" "You're nuts!" "Come on, just till Barstow." "Everybody's passing us." "Absolutely not." "I promised Sid." "I will be the only one driving this car." "Besides, you're drinking." "Oh, what are you, a cop now?" "You know I drive great when I'm drunk." "True." "Don't forget, Phil was always our designated drunk driver." "Yeah." "You wanna explain it to them, Alan?" "Guys, my dad loves this car more than he loves me, so, yeah." "Aw, whatever." "I left my wife and kid at home so I could go with you guys." " You know how difficult that was?" " That's really sweet." " Yeah." " Dude, I was being sarcastic." "I fucking hate my life." " I may never go back." "I might stay in Vegas." " Here we go." "Doug, enjoy yourself, because come Sunday you're gonna start dying just a little bit every day." "Yeah." "That's why I've managed to stay single this whole time, you know?" " Oh, really?" "That's why you're single?" " Yeah." "Cool." "Good to know." " Am I all right over there, Alan?" " Yeah, you're good." "Aw, Jesus Christ!" " Oh, my God!" " That was awesome!" "That was not awesome." "What's wrong with you?" " That was insane." "We almost just died." " You should have seen your face." " Classic." " That's funny." "Ha-ha." "It's not funny." " Boy, you've got a sweet ride there." " Don't touch it." "Don't even look at it." "Go on, get out." "You heard me." "Don't look at me, either." "Yeah, you better walk on." " He's actually kind of funny." " Yeah, he means well." "I'll hit an old man in public." "Is he all there?" "Like, mentally?" "I think so." "He's just an odd guy." "You know, he's kind of weird." " I mean, should we be worried?" " No." " All right." " No." "Tracy did mention that we shouldn't let him gamble." "Or drink too much." "Jesus, he's like a gremlin." "Comes with instructions and shit." "And one water." " All good with Melissa?" " Oh, yeah." "Told her we're two hours outside of wine country, and she bought it." "You think it's strange you've been in a relationship for years and you have to lie about Vegas?" "Yeah, I do." "But trust me, it's not worth the fight." "Oh, so you can't go to Vegas but she can fuck a bellhop on a Carnival Cruise Line?" "Hey." "Okay, first of all, he was a bartender." "And she was wasted." "And, if you must know, he didn't even come inside her." "And you believe that?" "Uh, yeah, I do believe that, because she's grossed out by semen." "That'll be 32.50." "It's 32.50, you gonna pay for it?" "It says here we should work in teams." "Who wants to be my spotter?" "I don't think you should be doing too much gambling tonight, Alan." "Gambling?" "Who said anything about gambling?" "It's not gambling when you know you're gonna win." "Counting cards is a foolproof system." "It's also illegal." "It's not illegal, it's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane." "I'm pretty sure that's illegal too." "Yeah, maybe after 9/11, where everybody got so sensitive." "Thanks a lot, Bin Laden." "Either way, you gotta be super smart to count cards, buddy, okay?" "Oh, really?" " It's not easy." "Well maybe we should tell that to Rain Man because he practically bankrupted a casino, and he was a retard." "What?" "He was a retard." "Retard." "Here we go." "Hi, welcome to Caesars." "Hello." "Checking in?" "Yeah." "We have a reservation under Dr. Price." "Okay, let me look that up for you." "Dr. Price?" "Stu, you're a dentist, okay?" "Don't try and get fancy." " It's not fancy if it's true." " He's a dentist." "Don't get too excited." "And if, uh, someone has a heart attack, you should still call 911." "We'll be sure to do that." "Can I ask you a question?" "Do you know if the hotel's pager-friendly?" " What do you mean?" " I'm not getting a sig on my beeper." " I'm not sure." "Is there a payphone bank?" "Bunch of payphones?" "Business." "Um, there's a phone in your room." "That'll work." "So I have you in a two-bedroom suite on the 12th floor, is that okay?" "It sounds perfect." "Actually, I was wondering if you had any villas." " We're not even gonna be in the room." " It's unnecessary." "No big deal." "We can share beds." "It's one night." "If we're share beds, I'm bunking with Phil." " You good with that?" " No, I'm not." "Guys, we are not sharing beds." "What are we, 12 years old?" "Lisa, I apologize." "How much is the villa?" "Well, we have one villa available, and it's 4200 for the night." " Is it awesome?" " It's pretty awesome." " We'll take it." "Give her your credit card." " I can't give her my credit card." " We'll split it." " Are you crazy?" "No, this is on us." "You don't get it." "Melissa checks my statements." "We just need a credit card on file." "We won't charge you until check out, so you can figure it out then." "That's perfect." "Thank you, Lisa." "We'll deal with it tomorrow." "Come on." "Fine." " Can I ask you another question?" "Sure." "You probably get this a lot." "This isn't the real Caesars Palace, is it?" "What do you mean?" "Did, uh..." " Did Caesar live here?" " Um, no." "I didn't think so." "Holy shit." "Now, this is Vegas." "Oh, my..." "This place is enormous." "Now we're talking." "Is this all one suite?" "Thank you, guys." "Or should I say, "Thank you, Stu"?" "You're welcome." "It's only because I love you." "Hey, guys." "Look, free almonds." " Oh, no, no, no." "Please put those back." " Wait, I'm just hungry." " Well, I know, but..." " Stu, what the fuck?" "It's a pressure-sensitive plate." "When you pick it up, you have 30 seconds to put it back or they bill you." "That's pretty neat." "It may be neat, but it's also very expensive, so..." "Those almonds are probably, like, $14." "Stu, relax." "Phil, Melissa is like a forensic accountant, okay?" "She scours my statements." "If you want nuts put your own credit card down." " Watch this." "Problem solved." "Alan, enjoy your almonds." "I don't want them." "He ruined it." "All right, let's pick a room, let's get dressed." "Be ready in 30 minutes." "I just wish you could see this place, because you, of all people, would love it." "Yeah." "No, it's so quaint." "Yeah, no, there's no TVs, no phones." "They just have these cute little antique radios in all the rooms." "Yeah." "What else?" "Um..." "We met the, uh, proprietor." " Oh, I bet you..." "What's his name?" "Um, Caesar." "Palacé." "Yeah, like the salad." "Okay." "Well, listen, I gotta go, because we're gonna hit this wine tasting." "Wait, wait." "I love you." "Okay." "Bye." "I'm not even gonna say anything, it's so embarrassing." " Where's Alan?" " He, uh, he went downstairs." "He said he had to grab a few things." "Good, because I have something to show you." "Uh-Oh." " What the hell is that?" "What do you think?" "If it's what I think it is, I think it's a big fucking mistake." "I'm gonna propose to Melissa at your wedding." "After the ceremony." " Stuey, congratulations!" " Thank you, Doug." " That's a beautiful ring." " Yeah." "It's my grandmother's." "She made it all the way through the Holocaust with that thing." "Wait, have you not listened to anything I have ever said?" "Phil, we've been dating for three years." "It's time." "This is how it works." "A, that is bullshit." "And B, she is a complete bitch." "Hey, that's his fiancée." "What?" "It's true." "It's true." "You know it's true." "She beats him." "That was twice, and I was out of line." "She's strong-willed." "And I respect that." "Wow." "Wow." "He's in denial." "Not to mention, she fucked a sailor." "Hey, he wasn't a sailor." "He was a bartender on a cruise ship." "You know that." "Guys, I'm standing right here." "So I can hear everything that you're saying." "Hey, guys." "You ready to let the dogs out?" " What?" " Do what?" "Let the dogs out." "You know." "Who brought this guy?" "Yes, Alan, we are ready to let the dogs out." " Hey, congrats." " Thank you." "I love this fucking town." " You're not really wearing that, are you?" " Wearing what?" "The man-purse." "You're actually gonna wear that or are you guys fucking with me?" "It's where I keep all my things." "I get a lot of compliments on this." "Plus, it's not a man-purse." "It's called a satchel." "Indiana Jones wears one." "So does Joy Behar." " We're going up, guys." " Yeah, that's perfect." "Really?" "We're going up?" "I'm just saying, it's clearly marked, okay?" "We are definitely not supposed to be up here." "Come on, we're paying for a villa." "We can do whatever the fuck we want." " Yeah, but..." " Just wedge the door open." " Guys, come on up here." " Fine." "How the hell did you find this place?" "Don't worry about it." "Oh!" " You all right?" " Yeah." " Look at the view up here." " You happy?" " This is great." " Whoa!" "Are you kidding?" "Alan, how we doing, buddy?" " Good." "What do you got over there, Alan?" "That's the Eiffel Tower." "Uh-oh." " Right?" " A little Jägermeister." " Good idea." " There it is." "Good call." "On the roof." "Um, no, this is good." "I'd like to make a toast." "To Doug and Tracy." "May tonight be but a minor speed bump in an otherwise very long and healthy marriage." " Cheers." " Cheers." "Short and sweet." "Oh, it's like college." " All right." "I wanna talk about something." "All right." " I want to..." "I'd like to..." "I'd like to say something that I prepared tonight." " All right, Alan." ""Hello." "How about that ride in?" "I guess that's why they call it Sin City." "You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner." "I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack." "But when my sister brought Doug home, I knew he was one of my own." "And my wolf pack, it grew by one." "So were there two..." "So there were two of us in the wolf pack." "I was alone first in the pack, and then Doug joined in later." "And six months ago when Doug introduced me to you guys, I thought:" "'Wait a second." "Could it be?" "' And now, I know for sure." "I just added two more guys to my wolf pack. "" " All right." " All right." ""Four of us wolves running around the desert together in Las Vegas looking for strippers and cocaine. "" "So tonight I make a toast." " Whoa." " What...?" " What do you got there?" "Dude, what the fuck?" "What the hell are you doing?" " What is that?" " Blood brothers." " Don't..." "Why did you...?" " Damn it." " Here." " Alan..." " No." " No, I'm not doing that." "Go ahead, Stuart." " Make him stop." "Alan, we're not gonna cut ourselves." "Give me the knife." "Slowly." "Thank you." "Okay." "Thank you very much." "You all right?" "Are you okay?" "Mm-hm." " Do you need a doctor?" " He's good." "You sure?" "I'm good." "All right, good, because I need everybody to focus." "I wanna take a moment, I wanna talk about some..." "I wanna talk about memory." "No, better yet, I wanna talk about selective memory." "You see, whatever happens here tonight may as well never have happened at all because this circle's about as far as it's ever gonna go." "In other words, forget everything." "Doug, I'm serious." "I got a wife and kid." "Okay, good or bad, we don't remember so we got nothing to talk about." "Nothing, guys." "Nothing." "Deal?" " Deal." "Deal." " Perfect." "Alan, come here, buddy." "Get in here, crazy." "All right, to a night we'll never remember but the four of us will never forget." "There it is." "Hear, hear." "Hey, thanks, guys." "Hm." "Stupid tiger." "What the fuck?" "Control yourself, man." "Goddamn, will you put on some pants?" " Phil, do not go in the bathroom." " Al, just calm down." "It's me." "Phil, there is a tiger in the bathroom." " What's going on?" " There's a jungle cat in the bathroom!" " Okay, okay, Al." "Al, I'll check it out." "Don't go in." "Don't go in, don't go in." "Be careful." "Don't, don't." " Oh!" "Holy fuck!" "He's not kidding." "See?" "See?" " There's a tiger in there." " No, there isn't." "Yeah!" " It's big." "Gigantic." " You okay, buddy?" "No." "I am in so much pain right now." "Goddamn." "Look at this place." "Whew." "I know." "Phil, they have my credit card downstairs." "I am so screwed." "How does a tiger get in the bathroom?" "It almost killed me." "Hey, bro?" "You mind putting on some pants?" "I find it a little weird I have to ask twice." "Pants at a time like this?" "I don't have any p..." "What the fuck happened last night?" "Hey, Phil, am I missing a tooth?" "I can't..." "Oh, shit." "Oh, my God." "My lateral incisor's..." "It's gone!" "It's okay." "Okay, okay." "Just calm down." "We're fine." "Everything's fine." "Alan, go wake up Doug." "Let's get some coffee and get the fuck out of Nevada before housekeeping shows." "What am I gonna tell Melissa?" "I lost a tooth." "I have no idea how it happened." "You're freaking me out, man." "I got a massive headache, okay?" "Let's just calm down." "How am I supposed to calm down?" "Look around you." " Hey, guys, he's not in there." " Did you check all the rooms?" "Yeah, I looked everywhere." "Plus, his mattress is gone." "He probably went to the pool to get something to eat." "I'll just call his cell." "I look like a nerdy hillbilly." " Hello?" " Alan." "Hey." " It's Phil." " Oh, hey, Phi..." "This is Doug's phone." "This is Doug's phone." "No shit." " Yeah." "What the fuck is that?" "Whose fucking baby is that?" "Alan, are you sure you didn't see anyone else in the suite?" "Yeah, I checked all the rooms." "No one's here." "Check its collar or something." "Shh." "Shh." " It's okay, baby." " Stu, we don't have time for this." "Let's go hook up with Doug, we'll deal with the baby later." "Phil, we're not gonna leave a baby in the room." " There's a fucking tiger in the bathroom." " It's not our baby." "Yeah, I gotta side with Stu on this one." "All right, fine." "Okay, we'll take it with us." "Could you at least just find some pants?" "Why can't we remember a goddamn thing from last night?" "Because we obviously had a great fucking time." "Why don't you just stop worrying for one minute?" "Be proud of yourself." "I don't know, Phil." "Maybe it's because I'm missing a tooth." "Or maybe it's because there's a tiger in our hotel room which, incidentally, is completely destroyed." "Oh, no, no." "Wait, wait, wait, I know." "Maybe it's because we found a baby, a human baby." "That's it." "That's it." "It's because we found a fucking baby." " You shouldn't curse around the child." " Really?" "You shouldn't be around a child." "Oh, how cute." "What's his name?" " Ben." " Carlos." "Carlos?" "Thank you." "Hey, Phil, look." "He's jacking his little weenis." " Pull yourself together, man." " Not at the table, Carlos." "I looked everywhere." "Gym, casino, front desk." "Nobody's seen Doug." "He's not here." "He's fine." "He's a grown man." "Seriously, Stu, you gotta calm down." "Here, have some juice." "I can't have juice right now." "Okay." "All right." "Let's just track this thing." "What's the last thing we remember doing last night?" "Well, the first thing was we were on the roof and were having those shots of Jäger." "And then we ate dinner at The Palm." "Right?" "That's right." "And then we played craps at the Hard Rock, and I think Doug was there." "That sounds right." "No, no." "He definitely was." "You know what, guys?" "I don't even remember going to dinner." "What the fuck?" "I don't think I've ever been this hung-over." "After the Hard Rock, I blacked out." "It was like emptiness." "Okay." "We have up until 10 p." "M so that gives us a 12-hour window where we could have lost him." "What is this?" " Oh, my God." "That is my tooth." "Why do you have that?" "What else is in your pockets?" "This is a good thing." "No." "Check your pockets." "Check your pockets." "Do you have anything?" "I have an ATM receipt from the Bellagio." "Eleven-oh-five for $800!" "I am so fucked." "I have a valet ticket from Caesars." "Looks like we got in at 5:15 a. m." "Oh, shit." "We drove last night?" "Driving drunk." "Classic." "What's on your arm?" " What the fuck is that?" " Jesus, Phil." " You were in the hospital last night." " I guess so, yeah." " You okay?" " Yeah, Alan." "I'm fine." "What the hell is going on?" "Well, Stu, Stu, this is a good thing." "We have a lead now." "Hey, Stu, watch this." " You ever seen a baby do that?" " Dude, Alan, not cool." "So, uh, are you sure you're qualified to be taking care of that baby?" "What?" "I've found a baby before." " You found a baby before?" " Yeah." " Where?" " Coffee Bean." "Wait, what?" "Hey, Phil?" "I don't think Doug would want us to take the Mercedes." "Relax, we'll be careful." "My dad is crazy about that car." "He left Doug in charge..." "Alan." "We got bigger problems here." "Doug could be in the hospital, he could be hurt." " Let's worry about the car later." " Uh, guys?" "Check it out." "All right, grab it from the other side." "Is that the mattress from Doug's room?" "What the fuck?" "Hey, man, what's going on here?" "Some asshole threw his bed out the window last night." " No shit." " Yeah." "Some guys just can't handle Vegas." "Ha-ha." "Oh, God." "It's gonna be okay, Stu." "How the hell did we manage that?" " Here's your car, officers." " Oh, God." "All right, everybody act cool." "All right, don't say a word." "Come on, let's just get in and go." "Come on." " Stu, you got a five?" "No." "I'll hit you on the way back." "Thank you, sir." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "You just nailed the baby." "Are my glasses okay?" "Your glasses are fine, dick." "This is so illegal." "Can't you see the fun part in anything?" "Yeah, we're stuck in traffic in a stolen police car with a missing child in the back seat." "Which part of this is fun?" " I think the cop-car part's pretty cool." " Thank you, Alan." "It is cool." "Doug would love it." "Come on." " Check this out." "Oh, no." "No, Phil." "No, Phil." "Don't do this!" "Take it easy." " Just try to call more attention to us." "Attention." " Sorry." "Attention, please." "Move out of the way." "I repeat, please disperse." "Phil, stop the car, I wanna get out." "Stop the car, I wanna get out." "Pull over." "Ma'am, in the leopard dress, you have an amazing rack." "Get off the sidewalk!" "Get off the sidewalk!" "I should have been a fucking cop." "Look, I already told you." "You came in with a mild concussion, some bruised ribs." "No big deal." "Although none of you could articulate how it happened." "Do you remember how many of us were here?" "Ah..." "I don't know." "I think it was just you guys." "Definitely no baby." " And one other guy." " That's our guy." "Was he okay?" "Yeah." "He was fine." "Just whacked out of his mind." "You all were." "All right, come forward." "And turn." "All right." "There you go." "And cough." "Cough." "Cough." "Give me one more." "All right." "Thattaboy." "Okay, Felix, you can put your robe on." "And the nurse will be in here in a minute." "I'll see you after the weekend." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you, doctor." "Guys, I really gotta go." "I'm sorry." "I have a surgery up on the fourth floor." "No, I know." "But we just need a couple more minutes of your time." "Yeah." "Tuck it right in there." "I don't want to re-sterilize." "Walk with me." "Okay, here we go." "Patient name, Phil Wenneck, 2:45 a. m." "Arrival." "Minor concussion, like I said." "Some bruising." "Pretty standard." "Do you mind if I look?" "I'm actually a doctor." "Yeah, you said that several times last night." "But really, you're just a dentist." "Okay, this is interesting." "Your blood work came in this morning." "Wow." "They found a large amount of Ruphylin in your system." "Ruphylin." "Roofies." "Commonly known as the date-rape drug." "What, so, what are you saying, I was raped last night?" "Actually..." "I don't think so." "But someone did slip you the drug." "I'm not surprised you don't remember anything." "Doc, none of us can remember anything from last night." "Remember?" "Yeah." "How could someone have drugged all of us?" "I wouldn't worry about it." "The stuff's out of your system." "You're gonna be fine." "Wait, wait, wait." "Please, doctor." "Is there anything else?" "Like, something we may have been talking about, or some place we were going?" "Actually, there was something." "You guys kept talking about some wedding last night." "Yeah." "No shit." "Our buddy Doug's getting married tomorrow." " You know what?" "I want the 100 back." " No, no." "Easy." "You kept talking about some wedding you just came from." "At the, uh, Best Little Chapel." "You kept saying how sick the wedding was and getting all crazy about it." "Okay, I hope this helps." "I really have to leave." "Best Little Chapel, do you know where that is?" "I do." "It's at the corner of Get A Map and Fuck Off." "I'm a doctor, not a tour guide." "Figure it out yourself, okay?" "You're big boys." "What about the baby?" "Leave him in the car." "We're gonna be five minutes." "Whoa, we're not leaving a baby in the car." "He'll be fine." "I cracked the window." " What if they don't remember us?" " Well, let's just find out." "I'm sor..." "Excuse me, sir?" "Hi." "Look at these guys." "What happened?" "You miss me?" "You miss Eddie?" "You want more from me?" "How are you, my friend?" "Look at this guy." "You're fucking crazy." "What's going on, man?" "Listen, I'm gonna tell you something." "I know some sick people in my life." "This guy is the craziest, wildest bastard I ever met in my life, man." " This guy?" " This guy is out of his mind." "What's going on, you fucking crazy motherfucker?" "I thought he was gonna eat my dick." "What happened?" "No love for Eddie?" "You don't hug me?" "No, no." "It's not that, Eddie." "Uh, it's just that we're having a hard time remembering what happened here last night." "Yeah, was there a wedding here?" "Do you do weddings here?" "You are cracking my balls, man." "I love these guys." "Zolea, what are you doing?" "Bring my friends some tea, some baklava, huh?" "Come on." "Unbelievable, man." "Look at this chick." "Beautiful ass, no fucking brain." "But this is Vegas." "You want intimacy, forget it." "You're gonna get sex." "That's it here, man." "No problem for me, though." "You want chicks?" "I can get you beautiful chicks from the Eastern Bloc." "No questions." "Clean, tight." "The tits like that, the nipple like that." "Obviously we were here." "We're looking for our friend Doug." " Do you remember?" " Yeah, the small guy." "Like a monkey." " Yeah." " You saw him?" "Of course." "Is there anything you can tell us about what may have happened last night?" "You don't remember nothing?" " Congratulations, Stu, you got married." " This..." "This can't be happening." " Oh, God." "Look at that." "I'll tell you one thing, you look seriously happy here, man." "That's it." "My life is over." "Stu, it's okay." "Look, shit happens." "Come on." "Melissa's not gonna know anything about this." " This never happened." "I'll take care of it." " Come on." "Put it here." "Hey, what's all that?" "The High Roller package." "It's what you ordered." "I have coffee mugs." " What?" "You have baseball caps, huh?" "And fancy calendars, all with pictures of Stu and Jade." "Her name's Jade?" "Yeah, and she's beautiful, man." "Clean, very tight." "Tits like that." " But that's because she had a baby." "That explains the baby." " Oh, Carlos." "Carlos." " Great." "All right." "Uh, here's the deal." "We made a mistake last night." "We need this marriage annulled." "You do annulments?" "Of course I do." "It breaks my heart and gonna make me sad but it's no problem." "Good price for you." "I can't do it with just him, though." "I need the chick." "I need both parties." "Oh, not a problem." "That's great." "Isn't that great, Stu?" "Come on, buddy." "She probably knows where Doug is." " Awesome." " All right, all right." "Okay." "Uh..." "We need her address." "She filled out some paperwork, right?" "Of course." "Hey." "Excuse me." "What is the matter with you?" "Go and get the paperwork, man." " I spend my life waiting for you." "Come on." " Okay." "I'm going." "And get the baklava, please." " Hey, Phil, what about my dad's car?" " I'm sure Doug has it." "We'll get it back." "Then I vote we torch the cop car and all this shit with it." " Torch it?" "Who are you?" " I don't know, Phil." "Apparently I'm a guy who marries complete strangers." "This whole situation is completely fucked." " These mugs." "This hat." "This car." " Hey!" "It's all evidence of a night that never happened." "That is why we're torching all of it." "Whoa, I'm a schoolteacher, I got a family, okay?" "I'm all for secrecy, but I'm not gonna torch a cop car." " Fine." "I'll do it." " Can I help?" " Yeah, thanks." " And how exactly are you gonna do that?" "Easy." "You just pour kerosene over a ferret, light it on both ends, put it in." "They're attracted to the gas lines." " What?" "A ferret?" " Yeah." "Yeah." "Or a tamed raccoon, but it's a lot of trouble." "If you wanna..." " Does it matter if it's tamed?" "Yeah, because if it's untamed, it won't take the kerosene as well." "Is it Doug?" " I don't have it." "It's Doug, it's Doug." "Uh, it's Melissa." " Don't answer." " I have to." "She's called twice already!" " Can I ride shotgun?" "Don't touch me." "Hey, sweetheart, how are you?" "There you are." "This is the third time I'm trying you." "I know." "The reception up here's crazy." "I think it's all the sequoia trees, block the signal." "Ugh, I hate that." "So how was it last night?" "Ah, it was really fun, actually." "It was quiet, but it was a good time." "That sounds nice." " I'm learning all kinds of vino factoids." " Hi." "It'd be so cool if I could breast-feed, you know?" "Well, listen we're about to go for a tractor ride." "What the fuck?" "I should get going." "So pretty." "A tractor ride?" " Go, out of the car!" " What was that?" "They started up the tractor." "I think it backfired." " Where the hell is he?" "Hey, easy, easy." "I think we're looking for the same guy, okay?" "Hey!" "What the hell, man?" "What the fuck, Stu?" "Is that a baby?" "Why would there be a baby?" "We're at a winery." "That's a goat." " Where is he?" " I don't know!" "What are you talking about?" "Sir, can you please start the tractor so we can get out of here?" "I'm trying to, but we're fucking blocked." "Oh, my God!" "What the hell is happening, Stu?" " Hey!" "There's a baby on board!" " Someone just said "baby. "" " Get out of the car!" " It's a baby goat." "Why you making trouble for my business, man?" " Go away from here." " Get out of the car!" " Phil, he's got a gun!" " No shit he's got a gun!" " I gotta call you back." "Bye." " Come on." "Fuck!" "Shit." "He shot me!" " He shot Eddie!" " Fuck this shit!" "Fuck!" "Fuck!" "Go, go, go!" "Fuck." "Okay." "Oh, that was some sick shit!" "Who were those guys?" "We're gonna be okay." "Everything's gonna be okay." "What the fuck is going on?" "!" "I have no idea." "Why don't you just let that go to voicemail?" "Ha-ha-ha." "That's a fake laugh, by the way." "It's got, uh, Ted Danson and Magnum P. I. And that Jewish actor." "Shut up, Alan." " What room was it again?" " It's 825." "I know, I did." "I already checked with her." "I found him, I'll call you back." "Thank God, he's with his father." "I was freaking out." "I missed you, sweetie." "And I miss you." "No." " What the hell happened to you guys?" " Actually, we were hoping you could tell us." "What do you mean?" "I got up this morning, I went to get coffee and I came back and you were gone." " Why are you being so quiet?" " I'm not being quiet." "Ha, ha." "You're so cute." "Yeah, I gotta feed Tyler." "Come inside, you guys." "Did you hear that?" "Baby's name is Tyler." "Yeah." "I thought he looked more like a Carlos too, bud." "Okay, what's up?" "You guys are acting weird." " Look, it's Jade, right?" " Very funny, Phil." "Right, Jade, uh, ahem, you remember our friend, Doug." "Are you kidding?" "He was the best man." "Exactly." "Well, we can't find him, and we're getting worried." "Oh, my God, that is so Doug." "Ha, ha." "Oh." "Oh, sweetie, I'm..." "I'm gonna go clean him off." "It's all right, Daddy didn't mean it." "Oh, my God." "What the fuck, man, you gotta hold it together." " Holy shit." " She is super hot." " You should be proud of yourself." " She's wearing my grandmother's ring!" " What?" " The ring I'm gonna give to Melissa." "You remember, my grandmother's Holocaust ring?" " Fuck." "Okay." " She's wearing it." "I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust." " He's okay." "Oh, good." "He was just hungry, he's fine." " Oh, good." "About last night, uh, ahem, do you remember the last time you saw Doug?" " Uh, I haven't seen him since the wedding." " The wedding." "Okay." "Great." "And, uh, we can't re..." "What time was that at?" "Well, it was, um..." "I guess it was around 1, because I had to go back to work and finish my shift." "And then when I got out I headed over to the hotel with Tyler." "And was Doug there then?" "I didn't see Doug because you guys were passed out." "The room was a wreck." " So I just curled up next to Stu." "Uh-huh." " Rowr." " Oh." "I got a question." "Um, you said when your shift ended." "Does that mean you're a nurse?" "Or a blackjack dealer?" " You know this." "I'm a stripper." " Mm-hm." "Well, technically I'm an escort, but stripping's a great way to meet the clients." " Smart." " Savvy." "But that's all in the past, now that I married a doctor." "I'm just a dentist." " Las Vegas Police!" "Freeze!" " Okay." "Shut that baby up!" "Shut that baby up!" "Oh, God!" "Okay, okay, okay." "After we take the mug shots, we bring them down here where they wait to be interviewed by the arresting officers." "Trust me, kids, you do not wanna be sitting on these benches." "We call this place Loserville." "Follow me." "All right, let's do it." "Come on." "Hello." " Hey, Tracy!" "It's Phil." "Hey, Phil." " Where are you guys?" " We are at the spa at the hotel." "Cool." "We're just getting some sun." "Is Doug around?" "Of course." "Why wouldn't he be?" "I'm just wondering why you're calling me." "Um..." "We made a deal, no talking to girlfriends or wives." "So we're all calling each other's." "Okay." "What's up?" "Uh, you are not gonna believe this." "We got comped an extra night at the hotel." "You did?" "Yeah." "The suite is..." "It's ridiculous." "It's out of control." "There's, like, room service and a butler." "I mean, just the works." "We're thinking of spending the night and we're gonna come back in the morning." "You wanna stay an extra night?" "But the wedding's tomorrow." "That's why we're gonna get up early, and we'll be back in plenty of time." "Okay." "Are you sure that's a good idea?" "Wenneck, Price, Garner." "Room 3." "Okay, Trace, I gotta go." "We'll talk to you later." "Uh..." " Come on, chop-chop." " Okay, spin around." " That's it." " Goddamn it." " Wait a second." " I'll go over." "I'll go over." "Stop pulling." "Can you just...?" "Hold on." "We got it." "Alan, just relax." "And then just..." "There we go." "Good." "Gentlemen." "We've got some good news, and we've got some bad news." "The good news is we found your Mercedes." " That's great news." " That's great." "See?" "Yeah, it's over at impound right now." "We picked it up at 5 a. m." "This morning parked in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard." "In the middle." "That's weird." " Yeah, that is weird." "There was also a note." "It says, uh, "Couldn't find a meter, but here's 4 bucks. "" "The bad news is we can't get you in front of a judge until Monday morning." "Oh, no, uh, officer, that's just impossible." "No, we need to be in L. A. Tomorrow for a wedding." " You stole a police car." " We didn't steal anything." "Um, we found it." "Yeah, if anything, we deserve a reward or something, like a trophy." " I see assholes like you every day." " Every fucking day." ""Let's go to Vegas, we'll all get drunk and laid!" " Yeah." "Whoo!" "Woo-hoo." " Woo-hoo." "Let's steal a cop car, because it'd be really fucking funny. "" "Think you gonna get away with it?" "Not up in here." " Not up in here!" " Oh." "Uh..." "Sir if I may, um I'm assuming that that squad car belongs to one of you." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Look, I'm not a cop." "I'm no hero." "I'm a schoolteacher." "But if one of my kids went missing on a field trip that would look really bad on me." " What are you getting at?" " Yeah, Phil, what are you getting at?" "No one wants to look bad." "We gotta get to a wedding and you guys don't need people talking about how some obnoxious tourists borrowed your squad car last night." "But look, the point is, I think we can work out a deal." "Discreetly of course, ma'am." "What do you say?" "Let me ask you a question:" "Do, uh, any of you gentlemen have a heart condition or anything like that?" "Uh, no." "Okay, kids, you're in for a real treat today." "These gentlemen have kindly volunteered to demonstrate how a stun gun is used to subdue a suspect." "Ooh!" " That's right." " Wait a sec." "What?" "Now, there's two ways to use a stun gun." "Up close and personal." " What the fuck?" " Or you can shoot it from a distance." "Do I have any volunteers?" "You wanna come up here and do some shooting?" "Huh?" "All right, how about you, young lady?" "Come on up here." "All right." "Let's go, handsome, come on." "Not you, fat Jesus, slide it on back." "You, pretty boy." "Fat Jesus." "All right, now, it's real simple." "All you gotta do is point, aim and shoot." "All right?" "Okay, look." "You don't really wanna do this." "You can do this." "Just focus." "Don't listen to this maniac." "Let's think this through." "Finish him!" "Oh, fuck." "Yeah!" "Right in the nuts!" "That was beautiful." " Well done." "Give her a hand, everybody." " Good job." "Good job." "Good job." "Well done." "Good job." "That was great." "Good." "Hey, we got one more charge left." "Anybody wanna do some shooting up here?" "How about you, big man?" "Come on up here." "Okay, same instructions." "Just point, aim and shoot." "There you go." "That's the stuff." "I like the intensity." "Eye of the tiger." "Good." "You're holding 50,000 volts, little man." "Don't be afraid to ride the lightning." "In the face!" "In the face!" "Oh, he's still up." "He's still up." " Aah!" " No." "All right, everybody relax, take it easy." "We've seen it before." "He just needs a little extra charge." "There we go." "Some of these big boys, you gotta give them two shots." "All right, kids, who wants to get their fingerprints done, huh?" "Come on, let's go." "Fuck those guys, you hear me?" "That was bullshit." "I'm telling everybody we stole a cop car." " They let us go, who cares?" " I care!" "You can't just do that." "You can't just tase people because you think it's funny." "That's police brutality." "I'm getting a soda." "Do you guys want anything?" "No." "My man doesn't shut up." "Jesus Christ." "Alan, you okay?" "I'm just worried." "What if something happened to Doug?" "Something bad." "Come on, you can't think like that." "I mean, what if he's dead?" "I can't afford to lose anybody close to me again." "It hurts too much." " I was so upset when my grandpa died." " Oh, I'm s..." "How'd he die?" " World War II." " Died in battle?" "No, he was skiing in Vermont." "It was just during World War II." "Alan Doug is fine." " Well, why hasn't he called?" "I don't know, but we're gonna figure it out." "I'll tell you another thing, 6-1 odds our car is beat to shit." "Stu, not now." "No, how much do you wanna bet it's fucked beyond recognition?" "That's enough." "Alan's seriously worried, okay?" "Let's not freak him out any more." "Sorry, Alan." "You know what?" "We'll search the car for clues and everything's gonna be okay." "Oh, shit." "I can't watch." "Just tell me what it looks like." "Not looking." "Not looking." " Wow." "All right." "Oh, thank God." "You see?" "It's gonna be all right." " Anything?" "Hmm, I got a cigar." "Oh, I found, uh..." "These are some black shoes." " They women's shoes?" " I don't know." " Whose are those?" " I don't know." "It's a men's size 6." " That's weird." " What is this, a snakeskin?" "Oh, come on!" "Ew!" " That's a used condom, Alan." " Oh, God." "Blech!" " Get it out of the car." "Gross, it's wet." " I don't want the thing." " Hey!" "Come on." "I got jizz on me." "Jesus Christ, guys!" "Get it out." "Fuck!" "Oh, my God." "All right, what the fuck, man?" "We gotta get this shit together, guys!" "What was that?" "It's in the trunk." " Doug's in the trunk." "Oh, fuck!" "Holy shit!" "Holy shit!" " Open it!" "Open it!" "Open it!" "Okay, okay, okay." "Okay, okay, okay." "Oh God!" "Please!" "Please!" "Please stop!" "Whoa." "I'm with you, I'm with you!" " You gonna fuck on me?" " Nobody's gonna fuck on you!" "We're on your side." "I hate Godzilla!" "I hate him too." "I hate him!" "He destroys cities!" "Please!" "This isn't your fault." "I'll get you some pants." "What the fuck was that?" "I have internal bleeding." "Somebody call 911." "That was some fucked up shit." "Who was that guy?" "He was so mean." "Guys, there's something I need to tell you." "Last night on the roof, before we went out I slipped something in our Jägermeister." " What?" " I'm sorry, I fudged up, guys." " You drugged us?" " No, I didn't drug you." "I was told it was ecstasy." "Well, who told you it was ecstasy?" "The guy I bought it from at the liquor store." "Why would you give us ecstasy?" "I wanted everybody to have a good time and I knew you guys wouldn't take it." "It was just one hit each." "I used to do three hits a night." "But it wasn't ecstasy, Alan, it was roofies!" "You think I knew that, Stu?" "The guy I bought it from seemed like a real straight shooter." "You mean the drug dealer at the liquor store wasn't a good guy?" "Let's just calm down." "You fucking calm down!" "He drugged us." "I lost a tooth." "I married a whore." " How dare you!" "She's a nice lady." " You are such a fucking moron." " Your language is offensive." "Fuck you!" "All right, let's just take a deep breath, okay?" "Seriously, this is a good thing." "At least it's not some stranger who drugged us for God knows what reason." "Yeah, you're right, Phil, it's totally a good thing." "We're so much better off now." "Here's something I would like to remind you two of:" "Our best friend Doug is probably facedown in a ditch right now with a meth-head butt-fucking his corpse." " That's highly unlikely." " It's true." "Does not help." "All right, let's get our shit together, guys." "Let's go back to the hotel, and I'm gonna make a couple calls." "Maybe Doug's back there." "Maybe he's asleep." "Come on." "Let's go." " Stu?" "Little help?" "Shut up." "Ow." " Oh, God." "Oh, God, are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." " Alan, I'm sorry." "Wait, guys." "Guys." "What about the tiger?" "What if he got out?" "Oh, fuck." "I keep forgetting about the goddamn tiger." "How the fuck did he get in there?" " I don't know, because I don't remember." " Shh." "Stu." "Stu, keep it down." "Because one of the, uh, side effects of, uh, roofies is memory loss." "You are literally too stupid to insult." " Thank you." " Hey." "Hey, come on." "Did we leave the music on?" "Hey." "Shh." "Don't make any sudden movements." " Unh." "Whoa!" " Aah!" " Who the hell are you?" " No, who are you?" "Quiet, quiet." "Mike Tyson?" "Shh." "This is my favorite part coming up right now." "Need a chorus line, guys." "One more time, guys." "Oh, Jesus!" "Oh, fuck!" "Why did you do that?" "Mr. Tyson would like to know why is his tiger in your bathroom." "Hold on, that was completely unnecessary." "I'm a huge fan." "When you knocked out Holmes, that was..." "Explain." "All right, look, we were drugged last night." "We have no memory of what happened." "It's true." "We got in all kinds of trouble last night and now we can't find our friend." "If you wanna kill us, go ahead because I don't care anymore." " What are you talking about?" " I don't care." "Why the fuck would you wanna steal his tiger?" "We tend to do dumb shit when we're fucked up." " I don't believe these guys, man." " Wait, how did you guys find us?" "One of you dropped your jacket." "Found it in the tigers' cage this morning." "That's Doug's." "Yeah, Doug." "His wallet and his room key is in there." " No, that's our missing friend." "I don't give a fuck." " Did you guys see him?" "I was fast asleep." "Because if he was up, this wouldn't have gone down so smoothly." "Maybe one of the tigers ate his ass like Omar." "Respect." "Wha..." "What happened to Omar?" "Oh, don't worry about Omar, he's not with us no more." "Okay, I know this is asking a lot but do you think we could go to your house and look around see if there's any clues?" "Absolutely." "How else you think we're gonna get the tiger back anyway?" " Come on, champ." " I'm sorry?" "We're not gonna put it in the Bentley." "You brought it here, you bring it back." "What you think, about 40 minutes?" "Don't make me come back for him." " That was Mike Tyson." " Yeah, no shit that was Mike Tyson." "I'm just saying, he's still got it." "Alan." "Bud, are you okay?" "Oh, my God." " Shit!" "Fuck, where'd he get him?" "Hey." "This does not seem fair." "It's Rock, Paper, Scissors." "There's nothing more fair." " Alan should do it." " Alan took a punch from Mike Tyson." "Come on." "For Doug." "Why are you peppering the steak?" "You don't know if tigers like pepper." "Tigers love pepper." "They hate cinnamon." "Phil, just do it." "You should do it." "I would, but you lost." "It wouldn't be right." "Okay, I jammed five roofies in there." "Just go in there and throw it in to him." "Fine." "Make sure he eats the whole thing." "Fuck." "Oh, fuck." "Hey, kitty." "Hey, sweetie, it's okay." "I got a little snack for you." "Real important that you eat this, okay?" "Yeah, just have a little..." "Shit!" "What do we do now?" "We wait." "What do tigers dream of" "When they take a little tiger snooze?" "Do they dream of mauling zebras" "Or Halle Berry in her catwoman suit?" "Don't you worry your pretty striped head" "We're gonna get you back to Tyson And your cozy tiger bed" "And then we're gonna find Our best friend Doug" "And then we're gonna give him A best-friend hug" "Doug" "Doug" "Doug, Dougie, Dougie, Doug, Doug" "But if he's been murdered By crystal-meth tweakers" "Well, then we're shit out of luck" "By the way, we're all gonna die." "Wait." "Oh, God." "Watch it!" "His nose." "That's his nose." "Please don't stop." "Please don't stop." "Please don't..." "Goddamn it." "I'm gonna beat you!" "Ha-ha-ha." "Oh..." "He won again." " Hey, fellas." "Rough night?" "Mm-hm." "Sweetie, stay close to Mama." " What's this?" " Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Take it easy, little man." "You don't wanna be touching that." "No, partner, that's not your property." "So, what do you guys got under there?" "Just a whole bunch of "mind your own business. "" "Easy, Phil." " He's correct." "My fault." " You okay?" " Aren't we riding an elevator?" "Why, is this Jeopardy?" "What the fuck is this bullshit?" " Please, with the language." " Yes." " I fully agree." " Oh." "Hey, guys, when's the next Halley's comet?" " Who cares, man?" " Do you know, Stu?" "I don't think it's for, like, another 60 years or something." " But it's not tonight, right?" " No, I don't think so." "But you don't know for sure?" "No." "I got this cousin who saw one." "He said it blew his mind." "I wanna make sure I never, ever miss out on a Halley's Comet." "So if you guys know if there's gonna be one..." "Oh, fuck!" " Oh, my God!" "Fuck it!" "Stu!" "Stu, it got me!" "Stu!" "You got clawed!" "You're bleeding!" " Oh." "I'm panicking." " Aah!" "Oh, my God." "Okay." "Okay, okay." "Wait, hold on." " I can't do it." "Get your fucking hand back in there and steer the car." " I'm too nervous." "Alan." "We need you, buddy." "This is your time to shine, okay?" "Okay, yeah." "Whew." "Daddy's gonna kill me." " That's it." "That's good." "Keep it straight." " You're late." " Whatever, man." "We had to push it the last mile." "Come on in." "Mike's got something he wants to show you." "That thing's out of control, man." "Seriously, you gotta put it down." "When we got back, we took a look at the security cameras." "Great." "This is how you walk." "This is how you walk." " Oh, it's Doug." " Oh, thank God he's alive." "That's our buddy." "That's who we've been missing." "We're all best friends." "Why don't you just pay attention?" "I don't have all night." "Yeah, of course." "Of course." "What are you doing?" "Hey, guys." "Check it out." "Watch this." "That's me, I'm on TV." "I've never been on TV before." "What are you doing, man?" "Really?" "Really, Alan?" "You got a fire hose, man?" "Yeah, I was, uh..." "You're gonna overflow the pool, man." " Maybe..." "Should I wait outside?" " I think that's a good idea, Alan." "Yeah." "Don't touch anything out there, either." "You know what?" "He's not our good fr..." "We don't know him that well." "Come on." "Come on, come on." "By the way, where you get that cop car from?" "We, uh, stole it from these dumb-ass cops." "Nice." "High five that one." "Yeah, that's nice." "You know, I just have to say I have never seen a more beautiful, elegant, just regal creature." "Check it out." "Stu." "Stu." "Fuck this tiger." "Oh, my God." "That's awful." "Oh, man." "Oh, shit." " Who does shit like that, man?" "Someone who has a lot of issues, obviously." "I'm a sick man." "Oh, my God." "That's all we got." "This was hugely helpful." "Really." "Because now we know that our buddy Doug was with us at 3:30, totally alive." "Thanks again, champ." "And, uh, again, we are so sorry we stole your tiger." "Don't worry about it, man." "Like you said, we all do dumb shit when we're fucked up." " I told you he'd get it." " I did say that." "You know, everyone says Mike Tyson is such a badass but I think he's kind of a sweetheart." "I think he's mean." "All right." "I think it's officially time we call Tracy." "Hallelujah." "Finally, Phil says something that makes sense." "We don't have much of a choice." "And maybe she's heard from Doug." "That's what I been saying this whole time." "We just need to be completely honest." "We need to tell her everything." "We don't have to tell her everything." "We can leave out the stuff about me marrying a hooker." "Just stay focused on Doug." " What am I gonna tell my dad?" " Alan, relax." "It's just the inside." "Come on." "I got a guy in L. A. Who's great with interiors." " Oh, Jesus!" "Oh, my God." " Are you guys okay?" "What the fuck?" "I know that guy." "That's the guy from the trunk." "Get out of the car." "Please." "W..." "W..." "Wait." "Those are the guys that shot Eddie." " Listen..." "Let's go!" " Okay." " Oh, no." "Easy, easy." "Come on." "Okay." "All right." " All right, all right." "Let's go." "Hey, relax." "Ow." "Ow." "Ow!" " I have whiplash." " Get this other fat boy." "Get the fat boy." "Hey, hey, hey." "All right, all right." "Hey, take it easy, take it easy!" "I want my purse back, assholes." " What?" "Your purse?" " That's not a purse, it's a satchel." "It's a purse." "Okay?" "And you steal from wrong guy." "Wait a second, wait a second." "We stole from you?" "Okay, you know what?" "We don't remember anything that happened last night so help us out a little here." "Well, apparently you guys met at a craps table late last night." "You were on a heater, and he played your hot streak." " He ended up winning just under 80 grand." " No shit?" "Eighty grand is nice." "Okay, that's good." "He put the chips in his purse, and then you guys took off with it." "That doesn't sound like us." "Mine had $80,000 inside." "And this one?" "Nothing." "Hey, there are Skittles in there." "Ow!" "Oh, not again." "Don't let the beard fool you." "He's a child." "It's funny because he's fat." "Now, look, this was obviously a very simple misunderstanding." "Alan picked up the wrong purse, it's no big deal." "Okay, if it's, "No big deal," why, when I come after you guys he starts screaming like crazy and throw me in trunk?" "What, I did that?" "Yeah, you said he was your lucky charm, and you want to take him home with you." " Lucky charm." " Oh, it's just funny." "Fuck you." "If you want to see your friend again, you get me my 80 grand." " What?" " Our friend?" " You have Doug?" "You know about our friend?" " Doug!" " Doug!" " Doug's in the car!" "Doug's in the car!" " Doug, it's okay!" "You chill out, goatee!" " Okay, okay." "All right, fine, fine." " What do you want?" "Not so good now." "Quid pro quo, douche bag." "What?" "Look, we're very sorry." "But this is an easy fix." " Alan, where's his purse?" " I don't know." " It's in the hotel room, right?" " Yeah, we can get it." "We can get you the..." "We can even write you a check right now." "No chance." "Cash only." " There's a person in there." "Boring." "Take nap." "Come on." "Wait." "I'm sorry we're boring you!" "Doug, it's okay." " You kidnapped our friend!" "Kidnapper!" "Wait." "Oh, no." "You're not going anywhere." "Stop." "Stop." "Run me over." " Okay." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Stu, Stu, Stu." "Bring money to Big Rock in Mojave Desert at dawn." " What?" " Toodle-oo, motherfucker." "Well, at least take the bag off his head!" "Fuck!" "Oh!" "Come on, get out of here." "Guys, I'm telling you, I looked for it this morning before we left." "It's not anywhere." "Fuck." "Stu, how much you got in the bank?" "About 10 grand." "I was gonna use it for the wedding." "You're already married, so we're good there." "Besides, enough with Melissa, she's the worst." "Yeah, Doug told me she had sex with a pilot or something." "It was a bartender on a cruise." "What is wrong with you people?" " Ew." "Alan, did you just eat sofa pizza?" " Yes." "What are we gonna do?" "We are so fucked." "Hey, guys?" " Did you find it?" " Nope." "But check this out." "Change only, 10,000." " Hey, uh, these seats taken?" " No, feel free." "All right, let's play some blackjack!" "That's it." "Shut up, bitches." "Hmm." " I'll stick." " Oh, fuck you!" "Fuck you!" "Splitting fives." " Too many." " Yes!" "I don't even know you, but I'm gonna tell you that's dumb." " Yes!" "Oh!" "Okay, come on." "He can't lose." "He can't lose." "I think the pit boss is watching him." " Oh, my God." " Are you okay?" "I'm such a klutz." "I get so nervous when I gamble." "I'm so silly." " It happens." " Whoa." "Hold on a beat, okay?" " Let's just take it easy." "This is my wife." " It's hurting." "Make sure..." "Does it hurt?" "Does this hurt?" " Oh, ow." " You all right?" "I don't know." " I don't know either." "I don't..." "I think you're fine." "Let's go." " Really?" "Okay." "Upsy-daisy, there." "I'm sorry, she's had a little too much to drink." "Thanks, buddy." "That's for you." "And 100, 200, 300, 400." "With all this, that's $82,400." " Oh, goddamn it." "I don't fucking believe it." " Whoo!" " Alan, you're the man." " You are too, Phil." "We should come back next week, take the whole city down." "Oh, I'm free next week." "Or we could just focus on getting Doug back, right now." "Uh, you know what?" "Next week's no good, the Jonas Brothers are in town." "But any week after that is totally fine." "I think it's safe to say that our luck has officially turned around, guys." " We are back, baby." "We are fucking back." " We're back." "Classic." "We are back, we are back" "That's right." "We are getting Doug back" "And we're the three best friends That anybody could have" "We're the three best friends That anyone could have" "We're the three best friends That anyone can have" "And we'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever Leave each other" "We're the best three friends That anybody could have" "I mean, the three best friends That anybody could have" "That's right, the three best friends That anybody can have" "Now what?" " Give him the signal." " What signal?" " Flash your lights." "Let him know it's on." " What's on?" " The deal." "Of course it's on." "We just drove 30 miles into the desert." "He knows it's on." "Phil, just do something." "Fine." " Oh, shit." "See?" "All right, let's go." "Funny fat guy fall on face." "You okay?" "All right, we got the money." "Eighty grand, cash." "Throw it over." "Then I give you Doug." "Um, I'm sorry." "First of all, good morning." "And we didn't catch your name last night." "Mr. Chow." "Leslie Chow." "Mr. Chow, it is a pleasure." "My name is Stu." "And we would very much appreciate an opportunity to see Doug before we give you the money, just to verify that he's okay." " Lf that's cool." " Of course, Stu." "That is cool." " Oh, thank God." " Okay." "See, he fine." "Now give me money or I shoot him, and I shoot all you motherfuckers." "And then we take it." "Your choice, bitches." " Give him the money, Stu." " Okay." "It's all there." " Let him go." "All right, take it easy." "Take it easy." "Ta-da." "Is this some kind ofjoke?" "Who the hell is this?" "That is not Doug." "What you talking about, Willis?" "That him." "No, I'm sorry, Mr. Chow." "That's not our friend." " He..." "That's..." " The Doug we're looking for is a white." "Ah!" "I told you you had the wrong guy, little boy." "Damn, Alan, what the fuck you got me into?" " You know him?" " This is the guy that sold me the bad drugs." " How you doing?" " I didn't sell you no fucking bad drugs." " Wait." "He sold you the Ruphylin?" " Ruphylin?" "I sold you that Ru...?" "Wha...?" " Who gives a shit?" "Where is Doug?" " I am Doug." " Your name's Doug?" " Yes, I'm Doug." "His name's Doug too." "Ha." "Classic mix-up." "Come on." " Hey, Chow." "You gave us the wrong Doug." " Not my problem." "No, fuck that shit." "Now, you give us our 80 grand back and take him with you!" " No." "Come on." "I'll be your Doug." " Oh, yeah, okay." "Oh, I take him back." "Right after you suck on these little Chinese nuts." " Ah." "That's nasty." " Mmm." "How that sound?" "Unh, pshh." " So long, gay boys." " Wait a second." "He's a nasty little motherfucker." "Did you ever get any ecstasy?" "No, I ain't got no fucking ecstasy." " Goddamn it!" "Gosh darn it!" " Shit!" "Shoot!" "Hello?" " Ahem, Tracy, it's Phil." "Phil, where the hell are you guys?" "I'm freaking out." "Yeah, listen." "We fucked up." "Thanks for the lift back to town." " I got a question for you." " What's up?" "How did you wind up in Chow's car?" "That crazy asshole kidnapped me yesterday." "Okay, but why?" "I mean, why you?" "He thought I was with you guys because we were hanging over at the Bellagio." " What?" " We were at the Bellagio?" "We were shooting craps." "You don't remember?" "No." "No, we don't remember." "Because some dick drug dealer sold him Ruphylin and told him it was ecstasy." "Ruphylin." "There you go with that word." "Ruphylin." "What the hell is a Ruphylin?" "Wow, you are the world's shittiest drug dealer." "Ruphylin, for your information, is the date-rape drug." "You sold Alan roofies." "Oh, shit." "I must have mixed up the bags." "My fault, Alan." "Damn, Marshall gonna be pissed off at me on that one." " Whatever." " It's funny, because just the other day me and my boy, we was wondering why they even call them roofies." " You know what I'm talking about?" " No." "Don't know." "Why not floories, right?" "Because when you take them you're more likely to end up on the floor than the roof." "What about groundies?" "That's a good new name for them." "Or, how about rapies?" " Wait, what did you just say?" " Rapies." " Not you." "Doug, what did you say before?" " I said groundies." "No, before that." "You said, "You're more likely to wind up on the floor than... "" " Phil." " Listen, Trace, I'm really sorry." "L..." "Phil?" "Hello?" " Tracy, it's Stu." "Stu." "Talk to me." "What's going on?" "Uh, nothing." "Don't listen to Phil." "He's completely out of his mind." "He's probably still drunk from last night." "Where's Doug?" "He is paying the bill." "We just had a delicious brunch." "We're in a hurry to get back, so we gotta get going." " Okay, we'll see you soon." "Bye." " Stu." "Stu." "Fuck." " What the fuck, man?" " I know where Doug is." "I don't know, man." "It just hit me." "You remember when we saw Doug's mattress impaled on that statue?" " Yeah, we threw it out the window." " No, impossible." " You can't open windows in Vegas hotels." " Well, then how did it get...?" " Oh, my God!" " Ha, ha, ha." " Whoa, wait." "What's going on?" " Doug was trying to signal someone." " Holy shit." "Yes." " Wait." "How did you figure that out?" " Doug made me realize it." " Doug?" " Uh, not our Doug." "Black Doug." " Hey, hey, easy with that shit." "Come on." " Sorry." "Can someone tell me where white Doug is?" " He's on the roof, Alan." " Yes." "He's on the roof." "We must have taken him up there as a prank so he'd wake up on the roof." " Like that time in summer camp." "We moved his sleeping bag out in the jetty at the lake?" "Ha, ha, ha." "Which was hilarious." "It's not so funny now, though, because we forgot where we put him." "You guys are retarded, you know that?" " Holy shit." "You think he's still up there?" " There's only one way to find out." "Doug!" "Doug!" " Doug!" "Doug, you up here, buddy?" "Where you at, Doug?" "Doug!" "Hey, guys!" "He's over here!" "Hey, I found him!" "He's over here!" " Oh, shit." "He's okay." "You're okay." "Ha, ha, ha!" "Oh, God." "We gotta go, buddy." "Come on." "Oh, we have been looking everywhere for you." " He's alive." " What the fuck is going on?" "We can explain everything, but right now we gotta go." " Hey, bud." "You okay?" " No." "Not okay." "You look good, you got some color." "I'm jealous." " I'm getting married today." " Yes, you are." "That's why you need to focus and do everything we say." "Because, frankly, you're wasting a little bit of time right now." "You fucking asshole!" "Oh, my skin burns." "My skin burns." "Oh, ow!" "God." " It's okay." "It's not your fault, Doug." " Don't touch me." "Shut up." "All of you, shut up." "Just get me home." "Mm-hm." "Just get me home." "What about the one after that?" "You cannot be serious." "Oh, goddamn it." " What?" " Every flight to L. A. Is booked." " What about Burbank?" " Sold out." "Oh, fuck!" "We can't drive there, the wedding starts in three and a half hours." " Alan, where's the car?" "It's on its way." "You know what?" "We can drive there." "We can make it." "Okay?" "Hi." " Just give me one second." "We will leave without you." " Is he missing a tooth?" " Yeah." "Hey." " Hey." "Hey, thanks for helping out last night." "That was so awesome." "Sure." "Listen, Jade, I..." "Look, you don't have to say it." "I totally understand." " This whole thing was stupid." " Huh." "It was stupid, wasn't it?" " This is yours." " Oh, thank you." "I can't believe I gave my grandmother's Holocaust ring to someone I just met." " What was I thinking?" " You were really fucked up." "Clearly." " You did pull out your own tooth." " L...?" "I pulled out my tooth?" "Why did I pull out my own tooth?" "Alan bet you that you weren't a good enough dentist to pull out your own tooth." "Okay." "Heh." " Of course he did." " You won." "Yeah." "Clearly." "Yeah." "That's victory, right there." "It needs to go down." " It's good." "Get in." " No." "Safety first." " Alan, it's fine." "It's down." " No, I gotta get it down first." "Jesus Christ." "Look out." " Don't mess the car up." "You're gonna mess the car up." " Hey, what are you doing next weekend?" " I don't know." "Working." "Why?" "I was thinking maybe I'd come back and take you out to dinner." "Really?" "Like a date?" "Yeah." "Like a date." "Only, one that hopefully I'll remember." "Sounds good." " Stu." "Come on." " Stu." "Come on." "I gotta go." "Okay." "Bye." " Bye." " Bye." "All right, here we go." " All right, let's go." " Yeah." "Careful." "At least the trip wasn't a total disaster." " What makes you say that?" " When I woke up on the roof I happened to find $80,000 worth of Bellagio chips in my pocket." " Oh!" "Oh, my God!" "Looks like we're going home with some money, boys." "Here he comes." "That's him." " Hey, Neeco!" "Hey." "What's up, Alan?" "Whoo!" " Whoa, look out." " Oh, shit." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" " Thanks, Neeco." "You got it, man." "Page me!" "Adiós." "Who the hell was that guy?" "That's my buddy." "Hey." "Sorry, MapQuest took us on a really crazy route." " How's my hair?" " It looks good." " Is it cool like Phil's?" " It's classic Phil." "She looks beautiful, man." "Sorry I'm late." "Vegas." "Where were you?" "And why are you so red?" "Honey, it's a long story." "We are gathered here today because of the strength of love and of promises kept." "All I know is I am so sorry." "And I promise for as long as we're married to never, ever put you through anything like this again." "Can you forgive me?" " Daddy." " Hey, my man." "Excuse me, but I'm expecting my husband any minute." "Oh, that's very funny." "Come here." "How was your soccer game?" " Stu?" "You avoiding me?" " Hey." "Melissa." "Oh, my God." "What happened to your tooth?" "Have you met Alan?" "Tracy's brother." "Brother of the..." "Okay." "Ow." "That is disgusting." "Why haven't you returned my calls?" "Well, there was a snafu when we stopped..." "I called that bed and breakfast in Napa." "They said they had no record of you even checking in." "That's because we didn't go to Napa." " Stu." "What the fuck is going on?" " We went to Las Vegas." "Oh, really?" "Las Vegas?" "Why would you go to Las Vegas?" "My friend was getting married." "That's what guys do." " Okay, that's not what you do." " Really?" "Well, then why did I do it, huh?" "Because I did it." "Riddle me that." "Why'd I do it?" "All you want me to do is what you want me to do." "I'm sick of doing what you want." "In a healthy relationship, a guy should be able to do what he wants." " That is not how this works!" "Oh, good." "Because whatever this is ain't working for me!" "Oh, really?" "Yeah." "Since when?" "Since you fucked that waiter on your cruise last June." "Boom!" " You told me it was a bartender." " Oh, you're right." "I stand corrected." "It was a bartender." "You fucked a bartender." "You're an idiot." "You're..." "You..." "You're such a bad person." "Like, all the way through to your core." "Alan, shall we dance?" "Let's do this." " It was a real pleasure meeting you." " Fuck off." " I'm getting my bartender's license." " Suck my dick." "No, thank you." "You guys are awe..." "Sid?" " There he is." " You wanted to see me?" " Yeah." " Congratulations, buddy." " Congratulations to you." " You had us worried there for a second." " Sorry." "How was Vegas?" "It was..." "Ahem." "It was crazy." "Attaboy." " Enjoy the car?" " Mm-hm." " Remember to put Armor All on the tires?" " Mm-hm." "Mm-hm." "Let me ask you a question." "How can a cake cost $1400?" " Highway robbery." " It's criminal." "Sid, ahem, about the car..." "Tracy told you." "I told her not to tell you." "I wanted to tell you." " Tell me what?" " Careful, Doug." "These women can't be trusted." " Tell me what, Sid?" " The Mercedes." "It is a wedding gift from Linda and I." " Are you serious?" " What do you think?" "That is awesome." "Thank you." "Oh." "Thanks, Daddy." "Thanks, Sid." "Close the door." " You're awesome." "You are awesome." "Yeah." "Dougie I gotta tell you, man, this was a gorgeous wedding." " I give it six months." " You're a dick." "I don't know what to say." "Thanks for the bachelor party, I guess?" "Yeah." "I just wish we could actually remember some of it." " Hey, guys?" "Look what I found." " Whoa, that's my camera." " It was in the back seat of the car." " Oh, Go..." "Are there photos on it?" "Yeah." "Some of it's even worse than we thought." " No fucking way." "Give me that." " Wa..." "Wa..." "Wait." "Wait, wait, wait." "We look at these pictures together, okay?" "One time." " And then we delete the evidence." " I say we delete it right now." "Are you nuts?" "I wanna find out how I wound up in the hospital." " Yeah, it's in there." " Guys, one time." " Deal?" " Deal." " Deal." " Okay." "Oh, dear Lord!" "That's classic!" "The Hangover UNRATED.720p. BluRay. x264-REFiNED." "English Upload to subscene. com by vista™" "HDVN"

"Inspired by true events" "They say Paris at night is so bright... the people don't know if it's midday or midnight." " Look how dark it is here." " It has its advantages." "When you live in the dark, it's much easier to die." "You barely lose anything." "Darkness replaces darkness." "And we deserve to live in the dark." " Why, Grandpa?" " Because." "What other nation curses the sun like we do?" "We curse the bright sun, the bloody sun..." "It's a miracle it shines on us at all." "Besides the sun, we curse God, bread, mother..." "What can a nation that curses sun, God, bread and mother hope for?" "Bloody sun!" "I taught you to read and write, and to count pigs." "But it's all useless in this country." "I'll teach you something that will be of some real use." "Get away from me, jinx!" "Fucking raven!" "Bad luck." "Can't you play something cheerful?" "Yes sir, Sergeant sir." "Fucking funeral music." "Stop playing and I'll let you sniff my girlfriend's letter." "1912" " Serbo-Turkish War Serbian Army" " Scout Unit" "The Turks are moving their artillery." " Second Lieutenant, sir!" " I could hardly find you, scouts!" "Now we get all the food for the past week!" " We must inform HQ." " After breakfast, neighbour." "It's a direct order, Sergeant." "Understand, neighbour." " I forgot what a pig looks like." " A pig?" "A pig looks like a goose, only without feathers." "People, who took the other leg?" "I want it back." "I'm asking you nicely." "Before you call Turks for help." "Come on, let's have it." " Gentlemen..." " He looks like a spy to me." " My name is Leonardo Spasic..." " Shut up!" "He's got some kind of machine gun!" "Let me waste him!" "You can commit cold-blooded murder, gentlemen." "But then you won't appear on the front page of the Serbian News as the brave liberators of Old Serbia!" "Gentlemen." "Smile please." "ST GEORGE KILLS THE DRAGON" "Gavrilo!" "Look!" "Who'd think a city girl could make this on her own?" " What's wrong?" " Save it for my grave." "I don't need it now." " We'll manage..." " Let go!" " You will manage." " Gavrilo!" "Give it to George!" "He came back in one piece." "It'll look better on him." "Don't worry, madame, he'll be back." "He loves you." "I'm sorry." "I thought..." "You're an expert on love?" "No one came for you?" "Welcome home." "Two years later" "Quiet down!" "Zoja-man, angry!" "Zoja-dog, mean!" "21, 22..." "All here!" "Watch your dog, Vane!" "Bite merchandise!" "Gavrilo, take me with you, please." "Grandpa told me reading and writing is useless." "Take me with you, just this once." "Why not, Gavrilo?" "It's an honest living." "What's the problem?" "Honest..." "Yes, it is." "You..." "Run off home." "They just can't get enough." "Bloody Vukovic brothers." "Almost every night." "Sergeant!" "We can get them on their way back!" "Let them go this time." "The cattle will die without salt." "Besides, what would you do for tobacco?" " Am I getting grey?" " Not at all, Sergeant." "Don't lie to me." "I still can't say nothing to you." "And I'd thought it all through." "Stupid woman!" "I can't..." "I'm not a city girl." "Mile will take me home." " What home?" " My home." "To my family." "Oh my God!" "I'm so ashamed!" "Kid, how come you missed some of us?" "If we're not equal here, I'm changing establishments." "Damn right!" "We natural unnaturals were the best customers before the wars!" "And then we unnaturals with medals took over." "Him first..." "Serious wounds have priority." "Since when does that apply here?" "Don't bother serving me, I'm sick of this." "Call me when you've decided!" "Until then, no drinks!" "That's my teaching!" "Right in the face, every time." " Just like Marx said." " Fuck Marx and fuck you!" "Poisoning the kid's mind with that foreign bullshit!" "What's the use of school?" "All he needs to know is to count pigs." "He'll make a decent living from smuggling." " Profiteers!" " People, drop the politics!" "Look at him." "What are you doing, Zoja?" "When will you get rid of that whorehouse monstrosity?" "Spasic's wife ordered it, but he won't have it in the house." "The mars right." "Move it!" "Like we're for the mirror." "Better not look at it at all." "Gendarmes." "Three of them." "I finished it yesterday." "Who is it?" "Me, George." "That's me." "You wouldn't know, of course." "You prefer me in the dark." "Cover yourself." "People will talk." "Do I look better in the painting or like this?" "I have to go." "Sergeant, sir!" "We have to hurry, sir." " Trouble at the Normal Tavern!" " Baco's beating his wife to death!" "Gendarmes don't deal with domestic matters." "Deal with this one!" "They treat women like cattle!" "Right?" "Don't let a decent man get drunk?" " Hit me, I don't know a better life!" " You don't, and you won't!" "Don't you move!" "Can you at least let us finish this in peace?" "You're not gonna fuck with me!" " You're not a fucking gendarme, cow!" " I am, and I can jail your ass!" "I'd rather rot than let her humiliate me, like some women..." "He's just drunken fool, George." "Sit down, have a drink." "Go home, you'll get over it." "Get away!" "These beasts need a strong hand!" "Madame Katarina, can you eat these?" "No." "But they're beautiful." "And they smell nice." "Would you like to smell?" "Come." "Does this mean we shoot at our neighbours?" "You heard the major." "Shoot on sight." " Understand, sir!" " Wait." "Tell the smugglers to stop crossing." "Good evening." "I'm not armed." "Sir..." "Can I go with you?" "Ask my brother." "He's selling tickets." "Get in!" "Don't be afraid, scholar!" "Give me a hand with the other passengers!" "Or, if you've got half a dinar..." " I have!" " Pay on the other side." "You scholars are a law-abiding lot." "Hop in!" " What's up, Zoja?" " He's a jinx!" "Just when everything's going so great, too!" "Isn't it so, bro?" "Jinx!" "Tomorrow, to school!" "Go ahead, feed them!" "Sava River" " Border between Serbia and Austria-Hungary" "I pray to you, St George, to shoot the German ship." "Zoja, it's okay." "Keep Gavrilo safe, and our boat, my buddies the pigs... the jinx too!" "They've gone." "What's wrong, scholar?" "Shit your pants?" "Pigs are the only beasts who don't know the stars exist." "It's their necks..." "they can't look up to the sky." "They can only look down, at the mud." "Pigs still happy." "Mud's all they see, their whole lives." " They must miss the stars." " Stars!" "Any pictures in that book, jinx?" "They're late." "This doesn't smell good." " Well, I'm off." " Quiet!" "You'll go when I tell you." "Zoja, sing." "Let's go." "Wait." "Gavrilo, this time, no credit." "You're always first here." " Like you're Austrian, not us." " Did you bring everything?" "Everything." "Direct from Vienna." "Quick!" "Unload!" "Wait a minute!" " You cut it, right?" " No way!" "Cross my heart!" "Best salt in the Empire!" " Certified." "No double-cross." " Check it out." "Not bad." " How could it be bad?" " We'll take it." "Look at the mirror." "Fit for an emperor!" "Careful!" "Break it... and you die!" "For you." "What's with this art stuff, Gavrilo?" " Hope it's not yours." " Cut the crap." "Gavrilo, hurry up." "This is no fucking trade!" "Venerable Serbs and Gypsies..." "I'm delighted to see the cooperation between our two countries is going smoothly... despite the overwhelming cultural differences." " Pay your countryman." " Afraid it's your turn." "We're at loss, again." "You Serbs are getting flash..." "Almost like Gypsies!" "Welcome to our country." "We wish you a pleasant stay." "St George, shoot them, too." "See you around, Gavrilo." " Take it!" " If I may, now..." "Go!" "Come back when you graduate." " Serbia needs scholars." " And books with pictures!" "Jinx!" "What's your name?" "Princip." "Gavrilo Princip." "Take care, namesake." "There goes your namesake, without paying!" "I'll take care of that." "Don't!" "Zoja-man pay for him." "My treat." "Good luck, jinx." "Gavrilo, what's that?" "Who ordered this?" " Zoja, what's in the box?" " Not for Zoja-man." "Dead." "I knew it." "Jinx!" "Frogs." "Silent." "Gavrilo..." "Is this that cinema you were talking about?" "Doesn't look good." "Small mirror... small jinx." "Big mirror... 28 June, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand visits Sarajevo" "I'm sorry..." "Excuse me..." "Sorry, could you please..." "Daddy, look!" "Why don't you use a rod, like a normal person?" "This is modern fishing..." "American-style!" "Vane!" "Orphan!" "Don't let our lunch get away!" "Look at that ungrateful little prick!" "If you don't like this work, we can send you back where we found you!" "Begging in the street!" "What's wrong with you?" "Doesn't warm your heart to see the boy play?" "No." " Another trairs overturned." " It's upside down, drunkard!" "Pass it over." "Zoja!" "If you grow into a dragon, I'll have to kill you." "But if you stay a frog, we'll be friends." "Orphan!" "Vane!" "The whole village is weeping" "Only my Smilja's sleeping" "Let her sleep Let her sleep" "I'll show you, you crippled fucker!" "Of all the houses, you want to fiddle in front of mine?" "Let the cripple sing if he can't play." " Come to the Normal Tavern." " Thanks, I'm in a hurry..." " Got some business." " I won't beat you, like the others." "I'll scorch you like a pig!" "Crippled punk!" "Come in here, to the Normal Tavern!" "You sang in front of his house." "No!" "Maybe I was humming..." "to myself." " I sing all day long..." " Don't you sober me up!" "I can walk by any house, singing, humming..." "If I ever catch you singing around my house... the next song will be at your funeral, you reject fuck!" "Good morning, madam." "Two of you against a man on crutches?" " Are you all right?" " Madam..." "I saw you, and it was like an angel looked at me." "He was... singing outside my house, to my wife." "Such faith in the power of music." "How lovely!" "If a cow dies, they say I stole it and put it in a painting." "They think I've cursed the village." "Do you think so too?" "Before I met you..." "I had both arms." "A boy who didn't know what to do with them in my company..." "If there was a medal for smuggling, each of your peasants would've got one!" "Invalids, sir." "Some have medals from the war." "Real ones." "Nice for people who like to parade their ornaments." "This time we'll melt everything into bombshells." "There'll be no iron left for such trifles." "Glory awaits us, Sergeant." "Understand." "That fine lady will be the death of him." "Mark my words." "Spit in my mouth when you're the sickest." "Gavrilo... happy!" " Zoja-man happy too." " Get out of here!" "I can't work with this shit." "So?" "When is your wife's baby due?" "In a month, God willing." "Nice." "So you'll have two babies this year." "Let's drink to that." "You're too late, gendarme!" "Now what?" "Nothing." "We've done all we can." " Does the gendarme know?" " My husband's my business." "Leave my business to me, like you always did." "I'm going back to Belgrade next week." "To my family." "You'd leave your husband and home?" "What husband?" "What home?" "Why do you think I came to this pit of misery?" " Wait a minute." " I'm waiting." "Now what?" "Will you tell your wife?" "No." "You won't." "Now hear me out." "When you were a cadet in Belgrade, you were in my house every day." "You asked me not to go and study art in Paris!" "I drove you almost to the front line in my father's car!" " You begged me to wait for you!" " And?" "And what came back?" "What?" "What came back?" "Answer me!" "Is this the Gavrilo you waited for?" "Who can I take care of like this?" "Your wife." "She's not like you." "She does everything, like a man." "She lost her husband there." "Where I lost my arm." "I'm going." "What will you do now?" "The Gavrilo I waited for would ask what will we do." "Katarina!" "Looks like someone beat him to it and got his missus to safety." " Your orders, sir?" " You're dismissed." "Don't you ask me where I've been?" "No, just whether you know where you are now." "In my wife's room." "You forgot to whip me, mister Gendarme." "I..." "I never loved you." "And I could never love you." " I am..." " I know." "I know everything." "We won't make it before dawn." " My brother is crazy." " Mile!" "You know love..." "Love is nice, I saw it!" "If you weren't my brother, I'd smack you with the oar!" "Hit Zoja-man." "Then you feel better!" "I didn't do it, I swear!" "Where's your grandson, old man?" "I don't know." "And if I did, you know I wouldn't tell you." " So it's all the same to you." " Tell him I'm looking for him." "With a gun?" "Who went across?" "The regular crew." "Katarina?" "What would she be doing with them?" "People, don't play!" "We shoot at anybody on the river, so do they!" "I understand why you shoot, but why them?" "You haven't heard?" "A student assassinated Ferdinand." "Fucking Krauts!" "They'll slaughter my children!" "Gavro!" "Let's drink to the end of an empire!" "Mile!" "Gavrilo!" "St George, please protect my children." "It's tragic when a grown man loses his mind." " At least when I screwed around..." " We know!" "Love is nice, Mile..." " What happened, man?" " Gendarme... not happy." "He think she ran away with Gavrilo!" " Gavrilo happy!" "Zoja-man happy." " Yeah, we're all fucking happy." "What on earth have you done?" "Come on." "They killed all..." "People... horses..." "The music... all..." " St George..." " Did we pay in advance?" "Shoot, St George!" "They killed them all!" "I knew it!" "I knew I'd be fucked because of Serbs." " Fuck, I paid in advance!" " Hush, pigs." "There!" "Don't waste your bullets feeling sorry for them!" "Don't shoot." "I want them alive." "Zoja-man dead!" " Hold on." " Zoja-man dead!" "Genuine gendarme bullet." "Let me play for you, Zoja." "You'll feel better." "I won't!" "Gavrilo!" "Where's my wife?" "Why ask me about your wife?" " You know where I was tonight." " I do." "That's why I'm asking." "Then you've nothing to ask." "You can simply arrest me for crossing the border." "I want yo... to ask you... something no-one in our village has ever asked." "Stay away from my wife." "Please." "I won't ask again, I'll just kill you." "I swear to St George." "We Vukovics have pillaged armies, cities, empires!" "But other mers wives?" "Never!" "Let him kill you." "He'll be doing all of us a favour." "You, me and that poor wife of yours." "In normal countries, disabled veterans are role models for the young." "But here, they smuggle, beg, booze!" "In normal countries these freaks don't jump on women." "It's not their fault they got crippled in two wars." "And what, it's my fault?" "I went to war twice in two years, too." "I should suffer 'cos I didn't return a horny cripple?" " Why so much, George?" " For the window." "Every single day I think of your kindness." "And of the baby." "The war saved me from going insane." "I prayed to St George for death in battle... for rest." "Instead of death, he sent me... her." "Instead of death..." "Forgive me." "Had the Archduke survived, he would have inerited the following titles:" "Emperor of Austria!" "King of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina!" "King of Rama, Cumania, Iliria... 24 July, 1914 Nearby Town of Sabac" "Duke of Dubrovnik and Zadar!" "Master of Kotor..." "Hundreds and hundreds of titles as ruler over enslaved nations!" "What a tyrant he would have been, had he lived!" "Madam Slavka!" "Nine long months without war." "The kids are itching for it." "Madam Slavka!" "Go ahead, talk." "May I speak with my wife in private?" "In private?" "Is this a police station where you can interrogate people without witnesses?" "It's okay, Auntie." "If your talk is unfit for my ears, it's unfit for my house, too." "Is that clear?" "If it is, then go ahead, talk." "Never mind me." "Let's go home." "Please." "What for?" "This morning I resigned." "I handed in my uniform." "I left you alone..." "For days..." "Life was better when I lived as a carpenter." "I've been thinking..." "We could sell up." "Move to the city." "Village life isn't for you." "Is the city for you?" "Please, stop that." "It gets on my nerves." "You've read those novels." "I'm not saying..." "It exists..." "maybe with younger folks." "For a time." "Then it goes away." "What goes away?" "Love?" "And what's left, when 'it' all passes?" "Worries." "Nothing else?" "Just worries?" "Nothing else." "Just worries." "And you call that life?" "Madam Katarina, there's a boy here." "He says he knows you." "Katarina..." "This one probably isn't the type of man you deserve." "But he's certainly better than the one you're crying over." "Auntie..." "When did a woman ever love a man for his virtues?" "I haven't told you everything." "I'm pregnant." "I love you..." "Auntie, may I ask you to come with us?" "For a couple of days." "I'll wait for you downstairs." "In Blumbach, in just one day, Ferdinand shot 53 goats!" "On his hunting trips, he killed over 6,000 deer!" "Even if he'd done nothing else, he deserved to be killed!" "My child, my late husband was right." "One should only see peasants at the market, as briefly as possible." "Spare a coin for a war hero!" "You're a reactionary element!" "There's no place for you here!" "Dear Prime Minister Pasic..." "This is a request for urgent help for disabled veterans!" "We wanted to appeal immediately after the war against the Turks!" "But the war against the Bulgarians was approaching, therefore..." "War." "Zoja" "Shut up, Zoja, this is for grownups." "Now the war against Austria-Hungary is here." "But, Mr. President Pasic, I ask for your sympathy..." "We have to catch our breath between wars!" "Micun, this letter is..." "forgive me... pure cocksucking!" "We meet in secret, like conspirators, for what?" "For this?" "A demand must begin with the words:" "Shame on you!" "When war breaks out, Serbia wins, but the people lose!" "The result of each war is less people, but more government!" "Shame on you!" "That same government won two wars in two years!" "It expanded Serbian territory by one quarter!" "The government didn't, we did!" "We won the wars!" "Let the last man standing write the demand." "Now we're rejects!" "Who was rejected from the government?" "No one!" "I don't give a fuck for a quarter of Greater Serbia," " I've lost a quarter of my body!" " Belotic, you traitor!" "You blind bastard!" "Serve the gendarme." "I've resigned." "Feel free to speak against the government." "I don't know, George." "You'll forget yourself and report us out of habit." " Well said!" " I'm spying on you?" "I'm the informer?" "Okay..." "Your informant letters, addressed to me personally." "We have a spy in this tavern." "There... read." "Something for everyone." "I won't do it." "Dear Mister George..." "My conscience demands I inform you that two nights ago," "I was sitting in the Invalid Tavern, speaking such... fil..." "filth... that I should have..." "I should be shot." "And I did all this just to make them talk." "Because they were only talking about other mers wives..." "Who laid who, where, how, when, and how many times." "Around midnight, I got them to blab." "Then they blabbed until dawn." "Whoever wrote this, I hope his hand shrivels up." "Particularly vocal against the government... was that ugly pig Vojo." "People, I can't write that well." "But I know someone who can." "Quiet!" "Let's hear the rest." "I'll rip someone's head off!" "Gendarmes from other villages envied me." "Their folk wouldn't talk even after a beating." "I served the police for money." "You do it for the love of it." "Go ahead now, speak about politics." "There is an "M"..." "Like "Zoja..." "Man"." "This guy obviously doesn't know how ugly the priest's wife is." "Are there any pictures?" "George!" "From Grandpa Aleksa, and all of us." "For your honest service to our village." " How's this bay of mine behaving?" " He's okay." "Aleksa told me you made it for your son." "Sorry." "He'd be just like you." "This tall." "Thanks for the watch." "It's exactly two hours slow." "You get used to it." "It goes like this:" "Let her sleep Let her sleep" "Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets!" "In the right corner, Djukic, a true Serbian hero!" "In the left..." "Katarina." "Place your bets, have some fun and help the invalids!" "Thank you." "George!" "Let's go." "It's too hot." "The two of you go." "I've got something to do." "George!" "How's your watch?" "Both fighters possess the courage of our hero, Gavrilo Princip!" "Your hand guided me when I saved his life." "Help me now, to save it again." "Don't let me kill him." "Spare a coin for a war veteran, good people!" "St George really is your patron." "There!" "A man!" "Waving!" "Hey, Kraut!" "Come have a beer!" "Waving, my ass!" "He's threatening us!" "Man!" "Flying!" "On a dragon!" "I say... that's a threat." "No you don't!" "He's really threatening us." "Bastard!" " I'll fuck him up!" " Threaten us..." "Luka, are you celebrating or shooting each other?" "Teacher, this is military business." "Gavrilo!" "Have a shot on me!" "Get down!" "Get down, you fucking Kraut!" "Now we're fucked!" "They're really gonna get mad!" "People!" "We killed the plane!" " You're alive!" " We're both alive." "By the decision of the Serbian Supreme Command, and signed by General Radomir Putnik personally, we hereby declare a full-scale mobilization!" "The third bells in three years." "I'm afraid there won't be anyone left to hear the fourth one." "Let my great-grandson hear." "We don't have to." "Don't worry, Grandpa." "Our mother was in labour for two days with Gavrilo." "God forgive me, sometimes I wish he'd never been born at all." "Come on, people, last orders." "The tavern will close during the war." "It wouldn't be right." "Does this mean I can't sing?" "Once it starts, it'll soon be over soon." "They called me again, a half-blind man!" "And again, they didn't call me." " What happened?" " Jelena's okay." "She'll be fine." "And the baby?" "What about the baby?" "After the war, your business will boom, cripples, like never before!" "I wanna make a reservation In Invalid tavern right now!" "The Kraut can run and hop But at the Sava's banks he'll stop" "MILAN VUKOVIC" "Now you stink too." "Just like the rest of us." "Major, sir!" "Gavrilo Vukovic, second lieutenant, cavalry." "One thing I hate more than Germans." "Doctors." " Let's hear it." " I'm reporting for duty." "I know the river, I've crossed it a hundred times." "A smuggler?" "Decorated." "Before taking up smuggling, you were a soldier." "You know I don't make the rules." "If it was down to me, I'd take you." "We need even men like you." "I'm sorry." "Our brave student killed him His name is Princip Gavrilo" "You're going to die, and you scream like hell!" "Spare a coin for a war veteran, good people!" "Grandpa, don't do this." "You promised to take me to Belgrade." "Everything will be all right, Gavrilo can tell you." "Grandpa." "I know you can hear me." "This is horrible." " He lay down and decided to die." " Please, just one smile, grandpa." "Dying isn't going so smoothly..." "Mile, put me down, I want to be closer to the ground." "Grandpa!" "That's better." "Grandpa..." "You lived your way, and you died your way." "A successful man." "Gavrilo!" "Slavka, if the war starts to go badly for us..." "Burn the house down, I don't want Krauts in it." "Look out for yourself, George." "I'm an expert in war." "If I don't make it back, everything I have is hers." "And the child she's expecting..." "If it's a boy, let him stay here, to keep the family name alive." "If it's a girl, get her out of this misery, as far away as possible." "Since my husband died, I've not met as good a man as you." "It's easy to be good when you've got nothing else left." "Goodbye, Slavka." "There's something for you in the shed." " You told him whose child it is?" " He already knew." "May St George be with you!" "Watch your head, gendarme!" " Thrash them just like I would." " Stop it!" "I'm tired, already." "Give me that." "What's the hurry, George?" "The Krauts will wait for us!" "St George..." "Please love Aleksa." "Love Gavrilo..." "Mile..." "Love them like Zoja-man does." "Here, two dinars." "The bill I never paid." "Mile..." "Get some rest." "I'll take over." "Soldiers." "I'm afraid we'll envy Aleksa soon enough." "We'll say: "Lucky you, Aleksa"." "My grandpa used to say "I'd rather die than that something happen to me!"" "Shows their true colours, beating a man who brings them a soldier's letter!" "Only the filthy Babic family could do that." "No bird's flown over their house for 200 years." "So you called in at Vojo's wife?" "I took her a letter from Vojo!" " A letter from the frontline is sacred!" " Count yourself lucky." "You wouldn't have got out of my yard..." "Alive." "You're crippled, not deaf!" "You heard me, frontline letters!" "Fuck off!" "Rajko, drop by my place sometime." "Bring a letter to my wife." "I already did." "A pregnant woman doesn't go to a wake." " Bad luck." " Exactly." "Let her in." "I don't want to find you here when I come back." "Neither you nor her." " Witch!" " Let's get out of here." "Will St George finally kill the dragon and save us from evil?" "St George, help us!" "Witch!" "Why did you come?" "I'm leaving tomorrow." "We won't see each other again." "Zoja-man sad." "While Europe has danced, sung and grown rich we've spent centuries in the trenches!" "At their border posts, like their guard dogs!" "Where's that fucking Europe now?" "Cer Mountain, The first battle of the Great War" "Serbia today has four million people." "Austria-Hungary has 55 million!" "For years they've been threatening and talking bullshit!" "They say that Serbia should 'bathe in iror!" "I've never heard a wickeder threat than to bathe a nation in iron!" "We'll stick their iron up their asses!" "They'll feel it for many years!" "If they cross the border and head for our villages, we fuck their what?" " We fuck their mothers!" " Exactly!" "I have the honor to inform you that we are at the focus of the enemy attack!" "Once we repel the attack, we will chase them all the way back to Vienna!" "All the way to Vienna, we will..." "Fly over, Sir!" "The baby is mine, and only mine." "The decision is mine." "'Keep the family name going'!" "That important name..." "They go to war, sire children, and die in that name!" "We have to give birth and rejoice if the child goes to war!" "If it's a boy..." "This child will not go to war." "Gavrilo!" "Gone mad!" "Broke into army barracks!" "Took dynamite..." "to kill boat!" "To kill Gavrilo-man." "Mad." "Wanna all by him-self." "What?" "You want to kill yourself?" "I came to see what sort of man you are, one last time." "Kill yourself?" "What amazing knowledge, bravery and wisdom that takes!" " What do you want from me?" " That you stay alive." "Katarina, it's wartime." "Is nothing holy to you men apart from war." "Nothing?" "To be fathers, to love!" "You forgot to learn that!" "I spit on your holy things!" "Do you hear me?" "!" "Not easy without a man in the house, right?" "Need a hand with anything?" "How can you help me?" "Well, I can't chase chickens around the yard." "But..." "I have my uses." "Really?" "Tie up the dog, girl." "Men!" "Well done!" "Bravo!" "We never got this far before!" "Next time, we break their lines!" "I promise you that!" "Sergeant!" "Dismiss the men." " Fall out." " George." "Why haven't you told him about the rejects?" "When?" "If some cripple had jumped the Captain's wife he'd have us all running there!" "Look at this letter!" "Running?" "We'd be fucking flying!" "They fuck women and steal chickens?" "Did you hear me?" "Men unfit for war fuck women and steal chickens?" "Sir, we have the same reports from other units." " I had to report this to you." " And I must report it to the Major," "The Major to the Colonel, the Colonel to the General," "The General reports this to Supreme Command, so" "They react instantly," "They throw away all the war plans and order the men home, so" "They dig in trenches outside their houses, wait, and kill the studs!" "Get away!" "Piss off!" "Sergeant, are you married?" "Yes I am, Captain." "Any children?" "No... not any more." "God willing, I'll have them again." "Do you too suspect that someone's invading your home and your wife?" "No, not at all, sir." "While I'm away... there's another man..." " Another man?" " He takes care of my wife and home." "If it wasn't for him, I'd be worried." "Get out." "What's this nonsense?" "What bloody man?" " Her man." " Your wife's man?" " Yes." " She's your lawful wedded wife?" "Yes, Captain Sir." "It's an ugly story, this isn't the time." "Excuse me." "Wait a minute!" "Why isn't that scoundrel here?" "He lost an arm in the last war." "We fought together." "We all fought together, Sergeant." "Do you care about your wife at all?" "I came here to die... just like you." "I came here to win!" "But the soldiers try to stay alive." "I feel sorry for them." "For me, this is a relief." "From a greater evil, I came into a lesser one." "What you looking at?" "I'm sure you heard everything!" "Fuck diplomacy." "Who's coming with me?" "Wait, Baca." "We have a petition." "If they catch you, you'll be court-martialled." "I'm going hunting for a songbird." "Let's start signing." "I won't." "Yes, you will." " I can't write!" " Just put a cross!" "Not that big cross, moron!" "Give it to me." "Next!" "Mikan, watch out for the gendarme." "Why hasn't the Captain taken this to the Supreme Command?" "The Supreme Command has better things to do!" "They don't deal with rejects and lovers!" " This isn't about soldiers!" " Who is it about, if not us?" "We get letters saying that rejects are prowling around our houses!" " I didn't dare open the last letter!" " Enough!" "Enough talk!" "I did what I could." " Listen up!" " Maybe a package from my mother." "Letters for the 3rd Company!" "Somebody's finally remembered you, footsloggers!" "Let's see what treats we have here!" "Vojo Milovanovic!" "Vojo, stop fucking around!" " Milovanovic!" " I'm dead." " Milovanovic!" " Dead!" "Mikan Babic!" " Mikan Babic!" " May God rest his soul." " Baca Dragojevic!" " They're all dead!" "These men are replacements." "You're alive, but you're no good to me." " Baco." " Baco!" " Did you at least kill them?" " Caught me before I got there." "Too bad." "Sergeant, assemble the squad." "Captain, is there any way we can avoid this?" " People, don't..." " George..." "You always respected the country, but my house, never!" "I believed you when you said that the country exists!" "That the country's won'th dying for!" "All I knew of this country was my family and my home!" " Fuck you and the country!" " Ready." "Aim." "Soldier, I wish you lasting rest." "Fuck you and fuck the country!" "Fire!" "Brother!" "My brother!" "War..." "Boom, boom!" "Mile, why don't you open the tavern?" "Expect from us to drink river water till the end of the war?" "Look!" " I'm getting out of here!" " They know us..." "We're a civilian building, they won't shoot at us!" "Our Russian brothers and Allies will never abandon Serbia!" "Please, don't." "We are invincible!" "Kraut murderers!" "I suggest we don't relax until the Allies come." " Pass it on." " Aleksa." "You died right on time." "Fucking cripple!" "Over here!" " Mile, what's this?" " There you are!" " By the order of the Command..." " They granted our pensions?" " I don't think so, teacher." " Now you're fucked!" "If you're able enough to fuck other mers wives, you're able enough to fuck Krauts at the front!" "Zoja-man don't want to shoot." "So you can fuck now, in the name of the king and the country!" " I'm for the military band!" " Is this the enemy or the allies?" " I am straight!" " I can see!" "On the road!" "What's all this?" "What on earth are you doing?" "Where's your brother?" "With that whore again?" " He seized the opportunity!" " Shut up!" " Let's go!" " Move!" "I can go by myself!" "Please, don't!" "I've got a mill to run!" " Move it!" " Faster!" "Come on, child." "Stop!" " Please..." " Where are you going, child?" "Once this is over, I'll come to Belgrade." "I promise." "Over?" "You're waiting for the end of something that has no end." "I'm not going to let some war make my decisions for me." "Come on!" "Move it, you bastards!" " Zoja-man won't shoot." " Yes you will!" "Move!" " Move, you old fart!" " Faster!" "Faster, rejects!" "Witch!" "Witch!" "Move!" "Move!" "The mobilization doesn't apply to you." "You're a decorated war hero." "If it was up to me, you'd be leading this pack of freaks!" "As fucker-in-chief!" "Move these beasts!" "Let's go." "Gavrilo!" "Where you go, I go too!" "You're not going anywhere." "Do you hear?" "I'm coming, Gavrilo!" "Please!" " You won't stop me!" " Go home!" "Go!" "I'm coming, and that's it!" "Go home!" "I hope you drop dead, Gavrilo!" "Drop dead!" "Drop dead!" "Do you hear me, Gavrilo?" "!" "Drop dead!" "When you're out of ammo, and the enemy is still advancing..." "Use the bayonet!" "When the bayonet breaks, use your hands!" "When they break your hands, use your teeth!" "When they shoot you down, fall right across their path!" "Let them trip over you!" "Fuck them even when you're dead!" "Serve the Fatherland even in death!" "Is that clear?" "Can you hear me, sir?" "Major, sir!" "Requesting permission for another charge!" "Can you hear me?" "Yes!" "Another charge!" "We've got enough men!" "We don't need reinforcements!" "Please, Major, sir!" "I'm begging you!" "I'm down on my knees!" "Understand, sir!" " Motherfucker!" " I wish I was dead." "We're out of luck!" "The orders are to wait for the night and reinforcements!" "It's a real shame, sir." "However... for the first time in my life..." "I will have to disobey my superior." "He's a goner." "Thank you, St George." "What a hero, what a madman he was!" "I raise you ten." "I call..." "When his sort are all dead, we'll become the heroes without noticing it!" "Show your cards." "May God rest his soul." "What do you think you're doing, bastard?" "No, you don't!" "Let him take it." "The hero doesn't need it anymore." "Thank you, Major, sir." " Reinforcments are on their way." " We're saved." "Reinforcements will be here." "Fresh troops are coming." "Fresh troops!" "Just one more battle, and God willing, we'll all go home... alive!" " Vojo, fresh troops." " Thank you, St George!" "Heroes!" "It's almost free!" "I can make you immortal!" " Come on, let's take a picture." " For yor grand and grand grand children!" " Heroes, come on!" " Get out of here!" "I will immortalize you!" "Clear off, jinx!" " I want to take a picture." " Me, too!" "Make sure we look like heroes!" "George, let's have one souvenir photo." "Move closer." "Closer..." "All together." "I like it!" "Excellent..." "Real conquerors." "Not one smile, you'll spoil everything!" "Look over here!" "And..." "Watch the birdie!" "What are you staring at?" "Heroes!" "Move it!" " Let's go!" "Faster!" " Move!" "Move!" "Come on!" "Faster!" "The petition." "It worked!" "Everybody signed it, George." "We didn't ask you because..." "Fuck." "Fall in!" "What kind of people are you?" "Sergeant, sir!" " You, stand at attention." " How?" "To avoid revolt, they have been sent here as a punishment!" "Punishment?" "!" "They told us that being here was an honour." "Sign here." "What a fool!" "I came here fucking singing!" " Dane, avenge your brother." " We've been set up, brothers!" " Malicious, wagging tongues!" " Shoot." "Brothers!" "Those were all lies!" " Go ahead, shoot." " We're brothers now?" "Where are our wives and sisters, brothers?" "Enough!" "I'm sick of your bullshit!" "You deserve such replacements." "This was all your idea, you sad excuse for a man." "You pushed the soldiers to revolt." "You ordered the mobilization of these poor creatures." "You lacked the guts to come and kill me, like a man." "Gavrilo, shut your mouth." "Once again, gendarme, you fucked up!" "I wasn't mobilized, I'm a war reject." "I came here of my own will." "Have you done this because of her?" "Don't you mention her." "Don't move!" "I told you." "A witch!" "We could've settled this between the two of us." "Sergeant, sir, the enemy is preparing to attack." "It seems we won't settle this in this life." "Into position!" "We don't need their commands." "Let's do the job they brought us here for." "The replacements are here!" "Too bad I won't be able to thank you personally!" " Sergeant, sir..." " Motherfucking sun..." "Ninko..." "Ninko!" "Bro!" "Finally!" "The ones that cursed us didn't waste their time." "Let's go, brother." "Across the lands forever cursed" "The Sava's mighty banks have burst" "The whole village is weeping" "Shit!" "The last thing I'll hear..." "Only my Smilja's sleeping" "George." "Forgive us." "We didn't want it to turn out like this." "Gavro!" "Prepare to attack." "Sergeant, sir!" "We can't!" "The Major hasn't..." "What are you doing here?" " George!" "Did you see that?" " What?" " Songbird!" "I'll kill you now!" " Quiet!" "Don't come out till it's all over." "Understand?" "Take this watch." "It's still slow." "Two hours exactly." "You'll get used to it by the time you grow up." "Bye, Vane." " Songbird!" " The krauts will hear us!" "He shouts like crazy." "A man can't even die in peace." "Our time now... to die." "Why don't they shoot?" "Our Czech brothers!" "Our Croat brothers!" "Don't shoot!" "I pray to you, St George." "Zoja-man don't want to hurt!" "Songbird!" "I've been looking all over for you!" "So you sing..." "I sing all day long..." "I can walk by any house..." "That's okay." "Fucking... fucking..." "Fucking petition!" "Vojo." "I wrote those letters..." "I was the informer." "But why?" "Just out of spite." "Hold it, let me unscrew this..." "Let's go, Luka." "What are you doing here?" "Gavrilo..." "I saw him." "I saw him." " Let me, Vane..." " Light our way, kid." "Grandpa taught me..." "to walk in the dark." "And so it went on troughout the 20th century"

"CIRCLE" "KANG Soo-yeon" "JUNG Wung-in" "CHOI Jung-yoon, JEON Jae-ryoung" "Directed by:" "PARK Seung-bae" "Hey, what are you doing?" "What do you think of this case?" "Quite a headache for a female district attorney, isn't it?" "Can you tell us about its progress?" "How's the kid?" "He's playing hard-to-get!" "Didn't he confess at the police station?" "That bastard!" "He's retracting his own statement now." "Are you playing with us, shithead?" "You confessed at the station and now you're going back on your word?" "!" "I only confessed because they were torturing me." "Tung, looks like he needs a lesson." "Got it!" "Where is that female scent coming from?" "What are you talking about, you bastard?" "I can do the questioning." "Let me do it." "It's better that I do it." "Leave us, all of you." "Yes." "Nice smell." "I'm talking about your pussy." "So you like it, huh?" "Smell this!" "So you want to feel good, you creep?" "Feel this!" "How about this?" "Where do you want me to touch you most?" "Here?" "Or here?" "I don't want a female lawyer." "What the hell are you talking about?" "You think you're at a restaurant or what?" "That woman... she's scary." "She's crazy." "Didn't you see?" "She touched my dick just now." "That's sexual harassment." "What kind of a lawyer is that?" "Did she really harass you sexually?" "Yes." "She hurt both my body and mind." "Tell him to shut up!" "Where did she touch you then?" "She even touched my balls." "I almost came." "Inspector Bon." "Stop bullshitting with me, asshole!" "Where did you hide the nurse's body?" "I fed it to the dogs." "What?" "!" "Why should I tell you everything?" "You think you're smart, so go find it yourself!" "You asked for it!" "Listen to me." "You go and eat first." "I'm hungry." "I can't take this anymore." "Let him eat." "I don't want McDonald's!" "Just eat whatever we give you." "Hamburger!" "Hamburger!" ""Chase Lloyd." "Born in 1932."" "American fashion model from California." "One of the best professional models." "This is the fifth one." "Someone sewed up those women's genitals." "That's a comforting thought." "I'm talking about the corpse of the fifth woman." "Finding the corpse will be comforting." "But of course." "Please, just confess, will you?" "You're not going to live long anyway." "What a pity." "A woman's precious ended up inside her stomach." "Did you eat it?" "No." "Gave it to the dog." "Is it still inside the dog?" "How can it still be there now?" "Look at his legs." "Stop." "Madam?" "The police found out where Chiu lives." "Go open up the warehouse." "Looks like nobody has been here." "What?" "You bastard!" "Shit!" "I already warned you and you're still so clumsy!" "What's that?" "Look!" "Inspector Jiang." "Has it been confirmed?" "Yes." "She is the missing woman." "But I still haven't found her genitals." "The dog ate it." "How could it be?" "Hey, what's that?" "Which specimen?" "The one stuck together." "It's the genitals of a man and a woman." "The woman's name was Shan." "Hello?" "Chiu is innocent." "Let him go." "I told him to do it." "And, I'll kill you too." "Who are you?" "I am Shan." "Shan?" "!" "Who are you?" ""Document of charges filed"" "Give your fingerprint after you've read it." "Use just one finger." "Get up." "Let's go!" "I heard that you took the case." "Yes." "I've just read the charges." "Interesting." "Have you done a "psych evalu" on him yet?" "He's a devil." "He killed six women." "I'll make sure he gets the death penalty!" "Someone is getting excited." "Did he scare you?" "Are you my defense attorney?" "Yes." "First, let me introduce myself." "Wan is my name." "The charge against me is murder." "Yes, I've read the charges." "Got a cigarette?" "You're wasting your time." "What do you mean?" "Let me ask you." "Will I still live?" "You shouldn't be thinking about this." "Six people died." "That's an automatic death sentence." "Why do you still want to help me?" "Because there's still a chance." "What, that I'm crazy?" "Impossible!" "I was already acquitted last time, and this time, I killed six women." "Would you let me go if you were the judge?" "Unless there were only five." "What's the difference?" "Because I didn't kill the sixth woman." "You still don't get it?" "Looks like you wouldn't understand." "You're an idiot too." "Tell me, why did you kill them?" "Why?" "Must there be a reason?" "I'll kill if I want to." "Just like that, huh?" "You and the term "cold hearted killer" are a perfect match." "Fuck off!" "Why the fuck are you here, really?" "I heard that Wan has asked the court for permission to do a "psych evalu" on Chiu." "What do we do now?" "What do you mean?" "We'll see." "What are you doing?" "I'm exercising." "It'll be all over for me if I don't keep myself in shape." "Where are you not feeling well?" "The heart." "Got cigarettes?" "They came again last night." "Who?" "The people in white robes." "They even cut off my balls." "You must've been dreaming." "I know I wasn't." "They really came!" "2 am, in the middle of the night!" "Damn it." "May hasn't come to see me." "She said she'd bring me hamburgers." "She was the one who told me to kill those six women." "May is the devil." "You just want coffee. 3,100 Won, please." "How do you know?" "I can tell from looking at your face." "You never drink Coke." "Thanks." "You're a lawyer, right?" "I know why you're here." "Who is she?" "Chiu's girlfriend." "How come we don't know about her?" "The defendant can't have a normal sex life, is that true?" "Yes." "We've been living together for three years, but we've never had sex." "Why's that?" "He said he cut off his genitals." "So he doesn't have a penis?" "He does." "His penis is long and thick." "But he says he has the same dream every night..." " Inspector Bon." " Yes, counsel?" "That someone wants to cut off his penis." "Inspector Bon, we have to investigate her." "Will." "She's the one who threatened me!" "I will now present to the court hospital documents that prove that the defendant, Chiu, cannot have a normal sex life." "The prosecutor alleges that the defendant raped and killed six women." "But this is a guy who cannot have sex." "He can't do it." "And, we also know that the defendant does not recall committing the crime." "We have another document here that confirms that the defendant has lost his memory." "One other thing." "The defendant complains that the prosecutor in charge of this case sexually harassed him." "What?" "!" "He said you sexually harassed him." "Is that true?" "Your honor, will you believe a mental patient?" "The court has decided that the defendant, Chiu will be temporarily sent to a psychiatric ward for observation." "What kind of bullshit was that back there?" "I was just expressing our point of view." "Why must you defend a murderer?" "The defendant should get a fair trial." "I have to protect him before he's proven guilty." "Here." "Why can't you just take it easy?" "You just watch." "I'll get him back in jail in a week!" "Is that necessary?" "Why are you wearing such an ugly tie?" "You gave it to me for my graduation." "Why are you following me?" "GET LOST!" "I know who the real murderer is." "Tell me then." "Who's the murderer?" "It's Shan." "Shan?" "Why her?" "What do you know?" "A man with half a face and a woman with one arm..." "They want revenge and kill those in white robes..." "So where is Shan?" "Right next to me." "What she said freaked me out." "Her words gave me the chills." "You've been watching too many horror movies!" "It's true!" "I was really scared at that time!" "She said she's Shan in another life." "So Chiu was following orders from a reincarnated Shan?" "There's no reincarnation in this world!" "I read about it." "If someone did something terrible to another in a previous life, there'll be revenge in the next." "Really?" "So what's happened so far may well be concrete proof!" "Wait." "Did you say her name was Shan?" "Yes." "Shan was a famous prostitute in the 30's." "Counsel, when I was at the crime lab," "I saw Shan's genitals connected with that of another man in a bottle of alcohol." "And you guys call yourselves detectives?" "Check whether that May is nuts." "She looks like one to me!" "We can't arrest Chiu before we confirm her sanity." "This is called an unconscious action, saying that ghosts are behind everything." "It's the power of ghosts that makes people do things unconsciously." "The power of ghosts enters people's brains and affects the brain cells." "The brain cells then take over the person's body." "And, the ghost's spirit will look for others and stick together." "So the ghosts' brainwaves will dominate." "The person loses his willpower and can only function under the ghost's control." "Therefore, there are "unconscious" murders too." "But the judge is not going to believe that." "From a medical point of view, we must first understand the cause for the mental illness before we can begin any effective treatment." "Without treatment, a patient may turn into a serial killer." "This is May's voice." "It has to be her." "Go." "If Chiu didn't kill anybody, then could it be May?" "Possible." ""I'm Shan."" "But how does May know when Chiu is in "crazy" mode?" "They're conspirators." "They have to be." "This report concludes that Chiu is not insane." "Thank God." "This gives me real comfort." "Poor thing." "His skin is giving off this scary, ghost-like aura." "The weird thing is, it's that of a baby." "A baby?" "At this stage, he has lost control of his body." "The truth is, there'll be trouble if you don't get rid of it soon." "This is a child full of bitterness and vengeance." "It's just that he couldn't find the right woman to give birth to him in this life." "Get rid of the ghostly spirit and he'll get new life" "Get new life." "Come out." "Come out!" "Come out!" "Come out now!" "We need to keep May in custody until the sentencing." "But she has proof of insanity..." "Just do it!" "Why can't you even do a little thing like that?" "Let's face it, counsel." "We'll be in deep shit if we do this." "Just do as I say." "Please state your name clearly." "Kim Kong-lin." "What year are we in now?" "The 10th Year of Shiwa." "Then where are you?" "Chung Road, in front of the National Museum." "It's raining... raining hard..." "And then?" "What do you see?" "It's Shan." "Shan's standing there, looking at me." "He sees nothing." "Let's go." "See you in court, Wan." "The session is not done yet!" "Silence, everyone." "Prosecutor, you may now read the charges." "On April 13, 2000," "The defendant, Chiu, kidnapped and murdered..." "Did you use a knife to kill Kam on April 13, 2000?" "I don't know her name." "I just heard that I killed a woman." "Then, did you kill Song in the woods near Thousand Caves on May 7?" "Please reply, defendant." "I did it." "I killed them all." "Satisfied?" "Do you know how many people you've killed?" "50, 100, 1000..." "Defendant, please give a straight answer." "Why did you kill?" "What's the reason?" "Because I enjoy it!" "This is a motion from the defense counsel." "Motion granted." "I believe my client's mental state makes him unfit to continue to stand trial." "We won't be able to have a fair proceeding." "So I request the court to allow the defendant to undergo another psychiatric test in order for us to have a fair trial." "Objection." "We have already submitted medical proof that the defendant is not insane." "We can proceed with the questioning." "If the defendant wants to use sickness as an excuse to obstruct the judicial proceedings, then that's no different from cheating." "That's contempt of court." "You should warn them, your honor." "Silence, defendant." "Court is adjourned." "The next session will be at 2pm on June 3rd." "Thank you." ""Killing teachers and fellow students and having affairs with his teacher's maid." "The murderous acts of Kim Kong-lin"" "This is what you were looking for." "Why is it here?" "Special circumstances." "Perhaps it was left here for future generations to study." "Can I take pictures?" "Yes, please." "As a lawyer, in order to prove that my client is mentally unstable," "I listened to the witness May describing their relationship in the past life." "I was hoping to find a breakthrough from a psychological point of view." "I concluded that Kim Kong-lin, a painter in the 1930's was Chiu's past incarnation." "This is a shocking conclusion." "Objection!" "The defense counsel has gone against the basic facts completely." "The defendant committed murder in the cruelest way." "We don't have to care about who he was in his past life or whose reincarnation he is now." "The sentencing has to be based on his crime!" "Silence, defendant!" "Counsel Ng!" "Counsel Ng!" "Defendant, you have to be quiet!" "Counsel Ng, you sure know how to talk!" "Silence." "The court will now take a short recess." "What do you want from me, Mr. Counsel?" "I want to know about Shan." "She died in 1936 along with the painter, Kim Kong-lin." "Shan was a Kisaeng (Geisha) at Moon Villa." "Why do you want to know?" "Because of the case I'm handling now." "Someone in the case has something to do with what happened back then." "Her name is May." "May..." "Therefore, I want to know if May is Shan's reincarnation." "How would I know?" "You just need to answer my questions." "Can you see the sign on Moon Villa?" "Yes." "What does it say?" "Tae..." "Dong..." "It's Tae Dong Construction." "There's a huge tree on the south side..." "And, there's a well under the tree." "No." "There was one, but they filled it after geishas started committing suicide there." "When did Shan and Kim meet?" "Shan and Kim..." "Even though it has been so many years," "I still remember it very clearly." "It was pouring that day..." "Shan was in a rickshaw, and the rickshaw driver ran into Kim." "Sorry..." "I am so sorry." "It's my fault." "Sorry." "This painting is all I've got!" "At that moment, when they first saw each other, love sparked between them." "But fate led to their doom." "And then?" "On the next day," "Kim begged for forgiveness from his teacher." "Such a valuable painting and you ruined it completely!" "I will get her to compensate you." "What do you know?" "That piece is priceless!" "Kim was very troubled by it." "He went to Moon Villa the next day to ask Shan for compensation." "But in reality, he went there so he could see her again." "I don't think you've come here for a drink." "You came because you missed me, right?" "I have something important to do here." "What's that?" "I'm looking for Shan." "You're looking for her?" "Please tell her Kim Kong-lin is here." "Why do you want to see Shan?" "Just get her out here." "Sir, am I not as good as Shan?" "Don't be so heartless." "Just forget about her!" "Please come with me." "Kim went to another room with Shan and, he saw..." "Come, sit down." "Yes, teacher." "Come on, sit down." "Yes, teacher." "This is the owner of the painting," "Mr. Cheung from the Viceroy's office." "So you're the one who ruined my painting." "I'm so sorry." "I've already agreed to give to Mr. Cheung another, more valuable painting." "So, to show his appreciation, he gave me something equally valuable." "A lovely Kisaeng!" "Come." "Let's drink to it." "Drink!" "Even though geishas are like toys for men," "Shan was devastated by the sight of seeing his beloved now belonging to an old man." "A geisha is worth so little, not even as much as a painting!" "So the murders took place in the brothel then?" "Actually, I'm not very sure about that." "I only read about it in the newspaper afterwards." "There were lots of rumors at that time." "No one knew what really happened." "I just felt so sorry for Shan." "The painter, Kim Kong-lin not only had an affair with his teacher's maid, he also saw his teacher favoring another student Tai and ignoring him." "He and Shan killed Tai and ran away." "They both died in Kong Yuen province." "After a thorough investigation, we believe the defendant's unusually brutal acts may very likely have caused by the anger from his former life as Kim." "This may explain" "Chiu's unreasonable behavior..." "If we have to forcibly use a past life story to explain the facts of the crime in our time..." "In 1960, there was the serial killer Gho Sai-fong." "Yuan, a professor, performed a daring experiment..." "Chiu is a serial killer." "His actions derived not only from his disrespect for women, but also from his sexual perversions." "Defendant!" "The court will take a brief recess." "The defendants, May and Chiu conspired to pretend to be insane..." "I hereby present to you the hypnosis report of the two defendants and the testimony of witness Yip Pak." "It can be said that the human spirit is controlled by electronic waves." "Unusual electronic waves may lead to the person losing conscious mind control." "We believe that there are two different kinds of waves inside the defendant's brain." "They lead to confusion in the brain's control system." "According to our research, such confusion in the control system will lead to unusual behavior from the person." "The witness, Yip Pak, grew up in the 30's." "Were you acquainted with the two persons mentioned in the newspapers, Shan and Kim?" "Yes." "Do you believe there is any relationship between those murders that were committed in the 30's and what the defendants Chiu and May described during their hypnosis?" "Would you agree they are the same?" "Yes." "And, do you think the defendant Chiu is the reincarnation of the" "1930's painter, Kim Kong-lin?" "Objection!" "Overruled." "Do you think he is Kim's reincarnation?" "I think so." "I now present to the court testimonies derived from the statements taken during the two defendant's hypnosis sessions, as well as the testimonies of the hypnotist and former Moon Villa geisha, Yip Pak." "Your Honor!" "I seriously doubt the reliability of these testimonies!" "Objection!" "The prosecution's disapproval is illogical and unreasonable." "Who is that?" "A woman." "I thought you hate women." "It's you." "I never eat fried chicken." "I only like hamburgers." "How's my case coming along?" "Is it over yet?" "One more step left." "I won't talk." "Why?" "My lawyer told me not to." "You still believe him?" "No." "I know he's bullshitting." "No wonder you're behaving so well now." "Yes..." "Go ahead, ask me." "I'll tell you everything." "Do you know Shan?" "Shan from Moon Villa?" "Of course." "I heard that she's my woman." "How did you know her?" "May told me she's Shan." "She said it to seduce me." "Then, who's Kim Kong-lin?" "Is he a murderer too?" "I heard that he's a painter." "Counsel Ng, let me give you some advice." "Don't believe everything May says." "Her mind is pretty fucked up, like mine." "So she can fuck yours up too." "You said you're Shan's reincarnation." "Do you have any proof then?" "Someone told me this." "Who?" "Shan told me." "Shan from Moon Villa, who died 70 years ago?" "She told you?" "Yes, that's right." "Do you see each other often then?" "Yes." "So, where is she now?" "Sitting over there." "Where?" "Why can't I see her?" "Are you saying there are ghosts in this courtroom?" "No more questions." "I hereby submit to the court defendant Chiu's own testimony from yesterday." "He himself said that May's testimony is not to be trusted." "She's not believable." "Also, all the witnesses and testimonies that the defense counsel has presented here in his attempt to explain the defendant's brutal acts as consequences of the rage from his past life as Kim Kong-lin?" "Those witnesses and testimonies were neither scientific nor relevant to the trial." "The prosecution recommends that the defendant should get a death penalty and be executed immediately." "The next court session will be held at 10am on July 16." "That woman!" "She dares to play tricks with me?" "!" "Got a smoke, counsel?" "I told you." "I don't want to live!" "The defense counsel for Chiu mainly based his argument on saying that" "Chiu is the reincarnation of the painter" "Kim Kong-lin, who lived in the 1930's." "It was the mental conflicts between the two lives that led to the crimes committed now." "However, the defense counsel has not provided convincing and objective evidence of such argument." "Therefore, the court cannot conclude that the defendant Chiu is also Kim Kong-lin in his past life." "However, there is enough evidence to show that Chiu committed the murders." "Defendant, Chiu Ming-guo." "Please stand for the verdict." "The court hereby rules that" "Chiu Ming-guo is guilty of murder." "According to Chapter 250," "Section 161, Number 37 of the Criminal Code, the defendant will get the death penalty." "Next year, this day will be the anniversary of your death!" "There is a traffic accident here." "Seoul Building." "Yes, Seoul Building." "Call for an ambulance!" "Did May get into a car accident?" "Chiu just said that May is dead." "He's not lying." "Where are you now, counsel?" "This is so embarrassing!" "It's all right." "Everybody does it." "It's fun." "No!" "I really don't want to..." "No!" "Can you tell me what happened to Shan at Moon Villa in 1935?" "Well, that was so horrifying!" "Never thought anyone would still remember" "Kim and Shan 70 years later!" "I still remember." "What a sad story." "It all began with Shan." "I was still very young back then." "Teacher?" "The rickshaw carrying your wife is here." "Shan is here." "I have to go greet her myself." "Even though it has been 70 years," "I still remember it as if it was yesterday." "For Brother Kong-lin, painting is both a career, and a lifelong passion." "However, once Shan entered the picture and became his teacher's mistress..." "Shan's sexual desires were strong." "She once belonged to the Cultural Minister, so Shan was indulged in luxuries." "When she grew older, she became Teacher's mistress so she could inherit his fortunes." "But Shan, who'd had so much satisfaction from sex, could not get any satisfaction from Teacher at all." "Madam..." "Madam... don't..." "I can't do this..." "Please, let me go..." "The fulfillment of human desire!" "Once it is started, it couldn't be stopped." "They did it night and day." "Then... a while later," "Brother Tai returned from Tokyo..." "And the murder took place." "I remember it was July of that year." "Teacher had to attend a gathering held by Abbot Cheung at Po Kwong Temple." "It was Brother Kong-lin who went with Teacher, and I went as well." "Brother Tai claimed he was too tired, so he didn't go." "But when we came back the next day," "Brother Tai has disappeared, and, someone also broke into Teacher's safe." "Hey, Kit!" "A month later, something even more terrifying happened." "We found Brother Tai's body, floating in the lotus pond in our back garden." "Later that night, we also found Teacher's body." "Two people were gone." "They were Brother Kong-lin and Shan." "The investigator's name was Kim." "I remember he said," ""Kim Kong-lin was having an affair with Shan." "When he discovered that" "Brother Park Tai-sau, his teacher's most beloved student would inherit the painting school he killed Park and dumped the body in the lotus pond." "Kim then killed his teacher and forced Shan to leave with him." "They took all the money and went somewhere far away." "He killed Teacher?" "!" "Kim could never be that heartless!" "Then... what happened?" "The following year, Kim, the investigator, sent us a letter." "He said that they've found two bodies and wanted us to go identify them." "Hey!" "Come and look at this!" "In the end, they took the two corpses that were still stuck together to the Capital Hospital." "Even though life is like a short dream, those people were already long gone." "Sooner or later, they will fade away as time goes by... and forgotten." "But is that it?" "We may not be able to hear it, see it, or feel it ourselves, but, I believe they're still alive." "This is a life portrait of Shan." "It's my gift to you." "Take it." "But why?" "It's me." "That case..." "let's revisit it." "You start with the appeal first." "And..." "Wan, let Chiu know." "Why are you here?" "I've already got my sentence." "You have nothing better to do or what?" "How depressing!" "You don't get paid if you lost, right?" "I could still get a little." "Sorry." "Don't be." "At the most, I'll only live till 33." "When I was young, a fortuneteller said to me," ""Kid, you won't live past 33."" "I didn't believe him then." "Tomorrow will be the last day." ""Only live til 33"..." "Counsel Ng sincerely requests that you appeal." "Who was the one that wanted me dead again?" "You guys just won't leave me alone!" "We just need to buy some time first..." "I don't want to live anymore." "I'm going crazy... (Kochuen, Police officer in charge." "Junshu, Doctor in charge." "Shing, Secretary in charge.)" "Hold on." "What's the victim's name?" "Koshin Takata." "Koshin Takata." "Age?" "Born in 1970." "Born in 1970." "The victim was Japanese." "She was traveling in Korea." "What?" "Chiu?" "Leave us, please." "I have to stay, counsel." "It's the rules." "Just leave." "That's where all the trouble came from." "You can't do this, counsel!" "From now on," "Kim Kong-lin's spirit can rest in peace." "I heard that people come to this world to get redemption for their past sins." "Even though this doesn't explain everything about life, but at the very least, there's some comfort." "Perhaps it's because of what they've been doing since so long ago." "It's odd." "I woke up this morning feeling really great." "Both my vision and hearing have changed." "Everything is not the same anymore." "And, I also heard bells this morning." "Really?" "I thought about the many people I knew," "and..." "I really wanted to see you." "That's right." "Can I ask you something?" "Why are you still single?" "Actually, I'm married." "But me and my husband were separated." "Because..." "I couldn't get pregnant." "The doctor said my ovaries are not good." "You can't have kids?" "And his mother wanted grandchildren, so..." "I had to give up my husband." "She insisted that I had to leave his son." "You and I are both guilty." "Then... what about Wan?" "Looks like things are not going that well with him too." "But... he's all right." "This is nothing much." "For you." "Shan..." "Shan!" "No..." "You didn't kill anybody, Madam." "I killed Tai." "No..." "I killed Tai..." "I did it..." "You never did something like this, Madam." "I did it." "I killed Tai." "I have to turn myself in." "You have to do it tonight." "Make it quick." "I see." "Hello?" "The order for Chiu's execution had been given, counsel." "Behave!" "Sit properly!" "Is it really that good?" "Can I have another one?" "We'll share it." "Counsel... sorry..." "If I get reincarnated... and... come back to this world again..." "Let's get together, okay?" "Then I can do a lot of good things for you." "Don't cry." "Yes, I'm Yanzhu." "You found it?" "!" "You said you found the photo?" "She looked just like you." "I'm sure you're Shan's reincarnation." "I'm coming with you." "I brought with me to Teacher's home" "all my desires and sorrows..." "It was Abbot Cheung who made me kill Brother Tai." "I know this is God's punishment for me." "Poor thing..." "Why did I have to lie to you?" "Why does it have to be this way?" "Why did I have to lie to you?" "I'm happy just to be with you." "Sorry... sorry..." "If we can get reincarnated again..." "I'll repay you..." "I owe you too much!" "But... is there really a next life?" "If we can pray with all sincerity, then there will be one." "We will definitely see each other again in the next life." "And we will be a good couple." "All right." "I'll see you in the next life." "Why did we have to meet?" "Woe to us!" "Yes, we'll be a good couple in the next life." "A loving couple..." "Nobody will separate us." "Kong-lin, don't ever leave me." "No..." "Don't leave me..." "I will never leave you." "I promise you, Shan." "I promise you." "The bells... the bells..." "There's a temple nearby." "We won't die!" "We won't die, Shan!" "We'll live!" "Hey, what are you doing?"

"MIRANDA:" "Infections are like sleeping monsters." "You can't see them." " You can't feel them." "(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)" "But..." "You must do everything in your power..." "To contain them." "Because when the monsters wake up..." "They're out of control." " Hey." " Bailey, you shouldn't be here." "How is Seth Lepik?" "The computer says access restricted." "They won't even let me check on my own patients." "They swabbed my nose." "They're swabbing everyone's noses." "Well, are they sitting everybody down for interviews?" "'Cause they think I did something wrong." "Now I think it's the grafts." " I narrowed it down to..." " Look, Bailey, they've isolated the strain of staph in your patients." "Now they need to find out how it spread." " Your job is to cooperate." "I've got Seth." "(MUTTERS)" "Now go answer their questions." " Please." "(GRUNTS)" "We are throwing Bailey under the bus." "Come on." "That is not what we're doing." "Yeah, it seems like that's exactly what we're doing." "Two of our patients are dead of the same post-op infection." "A third one's barely hanging on." "It was time." "We get the CDC In here and figure this thing out." "By treating Bailey like a criminal?" " She hasn't done anything." " I hope that you're right." "The truth is, we don't know that yet." "CDC is simply asking us to temporarily freeze Bailey's files." "Oh, come on." "And that we not discuss this investigation with her." "So today, just keep your distance." "That is ridiculous." "Also I think now's the time to put out a statement." "ALL:" "No, no." "No." "About what?" "I mean, we don't even know if Bailey's the source of this thing." "If one of ours is at fault and we just sit on this information, we look like we're trying to cover something up." "The only way to let the public know that we can be objective is by being transparent." "Vote?" "I'm just saying, people should learn the news from us." " There's no news." " Okay, vote?" " There's no news yet." " Vote." "All in favor of no press release." "Okay." "No press release." "No statement." "Clear?" "Oh!" " Watch it, members only." "(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)" "Promise me you'll be nice." "These guys are trying to take down Bailey." "They don't deserve nice." "No, not to the CDC." "To Jason." "I'm nice to Jason." "Two minutes ago, you said, (DEEPENED VOICE) "Hey, I have" ""a surgery today with your d-bag boyfriend."" "Yeah, but I said it with a smile." "Fine." "I won't call the guy a d-bag." "At least not to his face, anyway." "I'm moving in with him." "So what do you think?" " I think it's great." " Really?" "No." "I think the guy is a douche bag who you've known for about two minutes, and that makes you an idiot for moving in with him." " Alex..." " I'll be nice!" "I'm gonna rock this corner kick." "Later, I promise." "Right now I have a surprise for you." " Look who's here." " Grandma!" "Oh." "(SOBBING) Oh, Ethan." "Oh, Ethan." "Ethan." "(COMPUTER BEEPS)" " As you can see, there aren't any residual effects from the surgery." "So, I can go home?" "Well, I'd like to keep an eye on you for another few days." "(CHUCKLES) Well, we can handle a few more days." "Right, buddy?" "Hey, Grandma, do you want to see Dad?" "I can take you." "Oh, uh, is that..." " Can he?" " Sure, sure." "He sees his dad every day." "He chats up a storm." "He told him all about you coming to visit." "Dad's still unconscious." "That's because his brain is resting." "It's not uncommon after a trauma for a person not to wake up right away." "You shouldn't have to know about these things, Ethan." "Well, he does, and I think it's cool that he's trying to help Paul by learning all about his illness." "And speaking of Paul, I'd like to see him, too." "If that's all right?" "Ethan, do you feel up to pushing your mom around in a wheelchair?" " Oh, yeah." "(CHUCKLES)" "DEREK:" "All right." "Let me get one for you." "(WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY)" "Oh." "Murphy?" "I'm not supposed to talk to you about this." "Dr. Bailey." "Come in." "Tell me there is someone down here that I can help." "It's five against one with the board today, and I need a victory." "Bed three." "Femur's broken." "I'm sending him up to angio." " APRIL:" "Okay." " Alert the press." "See what I mean?" "(TABLET BEEPING)" "You all right?" "Matthew dumped me." "Oh." "Because I lied to him about my virginity like you told me to." "That's not..." "I lied because I had something to lie about." " April, hold on a second..." " You took my..." "I shouldn't have let you, but I did, and now he's gone." "I'm not board certified, I'm not a virgin, and everything I care about has been ruined because of you." "So you know what?" "Thank you." "Thanks for that." " Six against one." "(HORN HONKING)" "MAN:" "Help!" "Yeah, help!" "We need some help over here!" " Jane, honey, you okay?" " No!" " What happened?" " God, I'm gonna pass out." "We lost some fingers." "A lot of fingers." "We had a tug-of-war." "With what, razor wire?" "Even better." "Clothesline." "Does anybody have the severed fingers?" "Yeah, I got 'em." "I got 'em." "APRIL:" "Whoa!" "That's a lot of fingers." "Yeah, I counted six." "No, five." "This one's a turkey dog." "(APRIL GROANS)" "I would like you to take me through each operation." "Well, I mean, if you're looking for the source, look at the grafts." "Okay?" "I used the same ones on each patient." "This part of our investigation concerns your interaction with the infected patients in the operating room, to the best of your memory." "Well..." "I'd never used this brand before." "I remember not recognizing the company." "Dortmund or something." "Dr. Bailey, we've looked at the grafts." "It's not the grafts." "(HUFFS) Uh..." "May I begin?" "(CLICKS BUTTON)" "(EXHALES)" "Oh, I was expecting a probing." "That's really more of a gentle swabbing." "Speaking of probing, I've decided to have the baby naturally, but I know the second I start to scream," "Derek is gonna have them pump me full of drugs, so I'm going to need you there in my corner." "Yeah." "Uh, I'm not gonna do that." "When babies come out, people poop on the table." " Cristina..." " Uh, no." "Karev." "And can you make it fast?" "Peckwell's HLHS mom is gonna be admitted." "We gotta go walk her through the procedure." " She wants me to watch her give birth." " You're gonna poop on the table." "I am not." "You are." "Almost everybody does." "Okay, so I poop on the table." "It's part of the miracle of life." "It's nasty." "Did I ask you to watch me give birth?" "No." " Cristina?" " We have been friends a long time." "You want to know how?" "By not watching each other poop." "Holla." "Well, the good news is, these wounds look salvageable." "I wasn't even gonna play, but my brother AI insisted." "And then we were losing, and AI was all..." ""Wrap your hands with the rope"..." "Then I did." "What are you doing?" "Uh, I just need to identify whose fingers are whose." "That looks like a pretty good match." "Except for the red nail polish." " Yes." " That's my sister-in-law's." "Jane, good news." "Your manicure's intact." "Hi, Jane." "I'm Dr. Avery." "You mind if I take a look here?" "How's my daughter, Frances?" " Tony, how's Frankie?" " It's bad, honey." " The bone's still sticking out." "(GRUNTS)" "This is all Gigantor's fault." "What's he doing at our reunion anyway?" "He's not even related." "He's Uncle Tony's weird friend." "(VOICE BREAKING) I didn't mean to pull so hard." "Lay off Gunnar, Cash." "It's not his fault." "He didn't suggest to play tug-of-war with a clothesline." "You want to blame somebody, blame your uncle AI." "Okay, Kellers, I'm back and I'm armed with French fries." " Huh?" "Any takers?" "(GROANING)" "We can't eat, AI." "We're just about to get our fingers reattached." "Okay, uh, anybody cold?" "I can find blankets." "Stop, AI!" "Just stop!" "Nobody's hungry or thirsty or wants to run a relay race!" "Reunion's over." "CALLIE:" "Okay, Frankie." "I'm gonna need to get some x-rays." "You gonna be okay being away from your family" "for a little while?" "(PANTS)" "Yes, please." "Yeah." "Okay. (CHUCKLES)" "Dr. Hunt says it's good to talk to him, too." "(MONITOR BEEPING RHYTHMICALLY)" "Hey, babe. (CHUCKLES)" "Sorry I haven't been by to see you, but..." "Well, I've been kinda busy with the brain surgery and all." "Rachel." "Don't." "Don't do that." "Don't joke." "I gotta be honest with ya, babe." "You've looked better. (CHUCKLES)" "Me?" "Well..." "I haven't looked this good since that summer that we went to the river and I got that stomach bug and I lost, like, 15 pounds." "(CHUCKLES)" "You're missing it." "(SOBBING) Stop it." "It's not funny." "None of this is funny." "My son is dying." "He's not dying." "We are along way off from that." "I know that this may look bad, but you..." "It should be me." "RACHEL:" "Hey, Ethie." "Why don't we give Grandma a little one-on-one time with Pop?" "You want to take me for a spin?" "I think that's a great idea." "Go on." "Give her the nickel tour." "All right?" "Can I hold him after he's born?" "Just for a minute." "Uh, he's gonna need to go right into surgery." "Your baby has hypoplastic left heart syndrome and an intact atrial septum that is causing a restriction to blood flow." "He's fine when he's in utero, but once he's out..." "The condition is fatal." "JASON:" "Which means he won't be getting enough oxygen." "We'll let you hold him when he's stable," "after his surgery." " ALEX:" "Okay." "So we'll do the C-section, and then we'll have 60 minutes to get him to the oath lab and perform the operation to open his septum." "And if you don't make it in time, he could die?" "CRISTINA:" "No, we can do the C-section in the oath lab." "It'll give us more time." "Deliver in one room and operate in the other." "Can you do that?" "I don't see why not." "There are about 1,000 reasons why not." "You know, people have babies all over the place." "Taxi cabs, high school bathrooms." "If we don't have to waste time moving the kid from one floor to another, why should we?" "Because you don't do C-sections in Cath labs." " Oh, Karev, back me up." " I'm with Peckwell." "Not my name, but okay." "ALEX:" "This whole situation is high risk." "If something goes wrong, we don't have the tools on hand to deal with it." "Are your tools glued to the floor?" "Bring them with you." "Okay, we have an opportunity here to do something new and badass." "I mean, don't you want to be the badass who delivers the kid in a oath lab?" "Who does that?" "Nobody..." "But you." "Okay" "Okay, I'm in." "All right." "Karev, you with Peckwell?" " Myers." "Dr. Jason Myers." " Nobody cares." "Karev?" "All right." "I'm good." "Sounds like one nasty tug-of-war." "It was the height of idiocy, which is saying a lot for my family." "I'm a journalist." "I cover the sophomore beat for my school paper." "And they chose me to edit the spring supplement this weekend, but my parents told me I had to go to this stupid reunion, that it was more important to pretend not to hate people I hate." "And now my hand is ruined and my career is over." "Whoa." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Your hand is going to be just fine." "I will see to that." "Okay?" "And... (CHUCKLES)" "You have lots of time to worry about your career." " Okay?" " Okay." "All right." "So do you have any questions before we start?" "Just one." "Someone took my cell phone." " Can I get that back?" " Sure." "Right after the scan." "And I have a follow-up." "What's the CDC doing here?" "Okay, we're gonna lie down now." "Good." "All right." "Try to stay still." "Try to stay still." " Thank you." " MAN:" "Okay, beginning with Joyce." "Joyce Basche, I placed an AV graft for hemodialysis." "Take me through that." "I made an incision over the radial artery and basilic vein..." "I'm sorry." "I'm going to ask you to go back a little further." "Did you scrub?" "Did I scrub?" "For how long did you scrub, roughly?" "Four minutes, 36 seconds, exactly." " You're sure about that?" " I am." "I used Think, The Aretha Franklin song." "I run it in my head." "It's two minutes, 18 seconds." "Hospital protocol is a four-minute scrub, so I go through it twice." "(SOUL MUSIC PLAYING)" "MAN:" "And the scrub nurse who handed you your instruments, that was?" "MIRANDA:" "Fran." "She was right across from me." "MAN:" "Well, now the graft is in place, and you secure." "MIRANDA:" "I did a standard vascular anastomosis with running profane." "I checked for leaks." "There were none." "And you closed or Dr. Murphy?" "Wait." "The doppler." "I confirmed good flow with the doppler." "Then I closed." "And it went perfectly." "All right." "Anything else you remember?" "I remember saying, "That went perfectly."" "All right." "Let's move on to Seth Lepik." "(INHALES DEEPLY)" "(WOMAN CRIES)" "(SOFTLY) I got this." "(NORMAL VOICE) What the hell's going on?" "These guys won't tell us anything." " Sir..." " I want my son outta here." "I want him transferred to another hospital right now." "I understand." "I'll have to tell you, moving Seth now would put him at greater risk for more complications." "If we're hoping to avoid another surgery..." "You're damn right, we are." "You're not touching my son again." "(SIGHS)" "See what you can do to arrange a transfer." "Hey, Myers set up for the C-section in the oath lab." "We need to run through the steps of the procedure." "Look at you. "Myers."" "You say it like he isn't nailing your girlfriend." "She's not my girlfriend." "Whatever." "You love her." "She's my friend." "You sound stupid when you say that." "She's moving in with the guy." "What am I supposed to do?" "Beat him up." "No." "I'm gonna try to be nice to him and get along so I don't lose my friend." "Or you could punch him and take back your girl." " ARIZONA:" "Ouch." " I know, right?" "And it's a kid." "Listen, I'm gonna take her up for surgery, and I was hoping that you'd want to assist." "Oh, last time I checked, I was a world-class peds surgeon, and interns assisted attendings." "They do, it's just... (SOFTLY) I want someone in there I can trust." "You know, I want to avoid a Bailey situation." "(NORMAL VOICE) Plus, you're cute when you irrigate." "(GIGGLES) Sold." "Oh, the kid's gonna ask for her phone back." "Stall her." "She's gonna tweet about the investigation." "She's a journalist." "For what, like, the Sunshine Elementary newsletter?" "(LAUGHS) She's, like, nine." "Hi, Frankie." "Hey, have you found my phone yet?" "Uh, not yet." "So this is Dr. Robbins." "She's gonna assist me in surgery." "Now your hand was pretty badly crushed from the trampling, so it's gonna mean an extensive surgery to repair these bones here and here and fixate these." "Oh, my God." "It's gonna be okay, though, right?" "I mean, she's gonna be able to, you know, use her hand?" "Oh, that's the goal." "Sweetie, I'm gonna go tell your mom you're gonna be okay." "Okay" " Okay." " It's worse than we thought, honey." "All right, so do you have any questions before we take you up?" " No." " Okay." "Actually, I do have one." "The CDC is investigating Dr. Bailey because several of her patients died, right?" "Um, who told you about Dr. Bailey?" "I asked an orderly." "Oh, shoot." "I mean, I can't reveal my sources." "(CHUCKLES)" "But you just confirmed it for me," "so you can be my second source." " Oh, no, I didn't." " That's Dr. Robbins?" " Hey!" "(BEEPING)" "What are you doing?" "Checking Bailey's post-ops." "I thought Richard was taking care of Bailey's patients." "Just Seth Lepik, the infected guy." "I took the rest." "Bailey's patients are all turning up with staph." "You're pregnant." "Why take the risk?" "Because I'm looking out for Bailey." "And I'm trying to look out for you." "This is why I need Cristina in the room." " What room?" " The delivery room." "Wait." "What?" "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey." "On-call room, you and me?" "(CHUCKLES) Oh, I Wish." "Uh, but I have an atrial septostomy with Karev." "But after I save a baby's life, I'm gonna need to celebrate." "Okay." "Well, find me." "Oh, how is the grandma?" "Uh, she's sweet, but useless." "Rachel's doing better, though, so at least Ethan's got her." "Paul's gonna wake up." "I've been doing serial neuro exams." "I have a good feeling." "Spoken like a true scientist." "Thank you." "Thank you for having a good feeling." "Anytime." "Oh, Mer asked me to be at her birth and watch her poop on a table." "You have to do that." "Can't I just show up after when everyone has control of their bowels?" "Watching a baby be born is like seeing God in person." "(BELL DINGS)" "Spoken like a true scientist." "I used scissors to shorten the graft to fit." "Took about a centimeter off." "I remember, Mr. Lepik had deep vessels." "Uh, so I asked Fran for more retraction." "MAN:" "I'm sorry." "Fran?" "You named Linda as your scrub nurse on Mr. Lepik's surgery." "Yes." "Yes, right." "Sorry." "Um..." "Then I finished the graft, and I closed." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Well, what about the leak?" "According to Mr. Lepik's chart, there was a small leak on the venous side." "Yes." "Lepik." "Yes." "Uh, he had a leak." "Um, and I put in an interrupted stitch." " You remember that?" " Yes, I remember." "I irrigated with antibiotic solution to avoid infection, then I closed." "You closed?" "That's important." "I did." "I closed." "You're sure?" "Because your..." "Did you put the cap on the toothpaste?" "Sorry?" "I assumed you brushed your teeth this morning." "So did you put the cap back on the toothpaste or didn't you?" "Or can you be sure?" "Because when you do a thing every single day..." "Dr. Bailey, we're talking about the lives of two people." "What, you don't think I know that?" "Don't insult me." "These are my patients who died." "You think I don't know that far, far better than you?" "So again, uh, are you sure you closed?" "Could I take a break, please?" "There's only a little more to, uh..." "Do." "WOMAN ON PA:" "Dr. Reynolds to ICU." "Dr. Reynolds to ICU." "Hey." "Is your interview over?" "We're on a break." "Wait." "Wait." "Aren't you supposed to be avoiding me like the plague?" "Come on." "What can I do to help?" " Anything?" "(EXHALES)" "I just want to know how Seth Lepik is." "I'd like to see his chart, but they locked me out of the system." "JACKSON:" "Dr. Grey." "(SIGHS)" "She wants to check on her patients." "What do you think she's gonna do, alter their charts?" "That's what the CDC is gonna think, yes." "Well, maybe you called them too soon." "I am thinking of the bigger picture here." "She's part of that picture." "We need to stand by our doctors." "Even if she's at fault?" "We stand by her then?" "She's not." "But we should cross that bridge when we get to it." "We're kind of at that bridge." "Uh, excuse me, Dr. Avery?" "Yes." "Sorry to bug you, but" "I was just kind of wondering, is there any update on my family..." " Or their fingers?" "(OBJECTS CLATTER)" "Mom?" "Mom!" "Somebody help my mom!" " MAN:" "What's wrong?" " Mom?" "WOMAN:" "She needs some help." "Uh, ma'am?" " Hey, what's your mom's name?" " Rachel." "Dr. Bailey, step away from the patient, now." "Okay, let's clear the wheelchair and the tables." " WOMAN:" "I got it." " Make room." "Okay, lay her down." "All right." "All right." "(RACHEL GRUNTING)" " Call a code." " MAN:" "Right away." " Mom!" " Page Dr. Shepherd, stat." "WOMAN:" "Yes, doctor." "(MONITOR BEEPING RHYTHMICALLY)" "Okay, Amelie, here we go." "Scalpel." "It's gonna be okay, honey." "But what if it's not?" "Shh." "AMELIE:" "No!" "Stop." "I can't do this." "Not right now." "His heart is okay now." "And you all know that when he comes out, it's going to stop working." "(SOBBING) I'm not ready for him to die." "Amelie, honey..." "No." "Look at me." "Look in my eyes." "You have to do this." "Your baby's life depends on it, and you are wasting time." "We're all here." "We're all doing our best to save your baby's life." "Breathe with me." "(BOTH INHALE DEEPLY)" "(BOTH EXHALE DEEPLY)" "Okay." "One more time." "One more time." "(BOTH INHALE DEEPLY)" "(BOTH EXHALE DEEPLY)" "You can do this." "Right?" "Right." "(AMELIE EXHALES)" "She's ready." "FRANKIE:" "Just confirm what I have so far." "There's some kind of an infection going on in the hospital linked to Dr. Bailey." "(CALLIE SIGHS DEEPLY)" " You don't even have to say anything." "You can just nod if I'm close." " Let it go, Woodward." "(CHUCKLES)" " Who's Woodward?" "(SCOFFS)" "Uh, you should know that." "You should give me back my phone." "You're denying my second amendment right." " Wait." "You want a gun now?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Duh." "First." "I meant first amendment, obviously." "Look, there's this girl named KK." "Who wrote an article about some bird that everyone thought was extinct living in her backyard." "It got picked up by the AP, and now she's a stringer for the Times." "This is a real story." "I mean, I have an opportunity here to be awesome." "ARIZONA:" "Why don't you count backwards from ten?" " Mmm-hmm." " Okay?" "Ten..." "Nine..." "You're obstructing the free press." "What's after nine?" " Eight..." "(HISSING)" "Seven..." "What are we gonna do when she wakes up, roll her up in a rug and stick her in the trunk of a car?" "(LAUGHS)" "(SIGHS)" "AMELIE:" "Is he okay?" "Is he alive?" "He's beautiful." "(SOBS) Thank you." "I got him." "Please save my baby!" "Let's move, people." " MAN:" "Coming through." "Clear the way!" " Shepherd?" "Her pupil's blown." "She's re-hemorrhaged." " I need to get her to an OR." " What the hell happened?" " I'll let you know when I know." "(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)" " Okay, let's go." " MAN:" "Check her pressure." "I'll see you up there." "Hey." "Hey." "She's gonna be okay." "We've got her and we're gonna take care of you." "Hey, hey." "Room 10-24." "She's gonna take you to your grandma." "Wait for me there." "Come on." "This way." "(MONITOR BEEPING ERRATICALLY)" " What is it?" "He's dropped his pressure." "I can't hear breath sounds on the right." "Okay, run fluids wide open." "Get me a chest tube tray, fast." "WOMAN:" "Right away, Doctor." "CRISTINA:" "In the vena cava." "What is the oxygen saturation?" "Thirty-five." "Inside the right atrium." "Nobody move." "Nobody breathe." "WOMAN:" "Oh, Seth." "MAN:" "Oh, dear God." "Chest tube, now." "Hold on." "(CONTINUES SOBBING)" "Hold on." "(BEEPING CONTINUES)" "(PANTING)" "Perforating the septum." "Why isn't the blood going through?" "Because I'm not through." "Just give me a minute." "Now I'm through." "Man, I'm good. (GIGGLES)" "(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)" "(SIGHS)" "(seas)" "So my mom's dead?" "Yes." "But Dr. Shepherd said she was getting better this morning." "Yes, but there was something going on in her brain that was..." "Sudden and couldn't be prevented." "There was no way of knowing that this was going to happen." "Could it have been the ice cream?" "Like a brain freeze?" "No." "No." "Ethan..." "There was nothing anyone could have done to have stopped this." "(SOBBING)" "Well, I need to go now to my grandma." "She needs someone to hold her hand." "(SIGHS AND SNIFFLES)" "(WHISPERS) I'm so sorry. (SOBBING)" "(EXHALES DEEPLY)" "(WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA)" "All right, Deedee and Jane's surgeries both went very well." "They'll be in recovery soon." "Cash is still in surgery, and Dr. Torres is in with Frankie now." "Her fractures were complicated, but hopefully, with therapy, she'll regain full use of her hand." "Therapy?" "How much therapy?" "Well, that's hard to say now, Tony." "But it could be anywhere from six months to a year." "You hear that?" "A year of physical therapy, AI." "And then she might get full use back." "Might." "Well..." "Let's look at the bright side now..." "The bright side?" "Everyone is mangled." "Well, not Frankie." "She got lucky." "She's still got all her digits, Tone." "Her hand was crushed!" "I know." "It's horrible." "I know it." "And..." "And I'm sorry, but, hey, well..." "We're all here for you." "And that's why we're a family, right... (CHUCKLES) For stuff like this?" "Hey." "Come on, huh?" "(LAUGHS)" " Mr. Keller." "(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)" "Let me get a look here." "You all right?" "I think I broke my hand." "RICHARD:" "He's not stabilizing." "He needs surgery immediately." "No, not in this cesspool." "An ambulance is coming for him." "No, he's too unstable to transfer." "I'm canceling all..." "You guys have some infection running rampant." "It's not safe." "It's not the hospital." "It's one doctor." "The infection came from one doctor and one doctor alone." "She's been isolated and the infection has been contained." "I've been tested." "I'm clean." "The OR has been tested." "It's clean." "If we don't go right now, your son's gonna die." "(WOMAN GASPS AND WHIMPERS)" "(SOBS) -(MAN SIGHS)" "MAN:" "Do what you have to." "Save my son." "You cleared to scrub in?" "Yes, sir." "They cleared me this morning." "Okay, prep him." "So Bailey did do something wrong." "Of course not." "I only said that to get their kid into surgery, and if you repeat it, I'll have your ass fired before you finish talking, you understand?" "WOMAN ON PA:" "Dr. Rizzo to the ER." "Dr. Rizzo to the ER." "Baby's looking good." "Heart function's hypokinetic but improving." "Yang says that's to be expected." "That Yang's a piece of work." "Yeah." "Well, try living with her." "(CHUCKLES)" "Listen, man, I appreciate your work today." "I think this thing with Jo got us off on a bad foot." "She cares a lot about you." "We're friends." "That's all." "All right." "All right." "(MONITOR BEEPING RHYTHMICALLY)" "I had a messed-up childhood, too." "I was a foster kid like her." "It was crappy." "But I didn't have it near as bad as Jo did." "I was never homeless, never had to live in my car." "But she's really turned it around for herself." "And I just..." "I want the best for her, is all." "Yeah, okay." "Yeah." "Thanks for today." "(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)" "(ALL TALKING AND LAUGHING INDISTINCTLY)" "Every year, it keeps on getting harder and harder to plan these things and to get everyone to come." "Why do it?" "It doesn't seem like they appreciate it much." "They're all that I have." "I almost got married a few times, but I always messed it up." "My family is Tony and Jane and Deedee and Cash and..." "Everybody else out there." "And I'm just meant to be... (CHUCKLES)" "Annoying uncle AI." "Well, you'll think of something for next year." "I mean, you just gotta..." "Just gotta keep trying." "Do I have the staph strain?" "I'd like to start again with Seth Lepik, please." "I made a small transverse incision, minimal blood loss." "I deepened the incision into the subcutaneous tissue, asked for retraction." "(MONITOR BEEPING ERRATICALLY)" " BP was good." "All vitals were good." "BP's 90 over 60 and falling." "(GROANS) More laps." " WOMAN:" "There you go." " Suction." " MIRANDA:" "You tested me for staph." "Can I get those results, please?" "There was a leak on the venous side?" "There was a leak on the venous side, a little blood loss." "But very little." "Now just can you get me my results, please?" " Come on." "More." "More." "Pile 'em in." "(MONITOR BEEPING ERRATICALLY)" " WOMAN:" "Yes, doctor." " Look, I gotta try and find it." "Hold on." "(GRUNTS) -(BEEPING CONTINUES)" "More suction." "MAN:" "Just again, I'd like you to take me through..." "Okay, I can take you through my scrub technique and how I hold my instruments." "But the only thing you need to know is do I have this staph infection." "You should know that by now." "RICHARD:" "More lap pads." "More." "(MONITOR BEEPING ERRATICALLY)" "Okay, more suction." "Right there." "(SUCTION GURGLING) -(GRUNTS) Come on." "(BEEPING CONTINUES)" "MIRANDA:" "Other doctors have been cleared." "So why am I going through this?" "Just go down there and get my results." "You have my results?" "You have my results, and I..." "Have this strain of staph?" "Did I do this?" "I did..." "Didn't I?" "I'll be there in the room" "(SIGHS) when fetus arrives." " You will?" "Yeah." "You're gonna want me there." "Okay" "You're gonna poop on the table, though." "And I'm gonna have to see it, and then I can never unsee it." "You know what's worse than you seeing me poop on the table?" "What?" "Me knowing you've seen me poop on the table." " So you'll suffer more than me." " Yes!" "Oh, okay." "That makes me feel better." "Hey." "Hey." "I'm sorry." "I heard about Paul's wife." "Yeah." "I appreciate that." "(TABLET BEEPS)" "Are you angry with me?" "No." "No." "I just..." "I'm angry at the situation." "Okay, well, you know, after this, let's just go home, and then I can make some dinner..." "No, I'm gonna stay." "I'm gonna stay just in case Paul's condition changes or if the kid needs..." "You know, I just..." "I just don't feel like I can leave, you know?" "I mean..." "What would you do?" "I would go home, because I'm his doctor, not his family." "Yeah." "I'm gonna stay." "Okay." "I understand." "(MONITOR BEEPING RHYTHMICALLY)" "Come to see your boyfriend's miracle baby?" "Why did you tell him that?" "What?" "That I'm a homeless dumpster diver." "I don't tell anyone." "You don't tell people about me." " You told me..." " Yeah, it's called a secret, Alex." "It's what friends tell each other." "Look, what's the deal?" "What did he say?" "Why'd I tell you?" "So stupid." "What is the point of a new start if there's always some dumb-ass dragging you back down?" " Whoa, whoa." "Listen." " No, you listen." "You don't tell people about me." "You don't talk about me or to me, ever." "MAN:" "Our investigation has determined the presence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus usa600." "(HINGES SQUEAK)" "Bailey..." "Oh, Dr. Bailey, you should not be here right now." "This is about me." "I'd like to hear it." "(SIGHS)" "That's your call." "We have a protocol for a reason." "Okay, we vote." "She stays." "Staph aureus usa600 is an antibiotic-resistant infection with a range of symptoms from simple skin rashes to fatal sepsis." "We have traced the source of the infection to one doctor." "Dr. Miranda Bailey is a carrier of mrsa usa600." "But the real culprit here is the gloves." "Records show the surgical gloves in use at the time of outbreak, March 15, shipped from the manufacturer Hemming Synthetics Incorporated." "We switched to Hemming's gloves when Pegasus was here." "MAN:" "Our testing reveals manufacturing defects." "Microscopic tears in the gloves, which facilitated the transmission of staph usa600 to Dr. Bailey's patients." "It is the CDC's determination, were it not for the defective gloves, the patients in question would not have been infected." "As for Dr. Bailey, we recommend eradication measures before she can go back to any kind of patient care." " All right." " Thank God." "Best possible outcome." "(DOOR OPENS)" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "Here are copies of our report." "The CDC thanks you for your time and cooperation." " And please..." "(EXHALES)" "Feel free to call my office if you have any questions." "OWEN AND CALLIE:" "Thank you." "(ON TV) You've harmonized now." "Drink it all." "(GULPING)" "You seem more like the French cinema type." "I'm just a teenager." "Mmm-hmm." "(TV PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)" "What's this?" "It's a press release." "We're putting it out in the morning, which means you have 12 hours to scoop the Times." "Or the AP." "Or whatever." "(LAUGHS)" "Hey." "Be awesome." "(BOTH LAUGH)" "Wait." "I have a question." "(EXHALES DEEPLY) One." "And I have a follow-up." "(LAUGHS)" "Turns out Bailey wasn't at fault." "Defective gloves." "I heard." "That's great." "Yeah." "You know what?" "I spent my entire day getting treated like the bad guy here." "I'm not gonna do this with you anymore." "You want to feel guilty about what we did?" "Go ahead." "Just leave me out of it." "(SCOFFS)" "I didn't force you to do anything." "I'm sorry that you're hurt." "Okay?" "I'm sorry that Matthew broke up with you." "As far as us sleeping together, I'm never gonna be sorry about that." "MATTHEW:" "April?" "Anyway." "Good night." "I'm sorry." "What?" "No." "No, no." "I am sorry." "You have nothing to be sorry about." "No, you made a mistake and you asked for a do-over." "Well, I made a mistake, too." "I was hurt and I acted like an idiot." "(HUFFS)" "I was hoping..." "You could forgive me, that I could have a do-over." "(EXHALES DEEPLY)" "Yes." "(EXHALES)" "(SIREN WAILING)" "(WOMAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)" "It could have happened to any one of us, Bailey." "We'll get you treated, get you cleared..." " I killed two patients." " No." "You didn't know." "You scrubbed properly, you gloved..." "How's Seth Lepik?" "I lost him." "(EXHALES)" "The infection formed an abscess that... (WHIMPERS)" "Eroded into his innominate vein." "(SOBBING)" "I'm so sorry." "Bailey, how can I..." "No!" "Now you want to help me?" "Where were you when my patient was alive, when I could've helped him?" "You shut me out." "You left me." "Bailey, I was trying to protect you." "That's all." "No, no, the hospital." "You were trying to protect the hospital." "It's all that matters to you." "And I don't know why I'm so surprised." "Adele complained about that every time I saw her." "And I protected you." "I made excuses to her for you." " I stood by you." " Bailey." "No, you were a drunk." "You were operating on your patients drunk, and I stood by you." "I expected the same from you." "I deserved it." "I earned it." "But all you cared about..." "No." "You..." "Are not who I thought you were." "DEREK:" "But I am going to be in there." "I know." "You'll be looking into my eyes and holding my hand and feeding me ice chips, and that's just where I want you, just there." "Cristina can run interference and handle the bossy nurses, and if I decide I want drugs..." "Fine." "Whatever you want." "(KISSES)" "Or if I poop on the table..." "If you what?" "MIRANDA:" "All that time you spent convincing yourself the sleeping monster wasn't real..." "(KNOCK ON DOOR)" " Yeah." "It was gathering strength." " Oh, crap." "It's you." "(SIGHS)" "The infection was spreading." "What's the matter?" "You were right..." "About Jo." "Of course I was." "What did I say again?" " Forget it." " Oh, Alex. (LAUGHS)" "(SIGHS)" "I'm such an idiot." "I love her." "(SIGHS)" "What?" "Just..." "You're weird." "Give it a minute." "(SIGHS DEEPLY)" "It's just..." "She just..." "But I always screw myself out of everything good." "(SIGHS)" "I think I'm losing Owen." "What?" "Not today, but..." "Soon." "The monster's awake now." "And there's nothing you can do about it."

"It's called the Teardrop of Ocean" "How much does it worth?" "It's a priceless treasure" "Was your money also returned?" "Yeah" "Even if it died, it couldn't leave the titis tree, it was its destiny" "Do you believe in fate?" "No... you can't" "Let me go, let me go" "You dared do that to my sister" "So she is actually his sister" "Move aside, do you want to stay alive?" "He's the one that denounced your sister to the court" "Let me go" "Soo Joo, add tail number 7" "He will be holding the Jeonwoohoe (Comrades of Heaven ) feast the day after tomorrow" "Jeonwoohoe?" "It's a Westernized feast" "He knows how to use sword, if you are too scared, just go capture him on your own" "Sword?" "Keep your mind clear and tighten the security" "Yes sir" "Episode 10" "There will be 50 guards protecting Lord Shim's house on the feast day" "You guys take care of the outside area..." "Forbidden Palace has about 30 guards" "Don't even allow a mouse to get inside, do you hear me clearly?" "Yes sir" "About the bandit, don't even talk about climbing wall even if he could fly, he wouldn't be able to get inside" "Let him in!" "During the feast, absolutely don't allow any outsiders to come in" "I am Park Jung, the Mayor of Ying Deok district" "Oh my, Lord Park is here already, please come inside" "Yes" "Members of the Jeonwoohoe (Comrades of Heaven) will be personally greeted by Lord Shim in order to come inside" "That mouse will never be able to break in" "Hey Pan Pit!" "(Pan Pit: a maid that specializes in cooking)" "Why are you not working but just standing there ?" "But this uncle..." "Father!" "Father!" "Why are you calling me, you are ruining my image" "Over there!" "How's my image?" "I can't believe this, there's nothing to be proud of such image" "Don't you swindlers have nothing else to do?" "Are you so bored that you guys are fooling around?" "There is nothing in your eyes, so of course it looks like a game to you" "We are working diligently to pay you back the money!" "If we need to cook, we'll cook" "Or we'll be Sumo (Sumo: a make-up artist)" "Do you mean to work two jobs simultaneously?" "You're very smart!" "You're so smart, my slave" "So Bong Soon is actually very courageous" "As long as I can earn money, I'll do everything" "Your eyebrows looks like a semi-moon, so beautiful" "Just changing eyebrows can make a person look completely different" "His mouth is like a cherry blossom" "What is this red thing for?" "It's lipstick" "Do you sell it?" "Bong Soon ah!" "There's a new customer" "She's the wife Palace Supervisor Chae" "Yes" "This girl is so violent" "Yongee!" "If you told me you want to marry her" "I would probably pull out the rest of my teeth" "Even in your dream, don't tell me about it!" "This good-for-nothing son!" "Yongee!" "where did he go?" "Where did I lose it?" "Are you giving me this?" "It's nothing, my Lady" "The servants you brought us last time have resolved our problem of lacking labor" "It's not a big deal" "If you need anything else, just let me know" "Yes, my Lady" "I will get going now" "My Lady!" "What about the servants?" "Ah, she said those at her house were too lazy" "So I picked out some good servants to give her" "Where did you get those servants?" "Of course not from anywhere else but the Palace!" "Can you use the servants in the Palace?" "Hey, my husband is the Palace Supervisor" "It's not a big deal" "My Lady!" "My Lady!" "What's there to be proud of?" "Father, don't do it anymore, let's hurry up and pack your stuff!" "Are we running away again?" "You, if we run away and get caught again, we will be punished about 50 big batons" "Your father is living day after day just thanks to his nice body" "Aigoo, your flesh has already shrinked, and your butt's hasying down to your tiny legs" "Please believe me, Father" "Please pack your luggage quickly!" "Is there a new place for us to make money?" "How did we become like this?" "!" "We aren't fooling him, didn't he say that, if we can find that servant, we won't be living like this again?" "You are right!" "Once we find that servant, we don't need to live like this anymore" "Exactly, but how do we find her?" "Supervisor's Lady will help us" "We are finally free!" "I can smell the scent of freedom, the stink of horse's dung" "Finally, you've done a good thing" "My daughter, Bong Soon" "I'm going out for a while" "Don't drink too much wine, Father" "Where are you going?" "Where is she going these days?" "Does she really have some clues?" "This is so suspicious!" "No matter what I think, I still believe it's suspicious" "You're having diarrhea again, you're just like Dae Shik!" "Did anyone come looking for this?" "I'm not sure, I've never seen it before" "Excuse me?" "Did anyone come to find this?" "No" "It was made from a tiger's claw" "Excuse me, have you seen a jewelry made from a tiger's claw before?" "Ah, there's a monsterl face on it" "Did you see it?" "This is..." "Are you looking for this?" "How come it's in your hand?" "It's yours, right?" "I spent such a long time looking for it, give it back to me now!" "How come it's yours?" "Why is it mine?" "It originally belongs to me, I thought I had lost it" "I'm scared, so scared" "You still have me here" "I'll protect you" "I'll never let go of your hand" "It's not that" "It's not true" "It's not like that" "Please have a seat" "What happened?" "Please have a seat first" "Sit closer to me, I have something for you" "Take a look" "This is a lipstick, I heard that if you put it on your lips" "Put a litte lip gloss on your lips" "Wait, where is the lip gloss?" "Where did you get such a precious thing?" "I bought it!" "Are you doubting me?" "Where did you get that money?" "What?" "You're really doubting me, aren't you?" "You're not believing me at all" "So you think I stole that?" "I just thought that if my Dan-ee put it on, she'd be very pretty...so I.." "I see, Thank you" "Please try it on" "Put it on!" "I'll put it on later" "I'm sure you'll look very pretty" "This is so embarassing!" "You, why are you here?" "Is it because of "that"?" "You joined the gang after hearing the rumor of the legendary assassin, didn't you?" "So did I." "A legendary assassin?" "Don't you know about it?" "The legendary assassin could make a crying child silent" "Who is he?" "You are really clueless" "Working like this but not knowing about that story can make you a spy of the Qing Dynasty" "They all start working in this profession" "According to the rumor," "once they pulled out the swords enemies from all over the places would all collapse" "You are such a braggart!" "Did someone make up that story?" "Hey, take the punishment" "You're just a new recruit" "I get it, don't be angry, hyung" "Hyung, like you said," "I can learn martial arts together with you" "No, you won't be able to" "Why?" "Among those accredited assassins, one has gone into the Palace" "What about the other one?" "He has diappeared" "Disappeard?" "Why?" "I don't know, maybe he wanted to stay away from human's world in order to live a free life" "A free life?" "Stop eating!" "You are eating more than Dae Shik!" "No, Dae Shik eats more than me!" "Do not eat anymore, quickly spit it out, stop eating!" "How can you have a father like him?" "Stop it!" "It's just like that, when I was small, I didn't understand a thing" "Open your mouth!" "Madam, are you satisfied?" "Do you really give us this precious gift?" "If it is for you two ladies, I don't mind giving you anything." "So, does it suit you?" "Perfectly" "This kind of jewelry looks better on young ladies" "That's not true, it suits you better, Madam." "Well, it's actually true." "Even a young lady doesn't wear any jewelry, she still looks pretty." "Speaking of which, Eun Chae is old enough to get married, right?" "Have you found any good match for her?" "Please help me look for a truly congenial guy!" "Our master said something about open an inn and letting her wandering outside" "I'm afraid that would affect her future marriage." "Hey you, where are you headed to?" "Are you going to the construction site again?" "Yes, brother." "Stay at home for now" "Because Jung Ji Yong wanted to look for you," "He went to your house" "How could he know that place?" "He just found out about it" "Ah, did he also steal your handkerchief?" "He kept your handkerchief and said that he wants to see you." "He's crazy!" "Handkerchief?" "Eun Chae!" "Eun Chae!" "She really takes my words for granted!" "This is all your fault, Father" "Because you hit me with your shoes all the time, she disregards me.." "Miss, please speak tell me about it" "Do you know the guy on the street that day?" "I suspect that it wasn't the first time you two met" "How did you know each other?" "At that time, I already speculated that he is still alive and will come back here" "What?" "Oh, that boy?" "Is he the deceased Young Master, your first love?" "I really want to see him again." "Will he come here again?" "Please come here!" "Kim Moo Ryul, Pu Pyung Magistrate" "Lord Kim!" "Welcome, please come in" "Everyone are here now" "Quickly close the door" "Hang on!" "Wait a minute!" "I'm sorry I'm a little bit late" "I'm a new member" "Kang Hyuk Jong, Nam Won Magistrate" "You must be the outstanding man, please come in." "Yes" "What's going on?" "It was sent out." "A fierce storm almost reigned over the Palace." "Wasn't that all thanks to my hard work?" "If the Interior Minister was interrogated, not only would one or two mandarins be involved but the whole palace might even turn chaotic." "Is that correct?" "However, there are quite a few number of new faces today." "Yes, there are some new members." "Therefore," "Today's feast is to see Lord Shim off and also to welcome all the new members of Jeonwoohoe (Heaven's Comrades fraternity)" "Is everyone here?" "He's a new member, Pu Pyung Magistrate, Kim Moo Ryul" "My Lord, please greet each other" "My goodness!" "Dang it!" "I was completely shocked!" "I even thought it's real" "You are not cowardice at all, if Master Kunghe sees this, he may pee right in his pants." "But it looks like a real head" "How was it made?" "I pasted a layer of pork skin on the mask." "then.." "mixed the Han paper and glue together, and affixed that concoction to the mask" "It would feel like it's real human skin" "But is everything glued tightly together?" "Of course it is" "Hey, don't touch that!" "Something bad might occur" "If it is glued to the skin one hour later, your skin will also dissolve into the mixture." "My skin?" "What the heck?" "Something bad almost happened" "I can be the ambassador in China this time all thanks to your help, Lord Kim" "This is a small token of my gratitude to you." "Is it pork skin?" "Looks like human skin" "Right, right!" "Somebody is looking for you outside." "I temporarily forgot to tell you" "Really?" "Uhm" "Who is that?" "Just go take a look, hurry!" "Robbers, there are robbers!" "Attention!" "Don't panic, immediately close the doors!" "The robber must still be inside!" "Close all the doors, don't even let a rat run away!" "The Turtle..." "The Golden Turtle!" "The Golden Turtle!" "Master Byun" "Yes" "No one is allowed to leave this place" "The person who stole the Golden Turtle must still be here" "Therefore, regarless of your status, please help the us investigating this matter" "Let's begin!" "I'm sorry" "Please raise your hands, My Lord" "Thank you" "Thank you, please move this way" "I'm sorry, please raise your hands" "Don't touch that." "Something bad might happen!" "If you paste that onto your skin once an hour is gone, your skin will dissolve into it" "How come you are sweating so much, My Lord?" "Please come this way" "Please hang on, My Lord" "I must... must get on the ship to China." "Iljimae is over there!" "Step aside!" "Look for it!" "Yes" "This is..." "Quickly hand me the bow!" "Give me the bow!" "Hurry up!" "Damn it!" "Aim carefully!" "That bastard is like a bat" "You, you..." "If you don't come down now, I will turn your body into a bee nest." "Oh that arrogant bastard dares to disregard my words?" "All right, I will make you regret" "Hey, give it to me quickly!" "Just shoot!" "Shoot!" "Step aside, step aside" "This bastard" "Are you Iljimae, rascal?" "What?" "What is this?" "Where, where is him?" "What is going on?" "I have searched for it thoroughly from the lower section of Taegu" "But still couldn't find it" "Maybe it has drifted into the sea" "Jeonwoohoe (Heaven's Comrades fraternity)" "Jeonwoohoe?" "Is today a special day, Mother?" "Today is the day that your father and his friends will be gathering" "His friends?" "We have never had guests coming here before" "Yes, it's a really special meeting today" "They are all good friends of your father" "Therefore, you have to be respectful and greet them politely, do you know that, Geom-ee?" "Yes, Mother" "Geom-ee!" "Please help me draw a picture of titis blossom, will you?" "Do you have any paper, sister?" "That's right, you need paper" "Please draw on this side of the paper" "I know, sister" "How is it?" "Wow, you are so talented!" "You can draw so quickly" "Jeonwoohoe (Heaven's Comrades fraternity)?" "Jeonwoohoe" "Are they friends who have sworn to be friends forever in front of Heaven and Earth?" "Morover, your father was killed" "He was assassinated by his own people" "The relationships among us weren't normal" "It was such an important meeting back then" "That's right" "The enemy is right in the Jeonwoohoe" "The person that Kwon Do Hyun wanted to tell the truth to wasn't Lee Won Ho's son" "It was Kim Yi Hee" "My guess was wrong" "My Majesty!" "I will immediately accuse them of treachery" "Stop it" "What?" "My Majesty!" "They have rebelled and betrayed you" "But you cannot always accuse them of treachery" "If you keep doing it like that, people will suspect" "Shim Ki Won's rebellious case is just one of them all the mandarins are discussing it now" "But...but, My Majesty..." "They still don't know anything, do they?" "Yes, My Majesty" "I'm sure that the leader is expecting some news from the Qing" "It's not the right time yet" "What?" "Yes, My Majesty" "That is also what I wanted to say, what you said is also what I want." "What are you doing?" "No resemblance, no resemblance at all" "What nonsense are you talking about?" "What is not resembled to which?" "Uncle!" "Yong-ee is not your biological son, right?" "What?" "Yong-ee is exactly like me!" "Don't you see any resemblance?" "Please look again, we are totally alike" "Take a look!" "Look from this angle again" "You two are not alike even from your heights" "Please tell me the truth, uncle, I've heard about it" "He is my biological son, you are so stubborn!" "Did that hunter tell you about it?" "Damn that bastard!" "I should have buried him a long time ago!" "This is really..!" "I'm getting hungry right after eating like Yong-ee is" "I'm going to eat first, then work later" "Aunt!" "What is a lip gloss?" "Is it edible?" "Lip gloss?" "Yes" "Bong Soon is getting mad at me, saying that I stole her lip gloss" "What is a lip gloss?" "Is it delicious?" "At least I should be able to eat it to feel less unfair" "What happened?" "Don't you like it?" "On your way home, please pass by the wine store and return it to her" "Why do I have to return it to the wine store?" "No, I will return it myself" "What?" "Are you really suspecting me?" "I have stopped stealing ever since Ja Dol left" "You even know about that" "Why are you treating me like this?" "So I..." "Do you think that I don't know how to be angry?" "You cannot wrongly accuse me like this" "Why are you so cruel to me?" "You are such a silly man!" "There cannot be anyone on earth that is more silly than you." "You should have just made her your woman" "Not only did she give your her body but also her heart" "No." "That won't ever happen in this whole life" "In my Dan-ee's heart, there's only that man" "What?" "That man?" "Yeah" "Today is the his death's anniversary" "My Majesty, please come back, you have left the palace for a long time already" "Si Chul, do you know what day is today?" "It's the day that Won Ho died" "How is it going?" "I'm still looking for it, my Lord" "Big brother, where are you going?" "I heard that recently, you kept following that Magistrate" "Big brother!" "Are you angry?" "or jealous?" "Yong-ee!" "Hurry up and follow me now!" "Where, where are we going?" "Are we going to have fun?" "Is it for me?" "Didn't you lose it?" "The color is so beautiful" "Where did you find it, aunt?" "It must be very expensive" "But isn't it yours?" "I have already found mine" "What?" "She takes it back?" "That color is really bad!" "Bad, the weather is bad today" "Lady," "I asked you look for a document of a slave for me last time" "Oh that?" "I left it in the drawer over there" "But who is that slave?" "My husband said that she hurt a guard and fled away" "She was killed not so long ago" "Brother!" "Are you being chased by them?" "Help me, please help me!" "I don't know what happened but it's just right that someone like you must be punished" "I will give you this" "Brother.." "I have found him, the boy that protected me, that held my hand tightly" "He is still alive, alive.." "See it?" "They are all weak and powerless" "You can start beating up that boy now" "Brother!" "Don't you know that it's our job to do this?" "If you cannot do it, just quit!" "No matter how bad we are, we cannot beat up a kid" "Don't interfere with this" "I just want Yong-ee to give up" "Please eat something before working again!" "Thank you, Miss." "You will be blessed" "Thanks to your generosity, we get both food and money" "It's not that" "Because of your hard work, this project will be a success" "Please wait a little more time" "I will arrange for you to live here later" "No, Miss" "We, commoners, would not dare..." "Father, father!" "What is it, son?" "Somebody is destroying our house" "What?" "A bunch of scumbag are here already" "Sister and mother..." "What?" "Those garbage!" "Miss!" "Miss!" "Hey bastards, stop it right there!" "Miss..." "Miss!" "Are you okay?" "You..." "Miss, is he the person from that day?" "You are such a jerk!" "Miss, what did you just say?" "A jerk?" "What are you guys doing?" "Why did you do that to the kids, you aren't even comparable to the animals" "Miss, you are over-reacting, what is that about animals!" "We're actually not very happy to do things like this" "It's just because the Lord requested everything be clean to not affect the inn's business" "What other ways do we have then?" "Maybe you should talk over this with the Lord, Miss" "My father?" "Get out of here now!" "Brothers, let's go!" "Yes" "Get out of the way, will you?" "Let me go" "How can a girl like you be so strong?" "Please sit down!" "What are you doing?" "It's so dirty here!" "Don't touch it!" "You moron!" "I told you to hit the kid, not beat your own leg" "That's why" "I said not everyone can be a jerk easily" "You, show me your leg" "I got to beat your leg untill they are broken" "Who's this young lady?" "Jeez.." "You dare to hit me?" "Let's eat this" "What is this woman doing?" "Just go sell your stuffs!" "I know" "Your wife doesn't even bring food for you" "It makes me sympathize for you" "Said who?" "Lovely, so lovely" "Gosh, why did you pat my butt like that?" "Go quickly!" "I got it, I'm leaving now!" "Hey, I'll bring some sauce tomorrow" "I will also fry a fish" "That's my job" "Why do you have to feed other's man a fish?" "Don't come, please don't come!" "If you don't trust me, then just send the fish" "I'll come tomorrow, all right?" "Oh my butt!" "I need to wake up, I must calm down" "Hey, you left a spoon" "Why do you come here?" "I bring lunch for you" "What for, just let me starve to death" "Such useless people like me shouldn't be allowed to live" "I apologize for mistakening you" "How is your business?" "It's very good" "Either it's Iljimae or Siljimae, it is really my good son now!" "At time like this, that thief is even more useful than our Yong-ee" "You could have compared your own son with something else rather than to a thief" "My Dan-ee is not only beautiful" "But she also has a good heart" "And she has her superb cooking skill as well" "Come, come in" "It's this place" "Wow, I have been inside of the palace" "But this is much more elegant than it" "Eun Chae ah!" "Where are you going?" "I have something to talk with father" "Are you looking for him to argue again?" "Come here and greet them" "This person is..." "My shattered bone, called Yong-ee" "Yes, I'm your bloody mess" "This is my sister, Eun Chae" "I have met her just recently" "Looks like we have really good fate with each other" "Is it fate or something?" "Miss, you sound so cold-hearted" "Is it because you're shy?" "But, when did you meet my sister?" "Yes?" "Ah, when I went to do some errands" "My Lord" "What's with you?" "I have to go to the bathroom!" "Oh, it's over there" "Hurry up, go!" "My father is also a member of Jeonwoohoe (Comrades of Heaven Fraternity)" "(Lee Won Ho - traitor - committed suicide)" "What are you doing here?" "I..." "Get out, now!" "I come here to return this." "Leave immediately, now!" "Yes" "Miss!" "Miss!" "Why are you calling me so loud?" "He appeared again, finally appeared" "What has appeared?" "Iljimae, Iljimae has shown himself again." "Are you certain?" "He disguised himself this time and stole the golden turtle in front of everyone" "Everyone were fooled by him" "Also there was a scarecrow wearing a black outfit with its face covered pretending to be Iljimae hanging from a tall tree" "Brilliant" "It'd seems that he's not your average burglar." "That's correct, Miss." "And one more secret" "I heard that he returns all the money he has stolen to its orginal owners." "Really?" "So then he's a Robinhood?" "Yes, he is." "That's what Robinhood is all about" "Exactly" "Could Iljimae use magics like Joemanji?" "Anyway, he's still very good, isn't he?" "A mouse, a rabbit!" "Guard!" "So we meet again" "Are you off from work?" "Why are you here?" "Oh, Lord Byun asked me to come by his house" "What?" "You want to ask how long have I known him, right?" "Actually, I am pretty good at social interactions, so......." "What a mess" "What's wrong?" "Oh, you wonder why I'm hanging around the person who caused my father to lose his tooth, right?" "This matter" "Let bygones be bygones." "Plus, my father doesn't hold his grudges" "Sir Guard!" "I heard that not too long ago, you reported a slave to the authority?" "I heard that whoever exposing a slave will get a reward" "But, judging by this uniform, you still haven't received it yet?" "Oh, my trashy mouth!" "Damn my trashy mouth!" "I'm really sorry" "Serve you right!" "You deserve a beating!" "This is pure gold" "This" "This is emerald." "As for this, have you ever seen this before?" "You really know your jewelry, my lord." "I even thought the black dot beneath your ear is a mole" "While I was still in school, I've felt that your style was unusual." "This, and this also" "My Lord, please try this on" "Okay" "Ah, your younger sister is really a virtuous, admirable lady" "I heard that she built an in on her own" "That was my father's gift to Eun Chae" "She is really an exceptional Miss" "Your father loves her very much, right?" "Not only he loves her" "But my father also let Eun Chae manages all his secret records" "Secret records?" "There's the assets of all the brave soldiers" "And military strategy" "Corruption records..." "This is the first time I see young master like this" "He used to be pretty cold-hearted, what's up with him now?" "Is it because of that ?" "Geom-ee!" "Yeon-ee!" "Are you guys still alive?" "Father!" "Why are you getting old so fast?" "Didn't you eat all the nutritious foods already?" "I deserve to have happiness and wealth" "It's late, are you still going to those beggars' place?" "You'll turn into a real beggar if you continue to live among them." "So itchy" "It even itch when I am talking" "It's useless trying to call him back" "It looks like I have to let you go, so go ahead" "Kick those beggars out, and then bring miss back here!" "But...it was the same last time" "She's really stubborn" "This rascal, how dare you disobeying me?" "Rascal, you know my personality already...." "Carry her on your back if you have to" "Yes, My Lord" "Hee Bong!" "If you dare to touch even one of Eun Chae's hair" "You'll be dead meat" "Of course, My Lord." "Is he worrying that other people don't know how smelly the feces are?" "What a jerk" "Big brother!" "Yong-ee!" "What are you doing here?" "Oh, I'm a close friend of the master here" "But, big brother..." "It's all because of Miss, business transactions with this household is getting difficult" "If I can't touch even a hair, how can carry her on my back" "That piece of dump, let's quit dealing with him" "Miss Eun Chae?" "Miss please come home, Miss" "If you insisting on doing this, it's hard for us as well" "Please, come home Miss" "Let go of my hand, jerks" "Why don't you take your hand off me right this minute!" "Miss, we have our own point of view too" "Why are you still standing there?" "Gosh!" "You gotta hold on tighter, brat" "Miss, you're startled, right" "It's alright, please rest assured, Miss" "Let's go, uncle" "This is a FREE fansub." "Not for sale"

"The duels between hunters and hunted are as dramatic as any event in the natural world." "The stakes could not be higher." "For both, it's a matter of life and death." "Yet, surprisingly, it's the hunters that usually fail." "To have any chance of survival, predators must be perfectly tuned to their own hunting arenas." "Every habitat brings a different challenge." "This series will reveal, as never before, the extraordinary range of strategies predators use to catch their prey." "But even for the most skilful... ..success is never guaranteed." "SCREECHING" "SNIFFS" "BARKS" "BARKS" "BARKS" "BARKS" "A female leopard on the prowl." "Few predators instil more fear." "SNIFFS" "Yet, out in the open, she has little chance of catching anything." "To succeed, she must get within a few metres of her prey... undetected." "Her strategy is to use cover, wearing it like a cloak of invisibility." "She's an expert in stealth." "Impala are her favourite prey." "This one is just out of her range." "SNIFFS" "She needs to get closer, within four metres." "She only has a short burst of speed." "She must stay hidden until she's in the strike zone." "TWIG SNAPS" "But out of sight doesn't mean out of mind." "Impala have acute hearing and a superb sense of smell." "SNIFFS" "Now the only prey she can see is right out in the open." "But leopards are the most versatile of all the big cats, adept at finding cover in the most unpromising places." "The steep walls of the gully are now her cover for an ambush." "The male puku is close enough, but he's too big to tackle." "She needs to slip past him without being seen." "If he spots her, he'll blow her cover." "SNIFFS" "Slowly does it..." "To succeed here, she needs to find prey grazing close to the edge." "Or better still, in the gully itself." "Frustration." "Success would have staved off hunger for a week." "But while there's prey around, there's hope." "Peeking over the top is a risk, but it's the quickest way to find a new target." "SNIFFS" "A burst of speed of 40mph and it's all over in less than six seconds." "Except...it isn't." "Dazed and disorientated, the impala makes a miraculous escape." "It's been the perfect stealth hunt and she's nothing to show for it." "But then, six out of seven leopard hunts end in failure." "A leopard's hunting strategy depends on finding cover." "But how do you catch your prey in a place where there's literally nowhere to hide?" "That's the challenge facing Zambia's wild dogs." "This close-knit pack is made up of one adult female and her 12 offspring from last year." "Unlike the solitary leopard, wild dogs depend for their survival on teamwork." "Dogs that play together... work together." "Each morning, the pack heads out across the open plain, prospecting for prey." "Mother decides which direction they go." "The rest stay close." "They'll keep going for miles until they find the right kind of prey." "Adult zebra are too big a challenge." "And the same goes for tsessebe." "An oribi is an easier target." "But is it worth the effort, especially on an oribi that's as fit and bouncy as this one?" "Better to save their energy for something bigger." "A wildebeest." "It's what they've been looking for." "The dogs need to make the wildebeest run." "Their success will depend on wearing him down in a long chase." "While the prey's running, the dogs have the advantage." "But when the wildebeest stand their ground, the tables are turned." "Faced with a wall of horns, the pack is powerless." "But not all the wildebeest have had the courage to stop." "Now the real contest begins." "The wildebeest are big and strong." "But the dogs have stamina." "Right now, hunters and hunted are clocking 40mph." "The pack can keep this pace up for miles." "The wildebeest can't." "One wildebeest peels off." "Then another two." "The split confuses the inexperienced pack, sending them in different directions." "The mother and one youngster continue on." "The rest of the pack stop, believing they have an easier target." "It's a mistake." "Like a beast with two heads, each bull protects the other's rear." "And the dogs can do nothing." "Ahead, the chase continues." "Another wildebeest peels off." "Now the mother has just one in her sights." "But it will mean nothing without the help of the rest of the pack." "The situation here has reached stalemate." "The young dogs have lost valuable time." "They must try and catch up with their mother." "Back at the front, the mother is beginning to tire." "And the wildebeest knows it, bouncing to show he's still strong and not worth chasing." "But fresh, young legs are catching up fast." "When one dog tires, there's always another member of the team to take up the lead." "The dogs now have the numbers to bring the wildebeest down." "Each bite risks a broken jaw, but going for the legs is the only way to stop it." "And they must do so before it reaches the safety of the herd, a few hundred metres ahead." "After a 20-minute chase, the bull's energy is near spent." "This time there will be no sanctuary within the herd." "The dogs' stamina has been rewarded." "All they must do now is to bring their quarry to the ground." "Working as a pack allows wild dogs to take on prey ten times heavier than any one of them." "But many mouths need a lot of food." "The price they pay for these numbers is knowing they'll have to attempt the same thing again tomorrow... and every day." "Teamwork and stamina on Africa's open plains have proved to be a winning combination." "But in the dense and complex world of the jungle, hunting is a never-ending game of hide and seek." "Here, it pays to sit still... ..and blend in..." "..because you just never know who's watching." "The Parson's chameleon is an expert in the see-and-not-be-seen game." "It lets its eyes do all the work... ..while the rest of its body moves in slow motion, so as not to scare possible targets." "The problem is that it can only see prey if it moves." "So is this a stick insect... ..or a stick?" "Ah-hah..." "Time to unleash its secret weapon..." "..a tongue longer than its body." "The Parson's close cousin, the nasutum chameleon, has the same weapon, but in miniature." "As small as a matchstick, he needs to get much closer to its prey." "But even with eyes as big as its stomach, this isn't the meal deal he was hoping for." "In the jungle, it's hard finding the right-sized prey when you're a tiny predator." "Promising opportunities can quickly turn to disappointment." "Spotting any kind of prey in this dense, green world is hard." "If you do find something, you want to make sure it doesn't escape." "The praying mantis has arms that can strike ten times faster than a blink of the eye." "And it's the only insect known to see in 3D." "Perfect for judging strike distances." "But like the chameleon, her problem is seeing prey when it freezes." "She needs some movement to be sure it's food." "Just the tiniest sign of life." "Yep, that's done it." "The lightning strike has given her the edge over her insect prey, but it doesn't pay to be complacent." "In the jungle arms race, only too often there's someone else with a more powerful weapon." "And there's one predator that has, perhaps, the most ingenious answer of all to the jungle's challenge." "It lives along rivers in the rainforests of Madagascar." "The insects it hunts fly down the same jungle corridors." "But there's a problem." "It's a web-building spider." "So how does it get over the river to hunt?" "It's called Darwin's bark spider and the female has a remarkable strategy." "Like a real-life Spider-Woman, she sprays strands of silk in one long, continuous flow." "The threads fan out like a sail and drift on air currents blowing across the water." "Every few seconds, she crimps the strands together to stop them spreading too widely." "The breeze will do the rest, blowing the threads into a single line and a 25-metre bridge." "Now she must reinforce her bridge, because her web will hang from it." "But there's something bouncing the line at the other end." "Another Darwin's spider is trying to take advantage of her hard work." "She must deal with the intruder head on." "The cut line is an inconvenience, but no more than that." "With hooks on the tips of each leg, she gathers in the thread." "It won't go to waste, as she'll eat it later." "When it's all reeled in, she sprays again." "Out streams another 25-metre bridging line." "How a spider, no bigger than a thumbnail, can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists." "And it's no ordinary silk." "It's the toughest natural fibre on the planet, tougher than steel." "And it needs to be tough to span the wide river." "With the bridge taut and the ground anchor in place, it's time to construct her trap." "These spiders can build the world's largest orb webs, up to two metres wide." "A few hours from the first spray of bridging line, the job is done." "Now her strategy is simple... ..sit and wait." "And there's one final bout of silk production... ..shrink-wrapping her food for later." "Not all rivers provide their predators with a steady supply of prey." "On the Grumeti River in Tanzania lives the planet's most patient predator." "A Nile crocodile." "Five metres long, 700 kilos and very hungry." "His last square meal was nearly a year ago." "The river's other residents aren't food... ..just a distraction." "He is waiting for something bigger from over the horizon." "But beyond the big croc's isolated river, there's still no sign of the migratory herds he depends on for survival." "Other, smaller crocs are waiting, too... ..but their meal ticket depends on the hunting skills of the big guy." "The herds could be here in a week, or a month." "In rare years, not at all." "Until then, the crocs must conserve their energy." "GRUNTING AND MOOING" "Finally, the sound they've all been waiting for." "The herds have arrived." "It's time for the crocs to get into position." "All eyes will be on the big guy." "Only he has the power to tackle a full-grown wildebeest." "The year-long wait is almost over." "After months on the march, the wildebeest are desperate to drink." "But experience has taught the adults to be cautious." "The water is just too inviting for a calf, unaware of the dangers within." "But every wildebeest must take its chances... ..and hope that its reflexes are faster than what many know lurks in the murky waters." "Just a harmless hippo." "That was no hippo." "It's put the wildebeest more on edge." "But here, fear always gives way to thirst." "Catching the wildebeest is all about timing." "The big croc's technique is rusty." "It's been a whole year since his last hunt and he's out of practice." "But this isn't the end of the drama, just an intermission." "For the next two weeks, waves of wildebeest will pass through the Grumeti." "Time for the big croc to try a different tactic." "The floating log." "He's hoping the wildebeest won't notice him until it's too late." "Now the smaller crocs move in." "The big croc will need their help to tear off chunks." "Crocs can't chew, so they have to spin together to tear pieces off the carcass." "Everyone gets their share... ..and it's all thanks to the big guy." "He won't feed again until the wildebeest return next year." "Across the globe, millions of animals are continuously on the move in search of seasonal food." "But it's not just prey animals that must migrate." "Some predators have to journey, too." "Amur falcons are one of the world's greatest long-distance travellers." "As their prey dries up in their breeding grounds in Siberia, they embark on an epic migration to Southern Africa, crossing 14 countries, two continents and one ocean." "Only here, in this remote valley in northeast India, do they join forces." "A million falcons and the greatest gathering of birds of prey on the planet." "This valley is a vital pit stop on the falcons' migration." "The tiny raptors can go no further until they build up their fat reserves..." "..and they've timed their arrival here perfectly." "For just a few weeks each year, winged termites, alates, leave the safety of their mounds in millions." "High in calories, these alates are exactly what the falcons need to fuel their oceanic crossing, the longest made by any bird of prey." "To have any chance of surviving their journey, they must nearly double their weight in just two weeks." "Those that make it to South Africa will have to do the whole trip back again in four months' time." "For Amur falcons, survival means flying 14,000 miles every year of their lives." "For some predators, it's not the distance they have to travel that's their greatest challenge, but the size of their prey." "And few challenges come bigger than the one in this ocean." "Each year, female humpback whales journey from their feeding grounds in Antarctica to Australia to have their calves." "These calm, warm waters are a perfect nursery." "Perfect, but for one thing." "Orcas, killer whales." "They appear just as the migration begins." "And they're on the hunt for calves." "Highly intelligent, orca are the ocean's most successful predator." "When hunting, they can travel at 30mph... ..twice as fast as a mother and calf." "The hunters close in silently." "It's only now that the mother realises they've been followed." "The orca have the advantage of numbers, but they need to be cautious." "The mother's rear is protected by a five-metre-wide tail that could slice through them." "Her flanks are defended by a pair of long, barnacle-covered flippers." "And in the middle is the calf, riding high on its mother's back and out of reach." "To separate mother from calf, the orca must use all their intelligence." "They take it in turns to try and wave wash the baby away from its mother." "In a month, the calf would be strong enough to withstand the onslaught." "Not now." "But then the tables are turned." "A male humpback arrives, driving the orca away with its flippers." "And the situation worsens when a second male appears." "Now the pod face the power of three 40-tonne whales, and the escorts make their weight count." "The bubbles are like a smokescreen, blocking the orcas' vision and sonar." "There's a real danger of being injured by an unseen fluke or flipper." "With the escorts defending both sides of the mother, the killer whales have been outmanoeuvred." "As the orca retreat, the escorts drive home their advantage, pushing the hunters further away." "It's an error of judgment." "With mother and calf unprotected, the orca double back before the humpbacks can react." "The killer whales separate the calf from its mother." "They push the calf underwater and drown it." "The intelligent hunters have turned defeat into victory." "The orcas' prize is so large that sharks are quick to take advantage." "Through intelligence, stamina and teamwork, the orca have mastered the ocean's greatest challenge." "Yet even they fail as often as they succeed." "Most predators fail most of the time." "It's what makes them the hardest-working animals on the planet." "The pressure is even greater when they have other mouths to feed." "At eight months old, these cubs are still totally dependent on their mother." "To support them she must kill something large, like a gazelle, nearly every day." "But these youngsters are proof that she has overcome the challenge of their habitat." "Few cheetah mothers get this far with four cubs." "If the cubs are to survive without her, they must watch their mother carefully and learn the strategies for hunting on the open plains." "There's a lot to take in." "They'll need to learn that their top speed can only be sustained for a few seconds." "They'll have to master how to match the twisting turns of the prey, so they get close enough to trip it." "And they will soon learn the margin for error is tiny." "The odds are against them." "90% of cheetah cubs never make it to their second birthday." "Even with this experienced mother, the future for this family is far from certain." "All any predator can do is to keep on trying." "For The Hunt team, filming a Nile crocodile capturing a wildebeest would require the same skill, patience and reactions as the five-metre reptile." "The timing of the shoot would also be critical, since this behaviour only happens when the crocs' river is at its lowest point." "But things get off to the worst possible start - the river in flood in the middle of the dry season." "What we hoped for was that the Grumeti River would be just a series of pools full of crocodiles." "They're probably scattered over 30 or 40 miles of river." "So we've got to wait for two things - the crocs to bunch up and the wildebeest to come." "As well as Mark, this small crew includes son Jacca and camerawoman and wife Vicky." "Are you keeping watch?" "I am." "I'm watching my son and my husband in a very deep, muddy river with lots of crocodiles!" "You could lose a large part of your family here if you're not careful." "Yeah." "Basically, half of us could be wiped out." "These crocs hunt by stealth and they can sneak up in this dark, murky water right to the edge of the bank." "So the golden rule of filming here is to be one metre from the water." "Not to be outdone by the floodwater, the team sets up the first hide." "But any idea of filming is soon swept away." "Literally, within half an hour, an hour," "I felt water around my ankles." "If I was still in that hide, then he definitely wouldn't be on the bank." "We're not going to go in and get it." "The water the colour it is and knowing that he's got friends around, who could be literally just at the base there." "With a flooded river and no wildebeest, the wait was going to be longer than expected." "Crocs are used to being patient." "But now we've got to show equal patience." "Leaving the raging river, the team go in search of the migrating wildebeest, to see just how far they are from the Grumeti." "I think we should go over the other side and then we'll get a sense of the number." "Should be up here." "Do you want to take the controls?" "I'll take the controls." "It's some time before they find the wildebeest on the Serengeti's vast plains." "Loads there." "Loads?" "Yeah, spread all the way across..." "Oh, OK!" "Fantastic." "How far away are we?" "70 miles away." "Still a long way from the Grumeti, but at least the wildebeest were heading in the right direction." "MARK TALKS INDISTINCTLY" "The wildebeest are still a long way away but, in the meantime, we can hopefully pick up these intimate moments with these really huge crocs." "Finding the biggest and most dominant croc would be key to the team's success." "Only the top croc would be powerful enough to grab a wildebeest." "To find their star," "Mark and Vicky would need to look out for territorial behaviour." "Today it's sunny and it's early in the morning." "I'm full of hope." "But at the end of the day, all Mark sees is one static croc." "He lay on the sandbank all day, I guess, seven hours." "Urgh!" "Patience." "And Vicky wasn't having much luck, either." "When we first found it, there were crocs all over the bank over there and now I've been in here several hours and there's not one." "After a week," "Mark and Vicky are no closer to finding their dominant croc." "But at least the news on the wildebeest was more positive." "34 miles." "Getting closer." "Back on the river, it was like Groundhog Day." "Crocs are all-or-nothing creatures." "And I'm afraid it's been another day of nothing." "With no sign of any action, the hours of watching motionless crocs were beginning to take their toll." "It's like watching paint dry." "Well, that was useless." "Utterly useless." "The crocs just didn't come." "The team needed something to change and the falling water seemed a good omen." "This is what the floodwaters left us - the lower jaw of a croc." "And look at that." "I mean, it's...it's heavy." "This has come from a croc who must be at least five metres." "And they're down there." "Don't step too close to the water, sweetheart." "I got too excited by the jaw!" "And with the water dropping, excitement was finally rising amongst the crocs." "Well, that felt so different this morning." "It really felt like there was an energy there... ..that hasn't been there for weeks." "And it isn't long before the team find their dominant croc." "The big territorial male, who we hope will do most of the hunting, has been very active this morning." "He's been displaying, really patrolling this stretch." "With a big croc to focus on, all they needed now were the wildebeest." "Mark and Vicky take to the skies to check on their progress." "Look, right as far as you can see..." "The crocs might actually get a meal." "That's great, Vick." "The wildebeest were, at last, less than a day away from the Grumeti." "Mark and Vicky take up positions on either side of the river." "WHISPERS:" "We can see wildebeest just trying to come down, but they're just so nervous." "After such a long wait, it's a tense time." "Success for crew and croc will depend on split-second reactions." "For the big croc, the first session ends in failure." "It's very easy to have empathy for the animals that are being hunted, but I have to say that, in this instance... ..my sympathies are all with the crocs." "We've just seen how, over the past month, they've had nothing to eat at all and that's been what they've experienced for the last year." "And it's a few days before the wildebeest return." "It's 12 o'clock." "Very hot, but I can hear the wildebeest again." "There's a baby going in a bit further." "Come on..." "Something's got to happen." "Yeah, now he's right out there." "Croc's right there next to him." "Oh, God, you can see the croc underneath the surface." "You can just see the swirl and just the dark shape." "And there he goes!" "Oh!" "Urgh!" "And he missed him again." "Yeah, at this time of the year, it's absolutely crucial for them." "If they don't feed now, then they're in dire straits." "Oh, here they come." "Thirsty innocence." "Come on, guys." "That's better." "Come on, you can do it." "Got two there now, coming down on their knees next to them." "Come on, you can do it." "Just one footstep further out." "That's all that croc needs." "Oh, yeah, yeah." "Go on..." "There he goes!" "Well, that was amazing." "I mean, just..." "It suddenly happened." "Trying to work out where the crocs were underwater was a nightmare!" "That was so intense." "One minute, there was nothing." "And the next minute, the bank was covered in wildebeest and then... one was taken." "But I got it!" "Next time, the hunt is on in the frozen north, the High Arctic." "One of the toughest places on Earth in which to make a living." "To succeed here, a predator must exploit the few good times... ..to endure the bad." "For a free, interactive Open University poster, call... or go to... and follow the links to the Open University." "# I put a spell on you" "# Cos you're mine" "# I can't stand it... #"

"APPLAUSE AND CHEERING" "good evening! where tonight we are obsessed with films and fame." "Parading their false modesty down the red carpet tonight are the very famous David Mitchell." "APPLAUSE" "The fantastically glamorous John Sessions." "APPLAUSE hell's teeth!" "It's only Emma Thompson!" "APPLAUSE" "And who is that bloke getting out of the car behind her?" "the curly hair?" "The one off the telly." "Who is he?" "ALL:" "It's Alan Davies!" "So it is!" "APPLAUSE" "And tonight..." "Tonight our buzzers have come over all cinematic." "David goes..." "SHOWBIZ FANFARE" "Emma goes..." "INDIANA JONES THEME MUSIC" "John goes..." "# There is no business like show business" "# Like no business I know... #" "And Alan goes... folks!" "camera and action as we roll out the first question. but what is this picture trying to tell you?" "# Show business!" "#" "Oh!" "Johnny got there first." "Yes?" "It is a painting by Man Ray of Ingres and it is known because it's a kind of a pun. a Violin d'Ingres." "what you've done is saved us a lot of time 100% right in every particular!" "That's very good! who was a favourite model of a lot of the Surrealist artists. the neo-classicist French painter who died in..." "I think." "Are you going to be like this all the way through?" "This is a complicated point we have to get across. i.e." "a whole other string to their bow. as well as a great painter." "definitely has one more string to his bow." "How would you like to have Cedric Gibbons nude on your mantelpiece?" "It's not Stanley Gibbons the philatelist?" "No!" "Cedric Gibbons." "He was the premier art director/production designer for MGM." "And in 1928 he was asked to design something." "What might that have been?" "Gone With The Wind?" "No." "The Oscar?" "Thank you!" "The Oscar!" "he won 11 of them." "He was nominated for 36 and won 11." "were won by Walt Disney who won how many?" "109. 26!" "and all the rest went to Emma Thompson." "look!" "There she is!" "A lovely winning smile." "Do you remember which one that was?" "That's Sense And Sensibility." "Or Howard's End?" "Howard's Way." "I nearly said Howard's Way!" "That interesting boat script I wrote!" "But you were nominated for three others." "Yes." "Do you remember what they were?" "Umm..." "Remains Of The Day." "Remains Of The Day." "In The Name Of The Father." "Best Supporting Actress." "yes!" "I had forgotten that." "I can remember all the GCSEs I did." "I would definitely remember every Oscar nomination!" "I think when the rest of my brain had melted those five names of films would still come out." "The best film one year was Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs." "Do you know what..." "They altered the Oscar to some extent." "They made him a midget?" "They made him one big one and seven little ones." "It must have been a grim year because that is a boring cartoon." "I made an Oscar." "I actually made a genuine Oscar." "I went to the factory in Chicago where they were made." "like a jelly mould?" "but it is pure metal." "Britannium." "Or do you have to hue it over weeks?" "You give it a damn good buffing." "but if I was winning can I have one of the ones made by the professionals rather than the one Stephen Fry ballsed up!" "I bet!" "And then dipping..." "You bad..." "You very bad man." "A good buttock flossing!" "And then dipping him in nickel and then in that gold." "I didn't make him." "It's like the Queen pulling a pint." "that's more or less what it was like." "who was the Best Actor in your year you were Best Actress?" "Al Pacino." "was for Best Adapted Screenplay." "as a matter of fact." "you should!" "Yeah." "You rescued it." "Yeah." "Yes." "I had one of those steam powered computers and the screen had done something to the script." "into just.... just funny shapes." "I got the computer bloke round and he couldn't work it out." "went set it down" "Please!" "Find my script!" "because I'm an actress." "I make sure people know it!" "I did that." "APPLAUSE" "Advantages of being a nerd." "Probably what really happened was" "I can't let on." ""I'll quickly write one!" "I'll just write it." "It will be much quicker if I just adapt the novel." "because my brain doesn't hold any information for any length of time at all." "that's my script and I handed it in." "I'll send the Oscar round tomorrow." "time to test your hearing." "What is this a representation of?" "DRIPPING AND SQUELCHING" "THWUMP!" "It's Roy Chubby Brown eating a hobnob." "It's Gladstone being..." "Eating an ice cream and then being beamed up by the Martians." "It's giving birth." "Yes!" "Brilliant!" "Brilliant!" "That's exactly what it is." "It is a lamb being born." "God!" "this is a sound effect." "We can actually see the sound being made." "DRIPPING AND SQUELCHING" "THWUMP! I'll do any old crap." "oddly enough!" "amongst other things. as used in movies. by someone called a foley artist." "And here is an example of some of the early foley artists making their noises." "All kinds of different things are used. you see if..." "Ah!" "Ah!" "Alan!" "When I say close your eyes." "will you?" "we'll let the audience and everyone at home see some more sounds being made." "See if you can see what these are." "SCRAPE!" "THUD!" "CLUNK!" "what was that?" "A guillotine!" "all right." "Very good." "How was it made?" "With a guillotine and a person! and so they had to kill a guy." "Oh!" "Very good!" "It was indeed." "I had my eyes shut long after the sound had finished." "I am so obedient." "It was indeed a cabbage." "You slide a knife along a scaffolding pole and then chop a cabbage and drop it into the bucket." "It's pretty good." "We've got another one." "Close your eyes." "CLOP" "What was that?" "Somebody pretending to be a horse!" "That sounds exactly like some coconut shells." "Oh!" "You're so cynical!" "That's a two-legged horse wearing some awkward shoes." "EMMA:" "It's a horse clapping." "Don't you think it sounds like a horse?" "EMMA:" "It does!" "You've seen it many times in films without knowing it was coconut. then it works." "Close your eyes." "What you think this sound is?" "CRACKLING It's fire." "Exactly." "They use this for fire ripping through straw." "This is a good one." "bollocks." "It's a plain piece of paper coming out of an envelope." "Taking off a shirt?" "No." "This is what they genuinely used at Elstree." "The electric doors in Star Wars!" "Paper being taken out of an envelope." "As simple as that." "so it is." "We thank our sound expert and apologise if she's in tears having been mocked by David." "I am perfectly willing to accept with the pictures there you buy the whole effect." "what's the good thing about an" "English accent in Hollywood?" "You are always a villain." "That's basically it." "Or you're gay." "Often a gay villain!" "Or people think you are Australian so you get bar work! is to get an English villain to play a German villain." "As in the Die Hard films." "Alan Rickman. there will not be a four." "Mr Takagi won't be joining us for the rest of his life." "LAUGHTER" "That was brilliant." "But he does this thing where he's able to talk without actually letting his lips touch his teeth." "I want you to tell me the villains they have played in Hollywood movies." "Peter Cushing." "don't buzz!" "Let other people have a chance." "Yes?" "Dracula." "I don't think he ever played Dracula." "certainly." "Is it Tarkin?" "Very good." "The Grand Moff Tarkin." "Steven Berkoff?" "Beverly Hills Cop." "Very good." "if you remember." "Christopher Lee?" "The Man With The Golden Gun." "but actually..." "He was a bad wizard in the Hobbit films." "He was an awfully naughty wizard!" "A turncoat wizard." "He was very angry not to be cast in the third one." "Furious." "He hardly catches a break." "apparently." "Was Christopher Plummer British?" "actually." "I had a friend who worked with Christopher Plummer in a film and he arrived at the airport." "Go straight to the bar of the hotel." "don't mention The Sound Of Music." "OK." "Christopher Plummer comes in and half an hour later he was playing Edelweiss on the piano." "Weird." "she was vile!" "LAUGHTER" "She was a bit stiff and grumpy and not very good with children." "Do think it would have been better if they'd made the Baroness obviously wonderful and gorgeous?" "Why's he shagging the staff?" "!" "She could have been Mary Poppins and then they could have had a Maria/Mary face-off." "Like Alien Versus Predator." "I can get hat stands out of carpetbags!" "I can make a whole outfit out of curtains in two hours for six people." "And snap my fingers and make drawers open and close." "I can defeat the Nazis." "That's my trump card played." "The thing that's never mentioned in that film now living in a country with no coastline." "first day." "Rowing round the lake!" "what next? there is a good living to be made being beaten up by American action stars." "How did the ancient Greeks cover up the naughty bits on their statues?" "did they?" "they didn't." "Then the Victorians chipped them all off." "it started happening." "Chipped them off?" "Chipped the willies off." "I collect Greek willies!" "there will be a huge barrel of Greek willies." "I'm giving them free!" "you get a willy!" "000 years old." "There is a room in the Vatican which contains the chipped off bits." "There is a proud Greek statue." "Is he about to bash himself on the cock?" "!" "ARGH!" "it shows you are really ready." "It was about 1860 they started putting those curvy-looking cabbage leaves round them." "It was really the Reformation and Counter Reformation in Europe." "They had these people like Calvin and Savonarola who was a fierce proponent of all things pure." "everything became incredibly..." "It was like 1950s America." "the ancient Greeks went commando." "It was only in the later Middle Ages and Victorian times that fig leaves were placed on statues." "What's so upsetting about this film?" "DRAMATIC MUSIC" "Do you know what's going on here?" "There are beetles." "Is it a disease?" "It's not a disease. but it outraged the cheese producers of the world." "It's bacillus in cheese." "It's cheese mites." "It is little creatures that exist in cheese." "So that's what cinema was like in 1903?" "Five hours of footage of cheese mites." "Sounds pretty good." "Amongst other things." "I don't know what it did to the sales of cheese." "Possibly it wouldn't have helped them." "But it increased the sales of cheap microscopes." "People became fascinated about the little things that go on." "They could see their own little swimming...things..." "I remember a documentary that your father Eric Thompson narrated called something like The Life That Lives In Man." "Yes." "It was all about the tiny creatures that live... like billions and billions of things in our beds all the time even if you do turn your mattress every month." "I don't think turning a mattress is going to kill the things..." "ALL TALK AT ONCE" "The Titanic of the insect world is coming." "And in your eyelashes..." "We all have little creatures living in our eyelashes." "There's one of those adverts that says there are more germs on your chopping board than on your loo seat." "clearly that's fine then." "We are not all dying or having diarrhoea..." "We are starting to die because we're cleaning them up too much." "They are saying in the advert the very thing we are selling you is unnecessary." "Exactly!" "Exactly... cos it's fine." "except from cheese producers it contains these special mites which live there and do you no harm at all." "Cheese is a good thing." "Who remembers Charlton Heston?" "How was Michelangelo lying when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?" "INDIANA JONES THEME Yes?" "Didn't he not do it?" "He didn't do it." "He lied about it. as he did in the Charlton Heston movie The Agony And The Ecstasy." "Did he jump up and do a bit at a time?" "he stood on the scaffolding and did it that way and cricked his neck." "Vasari writes about it in his biography." "There is apparently some extraordinary little secret joke that Michelangelo painted in the fabric behind God." "There is God with a bit of sort of swaggy stuff behind him. neurosurgeons from four universities..." "They are absolutely convinced do you know what it might be?" "Female part?" "it's not a female part." "For once in QI's life we're not in the downstairs lady area." "Is it a brain?" "Brain!" "It's the transfer section of the sagittal area of the brain. but completely illegal in Italy at this time." "one of God's greatest miracles was the human brain if you take away the brain from that superimposition... which is dedicated to replications of the brain made of fabrics." "It's an odd kind of museum." "We can actually show you a perfect brain with brain stem made by some American knitting person." "There you are." "LAUGHTER which is impressive." "Are you sure that's just not the most unsuccessful attempt at a cardigan ever?" "LAUGHTER it's meant to." "It's a brain." Some mad granny. knitting and crochet. "While our artists make every effort to ensure accuracy we can't accept responsibility for the consequences of using fabric brain art as a guide for functional magnetic resonance imaging." "LAUGHTER home-based surgery." "Either you've got a tumour or they've dropped a stitch." "LAUGHTER" "Michelangelo may have been lying about his illegal dissecting activities." "Why he'd risk painting a huge piece of incriminating evidence on the ceiling of the Pope's chapel is anybody's guess." "Which brings us blinking out of the darkened theatre and into the blinding light of General Ignorance." "please." "What happens to a hedgehog if you remove its fleas?" "SHOWBIZ FANFARE David?" "It dies." "KLAXON BLARES" "David!" "Davidy-wavedy-woo!" "but it's not true at all. but not from the lack of fleas." "with or without." "What mustn't you feed hedgehogs?" "Bread and milk." "Exactly." "People do it and it gives them diarrhoea and they dry out." "including humans." "come off it! demonstrably fine." "it's not very good for you." "It's fine!" "why is it suddenly a massive problem?" "We're actually supposed to live till we're 250 but we've been eating all this poisonous bread and milk all the time and can barely limp past 98." "LAUGHTER It's just ridiculous!" "Of course we're supposed to eat bread and milk." "Not just bread and milk." "don't bully him." "Poor Alan." "Alan." "yes!" "..presented by David Mitchell." "What's your programme called?" "The Unbelievable Truth." "to be not true." "You claimed..." "People give you this ..." "and you read it out." "Brilliant!" "I've no idea what you mean." "LAUGHTER we are very happy to put you right on your otherwise excellent programme. although they wouldn't be happy if you poisoned them with flea powder." "Shakespeare mentions football twice." "How often does he mention the cricket?" "He doesn't mention cricket cos it didn't exist then." "KLAXON BLARES Oh... right." "there's a mention of cricket and that's before..." "Are you sure that's not the small insect?" "you're right." "to be honest." "that "Never" I said was right..." "LAUGHTER" "Mr Mitchell that the game of cricket didn't exist in Shakespeare's time." "It did although he doesn't mention it." "So is this whole round...?" "LAUGHTER you know.... but it brings a lot of people a lot of pleasure. referring to the insect." "But the game did exist in his day the EXCELLENT Radio 4 programme..." "It is excellent." "..which I'd urge you to listen to." "What hair do head lice prefer?" "INDIANA JONES THEME Yes?" "Clean hair." "Clean hair." "You say "clean hair"?" "KLAXON BLARES people thought it was dirty hair." "This was repudiated and replaced by another fallacy they don't mind." "As long as there's an adequate blood supply there's no preference for clean or dirty." "The hair of a living person." "You have to be alive and have hair." "Eurgh." "a slang term for them." "nits are the egg cases and they stay on and you can't get rid of them." "They stay on sometimes for weeks after the actual louse has escaped." "how does a flu jab work?" "It gives you...a minor version of the illness." "no!" "That's the point." "It doesn't give you a mild case of flu." "Oddly enough it's not that kind of a vaccine." "Most people think it is and they often think they've been given flu and it's perfectly possible to get real flu and you assume inactive virus your body's..." "It's still enough to get your antibodies prepared for it the time has come to tot up the box office takings for this evening and see... it's absolutely fascinating! with +4 points is Alan Davies!" "CHEERING AND APPLAUSE" "How about that?" "Oh!" "Can you believe it?" "John Sessions with 1!" "APPLAUSE Emma Thompson!" "10?" "!" "APPLAUSE David Mitchell!" "APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Alan and me." "And huge thanks to our mothers and agents and everybody who believed in us and made it possible." "You're all wonderful." "You're all family." "And I leave you with this account of a successful family publicity stunt." "created an exhibit entitled The Happy Family - a panther and a baby lamb - which was extremely successful." "And one day he was asked about his plans for The Happy Family which had toured everywhere. if the supply of lambs holds out." "Goodnight." "APPLAUSE" "Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd." "E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk"

"(growling )" "( growling continues )" "( screaming )" "Ah, Jeez." "All right, guy?" "I guess he won't be eating dinnertonight." "I think Running Man was attacked up there and then dragged or slid down here." "Look at those wounds." "STOKES:" "He picked the wrong time of day to be running alone." "Dusk is when the animals come out." "BROWN:" "Yeah, from what I hear they carved out a piece of this valley when they made the park." "Some mountain lion probably didn't like getting relocated." "Mountain lions are brutal." "And smart." "This one evidently knows how to use a scalpel." ""Who... are you?" ""Who, who, who, who?" ""Who... are you?" ""Who, who, who, who?" ""l really wanna know" ""Who... are you?" ""Oh-oh-oh Who..." ""Come on, tell me who are you, you, you" "Oh, you!"" "Catherine." "What are you doing?" "The carnival case." "I'm taking it." "The carnival case?" "A six-year-old girl died on a ride at the carnival over on Washington." "The paperwork's on your desk." "Did you straighten up my office while you were in there?" "You think I overstepped?" "These people come to town they commit crimes and they leave." "I just want to get there before the carnival moves on." "Okay." "Take Sara with you." "She's meeting me there." "BROWN:" "So, Doc how big of a cat are we actually dealing with here?" "We're not." "We're not?" "You ever owned a kitten?" "When you play with them, they don't just bite, they scratch." "Doesn't matter whether they're tabbies or tigers." "And there's no signs of claw wounds on the victim." "So what are we dealing with?" "Forget Whiskers." "Think Spot." "Teeth marks look canine." "I was wrong about the species." "I'll make a mold of the bite." "If we're lucky we can narrow it down to breed." "What?" "Most people don't admit when they're wrong." "I'm wrong all the time." "That's how I eventually get to right." "ROBBlNS:" "You weren't wrong about the scalpel." "Whoever removed this guys organs knew how to handle one." "STOKES:" "So a dog killed him then someone came along and cut him up." "GRlSSOM:" "Someone with two legs and a medical degree." "Stop." "What are you doing?" "That bag's been used 100 times." "Get her a new one." "They get washed every time, right?" "Yeah, with disinfectant." "What if it was your kid?" "She gets this one." "Yes, ma'am." "She looks scared." "No six-year-old should have to go through that." "You okay?" "Why don't you go find the mother and talk to her." "I'll take the crime scene." "Okay." "I don't know what happened." "One minute Sandy was laughing, holding my hand, and the next..." "The next, sh..." "Oh, my God." "Mommy!" "Sandy!" "Sandy, where are you?" "I..." "I got out of the car... but I couldn't find her." "By the time I got the operator to stop the ride... she was dead." "MAN:" "How can this happen?" "At a carnival." ""Go back to the crime scene." "Collect the dog's scat."" "I didn't realize how many dogs take their walks up here when I said that." "BROWN:" "Yeah, but I bet Grissom did." "This sucks." "But it's evidence, right?" "No, hair and fiber is evidence, Warrick." "This is combat duty." "Yeah, it's somebody's doody." "STOKES:" "Don't even waste your time." "That's cougar." "How do you figure that?" "See the rabbit hair in the feces?" "Don't you remember the seminar?" "Seminar?" "Julie." "Julie, oh..." "A CSl should not be that fine." "( chuckles )" "What is that?" "STOKES:" "Looks like dirty ice." "Yeah, well, I'm taking it into evidence." "It's evidence of a picnic, Warrick." "Yeah, well... we'll see." "We've never had a problem with this ride." "This is the safest ride we got." "Not anymore." "So you didn't know that anything was wrong until this car came out of the tunnel, right?" "As soon as the Mom started screaming" "I stopped the ride." "Seat belt's loose." "I check those every morning." "Did you check this one?" "Yeah." "So do you strap the riders in, or do they do it themselves?" "Lady, it's the Tunnel of Love, not Colossus." "People like to get up close and personal on this ride." "So you keep the belts loose on purpose." "Loose enough for adults to get close or six-year-old kids to slide through?" "Officer, give us a minute." "You tampered with the evidence." "Ma'am, I don't know what you're talking about." "Oh, spare me the Hee Haw routine." "You run this nightmare on wheels." "I found this in there." "You send one of your employees into that tunnel to fix the track where that little girl was killed to cover your ass?" "Glad you found that, 'cause Puppy's been missing since I rolled into Vegas." "Look, I, uh..." "I'm sorry as the next jim-jim about what happened, ma'am but..." "I ain't got nothing to do with it." "Field test for drugs." "I'm sure you've done this before." "You can't make me take a drug test." "Oh, before you came to Nevada you should've looked up the law." "Mandatory drug testing wherever there's been an accident." "Pee now, and don't tell me you're shy." "Stay on him." "Mandatory drug testing?" "There should be." "And I don't have to wait for results to know that guy's coked out of his brain." "Cocaine bugs?" "Oh..." "Crawling all under his skin." "GRlSSOM:" "Like David Crosby said, big fella:" ""lf I'd known I was going to live this long" "I'd have taken better care of my teeth."" "Right you are, Mister Crime Scene Investigator." "You know, most dogs have 42 teeth but, as you've discovered, your Cujo only has 41." "Woof-woof." "Did you ever hear a dog say woof-woof, Greg?" "I mean, what is the origin of that?" "And what do we sound like to them, I wonder?" "I don't know." "Probably blah, blah, blah." "Did you come here with some particular blah, blah for me?" "Yes." "Two words." "Paw prints." "Your dentally-challenged killer left them all over the vic's clothes." "Greg, you know that paw prints are not the same as fingerprints." "True, and even if they were, we don't have the database." "But they can tell you the size of the dog." "And?" "And according to my sagacious calculations, this is a big dog." "At least 100 pounds." "Now if we can just figure out where he went to medical school, we'll be home free." "Huh?" "The, uh, big dog is a Great Dane-Mastiff mix." "So my paw prints didn't even help." "No, odontology did." "Dr. Robbins' dental mold." "But, uh it's always nice to have a visit with you, Greg." "Thank you." "So now you think you're going to find this dog?" "The array of the bite, the squarish impression of the jaw are unique to a Dane or Dane mix." "And there are only 40 registered in the greater Las Vegas area." "So if one of them is owed a visit by the Tooth Fairy... yes..." "I think I can." "Corn." "Hamburger." "Rawhide." "But no human cellular tissue in this sample." "Only 30 more jars to go." "This is rough, man." "We should be pulling better cases by now." "Millionaire murders, casino heists." "It's interesting how we categorize evidence in terms of what it means to us as opposed to what it might mean to the case." "Uh, we're supposed to like scat patrol?" "Sometimes we deal with bugs, worms, waste or worse." "But as scientists we look beyond the possibly offensive qualities of these things to what they might tell us about the puzzle we're trying to solve." "Yeah." "Man, do you turn it on like this at your seminars?" "People actually pay to go to my seminars, Nick." "We've lD'd the dog." "Well, if he's got bits of jogger hanging out of his mouth, cuff him." "I pulled those rap sheets." "Called around." "And?" "The one with the missing tooth is no angel." "He attacked a gas man checking a meter." "Took a chunk of thigh and severed a testicle." "( doorbell chimes )" "( dog barks )" "Can I help you?" "Are you Susan Hillridge?" "Yes, Dr. Hillridge." "Is this your dog," "Doctor?" "Yes, Simba." "Well, you have a problem." "Oh, no." "Not again." "What makes you think Simba was involved?" "There have been complaints about your dog in the past." "Your meter reader's singing soprano." "Oh, I get it now." "You're talking about my old dog, Dickie." "He was aggressive." "That's why I put him down." "Simba just gets out of the yard a lot." "The dog we're looking for is missing a tooth." "I noticed that Simba is also missing a tooth." "Okay, he is missing a tooth." "But he just gets out and wrestles with neighbors' garbage cans." "He's not a violent dog." "That may be." "We still have to take him into custody until we can determine whether or not he had any involvement in this homicide." "Officers, go ahead." "He's all yours." "You're making a mistake." "GRlSSOM:" "You said that you were a doctor." "May I ask your specialty?" "Nutrition." "My patients are mostly professional athletes." "Do you ever consult with amateur athletes?" "Like marathoners?" "You mean like that jogger?" "What was his name?" "Terry Manning." "Doesn't ring a bell." "And I'm very good with names, Mr. Grissom." "You'll let me know when I can pick up Simba." "You're assuming a lot." "So are you." "So you did the tox screen on my carnie?" "Roger that." "You know, I have seen guys drink, like, five gallons of water to try and dilute their urine." "It's the old straight flush." "But all Bad Boy Sanders has to do is just test the specific gravity and blammo." "I can still catch theirtoxic butts." "Mm-hmm." "So?" "So your guy didn't do that." "Great." "What'd he do?" "Try and mask it?" "No." "Oh, come on, that creep tested clean?" "Yeah." "For someone who's on the pill." "What?" "He's got synthetic estrogen in his urine sample." "Should modulate his mood swings." "Oldest trick in the book." "Somebody else's urine." "Probably keeps a stash in his trailer." "And that Uniform was too green to look for it." "Isn't that in the Constitution somewhere?" "A man's inalienable right to pee in private?" "Hey, I just got off the phone with OSHA." "Our carnival has violations in eight states." "What a surprise." "But that's not all." "More than half these guys have records." "And Pickens, the boss?" "His real name is Roger Peet." "He's a convicted sex offender on parole." "Let's go." "How was I supposed to know she's 16 and a half?" "From the neck down she was all grown up." "You know what I mean?" "I have a teenage daughter." "So, no, I don't know what you mean." "Jerry Lee Lewis, man." "Same thing happened to him." "What's all this got to do with the little dead girl, anyway?" "You tell us." "I was walking down the midway and I seen this woman come whishing out of the tunnel screaming for her daughter." "My baby!" "My baby!" "My baby!" "Me and Joey, he's the operator we hit the kill switch, stop the ride ran in the tunnel and look forthe kid." "And I seen her laying facedown in the pool of water." "What did you do?" "I didn't do nothing." "She was dead." "I didn't come within two feet of her." "I'm sorry about what happened." "But that's all that I know." "If you so much as breathed on this child the evidence will tell me." "You can dope your urine, change your name, compare yourself to Elvis himself but if you harmed Sandy Dantini, I'm going to get you." "You worried you tipped your hand in there?" "No." "Look, don't bite my head off, but any chance you're going after this guy because you're a mother?" "Pickens is a drug addict and sex offender operating a 2-ton kid magnet." "Did you take a look around that carnival?" "Yeah." "Did you notice anything about those other rides?" "Maybe." "Ferris wheel-- single cars in the open." "Zipper-- single cars in the open." "Himalaya-- group cars in the open." "How come Pickens was hanging around the only ride that takes kids into the dark?" "What if he pulled that little girl out of the car?" "You have anything to support that?" "Hey." "We aren't going to lunch are we?" "Simba's mold's still damp, but you can see it's a perfect match to the bite mark on the jogger." "Does this mean Simba's going to the big dog pound in the sky?" "No, we need to build some more evidence." "Find some jogger in Simba's stool." "Well, I can tell you we found a unique sample at the crime scene." "Great Dane-sized scat containing bits of premium pet store kibble." "How premium?" "Sirloin, rice, nothing artificial." "We need to find out what Dr. Hillridge feeds her dog." "Just coming to see you." "You remember that ice we found at the crime scene?" "There's nothing in here." "It didn't melt." "It evaporated." "Dry ice." "Frozen CO2 sublimates into invisible gas, not water." "The jogger was missing some organs." "Surgical teams use dry ice to pack organs shipped for transplant." "It just so happens the dog's owner is a doctor." "Surgeon?" "Nutritionist." "But all medical residents have surgical rotations." "Fellas, we have a doctor's appointment." "Would you mind if I looked in your freezer?" "I have a patient coming in exactly 20 minutes so if you want to rifle around until then, fine but I will not leave my place of business." "No one's asked you to." "You're very organized, Dr. Hillridge." "I imagine you're upset about your dog-- having to put him down." "I don't hold onto things." "I accept the evolution of change." "We live, we die, we replenish the earth." "Man's best friend... but not yours, huh?" "None of us gets out alive." "I would think in your job you'd know that." "But if we treat our bodies like a temple we can cheat time." "Your eyes..." "What?" "The lower rims are pale." "You're deficient in folic acid." "You're not eating your beets." "Two beets have 54 % percent of the RDA." "May I ask you what medical school you attended?" "Will that help with your investigation?" "I just thought the way you handled that knife..." "Oh, the knife." "No." "I was in the ClA." "Culinary Institute of America." "( blender whirring )" "Tell me, Mr. Grissom, how does a man choose death as his profession?" "It chose me, actually." "I guess one man's corpse is another man's candy." "Care for a sip?" "It's full of folacin." "No, thanks." "Griss, can I show you something?" "Excuse me." "Surgery equipment." ""Emory Medical Supplies, Boston, Mass, 1875."" "Antiques." "Boy, these are well maintained." "Exactly." "What I find interesting is that she keeps them near the door, not in the office." "In case she needs to break out and go do some work." "Maybe she makes house calls." "May we help you?" "Yes, is Dr. Hillridge around?" "I'm here for a 4:00." "Edwin." "You look great today." "How'd the race go?" "I finished in three hours and ten minutes." "You can do better." "She gives me the willies." "We can't arrest her for that." "Yeah, well, maybe we can link these to the crime." "Her dog may have eaten that jogger but he can't harvest the organs." "No question about it, the cause of death is drowning." "How tall was the victim?" "Three feet, give or take an inch." "The water was a foot and a half deep." "She could've easily climbed out, unless she was unconscious." "Maybe she had a minor concussion, or was stunned." "That could explain why she couldn't get out." "I checked, believe me." "She didn't." "The only injury I could find on this little girl was a fractured forearm." "Spiral or straight?" "X-rays just came back." "Let's see." "Spiral." "That's not from a fall." "Somebody twisted that little girl's arm hard enough to break it." "Perimortem?" "Swelling takes at least two to four minutes of active circulation." "There's no swelling, so it had to happen moments before she died." "So someone did yank her out of that car in the dark." "Mommy!" "Sandy!" "Wait." "Pickens yanks her out just so he can drown her?" "He's a sex offender." "He's gonna take her someplace." "Not without someone seeing him." "You read the OSHA report." "How many emergency doors were operational?" "None." "He was trapped like a rat." "He did the only thing he could-- he hid the evidence." "Drowned the little girl." "I'm going to go call Brass." "You're going to enter this as a homicide, right?" "Technically, it's somewhere between accidental and undetermined." "It's a homicide." "I'm going to get your proof." "So write down that accidental in pencil." "Can you help me?" "I need to find out when my daughter's going to be released." "I'm not a coroner." "What's your daughter's name?" "Sandy Dantini." "Oh, Mrs. Dantini." "I'm Catherine Willows from the Crime Lab." "You've spoken with my colleague, Sara Sidle." "I'm so sorry." "Um... did you find out what happened at the carnival to my baby?" "Actually, I'd like to ask you a few questions." "Is it possible that someone reached into your car and pulled out your daughter?" "I... thought it was an accident." "You read all the time about how dangerous amusement parks can be." "You think it can never happen to you." "You think you can protect your kids." "Well, when you went in the water to try to save Sandy, did you hear anything?" "Did you... sense that anyone was there... in the dark?" "I-l-I don't know." "I mean, well, you know, it all happened so fast." "I was..." "focused on finding Sandy." "Do you... do you think someone else was there?" "I'm not ruling anything out." "Look, I didn't do anything wrong." "I may have recycled a few caskets but you're talking about a whole different ball game, here." "Mr. Gesek, I'm not accusing you of anything." "I'm not even here officially." "Think of yourself as a consultant to the Las Vegas Crime Lab." "Do I get paid?" "What do you know about organ theft?" "Oh, if I was in that business," "I wouldn't worry about getting paid." "You know there are places overseas that'll pay 50 grand for one lung?" "60 for a heart?" "And you know this because...?" "Not firsthand." "Not even secondhand." "At the last funeral directors' convention... you'd be amazed what you hear." "But, you know, it takes a lot to keep a business afloat." "Tell me about the local market for organs." "Well, we're talking about life and death." "It's probably pretty good." "If someone was disemboweled and their liver taken, what would that go for?" "Menu, everything a la carte." "Corneas, $5,000." "Kidney, $20,000." "Liver, 40." "Bowel, 30." "Pancreas, 18." "It's amazing what you can learn at a convention." "Warrick." "I got a match." "Yeah." "You want to hand me those filter papers right there?" "The scat I found at the crime scene and the scat from the doctor's house were the same, except for one difference." "The stuff from the backyard-- full of human cellular tissue." "Jogger DNA." "So we got the right dog." "Well, let's see if the owner cut the vic up." "Reactive agents." "One part leuko-malachite." "One part hydrogen peroxide-- used by blondes everywhere." "Blue." "Weird, isn't it?" "What's that?" "To prove the presence of heme, the stuff that makes blood red..." "Turns the swab blue." "Yeah." "I own this attraction and it's going with me to the next town." "It's evidence." "It's not going anywhere." "Nothing is." "What, says you two string beans?" "It's going to take a lot more than vegetable insults to get us to move." "Lady, you don't know who you're messing with." "Oh, I know exactly who you are, Mr. Pickens." "And if you so much as look at me in the wrong way, I will personally lock you in a cell with someone who's going to do the same thing to you that you've been doing to those little girls." "BRASS:" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "What, you start the party without me?" "That could get dangerous." "Thomas Pickens?" "Yeah." "I got a court order." "This ride stays in Vegas and you're coming with me." "You pulling' my pud?" "You know, the thought never crossed my mind." "Come on." "What?" "Nothing." "This is fun." "As compared to what?" "As compared to a more scientific approach." "Sorry." "If she cut up that jogger, she didn't use that scalpel." "But we found evidence of blood on it." "I had Sanders run a degradation on that same sample." "The blood is 50 to 200 years old." "Antique like the scalpel, ruling out the possibility it was used in the murder of our jogger." "( phone ringing )" "Yeah." "I'll be right out." "I have a visitor." "Hi." "I have folic acid." "I was worried about your eyes." "I assume my surgical instruments came back clean, or relatively clean." "Are you here for a nutritional consultation or to eavesdrop on my investigation?" "Actually, my house felt a little crowded-- all those men you sent." "The, uh, police sent them." "But you dictated the scope of the warrant." "They're taking everything from my kitchen and office." "You have three prior complaints in three separate states for owning vicious dogs." "And?" "What else do you know about me?" "Each complaint is from a mountain state." "ls it a crime to like the mountains?" "No." "Only if we find other joggers have turned up dead." "What's a liver go for these days, Doc?" "What?" "Terry Manning was missing several key organs-- healthy organs." "You disappoint me." "I thought you were smarter than that." "Coenzyme Q-10 could help with mental acuity." ""The last act is bloody however fine the rest of the play."" "Pascal." "Very impressive." "I prefer Buddha, though." ""Even death is not to be feared by those who lived wisely."" "One request." "Ask them not to leave my house a mess." "You know how I like order." "What, are you guys working in bulk now?" "Hey, you're the one who said that lady doc keeps skipping town." "If the jogger's blood is in any of this stuff, we need to find it now." "This is only part of the kitchen-- the rest is in those bags and boxes." "I'm ready, Nick." "You want to hit the lights?" "She made a protein shake in this yesterday right in front of me." "Why would she do that?" "Get this to DNA-- see if this is the jogger's blood." "I'd place a bet on it." "Whoa, whoa." "So she's not selling the organs on the black market..." "she's eating them?" "Possibly drinking them." "I want four techs in there placed four feet apart." "Let's tryto pull the girl out from every conceivable angle." "Okay." "Based on our theory, a loose seat belt enabled Pickens to yank the little girl out of her seat." "Mom was on the left." "Where's my dummy." "42 pounds?" "Just like little Sandy." "And, just like... the loose seat belt." "The belt wasn't loose enough to yank the girl out." "Forget Pickens." "The only person who could've done it, then is the person that was in the car with her-- the mother." "Her eyes were pointing in the wrong direction." "I'm sorry, what?" "Carla Dantini was looking left when she told me about the accident." "When a person is remembering, they look right and when they're creating, they look left." "And by creating, you mean fabricating." "Neurolinguistics programming, human behavioral science." "Call Brass and tell him to meet us at the mother's house." "Mr. Grissom." "You're looking grim." "I'm afraid I don't have a supplement for that." "We found blood in your kitchen blender." "The lab has matched it to the dead jogger." "It had to happen eventually." "Why?" "You're the scientist." "I should have thought you'd figured that out." "I haven't." "Think of the bugs, Grissom." "Cycle of life?" "Angels versus insects?" "When we die, the fable we tell ourselves is we go toward a white light and angels." "But you and I both know the hard reality is that insects arrive immediately and begin turning us back to earth." "Yes." "But the insects haven't killed anyone." "No." "But they'd die if they didn't have bodies to feed off of." "And so will I." "Porphyria." "The madness of King George." "Or the legend of the vampire." "Which makes it a real hard disease to have." "But it's real for me." "It's genetic." "The only thing my father ever gave me." "The first time it presented was after a minor sunburn." "My lips receded, so did my gums." "I increased my glucose intake and I was fine... for a while." "I began a drug regimen." "But they only treated the symptoms." "I had my spleen removed because it absorbed my blood." "But nothing helped." "Lesions started forming on my face." "That's when I bought my first dog." "Bullets and poison leave residue in the blood." "Dogs kill clean." "Imagine what I'd look like by now without them." "You could've tried intravenous hematin." "Human blood is the richest source of heme." "And so you extracted the organs with the most blood-- the liver, the spleen, the heart." "If you lock me up, I'll go mad." "Unfortunately, a symptom of your condition." "But you've been killing people, Doctor." "I'll die in prison." "Yes, but the people you'd be feeding off of will still be alive." "Cycle of life." "Sergeant." "You're under arrest for the murder of Terry Manning." "You have one more question." "How could I consume raw organs?" "Not morally, aesthetically." "I dried them and ground them into powder." "Protein powder." "You want an empirical experience?" "There's a fresh shake in my fridge." "Let's go." "Officer." "She is nuts, right?" "She's a cold-blooded killer." "You got the warrant, right?" "Yeah, but it's limited in scope." "The boyfriend's an attorney so we can't toss the place." "Mrs. Dantini." "You have news about Sandy?" "We may have a lead." "We need to see the clothes that you wore the day that your daughter died." "Why?" "It's okay, honey." "I'm Hugh Young, Mrs. Dantini's attorney." "Carla's grieving." "We both are." "Can't this wait till after the funeral?" "No, it can't." "Where's your bedroom?" "WlLLOWS:" "So this is everything that you wore at the carnival last night?" "Yes." "Your watch is waterlogged." "Yes." "I went into the water after my daughter." "So, you jumped in the water." "Yes." "How come your shoes are dry?" "Well... it was yesterday." "Of course they're dry." "The lining's blue." "If they'd gotten wet, the indigo dye would have bled onto your white socks." "You never went in the water." "WlLLOWS:" "If you didn't go into the water, how did your watch get wet?" "Like I told her, reaching for my daughter." "You reached for her all right." "My baby!" "And when she managed to grab onto you, you broke her arm." "And you held her under while you sat in that car until you drowned her." "YOUNG:" "Carla, is any of this true?" "I want you to leave." "You took your daughter to the carnival 'cause kids get hurt there all the time." "You thought the blame would leave town with the ride." "Well, you should have planned better." "What did you actuallythink?" "That you and your boyfriend would run off like newlyweds?" "No kid, no cares?" "I neverthought anything like that." "She did." "Didn't you?" "I'm going to need a new lawyer." "Arrest her, Jim." "Hey... you all right?" "Yeah." "Since we skipped lunch, you want to get something to eat?" "Walk it off?" "I got to go home." "Thanks." "Rain check?" "Mm-hmm." "( sighs )" "You got my call." "It couldn't have come at a better time." "Captioning sponsored by CBS" "CBS productions and alliance atlantis"

"You want to make a statement?" " You want to gangsta up, homie?" " Yeah" "You got to go bold, all right?" "Double action old school" "It's sweet, it's simple, accurate never jams Here we go, give it a try" " Where?" " I don't know- just-just shoot the pipe" "Nice shot" "What else you got?" "All right, got the homie's best friend here, all right?" "It's a nine mill, it's Beretta it's Italian" "All right, it's 15 plus one in the snout" "I'll throw in a box of hollow point hot loads" "Trust me, your stuff will be safe, okay?" "Here, here we go" "Bad boy is tight!" "You ain't seen the baddest boy yet, all right?" "Sweet mother of God The pagans shall quake" "It's a Tech 9 It's top of the line" "Fully automatic" "You can empty the clip in four seconds flat" " Are you man enough for this?" " Yeah" " Yeah?" " Yeah" "Yeah, all right, give it a shot, give it a ride" " You like that?" " Yeah" " You're looking taller already, buddy" " Yeah!" "Let's get the hell out of here!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Miss anything, McLovin?" "Just this It's from a woman named Melinda She had to postpone" "Postpone what?" "I don't know Figured that you'd figure it out" "How did she sound?" "I ask the question, you give the answer How did she sound?" " I don't know, Tony" " You don't know" "Well, why don't you try using your words, Mr Gem City?" "Devastated?" "Despondent?" "Delighted" "All right What's her number, McDetail?" "She didn't leave one" "It's customary to get a name, a number and a complete message" "This is not a complete message This is a complete mess" "Melinda" "How many Melindas do you have in that thing?" "I don't know It could have been the girl I talked to at the gym" "You don't go to the gym" "Maybe it was the girl I talked to at the dog park" "You don't have a dog" "Oh, it could have been that girl I met at the concession stand" "While my date was in the bathroom" "You need a secretary" "Or a therapist" "Or both" "Shots fired in Liberty Heights Saddle it up" "If we were called every time shots were fired at Liberty Heights" "Yeah, Well, Metro responded They found a dead Marine" "Victim is Private First Class Emilio Salazar" "Joined the Marines four months ago" "Scheduled for deployment next week" "Ducky?" "Stuck in traffic Should be here in about 20 minutes" "Nine millimeter shells Possibly two guns" "And based on the level of penetration on that wall" "I would say 357" "No shells, which means a revolver" "One shooter, three weapons" "There's two sets of footprints" "Shooter could have had a spotter" " Or a lookout" " Or a witness" "Hey, DiNozzo" "McGee" "New Marine regulations don't allow for exposed ink" "He had his tat removed, laser" "Looks like- "P "" "It looks like this" "PCS" "All right, I'll check with Metro's gang unit" "Bullets hit the skylight killing our Marine" "Sending him on a very short bungee plunge" "But why shoot your hostage from down here?" "Maybe they were sending a message" "The kind McGee takes- cryptic, hard to decipher" "Blood" "This blood is dried" "But Metro made their "shots fired" call less than an hour ago" "Looks like the West just got a bit wilder" "Cuffs, boss" "Skin, blood" "This guy was strapped up here for a while" "That's why prefer the fur handcuffs" "Not really, boss That's for her" "I don't wear the cuffs" "Someone was trying to send a message" "Written in blood" "Phone number?" "Not a phone number" "I don't know what the "G" stands for, but it's nine digits" "Could be a military service number I'll run it" "You don't have to" "It's mine" "Where is he?" "Um, I'm not exactly sure, Director" "Tell him I need to see him" "I will give him the message" "And the nature of the message" "I'll include who it's from, and the number" "Why would anyone leave Gibbs' Marine service number on a rooftop crime scene" "Agent Gibbs' desk" "No, he's not here" "But I'd be happy to take a detailed message" "Flight arrives at 2:30" "Can I take a name or a return number?" "Oh, okay I will" "A name and a number" "Enough, okay?" "I understand" "I am sorry, but what do you want me to do?" "You want me to sort through the database" "Of every call that came into the switchboard this morning" "And match incoming call to your desk phone using a date and a time stamp?" "Yeah, actually That'd be great Thanks" "Oh, hey, boss, got two messages for you, actually, right there Sorry" "Director Vance wants you to call him back ASAP, and the, uh the other is, uh And then there's-there's that one" "Um, it says that the flight arrives at 2:30 It's from M Street Travel" "I assume that's a travel agent" "Didn't say where the flight was from or who the passenger was" "But if you want to share that, you can feel" "Dead Marine?" "PFC Emilio Salazar Service record 18-year-old Completed basic training at Parris Island two months ago" "And was stationed at Quantico" "Had more than a service record" "Criminal record goes back to 2003, when Emilio was 12" "All juvenile offenses All gang-related" "Gang tattoos" "Or Pecados Capitales" "Capital Fish?" "Deadly Sins, you idiot Fish is pescado" "Don't scoff at me" "Lots of gangs are named after deadly fish" "There's the Sharks, there's the Barracudas" "Rumble Fish" "These guys are also known as the PCs" "Sounds like your kind of gang, McMotherboard" "Kid lives through six years in a gang can't survive four months as a Marine" "Maybe someone didn't want him to leave the gang?" "Maybe a rival gang killed him?" "Though that wouldn't explain your service number, boss" "Focus on tracking the killer" "And what about the other person who may have been held there?" "Find the shooter" "Vance wanted to call him ASAP, boss" "Heard you the first time, DiNozzo" "Private Jackson, do not shut your eyes when you squeeze the trigger!" "Eyes off the toys, David We didn't come here to play" "I have not been to the range in days" "No talking on the range, please" "Well, that's going to be a real problem, Staff Sergeant Medina" "'Cause I'm real talky and I have a badge" "Is there somewhere we can talk?" "Cease fire!" "Cease fire!" "Clear and lock 'em!" "Stand by!" "Thank you" "A man in your unit was killed last night" " How'd it happen?" " Firefight He lost" " Someone shot him?" " Several times" "You know who did it?" "If we did, we would not be here" "Thought you could help" "Any way I can" "He was killed in the neighborhood where he grew up" "He ever talk about his past?" "Gangs, trouble?" "All the time He was trying to escape it" "So you knew he had a record before he joined the Marines?" "Some of these kids grew up in a jungle" "A lot more dangerous than the desert we're sending them to, you know?" "Salazar ever drop names, gang affiliations, enemies?" "Nothing specific" "He had troubles like any kid who runs in gang circles" "But he didn't name anybody" "If you can think of anything, let me know" " Berettas- nine millimeter" " Feel free" " Do you mind?" " Not at all, ma'am" "Do your best" "Oh, God" "Stand by, station two, for live fire!" "I prefer the SIG" "A lot of women have trouble with the Beretta" "Thing's got too much of a kick" "Your sight is a few millimeters off" " Really?" " Really" "Prior to PFC Salazar's demise" "Handcuffs made these abrasions and lacerations" "Yeah, well, he wasn't held there long" "No He was executed almost immediately upon his confinement" " As to the cause of death" " Gunshots" "Well, yes and no" "These wounds were made by machine-gun fire" "The spacing is too symmetrical for random shooting" "Also, they showed no signs of redness or braiding and bruising, indicating that our private was long dead when he was strafed" "How long?" "About six hours based on his liver temperature" "And here single round, nine millimeter punctured the pericardial sac, causing a cardiac tamponade" "He suffered greatly, Jethro- perhaps for 20 or 30 minutes- and he did not die quickly" "The bullet that killed him?" "In the capable hands of Abby Sciuto" "You've never left a scene of a crime before I arrived until this one, Jethro" "Yeah Had something else to do" "Something to do with your Marine Corps service number?" "I was wondering the same thing myself" "You're avoiding me" "I've been busy solving a murder, Leon" "When I have something, you'll be the first to know" "I'm looking for a Marine file" "A classified one" "Top secret, eyes only" "Black Ops" "Gunnery Sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs" "Next time you having guests, probie have some scotch in the house" "Ah, you couldn't sweet-talk the flight attendant" "Out a few of those little bottles?" " He wasn't my type" " Right" "What's so urgent?" "You pulled me away from my granddaughter" "Just celebrated her second birthday" "I'm looking for somebody" "Rose" "Vance know I'm here yet?" "Not yet" "Maybe I should borrow a tie" "Colombia was a long time ago, gunny" "Only one person knew about her" "You 18 years is a long time, probie" "She's in DCToday" "Mike" "What do you want me to say?" "Whatever you're not saying" "Well, how do you know she's here, for sure?" "My Marine service number was written on the roof of a crime scene" "In blood" "That could have been anybody" "I put a "G" on the end of it, just for her" "I brought her here 17 years ago" "Where is she now?" "I haven't seen her since the day I dropped her off" "Let's start there" "You put her here?" "Wasn't such a hellhole then" "Que paso?" "Que es lo que miras?" "I'm looking for Rose Tamayo" "Ma, alguien esta a la puerta" "Que se les ofrece?" "Buscando Rosa Tamayo?" "Ella se murio hace diez años" "We're a little late" "She died ten years ago" "Guess somebody else knows your Marine service number, probie" "Howdy, Leon" "Mike" "He has information on a current case" "And I need his help" "Thanks for sorting out that little pension problem, Leon" "Appreciate it" "I didn't do anything I wouldn't have done for any former agent, Mike" "All by the book" "Absolutely By the book" "That's how we operate now" "Wouldn't have it any other way, Leon" "Think he noticed my tie?" "What do we got?" "We canvassed the area No one is talking" " There is a smurf war" " Turf war between two competing gangs, the PCs and the Verde Psychos" "Ballistics" "We matched the slug that killed PFC Salazar to a gun that was used in an unsolved robbery two weeks ago And" "Metro's chief suspect is Victor Carmado, a k a Popeye" "Victor Carmado is a known member of the PCs" "He was hanging out with his posse at Liberty Heights today" "DiNozzo, Ziva, bring him in" "Abby!" " Howdy, darling!" " Franks!" "What are you doing here?" "Probie thinks I'm here helping him, but it was just an excuse to come see you" "Abs, turn it down" "This is so cool" "Someone writes your service number on a roof, and then you just show up" "It's like sending out the bat signal and having Batman just show up" "And his mentor, Ra's al Ghul" "Or-or like Princess Lela sending a hologram" ""Help me, Obi-Wan "" "And then getting Obi-Wan with his mentor, Qui-Gon Jinn" "You know, it's weird 'cause Liam Neeson played both the mentors" "You gonna tell me why I'm here?" "Oh, um, I ran the blood from the service number" "It does not match our dead Marine, Emilio Salazar" "I already know that" "Of course you do" "Well, hopefully it'll be news to you" "That the blood did belong to another Marine" "Private First Class Tomas Tamayo" "Judging by the look on your face, that is news to you" "Um, he comes from the same neighborhood as PFC Salazar" "According to his records" "His mother died ten years ago after emigrating from Colombia" "Rose had a son?" "Uh, yeah He was about a year old when I brought her here" "You knew?" "I'm guessing you didn't" "I need an address, Abs 57 Kensington Street" "The home belongs to a woman named Maggie Scott" "Might want to take this slow, probie" "Might not like where it leads you" "Popeye Carmado?" "NCIS" "Are we all listening to the same song?" "Let me guess Ricky Martin fans" ""Livin' La Vida Loca "" "You ought to leave, man" "But we just got here" "Yeah But this is a very dangerous neighborhood" "That's why I brought her" "La Bonita es una federale" "Federales saben buenas" "La Bonita will kick your ass" "Is that right?" "You know, bad things happen in this place, mamita" "But it's so homey, homey" "I love what you've done with the wall here" ""Snoopy loves Chiquita?"" "Which one of you sleeps on a doghouse and which one's a bana?" "I'm guessing the love is between you two Am I wrong?" "Think they want to play rock, paper, scissors?" " You got them?" " I've got them" "What's the matter?" "Popeye didn't eat his spinach this morning?" "Rico!" "Chuy!" "Rico Suave's stuck in the '90s, and Chewie's back with theMillennium Falcon" "Let's go see how La Bonitadid" "What took you so long?" "McGee!" "What are you doing?" "Why are you digging through the NCIS database?" "This woman called for Tony, and I didn't get the number" "It was blocked by the carrier, so I am trying to coordinate a trace" "Well, drop the call This is much more important" "Okay, what's up?" "I heard something" "Not a complete something, a partial something" "But enough of something to make me think it means something" "So I need to know if there's any other something that you know about?" "What- I'm-I'm lost" "Okay It's something about Gibbs" "And Colombia And a woman named Rose" "And a son she had 18 years ago" "That would been 1991- before Gibbs joined NCIS" "Come on, McGee" "Type something about the something into something" "Open, he's open" "Give me the ball" "Shoot it" "Nice shooting, lady" "Get a lot of practice around here" "You Maggie Scott?" "Hey, Henry, come in for me, okay?" "What happened?" "You guys Metro?" "NCIS" "Who got hit?" "Somebody from this block?" "I understand this is the home of Thomas Tamayo" "Why?" "Is he all right?" "He was involved in a murder" "Oh, my God" "No, he wasn't the victim" "Someone a couple of streets over" "Emilio Salazar" "Emilio Yeah, he's a, uh, he's a friend of Tomas's" "His mother, has anyone contacted Emilio's mother?" "Being done now Where is Tomas?" "He's on leave, Cape Hatteras Before Afghanistan" "Wrong He was at a crime scene last night in DC" "Hold on" "You were his legal guardian?" "Legal guardian to a lot of these kids" "Keeps them out of the system" "I just watch them till their moms get home from work" "Most of them don't have fathers" "Two of them lost siblings, past couple months" "War?" "Gang war" "You're not from around here, are you?" "I moved here after college Part of the Vista program" "I never left" "How'd you become Thomas's guardian?" "Tomas moved in about 12 years back" "Then when Rose got sick- his mother has cancer- she asked me to look after him" "He's a good kid He's a really good kid" "Oh, my God, It's okay He's here" "It's Tomas It's Tomas" "Tomas!" " Are you all right?" " I'm fine What is this?" "I was so worried about you" "What's going on?" "You want to tell us where you been for the past 48 hours?" "Cape Hatteras with friends" "We checked" "Your cell calls were all made from a two-block area of DC" "Why were you being held here?" "I wasn't" "My military service number" "Your blood on the roof" "You got my attention, Thomas I'm here What do you want?" "It wasn't me" "I cut myself traing" "Gibbs and the kid" "It was your damn blood on the roof" " What's the connection?" " We tested it" "And why the kid gloves?" "Hey, let me out!" "Our friend from the hood" " Think he's chilled long enough?" " Let me out of here, man!" "Time to unpop his cork" "Let me out of here!" "Cool it, Coolio!" "No gangbanging on the walls" "Sit down" " I ain't sitting down" " Sientate!" "Or do you want La Bonita to sit your ass down?" "I thought you all forgot about me, that's all" "You in a hurry to get somewhere, Popeye?" "'Cause you sure ain't going home to Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea any time soon" "You're going to prison" "Says who?" "Says the nine-millimeter slug we pulled out of PFC Emilio Salazar" "Matches the slug from another shooting you were involved in" "If witnesses put me there, I'd have been locked up already" "We have a dead Marine, former gang member of yours" "This is the murder weapon" "Found dumped in a storm drain Recognize it?" "That's it?" "That's all you got?" "It's all we need" "It's all circumstantial" "I think you got nothing" "I think what you need is a confession" "You are looking at ten years for accessory to a murder of a USMarine" "More if we tag you for murder one" "Your sweat was on that roof" "Your pee was on that roof" "Your blood was on that roof" "You gonna tell us what happened on that roof?" "You're gonna tell us who else was there" "Who put that bullet in PFC Salazar" "We're gonna have to assume it was you" "I didn't kill Emilio" " Who did?" " Me" "I killed the little bitch" "You killed PFC Salazar?" "Yeah, I did it You got me" "The fool deserved to die" "How'd it go down, Victor?" "I shot him That's how it went down" "Put the gun to his head- pow" "Blew his brains out" "You shot him in the head?" "Lights out, baby" "JFK style" "Back and to the left, know what I'm saying?" "One shot to the chest" "That's what killed your friend Emilio" "But he didn't die right away It took time" "Maybe 20 minutes" "Bullet nicked his heart" "Blood poured into his lungs" " Remember, Tomas?" " No" "He would have had trouble breathing" "The pain must have been excruciating" "But you know all this don't you, Marine?" "I wasn't there" "Popeye didn't pop the guy" "No way a kid like that took down two Marines" "Probably taking credit for a street kill to elevate his stature" "Get anything on PFC Tamayo?" " He's scared" " He's hiding something" "They both are" "Something more going on than that" "You're right, probie" "Gangbangers don't kidnap their enemies" "They shoot them in the street" "Somebody's pulling strings, calling shots" "I think I know who" "I've been crosschecking the Metro Gang Task Force's list of known PC members against cell numbers registered in their names" "One common phone number keeps popping up" "It's a number from outside the neighborhood" "That called almost every member of the PC gang" "That's the COfrom the shooting range" "Staff sergeant Vicente Medina" "That's not all I looked into the staff sergeant's history" "It seems he shares a bit more than phone records in common" "He wasn't just recruiting from the PCs" "He was a member" "Get him in here" " Yeah, Gibbs" " Meet you in my office" "I'll be right there" " Marine file" " It's yours" "I haven't read it yet, and I won't if you'd prefer I didn't" "I thought it might shed some light on what the hell happened in Colombia 18 years ago unless you'd prefer to" "I got nothing to hide, Leon" "Everybody's got something to hide" "Franks a part of this?" "A little part" "Some good stuff in the last five pages" "How many men have you killed?" "Seven confirmed" "Where?" "Three in Anbar, two in Fallouja, one in Baghdad, one in Tora Bora" "How about Washington, DC?" "None" "You knew Emilio Salazar?" "His platoon sergeant, sir" "He's a gang member just like you are" "That was a long time ago" "That was last night!" "Sir, I did not kill that Marine!" "Whatwereyou doing last night?" "I was at home watching TV" "Anybody watching you watching TV?" "No" "Your place is 20 minutes from our crime scene" "Phone records" "You made contact with half the PC posse over the past six months" "Rap sheet; yours" "Shot caller for the PCs for three years" "Once a Marine, always a Marine" "Or once a PC, always a PC" "I lived the life It's not a secret" "I liked it, till I saw what was happening to my friends" "In dead or jail by 17 so I joined the Marine Corps" "Made me a better person came back to the hood" "And tried to convince others to make something of themselves" "Ran a system-wide facial recognition search" "I thought you'd want to see this right away" "Okay, let's try this again Where were you last night?" "I..." "I told you I was at home" "Baltimore!" "That was taken last night!" "You couldn't have killed him" "Why are you lying?" "I went to visit my son" "When I was 15, I made some mistakes" "I got a girl pregnant And my wife she doesn't know I have a kid" "I know what we got; nothing" "Guess we all make mistakes, huh, probie?" "Got two Marines chained to a roof Don't know why" "Got somebody behind it pulling strings Don't know who" "Can we wind the clock back to the part" "Where we find out what Gibbs was doing in Colombia?" "Or how it is connected to the gang?" "Got a punk who didn't kill anybody who says he did, and a kid who wrote probie's service number in blood saying he didn't" "You done?" "Done watching you shave with a butter knife" "Let me talk to that kid" "I'll get him to tell us what the hell's going on here" "I can't do that, Mike I let him go" "You what?" "If you want to find something, you follow it" "I learned that one from you" "You two" " MTAC with McGee" " Got it, boss" "Think I don't know what you're doing?" "Trying to get that boy off?" "Yeah, gonna lead us to the truth" "The truth" "Yeah, which you should have told me 17 years ago" "When I got Rose out of Colombia, you were happily married again" " Or so I thought" " What's the truth?" "The truth is, she didn't want you to know!" "She knew you were still putting the pieces back together" "After Shannon and Kelly" "Didn't want to complicate your life" "Guess she didn't get her wish after all" "Maybe Gibbs was on a covert mission to suppress the Fujimori coup" "That was Peru, not Colombia" "Okay, boss, we're still following the GPS signal from PFC Tamayo's cell phone" "He drove to Quantico He's been there about 20 minutes" "Quantico's that way, probie" "We're not going to Quantico That's his first stop We're going to his last" "Like the lady said, Mike "It's a war "" "So he's down in Colombia in Bogota" "He saves President Clinton's life, but nobody can talk about it because it's super secret" "Clinton did not serve until '93" "Stop obsessing!" "I'm not obsessing!" "I'm a little preoccupied" "I'm a tad fascinated by the whole subject, but I amnot obsessing" "What was he doing in Colombia 17 years ago?" "18 years ago- and it's classified, DiNozzo" "Is that classified, too, or can you share with your director?" "We're, uh, tracking a suspect for Gibbs, Director" "Franks is with him?" "That's what I thought" "PFC Tamayo's just left Quantico" "He's now headed towards Liberty Heights" "So, what do you want us to do?" "Whatever you were doing before I walked in" "What's Tamayo's duty assignment at Quantico?" "Guard duty at the base armory" "And the dead Marine?" "PFC Salazar was also a guard at the armory" "Means they both had access to the armory codes" "Stepping back Excuse me" " Get base security on the phone" " Yes, sir" "Hey, if this kid starts shooting you're gonna shoot back, right?" "This is a really bad time, Leon" "I just got off the phone with the Armory OICat Quantico" "Four crates of M-4 assault rifles are missing" "That's your PFC Tamayo, Gibbs" "Gangs, guns It adds up" "We're still monitoring his GPS" " He's headed back toward the projects" " The projects?" "Yeah, we got him, we got him" "I did what you wanted, okay?" "No, you listen to me!" "You want 'em, you come get 'em" "Second floor- I'm waiting" "This is about to get real interesting, probie" "McGee, building across the street" "Traffic camera, 3837 Ashton" " Got it" " Record it" "Recording" "You alone, homes?" "Zoom in on those guys" "In Those two" "Aren't those the two guys?" "Chuy and Rico I should have hit them harder" "You got 'em?" "Freeze!" "Freeze!" "Freeze!" "Put your hands in the air!" "Put your hands in the air!" "You thought you were gonna use Marine guns to kill my friends?" "Something's going down" "Somebody's behind him" "McGee, zoom out, zoom out" "No!" "This ends here!" "What the hell?" "Don't move, Sergeant" "DiNozzo, call for an ambulance and backup" "Everywhere you go, kid, somebody gets shot 3832 Ashton shots fired Possible multiple casualties" "Keep pressure on it, Sergeant" "Hey, Leon" "Let me talk to him" "He's busy Can I take a message?" "You just shot somebody, Franks" "Yeah All by the book, Leon" "Retired-agent- involved shooting" "That's still a form KJ-65, right?" " Nice talking to you, Leon" " Fra" "It was me" "I ordered him to take those weapons off the base" "And bring 'em here like they wanted" "Why?" " Because I was" " No, not you You" "They held me on the roof" "Said they'd hurt everyone I love unless I got them the assault weapons" "I..." "I didn't believe them" "They used to be my friends" "Then they threatened Emilio" "Shot him in front of me" "I thought they were gonna kill me, too" "That why you wrote my service number?" "When I found out you were NCIS, I wanted to tell you, but" "I ordered him not to" "Why?" "Using Marine guns to kill kids in my hood" "Kids I was trying to save it made me sick" "I wanted to handle it myself" "We take care of our own" "Those guys are just the hired help" " That is all you have to say?" " Yes" "I did it, I admit it I'll give you a full confession" "Can I talk to him?" "No, he's going to prison" "Please, I" "He stole weapons from a Marine base to arm a street gang" "People died" "He confessed to everything" "All of it, his idea" "And he's going away" "Unless you've got something to say" "Wait He didn't do anything He's lying" "Hold up" "Nobody was supposed to get hurt" "They were supposed to scare them so that Tomas or Emilio would get the guns" "For the PC's Emilio wasn't supposed to get shot" "That was an accident, I swear" "Who need weapons, Maggie?" "Our kids" "In the neighborhood, on our block" "They were getting killed every day" "Slaughtered by drug dealers and bigger gangs" "They are dying every day!" "I had to protect them" "By what, arming them with assault rifles?" "I grew up in the Cold War" "My dad talked about deterrence- if you build up an arsenal that rivals your enemy's, they won't attack you" "You understand?" "Case closed- my case, and you being on it" ""Melinda 555-0199"" "Hold the phone, Malone, I know that number" "You should- it's your dentist's office" "They rescheduled your appointment" "Ooh, thatMelinda" "The one with the man hands" "Well, I hope you learned a lesson, probie" "Yeah- never to pick up your phone again" "Wait a second" "It was right in front of me the whole time" "Franks!" "I've got a question for you" "Got a plane to catch 18 years ago, Colombia" "Gibbs was doing drug interdiction down there" "Tomas is 18, from Colombia" "Knows Gibbs's Marine service number" "Question?" "Is Gibbs Tomas's father?" "Tell probie thanks for the lend" "No Sit down As you were" "Your orders" "Shipping out to Afghanistan" "I..." "I'm not going to jail?" "You helped the investigation" "My mother used to tell me this story about a Marine" "He came to help out our village" "But the drug cartel came after him shot him He almost died" "She hid him, helped him heal" "That was you" "And when you finally got well you told her that if she ever need any help, she could give that number to any Marine and you would find her" "She made me memorize that number" "You're the reason I became a Marine" "When your mother saved my life, she was already pregnant with you" "Most people, they don't get a second chance" "Good luck" "Semper Fi" "Ooh-rah" "Read about the mission to eliminate Cesar Castillo" "From the Cali Cartel in Colombia" "Good read?" "It was impressive" "Took out your target with one shot to the heart from 1, 200 yards" "This Castillo was a piece of work" "Drug dealer, torturer, rapist" "I did my job" "And the mission would've gone off without a hitch" "If you hadn't been wounded" "Well, I guess you're all caught up now, Leon" "Must've been poignant helping out the son of the woman that saved your life" "Did you tell the boy that the man you killed was his father?"

"Okay, people, shift is starting in five minutes." "Enjoy your night off, Dr. Cummings." "Keep your phone close by." "Paul:" "Will do." "Guess you and Scott still aren't talking?" "Yeah, he's made it abundantly clear that he did not appreciate my opinion of he and Annie dating." "You just said what everybody else is thinking." "That's what friends do." "[ Sighs ]" "It's more complicated." "Complicated?" "It's freudian." "A hot, successful surgeon who can have his choice of women, yet he picks the ex-addict sister-in-law of a guy who he doesn't really like and who his last girlfriend hates." "I don't hate her." "You ain't friends." "I'm just saying, it's no coincidence..." "On both their parts." "Okay, are you done with this little psychoanalysis of yours?" "I've said my piece." "Okay." "Hey, uh, what was that top-secret nurses' meeting today?" "I don't know." "I skipped it." "I think it was just some, uh, union stuff, bunch of contract negotiations or something like that." "Okay." "So, you, uh, you off tonight?" "Well, I'm just on call, so I'm actually sneaking out for a dinner date." "Dinner date?" "That's nice." "Is it in 1965?" "Wait a minute." "On the first date?" "Dude, no." "No, d-don't get stuck into dinner." "Dude, the crazy comes out over dinner." "Look, I actually like to show a woman a good time, okay?" "Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go change." "31-year-old male." "Pain in the lower-right quadrant since this morning." "Hi." "I'm Dr. Alexander." "I'm Dylan." "Ever heard of F.O.P.?" "Uh, yeah." "The connective-tissue disorder?" "That's me." "Okay." "All right, let's carefully move him to trauma 2." "Any injury, even from a bump, can cause spontaneous bone growth." "Am I right, Dylan?" "You got it." "Hey, Jocelyn, could you get us more pillows, please?" "Sure." "Duty calls." "Ohh!" "All right, I'll see you in the morning." "Don't keep me waiting." "I won't." "Good to see you back in action, Topher." "How's your head feeling?" "All good." "Counting the days till that Hawaiian conference." "Janet!" "Ma!" "What happened?" "I don't know." "She's acting weird." "I thought you could take a look at her." "Ma, how are you feeling?" "I was just telling your father I'm perfectly capable of crossing the street without him." "Ma, dad's been dead for years." "What's going on?" "I'm fine, christophe..." "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa." "Okay, we got you." "Let's get her into trauma 1." "Okay." "Kenny:" "Yo, tee." "Yeah?" "Nasty accident out on highway 281." "They need a doc to move the patient." "Chopper's waiting." "You want it or...?" "Drew, will you take it?" "I got to..." "Yeah, stick with mama Topher." "Okay, yeah, I'm on it." "Uh, Shannon, you're with me." "Let's go." "All right, man, catch you later." "Yo, Paul." "I'm sorry, man." "Mva coming in." "Back to scrubs." "[ Chuckles ] Fantastic." "[ Monitor beeping ]" "She was a little out of it but fine." "And then, on the way home, this." "Mollie:" "B.P.'s 86 over 40." "Well, what does that mean?" "It's a little low." "It's really low." "Could be heart failure, sepsis, adrenal insufficiency." "O-or just dehydration." "We're gonna run a panel of tests, and then we'll get it all sorted out." "[ Beeping quickens ] Mollie:" "B.P.'s down to 64." "She's crashing." "Hang another liter!" "Central line." "She needs pressors now." "Ma?" "Ma?" "!" "Ma?" "Ma, can you hear me?" "Can you hear me?" "Ma?" "What do we got?" "Rollover mva." "Driver saw a deer, swerved, flipped the car into the ravine." "How many victims?" "Two." "Driver's a 38-year-old female with blunt abdominal trauma and laceration." "Still trapped in the car." "Her daughter's out, but she's got a wrist injury." "Name's Brianna." "Please, if you just let me go, I can get her!" "Please!" "Hey, Brianna." "Brianna!" "I'm Dr. Alister." "This is Dr. Rivera." "How are you doing?" " My wrist hurts, but she's still in there!" " Okay." "Hey." "Please, you have to go get her!" "Okay, listen to me." "I'm gonna check on your mom right away." "She's not my mom." "She's my foster mom." "Please don't let her die." "I'm gonna do everything I can, okay?" " No!" "Please!" " Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Brianna!" "Shannon, let's keep her warm and get her checked out." "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey." "Let's..." "let's take a look at your wrist, okay?" "[ Breathing heavily ]" "It hurts?" "[ Woman moaning ]" "Somebody help me!" "Avery?" "Help me!" "I'm Dr. Alister." "[ Moaning ]" "We're gonna get you out of here as soon as we can." "Stay calm." "Okay." "Slow your breathing." "Okay." "This is Dr. Rivera." "Where's Brianna?" "!" "I checked her, ma'am." "I'm gonna go right back to be with her." "[ Moaning ]" "All right, Avery?" "Uh-huh?" "Okay, I've got to stop this bleeding." "Okay." "Okay, so you're gonna feel a little pressure." "[ Groans ]" "Okay, just keep breathing deep." "You're doing great." "Got it." "Good." "Okay, here." "Let's pack around it." "Okay, now, we stopped the bleeding, but we got to cut you out of here, okay?" "[ High-pitched ] Okay." "We're gonna be right here." "Okay." "Okay." "You're doing great." "Okay." "Let's go!" "All right, I'll go stay with Brianna." "[ Saw buzzing ]" "[ Screaming ]" "[ Screaming ]" "Brianna, it's gonna be okay." "Christopher." "[ Speaking native language ]" "Ma, you're okay." "You just passed out for a bit." "B.P.'s only up to 87." "She's barely responding to pressors." "What are we forgetting?" "Any recent fevers?" "No." "What do you think?" "Brain-stem stroke?" "A stroke?" "Really?" "I-it's unlikely, Toph." "She's altered, but..." "I'm gonna clear the C.T. queue." "Ma, we're gonna take you to have your brain scanned, okay?" "I'm so tired." "[ Speaks native language ]" "[ Speaks native language ]" "Mm." " All right, Mollie." "You on it?" " Yeah." "Do you really think it's a stroke?" "It could be, but we're just not gonna take any chances." "We're gonna run every test, all right?" "So we're not panicking?" "No, we're not." "I'll let you know if we get there. [ Chuckles ]" "Thanks, T.C." "He's... he's not ready to lose her." "You never are." "[ Monitor beeping ]" "[ Groans ]" "Okay." "Your pain could be from appendicitis, so I've called for a surgical consult." "What about, uh, kidney stones?" "I get them all the time from the F.O.P." "I'm gonna check for that, too, but we really don't want to miss an appy." "Um, actually, can we place a pulse ox instead?" " Okay." " Even pressure from a B.P. cuff can cause bone growth." "Scott. [ Sighs ] This is Dylan." "He has F.O.P., which causes spontaneous..." "I'm familiar with F.O.P." " Hey, Dylan." "I'm Dr. Clemmens." " Hey." "Dylan presents with a few hours of lower-right-quadrant pain." "So I wanted a consult for appendicitis." "Okay." "All right, Dylan." "Does this hurt here?" "More like here and all the way to my back." "What do you think?" "C.T.?" "I think you should have checked an ultrasound and called a urologist." "It sounds more like kidney stones." "Looks like you called it, Dylan." "[ Thermometer beeps ]" "He's spiking a fever..." "102.5." "Okay, if it is kidney stones, they could be infected, so let's get a u.A. And send off a urine culture." "Yes, doctor." "If it is the kidney stones that are causing his fever..." "Yeah, I know..." "Surgery." "And with F.O.P., that could kill him." "Thank you, Dr. Clemmens." "Okay, these sutures should hold till we get to the hospital." "Brianna's inhalers." "Did you get them?" "They were in the car." "We'll radio the ambulance and have them check." "Tell them that she needs them." "She has cystic fibrosis." "Okay, I'll let them know." "She seems like a good kid." "Pretty cool under pressure." "That's her." "She's the best." "She's so smart, I can hardly keep up with her." "How long has she been living with you?" "Six months." "But I knew within a week that I was gonna adopt her." "We connected right from the start." "Okay, the ambulance has the inhalers." "I'll check on her personally as soon as we get to the hospital." "[ Voice breaking ] Thank god she's okay." "Listen." "Promise me." "Promise me that you are gonna take care of her." "She acts tough, but she's just a kid." "I'll do everything I can." "[ Monitor beeping ]" "I feel like I'm floating." "Glad to see the pain meds are kicking in." "Best part of being here." "Hospitals have the good stuff." "You spend a lot of time in hospitals?" "Yeah, since I was 13." "At first, the doctors thought I had a tumor." "They went in, operated." "Actually caused the tissue around the site to lock into bone." "Then, when I was a teenager," "I messed up my shoulder pretty good." "Yeah?" "What happened?" "I was an idiot." "I tried skateboarding." "Guess I was tired of hearing I was an inspiration just for putting my pants on in the morning." "Didn't want to be the disability mascot anymore." "So that's a "no" to the, uh, inspirational speech in the children's ward?" "Mm, hard pass." "[ Chuckles ] Just making sure." "Okay, thank you." "Leave it on the table just in case." "Guys, this is Dr. park." "I've asked him in for a urology consult." "Oh, great!" "I'm just going to take a look." "Fascinating." "I've never seen this in real life." "[ Beep ]" "The stone's causing moderate to severe hydronephrosis." "With the infection, he needs surgery right away." "No." "Excuse me?" "I'm not doing surgery." "Been there, done that." "I'm not into it." "Okay, I think what Dylan is trying to say is that he would like to avoid the risk of anesthesia." "Not to mention the potential permanent calcification of his urinary tract." "Yeah, I for sure don't want that." "None of that matters if he gets septic and dies." "Endoscopic surgery will minimize bone growth." "Okay, there has to be other options besides surgery." "I mean, can we at least consider..." "You wanted my opinion." "You have it." "Surgery now, unless you want to risk sepsis and death." "Scott:" "I'm not sure we're quite there yet." "What about..." "Lithotripsy with antibiotics?" "We use the sound waves to break up the kidney stone, and maybe those smaller pieces pass on their own." "That sounds good to me." "We're wasting time." "His infection's only getting worse." "I'm gonna let the O.R. know that we're coming." "Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa." "No." "Okay." "Dr. park, can I speak with you outside?" "Okay, he wants lithotripsy." "Why can't we at least try it?" "You want me to sit here for a few hours and wait until he's really unstable and then take him to the O.R.?" "If the lithotripsy works, maybe he never even needs the O.R." "The patient wants it, his pressure's stable." "Let's try it." "Fine, but his chart will reflect my recommendation..." "Surgery." "Yeah." "Thank you for backing me up." "I was backing Dylan up." "He wants the lithotripsy." "So go ahead and get him prepped, and I'll run the machine." "I'll let him know." "You just made his night." "Whoa." "You guys wear enough layers?" "This machine uses sound waves to help break up the kidney stone." "It's much more likely you'll pass the pieces than one big stone." "In other words, I'm gonna pee out some rocks." "That's one way of putting it, yeah." "Jordan, thanks for not going all end-of-times on me with that other doctor." "Yeah, he was a bit of a..." "He was a dick." "[ Chuckles ] Yeah." "Okay, here we go." "[ Beep ]" "[ Buzzer ]" "Oh." "[ Beep ]" "[ Buzzer ]" "[ Beep ]" "[ Buzzer ] Oh, come on." "[ Buzzer, buzzer ] What's happening?" "This thing needs a complete reboot." "Call the company." "Tell them to send a tech." "Let me know when it's all fixed." "Okay." "Well, that blows." "Now what?" "We get it fixed." "And if not, surgery, right?" "Don't worry." "We'll get it fixed." "Okay?" "Okay." "[ Siren wailing ]" "Incoming!" "Scott, we need the O.R." "Estimated blood loss?" "At least 3 liters." "I put in some sutures to slow the bleeding." "O.R. 1 is prepped and ready to go." "I'm not liking mom's odds." "I'm gonna call the social worker." "Good thinking." "I'll be in with Brianna." "Tee, I got another one coming in... asked for you by name." "You want it?" "Yeah, just while Toph is in C.T." "When those labs are back, will you call me?" "You got it." "Oh." "Congratulations, Kenny." "Congratulations on what?" "Yeah, I need your case manager." "So, I know it's not the most comfortable thing in the world, but the splint will help your fracture heal." "What's going on with my foster mom?" "Is she gonna be okay?" "We got our top doctors working on her." "So as soon as I know more, I'll let you know." "I promise." "Now, in the meantime, Nina, your social worker, is gonna come hang out with you." "Oh." "Okay." "What's that?" "What..." "You don't like her?" "No, I do." "She's pretty badass." "But you wouldn't be calling her unless it was bad news about my foster mom." "She always gets called in when it's bad news." "Well, that's not true." "I mean, that's not the reason we called her." "She's just got to know what's going on, right?" "So you're saying my foster mom isn't going to die?" "I'm saying that we don't know..." "Anything yet." "So we just got to give those doctors some time." "Okay?" ""The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe."" "I love this book." "So, what part are you at?" "I'm not at a part." "You just started reading it?" "Nice." "No, I've read it before..." "Like, a lot." "It's pretty much my favorite book." "It's pretty much my favorite book." "I know what you're doing." "[ Scoffs ]" "You're just trying to distract me until Nina gets here." "You don't have to." "What if I want to?" "You ever think of that, miss smarty pants?" "So, let's talk about it." "First off..." "[ Taps book ] Edmund." "[ Chuckles ]" "I bet you like him the least, right?" "Don't get me started." "[ Both laugh ]" "[ Coughs heavily ]" "Topher:" "What if it's a dissection?" "Heart failure?" "I know she's tough, but..." "Open-heart surgery?" "Here." "Come here." "You're driving yourself crazy." "Okay, you can't let yourself go there until we have the results back." "I complain about her constantly." "I'm always short with her." "She can't work the computer b-because she's old." "I should be more patient with her." "I just..." "I-i-i had to go to work." "Hey." "I couldn't..." "We brought her into our home, and it was an adjustment, but we've done it." "And you are an amazing son." "Don't beat yourself up over the little things." "But what if, Janet?" "What if..." "My last chance to say something nice to her already happened?" "All I did was be short with her this afternoon." "[ Voice breaking ] What am I gonna do if my mom dies tonight?" "[ Siren wailing ]" "Hey." "Clive." "What's... what's the matter?" "Fainted at the casino." "Chest pains." "B.P.'s sky-high." "She's exaggerating, T.C." "Just a little winded." "Good to see you, though." "[ Laughs ]" "I had her call ahead so I can get the v.I.P. Treatment." "'Course you did." "Yo, tee." "Mama Topher's test results are in." "Okay, great." "Uh, curtain 2." "Get some bilateral pressures." "Clive, we will fix you right up." "Enjoy." "You know, I fought the communists in nam." "Mm." "You know, I wasn't even born then." "Really?" "All normal." "But you know Topher." "He's insisting we run them again." "Right." "Okay." "The minute they're out of C.T., let me know." "You got it." "Kenny, congrats." "Hey, for what?" "Oh, c... is somebody playing a joke?" "Come on." "Shannon:" "Yeah, that's right..." "I did call 10 minutes ago, and I'm gonna keep calling until I hear from Brianna Holt's caseworker." "No, you listen to me." "You get someone here now, because this young girl shouldn't have to go through this alone." "Get..." "Someone..." "Here." "Suction, Paul." "Jocelyn:" "Left four messages." "They're not answering the 800 number." "I also checked the nurse message boards, but nothing." "Okay, thank you, Jocelyn." "Yeah." "[ Beeping, buzzer ]" "Guess it is looking more like surgery." "Oh, well." "What guy doesn't want a petrified pubic area?" "Hey." "We're not giving up, okay?" "We may not have a choice." "[ Buzzer ]" "This is starting to really hurt." "Okay, I can give you something for the pain." "Is there anything else that you need before I try calling again?" "My sanity back?" "Every time I'm back in the hospital, it's like a constant cycle of "should" going through my head." ""Should have been more careful." ""Should have had more water." ""Should have ordered the salad instead of the five-alarm chili."" "Buddy, you got to give yourself a break, all right?" "You can't second-guess yourself this much." "Trust me, I have spent half my life doing it, and that way, madness lies." "All right." "I'm gonna see if there's another number that I can..." "Call." "Son of a bitch." "Pressler pharmaceuticals makes this machine." "Well, great." "If that question comes up on "jeopardy!"" "[ Dialing ] I'm gonna be sure to remember it." "Thank you." "No, no, no." "I-I think I know somebody who might be able to help us." "[ Motor whirring ]" "Okay." "Sorry about the wait." "Labs are slow today." "How you been, old man?" "Last time I saw you, you gave me three to six months to live." "And let me tell you, I've been living." "Well, that's what you wanted." "So, uh, you've been taking care of yourself, right?" "Taking those meds we talked about?" "You know, that nitro patch you gave me is giving me headaches." "Anything you can do about it?" "Yeah." "Let me get a look." "Maybe I can cut it down in size." "Yeah." "Yeah, I don't see anything, man." "It was there this afternoon." "I saw it." "Okay." "I'll look." "Maybe it fell off." "You know, not wearing it is probably what brought your blood pressure up, and that's what's caused your chest pains." "Oh." "I'll order you a new one." "In the meantime, I want to keep you here under observation on a heart monitor, okay?" "Thank you." "I owe you one." "Don't mention it." "Just doing my job." "No, you know that broad you introduced me to... sumei?" "Uh-huh." "Well, she and I are becoming intimately acquainted." "I tell you..." "She's one hell of a gal." "Wow." "Oh, yeah." "Okay, so, you two have been, uh..." "We're seeing each other." "Just this afternoon, we..." "Hold on." "What?" "You saw Mrs. Zia this afternoon?" "Mm-hmm." "How did she seem to you?" "Because she came in tonight." "She was a little altered." "Sumei?" "She was fine." "What's wrong with her?" "You didn't notice any dizziness, shortness of breath?" "[ Sighs ] Okay." "What?" "Son of a bitch." "I know what's going on." "What?" "Topher!" "Nitroglycerine patch." "What?" "Check her for a nitro patch." "Well, why would she have a..." "Just... just check her." "[ Speaks native language ]" "Ma, can you roll to your side?" "[ Moans ]" " Janet, can you give me a hand?" " Oh, yeah." "There is something down there." "Hmm?" "Yeah, that's a nitro patch." "Ma?" "Hmm?" "Where did this come from?" "This is probably what's been causing your symptoms." "Tee:" "Uh, Toph, you got a second?" "Right." "What the hell, man?" "How did you..." "How did you..." "So, the good news is that your mom is fine, right?" "Her symptoms are all from the patch." "Right." "The bad news..." "At least for you..." "Is, um..." "Your mom's having sex." "What?" "Yeah, with clive." "Who's clive?" "Remember the old dude from the casino?" "He just told me that he and your mom are dating." "Yeah, he came in today complaining of chest pains, and it's 'cause his nitro patch fell off." "So it must have rubbed off on your mom while they were doing it." "No, stop." "That's way too much for me to take in right now." "You got a visual?" "In your head?" "Yeah, okay." "Let's not have a discussion about it." "Good job, Mrs. Toph." "Mm." " Stop." "S-s-stop laughing." " What?" "[ Monitor beeping ]" "Hey, it's..." "It's not looking good." "So she's not gonna make it?" "You know, she came in with massive injuries." "I know." "It's just..." "She has this foster daughter, and she was just so concerned about her." "You could tell how much she really loves her." "A foster mom." "So if she doesn't make it, then..." "Then the girl goes back in the system." "She was so close to having a family, and it all just gets taken from her." "It's not fair." "You got to do everything you can to save her mom, Paul." "Promise me?" "We'll do our best." "Do more than your best!" "Please." "You don't know what it's like." "You're moved from home to home." "Nothing is ever your own." "And then, just when you finally get used to someone, you finally are shown some kindness in your life, it's all just taken away." "Shannon." "Was..." "Was that your life?" "[ Intercom beeps ] Paul, transfusion's done." "We're ready." "[ Intercom beeps ]" "Fight for her, Paul." "That little girl can't be alone again." "[ Door opens ]" "[ Monitor beeping ]" "Brianna." "How's the chest p.T. Working?" "Feeling better?" "Yeah." "I'm all right." "Well, your x-rays came back, and you have a small area of pneumonia." "That's what's been making the breathing harder, but you just got to take this medication and some antibiotics." "Should make the breathing easier." "[ Exhales ] Thanks." "Yeah." "Edmund's such a turd..." "Giving up his family like that." "He's a turd?" "I guess you could call him a jerk." "Hmm." "You know, I don't get why you love him so much." "I wouldn't say "love."" "Yeah, when he first gets to narnia, he ruins everything." "That's the Edmund I want to punch in the teeth, but in the end, what does he do?" "He helps his family kill the white witch." "He changes." "And I think that's what makes Edmund not a turd." "I think that's pretty cool." "Don't you?" "No." "[ Chuckles ] Okay." "He has no idea how lucky he is." "I mean, every kid wants to go to narnia." "When I go to a new foster house," "I always check all the closets..." "Just in case." "[ Laughs ]" "Do you?" "I've spent some time in closets." "I bet they don't have breathing treatments in narnia." "No one's ever sick there." "Drew?" "Do you have a minute?" "Yeah." "Uh, I'll be right back." "[ Sighs ]" "It's been 10 minutes." "Kenny:" "All right." "Doctors Alister and Rivera, this is Brianna's social worker, Nina Alvarez." "She finally made it." "Hey, robonurse, I have seen 10 kids tonight and still need to check on another 10 before sunrise, so watch your mouth." "Sorry." "Just calling it like it is." "No, hey." "He didn't mean it that way." "We've all just taken to Brianna." "Kenny's just being protective." "Good." "She deserves it." "I mean, all these cases suck, but I admit she's special." "[ Sighs ] So, where we at?" "Uh, well, I just diagnosed Brianna with pneumonia." "I think some oral antibiotics, she'll be fine." "How are her oxygen levels?" "They're okay." "That's good." "How's Avery doing?" "She's not gonna make it." "Does Brianna know?" "We didn't want to say anything until we knew for sure." "We're worried she's gonna shut down, losing someone else." "[ Sighs ] Okay." "Look, the longer we wait, the harder it's gonna be for her." "Brianna doesn't trust a lot of people." "We need to be honest with her." "Hey, Kenny." "Congratulations!" "Okay, what's going on?" "Jessica." "Hi." "Thank you so much for coming in." "I really owe you one." "You owe her two." "Pat." "Dude." "Really?" "Someone's life is on the line." "Just do your job." "Whatever." "Where are we going?" "Upstairs." "Sorry." "I got to say, I mean, I didn't expect you to come in, you know?" "I called you at 2:00 in the morning." "I figured you'd just send someone." "You can always call me." "Thank you." "Yeah, doctors aren't my clients." "Patients are." "If they need me, I get out of bed." "[ Chuckles ]" "T-that's what you look like when you get out of bed?" "Oh." "Ma." "I, uh, need to take you back to your room." "You said yourself..." "I'm fine." "I said your blood pressure was stabilizing." "It's not necessarily fine." "We still need to monitor you." "And he needs his rest." "Hey, clive, I have, uh, the blood-test results." "You want some privacy?" "Anything you can say in front of me, you can say in front of sumei." "Okay." "Um, unfortunately, they're not great." "You had another small heart attack." "And, as I said before, your next one could be your last." "Clive, you never said you have..." "No, I was just trying to keep things light." "You don't need to hear about heart attacks." "He elected to turn down open-heart surgery 'cause it's too dangerous." "If I'd have let them open me up," "I could have died before we ever went to dinner." "And there's nothing you can do?" "I'm sorry, Mrs. Zia." "The situation remains the same." "He could die on the table." "His heart is very weak." "That's not the clive I know." "The clive I know goes all-in for what he wants." "Don't badger him, mom." "He's made up his mind." "We'll let you rest." "Good." "You can go." "Sumei can stay." "Coffee?" "Oh, thank you." "Yeah." "How much longer?" "Your guy said it'll be up and running in 10 to 15." "Mm." "Mmm!" "Oh, wow." "This is not cafeteria coffee." "Where did you get this?" "I have a guy." "[ Chuckles ] Of course you do." "Ow." "Tinder." "Uh, no." "Bumble." "Oh." "I am very much done with tinder." "[ Laughs ] Not that it makes much of a difference." "It kind of makes me regret breaking up with my fireman Sam." "You know?" "Grass is always greener." "Well, sometimes when you're dating, the grass feels like it's all burnt and barren." "Seriously." "Last thing you probably want is advice from the chick screwing your ex." "Sorry." "It's okay." "Really." "Maybe it's because I'm feeling better, or maybe it's because I like you." "Oh, cool." "[ Both chuckle ]" "Or maybe it's just because you guys look like you're actually happy." "Yeah." "We are." "That's good." "Okay, cards on the table?" "Please." "Okay, I think maybe it's easier with him and me than it was with you guys just because we aren't really strangled by a past." "I guess it frees us up to..." "Have fun." "[ Laughs ]" "Whatever it is, it's a good look on him." "I like seeing him happy." "[ Alarm beeping ]" "Oh." "Oh." "Dylan?" "It's okay, I'm right here." "I feel kind of..." "Hang in there, Dylan." "Kind of..." "Okay, pressure's dropping." "Hang levophed." "His pulse is weak." "Okay, he's septic." "I need you to page Dr. park and tell him to meet us at the O.R." "We got to get these kidney stones out now." "No, she's not." "She's gonna be fine 'cause..." "'cause we can do something." "Can't we do anything?" "I wish we could." "But I-i just saw her." "She was... she was fine." "She..." "Can I see her?" "Just to say goodbye." "Scott:" "I called time of death 10 minutes ago." "If the board found out about that, they would fry us." "Dr. Clemmens, Brianna already feels responsible for Avery's death." "And kids like this..." "They don't have much." "To lose the one person..." "The one thing in their life..." "It's devastating." "I promise it will make a difference." "As her social worker, I'm signing off on this." "She needs closure." "Excuse me." "Dr. Clemmens, Jordan needs you." "Her patient is headed to the O.R." "Okay, I'll be right there." "Look, I have to go." "I-I can do it." "Keep coding her, make it look like she's still alive." "No, Paul." "I'm not putting you in that position." "You're not putting me there." "I am." "It's my decision." "It's important to me." "Okay." "Okay." "If we had operated four hours ago, he wouldn't be crashing now." "Hey, I'm the one who could die on the table." "Dr. Alexander was listening to my wishes." "What happened?" "He's septic." "Pressure's dropping." "We're heading into the O.R. now." "Scott:" "Lithotripsy didn't work?" "We didn't get a chance to try it." "It wasn't repaired in time." "It's still an option?" "[ Sighs ] Dylan, your pressure is very low." "It's getting dangerous to not operate." "Could we still try?" "Yes, we can." "It's risky, but it could work." "That's insane." "You need surgery." "We still have time." "If it doesn't work, he's all yours." "I'll be waiting." "Okay." "Is this crazy?" "I've heard crazier ideas tonight." "Sometimes a hail Mary works." "Jordan?" "If you need to trust someone, Dr. Clemmens is your guy." "Okay." "Here we go." "Okay." "Thanks for, uh, holding down the fort, Kenny." "I've been a little distracted tonight." "No doubt." "I heard your mom's getting some action." "[ Laughs ]" "You told him?" "!" "No." "No, I didn't." "I didn't say anything." "I heard it from ray, the orderly." "And the C.T. department." "And the blood lab." "Is there any privacy in this place?" "[ Laughs ]" "Oh, hey." "Congratulations." "For what?" "I'm proud of you." "What?" "Why does everybody keep..." "Joss." "Joss." "Come on, tell me..." "What's going on?" "Okay, fine." "We nominated you as our new union rep." "You won by a 15-0 vote." "You're kidding me." "I never kid about the union." "But I..." "I don't want that job." "Then you probably shouldn't have skipped the election meeting." "Don't worry." "I'll make it up to you." "Mm-hmm!" "[ Laughs ]" "[ Sighs ]" "Uh, what's all this?" "We talked it over." "I can't give up on the love of my life." "I'm rolling the dice." "I'll be right here when you wake up." "I'm counting the minutes." "It won't be long." "You have the best doctor in this dump." "My son won't let you die." "Mm." "You guys are too much." "Hey, ma?" "Why'd you say that?" "You know I'm not operating." "I'm not an idiot." "I'm giving him hope." "Think of it as blowing on his dice for luck." "I'm not going anywhere near that one." "No." "Now, take me down to the cafeteria." "I want to peruse the jello selection." "Oh..." "What?" "Don't look at me." "I have to leave." "Someone's got to get our kids ready for school." "Mm." "Bye." "Jello?" "Okay." "We have that." "You can say whatever you need to." "Why does she look like that?" "Can she even hear me?" "She can." "Avery..." "[ Voice breaking ] I love you." "[ Breathing shakily ]" "And I'll never forget you." "You're the best mom anybody could ever ask for." "Please..." "I can't." "I don't want to say goodbye." "Please don't make me!" "I don't want..." "I'll go get her." "Well, that was an epic fail." "I don't think so." "It was hard for her, obviously, but she would always regret not doing it." "So, how long were you in the system?" "That obvious?" "To someone who spends 80 hours a week working in it, yeah." "Too long." "[ Labored breathing ]" "Hey, you need to take a couple puffs from your inhaler." "[ Inhaler hisses ]" "How'd you find me?" "I checked every closet on the floor." "I knew you'd be in one of them." "Yeah, well, I'm still here." "[ Sniffles ]" "No forest in this one." "No." "That's the bad part." "There never is." "I know there's nothing in the world I can say right now to make you feel any better." "So I'm just gonna sit here with you." "What am I gonna do without her?" "I don't know." "[ Sniffles ]" "[ Siren wailing in distance ]" "Nina." "Hey, I just got a text from drew." "Uh, Brianna's all right." "Yes, I heard." "Thank you." "Can I get you something?" "Yeah, you got a time machine?" "[ Chuckles ]" "I could use one of those myself." "Yeah?" "Where would you go?" "August 6, 2001, 7:14 A.M." "Wow." "What happened then?" "[ Chuckles lightly ]" "Just some old football thing." "What about you?" "10 hours ago." "Get Avery off the road." "Then Brianna wouldn't be alone." "She's not alone." "She has you." "Right." "Except she will be." "[ Chuckles ]" "I'm a caseworker." "Like I said earlier, I've got 25 kids, and she needs parents..." "A permanent home." "[ Sighs ] Jesus." "But right now, she just needs a place for tonight." "She can't stay with you?" "It doesn't work that fast." "Besides, I've already got two foster kids at home with me and my parents now." "[ Chuckles ]" "No room at the inn." "What if..." "What if she stayed here?" "I mean, pneumonia's grounds for admission." "Her oxygen levels are fine." "I mean, it's mild..." "At very worst, moderate." "Not if one of the doctors thinks she'd benefit from admission." "Huh?" "And I know three who are looking to help in any way they can." "So, how close would you say we were?" "Let's just say it's good you passed that stone when you did." "[ Whistles ]" "Some high-stakes pee." "Hey, Jocelyn." "Could you take Dylan to recovery?" "Whoa, wait." "W-we're done?" "That's it?" "Yeah." "I was kind of feeling like we were like the three musketeers there or something for a second, you know?" "All for one, right?" "We make a good team." "Yeah." "We do." "[ Chuckles ]" "All right, I'll check in on you later, okay?" "Okay." "All right, buddy." "All right." "Bye, guys." "So long, docs." "Hi, Jocelyn." "How you feeling?" "Funny guy." "[ Chuckling ] Yeah." "Jordan, can we start over?" "At least from, like, two weeks ago?" "Mm." "You mean when I opened my big mouth about Annie?" "And when I acted like a dick to you." "I'm not gonna lie..." "I think part of me wanted to rub your face in it a little bit." "The way I felt when you and T.C..." "Scott, I never wanted to make you feel like..." "No, no, I know." "I know." "But seeing you two together..." "It still hurt." "Mm." "Well, maybe going back two weeks isn't going to be enough." "It'll have to be." "[ Sighs ]" "I do care about Annie." "And I know you guys have history." "I know that." "But I don't have that same baggage with her." "So..." "It works for us." "Yeah." "Well, I am learning that I have a lot more baggage than I realized, so..." "Yeah, well, we all do." "It's what you do with it that counts, I guess." "Yeah." "All right." "I'll see you around." "Bye, Scott." "Thank you for admitting her." "I know it's not ideal, but it's better than a temporary housing situation." "And we'll take good care of her until you find the right home for her." "Uh, could you give this to her?" "Oh." "She'll kill me if I don't." "Yeah." "What are you doing?" "Writing in my phone number so she can reach me any time she needs to." "Okay, you put your number in there, you better mean it." "She calls you, you pick up." "She doesn't need any more disappointment." "I'll pick up." "And I'll check on her every day that she's here." "Hey, ma." "[ Speaks native language ]" "[ Speaks native language ]" "Still nothing?" "No, not yet." "[ Sighs ]" "Um..." "Hey, ma, I'm..." "I'm..." "I'm sorry for stepping in between you and clive." "That wasn't my place." "And, um, I'm sorry for getting annoyed with you and..." "Being short with you." "It's okay." "You're family." "You're allowed." "Hmm?" "Earlier tonight, [ voice breaking ] I thought..." "I thought I was losing you." "[ Speaks native language ]" "I know you did." "But you're not getting rid of me that easy." "[ Chuckles ]" "You know, your grandmother made it to 97." "And I plan to outlive her." "Um..." "[ Chuckles ] Okay." "I wanted to tell you in person..." "Clive's out of surgery." "He's awake." "You can see him now." "Thank you." "Thanks, Paul." "Yeah." "Thank you." "[ Crying ] Thank you." "You know you don't have to come every time my ex calls, right?" "How about, "thanks for saving a patient's life"?" "Well, I guess I could have led with that." "[ Laughs ] I'm just messing with you." "I didn't come because Jordan called me." "I came to help a patient." "There's a reason I don't work at a bank." "Speaking of which, I got to go... get some sleep." "Ohh." "Can I come?" "[ Chuckles ]" "No, I actually need sleep." "Mm, no." "I have a really big job interview in a few hours." "Yeah?" "For what?" "Unh-unh." "Nope." "Not gonna jinx it." "Okay." "Mmm." "Good luck." "Yeah." "Hey." "Heard it all worked out..." "For now." "Yeah... for now." "Thank you." "You got it." "Uh..." "You know, um, I pretty much work nonstop, live with my parents, take care of two foster kids, so it's not exactly the sexiest lifestyle a woman could have." "Um..." "But if you ever wanted to get together for a coffee or..." "Oh." "Um..." "Ooh!" "Okay." "Wow." "Well, maybe I shouldn't have said anything." "But I'm not very good at not saying anything." "You just, um..." "You seem like a really good guy, and I don't meet a lot of good guys in my line of work." "Hey, well, today's your lucky day." "Ball's in your court." "I didn't..." "She just..." "I saw." "Look, I know we're just doing whatever, and it's cool." "I mean, if you want to go out with her, I get it." "Just let me know first, Kenny." "I don't want to hear about your sex life from Mollie." "[ Calexico's "follow the river" plays ]" "Yo." "You okay?" "Yeah, I am now." "Thanks for tonight." "You saved my mom." "Anytime." "You know that." "I do have one more question, though." "What's that?" "Are you gonna start calling clive "dad" now?" "Shut up." "Daddy." "Pops." "Pop-pops." "I don't want to hear it!" "Is he gonna stay over?" "In the same bed?" "What are you gonna do if you start hearing them through the wall?" "Uh..." "Toph." "[ Knocks ]" "[ Muffled ] I can't hear you!" "I-I can't hear you!" "I don't have any change!" "* but my mind keeps running astray * hey." "Thanks for all your help tonight..." "For stepping up like that." "Oh." "Uh, please." "Anything for a kid, you know?" "And, I, uh..." "I knew it was important to you." "* oooooh * * oooooh * * oooooh * * oooooh *" "Get in." "In... in there?" "* still have the wounds *" " So..." "What did you... what did you want..." " Shut up, Paul." "* that the sun won't ever heal * * surrounded by the emptiness * * of everything, everyone *"

"MOSFILM" ""COMRADE" CREATIVE ASSOCIATION" "WINGS" " This one?" " This one." "Let's begin." "Written by:" "VALENTIN YEZHOV NATALYA RYAZANTSEVA" "Directed by:" "LARISA SHEPITKO" "Cinematography:" "IGOR SLABNEVICH" "Production Design:" "IVAN PLASTINKIN" "Forty-eight." "Thirty-five." "Fifty-five." "Forty-two." "Fourteen." "Featuring:" "MAYA BULGAKOVA" "Ninety-one." "Seventy-eight." "Sixty." "Fifty-six and a half." "That's it." "Standard size." "Forty-eight." "One, two, three, four, five - Look at all those decorations." "They're just medals." "How about some sound?" "What's she saying?" "Is it so hard to guess?" "Applauding." "Watch out!" "Quick!" "Please, let us through!" "Please let us in." "That's our headmistress up there." "Just let us stand in back." "We'll be quiet." "Dina." "It's all on television right here." "Where's Nadezhda?" "You missed her." "She's already left." "Damn." "Don't worry about it." "I know what this is." " Sure." "They know everything." " They're all grown up." "It's your fault, Lena." ""Comb my hair." "Comb my hair."" "There, next to the lamp." " They're showing Nadezhda again." " We've already seen her." " Damn." "Can't get it to work." " You greenhorn." " Take a look at those girls." " Not bad." " Nothing special." " You're nothing special yourself." "How about this one?" " Nope." "What do you like - blondes or brunettes?" " I haven't decided yet." " That's a shame." "Here's Nadezhda again." "Look at her perm rolls." "That diploma is for us." "Let's go to the cafeteria." "Good work." "Well organized." "We do our best, Ivan Petrovich." "Vladimir Danilovich, why don't you ask me to dance?" "You know I have a bad back." " Excuse us!" " Watch where you're going." " What are we having?" " Girls, why are you cutting in?" "We were already in line." "Weren't we?" "Shame on you, young lady." "Let's see." "Two bottles of beer." "Beer makes you fat." " And a pack of cigarettes?" " And a pack of cigarettes." "Vostriakov." "What kind of girls do you like - smart ones or silly ones?" "Idiots, like you." "Nadezhda, have you gotten used to the new job?" "Something's always going on." "Here's my deputy - Boris Grigorievich." "Nice to meet you." "Thank Ivan Petrovich for this." "He suggested you for the job, and I backed him up." "Next year, I'll send you my kid." "He's always getting in trouble." "We're not a penitentiary, Ivan Petrovich." " I'll send him here anyway." " All right." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, may I ask you to dance?" "Are you kidding?" "It was just a joke." " Give it back!" " Try and take it from me." " Easy there." " Crazy girl." "They should be thrown out of here." "She has a crush on him." "Give it to me as a present." "Stupid!" "What's going on?" "What is Vostriakov doing here?" "Did you sneak in the back door?" "I used the front door." "Get out of here, all of you." "Vostriakov, you stay here." "I have something to say to you." "No shame at all." " How could you sink so low as to hit a girl?" " She started it." "You be quiet." "I'm talking to Vostriakov." "How'd I sink so low?" "Lower and lower - and then this." "Be quiet." "Stand up properly." "Here, take a look, Vladimir Danilovich." "Quite a rare specimen." "You chase him out one door, and he crawls in through another." " I didn't crawl in " " Quiet." "Be quiet!" "What a disgrace!" "You've shamed all of us - disgraced the school." "I'm ashamed to hold this diploma in my hands!" "So don't!" "Give it back to them." "All right." "Yermolaeva." "Apologize to her." "Right now, in front of everybody." "And if I don't?" "If you don't, I'll expel you from school." "So what?" "Boris Grigorievich." "Yes?" "Please escort Vostriakov out right away." "He's free to go wherever he wants." "Yes, ma'am." ""I am leaving, stunned - leaving behind a genius." "Let him create his masterpieces and mow the grass in the yard." "Just imagine, only a minute ago" "I stood next to him and looked at his black buttons." "I, a mere reporter, a humble mortal." "Translated from Serbo-Croatian by Koffman. "" "Pasha, can you get me a samovar?" "Do they bring you samovars at the museum?" "No." "They only bring bones." ""Look," they say. "Perhaps they belong to a woolly mammoth."" "But they're only horse bones." "Tired?" "I'll get going." "Today I expelled a kid from the school." "What kid?" "Maybe it's Tanya." "Sit down." "Why would she show up?" "Hello." "Is Tanya here?" "No, she's gone." "When is she coming back?" "Ask her mother." "She got married." "Come on in." "Don 't just stand there." "No, that's all right." "I'll go." "By the way, Tanya called." "She asked me to say hello to you for her." "Thanks." " It's just that you're never home." " Right." " I should go." " All right." " Good night." " Good night." "By the way, when Tanya calls you again, give her my regards." "Take care." "Good night." "Can I call you tomorrow?" "Of course." "Pasha." "Did you call me?" "Good night." "Good night." "Auntie Nadya, look." "A plane is falling." "It isn't going to fall." "It's doing it on purpose." "It's a barrel roll." "Look." "Look up!" "Auntie Nadya, is the sky far away?" "Are we gonna go for another swim?" "I don't want to swim." "I'm hungry." "Do you want to go to the airfield?" " Hello." " Hello there." "I've come to see you." "Hello, Nadya." "I'll be right with you." " Hello." " Hello, Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Going to the tournament?" "Yes, We're going to Moscow soon." " But not everyone is going, right?" " Only if you passed the tests." " Only if you have enough jumps." " Everyone took the tests." "Excellent." " So, you want to be a pilot?" " Yes." "Me too." "Whose kids are these?" "The neighbors'." "I took them to the river for a swim." "Baryshev, now it's going to be your turn." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, you look great." "Why shouldn't I?" "What's this fellow doing there?" "He didn't pass the physical." "Now he's upset." "Do you remember Pasha?" "He waited and waited before the war, and how did it end?" "Yeah." "But now mustering boards are much stricter." "But you're still holding up." " Are you jealous?" " No." "I've got used to it." "Do you fly a lot?" "Well, I fly." "I instruct." " How come you never drop by?" " I will." "Listen, why don't we all get together?" "Children, repeat after me." "Where the infantry won't get through" "Where an armored train won't pass" "Where a heavy tank won 't crawl through" "There the steel bird will fly" "Nadya, did my kids give you any trouble at the river?" "No, we were good." "Right, Auntie Nadya?" "Look at it." "A duckling." "I 'm not going to cut it up." "The question is - why should anyone be peeling potatoes on a Sunday?" "What are restaurants for?" "Yeah, like you're going to go to a restaurant." "I am going." "From now on, I'm going to restaurants every day." "RESTAURANT" " Are you from out of town?" " No, why?" "No service after 6:00." "Only women with escorts." "Who thought that up?" "Call the manager." "Can't do it." "Hello." "All right." "Welcome." "Please join us." "Do you recognize me?" "But of course." "Morozov, Igor Mikhailovich." "Exactly." "Meet my friends." "Petrukhina, Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Do you remember Nadezhda Stepanovna?" "We served together on a people's jury for a whole year." "For you, Shura will fix something up." "You won't have to wait." "I'd like something to eat." "Sure, right away." "Hello." "Please." "To your health." " Hey!" "I'll throw you out." "Hello, Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Home-smoked fish." "Please, help yourself." " Thank you, no." "I'll bring some crayfish." "I'll be right back." "Take you, for example - a simple Soviet woman." " What do you want?" " Get lost." "I just wanted to talk." "What, can't we have a conversation?" "Mom!" "What a scary bulldog." "This isn't a bulldog." "It's a boxer." "What a huge beast." "Does he guard your home?" "There's nothing to guard there." "He's so ugly." "Don't insult him." "He understands everything." "I've come to get acquainted." "But you've met Igor." "I've spoken with Igor on the phone." "I haven't properly met him as your husband." "Forgive me." "Here's our building." "It's just that we have a crowd over." "Listen." "Tanya?" "Aren't you embarrassed?" "After all, you could be his daughter." "No, I couldn't." "Let's go." "Tanya, wait." "Let me look at you." "Why have you waited so long?" "They built a splendid wedding palace, and you don't even want to use it." "All day Sunday, I greeted newlyweds on behalf of the city council." "It was so beautiful." "You know?" "Champagne, music, flowers." "But I don't want any strangers congratulating me." "We won't let strangers in." "I'll welcome you myself." "We'll use the occasion to celebrate." "So, is it a deal?" " We'll see, Mom." " What's there to think about?" "Come on in." "Misha, tell us the story about the two actors." "About what?" "The two actors." " I've told it already." " Victor hasn 't heard it." "Wallpaper." "So, two actors get together." "One's in the theater, and the other's in cabaret." ""Hey, Kolya, how you doing?" "I haven't seen you in 1 0 years."" "Which one's Igor?" "Don't tell me." "I'll figure it out." "Don't even try." "You're not going to guess." "Not bad, not bad." "I've moved up in the world." "I decided to work alone, solo." "You walk out on the stage, and everybody's looking at you." "It's all on your shoulders." "You make all the choices." "You read Pushkin." "You read Captain's Daughter by Pushkin." "It's 800 pages." "Right?" "It's not like Chekhov." "You could choke on it." "So I get on stage - Only I didn't learn my lines." "Three years ago, there was that competition." "You know, Pushkin's memorial - Alexander Sergeevich himself." "So, I didn't learn my lines." "So it goes." "It happens sometimes." "Creative work, you know." ""ls this from Pushkin?" Well, of course." "And here you are, walking out on stage." "You're all alone." "It's high art." "It's not like reciting some clichéd poem " ""Oh, wait for me, and I shall return."" "That's what hacks do." "And then I wasn't ready for the Gogol Festival." "So they let me go." "So where does one go, right?" "And you know why they let me go?" "The guy wearing the big glasses says, "Because of your poor enunciation."" "Timothy, get back." "Everyone, this is my mom." "Well, finally." "Very nice to meet you." "Mom, this is Igor." "Petrukhina." "Igor." "I can't hear you." "Igor." "Nice to meet you." "You don't smoke." "Forgive us, Nadezhda Stepanovna, that it turned out this way." "It's all right." "The apartment's nice." "Except the ceilings are low." "Yeah." "Well, young people, why so solemn?" "Cheer up, everybody." "Play your boogie-woogie." "Are there any wine glasses in this house?" " They're in the kitchen." "Come on." "Or only books?" "What's this, a reading room?" " We have wine glasses." " Let's go have a drink." "Tanya, step outside." "Close the door." "Sit down." "I've been asking Tanya to introduce us for a long time." "She kept putting it off." "How old are you?" "Thirty-seven." "Sit down." " Have you been married before?" " Yes, I have." " Did you get divorced?" " A long time ago." "How long?" "About five years." " Any kids?" " No." "You've been on your own for five years?" "Yes, I have." "Do you teach?" "Yes." "Do you intend to just keep teaching?" "It's likely." " Give me a knife." " Pardon?" "Give me a knife." "When did you meet Tatyana?" "At the entrance examinations." "Love at first sight?" "Oh, well." "Call everybody in." " Andrei, you forgot your pen." " Thank you." " Guys, where are you going?" " Home." " Come back later." " Mom won't stay long." "Why are you leaving?" "Everybody, come here." "Everyone's invited." "Are you afraid of me?" "Come on, guys." "Don't be shy." "All right." "Five minutes." " Where's Misha?" " By himself." "Tanya." "Just a second." "Misha." "Are you coming?" "No." "Then turn the volume up." "Igor." "Don't keep us waiting." "Let's see." "That's.75 liters, and we've got " "One, two, three, four, five - 1 0." " Don't count Misha." " Then nine." "That's 83.3 grams each." "You ignoramus." "It's a periodic fraction - 83.33." "You calculate so well." "Thank you." "It's my job." " Misha, get over here." " Tanya." "Leave him alone." "He's thinking." "May the outstretched hand be filled with riches for you." "Andrei, it's time for a toast." " Well, to the newlyweds." " Yes, to the newlyweds." " No, no." " Then what?" "I propose a toast to Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Igor is incredibly lucky with his mother-in-law." "He doesn't deserve such luck." "We are very glad to meet you." " Thank you." " Well, friends, to Nadezhda Stepanovna." "You've made me blush." "Let's drink." "To your health." "This is good wine." "Misha, would you like some cake?" "Let him be." "He's wrapped up in his thoughts." "He was great today." " Is he an actor?" " He's an attorney." " But that doesn't matter." " So he's an amateur?" "Did you know that I chair the panel of judges?" "Mom, why don't you have some cake?" "I forgot." "Why'd you put on that sad music?" "Let's drink!" "To the newlyweds." "To " "As a poet once said," ""Cherish your love." "Over the years, cherish it even more."" ""Love is not about sighs on a park bench, nor a stroll in the moonlight. "" "Misha, use the white one." "I bought movie tickets." "They went to waste." "You think they asked me over?" "I had to go over on my own to meet him." "If she'd been my natural daughter, I'd have disowned her for this kind of thing." "All my life I lived in fear, dreading that one day someone would let it out that she's not my own child." "I ran home thinking that she'd found out." "It hasn't come to that yet." "I wish she had at least come to me for advice." "We're not strangers." "Oh, well." "When she was going out with that Igor fellow," "I never said a word." "Right." "Not a word." "Well, as a joke perhaps." "Big deal." "You shouldn't joke around about this." "They have their joke, and you have yours." "Do you remember how you told me that I should adopt a boy?" "I thought that a girl would be closer to me - to her mother." "Oh, well." "You know, eventually, children have to go off on their own." "What would happen otherwise?" "Philosopher." "It's easy for you to talk." "She's not yours." "Good night." "Kravchenko!" "Watch it." "Close the door." "What a mess." "You promised to finish the remodeling by today." "Where is everybody?" " Probably at the movies." "It's Monday, so there's a new picture." "Besides, there's nine people missing for exams." "Then there's one fellow that didn't spend the night at school." " Who's that?" " Vostriakov." "Did the costumes get sent out to the competition?" "They should have been." "They should have been, or they have been?" "They have been." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, I'd like to leave early tonight." "My daughter's birthday." " Do you have a daughter?" " Four kids." " Congratulations." " Thank you." "Kravchenko!" "Kravchenko!" "Damn." "That's for me." "The so-called workers." "Why didn't you go to the movies?" " We're working." " We've already seen that movie." "Where's Vostriakov?" "Well, who knows where Vostriakov is?" " I don't know." " Yeah." " Where's his stuff?" "You clear it out?" " No, it's here." " Who are his friends?" " Me." "Everyone was friends with him." "Are his parents in town?" " Yes." " I see." "By the way, I saw him in a pretty seedy place." "Well, I'm off." "Are the grade lists off to the district?" "They should be." "They should be, or they are?" "I don't know." "Listen, Boris Grigorievich, do you ever know anything?" "All right." "Make sure that remodeling is done by tonight." "Otherwise, we're going to have a serious talk." "Is that clear?" " Perfectly." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, I'm waiting for you." "Later." "It's my kids' turn." "I'm going to check on them." "Why aren't you all ready?" "Do you want to spoil the whole performance?" "Girls, don't just stand there." "Boys, go back to the hall." "Yermolaeva doesn't want to go on." "Yermolaeva?" "What's the matter?" "Yermolaeva, I'm talking to you." " Vostriakov's disappeared." " What?" " Yermolaeva went to look for him." " Isn't it true, Zina?" "Be ready for your turn!" "No time to talk." "Yermolaeva, get dressed." "Boys, get back." "Girls, line up." "Yermolaeva." "Construction School, on stage!" "Get out of here, everybody." "Your Vostriakov hasn't disappeared." "Yes, he has!" "You don't know him at all." "He's innocent." "You expelled him for nothing." "It was my own fault." "You don't know him." "You don't know anything." "Maybe he drowned himself!" "You don't know him." "He's so proud." "He'll never come back." "Damn your dances!" "That's it." "All the costumes - for nothing." "Not at all." "Hurry up." "Scarf." "Hands." "Closer." "Sit down." "Get ready." "Let's go." "Very nice." "Look at the costumes." "Petrukhina gave it her best." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, it came out just great!" "Everything's okay." "Hodzhaev, make sure all the costumes are returned." "Yes, ma'am." "Here you are." "I found you." "All right." "Let's do it quickly." "Outside." " No, dear, I don't like it." " But why?" "I didn't say that." " You did." " No, I didn't." "You did." "Well, I don't recall." "And what about this?" "This is, excuse me, pure flattery." " How?" "What flattery?" " It's just flattery." "It isn't flattery." "This is an important topic." "And everyone's waiting." " What?" " Everyone's waiting." "All right." "But what about this?" "This is just embarrassing." ""l am greeted by a tired, modestly dressed woman..."" ""with lines around her young eyes."" "But it's true." "Well." "Where did you go to school?" "The university." "My daughter's at the university too." "It's hot." "There may be a storm coming." "It's humid." "My daughter majors in math." "The humanities would have been better." "Of course." "Nadezhda Stepanovna " " Can I try these on?" " Of course." "They suit you." " Convenient." " Yes, they are." "Here." "Did I get it right?" "Not at all, my dear." "Not "for comprehensive work teams." But "only for compressive work teams." "We train teams of young workers" " "Yes, yes, yes." "I understand." "I understand." "Here. "The trailblazing initiative."" "What about it?" "Can we use a different word for it?" ""Initiative." "Initiative."" "It's a puzzle." ""Initiative" isn't a bad word." "Perhaps we should say "beginning."" "No." "That's not it either." "Initiative." "Initiative." "What about another word that means the same thing, but the word itself is different?" " A synonym?" " Exactly." "A synonym." "We need a synonym." "Initiative." "Initiative." "Maybe " "No." "Comrade Petrukhina!" "Someone's asking for you!" "I'm coming." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, please sign here in the corner." " Nadya." " Coming." ""Initiative." "Beginning." What's the difference?" "Thank you." "Thank you." "WHAT IS A SYNONYM FOR THE WORD "INITIATIVE"?" "BEGINNING." " Ivan Petrovich." " Yes?" "I have to leave, Ivan Petrovich." "I have some unfinished business." "There's not going to be a discussion tonight anyway." "Is that all right?" " Sure, go ahead." " Thank you." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." " Nadezhda Stepanovna." " Yes?" " Your purse." " Thank you." "Good-bye." "Now a ballet composition - "A Little Birch Tree. "" "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Do you need the key to your office?" " Is it all locked up?" " Yes, it's pretty late." " No, that's all right." " All right." "HONOR BOARD" "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Have they found that fellow?" "Nadezhda Stepanovna?" "What's that?" "What's his name" " Vostriakov?" "I don't know." "Boris Grigorievich." "What are you doing here?" "Painting." "It will all be done tonight." "And where are your students?" "They're on a smoke break." "And what about you?" " I don't smoke." " That's not what I mean." "Stop it right away and go home." "It's your daughter's birthday." "I've got time." " Who do you wanna see?" " Does the Vostriakov family live here?" "They're not home." "They're all at the factory." "What about their son?" "The son's doing time." "What do you mean doing time?" "He's a gangster." "So he's doing time... in jail." "He's got two more years left yet." "Grandma, you're wrong." "I mean Serezha Vostriakov." "Oh, the younger one." "The younger one is on the run." "What do you mean on the run?" "He ran away." "His father kept beating him, so he ran away." " And he hasn't turned up?" " No, sweetheart, he hasn't turned up." "Well, thank you." "Bye-bye." "Hold on a minute." "Try a little roll." "It's still warm." "I baked it myself." "Thank you." "Bye-bye." "Listen, my dear." "Don't go." "Stay." "Talk to me." "I have to go." "Grandma, why didn't you open the door?" "Are you afraid?" "It's the chain." "See?" "I can't open the door." "The chain won't let me." "Take care of yourself." "Hello." "Police?" "Let me speak to Comrade Kalinka." "Yes." "Hello." "This is Petrukhina." "Listen, one of my boys is missing." "He ran away from the dorm." "Yes." "He didn't show up at home." "Luggage?" "No, he didn't take any." "He wouldn't have any money." "He's 1 6 years old." "Yes." "Vostriakov, Sergei Fedorovich." "Sergei Fedorovich." "Yes." "His brother." "I have guests." "What happened, Mom?" "Someone's run away." "First, you ran off." "I got married." " Are you in a hurry?" " Yes." "I was looking through these tapes." "I found the one Nina sent you." "Do you want to listen to it?" "Tanya." "Maybe you can stay?" "You don't love him, do you?" "Mom, I don't want to discuss this with anybody, least of all with you." "Well, thanks." "Mom, don't." "I'll come to visit." "All right." "You need a vacation." "You should go to Nina's." "Take the boat." "Buy yourself a new robe." "Let's go buy it now." "Later." "Let me." "Mom, you're young." "You're still good-looking." "Why are you laughing?" "It's the truth." "Other women your age get married." "So they do." "I will too." "Do it." "Why don't you?" "Well, maybe I will." "Do it." "Start a new life." "You've been in charge of this, that and the other all this time." "You're run down." "You've got to let go of all that." "Let someone else worry about those brats." " Let someone else do it?" " Yeah." "Let someone else do it?" "You don't really like your mother." "Of course." "I'm provincial, unsophisticated." "I embarrass you." "I'm a gruff old soldier." "Mom, it's not that." ""Let someone else do it."" "This is how you think?" "I never even knew such words as these." ""Let someone else do it."" "All my life, I worked for myself and for other people - wherever I was needed, no picking and choosing." "For myself and for other people." "And I never regretted it." "Are you listening?" "I understand." "Mom, do you want me to stay?" "You pity me." "Don't pity me." "Instead, you should envy me." "Yes, you should envy me." "You don't have to stay." "Go on." "Tanya." "Nadya, we waited for you!" "We've got lots of news!" "Nina's defended her thesis." "And Klasha works at the UN." "Wait!" "Petruha, what a pig you are." "You didn 't even show up for Victory Day." "We waited for you at the Bolshoi Theater for half a day." "Maybe you think you're too good now for your old comrades?" "Well, if you don 't show up in three days, then we're on the way to you!" "We're gonna put you on KP!" " Nadya." "Maybe you're sick?" " What are you saying?" "Stop it." "Listen, girls, let's sing a song for Nadya." "Where the infantry won 't get through" "Where an armored train won 't pass" "Where a somber tank won 't crawl through" "There the steel bird will fly" "Where a somber tank won 't crawl through" "There the steel bird will fly" "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "That runaway's been found." "That Vostriakov fellow." "He's in the mess hall." "He hasn't eaten in two days." "He's starving, all skinny." "You've made me very happy." "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Wait here, boys." "There's a lot of work for you." "I love your jacket." "Come on in." " Wait, Boris Grigorievich." " Wait a minute." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, Vostriakov is back." "Should I bring him in?" " I know." "Yes, go ahead." "Come in." "Well?" "What have you got to say to us?" "Forgive me, Nadezhda Stepanovna, for my terrible behavior at the club." "I've realized my mistakes." "It won't happen again." "I'll never disgrace the honor of the school ever again." "Yermolaeva, forgive me for... shoving you." "It won't happen again." "May they leave?" "Yes." "Everyone except Vostriakov." "Once more." "Nadezhda Stepanovna, please forgive my terrible behavior." "I'll never disgrace the school again." "I've realized " "All right, stop it." "Enough with the apology." "I don't believe it." "Listen, Vostriakov." "Where were you planning to go?" "Did you want to become a dockworker?" "A street sweeper?" "Do you want to follow your brother down the same road?" "Vostriakov." "Why are you so arrogant?" "I despise you." "Is everything all right?" "See?" "I told you." "I have the birthday greetings, straight from the printer's." "It just needs your signature, and then it's all done." "Passengers without tickets are prohibited." "Give up your seats for elderly passengers." "Mom, look, a dog." "Nadya!" " How are you?" " Fine." " What are you up to?" " Nothing special." "Are you going to the airfield?" "We're off to the tournament tomorrow." "I'm working my guys pretty hard." " Well, good luck." " I'll need it." "We should all get together." " Yeah." "Stop!" "Do it again!" "Faster!" "Are you open?" "Come on in, Nadezhda Stepanovna." " Hello." " Hello." "I'm just taking a delivery." "Would you like a beer?" " I'm just hungry." "How about a drink?" " We don't sell liquor." "How about a beer?" " I guess beer will do." "Good." "I'll have one to keep you company." " Alexandra Ivanovna, the beer's here!" " Coming." "I'll bring you some beer." " Let me help you." " No." "It's all right." " Come on." " No, stop." " It's easier together." " I'm used to it." " You're Alexandra Ivanovna." " Call me Shura." ""Alexandra Ivanovna" is for the guys when they're around." "It's more formal." "I've noticed you for a while." "You pass by, morning and evening." "And you're always alone." " Yeah." "Always alone." "Done." "What about you?" "Aren't you hungry?" "I had dinner at home." "Pots and pans everywhere." "It's a mess." "Enjoy." " It's like homemade." " It's from the market." " Do you have a big family?" " I've got two kids." "You've got a daughter." "I know that." "Do you have a husband?" "Husband?" "Yeah, I've got a husband." "But he's with somebody else." "Now he's good to her." "It happens, right?" " It happens." "Good beer." "Before the war, I lived in Moscow." "But after the evacuation, I found myself here." "So it goes." " I have friends in Moscow." "I haven't seen them in about five years." "It'd be great to see Moscow." "Funny thing is, sometimes I sit down to write them a letter" "and nothing comes of it." "There's nothing interesting to write about." "I feel I should make something up." "Nothing interesting in your life?" "I would never have thought." "Seems like I'm always running around, but it's all for nothing." "There's no pleasure in it for me or for anyone else." "That's the way it goes." "I don't know." "I enjoy life." "It's just a shame that time goes by so fast." "Seems like I just got out of school." "School number 225." "You know, I was considered artistic when I was in school." "You're kidding." "I used to sing " "The evening bell" "You join in." "The evening bell" "How many thoughts" "It stirs in me" "I didn't have any talent." "I took dance, but then they kicked me out." "I was taller than all the boys." "I would come home from school, lock myself in my room and dance the waltz." "Remember, Nadezhda Stepanovna, how they danced in The Great Waltz?" " There's no wrapping paper." " I only want half a pound." "Mitya." "Mitya!" " Let's go back." " Wait." " Do you know the way back?" " No." "Let's sit here a while." "It's time to get back." "The whole hospital must be looking for us." "It's so quiet here." "Imagine." "It's always quiet here." "This is a cart path." "Right?" "Right." "It's made of stone." "Everything's made of stone here." "It's damp here." "You don 't like it here?" "A lieutenant brought me here." "He told an interesting story." "There used to be an entire race of people here." "They carved a city out of the rock." "Can you imagine how much work it took?" "They worked miracles in stone, and they became famous for it." "And then, all of a sudden, they all disappeared." "Mitya, where do we go from here?" "We 'll figure it out." "If you go left, you'll lose your horse." "If you go right, you'll lose yourself." "What would the heroes of old do in this situation?" "I can't remember." " Heroes always forged straight ahead." " They were foolish." "This is the road they must have taken." "Did they come under attack?" "No." "Somebody must have told them that life is easier somewhere else." "And they believed it?" "See for yourself." "And they paid for it." "Their art died wherever they ended up." "The stone was left behind." " It's a shame." " Yeah." "Mitya, are you going to write to me?" "Petrukhina, report to your plane!" "Do you remember?" "Of course I do." "You were such a chicken." "You're lying." "You used to tell me yourself that I was the best pilot among the girls." "If I hadn 't been wounded, you wouldn 't have learned that I was at the front." "Did you ever think of me?" "Do you want me to transfer to your unit?" "They might transfer me." "Mitya." "Do you love me?" "Mitya, we have to go." "Are you afraid?" "They must be looking for us." "Are you really brave, or are you just letting on?" "I guess I 'm just pretending." "Are you tired of walking?" "No." "Not me." "Are you?" "No, I can go on a lot longer." "This is the office where Peter Alexevich lived and worked." "Here is the table " " Bless you!" " Thank you." "The table at which he sat." "Here's his microscope, his inkwell, his scissors and his snuffbox " "Nadezhda Stepanovna, excuse me, please." "You're sitting on an exhibit." "Could you please sit here?" "I apologize for that." "Would you like me to call Pavel Gavrilovich?" "He might be a while." " I'll wait." "Thank you." "Don't touch the exhibits." "We're standing in front of a display devoted to the Great Patriotic War." "Nadezhda Stepanovna." "By any chance, do you happen to know when the public bathhouse will be completed?" "They started it some time ago." "As a people's deputy, perhaps you know something about it." " I don't know anything." " Excuse me." "...a hero of the Soviet Union, he was a brave officer." "Alexei Sedykh." "It was created by one of our local artists and donated to our museum." " Did he die?" " No." "Alexei Sedykh is alive." "Hey." "Where are you going?" "I made a bet." "Over here." "Proceed to the next exhibit." "Aren't you interested?" "Why?" "I made a bet." "This is a photograph of the pilot Dmitry Grachev." "He shot down 1 7 enemy planes and became a Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously." "Here are two of his apprentices, pilots in a women's air regiment " "Xenia Ovsiannikova and Nadezhda Petrukhina." "Did they get killed?" "Xenia Ovsiannikova was killed in 1 945." "Nadezhda Petrukhina is alive and works as a people's deputy in our city council." "Proceed to the next room." "Don't touch the exhibits." "I see him!" "I'm going in to attack!" "Mitya." "Mitya, what happened?" "Mitya!" "Mitya!" "PETRUKHINA" "Nadya." "Have you been waiting for me long?" " A while." "What are you doing all burrowed in down here?" "Did they bring you another mammoth?" "No." "Mammoths are pretty tough to come by in our area." "Let's go to my office." "By the way, they did find a real mammoth up north." "Think about it." "After centuries of lying in the permafrost... the mammoth's flesh turned out to be completely edible." "Scientists cooked his meat and tasted it." "It was all right actually." "A little tough though." "Kind of like bear meat." "Imagine - a real steak made of mammoth's meat." "With onions." "Sounds good, huh?" "Or, for example " "Pasha." "Marry me." "You don't want to." "Can't you see it?" "The museum director marries one of his exhibits." "I'm one of your exhibits." "Nadya, what happened?" " Pavel Gavrilovich." "Can I see you?" " I'm busy now." "You know, today a little girl asked about me " ""Did she get killed?"" "So what do you think?" "Was she killed?" "Look." "A chicken." "The only stuffed chicken in the world." "I've got some news." "You know, I've quit my job at the school - for good." "I'm beginning a new life." "Imagine, Pasha." "Just like after the prom." "All roads are good." "Pick the one you like." " May I?" " Come in, come in." "Nadya." " Pasha, you've got to work." " Look what we've found." "I am not letting you leave." "Pasha, I have to go home." "I'm tired." "Come over tonight." "We'll have some tea." "Take care." "Come on." "A little more." " Hello, Nadezhda Stepanovna." " Hello." "Don't forget the screwdriver." "A little to the left." "This is good." "Watch out!" "Out of the way!" "Citizen, can I help you?" " Nadezhda Stepanovna." "Hello." " Hello." "Are you looking for Konstantin Mikhailovich?" "Has anyone seen Shuvalov?" " He's at the control tower." " The control tower." "We're off to the tournament tomorrow." " Well, good-bye then." " Good-bye." "Come visit us again." " It won't start." " We'll just push it." "Malyshev, don't fool around." "Come on." "Help us out here." " Hello, Nadezhda Stepanovna." " Hello, guys." "Have you seen Konstantin Mikhailovich?" " He's left already." "No, his jacket's right here." "He should be back shortly." "SPEED" "Nadya." "How are you?" "Fine." "I'm just checking out your planes." "These are nice planes." "You should have come earlier." "I would have given you a ride." "Yeah, right." "You know I wouldn't go." "That's the only reason you say that." "Stay there, Nadezhda Stepanovna!" "We'll push you!" "Come on, let's go!" "Feel the wind in your face!" "Yes!" "I will!" "And you will, too, soon!" "Good luck!" "Enjoy the fresh air!" "Have a nice flight!" "Still higher, higher and higher" "It's the last stretch." "Wait, guys!" "Start slowing down!" "THE END"

"Previously on Lost:" "You brought me to operate." "You think I trust you, that I'm gonna just do the surgery and hope that you let me go?" "Jack... you have to do it." "How did they get you to ask me?" "What did they offer?" " Nothing!" " Why are you here?" "They're gonna kill Sawyer!" "Tomorrow morning, first thing." "I'll get it out, and I'll keep you alive." "I'm ready." "No!" "No!" "Sawyer, please!" "You get your hands off of him!" "I made a small incision in Ben's kidney sack." "Now, if I don't stitch that back up in the next hour, he's dead." "Now get in here and bring that walkie-talkie!" "Hello." "I fell asleep?" "With candles burning." "That's real safe." "We don't have to keep doing this, you know." "Are you saying that because you don't think it's gonna work?" "Or because you're afraid he'll find out?" "Lift up your shirt." "OK." " Some doctor you are." " I'm not doing this as your doctor," "I'm doing it as your sister." "I don't like you being here alone." "Come stay with me." "I like living on the beach." "This is Miami, Rachel." "Everything's on the beach." "You have an hour head start before they come." "Take the walkie, take Sawyer, go." "Wait, where are you?" "Kate, just listen to me!" "Do you remember what I told you on the beach?" "Do you remember what story I told you when you were stitching me up?" " Do you remember it?" " Yes!" "Yes!" "I remember!" "When you get safe, you radio me and you tell me that story." "Jack, please..." "If you don't call in an hour, I'll know something went wrong and he dies!" " I can't leave without you!" " Yes, you are." "Go." " Jack, I can't!" " Go!" "Now!" " I can't!" " Kate!" "Damn it!" "Run!" "Juliet, stop the bleeding and stitch him up." "She's not a surgeon." "She can't fix this." "He's right." "Let's go." " Warning." " Sawyer, let's go!" " Warning." " Sawyer!" "Then what the hell do you suggest we do?" "Go get Danny, then find Austen and Ford and bring them back." "No." "You do that and Ben dies." " Go." " No, you think I'm lying?" "You think that this is a bluff?" "I will let him die." "No." "Jack." "You won't." "Go." "Get them back." "If you have to kill them." " Hello?" " Dr Burke?" " Yes." " It's Diana from Mittelos BioScience." " Confirming your appointment tomorrow." " 2.00, right?" "2.00." "Dr Alpert asked me to tell you he's looking forward to meeting you." " Me, too." "Thank you." " Goodbye." "Stay here." " Hello, Juliet." " Hey." "Hey, Ed." "Why exactly are you here?" "Oh, today's lab work," "I got home and I realized that I inverted some numbers." "It couldn't wait until morning?" " Edmund?" " I'm sorry." "How rude of me." "Juliet, this is Sherry." "Sherry, this is Juliet my ex-wife." "Juliet's leaving." "I am." "Jules could you please turn off the lights?" "You haven't thought this through." "Your plan's not going to work." "Yeah?" "Why's that?" "Your friends won't make it to your side, because we're not on that island." "We're on a smaller island, two miles off shore." "Afraid so." "So, why don't we see if we can come up with some kind of peaceful resolution." " A peaceful resolution?" " That's right." "Is that what you call asking me to kill Ben while on the operating table?" " "Make it look like an accident"?" " Ridiculous." " What are you trying to do, Jack?" " She said if I did, she'd protect me!" "Enough!" "Juliet, get out." " Tom, he's lying!" " You said you can't stitch him up?" "Then you don't need to be in here." "Go, Julie." "Don't let him fool you." "He'll never let a patient just die." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Can anybody hear me?" " What happened?" " Open the cage!" " Where's..." " Just open the damn cage!" "That's our island?" "You didn't believe me before?" "We need a boat." "And a couple of towels and a buffet lunch." "We'll follow the beach." "There's got to be one." "How else do they get back and forth?" "Well, why don't we just stop and ask for directions?" " Jack, are you there?" " Yeah?" " Yeah, I'm here." " Are you OK?" " I'm fine." " Tell him I said hi." "Get to the point!" "Jack, we need a boat." "We need some way to get off of this island." "You heard her." "How do they get off this island?" "What's he doing?" "Kate?" "Kate!" "Kate!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Go!" "Go, go!" "This way!" "Jason, you all right?" "They're over there!" "Come on!" "Get inside!" "Get inside!" "Go!" "Come on!" "Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet!" "Be quiet..." "Where'd they go?" "That way." "Nice to meet you, Sheena." "Is it true?" " Is what true?" " What you said." "Did Juliet really ask you to kill him?" "Yeah, and in about 40 minutes, she's gonna get her wish." "Hey..." "That's not helping..." ""anything" "Now could somebody please get Juliet?" "Juliet?" "Edmund wants to see you in his office." "Do you work here?" "I'm the new research assistant." "Of course you are." "I want in." " In on what?" " I know what you're doing, Juliet." " I'm not really sure what you..." " I read your notes." "I know what you took from the lab." "The only thing I don't know is who's your guinea pig?" "Ed, I've..." "I've been doing my research in my own lab on my own time." " I don't really see how..." " It's your sister, isn't it?" "Jules, there's two ways this plays out." "One is your research is potentially genius." "And the other it raises some very serious ethical questions." "Maybe even criminal concerns." "But if you collaborate with me based on my reputation, all this is viewed as cutting-edge science." "And we will win prizes and drink champagne and do a lot of good for people." "Why don't I give you time to think about it?" "Juliet." "Ben's awake." "How?" "Shephard says he's a spinal surgeon, not an anaesthesiologist." "Ben's asking for you." "This a hobby of yours, Underdog, digging holes?" "Yep." "That and basket weaving." "Want one?" " Have a tunnel to the mainland?" " No, but I've got a boat." " Can we use it?" " Yeah." " But we've got to hurry." " Hold on a second, sister." "You happen to find us in the woods, you have a boat and you're gonna let us use it?" "There's something we need to do first." "My boyfriend is being held prisoner." "If you help me rescue him, I promise I'll get you back to the other island." "Your boyfriend, his name happen to be "Karl"?" "Yeah." "Come on." " I stopped the surgery." " I know." "I've been able to hear you for a few minutes now." "It's very clever of you." "I should have seen it coming." " Are you in pain?" "I can..." " No." "But thanks all the same." "I'd like to speak to Juliet alone, please, Jack." "No, no, I'm sorry." "Please." "I'm asking you." "One gentleman to another." "It won't hurt you to give me three minutes, will it?" "Knowing I have only 27 left." " If you touch him, if you try to..." " I won't." "You've got three minutes." "I'm Tom, by the way." "They've got history." "I would like for you to go back in there, put Ben under and finish the surgery." "And why would I wanna do that?" "Because I'm going to go help your friends escape." "Thank you for taking the time to let us make our pitch, Dr Burke." "Mittelos BioScience is based in Oregon, we're just outside of Portland." "These shots might seem cheeseball, but our people really are this happy." "Now, why?" "Because we're privately funded." "Privately funded means freedom." "We organize trips every week in and around the Portland area, which is just awesome for hiking, and biking, and river running." "Look, when your company reached out to me, I was flattered, but I don't really know why you would want me." "Is it true that you successfully impregnated a male field mouse?" "Well, he didn't carry to term." " You mind if I ask you something?" " Sure." "What do you see?" "Well... it's a human womb, obviously." "Judging from the decomposition of the endometrium, I'd say the woman was 70." " Actually, she's 26." " What happened to her?" "What if I told you that you could have complete freedom and money to find out?" "We think you're special, Dr Burke." "We want you to lead a team of highly trained people because we think you're just that good." "I can't." "Why Can't you?" "My ex-husband wouldn't let me." " He wouldn't give you this opportunity?" " No." "He would never give the OK." " We could reach out to him." " Don't bother." " Must be something he'd respond to." " If he were hit by a bus." "That would work." " That was totally inappropriate." " No." "I'm sorry that I wasted your time." " Dr Burke, please, you..." " No." "I'm sorry." "Whatever you think I am, I'm not." "I'm not a leader, Mr Alpert." "I'm a mess." "Oh, hell." "Karl's gotta be in there." "What, you mean you ain't sure?" "It's the only place I haven't looked." " You know the guard?" " Yeah." " His name's Aldo." " "Aldo"?" "OK, Lollipop, tell me how we're gonna get by him with one gun and no bullets?" "I've got an idea." "Of course you do." " Open the door!" " Alex?" "What the hell are you doing?" "They got out of their cages!" "I caught them in the jungle." "Now open up!" "Just stop!" "You're not supposed to be here." "Your dad's gonna kill you!" "My dad was the one who told me to bring them here, to you." "Look, maybe you should call him." "I'm sure he's got nothing better to do." " Danny, I need Ben." " Why?" "I got Alex here, she's got Austen and Ford with her..." "Damn it!" "Whatever she says don't believe it!" "You hold them right there, I'm on my..." "Don't get mad at me because you fell for the old Wookiee Prisoner gag." " Where's Karl?" " What are you talking about?" "Shoot him in the knee." " What?" " We don't have time." "I'll do it." "OK!" "All right!" "He's at the end of the hall!" "Room 23!" "Keys are in my pocket!" "Good con, I almost believed you're gonna shoot him." "It wasn't a con." "Here it is!" "Help!" "Help!" "You're OK." "You're OK, Karl." "Is he OK?" "We got your boyfriend back." "Where's your damn boat?" "Idiot." " Where are they?" " I don't know." "Alex was with them." "Danny!" "We're letting them go." " Letting 'em go?" " Ben gave the order." " Ben's in surgery." " He woke up." " He woke up?" " Shephard won't do the surgery unless he knows his friends are off the island." "Do you want Ben to die?" "I know Ben would rather die than let them go!" "Hey." "How was the interview?" "It's not for me." " What?" " It's fine." "They're too far away anyway." "It's Portland." " You didn't say no because of me?" " Why would I want to go to Portland for research that doesn't even work?" "Because it does work." "I'm pregnant." "I'm pregnant." " What?" " Look, look..." "I took a blood test, too." "I didn't want to tell you till I was sure." " It worked." " Yeah." "My whole life, all I ever wanted was to have a baby and now because of you I can!" "God, now I just need to get healthy!" "Now I just need to get healthy so I can see the bugger get into an Ivy League school." "Of course you will." "You will." "Now you can tell that bastard ex-husband of yours what he can do with his ethics." "Because you're insufferable, and you're mean." "You asked me for the truth, Mom, and that..." "Ed." "Let me call you later, OK?" "OK, bye." " Hello, Jules." "What's up?" " She's pregnant." " Excuse me?" " It worked." "Rachel's pregnant." "Wow." "I need to see your labs." "We'll have to verify the data." "No." "I'm not interested in publishing, Ed." "It's my sister." "Fine." "If you're not interested, why are you concerned if..." " You OK?" " Yeah." "I just don't like blood too much." "Well, then you probably won't want to be looking at that." "So, if you really can get off the island, why didn't you just take him to a facility?" "Why all this?" "Because ever since the sky turned purple, we..." " What the hell happened?" " I just nicked an artery." " Isn't that what you already did?" " Yeah, well, that was on purpose." "Can you fix it?" "Damn it!" " You got him?" " I got him." " Karl?" " Nice ride." " Karl, we're gonna go now, OK?" " Help me." "Can you stand?" "OK." "Come on." "So... you're the boss's daughter?" "I never saw that coming." "Let's go, Cheech." "We're going for a little ride." " Careful." " All right." "Easy." "I'm gonna put you in the boat, all right?" "Wait, wait." " Are you OK?" " Danny." "No. "Sawyer."" "Danny!" " No!" " Danny!" " What happened?" " I can't see." " What?" " There's too much blood." "All right, get over here." "Tom, he is going to die if you don't get over here now." "Go." "Get out of here." "You heard the lady." " Let's go!" " Not you, Alex." " You're staying." " Why?" "We both know your father." "And the only way he'll let Karl live is if you're here when he wakes up." "I'm sorry, Alex." "Hey, Alex." "Hey." "I missed you." "I know." "I missed you, too." "You have to go away now but I'll see you real soon, OK?" "I love you." "I have to go to sleep now." "Wait." "Easy." "OK." "Easy." "Wait, wait..." "Keep it steady, damn it!" "Hold it steady." "Jack, are you there?" "All right, hold that up to me." "The walkie." "Hold it up to me." " What about the suction?" " Just do it!" "Yeah, I'm here, Kate." "You OK?" "Yeah, I..." "We've got a boat." "They're letting us go." "Who's letting you go?" "The blonde woman." " So you're safe?" "You and Sawyer?" " Yes!" "Yeah." " Tell me." " Tell you?" "On the beach, the day of the crash, the story I told you." "If you're safe, tell me." " You think this is the best time to..." " Shut up!" "You... were doing a surgery on a girl." "And you messed up." "You made a mistake." "You tore something on her back and all the nerves came loose." "And you said you were so afraid." "And you said the fear was so real." "And you didn't know what to do." "So you counted to five." "And then you weren't afraid anymore." "And then it was just gone." "And you fixed her." "You saved her." "I need you to make me a promise, Kate." "Jack?" "Promise me that you'll never come back here for me." "Don't come back, Kate." " Jack, where are you?" " Turn it off." "Jack?" "Jack!" "Please, where are...?" "Trades are coming up." "We gotta go." " Let's go." " OK." "We have some paperwork we need you to sign but take your time, there's no rush." "Thank you." "Were you able to remove the tumour?" "Yeah." "You'll want to do a biopsy, see if it's malignant." "So, what now?" "I just go back to my cell?" "Until they figure out what to do with you." ""They."" "What'd he say?" " I'm sorry?" " Ben." "What did he say that made you want to save his life?" "It doesn't really matter what he said." "It matters to me." "After everything that I have been put through you owe me an answer." "And I wanna know what he said." "Tissue?" "Thank you." "Thanks." " Have we met?" " Hello, Dr Burke." " Mr Alpert?" " I'm... so sorry for your loss." "What are you doing here?" "I saw what happened on the news and your office said you were down here." "I just wanted to express my condolences in person before I went back to Portland." "This is Ethan, he's one of my colleagues." "It's a pleasure to meet you." "He was hit by a bus." "I know." "They say you were there when it happened." "It must..." "No, no." "In our interview..." "I said that I wanted him to get hit by a bus." "Dr Burke, I realize you're a little shook up right now, but this is just a tragic accident." "You can't blame yourself." "I don't even remember you saying that." "Why are you here, Mr Alpert?" "Look, I know the timing is horrible, but we came because we're that serious about getting you to come work with us." "Just give us six months." "If you need to, you can be back before your sister gives birth." " How did you know that my...?" " We're very thorough in our recruitment process." "Can my sister come?" "Won't work, we're pretty remote." "She wouldn't have access to the treatment that she needs." "But it's Portland." "There's plenty of clinics and..." "We're not quite in Portland." "I want to know what he said." "I've been on this island for three years, Jack." "Three years, two months, and 28 days." "He said that if I let him live and I helped you that he would finally let me go home."

"What a way to enter Italy." "Absolutely." "The ideal way." "Land of fertility, fine women... inimitable history... home of the dome and the arch, good food... and high ideals." "High ideals?" "My father was Italian... and he was very thin." "He was only interested in money." "Yes, and carnivorous enough." "He had no ideals except to leave this place." "Well, he was idealistic enough to take all that money to Chicago." "City of blood, meat, and money." "Home of some of the best carnivorous architecture in the Western world." "That is, of course, outside of Rome." "It's really beautiful." "This is really good." "Friends, amici, Signor Kracklite." "May I speak formally on behalf of all of us... to say how pleased we are... to welcome such a celebrated American architect to Rome." "And we wish you and your wife... all the best wishes on your birthday." "We know that the exhibition of Etienne-Louis Boullée... you do us the honor of presenting here in Rome... will be a resounding success." "Signor Speckler, thank you." "My friends... we both would like to thank you very sincerely... for your very warm welcome." "Boullée's crowning achievement... inspired, of course, by the magnificent building... of the Pantheon, here, behind us... was a memorial he designed in honor of Sir Isaac Newton... for whom Boullée had great reverence." "Now, I doubt whether Sir Isaac Newton has ever before been celebrated... with sugar icing." "However, for me... having waited so many years... to honor this visionary architect... whom I have so passionately admired ever since I was a child..." "For me... this moment is very sweet indeed." "Etienne-Louis Boullée!" "Now, with your permission, I'd like to call upon my wife... to cut this magnificent cake." "I can assure you that she is very experienced in opening supermarkets... kissing babies, christening ships... and cutting the tape." "Sir Isaac Newton, the subject of tonight's cake... appears in every Englishman's wallet." "A man who discovers gravity must be a very good companion." "In fixing us firmly on the earth... he enables us with equanimity to keep our head in the clouds." "If you look carefully, you can spot a reference to gravity." "See if you can find it." "It's an English note." "So, of course, it's laconic." "It's there, the apple blossom." "I hear, Signor Kracklite... that your inspiration for the Chicago-Angelo Building... came entirely from the profit on sausages." "No." "Frankfurters, hot dogs... hamburgers, salami, baloney." "A monument to carnivores." "In Chicago, they call it the slaughterhouse." "A building suffering from excess cholesterol... like Stourley." "No." "There's no excess fat on it, or me." "The both of us have been built... with perfect and enviable centers of gravity." " Standing up?" " No, Signora Speckler, lying down." "How long have you been married to him?" "Seven years." "Why?" "Do you think that's too long?" "God!" "I think I've lost my English £1 note." "Come on, you can easily get another." "No, you can't." "They're dropping out of circulation." "My father's wedding present... was another commission for Kracklite... to build us a house." "You should see it." "Two marble cubes and a brick sphere on stilts." "Boullée would have loved it." "What do you think of our foreign architect?" "He's too old for his wife." "I think she's looking for a romantic experience." "How can you tell?" "The way she eats cake." "Just about this time, if I'm near the Pantheon..." "I come and admire such a great work of architecture." "As solid as it is beautiful." "As romantic as it is awesome." "Built by Hadrian, the most accomplished of all the Emperors." "Good architecture should always be applauded." "I notice Caspasian wears a double-breasted suit." "So?" "He wears a matching tie bar and cuff links." "I wouldn't be surprised if he wore a gold chain around his neck." "Do you want me to find out?" "Would you want to find out?" "It's not important." "What is important?" "To be gracious to the Specklers." "They have a lot of influence." " They have a lot of charm." " Don't they?" "Especially Caspasian." "Especially?" "Are you jealous?" "Of his charm?" "No." "His gold chain?" "Absolutely not." "Of his youth..." "Of his youth and his waistline, maybe." "Of his ability as an architect?" "No, that least of all." "I'm sure Mr. Caspasian is devoid of talent." "Tell me, please, what does "oh-ah" mean?" "Stourley, you've built six-and-a-half buildings." "And now you're spending nine months... putting on an exhibition in memory of another architect... who also built practically nothing." "And I don't..." "What?" "What's the matter?" " I don't know." " What?" "Indigestion." "You eat too much." "Nothing a little sympathy wouldn't cure." "What's this?" "Twice in one day?" "What about Boullée?" "Now, he built virtually nothing... and look at his reputation." "Yeah." "Look at it." "Nobody knows about him but you." "You think that they'll give you an exhibition 180 years after your death?" "Death?" "Who's talking about death?" "Doesn't everyone in Rome talk about death?" " What's the matter?" " Wait." " What?" " No!" "No, it's all right." "My stomach." "It serves you right." "You're always stuffing yourself." "Don't start what you can't finish." "Romans are very equivocal about this building." "They call it the Typewriter or the Wedding Cake." "It's like a box at the theater at which Rome is the play." "Over there, you can see the Colosseum." "There, Michelangelo's dome of San Pietro." "And over there, you can just see..." "Borromini's Church of Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona." "Where is the Tomb of Augustus from here?" "Difficult to see from here, Signor Kracklite." "But undoubtedly there." "Signor Kracklite, let me introduce to you..." "Signor Antonio Caspetti, banker with the Scuta d'Oro." "Signor Caspetti is our most important benefactor." "We couldn't manage this exhibition without him." "And after its undoubted success... can I hope to consider a return exhibition in Chicago?" "Perhaps on the Italian architect Piranesi." "Signor Caspetti is a great authority on Piranesi." "I wonder if Kracklite realizes that his hero is not that well-known in Italy." "Boullée is not that well-known anywhere." "In Texas, Kracklite was accused of inventing him." "Or perhaps Boullée is the ideal architect for your husband to invent." "However, thanks to him... we have nearly $1 million to persuade the Italian public... that Boullée is not a fiction." "That's a lot of money." "It's expensive to put on a large art exhibition in Rome." "I remember, Signor Kracklite, coming across a drawing by Boullée... when I was 10 years old." "It reminded me, I must admit, of Hell." "No doubt it was a childish idea... but it hasn't entirely left me." "I discovered Boullée about the same age as you, Signor Caspetti." "I must confess his designs have always reminded me of Heaven." "You hold the purse strings of my husband's exhibition?" "Not entirely, but almost." "You're very young to be entrusted with so much money." "And you're very young to be entrusted with such an elderly husband." "Excuse me." "There is a story that the architect of this building... spent all the money on the marble." "He didn't like wood." "And he skimped on the carpentry." "The real reason was that he hated carpenters, especially Joseph." "I suspect that he didn't believe in the virgin birth." "He could not reconcile himself... to the fact Joseph was 40 and the Virgin Mary was 14." "About the same difference as you and your wife... isn't it, Mr. Kracklite?" "Approximately, yes." "But I thought that all Catholics believed in the virgin birth." "Not outside of marriage." "Do you believe in the virgin birth, Mr. Kracklite?" "At this moment, Signor Caspetti, I'll settle for any kind of birth." "I've had several miscarriages." "Kracklite gets bored or impatient... or disillusioned with his projects... and I get anxious." "We could both be accused of unsatisfactory delivery." "Christ!" "Did you see that?" "Now watch this." "Kracklite is going to be honored by Roman publicity." "Who is this man?" "May I introduce to you Signor Salvatore Battistino... the Secretary of the Society of Historical Buildings." "And an expert on nightclubs." "May I?" "Dr. Trettorio." "Dr. Trettorio is an expert on the diseases of the ancient world." "Are you a modern architect, Mr. Kracklite?" "No more modern than I should be." "No more modern than Boullée, would you say?" "Replicas of whose buildings now appear in every authoritarian capital in the world." "Moscow, Peking, East Berlin." "And Rome, Signorina Speckler?" "Are you saying Boullée was the first Fascist architect?" "Ask my brother." "Do you think Mussolini admired Boullée?" "Albert Speer did, and Speer was Hitler's architect." "Augustus would have admired Boullée." "Go to Via Ripetta." "Look at his tomb." "Don't encourage him, please." "Augustus' wife chose it." "But first she made sure he would fit inside it... after all the trouble she had taken." " Trouble?" "What trouble?" " Poison." "You see, Augustus felt this dryness at the back of his throat... and then a cold shiver across his shoulders." "A pain... like a poker in the small of his back." "A desire to vomit." "It was obviously poison." "His neck became stiff, his ears began to sing... his eyes to flutter." "The buttons popped off his jacket..." " Jacket?" "Are you sure?" " Yes." "Caspasian believes everyone of substance wears a suit." "And a gallon of yellow bile erupted from his mouth..." "Sorry, Flavia." "It was just a history lesson." "For foreigners." "Signor Battistino." "You all right?" "Of course he's all right." "It sounded like he was dying just a few minutes ago." "Well, an exhibition like this in Rome... about an obscure French architect organized by an American architect... needs all the publicity it can get." "Wouldn't you say?" "I'm gonna go back to the apartment." "I've got some work to do." "Why don't you go sight-seeing?" "The Specklers can take you." "God, Stourley!" "Why don't you take me?" "Louisa, please, go with the Specklers." "I'll talk to you later." "Say goodbye for me, okay?" "Anything for Boullée." " Beg your pardon?" " It is closed." "There is nothing much inside anyway." "This is the Tomb of Augustus?" "Yes, but he is not at home." " Louisa, do you like figs?" " Yes." " I want you to eat a fig for me." " Not now." "Why not now?" "Because it's late and I'm sleeping." "Come on." "Just eat a fig for me." "You can have a little wine afterwards." " Why?" " Come on." " Come on, do it for me." " Stop it." "Take a big bite out of it." " I don't want one." " Eat the fig." " God damn it." "Eat it!" " You're hurting me!" "Why did you do that?" "Okay." "All right, I see." "What do you see?" "You say you like figs, but you never touch them, do you?" "Never." "What is this about?" "I just wanted to see what happened to you if you ate one of those figs, that's all." "Don't stand there like that." "You'll catch your death of cold." "Get back into bed." "Figs." "They are some kind of aphrodisiac, right?" "Is that..." " All right, just forget it!" " No, I'm not gonna forget it." "You come on like a madman and then you tell me to forget it." "What's wrong with you?" "I wanted to see if you're as frightened of eating those figs as I am." "Are you scared?" "Come on, are you scared to eat those figs?" "Are you?" "Answer me." "Are you frightened to eat those figs?" "Answer me!" "Why should I be frightened?" "I think you ought to see a doctor." "Monday, May 20." "Monsieur Boullée..." "I hope you don't mind me writing to you like this." "I feel I know you well enough to talk to you." "I think my wife is poisoning me." "You can laugh, but I'm serious." "I'm sure it's part of her... general animosity towards you." "Yours with respect, Stourley Kracklite." "Architect." "If you are being poisoned, you'd know it." "What are your symptoms?" "I've made some notes." "The stomach of Augustus." "Do you have such a heroic abdomen?" "Take off your shirt." " Where does it ache?" " Right about here." "Breathe deeply." "Where did you eat your figs?" "At a restaurant opposite the Pantheon." "A fine building." " Are you married?" " Yes." "Is your wife Italian?" "Her parents were Italian, yes." "From Umbria." "A fine fig-growing area." "Do you sleep well at night?" "I did before I got to Rome." "Mr. Architect, I can assure you that you are not being poisoned." "I would suggest that you are suffering from dyspepsia... fatigue, over-excitement... excess and unfamiliar food... lack of exercise, too much coffee... and maybe also too much egotism." "Take these... and obey the instructions." "Is Augustus a hero of yours, Doctor?" "Not particularly." "He amuses me." "Are you easily amused?" "What frame of mind better suits a doctor?" "Where is Kracklite now?" "I don't know." "Out marching around Rome somewhere." "He's out when I wake up and he's asleep when I come in." "What are these?" "Something for the exhibition." "No." "Look at this." "What is he doing?" " Does he think he's Augustus?" " No." "He thinks he's Boullée." "He's obsessed with his stomach." "Maybe he thinks he's going to have a baby." "When are you going to have a baby?" "You could have waited for me downstairs." "You would look very beautiful pregnant." "If I may say so... since you've been in Rome, you've put on a little weight." "If you became pregnant, you would put on even more here." "You seem to know a lot about it." "And here." "You take night classes in obstetrics?" "Architects ought to know about everything:" "Reproduction, gender, sex." "Especially sex." "Form, shape... function, elegance..." "Proportionally strong... enduring... reliable." "And cost-effective." "You're talking to an architect's wife." "I wish I was talking to an architect's mistress." "God, Caspasian!" "Kracklite was never that forward." " He was never that talented." " Or that arrogant." "Still, you've taken your time." "I've been here for 10 weeks." "I would have thought, with your reputation, you would have made a move before now." "Maybe I was waiting for a sign from you." "What kind of sign?" "Putting on a little more weight... becoming more Roman." "I've guessed." "What?" "It's all right." "Have you told Kracklite?" " No." "I haven't." " Why not?" "If you could guess that I was pregnant, why couldn't he?" "July 31." "Dear Boullée... the Italians are catching on at last." "They're actually beginning to like you... though it doesn't seem to make them work any faster." "Caspasian has already spent 400 million lire." "There seems to be very little to show for it." "Careful." "If we intend to open on your birthday, as we must... we have barely six months to go." "Six." "Six months." " Why is it so difficult?" " Difficult?" "Everything has got to be debated, or qualified, or contradicted." "They're not difficult." "You have them excited." "This is the first time the Victor Emmanuel Building is being used for an exhibition." " You ought to be grateful." " Grateful." "Where is Caspasian?" "He should be here." " Caspasian's out buying." " Buying what?" "He's having the staircase repainted." "He's ordered 2,000 liters of blue matte emulsion... and the same of green." "Blue and green?" "No." "There's gonna be no blue and no green in my exhibition." " Boullée hated those colors." " How did you discover that?" "Caspasian's found... $25,000 worth of laser equipment." "What the hell for?" "He's got a plan to use laser beams... to join all the buildings in Rome that influenced Boullée." "Jesus Christ!" "He's turning this exhibition into a goddamn carnival." "He's got no business doing that." " Don't you think it's a good idea?" " Good idea?" "All right." "What's the scale?" "It's what you asked for." " Is it centimeters or inches?" " Centimeters." "No self-respecting architect uses inches." "Did Boullée use inches?" "He used Boullées." "How long are they?" "The distance from the nose to the navel." "His buildings were based on human anatomy." "He certainly wasn't a prude." "Are you a prude, Signor Kracklite?" "Ask my wife." "Ask your son to ask his wife." "Why did you do that?" "To prove, if proof were needed, that you bleed very easily." "No more, no less." "He deserved it, but it was an unwise show of anger." "It is said that Hadrian, the man who built all this... was a man who suffered from skin disease... and who needed to keep his skin wet... to stop him from scratching himself to pieces." "Hence the baths." "You are talking about Caracalla." "Hadrian was a genius..." "Caracalla merely a thug." "Here at the Villa Adriana..." "Hadrian created modern architecture." "It is not unlikely we are sitting in the seventh tepidarium... in four foot and six inches... of tepid and most probably dirty water." "It almost certainly would not meet our contemporary hygiene standards." "I think it looks better as a ruin." "Rome in ruins has had more influence on architecture... than it ever would brand-new." "What you can't see, you can imagine." "Sounds like a woman with clothes on." " Watch out, it might be rabid." " Don't get hysterical." "It certainly looks ill." "Tuesday, August 6." "Dear Etienne-Louis Boullée... the pains are returning, and I can't eat without vomiting." "It ought to be shot." "Would you shoot anything that looks sick?" "What now, Kracklite?" " Are you looking for sympathy?" " Shut up." "If you breathe in and press your finger just to the right of your navel... can you feel a hard lump?" "Some days it's spherical, some days it feels like a cube." "Most days it feels like a sharp-cornered pyramid." "Did the Pharaohs suffer from stomach cramps?" "The Emperor Hadrian died of a perforated ulcer." "When you're 54, and grateful for being able to sleep at night... eat badly, and pee like a fire engine... what do you do if you suspect your wife no longer cares for your company?" "I'm sorry, Etienne." "Since you never had a wife, it was never your problem." "All right, Kracklite, what are you doing?" "I'm drowning." "It's no good." "Your body just won't let you do it!" "Nobody ever died by voluntarily ceasing to breathe." "If you managed to stop breathing, you'd fall unconscious... and then your goddamn body starts to breathe again." "Since you're in the bath... why not try slitting your wrists?" "That is very appropriate for Rome." "You'll have to wait a minute because I'm using your razor." "Livia was very hairy, too." "Who's Livia?" "Augustus' wife." "How do you know she was hairy?" "She left hair in the bath." "It's in Caesar's Gallic Wars in Book Five." " She tried to kill her husband." " With his razor?" "No, with figs." "Poisoned figs." "Augustus fell for it, too." "At least, according to Robert Graves." "Who's he?" "Another architect?" "No." "Robert Graves is a mortuary attendant." " Where are you going?" " Out to dinner." "Caspasian and Flavia have invited me." "Why didn't they ask me?" "You can come, if you like." "They didn't ask me personally." "I expect it's because you're so fussy about your food." "Caspasian can't stand vegetarians." "All fascists are meat-eaters." " That's funny." " What's funny?" "Because that's what he said about you." "What, that I'm a fascist?" "That's ironic, coming from him." "You look good." "You look very good." "In fact, you look so good, I wouldn't be surprised... if you were going out with Caspasian alone." "He's entertaining." " So I've noticed." " What's that supposed to mean?" "I watched the two of you together at the baths in Villa Adriana." "Don't worry." "The location was very appropriate." "You were continuing a tradition of 1,600 years." "The baths have always attracted whores and prostitutes." "I'm pregnant." "You're what?" "Are you sure?" "Don't look so surprised." "It's yours." "When did it happen?" "Stourley, how could you not have noticed?" "Must have been on the train to Rome." " But that was two months ago." " Closer to three." "You've hardly been near me since." "Boullée and your stomachaches are more important." " Are you sure this time?" " Yes." " Which side of the border?" " What?" "I think it was the Italian side... but I'm not exactly sure how fast the train was going." "Wednesday, August 7." "Dear Etienne-Louis... apparently I'm to be a father." "Were you ever a father?" "If your wife is unfaithful, how can you ever be sure that the child is really yours?" "My belly aches again." "I eat only fruit, given up meat." "Is that wise?" "With regards, Stourley Kracklite." "You think he's here for the architecture or for the religion?" "What does his wife think?" "She does not think." "She's American." "He's learning." "There you are. 20 million lire." "Officially, it's been credited to catering expenses." "Bank it." "We'll be able to make another deposit in one month." "Kracklite will never know." "Boullée will be doing us a service." "When talking of Boullée, look what I found." "Very Signor Kracklite." "It's even got his paunch." "I'm sure you can sell it to him as a fair likeness of his hero." "And now, I have my assignation... with a lady who eats cake." "Will you see me out?" "What are you doing, Kracklite?" "Wondering what you're doing with a briefcase full of American dollars." "It's to pay for the models." "I could get those models for half the price in Chicago." "Speaking of models, what's happened to the model of the Boullée lighthouse?" "It was to be ready three weeks ago." "Caspasian has taken it to your apartment." "Look, he's asked me to give you this." "It's Boullée." "What makes you think it's Boullée?" "There are no likenesses of Boullée." "I should know." "I've been searching for one for 10 years." "If anything, this looks suspiciously like Piranesi." "The inscription is French and the date is correct." "Caspasian found it at the Bibliothèque nationale." " That doesn't prove it's Boullée." " What doesn't prove it's Boullée?" "His picture hanging in the Bibliothèque nationale." "Good evening, gentlemen." "Working late?" "We meet again, Stourley." "This time in the gentlemen's toilet." "Let me have a look." "He's wearing a toga romana and, I do believe, lace-up shoes." "And by the expression on his face... it looks like his shoes are pinching his feet." "No." "He's just eaten something nasty." "I'm afraid it's worse than that." "Disease of the pancreas." "Pancreatic carcinoma." "Boullée died of cancer?" "How do you know that?" "Don't be stupid." "We are joking." " I'll give you a lift." " Okay." " Ciao." " Ciao." "What have you still got to do?" "The research materials for the catalog haven't been finished yet." "The proofs are due at the printer's next Tuesday." "There are still major problems with the color reproduction." "The main gallery hasn't been started due to the hold-up on the Newton model." "And of course we have to pay the electricians to stand by... otherwise we'll lose them." " Do you feel any better?" " No." "They tell me it's constipation." "But it's gone on far too long for it to be just that." " We could delay the opening date." " No, that's just what we cannot do." "Then offload some of your responsibility." "Give it to Caspasian." "He can take care of the details for a few weeks." "Yeah, that's just what I'm afraid of." " He's capable enough." " No." "Caspasian has taken over too much of my life already." "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" "Go on." "Why did you divorce your wife?" "Jealousy." "I suspected her of having an affair." "And were your suspicions well-founded?" "I thought so at the time." "Now I'm not so sure." "I think, in fact... that the man was after my daughter, Flavia, not my wife." "But the damage was done." "Too much had been said, too much vengeance taken." "Look, Kracklite, if you won't take time off... at least come to the baths." "It'll do you good." "When things slacken off later." "Now I just want to go home and try to sleep." "Hello, Joe." "Why are you crying?" "I'm crying because there's a draft... through the keyhole." "It hits me in the eye." "He's got a draft in his eye." "Thursday, August 22." "Dear Etienne-Louis..." "I wonder why you never came to Rome?" "Did traveling make you ill?" "Were you suspicious of foreigners?" "Did you ever eat an orange?" "Did you even know what vitamin C was?" "It's supposed to make you healthy." "I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian." "Mind if I watch?" "Etienne-Louis, what was the current stomach complaint when you were alive?" "Gallstones?" "Kidney stones?" "Appendicitis?" "Pancreatic carcinoma?" "Signor Kracklite, do you dream?" "Yes." "What do you dream of?" "Lately, stairs." "I'm always climbing stairs." "Or falling down stairs." "A sure sign of dyspepsia." "No, I don't believe that anymore." "Then what do you believe?" "Boullée died of cancer." "Your respect for the man, Kracklite... does not imply that you have to suffer his injuries." "Monsieur Boullée was a French hypochondriac." " Did you know that?" " No." " He was a little lame." "Are you a little lame?" " No." "He suffered from gout." "He was afraid of thunderstorms." "They made him incontinent." "You seem very well-informed." "Why do you think he built so little?" "Why do you think he traveled so little?" "His illness incapacitated him." "He stayed at home for fear of embarrassment abroad." "Look, Kracklite..." "I can't examine you here." "But if you are worried..." "I can make an appointment for you with my cousin for next week." "He's a stomach specialist." "He specializes in the guts of priests." "Did you know that the average human intestine is 27 feet long... but the guts of a priest are 3 feet longer?" "On account of the indigestible consecrated host?" "No." "Much simpler." ""The Lord moves in mysterious ways..." ""his duties to perform."" "I think you look beautiful pregnant." "Like I said you would." " My sister wants to photograph you." " What for?" "For her, for you... for me." "And for Kracklite?" "Perhaps." " Would you like to do it?" " No." "Why not?" "Your sister worries me." "She's even more predatory than you are." "Really?" "I think she's a hermaphrodite." "I can assure you that she is not." "How do you know?" "She is my sister." "We used to bathe together." "That was a long time ago." "Is last Tuesday a long time ago?" "What?" "I was joking." "Eighteen." "Twenty-one." "Twenty-four." "Twenty-seven." "Thirty." "Friday, January 10." "Dear Etienne-Louis..." "I don't like doctors." "They always see you at a disadvantage." "When they've studied your private parts... smelled your breath, fingered your tongue... how can you talk with them as an equal?" "Are you ready?" "Now, Signor Kracklite, would you lie on your left side, please?" "And bend your knees." "I trust you know what we intend doing?" "It will be a little uncomfortable... but with the anesthetic, you will feel very little." "We intend examining your intestine with a probe." "With an optical light source... we'll take a small television camera into your large intestine... take live pictures that will appear on a television monitor." "This will allow us to search for any irregularities." "We will then make our full report and ask you to come back." "I wish I could take Kracklite's baby out... and put mine in its place." "What difference would that make?" "It would still be the child of an architect." "Yes, but at least with me, it would not be posthumously." "Meaning?" "The way Kracklite is going, he won't last till summer." "Tell me, Kracklite, why don't you photograph women?" "Different metabolism, different organs... different complaints." "Have you eaten?" "Well, if you buy me a meal..." "I'll take the photos for you." "Are you interested just in the cocks?" "No, I'm interested just in the bellies." "A new erogenous zone?" "It's been noticed that you steal postcards." "Postcards are part of a city's publicity campaign." "I am just helping to distribute the advertisements." "This is an expensive camera." " It's a get-well present." " Who gave it to you?" "I gave it to myself." "Caspasian always said you were a generous man." "Well, Caspasian would know." "You look like a tired old man who's just come up out of the sea." "Well, I've tried a little drowning." "Let's try a little more." "Come into my studio." "I'll process your film while you take a shower." "We'll see which comes out of the bath the more developed." "When I first saw you, Stourley... at the Pantheon dinner eight months ago... you reminded me of this painting." "Andrea Doria." "He had a belly, and wasn't shy about showing it." "He always fascinated me." "And you, Stourley, have proved to be just as fascinating." "I can't paint." "But I can take a photograph." "Well." "You have now made it plain... that what is good for the goose, is good for the philanderer." "An English proverb?" "Philanderer?" "That's very funny coming from you." "Your wife is very beautiful, Signor Kracklite... especially when she is pregnant." "Yes, that's right." "She is pregnant." "But not with your child, Speckler." "True." "I'm very grateful to you for that." "Your child, shall we say... is the most perfect contraceptive." "Don't get your blood on my white towel." "I take it that you will now give Louisa... as much freedom as you've taken yourself." "One hardly can give what has already been taken." "Nonetheless, I'm sure you don't want her to know." "There are enough stomachs here to have many illnesses." "What about the ones in the camera?" "Well?" "So how is the exhibition progressing?" "Are you still in full control of things?" "Don't you think you should hand over the reins to somebody else?" "Is that what this is?" "This is a setup?" "You're trying to blackmail me?" "You think I would turn over the exhibition to you... just to keep my wife from knowing I tried to screw your sister?" "Thank you, Stourley, for the compliment." "But don't worry." "Caspasian is always overreaching himself." "If you want a really serious quarrel..." "I'm sorry, but there is no film in the camera." "Well, we've done it." "Kracklite is finished." "He's looking a mess." "He's grotesque." "Trettorio says he won't last till August." "And I've got another 16 million from the publicity account." "And the cupola will never be finished... because Kracklite says he wants the olden color." ""My architect Boullée knew more about color..." ""than Leonardo da Vinci." ""And more about publicity than Michelangelo Buonarroti." ""And more about making love than Casanova."" "Kracklite, we've got to see you." "The bank has stopped the cash flow." "It looks as though the bankers have found out... that you are a sick man." "They want you to have a medical examination." "I'm not a sick man!" "I just had one." "Caspetti has asked... that Caspasian should be made the director of the exhibition." "He what?" "He thinks that the exhibition is too academic." "He thinks you've got too many domestic problems." "What the hell has that got to do with anything?" "He thinks that Caspasian will give the exhibition... a more Roman and optimistic bias." "Optimistic." "Is that what the laser beams are for?" "Caspasian's optimism?" "Over my dead body!" "Not a bad prognosis." "What was that?" "What?" " I'm just as healthy as you are." " Stourley, you know that's not true." "Are you going to punch me on the nose again?" "Your friend, Caspetti... he was against Boullée right from the start." "Said he reminded him of Hell." "I'll give him hell." "Kracklite, I'm afraid that they've put up an ultimatum." "We need another 300 million lire." "But the bank thinks you are unreliable." "You have to resign if you want the exhibition to go on." "We can't let it collapse now." "You're damn right we can't." "Let Caspetti believe Caspasian is in charge." "No!" " No, I can't do that." " Stourley, I don't think we have a choice." "Look, I'll think of something." "Don't be absurd." "We open in 12 days." "Where the hell is Caspasian anyway?" "He should be here to deal with this." "He's the one who's been spending all the goddamn money." "Yeah, he's been behind this all along." "That bastard son of yours." "He's determined to get his hands on this exhibition right from the start." " Where is he?" " He's not here." "He's out." "He's out?" "He's out where?" "Raising funds." "I'll bet he's not raising funds for Boullée." " You're right." " Then what for?" " Some restoration work." " Where?" "Doing what?" "Restoring Mussolini's Foro Italica." "So that's where all the money has been going?" "I've been subsidizing that goddamn fascist playground!" "Kracklite, you can't say that." "And you certainly couldn't prove it." "Don't you think Boullée would have applauded... such a visionary piece of architectural theater?" "Why isn't Caspasian raising money for Boullée?" "Look." "Take a look." "If they could do it to Battistino, one of their own, they could do it to me." "And I'm not faking." " So you admit you're ill?" " III?" "Christ, I'm sick as a dog." "But I'm still tough enough to take you on." "And Pastarri!" "And Caspetti!" "And Caspasian, and all the rest of you." "I'll get that money." "I'll get that goddamn money, if I have to steal it." " Where the hell have you been?" " Wouldn't you like to know?" "As if you cared." "That's all right, we'll keep it all in the family." "What is that supposed to mean?" "It means that we've seen the same doctor... and the same photographer, haven't we?" "And not with the same complaint." "Though you might as well." "Your stomach's almost as big as mine." "I made some decisions." "I'm gonna mortgage the house in Chicago." "Oh, really?" "What for?" "It's my house." "You built it for me, don't you remember?" "With its wide-open, drafty spaces... and its rounded corners where you can't fit any furniture." "I'm gonna change the beneficiaries of the trust fund." " Oh, no, you don't." " I need $200,000 right away." "Caspasian could get that sort of money by snapping his fingers." "Snapping his fingers?" "I'd like to snap his neck." "He's snapped you up very quickly, hasn't he?" "Well, he's not gonna snap up my exhibition." "I'll tell you something else." " I'm gonna change my will." " What will?" "I refuse to let my exhibition slip through my fingers... if it's the last thing I ever do." "And it will be, the way that you're going." "You're not gonna ruin my child's future... for the sake of another unfinished Kracklite fiasco." "Our child!" "Or do you even care who the father is?" " No!" " No, of course not!" "I'll tell you something else." "Our child is gonna be born in America." "He is?" "As soon as this exhibition is opened..." " we're going home." " We are?" "I like the idea of him being born in Italy." "I think I'll call him Luigi." "I was sure you were gonna call him Caspasian." "What makes you think it's a boy?" "By the shape of my stomach... that you haven't even looked at in the last four months." "And who told you that?" "Let me see if I can guess." "That great medical architect, Caspasian Speckler." "As a matter of fact, his sister." "His sister?" "All the Specklers have studied gynecology?" "You're the one with the obsessional interest in stomachs." "Masculine stomachs." "Are you going off women completely?" "Well, if you have, here's something to remind you what they look like!" "This is awful." " These are obscene!" " Are they?" "Jesus, displaying yourself like this!" "It's for art, Kracklite." "Everything's permissible for art." "Look at our marriage:" "Art first, Kracklite second... and the rest a long way down the line." "That's my child in here." "Oh, right." "That's the heart of the matter." "Do you really think you have the right to feel prostituted?" "Look, I'm due in a month... the exhibition opens in 12 days... and you're unreliable." "I have no intention of losing this child... or of dropping it too soon." "And I'd like it to have a future." "I'm moving out." "Where are you going?" "As if it's any of your business, which I doubt..." "I'm going to stay with Caspasian." "He'll take care of me until after the baby is born." "After that, I don't know." "Please, don't leave me now." "Please." "It's too late for that, Stourley." "I said..." "I just don't need you anymore." "Whatever the results of the medical examinations... everyone feels that you can do no more for Boullée." "He's in safe hands." "I'm sorry, Kracklite." "Very sorry." "But you've got to accept that you've lost." "The exhibition is not yours anymore." "You've got to retire." "Gracefully." "Of course, we would like you to open the exhibition." "And then you must leave the running of the exhibition to Caspasian." "To us." "After the opening, why don't you go back to Chicago... and take a well-deserved rest?" "Shall I wait for you?" "Monday, February 10." "Dear Etienne-Louis..." "It's no good, Etienne." "I've been fired." "I've been kicked out of the exhibition I spent the last 10 years of my life planning." "It's Caspasian's fault." "He's run off with my wife, my child... our exhibition." "But I've got an idea!" "Suppose you came to open the exhibition." "Why don't you come and open it with me?" "How about that?" "That would show them." "You could stay in my apartment." "Louisa's not there anymore." "I don't sleep too well... but I'm sure we could manage." "Yours with respect..." "Stourley Kracklite." "Architect." "Galba." "He was a miserable sort of man." "Bisexual, fancied mature slaves." "Especially if they had been a little mutilated." "All his freed men had no fingers on their left hand." "He's dead." "Died screaming." "Titus." "Started off well enough." "Soon became greedy." "Disemboweled on the Tiber steps." "He's dead." "Died screaming." "Hadrian." "As you know, an architect of some repute." "He put a lot of faith in stones." "He died peacefully, planning a temple to Wisdom." "Still, he's dead." "Nero." "It's best not to talk about him." "He caused untold damage, burnt Rome." "He deserved to die." "He died screaming in a summerhouse." "And he's unknown." "No name." "Still, he looks serene enough." "Let's suppose he was you." "Same fleshy face." "What happened to him?" "How did he die?" "He died alone... at noon, in a parked car on Lakeshore Drive in Chicago." "Stock-market report playing on the car radio." "He had shaved off his beard... he was wearing an English suit... and Italian shoes." " Is that what you want?" " Is that what I want?" "No." "No, he died much later, aged 71." "Same age as Boullée." "He was sitting in a garden at 4:00 in the afternoon... facing south." "Somewhere near Rome." "He could hear the sound of water." "His 6-year-old grandson playing in the gravel." "His wife..." "His second wife... picking orange blossoms." "A little sentimental, no?" "What the hell, when you're 71, you can afford a little sentiment." "Far from home?" "Home?" "A home should be no particular problem." " A sort of late spring death?" " You prefer a late spring?" "How far into late spring?" "Maybe last week of May." "The first week of June." "June." "Tell me, Doctor, do you..." "Tell me, Doctor, do you... take this trouble with all your patients?" "I must admit, it's not the first time." "Though, in another case, the details may not be quite so architectural." "Still, you must admit, there is some comfort to be had in contemplating... the folly of so many dead, don't you think?" "And more comfort still in contemplating the continuity." "Thank you." "Sorry." "There's not much elbow room here." "What happened to this place?" "Where is my sign?" "Here you are." " You all right?" " No." "I wouldn't eat those figs if I were you, lady." "They're aphrodisiacs." "You don't look like you're up to it to me, I'm sorry." "Okay, I'm sorry." "What are you calling him for?" "He's not gonna do you any good." "Go on." "No, wait." "I'm gonna sit down... and I'm gonna have dinner here, okay?" "'Cause, see, my doctor says I should eat in company." "See?" "I have to eat in company." "My wife wants to eat in company all the time." "In fact, my wife likes to eat company." "I like to eat company, too." "We're all the same, aren't we?" "Come on, we're all the same." "We speak a different language, but we have the same metabolism!" "See, the difference is..." "I'm interested in bellies." "Say, you have a belly." "There's your belly, right there, see?" "I'm sorry." "All right, I'll say "stomach."" ""Stomach" in mixed company." "Come here." "Come over here." "You have a belly, too." "Here, see?" "You got a belly." "See?" "I got a belly." "I'll tell you what." "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours." "Here's mine." "There's mine, okay?" "It's the same as yours, a little larger than yours." "See, the difference is... mine is being eaten away." "Mine is rotting away from the inside." "You understand what I'm saying?" "No!" "I'm talking to the lady here." "Here, put your hand out." "Come on, touch it." "It won't bite you." "It only bites me!" "It has cancer, see?" "It's cancer." "See, I have cancer." "Stomach cancer." "It's cancer!" "You know something?" "Jesus Christ himself would have died of stomach cancer... if you people hadn't crucified him first!" "That's right!" "Bravo!" "Signor Kracklite." "Name?" "Kracklite, Stourley Kracklite." " Nationality?" " American." "Place of birth?" "Chicago, Illinois." "Present address?" "Rome." "Age next birthday?" "I'm not gonna have another birthday." "Pardon?" "Fifty-five." " Married?" " Yeah." "Children?" "Yeah." "Occupation?" "I'm an architect." "That's all." "Thank you." "You may go." "You mean, that's really all?" "What else could there be?" "I'm sorry that we're late." "It's my fault." "I don't feel very well." "We almost didn't make it." "Where's Kracklite?" "I need to sit down." "Whatever else has happened, this was always Kracklite's exhibition." "Louisa, can you find a way to help us... and open up in his behalf?" "Kracklite said a long time ago... that you have often officiated occasions like this:" "Opening supermarkets, naval ships... and cutting the tape." "I think Caspasian should do it." "Caspasian, this is not for you." "Be content with what you've got." "Here, take it." "Thanks." "Please." "We are delighted, Signora Kracklite, that you have agreed to do this." "Louisa, please." "We can continue to benefit from the prestige of an American celebrity." "Without the embarrassment... of her clown of a husband." "And so, it is with great delight... that on Boullée's birthday..." "I ask Signora Kracklite... to declare this magnificent exhibition open."

"I know, right, it's so awesome." "I-I-I mean, um, how terrible was that?" "Foam..." "Lots of..." "Foam." "My dad is pretty mad." "So is Desdemona." "I hope Daniel's okay." "Ah, foam washes out pretty easy." "Embarrassment, though, that stuff stays on you a long time." "Wait, you wanna leave..." "Already?" "We still have like three pizzas coming out." "I think he's asking you to dance." "[Grunting]" "What?" "Um, but I just ate a lot of pizza..." "And soda and..." "What if..." "What if it shakes up on the dance floor and I barf everywhere?" "[Laughs] You know what?" "I think he'd actually like that." "Emma, back me up here." "Go on, Andi, you'll be fine." "You call that backing me up?" "Come on, live a little." "♪" "What are they doing?" "I'm not sure." "But I kinda like it." "♪" "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "I just wanted to say watching you use your powers to make Andi happy, you inspired me." "I have?" "Yeah." "And if I ever get my powers back again, I wanna use them to make the people I care about happy." "Like you do." "You will get them back." "I'll help you, I promise." "[Applause]" "I'll be right back." "I'm just gonna go congratulate Daniel." "Yeah, sure, no problem." "And after Emma gets my powers back, Daniel really will be no problem..." "Ever again." "♪ I cast a spell" "♪ it takes a hold of you" "♪ I see my dreams" "♪ and they're all coming true" "♪ come on, let's go" "♪ you and me together" "♪ look up ahead" "♪ there's a magical adventure" "♪ every witch way-ay-ay-ay-ay" "♪ I'm trying every witch way-ay-ay-ay-ay ♪" "♪ I'm going every witch way-ay-ay-ay ♪" "♪ Every witch way [knocking on glass]" "Maddie Winkie?" "Did I just see the plants moving outside?" "It's just probably that, uh, pesky skunk that comes around sometimes." "No." "The rustling was too high for it to have been a skunk." "Well, don't you know that skunks are like expect climbers?" "[Gasps]" "They are?" "Yeah." "We learned that in, um... in history class." "Animal history class." "You're taking animal history?" "All right, that's it!" "That skunk is mine!" "Wait, where are you going?" "I am going to Chase it down and pelt it with my hair curlers." "But aren't those hot curlers?" "Yes, even better." "Noooo!" "Wow, you're so popular." "Popular?" "What did he say?" "[Laughs]" "He said, "back off," ""I'm with Andi and totally uninterested in any of you."" "[Laughs] Hey, Phillip, my good man." "[Makes explosion noises]" "He's fitting right in." "Sort of." "And... and he's super popular." "But with all the attention he's getting, aren't you worried someone might notice he's..." "Not exactly human?" "Yeah, maybe you should just stop using delicious smelling shampoo." "You know there's an easy solution to people not noticing Phillip?" "Just erase their memories of him." "No." "I wanna help Andi, but messing with people's memories, it's going too far." "The whole point of having powers is to push the boundaries." "That's what my dad always says." "Yeah, well, my dad always says, [In deep voice]" ""Mathematics are the building blocks of civilization."" "Wait, that wasn't the right saying." "Trust me." "The more you use your powers, the better." "And when you get my powers back, then we can push the magical boundaries together." "What if I don't wanna push the boundaries?" "Ha, and just be a regular old witch?" "Is that what you think of me?" "Em..." "Emma!" "Master Desdemona?" "Big news." "Emma and Jax are fighting." "Something about Emma getting Jax's powers back for him." "Our plan to get Emma back together with Daniel is working." "Fine, your plan." "Yes, I'll try to get to more information, coach Desdemona." "Desdemona?" "Trying to get Emma and Daniel back together?" "Inspector agamemnon is on the case." "Hey, guys." "What happened to you?" "My mom thought he was a skunk and pelted him with hot curlers." "My hero." "Soph, let's get to class." "Who keeps texting you?" "All these boys." "They saw "Romeo and Juliet" and now they wanna ask me out." "[Laughs]" "Mm." "They're fake." "I know." "I love the smell of polyester." "She's under a spell." "Quick, a zombie hunter, play dead." "Coast..." "Clear." "Predator zombie approaching, get your crossbow out." "The zombie's face is melting." "Oh, wait, that's just the regular face." "You guys look pathetic." "Pastel Tuesdays are pathetic." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down." "She dissed my face." "She dissed our larping." "What's larping?" "Live action role playing game." "[Laughing] Just when I thought you couldn't any lamer, he shows up and ups the lameness factor." "Don't you dare say that about Phillip." "Oh, oh, oh, I'm so scared of you and Phillip." "[Growling]" "What's he doing?" "He is trying to bite me?" "Okay, uh, let's go." "He's so bonkers." "How dare he?" "You're right, he's bonkers." "Hey, I had that under control." "Under control?" "Gigi, could you give us a minute?" "Sure." "Right after I get an exclusive interview with iridium's hottest new item..." "Andi and Phillip." "Well, I mean, I guess one interview couldn't hurt?" "Andi?" "[Growling]" "What is he doing?" "I can't wait to put this up on my blog." "What?" "No!" "Hey!" "You have your own safety goggles?" "[Laughs]" "Yeah." "Actually..." "I have two." "My dad got them for me for my birthday last year." "You know that you don't have to put them on yet?" "We're not in lab." "Yeah, but wearing them around really ups my nerd cred." "[Laughs] Well, in that case... did you solve your half of the formula last night?" "Um, did I tell you how beautiful you look in those safety goggles?" "Jax!" "You didn't, did you?" "This lab counts for 50% of our final grade." "I tried, but it's... it's just so hard living life without my powers." "I can't fail this lab!" "I'll fail the class." "My dad, my gpa, my nerd cred!" "I know." "Look, I'm sorry." "Only if there was just some way that you could make those formulas appear." "Of this formula, we only have a fraction, reveal the other half that will produce the correct reaction." "[Laughs] Sweet." "We're definitely gonna get as now." "Wait, I..." "I cheated." "I shouldn't be happy about this." "I take my high five back." "That's two close calls in one day." "But gigi and Maddie had it coming." "I wanted to bite them, and I'm not even a zombie." "Andi, I know you really care about Phillip, which is why you should wanna do what's best for him." "Which is?" "Send him back where he belongs... in the videogame." "He could get blasted into smithereens in there." "He's survived so far." "Yeah, but we're getting close to the expert levels." "I don't know how he'll survive those." "Oh, stealer choices." "He just needs a little time to adjust to our world." "I told you guys he was bonkers." "Cute and a little pale..." "But bonkers." "[Laughing]" "Okay, that's it!" "Phillip..." "Hungry." "Maddie..." "Brains." "Andi, all... all right, let's go, let's get out of here." "Excuse me." "Phillip almost ate Maddie's brain." "That's exactly why he shouldn't be here!" "What, he'd be doing us all a favor!" "I mean, how much cooler would a zombie Maddie be than regular Maddie?" "Scary." "That's not the point." "The point is, he's not going to adjust to our world." "He's always going to be a zombie, no matter how much you try to distract him with pizza." "Oh, but Phillip is... wait." "Where's Phillip?" "[Phone ringing]" "Hang on, my mom's video calling me." "Mother, what is it?" "Who is that?" "Who is that next to you, Maddie?" "It's just Katie." "[Laughs]" "Maddie Winkie, you get back on this phone right now!" "Maddie can't come to the phone right now, Mrs. van p." "Is that or is that not Diego?" "Um, please hold and..." "Mute." "Well, what should I tell her?" "No, duh." "Okay, I will." "If you promise to make a boyfriend." "What?" "No way." "Yes, Mrs. van p... [whispering] Okay, fine." "You were just seeing things." "I-I-I... gotta go, bye." "♪ I'm getting a boyfriend" "♪ I'm getting a boyfriend uh, we can't stay here, gigi will be back any second." "And this is where we were when Andi stole my phone." "Returning to the scene of the crime?" "Arrest them!" "Uh, gigi here tells me you stole her phone?" "And my pizza." "What, I didn't steal it, I just borrowed it." "I should press charges." "I should be filming this." "Uh, no, gigi, no... uh, Andi..." "Return gigi's phone." "Okay, I just need to check one thing." "No, now!" "[Growling]" " Phillip!" "Phillip, it's okay." "[Growling]" "Turn those lights off!" "Are you okay?" "Is he okay?" "Camera down, gigi." "Class now." "Did he just try to bite my head?" "What?" "[Nervous laughing] No, no, no." "No, that's just a..." "Romanian custom." "Custom or not, that is unacceptable at iridium high." "I have to suspend him." "What?" "No." "And you... you take your friend off school grounds." "Me?" "Why me?" "Oh, because I saw you egging him on." "And because I also know you have the last period free." "Slacker." "There's only one way to know who's telling the truth." "This shoe will reveal if what Lily said is real." "Almost there." "Almost." "Desdemona?" "Yes?" "So close." "[Evil laughing] Oh." "Desdemona." "It can't be." "She framed Lily, and I fell for it." "I have to stop her before she destroys us all." "And I have to stop talking to myself." "Whoa, nice move." "How is he?" "He's fine." "We've just been playing... zombie apocalypse 3." "Yeah." "And look how happy he is." "He could be this happy all the time..." "If you just let him go back into the game." "But he... we... you don't know him at all." "I know that the game is the only thing that calms him down." "No, there's also another thing." "Pizza." "Pizza?" "See?" "Come on, Phillip, let's go get some pizza at the seven." "How many pizzas has he eaten in the last few days?" "Only a few..." "Hundred." "Danny?" "I mean, Daniel, hi." "Can I come in?" "It's important." "Yeah, sure." "Uh, hey, Jax, how's it going?" "Yeah, great." "Just chilling on the couch all day with my Em cuddling." "What's the matter?" "It's Andi." "She refuses to send Phillip back into the game, even though he tried to bite several people in school today." "Did they see him?" "Oh, they saw him." "He tried to bite both of them." "What?" "[Laughing] What?" "I mean..." "What?" "And now she's at the seven with him." "If he tries to bite someone there, someone could see him and... it could be really bad." "Oh, I should have sent him right back into the game when he first arrived." "It's okay." "You tried to make Andi happy, and I get that." "Are you done here?" "Me and my Em need to get back to cuddling." "I have to fix this." "Let's get to the seven." "What?" "That didn't turn out the way I wanted it to." "Here we are." "What are those?" "My potential boyfriends?" "And hanging out with the panthers just keeps getting more bizarre." "I'm leaning towards the golden retriever." "The bulldog would be funny." "And the chihuahua would be super active." "But the retriever would be loyal, strong and loving." "Doing this spell I thought I'd never, but turn this dog into a boy who will love Katie forever." "Oh, he's so cute." "He'll make the perfect boyfriend." "[Barking]" "What's happening?" "Why is he following me?" "Because he's the love of your life, remember?" "[Laughs]" "I change my mind." "I don't want a dog boyfriend." "Maddie, change him back." "Sure, I will, after you get your punishment for blackmailing me." "What punishment?" "Living with your dog boyfriend for the rest of the day." "No!" "Andi..." "Pretty." "You... you think I'm pretty?" "You're so cute." "You didn't tell me Phillip tried to bite my dad." "Oh, did I leave that tiny detail out?" "Andi, he's bound to actually bite someone soon." "And anybody could see." "Relax, he's fine." "But I have used almost all my savings on pizza for him." "Can I borrow a few bucks?" "How 'bout it, partner?" "I thought you said no dice on the partnership?" "Ah, I've reconsidered." "Now, money... cough it up." "Andi, this has to stop." "I mean, he's fine right now, but he could get... gigi bad..." "Hurt Andi." "[Growling]" "[Screaming]" "Oh, is he about to do another dance?" "What do we do?" "We send him back!" "No!" "[Barking]" "Wait, get back!" "Do not talk to Howard like that." "Who's Howard?" "Katie's boyfriend." "He is not." "[Laughing] Someone's got great taste." "Oh, like you should talk." "Hey, don't talk about Emma like that." "Don't defend Emma, that's my job." "Guys, please?" "Proxy, do something!" "Wait, whose side are you on?" "I-I-I don't know." "[Indistinct arguing]" "Andi..." "Bad." "[Growling]" "I've got him!" "Send him back now!" "He tried to eat Sophie!" "Phillip hungry." "Want bite." "You're a danger too, you can't be tamed." "Go back to where you came from, go back into the game." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'm good." "[Indistinct arguing]" "Phillip!" "Phillip, where are you?" "What did you do?" "Phillip tried to eat Sophie's brain, so I... she sent him back into the game." "Emma!" "Andi, I'm sorry, but I had to." "I thought you wanted me to be happy." "I never thought you would hurt me like this." "Andi, wait!" "Daniel:" "Need some company?" "Daniel." "How'd you know I'd be here?" "Um, I didn't." "I felt bad about Andi and came here." "Me, too." "So it's sort of our spot." "The wrong witch is in limbo I fear." "Take Lily out and send her here." "Oh, 247 spells attempted, 8,500 to go." "Oh, it's no use." "You'll never figure out the right spell." "You!" "You deceitful, manipulative, cowardly council member." "Or shall I say ex-council member." "I do hereby send you to the... we'll see about that!" "[Laughing]" "My hair!" "Nooooo!"

"## Gold fever ##" "## Gold fever ##" "## Gold fever ##" "## I'm changin' things I'm changin' things ##" "## I'm gonna git you, sucka ##" "## You dirty mother... ## Don't say that." "## I'm gonna teach you that crime just don't pay ##" "## I'm gonna git you, sucka ##" "## You dirty mother... ## Hold on, brother." "## I'm gonna stay on your case till they put you away ##" "## I know you think that life's a bowl of cherries ##" "## And you can absolutely do no wrong ##" "## Big brother a word from the wise should be sufficient ##" "## So I suggest you pay close attention to the words to this song ##" "## Whoo ##" "## Gold fever ##" "## Gold fever ##" "## Gold fever ##" "## I'm changin' things I'm changin' things ##" "## Livin' in the fast lane beating' up the street kids ##" "## Got plenty money to burn ## Don't say that." "## World's a game of double cross till you became the boss ##" "## Now it's my turn ##" "## Get so we don't agree menace to society ##" "## Smile, yeah, you're on top ## Wait a minute, Doc." "## 'Cause a smile is just a frown turned upside down ##" "## Get ready for the big drop ##" "## 'Cause I'm gonna git you sucka ##" "## You dirty mother... ## Hey, Doc, Doc." "## I'm gonna stay on your case till they put you away ####" "What do you say, Charlie?" "Good evening, lieutenant." "So, what do you got for me?" "John Doe." "Between 25 and 30 years of age." "Cause of death looks like O.G." " "Over gold."" " Yeah." "Any signs of foul play around here?" "No, sir." "Looks like a case of just too many gold chains." "Jesus Christ!" "This guy looks like a fucking statue." "I wonder how he went to the bathroom with all this stuff on." "Oh, boy." "All right, Charlie." "Why don't we just wrap it up?" "All right, wrap it up." " Friends." " Yes?" "I was thinking as we drove up here in those long Cadillacs..." " Mm-hmm." " How serious this is." " Yes, it is." " Death is serious." "Yes, it is." "You got to prepare to die." "Yes, yes." "This boy here loved gold." "We stripped him of all that gold." " That's why we got this beautiful sermon today." " Yes, sir." " He was prepared to die!" " Prepared!" "Lord," "We ask you to look down on this young soul known on Earth... as Junebug Spade." "Junebug Spade?" "Ain't this Lester Wilson's funeral?" "No, ma'am." "Lester Wilson was at 9:00." "Oh, hell!" "Come on, let's get out of here." "Hold on one second." "No, no." "Hold on." " Can I get an amen?" " Don't even know him." " Get out of my way!" " Praise the saints?" "Can I get an amen?" "Can I get an amen?" "Put that down." "You know Junebug Spade?" " Yes, we do." " Yes, I'm his mother." "He was my husband." "Mama, I just can't believe that Junebug didn't have any friends." "Did you notice that not one person stayed when they found out it was Junebug?" " Now, baby, you know the boy wasn't shit." " Mama!" "Don't get me wrong." "He was my son, and I loved him." "But when he got hooked on that gold, he changed." "I bet he owed everybody he ever knew money." "Mama, Junebug may have been a little crooked," "But I'm sure that somebody besides us loved him too." "I don't know." "Maybe that's Jack." " Yes?" " Good afternoon, miss lady ma'am." "May we come in?" "Y'all ain't selling NoWay products, are you?" "No!" "We friends with Junebug." "They're friends of Junebug's, mama." "Come right in." "I'm Cheryl, Junebug's widow," "And this is Mrs. Bell Spade, Junebug's mother." "Hmm." "What's up?" "I'm Willie." "This here's Leonard." " And we come here..." " What you tell them our real name for?" "Are you stupid?" " No, they told us their real names, so..." " Who's in charge?" " You are." " Who?" "You in charge." "Then shut the fuck up." " You all mind telling me what you want?" " Certainly." " Junebug used to work for me." " Used to work for us." " I work for Mr. Big." " We work for Mr. Big." "It just so happens that Junebug died..." " Owing Mr. Big $5,000." " Five thousand..." " We here to collect." " Five thousand dollars?" "We don't have that kind of money." "No shit." ""No shit"!" "They don't have that kind of money!" "Get off me!" "I could look at these plastic slipcovers, the slipcovers." "The stupid painted-on walls, look at this stupid painted..." "And tell that type of money ain't around here." "You see the dude that painted those walls?" "They got doo-doo paint!" "It's all bullshit." "Look at these white pillows." "Look at these stupid magazines." "Look, they got oranges and shit!" "I'm sorry." "But I do see somethin'." "Somethin' that's gonna be worth at least... ten times that amount of money to Mr. Big." "Well, what is it?" "What do you want?" " You." " Mama!" "Don't you touch..." "Ooh!" "Good." "If she moves, hit her again." " Looks like mama gonna have to teach you some manners." " Okay, come on, mama." "You don't ever come in my house..." "Acting like no fool, fool!" "Now, clean up that mess you made." "You, put those pillows back on the couch where you found 'em." "That's right." "Pick all that shit up!" "All of it!" "And puff these pillows up too, man." " You stupid... come here!" "Come here!" "Why you gonna go mess the nice lady's house up for, man?" "I only did it... you told me when we came in to beat her up and mess up her house!" " I didn't tell you shit like that, man!" " Yes, you did!" "Now, mister, you and your friend got a choice." "You can either go out that window or take the stairs." "Okay." "We gonna take the stairs." "Yeah, we'll take..." "Yeah, we'll take the stairs." "Oh!" "Ow!" "Get your pants outta my face!" "Oh!" "Get off me, man." "Get off me!" " Ma!" " Jack!" " Mama!" " Oh, Lord, my baby's home at last!" "Mama!" "My baby's home!" "Come on in." "Ma, you okay?" "Oh, yes, just some bill collectors." "Cheryl." "Come look who's here." "Oh, honey, you look so good in this uniform." "All them medals!" "You remember Cheryl, don't you?" "Hello, Jack." "Hi, Cheryl." "Been a long time, huh?" "Yeah, it has been a long time." "Honey, why don't you go put your things in the room and have something to eat?" " Cheryl made a fine dinner." " Mama, that sounds like a good idea." "And Jack, baby, Mama wants you to know..." "I kept your room just the way you left it ten years ago." "Oh, ma." "My baby's home." "Right here." "Smells good." "It is good." "Mama, I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the funeral." "I got here as soon as I could." "I know, baby." "Just glad you're here now." "Mama, exactly how did Junebug die?" "He..." "Mama..." "She's really taking this pretty hard." "You know how your mother is, Jack." "Is somebody gonna tell me what's going on?" "Jack, not too long after you left," "Junebug started hanging out with a bad crowd." "I mean, he even started selling drugs, Jack." "And then things really got bad when he..." "Well, what?" "Cheryl, come on." "He started wearing gold chains, Jack." "Oh, God, no!" "It started out as just one or two." "It seemed like every time he'd get some money, he'd buy more gold chains." "He was wearing hundreds of them, Jack." "Hundreds." "Not gold." "Yes, Jack." "Gold chains and medallions and rings..." "And even his teeth." "You can't imagine what it was like to kiss him." "He took a picture just before he died." "We put it on the mantle." "Junebug!" "How did he go to the bathroom with all this stuff on?" "Okay." "All right, who are these people Junebug was hanging out with?" "Well," "He worked for a man named Mr. Big." "He rules the crime world here." " Those men that your mother threw down the stairs?" " They work for Mr. Big too." "They came in here saying that Junebug owed 'em all kinds of money, crazy money." "And I really think that they're the ones who killed him." "Well, don't you worry about a thing." "Jack Spade is here, and I'm gonna get to the bottom of this." "Oh." "I better go check on mama." " Where is the girl?" " we almost had the girl, Mr. Big." "Yeah, we almost." "She's beautiful." "She's gonna be worth far more than the money Junebug owes." "She'll be worth maybe 10 or 20 times." "Far more than money." "Anyway, she's got a real soft juicy fruit butt." "But the only problem was that this old lady," "She punched me in the stomach real hard!" "Then she started crying and screaming and stuff, right?" "And a dude came in, this big dude." " I think it's her son or something." " What dude?" " The soldier dude." " I didn't see him." "The dude." "The fucking dude that came in!" " Then he started..." "He hit me from behind." " He hit you?" " And I went down." " Oh, you mean the soldier dude!" " Yeah, the soldier dude." " Okay, okay." "Then he hit me from behind." "And I went down." "I was like this." " Then the dude shot me!" " He didn't shoot you." "He did." "Kept on biting on my ankles." " Where did you get a stupid lie like that from?" " Enough." "Now," "Junebug worked under you," "Which means you owe me his debts." "If that girl is anything you say she is," "Then we'll call it even." "I have no patience when it comes to collecting." "Now, I suspect..." "You'll bring me that girl right away." "Yes, sir, uncle Mr. Big." "Yes, sir, Mr. Big." "Uncle Mr. Big, I have a question." "What about the mother?" "If he gets in your way, kill him." "I better not hear any more about that guy..." "Or it's your asses!" "You got that?" "Yes, sir, uncle Mr. Big." "It'll be our asses." "It'll be your ass." "Good." "You boys can leave either through the window... or the stairs." "We'll take the stairs." "We always take the stairs." " Lenny?" " What?" " You mad at me?" " I'm gonna be mad on the way down these stairs." "Ooh!" "Ow!" "Ooh!" "Ooh!" "Oh!" "He was such a sweet baby." "I don't know how he turned out so bad." "He missed you when you was gone, Jack." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "I missed him too, mama." "You know, I remember when me and Junebug used to go to the park." "Junebug loved the swings." "He'd say, "Jack, give me a push."" "And I'd take him and run, but I wouldn't push him." "I'd run back in, then I'd run again." "Still wouldn't push him." "Shut up, Jack!" "Do you remember this?" "Do you remember when you made that for mama?" "I made this in Mrs. Wilson's class." "That's right." "You was always so thoughtful to your mama." " That's why I'm so glad you're home." " Mama." "W-wait a minute." "What?" "Mama!" "That's John Slade." "Yeah?" "I didn't know you knew him." "Yes." "We was very much in love once." "Before I met your father." "I almost married Slade." "But he was so busy being a crime fighter," "Flying in and out of windows, chasing criminals." "Hmm." "Had no time to settle down." "Anyway, wish he was here now." "He'd find out what happened to my boy and he'd make 'em pay." "Hey, mama, now." "Mama, I'm here, and I'm gonna find out what happened to Junebug." "No, no, no, no." "You're all I got!" "Don't you do nothing foolish." "I'm just gonna ask a few questions, that's all." " No, Jack." " Ma, just a few questions." "I promise." " Okay?" " Okay." "Okay." " Be careful." " I will." ""John Slade to host youth gang competition."" "2:00." " Hey, move it!" " Can I get a cab?" "I want this shit clean." "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "It's a new record!" "Right now I'd like to talk to a man who's no stranger to this community." "And he's considered by many to be, well, a local hero of sorts." "While serving the community in the '70s, he helped topple such crime bosses as Mr. Big." "He's responsible for today's events." "I'm speaking, of course, of Mr. John Slade." "A lot of people would like to see you come back and help rid the old neighborhood of Mr. Big." " How do you respond to that?" " No, skip." "I'm sorry." "I'm retired now." "It's a job for the police department." "Oh, but tell us, Mr. Slade, what is today really about?" "To provide for these young people an opportunity to let steam off..." "In a very positive way..." "By competing in events that are familiar, if you will, to their environment." "Do you know what I mean, brother?" "Well, actually, I don't." "I didn't grow up around blacks." "I grew up in the suburbs." "My dad was a lawyer." "My mom was a doctor." "All my friends were white." "Everybody used to tease me 'cause I didn't speak jive." "I couldn't dance to save my life." "The only step I really knew was that step that Springsteen does..." "In the "Dancing in the Dark" video." "I love Springsteen." "Yes." "Reporting for WBLD news, this is Skip Balins saying, in the immortal words of our negro poet, Don Cornelius," ""Peace and soul."" "Thanks, guys." " John Slade?" " Yeah." "I need to talk to you." " You selling' NoWay products?" " No." "Oh, okay." " Can we go somewhere more private?" " Yeah." "This way." "Senior Citizen Mugging Competition... will begin in five minutes." "Okay, young man." "What can I do for you?" " Do you remember that woman?" " Yeah, I sure do." "That's Bell Brown." "We used to call her "hot chocolate." She had the softest eyes." "She had these big old round, brown, firm ti..." "She would do this little trick with her mouth where she would..." "That's my mother, man." "She was a good woman, your mother." "Yes, she was." "Absolutely, a good woman." "I should have married your mother." "Wait a minute." "You ain't gonna tell me I'm your daddy or no shit like that now... because I don't wanna hear no bullshit." "No." "Nothin' like that." "That's my brother." "He's dead." "He O.G.'d." "How does he go to the bathroom with all this shit on?" "Look, I'm sorry about your brother..." "And I'm really sorry for Bell because she don't deserve it." "Look at this." "I bought that on the street." "You know what that shit is doing to our kids?" "I know." "I'm from the streets." "Every day I see kids walking around killing and stealing for gold chains." "I see kids with medallions so big they can hardly stand up." "All stooped over and shit, trying to carry that stuff." "But what's really awful, man, is you see a young brother... with this cheap, imitation electroplated gold crap around their necks, and it breaks out in this funky green rash... with these bumps and shit." "It just make you wanna puke." "Yeah." "Yeah, I know it's happenin'." "What do you want with me?" "I want you... to take down Mr. Big and put an end to this gold-chain shit." "Hey, look, I'm sorry about your brother." "I'm sorry for Bell." "But I don't wanna be no hero no more, man." " I'm a long way from that." " Yeah, and look what happened." " The people need you." " The people need me?" "It was the people, man, that made me retire." "The people said I was too violent, a bad image for the kids." "So fuck the people." "The people..." "Look, I'm retired now, okay?" "And I kind of enjoy the feeling of staying alive." "Okay, brother?" "I was one of those kids that looked up to you, man." "I believed in you." "I wanted to be like you." "You were the best." "Hello!" "Hello?" "Is anybody here?" "Yes, my brother." "How may I help you?" "Yeah, are you Kalinga, leader of the people's revolutionary army?" " Are you C.I.A.?" " No." " I am Kalinga." " I need to talk to you." "Have a seat." "Would you care for something to eat?" "A bean pie perhaps?" "No, uh, I'm not hungry." "Something to drink?" "Please sit down." "Herb tea?" "A soda?" "Okay, soda's fine." "Articulate your needs." "I'm here to listen." "How may I help you?" "Well, first of all..." "It's an acquired taste." "Now..." "How may I help you, my brother?" "Look, I'm here because I can't stand what's happening in this community." " Yes!" " And somebody has to make a change." " Yes!" " Brother, will you help me?" "Yes!" "Well..." "I wish I could." "Damn it, man." "I heard the people's revolutionary army was once a thousand strong." " Now, what happened?" " They got government jobs." "What?" "You know that government office building on 25th street?" " Yeah?" " We went down to take it over." "But they were hiring that day." "The brothers walked in with guns... and came out with jobs." "The brothers weren't mad anymore." "Yes." "Whitey..." "Is something else." "Damn." "My great nubian warrior, dinner's ready." "We have a guest." "Meet my Ofay Wench." "Uh, nice to meet you." "Would you like to stay for dinner?" "She makes the best bean dishes in all the world." "Daddy!" "Daddy, can we watch TV?" "Daddy, oh, brave black king, I finished my homework." "Can we watch TV?" "Let me hear..." "Your report." "Okay. "Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Illinois." ""This poor white trash went on to become..." ""the president of the United States." " Yes?" " "Once in office, this white capitalist swine..." " Swine!" " "Manipulated the freedom of the black man..." ""for his own political career," " Preach, brother!" " "till another piece of poor white trash..." "Shot him in the head." "The end."" " Whoo!" " ## [ "Brady Bunch" Theme ]" "Thank you, Jesus." "Whitey," "I am very pleased." "Yes, you and your lovely sister," "You may go and watch TV." "Go and enjoy." "Are you sure, my brother," "You will not join us?" " No." " Oh, bean ice cream." "Thanks, I'm regular." "Look, I gotta be going, man." "Thanks." "Struggle!" "Power to the people!" "## If my heart should break I'll bring it to you ##" "## With a wave, you'll make it just like new ##" "Hi, soldier boy." "How you doing?" "What can I get for you?" "Just a soda." "I came to pick you up." "You gettin' off soon?" "I was just waiting for ma to come and take me home." "She's probably had a long day." "Call and tell her I'm here." "Okay." "I'll be back in a minute." "You Jack Spade?" "Yeah, I'm Jack..." "Spade." "We hear you been asking a lot of questions around town about Mr. Big." "Mr. Big don't like it." " Jack." " Come here, Cheryl." "Don't you worry about a thing." "I can handle this." "Only thing you're gonna be able to handle, soldier boy, is a wheelchair." " Jack, no!" " Oh, yeah." "Yeah." "Hold it right there." "Ain't nobody laying' a finger on my baby." "Ma!" "How did you do that?" "You know, ma, you really didn't have to do that." "That was my fight." "That's all right, sugar." "Mama don't want her baby fighting' that street trash." "Come on, let's go home." "Put your jacket on, Jack." "Put the jacket on." "Put your jacket on." "It's cold outside." "Come on." "Move." "Look, ma, I'm not a boy anymore." "I'm a man." "My whole life, every time I get in a fight, here you come." "I don't need you to fight for me no more." "All right, Mr. Tough Guy." "I remember when you wasn't so tough." "I remember when you was always calling for your mama!" "Like the time when that Lois Mitchell girl was kicking your ass..." "Up and down, up and down the schoolyard!" "All I could hear was, "Mama!" "Mama!"" "Oh, yeah, and the time when that Evans family, those little midgets," "Was chasing you home 'cause you didn't want to give them your lunch money." "I could hear your punk ass calling me a half a mile away." ""Mama, help me!" "Mama, help me!"" "Now you don't need me no more, huh?" "Fine." "You don't never have to worry about me fighting for you no more." " Good." " Now what you gonna do?" "Finish the fight Big started." " Don't be no fool." "They'll kill you, Jack!" " Maybe." "Jack!" "Slade." "How you doin', Bell?" "Oh, I'm so glad you're here." "I need you." "I really need you." "I've been pretty horny myself lately." "That's a gun." "Jack, what are you doing with a gun?" "I'm in the army, remember?" " Mama's right." "They're gonna kill you." " Mr. Big is gonna pay." "And if I see those little Evans midgets, they ass is mine!" "I'm... it's payback." "And Lois Mitchell." "You know, she snuck me." "She snuck me." "In fifth grade..." "I was eating my jell-o when you hit me, baby." "They were just kids!" "A family full of midgets is not considered kids." "That's a gang!" "Jack, wait a minute." "Getting yourself killed is not gonna prove anything." "Proves I can beat a woman and some midgets." "He's gonna get himself killed." "How ya doing, Jack?" "Slade, please." "Please stop him." "He's all I got left." "Don't worry, Bell." "I'll take care of him." "Jack." "Jack, where the hell do you think you're going?" "To war." "You mean to get killed." "Look, I came to you for help." "You don't want to help me, cool." "But don't try to stop me from doin' what I gotta do, okay?" "You go out there alone, they gonna shoot your ass off." " I'm a soldier, man." "I've been trained for combat." "Oh, my god!" "Heads up!" "Be cool!" "They shootin'!" "They shootin'!" "Somebody shooting'!" "Get down!" "Get your ass down, boy!" "I thought you were trained for combat." "Yeah." "Yeah, I was, but I ain't never been in it." "What are these fancy medals for?" "Well, this one is shorthand." "And this one here's M.P.V." " And, uh, this is surfing'." " Never mind." "Never mind." " You got your weapon?" " Yeah." "Give it to me." "Give me a clip." "Hurry up, Jack." " Ma'am, how is he?" " He's dead." "Can't you hear the music?" "Ma'am?" " I waited 12 years for this." " Let me see." "Not bad." "At least he wasn't cheap." "I'm sure he won't mind." "Jack, go now!" "Go that way." "I'll go this way." "Cover the door." "They're comin' up." " Where are you goin'?" " Comin' around the corner." "Cover the door." "They're comin' out!" "Here, take it!" "Cover me!" "Cover me!" "Don't do this, man!" "Who is it?" "Come on, come on." "Against the wall, punk." "Hold it!" "It's over, it's over." "Now, who are you guys and why are you trying to kill us?" "What, you think it's that easy?" "You think it's that easy?" "You just ask us, and we tell you, right?" "We supposed to tell you?" "Shit." "That's funny." "You're gonna have to kill him first." "Why you gonna kill me first, Lenny?" "You guys talk a lot of shit to be so light in the ass." " Uh, uncle Mr. Big told us to kill him." " why does Big want me dead?" "The word's on the street you been sticking your nose in business that's not yours." "You're sticking your nose in it." "And you, Mr. Whoever You Are." "Whoever you are." "The same is gonna happen to you when Mr. Big finds out what you did tonight." "Well, you know what?" "You guys are real lucky." "I'm in a good mood tonight, so I'm gonna let you go, okay?" " I thought so." " Hey, Lenny, wait a minute." "Why were you gonna let us go when we was just over there trying to kill you?" "Stupid." "What do you care why?" " Let's just go." " Look." "You tell Mr. Big... that John Slade is back." "He's got 24 hours to get outta town." "Now, you guys can either go over the side..." " Or you can ..." " Yeah, we'll take the stairs." "Yeah, I thought you knew." "Come on." "Let's go." "Go on." "Shut up." "Fucking get off me, man." "Come on." "Go ahead." "When they get back to Big, it's gonna get rough." "You better score some big guns." "## When the saints ##" "## Go marching' in ##" "## When the saints ##" "## Go marching' in ##" "Do that march, baby." "## I wanna be, uh ##" "## In that number ## How you doing, brother man?" " May I help you gentlemen?" " Yes, sir." "We wanna see one-eyed Sam." "You ain't selling any NoWay products, are you?" "We look like salesmen to you?" "He ain't here, okay?" "You call him on the phone and you tell him that John Slade... has got to score tonight." "Yeah, Okay." "John Slade." "I'll get his line here for you." "## Refuses to shine ##" "Sam, sorry to wake you." "Two big ugly-looking guys, one guy who thinks he's at sea world." "This other guy named Slade." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, Slade says he needs a big score." "Okay." "Later." "Uh, Slade, Slade." "I-I'm sorry about that." "Sam says he'll be right over and for me to get you guys a drink on the house." " Enjoy the show." "Sorry about that, man." " No problem." "All right." "## When the saints ##" "## Go mar-wa-wa-waah ##" "## Saints ## Hi, can I get you fellas something to drink?" "Yes, baby, give me a whiskey double, okay?" "One whiskey double." "And?" "Um, I'll have a Pepsi double." "One whiskey double and one Pepsi coming right up." "## Be in that number ##" "## When the saints ##" "## Go marching' in ##" "## I-i-i-in, whoo ##" "## Will you be there with me I'm asking, will you be there with me ##" " Who is that?" " That's the director's sister." " One whiskey double." " Thank you." "and a..." "Pepsi double." "You've got some things to learn about being a hero." "Like what?" "I mean, a Pepsi?" " Jack, come on." " Wh-what's wrong with Pepsi?" "When's the last time you been laid?" " What?" " You heard what I said." "Uh, well, not ..." "Been a while, hasn't it?" "Yeah, okay, so ..." "So yeah, all right." "So it's been a while." "But that's only 'cause I'm waiting on somebody ..." "Waiting on somebody special." "Somebody special." "You got a lot to learn." "You gotta learn the difference between being loved... and being laid." "Now, when I was with your mom ..." "When I was with your mom," "That was being loved." "But you see down at the end of the bar there?" "That is for being laid." "I ..." "She's comin' over here!" "Be cool." "Loosen up." "Let her do the talking." "Hi." "My name's Cherry." "What's yours?" " Jack." " Jack." "That's such a strong-sounding name." "Jack." "Do you find me attractive?" "Oh, yeah." "I was just wondering, what are you doing in a place like this?" "Looking for Mr. Right, and I think I might have just found him." "Why?" "Well, any man with such a strong name and strong body..." "Probably has exactly what I need." "What's that?" "Twelve inches." "Twelve inches." "Uh, well ..." "I..." "Hmm?" "I guess I'd do." "Well, hello, Mr. Right." "Say, Jack, honey, I've got a place just around the corner." "Let's say we get out of here." " Get out." " Get out." "Oh, oh, I don't know." "I-I'm here with my friend, and, you know, we got... business." "No problem." "I got plenty of time." "Help yourself." "I'll just sit here and wait for Sam." "## Never met a girl like you before ##" "## You're so cute ####" "Oh, shoot me, hurt me." "Ooh, yes!" "Oh!" "You ..." "You are so sexy." "Jack, I can't wait." "Hmm, baby." "Give me ..." "Give me..." "Give me all the 12 inches." "All the 12..." "Now!" "Oh, the 12." "Um..." "Now!" "Now!" "Now!" "Oh, the 12, the 12." "Yeah, that's good." "Ooh, that's good." "We gotta talk about this 12." "Huh?" "Twelve." "I..." "Yeah, about those 12 inches?" "Well, uh, I lied." "I-I really don't have 12 inches." "No?" "I hope I didn't disappoint you." "Well, I have a confession to make too." "Really?" "My eyes..." "Aren't really green." "You know what else?" "Another secret." "What?" "But this is nice in the summer!" "Oh, wait." "I am glad to get these off." "No, not that." "Not the tits." "Please don't be the ..." "They're not even the right color!" " whoo!" " this voluptuous ass of mine?" "Oh, wait." "Guys always get a kick out of this one." "Wait." "Oh, god, I feel so much better." "I know you do too." "Look, ooh..." "Whoo!" "Hey, you see?" "It..." "You-you..." "No, wait." "I got to..." "I have got to..." "Oh, please, Jack, honey, come on." "Don't make me..." "Don't make me hop after you." "Come on, baby." "That was quick." "What happened?" "It was unbelievable." " Slade!" " Hey, Sam!" "How are you, man?" "You're lookin' good." "Hey." "Good to see you." "What's so damn important you gotta wake me out of my bed?" "We've got to score, and we got to score tonight." " Follow me." " You the man." "Let's go." "Sam, this youngblood is Jack Spade." "Jack, Sam." " You a soldier, boy?" " Yes, sir." "What was your specialty, son?" "I was a..." "I was the intermilitary administrator." "Well, I'll be damned." "A secretary." "Well, good to meet you, son." "I was intermilitary administrator myself." "Sam." "Sam, hold it, man." "You told me you served in 'nam." "I did." "Saigon." "How'd you lose your eye?" "Fuckin' around in the office." "We were shootin' paper clips, and one of the damn fools hit me in the eye." "Same thing almost happened to me." "How'd you win those fuckin' medals on your coat?" "Well, this one is for typing'." "And this one is for dart champion." "This one is for surfing'." "I got that one!" "Never mind, never mind!" "Shut up." "Show me what you got." "Well, they need to be cleaned and oiled, but they work." "Well, I could do that." "Hey, all we need now is an army." "You take care of the weapons, and I'll get us an army." "Jack, I'm glad you're okay." "I was really worried about you." "I cleaned the room up for you." "Do you like it?" "Yeah, it's nice." "May I sit down?" "Yeah." "Jack, why didn't you write to me all those years?" "I didn't have nothin' to tell you." "Well, you could have just told me you were alive." "Cheryl, I went away to prove something to you." "No, not to you." "Prove something to myself." "That I can be a man for you, that I can protect you." "I mean, our whole lives, every time we got into trouble, my mother came." "I never had a chance to prove to you I could be a man." "I figured I'd go in the army, get into combat, have some great war stories to tell you." "I mean, I wait ten years for a war..." "Nothing." "I wind up being a secretary." "Jack, you didn't have to prove anything." "Not to me." "You've always been the man for me, Jack." "Yeah, and what about Junebug?" "I went out with Junebug to remind me of you." "You know, Jack..." "Remember when we used to go down to the Soul Train Disco?" "And you would get all dressed up," "And I would put my hair in those afro puffs?" "## Rhythmatic, acrobatic she's a dynamite attraction ##" "## Yeah ##" "## She knows what she's doing she's super-bad now ##" "## She's dancing it really blows your mind ##" "Down!" "Ha-yii!" "## Dancin', dancin', dancin' ##" "Boy, we were a real knockout." "Yeah." "We were somethin'." "## If ever a love there was ##" "## If ever two stars were crossed ##" "## If ever a dream was born ##" "## Yeah ##" "## Then it was yours and mine ##" "## If ever a touch was right ## ## or a future looked bright ##" "## If ever a love there was ##" " May I help you, sir?" " How much for an order of ribs?" " Uh, 2.50." " 2.50?" "How many ribs do I get with that?" " Uh, about five." " Five?" "So I guess that's about 50 cents a rib, huh?" "Yeah, about." "Let me get one." "Right on." "One order." "One order of ribs." "No, no." "No, no." "One rib." "One rib?" "I sure am hungry." "Um, make that one rib to go." " One rib?" " One rib." " What else?" " You got any soda?" "One dollar." "Ah, come on now." "Look out for a brother, man." "Come on." "Check this out." "Why don't you let me get a sip for 15 cents?" "My cups cost more than 15 cents." "All right, fuck the cup." "Pour it in my hand for a dime." "Look, you greasy-headed, jeri-curl wearing'..." "Pay me and get the hell out of my store." "You got change for a hundred?" "Look, we're gonna need an orthopedic surgeon to remove my foot from your ass." "Hammer, Hammer." "No, brother, don't do it." "You know the customer is always king." "Hammer!" "Slade!" "You son of a bitch." "Slam, how you doin'?" "Hey, man, I thought you were dead or something." "No, no." "Or worse..." "Married and shit." "Don't put that on me." "How you doing, brother?" "How you guys doing?" "You all right?" "Really good to see you." "Listen, how would you guys like to upgrade your image?" "What you talkin' about, Slade?" "I'm talkin' about doin' it one more time." "I'm talkin' about takin' it to the man." " Mr. Big." " You got it, Slam." "Man, you must be crazy." "Check this out." " We are businessmen now." " Give me a break." "You two big motherfuckers in here making red beans and grits is business?" "Damn, Slade." "You sure know how to piss on a man's parade." "But, you know, it sure would be good to be back on top again." " What do you say, Slammer?" " What the fuck." "I ain't killed nobody in a long time." "The old warehouse, 6:00 P.M." "Be there or be square." "Five minutes, Flyguy." "What do you say, buddy?" "How you holdin' up?" "I'm hangin'." "A few more hours, I'll be a free man." "So what are your plans?" "Hey, man, let's cut the bullshit." "We known each other too long for that." " What are you here for?" " Mr. Big." " Big?" "What about him?" " We're gonna take him down." "I've been away too long." "Count me out." "The reason you been away so long is 'cause Mr. Big shot your ass through the grease... and put your black butt in this joint." "At one time, you were the biggest and baddest player out there, man." "Remember?" "Yeah, I remember." "I was Pimp of the Year." "Now, this has really been an exciting competition." "Now we'd like to announce our two finalists." "But first, how about a big hand for all our contestants?" "All right." "There we go." "The final category is talent." "Representing the big apple, Flyguy!" "I'm gonna try to do a little poetry for y'all." "It's an original piece written by me, Flyguy." "I want to dedicate this piece to all you players..." "And all you ladies out there." "Come on, baby!" "Name of this piece is called..." ""My bitch better have my money."" "My bitch better have my money... through rain, sleet or snow." " Brother's a Shakespeare!" " My ho better have my money." "That boy's a genius!" "Tell it!" "Not half, not some," "But all my cash." "Because if she don't," "I'm gonna put my foot dead in her ass." "The pimp of the year is Flyguy!" "Flyguy!" "Flyguy!" "## Picked by the brother's brother here ##" "## Picked by a jury of his peers ##" "## He's the pimp of the year ## Flyguy!" "Flyguy!" "Flyguy!" "Flyguy!" "## He's the pimp ##" "## Of the year ##" "## He's the pimp of the year ## Flyguy." "I want some information about the operation." "Where it is, how big it is, how many places." "Ten years of conversations in this place, with these cats coming in and out," "You got the 4-1-1." "Okay, I can do that for you." "You gotta promise me y'all won't hassle me." "I'm goin' back out on the street..." "And I'm takin' back what's mine," "And everything's gonna be just like it used to be." "I got no beef with you, Flyguy," "But I want Mr. Big." "Solid." "## It's so real you can feel it ##" "## And it's real ##" "## So real ## ## So real, so real" "Oh, man." "It's so good to be off my feet, man." "They been killin' me." "## I can dig it He can dig it We can dig it ##" "## She can dig it They can dig it You can dig it ##" "## Oh, we're diggin'... ##" "Hey, man, do you have to sing?" "I told you my feet been killin' me, you don't even care." "Say, man, if you can't dig my melodious voice, then just step on outside and walk on them precious, tender feet of yours." "Walk?" "Man, I ain't walking' nowhere, as bad as these bunions feel." "You must be crazy." "Let's go." "Oh, here we go." "Shit." "Man, I hate comin' into the city." "I'll get it nice and clean for you, man." "Let me get your window!" "Get off the goddamn car." "Hey!" "Oh, man!" "Yeah, man, okay." "I got it." "It's in my hands." "## Down from the bar ##" "## There's a platform stage ##" "## People primpin', pimpin' ##" "## Sharp as razor blades ##" "Yo, check out homeboy." "Say, dominic, brother's out there, huh?" "Look at the fish in those shoes!" "Girl, he must be a rock star." "This brother's walkin' on an aquarium." "Say, brother, do you get nosebleeds way up there?" "Maybe it's his dinner." "Hey, homey, are you expectin' a flood?" "Say, brother, you been shoppin' at the Goodwill?" "Hey, brother, that's an endangered species." "He looks like a clown!" "Where's the Mardi Gras?" "Hey, Jack." "All right." "You got the stuff?" "Yeah." "All cleaned and oiled." "Oh, yeah." "Beautiful." "Beautiful." " Let's get it on." " Who are these guys?" "That's my theme music." "Every good hero should have some." "Hammer." "Good to see you." "Slade." "Slammer, glad you could make it." "Who are we waitin' on?" "Kung Fu Joe." "He'll be here in a minute." "Who is he?" "This is Jack Spade, that new blood I was talkin' about." "What?" "Yo, new blood, you ever kill a man before?" "No." "You ever splatter a man's brains up against the wall?" "No." "You ever took a big, shiny blade and just ripped a man from his ass to his appetite?" " No." " Then cut his balls off and made him squeal like a pig?" "Hammer." "Hammer!" "And then stuffed 'em in his mouth and..." "Okay." "It's all right." " Well, have you?" " No, but I been trained to go out..." "Hey, man, no way." "This cat get all our asses killed." "Man, look at him." "He look funny." "Look how he's lookin' at us." "I can handle myself." "Oh, yeah?" "What makes you think you can be a black hero?" "I'm an ex-football player." "Hey!" "Kung Fu Joe." "Oh, my brothers." "I see you started without me." "Hiii!" "How are you?" "What's happenin'?" " Kung Fu!" " My man!" "Hyah!" "Hey, man, look, now that we're here, what's happenin'?" "Here's the deal." "The first thing we do is disrupt Big's businesses." "Break 'em all up." "The next thing is, we harass all of his people." "Now look, once the deal goes down, ain't no backing' off." "They killed my teacher!" "Why, why, why, why, why?" "Teacher!" "Teacher!" "Wow!" "Master Lee was your kung fu teacher?" "No." "Acting." "Let's get that sucka." "All right, guys, this is it." "Mr. Big's hottest night spot." "Every criminal and major player in town is inside." "Gentlemen, you gotta have big hats to come in here." "That's the rules of the house." "I think you're gonna make an exception this time, brother." "All right, okay." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Hey, are y'all crazy?" "Don't you know this is Mr. Big's place?" "Looks like you just lost your liquor license." "Everybody get your hands up," "Take that funky gold off your necks, and put it on the table right now!" "Let's go." "Hurry up." "Okay, you guys, come out from under those hats." "Come on!" "Wayne Evans!" "The Evans Family!" " Fifth grade!" "I want my nickel!" "Give me my nickel back!" "This is for your brother!" "Let's just say I ain't forgot!" "No!" "Come on, man!" "I ain't forgot!" "I ain't forgot fifth grade!" "Hey, man, from the waist down, you're mine!" "Yeah?" "Get on a ladder and see how tough you are!" "Let me put you in a chair!" "I was gonna buy a scooter pie with that money, man!" "Jack, shut up!" "Shut up!" "Now, all y'all listen up here!" "Don't try to follow us, 'cause all your cars are on blocks." "But don't worry." "The police'll be here to take y'all to jail." "And you tell the rest of your family, when I see 'em, they mine!" "They mine!" "And Lois Mitchell too!" "## Who's makin' love ## ## to your old lady ## ## are you out makin' love ##" "Come out of there!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Come on, let's go!" "Move, move, move, move!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on!" "Get out of here!" "I'm sorry." "Excuse me." " Can I get a little coffee?" " Sure, just a moment." "We got your greasy dairy." "Miss, I'd like a little coffee here, please!" "I just want a little coffee." "These cramps are killing me." "I'd like a little coffee, please!" "What are you, deaf?" "Can I get a little coffee?" "Please?" "Cheryl, you okay?" "I think I'd better go home." " It's my time." " Girl, me too." "I'm gonna go and lay down." "Okay?" "I know exactly how you feel." "Be strong." "All right, sweet thing, it's time to come home to daddy." "Please, please, just leave me alone." "Bitch, I said you comin' with me." "Oh, shit!" "You must got the devil in you!" "No!" "Cramps!" "I asked you nicely." "Now I'm going to rip your balls off!" "You okay, Lenny?" "Yeah." "It's a good thing you came, boy." "Yeah, 'cause I heard you screamin' all the way down there." "I wasn't screamin'!" "All right?" " Yes, you was..." " I said I wasn't screamin'." " I was whistling'." " You was what?" "I was whistling' for you!" "You was whistling', "Willie, help get this bitch off of me"?" "Yeah!" "Now get her butt in the car before she wake up again." "Nobody, but I mean nobody does this to me and lives." "Give me lieutenant Baker on the phone." "Leonard." "Take the girl to the hideout." "Yes, Mr. Big." " Lt. Baker is on the line." " Hello, Baker." "This is Big." "What the hell happened last night?" "That soldier boy and his goons hit every one of my operations." "He stole everyone's drugs, money and gold chains." "I want you to help me find those bastards that hit me and get rid of 'em!" "How am I gonna do that?" "I'm a cop." "I don't give a damn how." "Set 'em up or something." "Just do it." "You wanna get out of the car?" "What's the problem, officer?" "Just step out of the car." "The door is ajar." " Get your hands on the hood." " Please close the door." "Your door is ajar." "Look what we got here." "I said, close the door, shithead!" "So you want to try and set me up, huh?" "## Everybody was kung fu fighting ##" "## Those cats were fast as lightning ##" "## In fact, it was a little bit frightening ##" "## But they did it with expert timing ####" "Your arm!" "Spare ribs!" "Have a nice nap!" "Ohh, I'm gonna kick some ass now." "So, just you 57 punks against Kung Fu Joe?" "Master of karate, kung fu, jujitsu..." "And all other shit you ain't never heard of!" "Hey!" "You boys goin' somewhere?" "How come their guns are so much bigger than ours?" "It's a phallic thing." "I don't know." "Oh, no!" "Hey, what are you doing?" "Get off of me!" "Ohh!" "Oh, no!" "Hey, sorry, man." "I don't know that karate." "Me neither." " You wanna fake it?" " I don't care." "No!" "I didn't shoot you!" "I could've shot you." "I made sure that I missed." "I did." "Wait a minute!" "Wait one minute!" "You got a .45 revolver that holds six bullets." "I counted at least 20 shots, and you never reloaded." " That's right." " Come on!" "Hold it!" "Hold it, hold it, hold it." "Hold it." "That's Big's nephew." "He just might come in handy." "You okay, man?" "All that damn running', man, got my feet hurting'." "But other than that, I'm all right." "We'd better go find Slade." "Five, four, three, two." " Hello?" " Slade?" " Yeah." " It's Joe." "I've come to warn you..." "They tried to ambush me." "And now they're going to try and ambush you... and the brothers." "I fooled you." "I'm not home right now." " Leave your name and number." "I'll call you back." " Say what?" " Thanks for calling." "Bye." " He ain't home?" "Aw, homey ain't home." " I've gotta find Cheryl." " And just how you plan on doin' that?" "We don't even know where they're holdin' her." "Yeah?" "Well, I bet my man over here does." "Well, I'm glad you finally figured something out, G.I. Joe." "But I'm not tellin' you shit." "So how you like me now?" "Yes, you will." "Well, my pretty," "Soon it'll be you and me." "By midnight, your lover and his friends will be dead... and you will be Mr. Big's big moneymaker." "Yes, you will." "## War##" "## Yeah ##" "## What is it good for ##" "## Absolutely ## ## Nothin' ##" "## Uh-huh, uh-huh ## ## War ##" "## Huhh ## ## Yeah ##" "## What is it good for ##" "## Absolutely ## ## Nothin' ##" "## Say it again, y'all ##" "## War, look out ##" "## What is it good for ##" "## Absolutely ## ## Nothin' ##" "## Listen to me Ohhh, war ##" "## I despise ##" "## 'Cause it means destruction ## ## of innocent lives ##" "## War means tears to thousands of mothers' eyes ##" "## When their sons go off to fight ## ## and lose their lives ##" "## I said, war, huhh good god, y'all ##" "## What is it good for ##" "## Absolutely ## ## Nothin' ##" "## Say it again ## ## War ##" "## Whoa-ohh-ohh, lord ##" "## What is it good for ##" "## Absolutely ## ## Nothin' ##" "## Listen to me ##" "## War ## ## It ain't nothin' but a heartbreak ##" "Hey, man, are you sure you got enough?" "You can never have enough, brother." "## Ohh, war ##" "## Is an enemy to all mankind ##" "## The thought of war blows my mind ##" "Oh, jesus!" "My nuts!" "Hammer!" "Hammer!" "Are you all right, man?" "Did we get that son of a bitch?" "Hold on, brother." "We got an ambulance on the way." "Let's get that sucka!" "You think I'm cute?" "I'm cute, right?" "Mm-hmm." "I'm cuter than Jack?" "There she is!" "There's only a few guys guarding her, but I don't see Mr. Big." "Let me see it." "Yeah." "Look, here's the plan." "I'll take this rope and repel down the wall over there, take one of these bombs, crash through the window causing a diversion." "Once I'm inside, Jack, you go through that window, and Slammer, go through that door." "How come I can't go through the window?" "I never get to no more." "Well, pardon fuckin' me, then." "Okay, you crash through the goddamn window, and Jack, you go through the door." "Got it." "I'll start at the top, you get at the bottom, and if we're lucky we'll survive this." "Lift!" "Ohh!" "Give me a hand." "You farted?" "Slade!" "Slade, come in!" "You ready?" "Nobody move!" "Are you all right?" "Man, I'm all right." "It's been a long time." "I'm just a little rusty." "## Here we go, here we go ##" "Weasel..." "What?" "What happened to you, Weasel?" "Soldier boy!" "Oh, damn!" "The soldier boy is here, man!" "Jack!" "I'm hit!" "Shit." "You okay?" "I'm hit." "Where you..." "Where you hit at?" "In my foot." "Oh, my god." "They shot me in my bunion, man." "Damn, man, I can't go on." "W-well, what am I gon' do?" "Get 'em for me, Jack." "I c..." "But I can't!" "I can't go alone!" "You're down, and Slade's not here!" "I c..." "Slade!" "Ain't nobody shooting' my baby." "Ma!" "Ma, you promised!" "Shh!" "I know I promised." "What am I supposed to do, stand by while they kill you?" " Let's get out of here." "Follow me." " No, you follow me." " Follow me!" " I don't care who follows who." "If y'all step on my bunion, I'll kill both of you." " You gon' be okay, man?" " I'll be okay." "I can do it, man." "I won't let you down." "You gotta put that foot in some epsom salts, get that swelling' outta there." " Come on, mama!" " Let's get outta here." "Through that door!" "Go, go, go!" "Open this door!" "Jack, let me outta here!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Let me outta here!" "Open this door!" "Slade?" "Anybody!" "## Hard-core military ##" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Jack!" "Aaah!" "My eyes!" "My eyes!" "My eyes!" "Get me outta here!" "I missed you too, muffin." "Oh, this?" "This hurt real bad." "But I'm okay, you know." "All right, soldier boy." "Party's over, baby." "Where you want your bullet?" "Where you want it?" "## He's a Flyguy ##" "Chill it, brother." "I wouldn't do that if I was you..." "Chump." "Man, I don't know who you are, but I owe you one." "Now, you..." "Where's Big?" "Forget about Big." "Grab the chick." "Let's split." "Not so fast, boys!" "Nobody moves, or the girl gets it first." "Get over there!" "You?" "You're Mr. Big?" " But I thought you were..." " What?" "Above playing an exploitation villain?" "Well, you're wrong!" "Lots of famous people have done exploitation movies." "Uh, Shelley Winters was in..." "Cleopatra Jones." "Uh, Angie Dickinson." " Uh, Big Bad Mama!" " Big Bad Mama." "Jamie Lee Curtis?" "Halloween!" "Right, right, right!" "And now I'm Mr. Big." "And I'm sorry, boys," "But there ain't gonna be a sequel to this one." "Don't try it, Big." "I got you, sucka." "You did it, Jack." "You did it." "Yeah." "Yeah, I did it." "Let's go home." "Okay." " What about him?" " Ah, let him go." "Hey, thanks, man." "I promise, man, I'm gon' go straight." " Yeah, well, you know there's two ways out of here." " Oh, man!" "All y'all just kiss my natural black ass!" "Didn't he know about the elevator?" "Okay, let's go!" "Let's move it!" "Move it!" "Watch your head." "Looks like I'd better go check my flypaper, see what's stickin'." "You owe me one." "And you got it." "Get in that car!" "Watch your head." "Hey, Peterson, clear this mess up." "You got it." "What about Hammer and Slammer?" "Hammer'll be all right." "A few flesh wounds." "It seems that bullets have a difficult time finding his vital parts." "And Slammer, well, it'll be a while before he wears any tight shoes." "Jack!" "Jack Spade!" "I will never forgive you for locking' me in that closet." "How could you do that to your mama?" "Huh?" "How could you?" "M-ma, now listen." "I can ex..." "You can explain?" "Explain how I laid up in that hospital for 36 hours in labor, tryin' to give birth to you!" "I almost died." "Explain how I sacrificed my entire life for you, tryin' to raise you right!" "Explain!" "Bell." "Bell." "I told him to do it." "How could you, Slade?" "Because I love you, and I wanted to make sure we'd be together again." "Oh, Slade." "Oh, baby." " Yo, Jack, what's up, man?" " Yo, B.D.P." "Jack, who are these guys?" "That's my theme music." "Every good hero should have some." "See you around." "## Again we start let me say my part ##" "## About the only guy who has some heart ##" "## It took some time for the heart to come but it's here ##" "## And everybody's in fear ##" "## Crashin' through the door of that whore ##" "## Bringin' an end to this gold chain war ##" "## What you saw KRS-ONE is now seeing ##" "## Another fly human being ##" "## Making no excuses for the losers ##" "## Chain snatchers, pimps drug abusers ##" "## You don't like it but you gotta keep pushing ##" "## Until somebody starts mushing all these suckers ##" "## Claimin' to rule they environment ##" "## No, man I ain't buying' it ##" "## You seem to think that everybody can be taught ##" "## That everyone else can be bought ##" "## But you took it short 'cause one guy hasn't been paid ##" "Slade." "I must Slade." "Kung Fu Joe is here!" "I'm sorry, buddy." "They've already gone." "Yo, bro, you got a Band-Aid?"

"Previously on Battlestar Galactica." "Congratulations, Doctor." "You've just uncovered your very first Cylon." "I'm not a Cylon." "This isn't happening." "[gun fires]" "I've been here for months, by myself, on the run, one step ahead of the Cylons." "You're going out there or I'm gonna blow your brains out right here, right now." "[grunts]" "How did Crashdown die?" "He gave his life in the finest tradition of the service." "You have my parole." "When I'm on duty..." "I'll make no attempt to free her or sow insurrection among the crew." "And when I'm not on duty, I'll report directly back to this cell." "I have a few months to live." "And in that time, I will lead the people to salvation." "It is my sole purpose." "As it appears obvious that, the Government cannot function under the current circumstances," "I have decided to dissolve the Quorum of Twelve, [reporters chattering]" "And as of this moment," "I have declared martial law," "(Tigh) You're sweating." "It's hot in here." "How long have you known..." "Lt Valerii was planning to assassinate Commander Adama?" "I had no idea she was planning anything of the kind." "You were frakking her." "I ended that weeks ago on your orders." "You covered for her, you lied for her." "I admit I used bad judgment." "You protected her at every turn." "Colonel, I had no idea she was a Cylon." "I would like to exercise my Article 21 rights at this time." "[scoffing] I'm sure you would." "I guess you haven't heard, Cylons don't have rights." "Cylon?" "Wait a minute— You know what we do with Cylons, Chief?" "I am not a Cylon." "Roslin came up with the execution method." "I'm Galen Tyrol." "She put a Cylon out of the airlock." "My father was a priest." "My mother was an oracle." "I've served on Battlestar since I was 18 years old." "The Pegasus, Columbia, Atlantia, Galactica— [groans]" "Don't talk to me like you're a soldier!" "You are not a soldier!" "[groaning]" "The old man always had a soft spot for you." "Let him decide what to do with you." "Colonel, you gotta believe me." "I am not a Cylon." "I'd never do anything to hurt Adama." "I love the old man." "That's what your girlfriend said." "Get him the hell out of here!" "[man chattering on PA system]" "[gate clanking] [chains jangling]" "Chief." "[sobbing]" "I thought you were on Kobol." "[gate closing]" "Don't you talk to me." "Don't come near me." "Don't touch me." "If you do..." "I swear, I will kill you." "[Boomer sobbing]" "[leaves rustling]" "No sign of Centurions on the perimeter." "I don't like it." "Human toasters don't go anywhere alone." "Think they're bait?" "No." "A pair of Cylons don't just drive up here in broad daylight... not after we hit that convoy last week." "Frakking A." "[panting]" "All right, screw it." "Pass the word for everybody to sight in." "I want to blow these Cylons away before they ever knew what hit them." "Good." "We got to figure out where the hell we are." "Why?" "You don't know?" "You're the navigator." "You were driving." "(Starbuck) All right, we can head toward Cobb's Point." "There's an emergency airstrip there." "No, I've been...." "I was thinking we could head southwest towards— [gun cocking] Do you hear that?" "Drive through a lot of bad neighborhoods?" "Better safe than sorry." "I hear that." "[gun firing]" "We're sitting ducks down here!" "You go, I'll cover." "Why me?" "Don't start." "Fine!" "Ready?" "Yeah!" "Go!" "[panting]" "Five of them, spread out between nine and one!" "50 meters." "Ready?" "Go!" "I didn't see any shiny silver out there." "I think we're dealing with the human variety." "Hope so." "They're not as tough as mechanicals." "Yeah." "They do bleed good, though." "You gotta like that." "[panting]" "(Helo) Let's get out of here." "Come on." "They locked the Chief up with Boomer." "Tigh thinks he's a Cylon." "I know." "I'm going to see the Colonel now." "I think he wants me to find a way to clear the Chief or...." "Or what?" "Throw him out the airlock like a piece of garbage?" "If Commander Adama were in charge this would never happen." "Yes, but he's not in charge, is he?" "But I've known the Chief for years." "He's no toaster." "He was involved with Lieutenant Valerii, who most certainly is a toaster." "That word is racist." "I don't like it." "(Cally) Sure... he's shown some bad judgment getting involved with her." "But that doesn't mean he's a toaster." "You've got to help him." "Say something, Gaius." "Tell me you won't have racial epithets used in your presence." "I'm very sorry." "I was going to tell the Colonel there's nothing I can do." "The Cylon detector I developed doesn't work." "Clearly." "No." "You've got to help him." "Your child's gonna be half toaster." "How does that make you feel?" "Nothing could make me happier." "I just don't know what I'd possibly say." "Excuse me." "(Cally) He helped you." "He didn't tell anyone what you did on Kobol." "What you did to Crashdown." "[gasping]" "What I did to Crashdown saved your life." "Are you blackmailing me?" "Help the Chief, help yourself, Doctor." "Yes, Doctor." "That's what you're best at, isn't it?" "Deck log." "What the hell's the matter with your Cylon detector, Doctor?" "You gave the assassin a pass." "Yes, but that was a beta test." "A preliminary." "Clearly, I haven't perfected my methodology and she slipped through." "(Dualla) Fuel report." "(Tigh) What the hell are you telling me here... that we are back to square one?" "That no one's results are definitive?" "No, I—" "That we have no way of knowing who are the Cylons among us?" "(Baltar) I'm not saying that." "I'm saying since Valerii's test—" "Since the assassin's test, I've developed a new set of protocols... which should eliminate any errors, anomalies, that cropped up earlier." "If you let me test the Chief's blood..." "I might be able to tell once and for all—" "No if." "I want a definitive answer, no more of your weasly techno-babble." "He's a Cylon or he's not... so get down there and do something right for a change." "I am the Vice President." "Legally speaking, if the president is incapacitated... shouldn't I take over her duties?" "Legally speaking, I have declared martial law and that makes you nobody." "[machines beeping]" "So, unless you want to join Roslin in the brig..." "I suggest you get to work." "It's good to see you, Colonel." "Aren't you getting tired of the continual humiliation?" "The disrespect from mechanics and colonels alike?" "What do you think?" "Maybe it's time to do something about it?" "(Gaeta) Sir?" "What's this?" "The fleet captains are reporting protests among civilians... demonstrations, petitions, even some civil disobedience... all over the declaration of martial law." "Sir, there's more." "The Tauranian refining vessel has stopped refining tylium." "They say if they don't have a voice in the government—" "What?" "Their captain says they'll send fuel... once a civilian government has been restored... and, three other ships are also refusing to re-supply Galactica, until the President's reinstated." "And I got a note from Combat, warning about problems with tylium re-supply... so watch your fuel burn until further notice." "Questions?" "When you coming back to the card game?" "I'm afraid when I'm off duty, I'll be enjoying the intimate surroundings of the brig... until... well, until further notice." "Come on back." "We miss you, Captain." "We could bring the game to you." "Somehow I doubt Col. Tigh would approve." "There's one going on tomorrow night!" "Hey, all right." "All right." "Hey, knock it off!" "Morning, sir." "Sergeant." "Shall we?" "[people chattering]" "Morning, sir." "Morning, Dee." "Fancy meeting you here." "I was just on my way, sir." "Hey, guys." "How's it going, Dee?" "Good, thanks." "How's my father today?" "Commander Adama's the same, Captain." "He's sedated." "Resting comfortably since the surgery." "Trouble brewing in the fleet, though." "Oh, I'm shocked." "What kind of trouble?" "Martial law isn't going down too well." "Protests, demonstrations... some ships are even refusing to re-supply Galactica," "And this is the honeymoon period." "What's a dictator to do?" "[chuckles]" "Yeah, I wish.... [sighing]" "I wish you were in command, sir." "Dee...." "He's hitting the bottle." "A lot." "Thank you for the company, Petty Officer Dualla." "You're welcome, sir." "[gate opening]" "[woman chattering on PA system]" "[Ellen sighing]" "You okay, baby?" "No, I'm not okay." "My head feels like it's gonna roll off my shoulders." "What are you working on?" "I'm trying to figure out how to solve our re-supply problem... now that half the fleet has gone out on strike." "Are you serious?" "Yes, I'm serious." "I should probably call a summit." "Sit down with all the ship captains... and explain the situation and tell them why I had to declare martial law." "Screw them." "Like you have to explain yourself to them." "It wouldn't hurt." "Might cool things down a little." "What?" "Nothing." "No, No, No, it's...." "You're the boss." "Far be it for me to tell you how to do your job." "I know that's one of your issues." "Just say it." "I don't know, it just feels kind of touchy-feely." "You know, "Let's all sit down and talk about how we feel about martial law."" "Bill would never do that." "But you gotta do what you gotta do..." "I mean, Bill may never get on his feet again." "Honey." "Honey, you handle this the way you want." "They'll respect that..." "eventually." "This is the XO." "Mr Gaeta, send the following to all ships captains." "Message begins:" ""Re-supply operations of this ship are not, repeat, not optional." ""All ships to recommence scheduled supply runs immediately." "Failure to comply will result in stern measures."" "Message ends." "You happy now?" "(Starbuck) I'll flank!" "I'll draw fire!" "[panting]" "[gun cocking]" "No, no." "Hi." "[guns cocking]" "We're not Cylons." "Right." "You're human." "You have a soul." "You swim in the stream." "We heard it all before." "Hey, Colonial Fleet." "Notice the uniforms?" "Yeah, right." "We've seen Cylons in uniform before." "We're human." "Yeah, right." "(Starbuck) Everyone on Caprica is dead." "You're not." "I just got here." "I want to hear some names." "I'm Anders." "Samuel T. Anders?" "Yeah, that's right." "That's Jo-Man, Rally, Ten Point, Sue-shaun, Crip-key, Morris Fink." "Kara, these are the Caprica Buccaneers." "[scoffs] I don't think so." "Give me a ball, little girl." "I'll shove it up your ass." "Please." "Try." "Okay, since we're all getting along so well... can people stop pointing their guns at us?" "How does a professional pyramid team survive a nuclear holocaust?" "We were in the mountains when the Cylons attacked." "High altitude training." "We've been on the run ever since." "Doing what?" "Raiding military stores for ammo, anti-radiation meds... and plugging toasters whenever they show up." "Same as us." "Okay." "How many foul breaks did you have in the play-off against Aerilon?" "You're kidding, right?" "You either have the answer or you have a bullet." "Three." "Wrong." "Four." "Three." "Last one was called back on instant replay." "(Helo) He's right, Starbuck." "I lost 20 cubits on that game." "Fine, for now." "On three." "One." "Two." "Three." "[Anders sighs]" "You know you guys suck, right?" "You can't shoot, you can't pass, and you sure as hell can't take a point." "Everyone's a critic." "Here's your medication, Madam President." "And a little something from the galley." "Thank you, Cpl Venner." "Chamalla and licorice." "Would you like some?" "I hate licorice." "Me, too." "It's interesting he still calls you, "Madam President."" "You still have a lot of supporters out there." "Something ugly is coming." "I can feel it." "Sir, the refinery captain's still not cooperating." "And now seven other container ships... are refusing to release their supplies, food, medicine, even coffee." "Coffee?" "This is getting ridiculous." "Frak this." "It's time to get their attention." "I'm sending in the Marines." "I want a Raptor and an armed Marine boarding party... for every ship refusing the re-supply order." "Sir, we're stretched pretty thin on manpower." "I'm not sure we have enough Marine non-coms... to command that many boarding parties." "Pull pilots and deck officers... to command the boarding parties if you have to." "Tell them to get over there and bring back the supplies." "Whatever it takes." "Make it happen, Lieutenant." "Yes, sir." "People, step back." "All right." "We're just here for the supplies!" "Stay out of our way and no one gets hurt!" "(Palladino) For the last time!" "Step back, all right!" "Get back!" "[people clamoring]" "[gun fires] [woman screams]" "[groans] [screaming]" "Cease fire!" "[machines beeping]" "(Tigh) Four civilian dead." "How the frak could this have happened?" "What did you expect, genius?" "You put a pilot in charge of crowd control." "[people chattering]" "Palladino!" "Did you give the order to shoot on that crowd?" "No, sir." "Of course not." "The crowd surrounded us." "Were they armed?" "No, sir, but... you had to be there." "They were yelling and screaming at us... and then it got violent." "They started throwing things, canisters... coffee, I think." "Coffee?" "You shot people for throwing coffee?" "The crowd was out of control, they were pressing in on us." "My men were getting hurt." "Somebody took a shot..." "I don't know who it was." "Then all hell broke loose." "If ever we needed you, Bill, it's right now." "Troops shooting unarmed civilians." "This is a travesty." "He has truly stepped over the line." "It'll cause an explosion in the fleet." "The press will have a field day." "The ships will begin to splinter." "The Cylons will be able to eliminate us a few ships at a time." "I've got to get out of here now." "Corporal." "I'm right with you." "I'm so glad you said that." "I wanna take Billy and Elosha with me." "Of course you do." "I've worked out a way of getting us in the hangar deck... and I can get us a Raptor." "But we're still gonna need clearance to get off the ship." "I know how to get that." "You do?" "Mmm-hmm." "The question is, where do we go once we get off this ship?" "We'll have to find some place to hide in the fleet... while we rally support among the people." "(Apollo) I've got an idea about that." "You're not gonna like it." "I'm not cut out for this." "I never was." "Don't talk like that, Saul." "This is your moment." "Me and Bill, side by side, that was the deal." "It was never supposed to be me alone." "Well, like it or not, you're in command." "So you better deal with it." "I don't want to "deal with it." I do not want a command, don't you get it?" "Jeez, why do I listen to you?" "What are you talking...." "I never told you to send troops out to that ship." "No, no." "You didn't tell me to send troops anywhere." "You just manipulate." "You always do." "You put the knife in and you twist it." "Oh, right." "You're gonna blame me for your own inadequacies?" "I'm not blaming you, Ellen." "You are so frakking passive... that if I didn't push you..." "Well, forget it." "you'd never get your head out of that frakking bottle and do anything!" "[bottle shattering]" "I'm warning you, I'm telling— Get your.... [grunting] [moaning]" "Oh, yeah." "I love you so much." "Shut up, Ellen." "I guess you really must hate me." "I don't know if it makes any difference right now... but I'm really sorry you got pulled into this." "You know, what we had— Was nothing." "Nothing." "You're a machine." "I'm not." "Well, whatever I am, I know how I felt." "Software doesn't have feelings." "(Baltar) Open cell." "I never meant to hurt you." "[gate opening]" "I'd like some privacy, please." "I'll be fine, thank you." "And how are we this evening?" "What do you want?" "I'm here to determine whether you're a Cylon or not." "Your arm, please." "His test doesn't work too well." "I mean, he gave me the green light." "The test works... just fine." "Chief?" "Chief?" "(Baltar) I lied to you, Sharon." "I covered up your true nature from the rest of the fleet for my own purposes." "What did you do to him?" "He's not breathing!" "No, he's dying right now, Sharon." "I can save him, if you tell me how many Cylons there are left in the fleet." "I don't know, but I'm not getting a pulse!" "Yes, you do." "Now, buried, deep down in that thing you call a subconscious, you know." "How many?" "I don't know!" "He doesn't have time for this, Sharon." "His organs are shutting down." "In 10 seconds time, he'll experience complete brain stem death." "Now, how many?" "[Boomer sobbing]" "Do you love him, Sharon?" "Only you can save him." "Ten, nine...." "Do you love him?" "Do you love him, Sharon?" "Eight!" "There are eight!" "[gasping]" "[groaning]" "All right, let's get these weapons unloaded!" "Let's go!" "We raided an armory earlier today, about 18 klicks north." "Brought home a lot of toys." "What is this place?" "Delphi Union High School." "Toasters don't patrol this area." "It's a good place to get some shut-eye, a bite to eat." "How many people you have here?" "53." "We had almost a 100 before the toasters ambushed us last week." "Let's go!" "More pyramid teams?" "No." "Just us C-Bucs." "The rest are survivalists, hikers, mostly." "How's your stock of anti-radiation meds?" "(Anders) We raided a couple of hospitals down in Pilgrim Bay." "I figure we've got enough for about three months." "Let's get you some bunk space." "Come on." "Fifty-three, huh?" "Not exactly an army." "A hell of a lot better than the two of us if we're going to assault an airbase... steal a Heavy Raider and get the frak off this planet." "I'll just be a moment." "[machines beeping]" "Doctor..." "I need your help." "But it's illegal, dangerous, and in violation of your oath as an officer." "You're a lousy salesman." "Corporal." "Cpl Venner." "I just want to tell you how much the President appreciates... all the little things you do for her." "Hey, anything I can do to make things easier for her." "Great." "She has a special request." "If I could just get your signature, sir." "[sighing]" "Why are we closing down Causeway B?" "Integrity testing, sir." "It got chewed up pretty bad when the toasters boarded us... and we've been getting some pressure drops in there." "Tell them to get it fixed." "[man chattering on PA system]" "[exclaims]" "Sorry." "Lieutenant." "Things are pretty frakked up these days." "Things are pretty frakked up most days." "If people are upset they should go through proper channels, so...." "I'm not sure I understand what you— I was running some maintenance checks... and detected a series of scrambled calls going out over the past few hours." "You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?" "No, sir." "Off-log calls are against regs." "That's right." "[door closing] [cardiograph beeping]" "I'm sure you won't approve." "But I guess that's nothing new." "I just want you to know that this...." "This isn't about you and me." "[footsteps approaching]" "Goodbye, Dad." "[people chattering]" "You gonna help out here or what?" "They're putting the Chief in there, you know." "I don't care if they put a giant parakeet in here." "The Colonel says we build a cell, we build a cell." "This isn't right." "He's one of us." "No." "He's one of them." "He always was." "We just never saw it." "No, he's innocent." "She tricked him." "Such loyalty." "Were you frakking him, too?" "[both grunting]" "You want to get pissed at someone, you get pissed at Boomer." "She's the one who put the Chief in this cell here, not us." "A truce?" "[panting]" "Evening, sir." "Evening, Dee." "Fancy meeting you here." "Everything set?" "Roger that." "Sorry, Captain." "Can't chit-chat today." "Captain." "I'm having trouble with the ordinance tracking on my Raptor, sir." "I can't get it to cycle." "Oh, change of plans, boys." "Instead of getting some rack time..." "I'm gonna take a minute to do the Lieutenant's job for her." "(man) Yes, sir." "After you." "Thank you." "Okay, make it look good, but not too good." "[gasping]" "Hold it!" "Private, do you know who I am?" "Good." "You and I have something in common." "We each took an oath to protect and defend the Articles of Colonization." "Those Articles are under attack... as is our entire democratic way of life." "Now, my duty won't let me stand here and allow that to happen." "So I intend to go through that hatch and get off this ship." "Damn it." "They should be here by now." "You can either stand aside or you can shoot me." "You'll have to decide where your duty lies." "Madam President...." "Madam President, this way." "Oh, Billy...." "Madam President..." "I'm not getting on that ship with you." "What?" "I understand what you're trying to do." "But it's gonna divide the fleet." "At the very best, it'll create an insurgency against Adama and at the worst, a civil war." "Taking part in that is a line that I won't cross." "(Apollo) We do not have a lot of time." "I wish you well." "Dustoff two-seven, Checkers green... ready for launch on medical mission." "Request clearance." "Good to see you." "You okay?" "I think so." "My feet barely touched the ground getting here." "I know what you mean." "(man on radio) Dustoff two-seven, Standard port three departure approved," "Cleared for launch," "Standard port three, wilco." "Sir, Cpl Venner reports the former President's missing." "Missing?" "Two men down." "Cell's empty." "Damn it." "Alert security." "Set Condition Two." "No one on or off the ship." "[alarm blaring]" "Attention." "Set Condition Two throughout the ship." "Repeat." "Set Condition Two throughout the ship." "Sir, flight log records a Raptor departed ship two minutes ago... with Doc Cottle on a medical emergency." "Medical?" "Confirm that." "Dradis has their transponder bearing 2-8-7 carom 0-0-3." "Range 2-7." "Get the CAP on the horn and have them intercept." "And get Captain Adama out of the brig." "Sir, Doctor Cottle is still onboard." "He says he was forced to request the Raptor at gunpoint by Apollo." "Son-of-a-bitch." "Dee, put me through to that Raptor." "(Gaeta) CAP has visual on the target." "Turn that ship around, Apollo, or I'll order the CAP to shoot you down." "(Apollo) We're not turning back," "I'll do it." "And don't think I won't just because you're the old man's son." "Then do what you have to do, Galactica," "Apollo out." "Fire across their bow." "Hotdog, Galactica, Fire across their bow." "Acknowledge." "Wilco, Galactica." "Hotdog reports they're not turning around, sir." "Where are they now?" "Dradis shows them approaching Cloud Nine." "(Gaeta) Sir, if they dock, we may lose them." "Cloud Nine is one of the busiest transport hubs in the fleet." "Shuttles are coming and going constantly." "If they board one and take off, it'll be before we can shut down air traffic." "Galactica, Hotdog, Request instructions," "Galactica, Hotdog, I need further instructions," "Do I fire or not?" "Dee, tell Hotdog to hold his fire." "Repeat, weapons hold." "Do not fire." "Hotdog, Galactica, Weapons hold." "Repeat, do not fire." "[people murmuring]" "They couldn't have done it on their own." "Anybody notice off-log calls?" "Scrambled communications?" "No, sir." "Nothing." "Well, we're home free for now." "(Zarek) Good to see you, Madam President." "Captain Apollo... what is Mr Zarek doing here?" "Once Tigh gets over his initial shock, he'll send troops out to search for us." "If we're going to make it we have to keep on the move." "I figured Mr Zarek here is the only one in the fleet... with enough shady friends around who could possibly hide us." "I love the way he puts that." "Well, Mr Zarek." "It would seem the enemy of my enemy is my friend." "Call me Tom." "A shuttle's waiting, ma'am." "We have to hurry." "[sighing]" "Wow, is that the best you can do?" "Nice to know installing a regulation pyramid court... was one of the priorities of the Resistance." "Well, there are some things one cannot live without." "Let's go." "(Anders) Are you kidding me?" "I'd wipe the court with you." "We'll see about that." "I was up for the pros." "Bum knee took me out of contention." "I see." "Is that gonna be your excuse when I kick your ass?" ""My poor knee hurts."" "At least I have an excuse." "I can't imagine what yours is gonna be." "[both grunting]" "[yells]" "Nice shot." "Thanks." "Thanks, Doc." "I appreciate it." "Don't thank me." "Thank her." "(Tyrol) Why?" "What did she have to do with it?" "(Baltar) Everything." "Nothing." "Love is a strange and wonderful thing, Chief." "You'd be happy you experienced it at all." "Even if it was with a machine." "(Tyrol) What're they going to do to her?" "They're setting up a new holding facility." "There will be tests, mental, physical." "Like she's...." "Like she's some kind of lab rat?" "That's the idea." "This is just great." "Bill Adama's little baby boy pulls the wool over your eyes... and you let him get away scot free." "You're a laughingstock." "You didn't want this command." "Well, don't worry about it." "You won't have it for much longer." "All because when push came to shove, you got shoved." "It was his son." "(Adama) Saul." "What's happening on my ship?" "Wait in the corridor." "Ellen, can I speak to my XO?" "Of course." "[grunting] Slow." "[panting]" "What's happened?" "I've frakked things up and good." "How?" "I made some bad calls." "[chuckles]" "I've done that." "Not like these." "You gonna pour us one of those or what?" "Yeah." "I never had much use for people who second-guessed my decisions... especially if they've never held a command." "They don't understand the pressure." "You make a call... that affects the lives of thousands... and you have no one to turn to for backup." "(Tigh) You make it look easy." "You know that's a lie now." "A lot of pieces to pick up." "Then we'll pick them up together." "Where's my son?" "(man) Bitch!" "(woman) Traitor!" "[people yelling]" "[gun fires]" "[mumbling]" "No, no, no, no." "[gasping]" "I love you, Chief."

"As class president," "I thought things would change for me, but I couldn't have been more wrong." "When you two are done, see me in my office." "Who are you?" "Mr. Edwards." "New principal." "You were fighting." "Why?" "'Cause he hates black people, and I'm a black person." "That's a lie." "I love Michael Jordan." "I think Gary Coleman is hysterical." "And don't even get me started about Billy Ocean." ""Caribbean Queen. "" "That's a very good song." "See?" "Just because you watch Soul Train don't make you Don Cornelius." "Mr. Edwards, he has been picking on me since the first day I came to this school." "Is that true?" "All right, Caruso, you can go." "What?" "Why?" "Before coming to Corleone," "Principal Edwards was on a self-imposed, three-year vow of silence." "Keep your filthy hands off of my school lunch program!" "You get the hell out...!" "Which he allegedly began two minutes after cursing like a madman and knocking out the teeth of his former boss." "Have you ever consered the possibility this is your fault?" "That's what they said to Rodney King." "My fault?" "He's threatened by you, Chris." "Your very presence makes him doubt his ability to succeed." "He always succeeds in punching in the face." "He's using you as a manifestation of his angst." "Subsequently, he's trying to quell his anxiety by conquering you, thereby conquering his fear." "By punching me in the face?" "Exactly." "So you want me to just let him do it?" "Have you thought about trying to see things from his point of view?" "So you want me to punch him in the face?" "Have you ever seen the film The Defiant Ones?" "The Defiant Ones?" "No." "What's that?" "Two men are shackled together while trying to escape from prison- one white, one black, one educated one..." "They learn they have to depend on each other or perish." "That's what I'm going to do for you." "You're going to chain us together and put us in jail?" "Yeah!" "Figuratively." "I'm taking some students on a field trip tomorrow." "You and Caruso are going to come along." "Have your mother sign this." "To help you and Caruso learn to depend on each other," "I'm going to employ the buddy system." "The buddy system?" "You and Caruso are going to be buddies." "Just like the Crips and the Bloods." "2x06 Everybody Hates The Buddy System" "Well I was perfent Caruso in a whole new way," "Tonya was working on a new look, too." "Mom... can I borrow your clip-on hoop earrings?" "But all my friends are wearing pink shirts and hoop earrings." "I'm not your friends' mother." "I don't know, Mom." "Earrings may draw away attention from her big, old head." "You got a big head." "You're head-mo-knotty, got more head than you got body." "Your head so big, your hat got two floors." "Your head so big, you got to put on your shirts feet first." "Your head so big, it has a moon." "All right." "Enough now." "Tonya, why don't you wear your flower earrings?" "You're too young for hoops, that's women's jewelry." "And I don't want people looking at my daughter like that." " Like what?" " Like this." "You see the earrings on that girl?" "Everybody else has them." "Well, if everybody else got a butt whooping, would you want one, too?" " Where's Chris?" " He left early." "He had to go on a field trip." "Hey Dad, check it out." "I got a hundred on my spelling test." "All right." "My man!" "I was thinking..." "Could I get a hockey jersey, since I got a hundred on my test?" "You're supposed to get a hundred, you don't get a prize for doing well." "My father never rewarded good behavior." "Dad, I cleaned out the tub." "You're supposed to clean the tub, it's your dirt ring." "Hey, Dad." "I fixed the heater." "You're supposed to fix the heater." "You're the one who likes it warm." "Hey, Dad, I slaughtered a pig." "You're supposed to slaughter a pig." "You're the one that likes bacon." "Julius, it's just a hockey jersey." "Mom, it's not just a hockey jersey." "It's Wayne Gretzky." "He's the best player in the league." "Gretzky, huh?" "I'll think about it." "Okay, time to go to school." "Coming." "Geez, Caruso?" "Why didn't he just kick you into traffic?" "I don't know." "But I'm going to give it a shot." "I mean, it can't get any worse." "That's what people said while they were boarding the Amistad." "So who's your buddy?" "Hey, Greg, you ready?" "Sure am." "I'll be right there." "You got a girl?" "Not just a girl, but a girl who's interested in the evolution of species." "I am so in there." "Come on, Bubbles." "Right now, I'd feel safer at the Neverland Ranch." "Hey, Julius." "You want some tap shoes?" " Tap shoes?" " Yeah." "I got men's." "I got women's and children's, huh?" "You get your whole family some tap shoes." "My father always thought if you wore tap shoes, you had to tap dance." " We're friends of the deceased." " Oh, right this way." "You can't make no money tap dancing." "What I really need is a hockey jersey for Drew." "Wayne Gretzky." "Hockey?" "What kind of kids you raising?" "Do you have one or not?" "All right, all right." "Hockey, uh..." "I'm sorry, I-I don't have anything, but if I find something, I'll let you know." "All right, brother." "All right." "Okay." "Take care." "Hockey?" "Them kids in trouble." "My father was dealing with the bad news while my mother was getting great news." "What?" "The guy I'm seeing has kidney stones!" "Vanessa, that's good news?" "We got tickets to see Patti LaBelle." "And he can't go!" "Listening to Patti LaBelle could make my mother feel good, no matter what." "Come on, Pepito." "I told you, man, I didn't do it." "Cual es tu ltimo voluntad?" "Can you play "New Attitude"?" "Wait a minute, wait." "I gotta figure out what I'm gonna wear." "Me, too." "Oh, girl, I'll see you later." " Wear that blue dress." " I like you in the blue dress." "Yeah, girl." "All right, class, listen up." "I reiterate:" "we are on the buddy system today." "So, you are responsible for your buddy." "No matter what happens, stay together." "We have about two hours, so you have plenty of time to see all the exhibits." "Is he kidding?" "You can come here every weekend for years and still barely scratch the surface." "After 20 years, Greg still hasn't made it out of the bone exhibit." "Now remember... the only way you're going to get along with Caruso is if you understand why he hates you." "He needs your help." "Buif I'm helping him, who's gonna help me?" "You're helping yourself." "Spoken like a true white man." "Come on, man, we've gotta go before the bus leaves us." "Listen, Bohannon, relax." "The bus isn't going to leave without us." "The whole class is waiting on us." "I thought you people were used to being late." "Come on, man, we've got to go." "All you've been doing since we got here is complaining." "Well, I haven't really seen anything." "All I've seen is you eating in the cafeteria for over an hour." "All right, you know what?" "I'm sorry." "I'll just be another minute." " Really?" " Maybe Principal Edwards was right." "Caruso might make a change." "Yeah, just do me a favor, hold this." " Now, go wait by the door." " Okay." "Tim, do you need cashier help or security?" "The buddy system was failing miserably, but the black decoy system was working great." "Usually Greg would've noticed if I was gone, but if you put a girl in front of him, he didn't see anything else." "Hurry up, I want to get on this bus." "Don't worry, I'm sure they saved you a spot in the back." "Which one's ours?" "I think it's that one." "I think I should've been buddies with the bus driver." "How come you didn't tell me the bus was leaving?" "When I said "Let's hurry up before the bus leaves us,"" "what bus did you think I was talking about?" "Sorry, I couldn't understand all your crazy jive talk." "Okay, we can catch the next train, and we'll be back in no time." "I spent all my money on food." "Okay, fine, I think I have enough money to get two tokens." "So let's go." "Who put you in charge?" "I'm just trying to get us back to school." "Just let me make the decisions." "Why should I do that?" "How many times do I have to punch you before you get a clue?" "Don't you watch the movies?" "Gene Wilder made all the decisions in Silver Streak." "Richard Pryor just followed orders." "So... what do you want to do?" "Let's take the next train." "To get back to Brooklyn, it felt like we went around the entire city." "We went through Chinatown..." "The meatpacking district..." "We even went through theatre district." "The only place we didn't go through was our school district." "While me and Caruso were lost," "Tonya was trying not to get found out." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to see Patti LaBelle." "How do I look?" "You look like one of those ladies from those old movies." "Who asked you?" "Well, I think you look better in the brown skirt, the beige stripped shirt." "Brush your hair back and put on your gold hoop earrings." "He's good." "And can I get some potato chips before dinner?" "Yeah, yeah, go ahead." "Tonya knew she was going to be caught." "Just didn't know when." "Did you take my earrings?" "What earrings?" "Okay, here's how this works, Tonya." "You can keep lying, or you can tell me you took my earrings." "You decide." "You promise you won't yell?" "I won't yell." "I took you earrings... and I lost one." "Didn't I tell you not to touch my earrings?" "!" "You promised you wouldn't yell." "I've been falling for that one for years." "Do you know how valuable those earrings were, Tonya?" "!" "Whenever my mother was ready to kill one of us, she'd always count down from five." "Five four three two one." "That's it." "I'm going to let your father handle this." "After taking a tour of the city," "I decided it was time to take charge." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to call my mother." " I'm making the decisions around here." " Not for me." "You can do whatever you feel like doing, but I'm calling my mother." "Well, give me a quarter, too." "I'll call my mom." "No." "I only have one quarter." "Ah, don't worry about it." "I'll have my mother call your mother." "Mom." "Yeah, it's Joey." "All right, if the school calls and says I'm lost," "I'm not." "Nah, I'm okay." "I'm with Chris." "Yeah, the black one." "Strange realizing that Caruso had a loving family at home." "A loving racist family." "All right." "Love you." "Bye." "Hey, you were supposed to tell her to call my mom." "Forgot." "Sorry." "Why don't you call collect?" "That's what the guys in prison do." "Move!" " Hello?" " I have a collect call from..." "My dad couldn't always give us what we wanted, but he would always do his best." "Hey, Dad." "I'm really proud of you for getting 100 on that test, so here you go." "What do you think?" "Drew thought about saying this..." "Gritsky?" "It's not Gritsky." "It's Gretzky with an "E"!" "I scored 100 on my spelling test." "I can't wear this!" "You got that big old head, and you can't even spell" "Gretzky." "Maybe you should take my spelling classes." "I ain't wearing this." "But if he did, here's what would've happened." "What's the story?" "Apparently, the kid loves hockey." "Father brings home a jersey that says Gritsky with an "I"" "instead of Gretzky with an "E."" "Son mouths off, dad loses it, shoves the jersey down the kid's throat." " Is that the jersey?" " It's all we could find." "Good thing he didn't ask for skates." "So?" "It's cool." "Thanks, Dad." "The next year, Drew got a Yankees jersey that said Mezzie Mackson." "You better talk to your daughter before I kill her." "Why?" "What happened?" "Go ask her." "All that could save Tonya was a sad look." "What's going on?" "Mom's really mad at me." "Tell me what happened." "I just wanted to wear earrings like my friends, so I took Mom's gold hoops, and I lost one." "Oh, Tonya." "Do you think maybe I could save up and buy another pair?" "It's not about the money, Tonya." "I gave your mother those earrings." "You can't replace them." "What are you going to do?" "My father could've spanked Tonya, or grounded her until she was grown, but he said something that made her feel worse than all of that." "I'm really disappointed in you." "Father, I have brought disgrace to myself and to our family." "Tonya, no!" "Leave me now, Father." "I must whup myself until you can find it in your heart to forgive me." " I'm sorry." " Did you tell your mother that?" "Will you come with me?" "Did I take the earrings?" "Good luck." "Are you sure we're on the right train?" "You're in charge." "You tell me." "Look, nobody told you to wait for me in the first place." "We're on the buddy system, which means I'm supposed to stay with you no matter what." "You think I want to be here?" "Shoot, if I had done what I wanted to do, you'd be sitting here by yourself." "Well, go then." "Fine." "So long, Caruso." "Enjoy with your new friends." "Even though Caruso had got on my last nerve," "I was afraid I might be his last chance." "So, you take that to Brookly Beach stop, and you're right there, all right?" "How'd you get here before me?" "I took the express train." "This is the local train." "Hey, man, why'd you leave your boy out here like that?" " We could've hurt him." " I came back to get him." "What you want me to do?" "Leave him alone." "If he gets hurt, I think it effects my grade." "Hey, man, in the buddy system, you never leave your buddy." "No matter what." " You understand?" " Yeah." "Good." "Now give me your wallet." "I don't have any money in it." "Did I ask you all of that?" "I guess this is what Martin Luther King fought for, black and white bullies side by side ready to kick my ass." "Hold on to that." "What now?" "Well, we switch platforms and then head back downtown." " All right, let's go." " Oh, wait." "So you really came back for me?" "Yeah." "Why?" "Because I would have left you." "For real?" "Yeah, man." "You're dumb." " Those guys could have killed you." " All right." "All right, you done?" "Let's go home, Muddy." "Look, I don't know what you have against me." "Hey, I don't even know you." "So, I was wondering maybe..." "You know, maybe we can be cool." "You don't even have to like me." "Yeah, I know what you mean." " Tell you what." " What?" "If you can run faster than I can throw," "I won't hit you with this battery." "Hey, man, where have you been?" "We missed the bus." "Was anyone looking for us?" "So, how are things going with you and Jennifer?" "It was going great until we got into a debate about whether humans or climatic change caused the demise of the Pleistocene megafauna." "Idiots!" "It didn't end well." "Same as Bobby and Whitney." "So how did it go?" "Oh, the buddy system?" "Oh, it was all right." "Really?" "Even after I left you at the museum." "Wait." "You left, me and Caruso alone on purpose?" "You can't do that." "I mean, we're kids." "Anything could've happened." "I had my eyes on you the whole time." " What?" " That's right." "From Chinatown through the Bronx down through Harlem." "Here's your wallet." "Okay, I-I really don't understand." "What was the point?" "Caruso still hates me." "What about you?" "Did you learn anything today?" "Well," "I learned that Caruso didn't like me yesterday, he doesn't like me today, and he's not going to like me tomorrow." "Yes, all that's true." "But you're forgetting you learned something else today much more important." "What?" "You learned that I was wrong."

"28." "The decedent's name is Christina Adalian," "Gunshot to the temple." "Her sist er is over there, just came in from L.A." "When no one answered the door, she looked inside." "Saw her sist er on the floor." "The playpen with the baby was next to the body." "Police officers kicked in the door" "Where's the father?" "Well, according to her sister, she's a single mom, they lived alone." "Hey." "Lividity suggests she hasn't been moved." "Liver temp is 92 degrees which means she's been dead four to five hours." "Wound pattern and GSR suggest a tight contact shot." "Consistent with suicide." "Oh, there's a note on the white table." ""Joey is better off without me." "Christina Adalian. "" "Postpartum depression so bad, it leads to suicide?" "Sister was feeding the baby." "Where'd she get the bottle" "The fridge is full of bottles of breast milk." "Mom stocks the fridge and kills herself, knowing her sister was going to show up." "She wanted to make sure that her baby was quickly found and fed." "David, do you mind if I render the gun safe?" "Better you than me" "One shot fired." "Sara, check out the blood on her hand." "There isn't any." "The gun is spattered in dried blood." "She wasn't holding this gun when she was shot." "And what appears to be, is not." "?" "Who... are you?" "?" "Who, who, who, who?" "?" "Who... are you?" "?" "Who, who, who, who?" "?" "I really want to know?" "?" "Who... are you?" "?" "Oh-oh-oh?" "?" "Who...?" "?" "Come on tell me who are you, you, you?" "?" "Oh, you!" "?" "Honest." "I am good with kids." "I'll get a hotel." "I'll stay in town." "I know we've been over this befo re." "Like I said, he' ll be placed in Child Services until appropriate cust ody can be determine d." "That's just the way it is." "I'm so rry." "Metro just arrived with a baby seat." "We're ready." "All right." "I'd really like to go with him." "Okay, after we're finished, an officer will take you to the facility." "Finished with what?" "Well, we have a few more questions." "And, uh, CSI has to take your fingerprints." "It won't take long, believe me" "Well, what about his bottles?" "They're in a cooler in the officer's car." "Ma'am." "It's okay." "It's o kay." "It's gonna be all right." "Come on." "It's okay." "You're okay." "Can't find a red pen anywhere." "Well, maybe the killer brought his own pen." "Or took it with him as a souvenir." "Okay, guys." "I swept the perimeter." "I think someone jimmied the back kitchen door." "Now, I printed the doorknob." "Nothing but smudges." "But check out the fresh scrapings there on the door jamb and the striker plat ." "Looks like forced entry with a metal object." "Some black and white particles." "Want to hand me a hinge lift?" "Good eyes." "Who do you keep avoiding?" "Ecklie." "Ah, that means you should answer it." "No, he just wants to yell at me because I'm late with the personnel evaluations." "It can wait." "No, it can't." "No one on your team receives cost-of-living adjustments until those evaluations are turned in." "Well, she kind of has a point." "I do like to take the wife out to dinner every now and then." "Mm-hmm." "I'll do them as soon as I get back to the lab." "Last time I saw my sister was over a year ago." "She was just beginning to show." "She'd gone through a really bad breakup and couldn't stop crying" "Is the ex the baby's fat her?" "I'm not sure." "Well, we need to contact him regarding Joey" "It would be helpfu I to know his whereabouts." "I only know his first name." "Evan." "But Christina referred to him as "the jerk. "" "They met at a church social a few years back." "Christina complained he wasn't very Christian-like." "But that was part of the attraction, if you ask me." "He was older." "Didn't want to get married" "You know, Christina never said he was the father." "So there were other guys?" "No." "As far as I knew, Christina was a prude." "She'd turn red if somebody told a dirty joke." "I always thought she was a virgin until..." "Until she got pregnant." "Yeah." "Excuse me, have either of you two seen Grissom?" "He's in the house." "Sofia." "Hey, Catherine." "Grissom, Ecklie's been looking for you." "Is your cell not working?" "What are you doing here?" "Well, apparently, I was a CSI, then a detective, but now I'm a messenger." "You're needed at the lab ASAP." "Why?" "I have no idea." "But the undersherriff's camped out in the break room." "I'll have Greg run down the gun's serial number." "Nick is covering the autopsy." "Warrick and I will fin ish the processing here and I'll keep you posted." "Thanks." "What would you do withoutme?" "Grissom." "Conrad." "Sheriff." "It's always lovely to see you fellas, but I'm right in the middle of a crime scene." "We have a situation, Gil." "Preston Breckman who's on trial for the murder of Joanna Whitson." "Yeah, I know." "She was a friend of yours." "I'm sorry." "I was her godfather." "Grew up with her dad." "Two weeks before she was murdered" "I gave a toast at her sweet 16." "Well, they say it's a slam dunk case." "You would think." "We've got an eyewitness who saw him stab her." "Hair, fiber, even DNA from the killer's tobacco indict Breckman." "We got the right guy." "So what am I doing here?" "Defense has called entomologist Mark Thayer as an expert witness." "He's a gun for hire." "He's gonna say that the insect activity on the body proves the defendant was out of town at the time of the murder." "And you want me to refute his testimony?" "When does he take the stand?" "Half an hour." "Look, he's been on the list, but the D.A. assured me he was unavailable." "Gil, we need you to listen to his testimony." "Prosecution may need your assistance on cross." "I'll do my best." "No mystery here." "Penetrating gunshot wound to the right temple killed our Virgin Mary." "I sent the bul let to ballistics." "Virgin Mary?" "Hymen's intact which means she's never had intercourse." "But she gave birth..." "caesarean scar" "So other than divine intervention, how do you explain this miraculous conception?" "Well, the most obvio us explanation would be frottage." "You mean dry humping?" "In Sex Ed," "Nick, they teach t hat rubbing body parts is safe" "But since the hymen's not a barrier to semen, there's still a risk of pregnancy, not to mention STDs." "Right." "Sperm meets labia, all bets are off." "It's all about gravity." "Thanks, Dr. Ruth." "The test fire bullet matches the evidence bullet." "That confirms the gun found at the scene was used to kill this, uh..." "Christina Adalian." "You run the serial number?" "Yeah, of course." "Anyway, Greg, your two-inch Colt was originally purchased in 1986 by a Mr. Duane McWane from Henderson." "Good luck." "Thanks." "Well, as you can see, the life cycle of the black blow fly, from egg to larva to puparium to adult, is like clockwork." "So, to be clear, we can use the fly's lifecycle to accurately determine the precise day the victim was killed." "That's correct." "The victim was murdered in a woodsy area near Lake Mead." "In that vicinity, how long would it take for the blow fly to lay eggs in Joanna Whitson's body?" "Within minutes of her death." "Is that true?" "Mm-hmm." "Doctor, based on your review of the blow fly activity as documented by CSI, can you tell this jury the exact date Joanna was murdered?" "CSI found puparia on the body, but no adults." "So that means that the vic tim had been dead for 15 days." "The body was discovered November 15." "So based on your analysis, the victim was killed November 1st?" "That's correct." "Defendant was in Mexico 'til November 3rd." "We think he killed her on the 4th." "Well, he's still got to prove his timeline." "Dr. Thayer, this timeline you suggest- from egg to puparia, has this been documented?" "I documented it myself." "In fact, in preparation for this trial," "I videotaped a black blow fly breeding on a pig carcass." "Now, this videotape will illustrate that the timeline from egg to puparium is, in fact, precisely 15 days." "Your Honor, on this video tape," "I have relevant footage of Dr. Thayer's experiment With your permission, I would like to play i t for the jury." "Have you seen this tape?" "No." "Objection." "Your Honor, the defense never produced that tape for our review." "We haven't had the opportunity to examine its authenticity." "It's not our fau It." "It was never requested" "Is that true, Counselor?" "The defense is playing games, Your Honor." "We subpoenaed the expert's files, reports and opinions." "But, apparently, they've conveniently construed the subpoena too narrowly." "They're acting in bad faith, Your Honor, and cannot expect this court to usurp..." "Your Honor, Your Honor." "If I may.." "You may not." "You blindsided the court." "You knew that the ADA would want to see that tape and you deliberately withheld it." "How much time do you need?" "We won't know until we review the video." "Fine." "The defense is to hand over the tape and all associated evidence." "The jury is dismissed until 1:00 p. m. tomorrow." "Send everything over to the lab." "I'll be there." "Your black-and-white particles were composed of plagioclase, biotite, hornblende and pyroxene." "Diorite granite." "You remember your geology." "Yes!" "Wow." "Actually, senior year I took "Rocks For Jocks. "" "I dated the TA." "Lucky guy." "I'm sure you got an "A."" "As a matter of fact, I did." "Mm-hmm." "You're married?" "Don't flirt." "Anyway, uh, diorite granite is used in high end bathroom vanities." "Was there any recent construction at the house?" "No, I processed the bathroom and the countertops for some kind of plastic laminate." "Made a few calls." "There's only one slab yard in Clark County that works with Diorite." "It's on Alonzo Avenue across the street from the old theater." "Hey, take it easy with that, Thassos" "It's the last shipment of the month." "Sorry about that." "Sure, I know Christina." "Dated one of my guys." "Real sweet gal." "Used to bring donuts around before they broke up." "Her ex happen to be working today?" "Yep." "His name's Evan." "Thank you." "Well, I'm sorry to hear about Christina, but we broke it off months ago." "I haven't seen her since" "Really?" "Is she dating one of your co-workers?" "Huh?" "Well, we found marble particles in her house and we identified the stone." "It came from this facility." "See, Mr. Peters, we know that you and Christina technically never had sex, so when you found out that s he was pregnant, that I'm guessing you felt that she cheated on you" "How in the hell do you know about my sex life?" "I mean, that had to have made you really angry, right?" "Well, that's why I dumped her." "And fine..." "I saw her a couple of days ago." "She called me in a panic." "Dingbat had locked herself out with her damn baby still inside the house." "Thought I had her spare key." "I didn't." "She sounded hysterical, so I went over to help." "Please hurry." "Joey!" "Joey" "You followed her into the house?" "Well, she wanted to talk." "What did you talk about" "All right, get this." "She tried to tell me that God got her pregnant." "If that's true, the Big Guy owes me an apology 'cause she was my girlfriend." "He should have asked me first." "Why did you lie to us?" "Claim that you hadn't se en her in months?" "Well, you guys are investigating her murder, and I want to stay out of it." "Well, it's too late for that, my friend." "We need your DNA." "Open wide." "The day I got married, I got rid of my gun." "se." "The wife didn't want it in the hou" "You sell it?" "No, I gave it to my paralegal." "I'm an attorney." "Look, it's just a hand gun, so I wasn't required to register the transfer." "What's your paralegal's name" "Rita Day." "She left the firm years ago." "She's a paramedic now at Emergency Care Ambulance." "You still keep in touch with her?" "I get a card every Christmas." "All right, well, thanks, Mr. McWane." "Look, just, just so you know, she only got that gun for her own protection" "Whatever you're investigating, Rita didn't do it." "How is it going?" "Well, according tomyexperience and all three of these textbooks, theP." "Reginawould develop from egg to puparium in 11 days." "Great." "That discounts Thayer's testimony and puts Breckman in Vegas at the time of the homicide." "Yeah, but his demonstration speaks for itself." "There's no visible puparia f 15 days, just as Thayer asserts." "And jurors might be more receptive to video documentation than books." "The science in these textbooks is sound, but thetapeis more than enough to get reasonable doubt." "Well, there's no doubt in my mind that Thayer worked his science to get the answers the defense needed." "We just need to know how he did it." "Could he have altered one of the variables?" "I've reviewed his documentation." "He purchased the pig from a reputable dealer." "He conducted the experiment at a private lab with eyewitnesses, controlledallvariables d to replicate the conditions at Lake Mea during the time in question." "65 to 73 degrees, no precipitati on, on and on." "Can you conduct your own experiment?" "Sure, if the judge will give me 11 days." "Well, we know that's not gonna happen." "I'll have Archie review the video footage." "Maybe he messed with the time code or something." "I'll let you know." "So I heard that my predecess or in DNA had all these you know, personal hygiene issues." "Well, just for the record, I'm not like that." "I have always been very touchy-feely." "I mean, I used to work in San Francisco, you know." "So... every day we started with hugs." "Uh-huh." "Yeah." "Thatmust've been nice for you." "So..." "Hey, how about lunch tomorrow" "Just you and me." "Cause, see, I-I figure that you gotta know where the bodies are buried around here." "So to speak." "Is that why you paged me?" "No." "No, um..." "I compared" "Christina Adalian's DNA to Baby Joey's, and guess what" "Mother and son- they're not mother and son" "At least not genetically speaking." "There's no relation." "And Evan Peters isn't the father?" "Nope." "So assuming that there was no big baby mix-up at the hospital," "I'm thinking that Christin a Adalian had to be a surrogate." "Surrogacy..." "that would explain her hymen." "Hello." "Her hymen was intact, which is consistent with in-vitro fertilization." "lem." "Yeah, but there's one prob" "A surrogate's not supp osed to keep the baby." "A surrogate is supposed to be a gestational carrier who returns the child to the biological parents after it's been born." "Yeah, thatisa problem." "Hey, Gris." "I reviewed your videotapes." "Checked for insertions, deletions, omissions." "They're all authentic." "You're certa Oh, yeah." "I de-interlaced the video, checked the head switching, the HBI-VBI looked for in-out signals." "The tapes are clean." "Sorry." "Did you blow up the frames?" "Yeah." "One every six hours." "They're in Layout, when you're ready." "Okay." "Oh, hi, Archie." "Hey." "I just finished your eval." "And?" "In the comments section, I noted that if you had my job, late. these evaluati ons wouldn't be" "Thank you." "So I understand that you're going up against Mark Thayer." "The guy's an ass." "He used to be a competent scientist." "We actually co-authored a paper together ten years ago." "I believe greed ha s gotten in his way." "Well, I've seen him on the stand." "He manipulates evidence." "He manipulates people." "The public assumes that scientists are ethical, but many of us are no better than politicians, evidently." "So do you think that Thayer is presenting the jury with faulty forensics?" "I know he is." "I just don't know how." "Videotapes are clean." "The science appears sound." "How's your case going?" "Huh." "I don't know who kill ed Christina Adalian," "I don't know how she got pregnant s. and I don't know the identity ofthe baby's biological parent" "It's always good to know what youdon'tknow." "Sure, I know Duane." "He's a good boss." "I just hated being cooped up in an office building all day." "n He claims he g ave you his gu several years back" "Yeah, sure." "Why?" "It was recently used in a homicide." "Damn." "Well, I'm sorry." "So, the gun's no lon ger in your possession" "Lost the Colt in a poker game years ago." "Do you remember who you lost it to" "I was drunk as a skunk." "Met these guys at a bar." "Lost a small fortune trying to keep up with their raises." "Can you tell me anything about the guy who won the gun?" "Well, he's an older guy, at least 50." "I remember guys were calling him "Cy,"" "but that wasn't his real name." "He had this large mole between his eyes." ""Cy," short for "Cyclops" "Yeah." "I swear I thought that thing was winking at me." "Thanks for your help." "No problem." "Oh, ducks." "That's a new decorating choice" "I now have to share this office with the day shift supervisor." "She's got some kind of thing for waterfowl." "What's up?" "Warrick and I tracked down Joey Adalian's birth certificate." "Christina's named as the mother, father's unknown." "We also found another document in her desk." "It's a registration form for an organization called Project Sunflower." "They find mothers for abandoned embryos." "s?" "Abandoned embryo" "According to the literature," "Project Sunflower believes that every fertilized egg or embryo is a baby from the moment it's created in a laboratory dish." "Fertility clinics freeze fertilized eggs for their clients undergoing in-vitro fertilization." "Often, the clinics freeze more eggs than they ultimately need." "And Sunflower tries to find women willing to gestate and raise the leftovers?" "Uh-huh." "Project Sunflower promotes itself as doing God's work" "I knew a stripper who claimed the exact same thing." "So, is there any chance that you have a record of the baby's biological parents" "Not yet." "But I do have an address for Sunflower's local chapter." "It's such a tragedy." "There are over 400,000 embryos currently in cryobank storage in the United States." "Pre-born children suspended in time." "If I understand your program correctly, you take these embryos and you place them in available wombs." "We seek out special unselfish women who are prepared to adopt at the embryonic stage of development." "We believe that the soul is infused when sperm meets egg." "That's when life begins." "Are you aware that throughout much of history, life the official churc h position held th at a child's begins when the mother first becomes aware of movement?" "Oh, that's your opinion." "In the 16th century, the Pope proclaimed that embryos less than 40 days old are not human." "That is not my opinion." "You've had an abortion, Miss Willows?" "Huh." "No." "Thank God" "I decided not to have one." "But we are not talking about me, Dr. Ryan." "Are you a medical doctor?" "I don't care for that insinuation." "Oh, it's just a question" "I take i t that's a no?" "I have a very busy afternoon." "What exactly can I do for you?" "I have a question." "Do the biological parents get to meet the embryo adopters?" "Of course." "If you are going to give up your pre-born child, you'd want to approve of his or her future parents, right?" "Uh, one of you r special women," "Christina Adalia n, was murdered." "We're go ing to need the names of her son's biological parents." "I am, I'm sorry to hear about Christina." "I conducted her intake interview personally." "A lovely woman." "Our records are confidential." "I'm sorry." "We can get a court order." "So get one." "Ecklie said the tape might be authentic." "so." "Seems" "Grissom, I don't know what to do:" "instruct the DA to offer second degree?" "I mean, I can't risk letting this guy back back out on the street but to plead this out after what he did to someone I loved" "I need some guidance here." "I can't tell you what to do, Sheriff" "No, you can't." "But you can tell me where we stand." "What are you doing?" "Circling blowflies" "Why?" "'Cause dead flies tell no lies" "The signature is definitely hers, and you're right, she wrote the note under duress." "Have you been able to analyze the ink?" "Thin-layer chromatography tells us the red dye is consistent with a standard Coda pen." "But find the pen." "I should be able to match it to the note." "You can match ink?" "I can match its flow." "What do you notice about the ink?" "Uneven distribution?" "The pen sock et that holds the ball in pl ace was askew." "The cockeyed socket caused ink disruption as it flowed down to the paper." "A damaged socket is quite common in cheap writing instruments." "Lucky for us, the uneven distribution of the ink will be uniq ue to the pen tha t wrote the note" "Hey, Professor." "Looking good." "You know how sometimes fact is stranger than fiction?" "Yeah." "Brass got the court order for Joey Adalian's biological parents a Kenli and Dan Johnson in Seven Hills will." "We also fo und Christina's" "Guess who she named as Joey's guardians?" "Kenli and Dan?" "Excuse me." "You're right." "A single woman adopts a leftover embryo from an infertile couple and upon her death agrees to give the child back to its biological parents?" "Who gave up the embryo in the first place." "You happen to have an address for this Mr. and Mrs. Johnson?" "Let's go." "Oh, hey." "How's The Way of The Gun?" "It was lost in a poker game." "Did you get the winner's name?" "No, but he has a large mole between his eyes and his nickname's "Cy. "" "That's all I got, so sorry." "Greg, never apolog ize for doing your job" "Okay." "Dan and I were desperate to have a child, and the doctor said ou r only hope was in-vitro" "Where is your husband now?" "He" "He passed away." "Are you sure I can't get you something?" "No, thank you." "Thank you, Mom You're welcome, baby." "It's been almost a year." "We were coming home from a movie when we were broadsided" "The guy kept goi ng and Danny never woke up." "I'm so sorry." "Can I ask you... did you ever conceive a child?" "Well, my body ke pt rejecting the procedure, so we trie d three times and then calle d it quits." "Had you ever considered a surrogate?" "It's very expensive." "Danny just was never comfortable with the notion that..." "Well, we just figured we weren't meant to be parents" "And that's why you decid ed to give away your embryos." "Yeah, I had seen a flyer at the clinic." "Are you aware that one of those embryos was carried to term?" "Dan and I pre-screen ed Christina, and we went to see Joey and her once a month." "So that' s why when I got your call," "I just don't know who'd want to hurt such a sweet girl." "According to Christina's wil you were named Joey's guardian" "Yes, that was very important to Christina." "She's not close with any of her family, so I've already ca lled Child Services, and as soon the lawyer reviews the will, I'm supposed to pick him up." "Well, if you don't mind," "I'd like your permission to take a look at the clothing that you wore two nights ago." "You can't possibly think I had anything to do with this?" "It's protocol." "The victim was shot at close range." "I wore the white blouse." "We're going to need to take all the laundry back to our lab." "You never found the gu y who killed my husband, and now you're wasting t ime looking at my dirty clothes." "That's fine." "Take it." "Why did the fly, fly?" "Because the spider spied her." "Catherine's daughter told me that when she was three." "Do we have results" "Thank you." "Oh, hey, Ecklie said you wanted to see me." "Yeah." "A Dr. Ryan called and said that you verbally harassed her?" "I met Dr. Ryan in the course of my investigation." "She runs an organization called Project Sunflower." "Philosophically, I completely disagree with the organization." "Perhaps I expressed myself" "Which means?" "I'm pro-choice." "I'm in favor of stem cell research." "I'm sorry she felt harassed, but my comments were in response to her statements." "I don't think I was out of line." "You should have cited Leviticus 17:11." ""The life of the flesh is in the blood. "" "Taken literally, life doesn't begin when the sperm meets the egg, but 18 days later." "When the embryo is infused with blood." "Is that your position?" "Well, if I were speaking with a woman who prefers theology to science, it's a position she'd find tough to refute" "So are we having a philosophical discussion here, or am I being reprimanded?" "I don't know." "I got to go to court." "What?" "Your white blouse." "The results are printing." "It seems like you and Grissom were having a fairly intense conversation." "Can I ask...?" "Tell me about the blouse, please." "I ran the S.E.M. over the adhesive disks and confirmed gunshot residue." "You found clothing in a laundry basket that tested positive for gunshot residue." "So what?" "That doesn't mean my client killed anyone." "It proves that she fired a gun, Carol." "I've never fired a gun." "I've never even touched a gun." "Catherine, I'm sorry, but if I understand your forensics, the GSR test does not, in fact, confirm that she fired a gun." "I mean, it's possible she rubbed up against someone who did." "Theoretically." "I cared about Christina." "I'm sure that you did." "But looking into Joey's eyes and seeing your husband, must've torn you up inside." "And the only person standing between you and your baby was the victim." "Okay, don't respond to that." "When was the last time you actually saw Christina?" "Two days ago." "I took them to lunch." "What were you doing two nights ago, around 11:00 p.m.?" "I was home all night." "Can anyone verify that?" "My mom lives with me, but she wasn't home." "That's gin rummy night." "What's going on in there?" "Kenli had nothing to do with this." "Mrs. Walkey, I need your help." "Your daughter claims that two night ago she was home watching television." "Can you confirm that?" "Well, of course." "I was with her." "Thank you." "If you had to guess, what's Kenli's dress size?" "Four, maybe six." "I found blood spatter on this blouse." "Size 12." "There're two women that live at that house." "Only one is a size 12." "I don't need an attorney" "I've done nothing wrong." "Would you mind emptying the contents of your purse?" "First you go after Kenli, now me." "A few hours ago, you guys were saying there was gunshot powder on Kenli's blouse." "You make a mistake?" "No, it was probably transferred from your blouse, the one that you wore that night." "I have a warrant to search your person and your home." "Please empty the contents of your purse onto the table." "A red Coda pen." "Joey... is... better off without me." "Please don't do this." "Oh, God, please." "Sign it." "Sign it!" "You knew that her sister was coming for a visit, so the baby would be okay." "You killed her and then staged the scene." "You have a wild imagination, Ms. Willows." "Is this your husband?" "Arnold." "He passed away." "Two years ago, May." "He looks like a poker player." "You can tell that from his photo?" "Actually, it's... the mole between his eyes that's his tell." "Why are we talking about Arnie?" "Because you used his gun." "The gun he won in a poker game." "Are you going to put me in jail?" "That's how it works." "And the baby- he goes with Kenli, right?" "I'm sure that Child Services will follow the dictates of Christina's will." "Then it was all worth it." "My baby has her baby." "That's all that really matters" "Did you ever consider that Christina Adalian is somebody's baby?" "We each protect our own." "That's how it's done." "Officer, would you please escort Mrs. Walkey to lockup?" "As you can see, on day 14- plenty of larvae, commonly known as maggots, but no puparia." "a Finally on day 15, you'll notice the pupari swimming in the brown liquid." "Based on that evidence, I can reliably conclude that Joanna Whitson was killed on November 1st" "You're absolutely certain of that timeline?" "Yes." "Thank you." "No further questions." "Your witness." "We have no questions for Dr. Thayer." "But I now call to the stand Dr. Gil Grissom as a rebuttal expert witness." "Dr. Thayer, you're dismissed" "Dr. Grissom, please approach the stand to be sworn in." "Raise your right hand." "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help you God?" "I certainly do." "You may be seated." "Dr. Grissom, you've had a chance to review Dr. Thayer's tape and associated evidence, is that correct?" "Yes." "Do you agree with his finding that Joanna Whitson was murdered" "15 days before her body was discovered?" "No." "Can you please elaborate?" "Our crime lab analyzed fly larvae that was taken from the pig used by Dr. Thayer in his demonstration." "Apparently, they digested dimethyldithiophosphate and T-mulz Light Aromatic." "A toxin commonly known as malathion?" "Yes." "I believe the malathion was sprayed onto the pig's skin." "How would malathion affect a fly's life cycle?" "It would delay the time it takes for puparia to appear." "Specifically, the malathion would delay oviposition." "Oviposition?" "Laying eggs." "Without malathion, adult flies would immediately lay new eggs on the pig's flesh." "But with malathion, oviposition would be delayed up to four days." "A four-day delay would mean that Joanna Whitson died on November 4th, not November 1st, is that correct?" "Yes." "Is there any scientific rationale for spraying a pig with malathion before documenting a fly's life cycle?" "Objection." "Overruled." "The only rationale I can think of would be jury manipulation." "Every entomologist knows that early oviposition is undetectable because flies lay their first round of eggs inside body openings." "Anyone reviewing the tape would assume that the eggs were being laid, when in fact they were not." "If our lab had n ot tested the larva for toxins, we would never have known that." "Nor would the jury." "Thank you." "No further questions." "Counselor, your witness." "Uh, we have no questions at this time." "Well, in that case, we are adjourned until 9:00 a. m." "tomorrow morning." "I want to talk to you." "I have nothing to say to you." "You impugned my character." "What character Uh, excuse me, Dr. Thayer." "What the hell do you want?" "Well, to inform you that you have the right to remain silent." "The D.A.'s filing charges for perjury" "Oh, my God..." "and obstruction of justice" "We won't be accepting a plea." "This is all your fault." "I hope so." "Grissom." "Great work up there." "Actually, the work was done in the lab." "When I took this job," "I heard a lot of things about you." "If you ever need a favor, if I can help you in any way..." "You know Sheriff , you could help me." "I'm late delivering my team's personnel evaluations." "I'll tell Ecklie." "He'll backdate your cost-of-living adjustments." "Thank you." "So, Grissom, I'm not sure of your ambitions, but if you're interested in taking on more responsibility, maybe a promotion, I'd be glad to pass..." "You know, Oscar Wilde once said," ""Ambition is the I ast refuge of failure." "I'm fine." "Thanks."

"Some people are so beautiful it makes them sick." "The delicate child that takes the whole world in, and who cannot close itself off from anything." "I have a friend like that." "I once promised that no matter what happened to her, one day I would pass her story on." "You must promise me that, she said." "Promise me that she who comes after me, learns who I am." "Or who I was." "I promised her that." "I promised to tell her story like she would have told it herself." "Had she could?" "I'll have that and 20 cigarettes." "We'll be there soon." " They won't let us in." " Don't worry." "They will." "Are you sober?" "What kind of question is that?" "You're laughing?" "You're in a really bad mood." ""You and me", mother!" "How do I look?" " Need a hand?" " Don't be rude." " Hi." " Welcome." "I'm sorry we're a bit late." "There was a queue at the gas station." "Look, Lea!" "Look how big she is now." "Give her some time, then you can hold her." "Look!" " It's Lea." " Not Lea." "Mummy." "We don't smoke inside the house." "Because of the child." "Cake?" "I can change her diaper and let you talk for a while." "Change diaper!" "She looks so sad." "In her eyes." "She's mostly quite happy." "Yeah..." "Do you want to come along and watch him change her diaper?" "This isn't so easy for Lea." "I can come and watch." "Twinkle, twinkle little star..." "She's been so terribly nervous for this." "She hardly slept last night." "I think it's time for Lea to leave." "Mummy loves you, sweetie." " You shouldn't have brought her here." " We've waited for three months!" "Do you know how long three months is when you are 1 year old?" "Do you know what a big part of your life that is?" "Did you know I wasn't allowed at her birthday?" "Yes, you do know!" "You were there." "I asked Lea what the first thing she can remember is." "I remember mum's laugh, she answered." "And her smell." "I think I saw mum the way dad did." "You're so beautiful." "Come." "You mustn't get sick." "There was something about her I couldn't quite grasp." "As if, it was her that needed taking care of." "Once upon a time there was a princess." "And then it started raining." "And everyone got wet." "Then horses came flying in the air." "Are you sleeping, daddy?" "God exists in all things, dad said." "God is a thief, I thought." "The thief that steals the very best." "Do you want to give daddy a hug?" "We'll be back soon." "It was quiet for a long time." "One day Ole came." "He had been mum's old boyfriend." "They had been engaged once." "God had sent someone to help me look after her." " Pretty flaps." " Flaps?" "They're called lashes." "Come, come!" "She misses her dad." "And you miss him too." "You promised to get rid of his things when I moved in." "They're just gifts I've received." "What difference does it make?" "Everything here reminds you of him." "You're even wearing his jacket." "There will always be things that remind us of him." "We had a child together." "Right." "Take off his jacket." "Take his jacket off!" "Madelene, I didn't mean it." "It hurts when you go around with his jacket." "Go to bed, Ole." "Let's talk tomorrow." "Ole, are you all right?" "What have you drawn, Lea?" "Can I see it?" "Is that your cat?" "You didn't quite finish it." "Once upon a time there was a princess who had a horse." "And then it started raining." "Once upon a time, there was princess." "Then it started raining." "Everything will be fine, sweetie." "Madelene?" "It's going to be all right." "I called her Violet." "The violets are the softest." "I got her from my dad, and I promised him to take care of her." "Mum always said Violet was run over by the train." "Ask me again about the first thing, I remember." "What always comes back on top of everything else?" "The smell of blood and hard liquor." "When Ole was drinking, I lost what I had." "Dear angel." "Violet is coming to you now." "You must take care of her." "She doesn't like to sleep alone." "Dear God." "I wish I could fly." "I don't know why you sent us Ole." " Do you love me?" " You've been drinking." "Get off, I want to get up." "Do you love me?" "For fuck's sake!" "Do you love me?" "!" "No!" "Please don't!" "No!" "I grow up without anyone seeing it." "Without anyone asking me how I am." "I'm thinking that if I have a child, I'm going to see that child." "Other people my age go home with each other." "They have sleepovers." "They fall in love." "The boys want something from me." "I can feel that." "But I have nothing to say." "I'm filled with her." "I want mum to come back." "Come." "You have to be nice to mum." "I am nice to her." "Yes?" ""...eating cakes or sandwiches." "Rarely more than one at each table."" ""It seemed quite lonely, and since I hadn't spoken to anyone in a while," "I wouldn't mind exchanging a few words with someone."" ""I thought about how to go about it."" ""The more I studied the faces, the more difficult it seemed."" ""It was like their eyes were blank." "How depressing the world has become!"" ""But I wouldn't try to be nice unless someone tried to talk to me."" "Yes." "Thank you, Lars." " Lea?" " May I go to the toilet?" "You just got here." "I feel bad." "Perhaps you should have stayed home." "Tonje, please continue." ""So I kept thinking." "That helps."" ""Soon I knew what to do." "I dropped the wallet to the floor."" ""I pretended it was by accident." "It landed beside the chair."" "Give me some tissue paper." "Go to recess." "A little more paper." "Off you go." "Are you sure there's nothing I can do for you?" "I'm fine." "My doctor says I'll grow out of it." "Get well soon." "Bye." "Mummy?" "Forgive me, Madelene." "Mummy!" "Perhaps everything would have been different if I were his child." "That it would have been different if I wasn't between them." "Perhaps sometimes the love between a man and a woman has no room for children." "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" " Mummy!" " Your mother is in the hospital." "What happened at home is between Ole and me?" "These people may want to separate you and me." "Take you away from me." "Make you live with somebody else." "I cannot lose you." "Hi." "I've brought Gro from the crisis centre." "The doctor has informed me about what's happened." "How are you holding up?" "A couple of days and I'm back on my feet." "We'll just have to make the best of it." "I understand this is not the first time." "He has never laid hands on me before." "This is so serious that we recommend you press charges." "No one should have to live under such conditions." "But he was drunk." "He would never do this otherwise." "I'm here to help you." "We don't think it's justifiable for you to go home today without getting help from the crisis centre and the police." "I don't want the police to get involved." "Lots of women and children move to secret addresses." "Mainly to stay safe." "And to get some distance and think about things." "I don't think that's necessary." "How are you doing amid all this, Lea?" "We'll be fine." "Right?" "It was you who found mummy, right?" "What's a secret address?" "It's not for us, Lea." "Then we have to move to a new place and go to a new school and all." "Without Ole?" "Only you and mummy." "They're only trying to help us." "I think I have to lie down for a bit." "That day mummy promised me that everything was going to be all right." "As soon as she said it, I feel asleep." "And I slept." "When I woke up, Henrik was there." "You need someone to take care of you." "Someone had sent me Henrik." "I know you want to kiss me." "I just know it." "Along with Henrik came you." "Sonja." "You were surrounded by a special glow." "Don't let go." "Never let go, okay?" "He asked me if there was anything else, I needed." "As if, he knew I was missing something." "I can fly." "I'm learning to fly." "The knot inside my chest untangles." "Reality is no longer real." "Close the door." "He's after me." "Madelene!" "I just want to talk to you." "Don't worry." "He'll soon be gone." "Madelene!" "Madelene." " Can I sleep here tonight?" " I'll get your duvet." " I think we should move." " Move?" " Far away from them." " I'm the only one she has." "This is for the window." "I can put in a new one." "I'm sorry." "She's awake." "I wasn't afraid of Ole anymore." "I saw who he was." "That he was the scared one." "She should have chosen another." "As a child I often thought that he was the child of the family." "I think she believed it would pass, that he would change." "Finally she wasn't afraid of him anymore." "Mummy, who never gives up on anyone." "Except herself." " I can take you home if you like." " There's no need." "Hey, sweetie!" "Give her rice porridge." "That's her favorite." "When will you be back?" " Fueled and ready." " Thanks." "We'll be home around 2 or 3." " Bye." " Have fun!" " What can you do?" " Oral only, with condom." " How much?" " 500." "Sonja..." "Sonja!" "I can't take care of her anymore." "Don't say things like that." " You are her mother." " I'm addicted to heroin." "I think she'll be better off with someone else." "Sonja is afraid." "She's anxious all the time." "She knows I'm not there for her." "I can help you with her." "You just have to give up drugs." "I can't do it, mum." "So you're giving up your child in order to do drugs?" "I don't want her to grow up being afraid." "If there was one thing I could change..." "It would be the day we went to the red light district." "I don't know where it started." "Where the boundaries were erased." "Or if they were ever there." " I'll just suck someone and we'll..." " Listen to yourself!" "I only know that it was my suggestion." "And that once I had said it, that I can do that," "Henrik was lost from me." "Are you here?" "You're crying." "I always cry when I'm on drugs." "Go away!" "Get the hell away from me!" "I'm not fit to be a mother." "I'm addicted to heroin." "I want someone else to take care of her." " Are you Lea Larsen?" " Yes." "We're from Child Welfare." "We'll take over your child now, and set up a meeting for you." "You can't just take Sonja now." "Henrik is at work." "We have to find a good way to do this." " Hello." "We're from Child Protection." " What's going on?" " We can't do this." "We need help." " Have you lost your mind?" "You know we'll never see her again." "Yes, Child Protection can help us." "Mummy will come and get you soon." "She's going away for a little while." "Then I'll come and get you." "Yes, look at that." "I'll never forgive you for this." "She needs the light on at nights." "Rice porridge before bedtime." "Her teddy is in the pram." "She must have it when she sleeps." "She likes to be rocked to sleep." "She doesn't like loud noises." "She's never been yelled at." "You're not allowed to do that." "You just don't give up your child!" "Yes, sometimes you do." "I can't fly anymore." "Taking heroin is as loud as a human being can scream:" "Help!" "I need you to see me." "I no longer know what love is." "As a child, I knew." "And for a long time I trusted it would return." "That the nature of love is such that when you really need it, it shows up." "We're moving, Lea." "To a secret address." " Just me and you?" " Just me and you." "I've made pancakes." "You can bring them to school." "You're the most precious thing I have." "Pretty flaps." ""You and me", Lea." ""You and me"." "Who's that?" "Perhaps they're like us." "This..." "You can try it on!" "Lovely!" "You've grown, my little Lea." "I heard her laughter again." "I saw her looking others in the eye." "I hoped it would do something to her." " Hi!" " Hello." "But that was before Stine told me what longing is." "How her mother couldn't handle being alone." " Have you run away before?" " Many times." "Mum!" "Mum!" "Ole is coming!" "Ole is coming!" "We have to hurry..." "He is coming to get us." "I can't bear being here anymore." "I have to look after her." "The day mum chose Ole over me, I saw that she was a stranger." "Again, I thought that there was something about her, I didn't grasp." "All families have secrets." "Grandpa came every summer." "I liked grandpa." "He was a mischievous grown up." "Mum always kept an eye on him." "I figured she looked after grandpa like I looked after her." "Grandpa is gone now." "He probably thought he took mum's secret with him to the angels." "It's that secret some mothers keep from their children." "I know now that there is nothing I could have done differently." "Mum hardly ever smiling had nothing to do with me." "I came to a good place where they called heroin "the angel"." "The angel that comes and lifts you away." "They asked me what heroin does for me." "They said you can't take away someone's heart medication without replacing it with something else." "Your forced rehab ends tomorrow." "After that, you're here voluntarily." "I know." "What do you think?" "Should we call Hilde?" "And ask them if we can come for a visit." "You and I?" "What about mum?" "Some children are there for their parents in a way they never should." "They had to, because they couldn't opt out." "What does it mean to choose your own child?" "Could it be to let the child grow up with someone else?" "So that one day she can to choose herself?" "Hi." " Mummy." " Yes!" "Mummy coming back." "Yes, mummy is always coming back." "Look." "How are you doing?" "Your room is ready, if you would like to come home." "All my things are at the rehab." "You can get them tomorrow." "Your mother really wants you to come home today." "I miss you so much." "Mum, I love you very, very much." "But I really have to go." "Take care of yourself." "Some people are so beautiful that it makes them sick." "When somebody you love wants to die, what do you do?" "I make a movie, and say:" "Life." "You must hang on to it." "There's someone who needs you." ""Girls and women, never let anyone to harm you, in any way"."

"One day it happens." "You 're standing somewhere and you realize you don't want to be any of those around you." "You don't want to be the dickhead you just beat up." "Your honor, I've got 15 stitches here and 25 here." "Or your father, or your brother, or anyone in your fucking family." "Son of a bitch!" "The accused will stand." "This court finds Hugo Olivera Castro guilty of assault," "Or the judge." "And sentences him to 18 months in prison, commuted to a fine of 6,000 euros as this is a first offense." "Or even yourself." "Court is adjourned." "You just want to run away." "You must be careful from now on." "There can be no more violent incidents." "Another offense means you'll go to prison." "Hugo, are you listening?" " Why didn't mom come?" " She's on a trip." "And don't call me Hugo." "Fuck." "Get the hell out of wherever you are." "Come on!" "And suddenly it happens." "Something clicks." "And you know that things are going to change." "They've changed already." "Dogface!" "Yeah, you!" "Dogface." "And they'll never be the same again." " Bye, dad." " Bye." "Never." "And when it happens, you know." "THREE METERS ABOVE THE SKY" " Babi!" " Okay." "Hurry!" "Good morning." "Silence." "Silence!" " May I?" " Late." "Close your notebooks, please." "She'll pick me." "Fernéndez Camino," "Luna Vergara, and Duenas Martin..." "No, she's outside." "Absent." "So," "Herreruela." "Translation." "Take your phone." "Domus itinere eunte," "moltus ambulantus" "fuit." "Herreruela..." "On the way home he had to walk a lot." "A lot." "You'll have to study a lot to get into college." "Cell." "Miss Alcézar, won't you take my call?" "Sit down." "We'll continue." "De strictus sensi cui super impia." "Babi!" "I'm sorry." " It's OK." " Silence!" "Mara, doing it a few times doesn't mean you're dating." "So what?" "Anyway, his pals told me he never calls." "And you believe his pals?" "Just look at them." "Claudio, change your tie." "This looks better." " Girls, are you ready?" " Yes, mom." "If you want a lift, we're leaving now!" "With this make-up, how old do I look?" "At least 15." "But I am 15." "Let's see." "Like that, you're about to turn 16." "H!" "I wouldn't ask, but it's urgent." "I need 400 euros for my bike." " It's in the repair shop!" " Don't worry about that now." "Chino!" "We've got a new contest on the Bandstand!" "Are you ready?" "The countdown has started!" "Who'll be king of the Bandstand?" "On your marks!" "Get ready!" "Go!" "One!" "Two!" "Three!" "Four!" "Five!" "Six!" "Don't act like you're desperately seeking someone." "But I am." "There he is!" "Dani!" " Don't go..." " Hi, Rubén!" "Shit, with all that make-up I didn't recognize you." "Would you like something?" "Yes, come on." "Thirty!" "Thirty one!" "Thirty two!" "Thirty three!" " Thirty four!" " That's the first one down!" "Katina!" "I thought you weren't coming!" "I was at another party, but it was full of gays." "A real bore." "Someone else who was bored brought me here." "That's him, chasing Berta's brother." "Hello!" " Happy birthday!" " Oh, yes!" "Thank you." "Want some?" "No?" "Well, the drinks are back there and there's a bar outside." "See you later!" "I love this song." "Let's talk to my new gay friend." "Fifty one!" "Fifty two!" "Fifty three!" "Travolta, you're slipping!" "Fifty six!" "Fifty seven!" "Eighty two!" "Eighty three!" "Eighty four!" "Eighty five!" "Ten seconds!" "Come on!" "Let's have a final sprint!" "One, two, three, four, five, six..." "Come on!" "Seven, eight." "Nine," " and ten!" " Ten!" "There's a new king of the Bandstand!" "Chino has lost his throne after two years!" "There's a private party up town!" " Can we go?" " Sure, I've got tickets!" " Coming?" " Not to a rich kids' party." "Will you ever forgive me?" "I've been looking for a reason to do it, but I can't find one." "Typical of a woman." "See?" "That "typical" is what ruins everything." "You're beautiful tonight." "Tonight?" "Always." "Alicia, your brother rang, he's coming with some friends." "But I'm an only child!" " Yes?" " Hello!" " Who's my brother?" " Sis!" "Sis!" "There are canapés..." "Listen to the music!" "My little sister!" "Close the door!" "What do you want?" "MY purse." " Take it." " I can't." "Some idiot got it first." "Here." "Didn't your mother tell you not to snoop in girls' purses?" "I don't know my mother." " But I'd tell yours something." " Really?" "What?" "You can't go around with just 50 euros." "That's my week's allowance." " It was." " Now I'll go hungry." "If you want, I'll buy you lunch tomorrow." "You know what?" "When I'm paying, I like to choose my company." " What's that?" " Never mind!" "Stop it!" "Stop!" "Holy shit!" "Forget about lunch." "What would we do after?" "Tell jokes?" "Look, I wouldn't laugh at yours and you wouldn't understand mine." "The jokes, I mean." "Half-wit!" "If you dare take any alcohol I'll tell mom." "Excuse me?" "Don't you remember?" "I accompanied you to school this morning." "Well, I was your escort." "You were the one shouting stupidities." "No, I just said one." ""Dogface"." "You liked it, right?" "It always works with girls like you." "Like me?" "Up-tight and keen to break out." "Do you want something?" "A Coca-cola, please." "I have to drive." "Babi?" "No, I served myself." "See?" "When you're pleasant you're not such a dogface." "What?" " Chico!" " Pollo, take this." "No, put me down, you brute!" "Let go of me!" "No, no!" "I'm sorry I threw the milk shake at you!" "The damage has been done." "You're out of your mind!" "I'm wearing a Valentino!" " It's freezing!" " It's good for the circulation." "It pumps more blood to your brain." "You offer milk shakes, you don't throw them at people." "And tell Valentino the dress looks a lot better wet." "The police, please." "Shall I get you a towel?" "You don't want to catch cold." "Go to hell!" "Move, they rang the cops!" "Remind me the next time we bathe together to wash your mouth with soap." "Why did you do nothing when he threw me in the pool?" "Babi, it was all a set-up." "I rang those idiots to cause a fuss so I could be with you." "Roberta will never forgive you." "They wrecked the house." "What the hell...?" "What are they doing?" "Go away!" "Stop it, please!" "This is my father's car!" "Bastards!" "You want aggro?" " You're fucking crazy!" " Go to hell!" "Are you OK?" "Shit!" "It's nothing." "Just some scratches." " They could have killed us!" " It's all right." "There's still time." " I'm sorry!" " Sorry?" "For what?" "Tell me." "For calling the police or for the hit and run?" "You're so sexy." "Leave him alone, you animal!" "You brute!" "Leave him alone!" "You're despicable!" "You want to grovel?" "All right, say after me:" " I will not ruin the party..." " Stop!" "I will not ruin the party for people who know how to have fun." "I won't ruin the party..." "Please, help me!" "For people who know how to have fun." " Mr. Santamaria!" " What's going on?" "They're going to kill each other!" "Boys, that's enough!" "Let's get out of here!" "Babi, come with us!" "Fuck, it was your fault that I hit him!" "You made me hit him!" "Get in the car!" " I won't..." " I won't ruin..." "That's it." "Leave him alone!" "I hate you!" "You're an animal, a brute!" "I hate you!" "Put me down!" "All right, I've put you down." "And he's gone." "I'll say goodbye too." "How do I get home?" " Let me get on the bike." " What?" "Let me get on the bike." "You said I'm an animal and a brute, right?" "I can't let someone like that take you home." "It's for your own good." "Tomorrow you'd regret not being consistent." "Stop, please." "Want to go somewhere?" "You want your face smashed?" "Scram." "Scram!" "Get on, I've fought enough people because of you." "Wait, wait." "I'm paralyzed." "You're squeezing me." "If you grab my jacket I can't drive." "Please..." "You want to stay like this all night?" "Sorry, I've never ridden on the back of a bike." "So I'm the first, right?" "Shit!" "Babi!" " Did you come on that bike?" " No, mom..." "She had no choice, ma'am, really." "The boy who was driving her dumped her and she had to come with me." "Hi, mom!" "Didn't I tell you to stay with your sister!" " Hello." " Hi." "Get in the car." "You two won't have any kind of phone for a week!" "You're exactly like your mother." "A grouch." "Are you seeing that guy?" "I don't even know him." "He's Hugo Olivera, but they call him H." "Something horrible happened and he wants to forget his name." "My friends and I say it's H for "hero"." "He looks like he'd save your life." "Who the hell let you in?" " Get up, you've things to do!" " Yeah, for you!" "No, I understand." "But I could go to Paris next week and we'll close the deal." "Alex, I need to borrow 400 euros." "Fuck, what a drag." "Wait." "We'll talk to Head Office." "Yeah, sure." "OK." "What are you doing?" "Give me that!" "Are you crazy?" "Don't give it to him!" "Don't speak!" "Don't speak!" "Yes, of course." "In my wallet, in my jacket." "Yes!" " No, of course." " Thank you!" "Really, if he can't, I'll see to it." "Hugo, remember about dinner with dad." "Are you sure it's here?" "Yeah, I saw it in her diary, and we're having lunch." " You're broke." " She said she'd pay." " Hello." " Hi." "That's her!" " Which one?" " The blonde." " Bye, Babi." " Bye." "And that's the girl from the foam bath." "I'm Off." "God, Babi!" "That's the guy who stole my allowance." " Which one?" " The ugly one beside the bike." "Oh, no!" "Did he steal from you too?" "No, but his pal threw me in the pool and wrecked Chico's car." "You never tell me the interesting things!" "Hello." "What are you doing here?" "Hey, take it easy." "I just came with my friend, he's having lunch with that girl." "But she happens to be my best friend and your friend stole all her money." "You owe me one." "Why not invite me somewhere nice?" "What do you say?" "Moron!" "How sweet!" "Coming for lunch?" "You can't have lunch with him!" "But he's paying, so I'll get some of my money back." "I thought she was paying." "I swiped her money yesterday so it's like she was paying." "Don't be angry." "I'll call you later." "Excuse me." "Just to show I'm not a liar, didn't you and I have a foam bath yesterday?" "That's a yes." " Hi, mom." " Hello, love." "Why is your brother so late?" "You know him, he's always working." "Where's mom?" "On a trip, with a girl friend." "What grade will you get?" "8 or more?" "In Physics?" "A distinction, definitely." "I'm popping out." "Do you need anything?" "No, I'll take a break later." "Wrap up well if you go out." "It's freezing." "Yes, mom." "Rebeca, did your son ever argue with that man before?" "I didn't even know they knew each other." "With his injuries, if we don't have some proof" "Hugo could be in big trouble." "Do you think I don't want to help my son?" "Hugo." "Have you nothing to say?" "I'm moving in with you." "Don't you want to know how it went?" "How did it go?" "If you ask like that I won't tell you." " All right, don't." " Babi!" "Excuse me, that blonde hunk was giving you the eye." "He's still doing it." "Shall we follow him?" "Why are you looking like that?" "You dumped me and went off with that thug." "Hey, you don't know him!" "He's got problems." "He's got no money." "His father treats him badly." "But he's really nice." "He asked me to the races tonight." "What races?" "I told mom I'm sleeping at your house." " Leave a key under the mat." " I don't believe this!" " Why don't you come?" " No!" "I don't want to see him or his friend." "Then we're not going to see each other either." " Why not?" " I'm going out with him!" "Katina!" " Babi!" " Yes?" "Come here a moment." "Coming." "What?" "Haven't you something to tell us?" "The Santamarias rang." "Felipe's nasal septum was broken, it almost pierced his brain!" " I had nothing to do with it." " It's true, she didn't." "Who asked you?" "Be quiet!" "Look, Babi they want to report your friend." "They want to know his name." "He's not my friend." "I just know he's called H." "Are you defending him?" "How long have you known him?" "The only thing I know is his nickname!" "You know his name, tell them!" " Do you think I'm a telltale?" " You told me his name." "Daniela, his name." "Hugo Olivera." "That's his name, dad." "Call them, and say Babi had nothing to do with it." "Great, Babi, you've really put your foot in it!" "Daniela..." "My parents are out." "Yes, she's here." "But I reckon that in a week she'll be dead." "She informed on a dangerous guy, and she likes him." "Stop talking about me and hang up." "Wait, I've got another call." "Yes?" "Yes, just a minute." "It's for you." "Yes?" "Good evening!" "Yes." "Katina?" "She's sleeping." "Shall I wake her?" "Yes, I'll tell her." "Good night." "Bye." "What's going on?" "What is it?" "Who was that?" "It's turned off." "Where are the bike races?" "The Siamese races?" "At the port." " Can I go?" "Please..." " No way." "And don't tell anyone." "Know where my sister's going?" "WE REMEMBER YOU" "No, stop, Pollo!" "What a surprise!" "I'm so glad you've come!" "Why is your phone off?" "Your mother rang." " What did you tell her?" " That you were asleep, and she believed me." "She's picking you up tomorrow at 7:00 for your blood tests." "Don't be late, I don't want any problems." " Come on, stay!" " No!" "We're going for a pizza." "I doubt I'd eat the pizzas you eat." "Well, it's the untamed shrew!" "Have you come to see me race?" "I didn't even know you were here." "Then why are you red as a beetroot?" "You just make me laugh." " Yeah?" " Yes." "You won't be so cocky in court." "I said it was you who broke Mr. Santamaria's nose." " You bitch!" " Take it easy." "You could go to prison!" "That won't happen, OK?" "The day I'm up in court this nice girl will say I did nothing." "Know why?" "Why?" "By then you'll be so crazy about me you'll do anything to save me." "The race is starting!" "The race is starting!" "Want to ride behind me?" "Never." "H, will you take me?" "Get on." "Stop being scared and you'll have fun." "You don't even have a belt." "This is just for Siamese." "So, race or fuck off." "She's a real cow." " What did you say?" " I'm racing now." "Well, then?" "Give me your belt." "Babi, no!" "Shit, my scarf!" "Get on!" "Are you crazy?" "Don't!" "I haven't got all day." "Good luck!" "Belts off!" "Come on!" "Up!" "Up!" "Last lap!" "Chino!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Shit!" "Forget the bike, help her!" "Don't move her!" " Lift her up!" " Call an ambulance!" "Get on!" "Get on!" "The cameras!" "Cover the license plate!" "Hide here!" "I'll pick you up once I shake them off." "Quick!" "Shit!" "I'm here." " Where?" " Here." "Why are you in there?" "Come out." "There's a huge dog out there." "There's no dog here." "I still can't come out." "Why?" "I'm embarrassed." "Come out now or I'll leave." "No, wait!" "Wait!" "What?" "Promise you won't laugh." "I promise." "What have you done, kid?" " Are you covered in mud?" " It's manure." "That's manure?" "I don't believe it!" "This is too good to be true." "I knew it." "Your promises are worthless." " Wait, what are you doing?" " I'm getting on the bike!" "Are you crazy?" "You're covered in shit." " You're joking, right?" " No." "If you want, you can wear my jacket." "But first take off those clothes or you can't get on the bike." "Fuck, this is disgusting!" " Look, H..." " I like how that sounds." "It's the first time you've said my name." "If you turn round" "I swear I'll jump on you and cover you with manure." "And I do keep my promises." "Don't look!" "I've got no interest in looking." "I'd appreciate it if you'd hurry." "You're a filthy, disgusting bastard!" "I didn't turn round, did I?" "But you've got a great ass." "I wish I'd rubbed the manure in your face." "Now I do hear a rabid dog." " Hurry up!" " Look!" "Lift your legs or he'll bite you!" "Thank you for the lift." "So I'll pick you up tomorrow." "What time?" "Sure, and the police can chase us again." "Right." "You were a very brave Siamese." "Are you going to report me?" " Yes." " Yes?" "Really?" "Do you swear?" "Oh, Babi, Babi!" "I'm a pig, an animal, a beast, but you'd let me kiss you." " You're inconsistent." " And you're a bastard!" "You had your mouth open, begging me to kiss you." "Give me back my jacket right now." "Hotlips, what about a good night kiss?" "Go to hell!" "I was really worried." "Your mom thought I was you and gave me a good night kiss." " What happened?" " It was H, wasn't it?" "He tore off your clothes." "You'll wake mom." "Well?" "I'm going to shower." "She smells of shit." "Sorry, the police were after me." "Liar, I saw you go off with that stuck-up little mouse." "Illegal races cause disturbances in the pan' area." "Throw it up to me!" "Come on!" "She raced as a Siamese and saved a girl who had an accident." "It's really wild." " Are you going Out?" " No!" "Sure." "Katina, not again." "I'm not going out." "Look who's waiting for you." "Babi!" "You're seeing H, aren't you?" "If mom and dad ask, I'm studying at Katina's." "OK." "I'll be back by 11:00." "I'm the hero's sister-in-law." "H..." "Got a light?" "What's up?" "New projects." "Good luck, I don't think that prude will open her legs so easily." "I'll call you, OK?" "Vodka with pineapple." "Dogface." "Brute." "Mom, why are you still up?" "Why are you behaving as if you weren't my daughter?" "It got late." "Come here!" " Were you drinking?" " You know I don't drink." "What's that boy doing to you?" " Is he making you do anything?" " Nothing I don't want to do." "Is anything wrong?" "No, dad, I came home late, that's all." "I got his license plate." " Talk to him." " They're just kids."

"Graduated Canterbury University in 1993 with a double first in politics and sociology." "Attended Hendon College of Police Training." "Displayed great aptitude in field exercises." "Notably, urban pacification and riot control." "Back off!" "Academically excelled in theoretical course work and final year examinations." "Received the Baton of Honor." "Graduated with distinction into the Metropolitan Police Service." "Quickly established an effectiveness and popularity within the community." "Use your brain." "Proceeded to improve skill base with courses in advanced driving and advanced cycling." "Became heavily involved in a number of extra vocational activities." "To this day holds the Met record for the 100 meter dash." "In 2001 began active duty with the renowned SO 19 armed response unit." "Received a bravery award for efforts in the resolution of Operation Crackdown." "In the last 12 months has received nine special commendations." "Achieved the highest arrest record for any officer in the Met." "And sustained three injuries in the line of duty." "Most recently in December when wounded by a man dressed as Father Christmas." " Hello, Nicholas." " Hello, Sergeant." " How's the hand?" " Still a bit stiff." "It can get awfully hairy out there." "I'm surprised you weren't snapped up sooner for a nice desk job." "That's what I did." "I prefer to think my office is out on the street." "Indeed, you do." "Your arrest record is 400% higher than any other officer." "Which is why it's high time that such skills were put to better use." " We're making you Sergeant." " I see." "In Sandford, Gloucestershire." " In where, sorry?" " In Sandford, Gloucestershire." " That's in the country." " Yes, lovely." "Isn't there a Sergeant's position here in London?" "No." " Can I remain here as a PC?" " No." " Do I have any choice in this?" " No." "Sergeant, I kind of like it here." "Well, you've always wanted to transfer to the country." " In 20 years or so, yes." " Well done, you." "Hang on, I don't remember telling you that." "Yes, you did." "You said," ""I'd love to settle down in the country sometime, Janine."" "I'd like to talk to the Inspector." "You can speak to the Inspector, but I can promise you he will tell you exactly the same thing as I have." " Hello, Nicholas." "How's the hand?" " It's still a bit stiff." " And how are things at home?" " I'm sorry, sir?" "How's Janine?" "We're no longer together, sir." " Right." "Then where are you living?" " He's staying at the Section House, sir." " With the recruits?" " Yes, he's living out of cardboard boxes." "Well, then, you're packed already." "Nicholas, we're offering you a smashing position with a delightful cottage, in a lovely little place that I think has won Village of the Year" "I don't know how many times." "It'll be good for you." " I don't really know what to say." " Yes?" "Yes, thank you." "No, I'm sorry." "I'm gonna have to..." " You want to take this higher?" " Yes, yes, I do." "You want me to bother the Chief Inspector with this?" "Yes." "You want me to get the Chief Inspector to come all the way down here?" " Yes, I do." " Okay." "Kenneth!" " Hello, Nicholas." "How's the hand?" " Still a bit stiff." " Chief Inspector..." " Keep your seat." "Now, I know what you're going to say, but the fact is, you've been making us all look bad." "I'm sorry, sir?" "Of course we all appreciate your efforts, but you've been rather letting the side down." "It's all about being a team player, Nicholas." "You can't be the Sheriff of London." "If we let you carry on running round town, you'll continue to be exceptional and we can't have that." "You'll put us all out of a job." "With respect, sir." " You can't just make people disappear." " Yes, I can." "I'm the Chief Inspector." "Well, however you spin this, there's one thing you haven't taken into account." "And that's what the "team" is gonna make of this." " Hello?" " Janine, it's me." "I know." "I'm at work." "I know, I'm outside." "What's the situation?" "You know the situation." "We've been over this." "No, I..." "I meant here." "Two people involved, distinct signs of a struggle." "Complete mess." " You are talking about here?" " Nicholas, what do you want?" "Well, I have something important to tell you and I didn't wanna do it over the phone." "Janine, I've been transferred." "I'm moving away for a while." "I'm not Janine." "Janine, I've been transferred." "I'm moving away for a while." "I know." "Bob told me." "Hello, there." "Well, I wanted to tell you in person." "And there's no reason we can't be civil with each other." "It's not that long ago we were talking about getting married." "Yes, but you were already married to the force, weren't you?" "We're actually supposed to call it "the service" now." "Official vocab guidelines state that "force" is too aggressive." "See." "It's only ever about the job." " It's all you care about." " That's not true." "No, you're right, you do have that rubber plant." " It's a Japanese Peace Lily." " You just can't switch off, Nicholas." "And until you find a person you care about more than your job, you never will." "Besides, you were the one who suggested we take a break." "Yes, well, guilty people often make the first move." "Actually, there's something I need to tell you." " You're seeing someone else." " Yes." "How did you..." " Is it Bob?" " No." "Does Bob look like the kind of person I'd go out with?" "It's Dave." "Hello, there." "I see." "Oh, Nicholas." "You do realize that window was broken from the inside?" "Hello there, Nicholas, Frank Butterman here, your new Inspector." "I'm just calling with details of your accommodation." "We've got you a lovely little cottage on Spencer Hill." "Look forward to meeting you anon." "Cheerio." "Nicholas, Frank again." "One other thing about your cottage." "It's not ready." "It would appear the heavens have opened." " I was hoping to check in." " Check in?" "But you've always been here." " Excuse me?" " Oh, I'm sorry." "I thought you were my husband." " You must be Sergeant Angel." " Yes, I am." "I'm Joyce Cooper." "I trust you had a pleasant trip." "Fascist." "I beg your pardon?" ""System of Government characterized by extreme dictatorship." Seven across." " Oh, I see." "It's "fascism."" " Fascism." "Wonderful." "Now, we've put you in the Castle Suite." "Bernard will escort you up there." "Well, actually, I could probably make my own way up." "Hag." "I beg your pardon?" ""Evil old woman considered frightful or ugly." It's 12 down." "Oh, bless you." " Pint of lager, please, Mary." " Right you are, my love." "Yes, sir, what can I get you?" "Could I have a glass of the cranberry juice, please?" "Certainly." "Now, you wouldn't, by any chance, be the new policeman?" "Police officer, yes." "I'm Nicholas Angel." " I'm Roy Porter." "This is my wife Mary." " Mary." "Welcome to Sandford." "If there's anything you need, just let us know." "Thank you." "Could I borrow your newspaper?" "It's not ours, love." "We're not big fans of the local fish wrapper, are we, Mare?" " They listed her age as 55." " When I'm actually 53." "Fifty-three." " Pint of lager, please, Mary." " Right you are, my love." " Excuse me." " What?" " When's your birthday?" " Twenty-second of February." " What year?" " Every year." "Get out." " When's your birthday?" " Eighth of May, 1969." " You're 37?" " Yeah." "Get out." "When's your birthday?" "Out." " Is there a problem, Officer?" " Yes, there is, Mr. Porter." "It would appear a number of your patrons are under age." "Well, a few of them may be a month or two south of proper." "But if they're in here, it stops them getting into trouble out there." "Yeah, the way we see it, it's all for the greater good." "The greater good." "Well, that's as may be, but the law's the law and they'll have to go." " Another cranberry juice?" " I'm fine, thank you." "I hope you're not planning on driving that." "No." "Right." "I'm taking you to the station." "Where is it?" "What?" "Move." ""Nicholas Angel."" " Oh, when did you start?" " Tomorrow." "Well, I see you've already arrested the whole village." "Not exactly." " You in for the night?" " Go on, four's free." " Hey, now, I need to speak to him." " He'll be no use till the morning." "I see." "You really want to process all this lot?" " My pen's running out." " Not a problem." " Morning, Sergeant." " Morning." "Morning." "Morning, Sergeant." "Morning, Sergeant." " Lock me up." " I'm sorry?" "I'm a slasher and I must be stopped." " You're a what?" " A slasher of prices." "Just kidding." "I'm Simon Skinner." "I run the local supermarché." "Drop in and see me sometime." "My discounts are criminal." "Catch me later!" "Morning, Sergeant." "Morning, Sergeant." "Could you tell the Inspector I've arrived, please?" "No." "Why?" "He's not in yet." " Well, how's our guest?" " Guest?" " The inebriate in cell four." " I don't know." "Nobody tells me nothing." "Can I get cell four open, please?" "Danny, can you open four?" " He's gone." " Oh, my God." "Who's gone?" " Why are you dressed like a police officer?" " Because I am one." "Sergeant Angel, at last." "Frank Butterman." " I see you've already met my boy." " Yes." "Do forgive me." "I'm something of a Wild West nut." "Speaking of which, that was a fair few outlaws you rounded up last night." "Thank you, sir." "I admire your enthusiasm and far be it from me to stifle your flair, but this isn't London." "Oh, yes, please, Danny." "With respect, sir, geographical location shouldn't factor in the application of the law." "No, thanks." "Statistically, Sandford is the safest village in the country." "But that doesn't mean it requires anything less than a careful and considered approach." "There's a reason we accommodate a few of the younglings at the pub." " The greater good?" " The greater good." "Precisely." "Your predecessor assumed that rural policing was easy." "Ended up having a nervous breakdown." "And Sergeant Popwell was an exceptional officer, truly exceptional." "And he had one thing you haven't got." " What's that, sir?" " A great big bushy beard." "Come on, let's have a mosey around." "Locker room." "Riot room." "Evidence room." "Now, how about a trip to the Andes?" "Detective Sergeant Wainwright and Detective Constable Cartwright." "Don't get up." "I expect you're wondering why we call them the Andes." " They're both called Andrew?" " They said you were good." "Also, because talking to them is an uphill struggle, isn't it, Dad?" " Fuck off!" " Thank you, Danny." "And this is where it all happens." "That is Sergeant Tony Fisher." "PC Bob Walker." "And that is Saxon." "And this is one Doris Thatcher." " She's our only policewoman." " She's not a policewoman." " Yeah, she is." "I've seen her bra." " She's a police officer." "Being a woman has nothing to do with it." "Oh, I don't know." "Comes in handy every so often." "I could've given you the tour." "I've been round the station a few times." "And what's upstairs?" "Well, well, well, I see we have visitors." "Nicholas, this is Tom Weaver." "Civilian liaison with the Neighborhood Watch Alliance." "You'll find that we run a very tight ship here." "From this command center I can see what the whole village is up to." "I must say I was rather admiring your handiwork last night." "It's a pity you didn't do the same to those bloody hoodies." "Hanging around." "Loitering." "Sitting." "Actually, I did notice some minor graffiti on the fountain." "Graffiti?" "They've gotta be dealt with, Frank." "They're nippers, Tom." "They'll come round." "Which reminds me, our friend, The Living Statue, was here on Saturday." "11:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00." "If we don't come down hard on these clowns," " we are gonna be up to our balls in jugglers." " We'll get right onto it, Tom." "We like to let them think they run the place." "Well, that's that." "Unless there's anything you're unclear about?" "Yes, sir." "Why is everybody eating chocolate cake?" "The Black Forest gateau is on Danny." "As punishment for his little indiscretion." "His..." "Sir, I don't think driving under the influence can be called a "little indiscretion."" "No, the gateau is for misplacing his helmet the other week." "Last night's incident will require something rather more serious." " Good." " Do you like ice-cream?" "I'm sorry, sir, I don't follow." "Let's just say that we won't be short of Chunky Monkey for the next month." "Dad." "Now, since it's your first day and it's 11:30, I'd say that's lunch." "So, what made you choose Sandford then, Sergeant Angel?" "It wasn't actually my choice." "Oh, right, right, wasn't your choice to come down here and tell me how to do my job." "Our jobs." "Yeah." "Look, I can assure you it wasn't my intention to upset the apple cart." "Yeah, 'cause we all sell apples round here, don't we?" " Your dad sells apples, Andy." " And raspberries." "I bet you can't wait to jump into Sergeant Popwell's grave." "I'm not jumping into anyone's grave." " You got a mustache." " I know." " Why have you got your stab vest on?" " It's a requirement." "In the city maybe." "Nobody's gonna stab you in here, Sergeant." "Not a member of the public anyhow." " Have you been stabbed, Sergeant Fisher?" " No." "Well, I have." "And I can assure you it is not in the least bit amusing." "Have you seen a lot of action, Sergeant Angel?" "I've experienced my fair share, yes." " Did you cook any fools?" " Excuse me?" "Did you shoot anybody?" "He shot a crack head with a Kalashnikov." " Where did you get that?" " The offender had the Kalashnikov." "Where'd he get that?" "You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city?" "Everybody and their mums is packing round here." " Like who?" " Farmers." " Who else?" " Farmers's mums." "What's it like being stabbed?" "It was the single most painful experience of my life." "What was the second most painful?" "You ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?" "No." "You ever fired one gun whilst jumping through the air?" "No." " Ever been in a high speed pursuit?" " Yes, I have." "You ever fired a gun whilst in a high speed pursuit?" "No." "Annette, that Sergeant Angel's coming into your shop." "Get a look at his arse." " What about Lethal Weapon?" " No." " You've seen Die Hard, though?" " No." " Bad Boys II?" " No." "You ain't seen Bad Boys II?" " Hell of a day, huh?" " Yeah." " Same again tomorrow?" " Yeah." "Amanda Paver, headmistress of Sandford Primary." "How do you do, Sergeant?" " Simon Skinner, I believe you've met." " Oh, we're already firm friends." "Oh, please, please, come with me, will you?" "This is Leslie Tiller, whose horticultural expertise has helped put Sandford on the map." " She's ever so good." " Oh, go on." "This is James Reaper, who owns Brannigan Farm." "I hear you're quite the marksman." "Perhaps you might like to join us for a shoot one day." "Well, I haven't held a firearm for over two years, Mr. Reaper." "I'd quite like to keep it that way." "You will be popular with the local birds." "Birds." "Nicholas, hello." "Reverend Shooter." "I want to ask you, would you read a homily at Sunday Service?" "That might be a little hypocritical of me, Reverend." "Oh, you're an atheist?" "No, I'm..." "I'm..." "I'm open to the concept of religion, I'm just not entirely convinced by it." " You're an agnostic?" " I think I have a cream for that." "Robin Hatcher, our resident sawbones." "Hopefully we won't see too much of each other over the coming months." "Well, all that remains is to welcome you to the weekly meeting of the Neighborhood Watch Alliance." "Now, quick announcement before we begin." "Janet Barker has just given birth to twins." "So, congratulations to her." " Tom?" " Thanks, Joyce." "Now." "I am sure that all of you will have noticed the return of a blight to our streets." "It's made all the more disturbing as the Village of the Year contest looms." "I refer, of course, to the extremely irritating Living Statue." "Police work is as much about preventing crime as it is about fighting crime." "Most importantly, it is about procedural correctness in the execution of unquestionable moral authority." "Any questions?" "Yes." "Is it true that there is a place in a man's head that if you shoot it, it will blow up?" "Hi, hi, Tim Messenger." "Can I get a quick shot for the Sandford Citizen?" "Okay." "How about you put the teacher in handcuffs?" "I don't think that gives off the right signals." "Too cheesy-pie." "Okay." "Gotcha." " Give the little blonde kid your hat." " I'd rather not." " Wave your hitting stick about." " No." "Righty-ho-ho." "Oh, can I have your autograph, please?" " For the breakfast." " Oh, sorry." "Hey, that weren't me." " Morning, Angle." " Good morning, Angle." " Morning, Angle." " Morning, Angle." " Sergeant Angel." " Morning." "The swan's escaped." " The swan's escaped?" " Yeah." "Right." "And where has the swan escaped from exactly?" " The castle." " Oh, yeah?" "And who might you be?" "Mr. Staker." "Yeah, Mr. Peter Ian Staker." "P.I. Staker." "Right." "Piss taker." "Come on!" "Yes, Mr. Staker." "We'll do everything we can." "Can you describe it to me?" "It's about two foot tall." " Long slender neck." " Yeah." " Kind of orange and black bill." " Anything else?" "Well, it's a swan." "That's just gonna scare it." " No luck catching them swans then?" " It's just the one swan, actually." " Want anything from the shop?" " You've just been to the shop." "I was thinking of a different shop." "Constable Butterman, this is not the time for personal errands." " Well, there's nothing going on, is there?" " There is always something going on." "You have to look closer, all right?" "What about this guy?" " Mr. Treacher?" " Yeah." "Why has he got that big coat on?" "He can't be cold." "Why the extra layer?" "Maybe he's trying to hide something." "Mr. Treacher?" "Okay." "What about this guy?" "Ask yourself, why has he got his hat pulled down like that?" " He's fuck ugly." " Or he doesn't want you to see his face." "Because he's fuck ugly." "Okay, what's his story?" " Oh, that's Lurch." " Go on." " He's a trolley boy at the local supermarket." " Good." "Real name, Michael Armstrong." " Dad says he's got a child's mind." " Okay." "And lives up Summer Street with his mum and his sister." "And are they as big as he is?" " Who?" " The mum and the sister." "Same person." "What shop were you thinking of?" "Sergeant Angel to the Manager's office." "Manager's office." "Sergeant Angel." "Sergeant Angel." "Or is it Angle?" "Mr. Skinner, a baby's sicked up in aisle six." "Please excuse me." "Michael!" "Yarp." " Child vomit." "Aisle six." "Mop it up." " Yarp." " Mr. Skinner, is there a problem?" " No, no, no, no." "I simply wanted to say how lovely it is to see you supporting your local store." "Well, that's quite all right." "All too many have defected to the big Megamart in Buford Abbey." "May their heads be struck from their shoulders for such disloyalty." "Yes, well, I am on duty, so if you'll excuse me." "Of course." "I simply spied you loitering in organic produce and assumed you had time on your hands." "Well, maybe I'm not the one you should be keeping an eye on." "That's the Fridge Magnate." "His name's George Merchant." "Made a fortune in kitchen goods." "Built that monstrosity on Norris Avenue." "Actually, I wasn't talking about him." "I was talking about him." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." ""Meet the cop that can't be stopped."" "Tosser!" "Trouble in the high street." "Sergeant Angel's having a spot of bother." "Roger that." "Morning, Sergeant." "You mothers." " Let's cut through here." "Head him off." " Through the gardens?" "What's the matter, Danny?" "You never taken a shortcut before." "Hey, give me that!" ""You do not have to say anything, however it may harm your defense" ""if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court." ""Anything you do say can be given in evidence."" " Hi, Danny." " All right, Pete?" "Do you know this man?" "Yeah, he's Auntie Jackie's sister's brother's boy." "And it didn't occur to you to mention this before?" "Couldn't see his face, could I?" "I'm not made of eyes." "Impressive collar." "Shame Mr. Skinner doesn't want to press charges." "What do you mean, he doesn't wanna press charges?" "I'm simply suggesting that, you know, Peter be given a second chance before he becomes just another crime statistic." "I'm sure he's going to learn a valuable lesson." " Stealing biscuits is wrong?" " Correct." "Thanks." "And yet we respond by not taking a single punitive measure?" "Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles." "Like the biscuits, isn't it?" " Mr. Skinner..." " Is everything all right?" "Well, sir, Mr. Skinner feels it would be better not to prosecute an individual that has committed a blatant offense." "Leave this with me." "I'll make sure everyone gets their just deserts." "Oh, no!" "Twenty-seven." " Have you ever seen Point Break?" " No." "Amazing bit in Point Break where they jump over fences." "Is there now?" "Twenty-nine." "Patrick Swayze's just robbed this bank and Keanu Reeves is chasing him through people's gardens, and he goes to shoot Swayze but he can't, 'cause he loves him so much, and he's firing his gun up in the air, he's like..." "Forty." "Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone..." "No, I have not ever fired my gun up in the air and gone..." "Thirty." "Sorry, I..." "I just..." "I just feel like I'm missing out sometimes." " I wanna do what you do." " You do, do what I do." "What on earth do you think you're missing out on?" "Gun fights." "Car chases." "Proper action and shit." "Police work is not about proper action or shit." "Twenty-nine." "If you had paid attention to me in school, you'd understand that it's not all about gun fights and car chases." "Fire up the roof." "That was brilliant." "Was I going a tad fast, Officer?" "Yes, you were, Mr. Blower." "Well, now, you see, we are staging a homage to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and I'm a little late for the dress rehearsal." "I'm playing the eponymous hero, you see." "Romeo not Juliet." " What are you writing?" " Everything you're saying." "I might need to refer to it later." "Now, Officer, I am a respected solicitor so there's no need to..." "Just stop writing, will you?" "Look, I'm merely trying to explain why I might have exceeded the speed limit." "You're playing the male lead in a homage to William Shakespeare's" "Romeo and Juliet and you're late for the dress rehearsal." "You think this is sufficient reason to travel at 48 in a 30 zone?" " Well, I..." " To flout speed limits" " specifically put in place to save lives." " Just, look, this is preposterous." " "Preposterous."" " Look, just stop writing!" ""Stop writing."" "Look, you're right, I apologize." " See what I did there?" " You hypnotized him." "No, I used this." "This is the most important piece of equipment you will ever own." "This notebook has saved my skin more times than I care to mention." "You should think about using yours more often." " I do use mine." " Show me." " That's just extraordinary." " You should see the one on the other side." " What are you up to tonight?" " I have to water my Peace Lily." "Thought you might wanna do something." " What exactly were you thinking?" " Don't know." "Pub?" "I don't think that's a good idea." "Do you?" "You two." "A Mr. Blower left you tickets for Romeo and Juliet tonight." "Said it was by way of an apology." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Well, we can't accept gifts from somebody we've officially rebuked." "So..." "Yeah." "Nicholas." "Glad I caught you." "Wondered if you wouldn't mind representing us at the am drams tonight." " Yes, sir, of course." " And there's a spare for Danny, too." "Yeah!" "Hey, come on, it might be fun." "A dateless bargain to engrossing death." "Here's to my love." "Now." "Poison?" "I'll kiss thy lips." "Happily some poison doth yet hang on them." "Bang!" "Sergeant Angel, hi-hi." "Quick word for the Sandford Citizen." "It was very enjoyable." " "Cop Enjoys Watching Young Lovers"?" " I don't think so." ""Local Bobby Gives Thumbs Up To Teen Suicide"?" "That's just grossly inappropriate." "You will try and spell his name correctly this time, won't you, Timothy?" "Absolute tosh, wasn't it?" "And annoyingly, the understudies are actually professional actors." "Greg over there was an extra in Straw Dogs and Sheree portrayed a cadaver in Prime Suspect." "Sergeant Angel, you came?" "So thrilled you accepted my invitation." "Well, our Inspector requested we attend." "So..." "Yeah, we can't accept gifts from someone we've officially rebuked so..." "Jog on." "Congratulations to you and to Mrs. Blower." "Oh, this is not my wife." "This is Miss Draper." "My leading lady." "Eve works in the local council, Sergeant." "Quite the lady in the know." " I am not." " Nonsense." "I'm sure if we bashed your head in, all sorts of secrets would come tumbling out." "Romeo, Romeo, a pint of bitter for Romeo?" "Thank you very much for coming, George." "Excuse us." "A pleasure, my liege." " Eve's nice, ain't she?" " She certainly has a distinctive laugh." "She was in my year at school." "Always had a thing for her." "She clearly has a thing for older men." "What, with Martin Blower?" "No way!" "We just sat through three hours of so-called acting, Constable, their kiss was the only convincing moment in it." "Hey, now you come to mention it," "I too have reason to believe she favors the older gent." "Really?" "How so?" "Marcus Carter's big brother said he'd fingered her up the duck pond." "Oh, Officers." "Again let me extend my sincere apologies for earlier." "That's quite all right, Mr. Blower." "Drive safe." ""Drive safe." Oh, my God." "You know that's the bloke we done for speeding earlier." "Yeah." "Hopefully, that's the last we'll see of him." "Who is it?" "We haven't got long." "To us." "Who is it?" "Yeah?" " ...decaffeinated?" " Decaffeinated?" "Little Brian Libby found them, out on his paper round." "Oh, he'll be having nightmares for a while." "Must have hit the sign at some speed." "Took the whole top off." " I've had my top off in this lay-by." " Tits." "Most likely lost control, left the road there and then ended up here." "So, what do we reckon?" "Sergeant Angel?" "Well, we should get a proper cordon off, screen the remains from public view." "Close down the road until the ambulance crew arrives, whereupon we should open a single lane of traffic and ease congestion." "Very good." "What he said." " What happened, Danny?" " Car accident." "Nasty way to go." "Constable, official vocab guidelines state we no longer refer to these incidents as "accidents," they're now "collisions."" "Right." ""For never was there a story of more woe." "Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."" " Excuse me?" " Martin and Eve." "Such a tragedy." "Mr. Skinner, do you mind telling me how you know the identity of the persons involved?" "You know how it is." "News travels fast." "A love struck Romeo sings a streetsus serenade" " What happened, Danny?" " Traffic collision." "Hey, why can't we say "accident" again?" "Because "accident" implies there's nobody to blame." "Put a sock in it, town mouse." "Yeah, you wanna be a big cop in a small town, fuck off up the model village." "I'm just saying, things aren't always as simple as they look." "Most times they are." "Let's just wait till Doctor Hatcher comes back with something, before you go jumping the Kalashnikov." "All right, in the meantime, why don't you check out a few of Martin Blower's clients?" "Martin Blower represents damn near most of the village." "Did you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, or put a call into Aaron A. Aaronson, shall we?" "Please, don't be childish." "At least consider interviewing the widow." "Martin Blower was clearly having an affair with Eve Draper." "Oh, and how did you establish that?" "'Cause we sat through three hours of so-called acting last night, and the kiss was the only convincing moment in it." "All right, pipe down, big one." "Here, what else you got, Crockett and Tubby?" " Skid marks." " Now who's being childish?" "There were no skid marks at the scene." "Doesn't it seem a little strange that Martin Blower would lose control of his car and not think to apply the brakes?" "If there were no skid marks it follows that for 300 yards both driver and passenger did nothing to prevent their fate." "You don't have to be a detective to work that out!" "Yeah." " Are you causing trouble?" " Yes, they are." "Well, a spot of bother up at Ellroy Farm." "Old Arthur Webley's been clipping hedgerows that don't belong to him." " Yes, sir?" " That's it." "Yes, sir." " Why do we need the dog?" " It's not the dog we need." "Right." "What did he say?" " What did he say?" " He said, "An 'edge is an 'edge." ""He only chopped it down 'cause it spoilt his view." ""What's Reaper moaning about?"" "Right." "Look, I appreciate your position, Mr. Webley, but you can't go around chopping down other people's hedges without permission." ""Yes, I suppose."" "Thank you." "All right." "Mr. Webley, I trust you have a license for that firearm?" "He does for this one." "What do you mean by "this one"?" "By the power of Grey Skull." "Where on earth did you get these?" " Found them." " He found them!" " And what is this?" " Sea mine." "Sea mine." "Well, Mr. Webley, this is an extremely dangerous collection." "It's a wonder nobody's been hurt before." "No, it's just a lot of junk." "Move, move, move!" " You what?" " No, apparently it's been deactivated." "Over." "That's right, deactivated!" " It's not live." " It looks live." "All right." "That was quite an impressive haul today, Constable Butterman." "Well, you know, I mean, maybe we should do something to celebrate." "Unless you gotta water your Peace Lily." " What exactly did you have in mind?" " I don't know." "Pub?" "Right you are, my love." "Yes, sirs, what can I get you?" "Pint of lager, please, Roy." "And what can I get you that isn't a cranberry juice?" " I don't really wanna get drunk." " You can get a little drunk." " Okay, I'll have one." " Yeah, that's what I'm talking about." "Mr. Porter, what's your wine selection?" "Oh, we got red or white." " I'll have a pint of lager, please." " Yeah, Roy." " Any news from earlier?" " Yeah." "CSI found nothing." "Doctor Hatcher reported no misadventure and Mrs. Blower has four alibis." "Now, come on, Sergeant, it's not your job to investigate this incident, is it?" "Is it?" " No, it isn't." " No, it isn't." " You don't switch off, do you?" " You sound like my ex." " Well, you are always thinking away." " It's what I do." " Don't get me wrong." "I think it's amazing." " Really?" "I mean, what made you wanna be a policeman?" "Officer." "What made you wanna be a policeman-officer?" "I don't remember a time when I didn't wanna be a police officer." "Apart from the summer of 1979 when I wanted to be Kermit the Frog." "It all started with my Uncle Derek." "He was a Sergeant in the Met." "He bought me a police pedal car when I was five." "I rode round in it every second I was awake." "Arresting kids twice my size for littering and spitting." "I got beaten up a lot when I was young but it didn't stop me." "I wanted to be like Uncle Derek." "He sounds like a good bloke." "Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students." "What a cunt." "Probably bought the pedal car with the proceeds." "Needless to say I never went near it again." "I just let it rust." "But I never forgot the clear sense of right and wrong that I felt at the wheel of that pedal car." "I had to prove to myself that the law could be proper and righteous and for the good of humankind." "It was from that moment, I was destined to be a police officer." " Shame." " How so?" "I think you would've made a great muppet." "What about you?" "What made you wanna become a police officer?" "I don't know." "Dad does it." "I think after my mum died, it's what he wanted, you know, keep me close by." " Do you mind if I ask how she died?" " Traffic collision." "I'm sorry." "Never mind." "Hey, watch this." " Jesus Christ!" " Oh, my eye!" "Ta-da!" "Hey, come on, silly bollocks, get them in." " 777." " Mr. Skinner." " You know George Merchant, don't you?" " Evening, Officer." "Yes, we were just discussing the accident." "I'd come to know Martin and Eve very well of late." "Such a loss." "What say we drink to their demise?" "Shouldn't that be "drink to their memories"?" "Of course." "Cheers." "I must go to the little boys' room." " I'm all right!" " "Little" being the operative word." "Oh, he'll be in bits tomorrow." "I think somebody needs to go home." " I'm..." "I'm not that drunk, sir." " Not you." "Him." "What?" "Hey, we did get a little drunk." "Did you get it?" "'Cause he's..." "He's little and he's drunk." "Oh, good grief." "It's hardly in keeping with the village's rustic esthetic, is it?" " How much do I owe you?" " Twenty quid." "There you go." " And there's your change." " God bless you." "Bye-bye." "I'm all right." "I would not wanna be him in the morning." "Well, this is me." "Well, I shall see you in the morning." "Unless you wanna come in for a cup of coffee?" " I don't drink coffee." " Tea?" "No caffeine after midday." "How about another beer?" "Oh, dear." " When did you move in?" " About five years ago." " You should get some house plants." " Oh, yeah, yeah." "Yeah." "I've been tending my Peace Lily for about three years now." "It oxygenates the room, helps you think, relieves stress." "Its needs are simple." "Janine used to say I love my Lily more than I loved her." " Is that why you split up?" " What?" " 'Cause you did it with a plant?" " No, no, no." "It was more about me being obsessed with the job." "That's good though, right?" "Is it though?" "I did miss a few dinners." "You know, parties, a birthday or two." " Listen, mate, I..." " Her dad's funeral." " I just wanna be good at what I do." " You are good at what you do." "You've just gotta learn to switch off that big old melon of yours." "That's the whole problem, Danny." "I don't think I know how." "I can show you how." "By the power of Grey Skull." "Point Break or Bad Boys II?" "Which one do you think I'll prefer?" "No, I mean which one do you wanna watch first?" "You are pulling my leg?" "What did you think of that?" "Well, I won't argue that it was a no holds barred, adrenalin fueled thrill ride but there's no way you could perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork." "That is nothing, man." "This is about to go off." "This shit just got real." "Nasty way to go." "I think our Mr. Merchant tried to have a little fry up and left the gas on." "Spends his whole life devoted to the refrigerator then gets killed by an oven." "I told him several times, you shouldn't eat late at night." "Oh, I don't know." "I quite like a little midnight gobble." "Cocks." "So, what do we reckon?" "Angel?" "Help me." "Okay, we get a proper cordon up, we let the fire crews finish their stuff, and then we get forensics in to do a thorough sweep of the house." "Very good." "What he said." "Sergeant Angel, hi-hi." "A quick word?" "Mr. Messenger, a statement will be issued shortly." "Actually, I just wanted to ask, "What's your perfect Sunday?"" "I'll deal with the press, Sergeant." "Now, my perfect Sunday is a lovely long lie in..." "Fire to destroy all you've done" "Like in the films." "Something like, something out of Backdraft." " What are you thinking?" "Foul play?" " Maybe." "We're just hoping to talk to the last people to see Mr. Merchant alive." "Namely a Sergeant Knickerless Asswipe and a Constable Fanny Batterbum." " That's us." " Why is this such a big joke to you?" "Three people have died in a week." "Oh, come on, Doctor Sherlock, they were accidents." "People have accidents every day." " The victims knew each other." " Everyone knows everyone round here." "Yeah." "If you didn't see anything suspicious, then who did?" "It's a bit of a blind spot, I'm afraid." "We just catch the very edge of the explosion." "Nasty way to go." " There was something took my eye." " Really?" "What's that?" "Sandford's most wanted." "There you go." "It was the swan all along." " This is not funny, Detective!" " Oh, give over, Miss Marples." "Yeah, you do your job and we'll do ours, eh?" "Yeah." "Haven't you got a church fete to look after?" "No, I have not!" "Actually." "Testing." "Testing." "Someone's in for a surprise at 3:00, ladies and gentlemen." "It's the raffle with a very special guest presenter." "Out in the country" "Far from all the sorts of noise of the city" "There's a village green" "It's been a long time since I last set eyes" "On the church with a steeple" "That's me after a couple of pints." "Splat the rat." "Splat the rat." "Splat the rat." "Shark!" "Seen any murderings, Nicholarse?" "Come on, boys." "Leave Sergeant Angel alone, he's working." "Sorry, Chief, won't waste any more police time." "Have a nice time." "Actually, Nicholas, you might as well take a break." "Hey, great." "I've got something to show you." " This is a rifle range." " You'll be really good at it." "Feeling lucky, Sergeant?" "Three cans wins you the squeaky bunny, five cans gets you the floppy lion." "Take out all the little people, you get to waltz off with the cuddly monkey." "I thought I made it clear to you how I feel about firearms." "It's only an air rifle." "Sergeant." "Dear Lord!" "That was amazing." " Thank you, Danny." " I can't believe I shot someone." " He's a doctor, he can deal with it." " I never shot anyone before." "Danny, believe me, it's not something you ever get used to." "Yeah." "Maybe we should go on the bouncy castle." "Take our minds off of it." " Sergeant Angel, hi-hi." " Mr. Messenger." "I need to talk to you about George Merchant." "Alone." "Churchyard. 3:00." "What do you think he wants?" "Would Sergeant Angel come to the stage, please?" "Here to announce the winners is the newest addition to the Sandford Police Force." "Service." "Sergeant Nicholas Angel." " Prick." " Wanker." "Hello." "Hello." "The first name is Simon Skinner." "He's in the loo." "Too much of Joyce's lemonade, perhaps." "And the next name is..." "Tim, your number's up." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Hi-hi." "Oh, no!" "Stand back, stand back!" "There's been a terrible accident." " Accident?" " Just an accident." "It's all right, it's all right." "There's nothing to see." "Come on, everybody." "It's all right." "It's just an accident." "Nicholas, what is it?" "Sir, I think all these deaths are linked." "I think Tim Messenger was murdered." " Who could do something like this?" " Maybe it was the swan." " Apparently, they can break a man's arm." " Or blow up a man's house." " Listen, you pair of..." " Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Nicholas." "Now, let me get this straight." " Are you saying that this is a crime scene?" " Yes, sir, I am." "Very well." " Detectives." " Sir." "Start interviewing everyone who was at the fete." "Oh, he's got shorts on." " Sergeant Fisher?" " What?" " Secure the area." " What?" " PC Thatcher?" " Yes, love?" "Get the CSI down here." "PC Walker?" "Patrol the churchyard with Saxon." "Nicholas, Danny, you know what to do." "Do you really think this is murder?" "I just don't think we should rule it out, that's all." "Yeah." "I think you're right." "I think you're talking a load of old shit." "He thinks you're talking a load of shit." "Swings and roundabouts, isn't it?" "Pain in the arse." " Did you find anything?" " Yeah." "I was extremely shocked when I looked at my watch and discovered that I should be in the pub." "Did you go to his house?" "Did you read his articles?" "If you wanna wade through every copy of the Sandford bloody Citizen, be our guest." "It's your job, isn't it?" "Detect!" "This ain't the city, Mr. Angel." "Not everyone's a murdering psychopath." "It's high time you realized that." "You and your monkey." "Did he mean me or that?" "Oh, maybe we should go home." " What do you mean?" " Well, there's nothing going on, is there?" "Have you listened to anything that I've said?" "What do you mean?" "Is anything I've told you in the last two weeks" " sunk into that thick skull of yours?" " Yeah." "Has it?" "Like what?" "You said I could be an amazing policeman-officer." "There's always something going on, Danny." "And you won't be an amazing police officer until you understand that." "Well, I remembered something else you said and all." " Oh, did you now?" " Yeah." "You don't know how to switch off!" "Well, if you wanna wade through every copy of the Sandford bloody Citizen, be our guest." " Morning, Constable." " All right?" "Thanks for the monkey." " Yours, isn't it?" " I won it for you." "Danny, I think I'm on to something." " Are you?" " Yes." "And I think with a little deliberation we can figure out what links these deaths." " We?" " Come on, partner." "Let's go to work." "Oh, oh, Sergeant Angel?" " Someone from London called for you." " Tell them I'll call them back." " Tim Messenger." " Go." "Editor and journalist at The Sandford Citizen." " Fondness for puns." " Go on." " Terrible speller." " Oh, yeah?" "Nevertheless had uncovered important information about..." " George Merchant." " Self-made millionaire." "Fancied himself as a property developer." " Said he had big plans for Sandford." " Pissed on the floor in The Crown." "But more importantly, was a good friend and client of..." " Martin Blower." " Respected solicitor." " Affirmatron." " Leading light of the local drama society." " Bad actor." " Undoubtedly." " Bad driver." " Not necessarily." " Cheated on his missus." " Most certainly." " And we both know who with." " Eve Draper." " Blower's leading lady." "Distinctive laugh." " True." " Favored older men." " Fingered." " Worked at?" " Council." " More specifically?" " Department of Planning and Development." "Where George Merchant secured permission to build his dubious mansion on Norris Avenue." "So..." "Maybe they were all accidents." "People have accidents every day." " What are you two up to?" " Nothing." "Well, look sharp." " There's been reports of a fire in the station." " What?" "Happy birthday to you" "Happy birthday to you" " Danny, why didn't you say something?" " We were working, weren't we?" " Hey, where are you going?" " Personal errand." "Hello, Miss Tiller." "I was wondering, do you have any Japanese Peace Lilies?" "Of course." "I was just about to pop off, actually." "I can never find my scissors." " Is this for someone special?" " Yes." "Yes, it is." " Are you going somewhere, Miss Tiller?" " Yes." "I'm moving away." "And why the move, if you don't mind me asking?" " Well, just between you and I..." " Yes?" " You know that fella who blew up?" " George Merchant." "Well, George Merchant, God rest him, wanted to buy this land, so he sends round his legal fella, Martin Blower, God rest him, and I thought I might take them up on it." "I haven't really got that much family round here, save for Cousin Sissy." "So I thought I might take them up on the offer and move to Buford Abbey." "Would you like a card with this?" "No, sorry, you were talking about the offer?" "Well, it turns out that Martin Blower, God rest him, knew where the new bypass road is going because he was knocking off Eve Draper from the council, God rest her, and then that reporter, God rest him, finds out about the route" "and tells me this land's very valuable." "Ten times what George Merchant and Martin Blower, God rest them, offered me." "So, with them having passed on, I decided to sell it on myself to some folks from the city that Martin, George and Eve," "God rest the lot of them, had been talking to." "Apparently, they want to build a big shopping center or something." "Of course, Cousin Sissy won't be too happy about that, but as far as I'm concerned, Cousin Sissy can go and fuck..." "Would you just excuse me, for just one second?" "Stop!" "In the name of the law!" "Hang about, hang about." "You're saying this wasn't an accident?" "Leslie Tiller was fucking murdered!" " What, just like Tim Messenger?" " Yes!" " And George Merchant?" " Yes!" " And Eve Draper?" " Yes!" " And Martin Blower?" " No, actually." " Really?" " 'Course he fucking was!" "Thank you, Danny." "Oh, murder, murder, murder." "Change the fucking record." "Thank you, Andy." "Come on, Sergeant, you've gotta accept it was just another nasty accident." "What are you suggesting?" "That Leslie Tiller tripped and fell on her own shears?" "Ben Fletcher fell on his pitchfork the other week." "Yeah, accidents happen all the time." "What makes you think it was murder?" " Because I was there!" " There's a point." "Why were you there?" "I was buying Constable Butterman a Japanese Peace Lily for his birthday." "What absolute horseshit." "I chased a suspect from the scene." "Innocent people don't run!" "Here, maybe it was our old friend, the cactus thief." "Oh, yeah, he was a prickly customer, weren't he?" "Am I going completely mad?" "Maybe you are." "Maybe you did it." "Yeah, seeing as how you're such a big fan of murder." " What the..." " Sergeant Angel?" "Yes!" "Sir." "Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas." "What am I going to do with you?" " Sir, you have to understand..." " No, you have to understand." "The boys here aren't used to the concepts you're bandying about." "The "M" word, Nicholas." "There hasn't been a recorded murder in Sandford for 20 years." "But, sir, I'm certain." "And what's more, I know who did it." "Can I see the manager, please?" "Mr. Skinner to the Manager's office." "Manager's office." "Mr. Skinner." "Sergeant Angel." "And to what do I owe this pleasure?" "Simon Skinner, I'm arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Leslie Tiller." "Leslie Tiller's dead?" "How?" "She tripped and fell on her own shears." "I'm also arresting you on suspicion of the murder of Tim Messenger on May 1st, of George Merchant on April 29th and of Eve Draper and Martin Blower on April 28th." " Why on earth would I do that, Sergeant?" " I'm glad you asked." "My suspicions were first aroused when you appeared at the scene of the Blower-Draper death, on the outskirts of Sandford, despite the fact you live and work in the center of the village." "I couldn't help but recall your comments at the theater on the previous evening." "When you not only indicated an awareness of the couple's affair but also inferred that Eve's connections at the council might make her privy to important information." "You even spoke of "bashing her head in."" "Perhaps hoping you might discover the route of the proposed Sandford Bypass." "You were already suspicious that George Merchant was buying up a large area of land on the outskirts of Sandford, after an article Tim Messenger wrote in the Sandford Citizen." "You see, the land Merchant was buying had little value in of itself but, if it became accessible by road, it would be a prime location for say, a retail park." "Consumed with concern for your business and potential disloyalty from fickle customers, you yourself expressed a wish to behead." "You killed the competition in cold blood." "Staging the murders as accidents." "You used a vehicle removal truck to stage the Blower-Draper death and incinerated an old man in his own house." "Covering your tracks with the judicial application of bacon and beans." "However, there was a loose end." "Tim Messenger." "Splattered before he could share with me what he told Leslie Tiller that very afternoon." "The true value of her land." "Upon discovering she was about to sell up to the developers, you brutally murdered her with her own shears." "And made good your escape utilizing your impressive skills as a fun runner." "Very entertaining." "But I rather think you've been watching too many films." "He hasn't." "Why would I kill Leslie?" "You clearly aren't aware that we're related." "Oh, but I am, "Cousin Sissy."" "I'm afraid my nickname of Sissy is only a revelation to yourself." "My teenage years studying ballet are well known." " Yeah, Sissy Skinner." " What a Gaylord." "Thank you, Andrews." "Now, despite my comments about "beheading" customers," "I personally relish the competition of another store." "Anything to energize my workforce." "And anyway, what makes you think I could dislodge part of the church roof?" "Or for that matter, stage a car crash?" "It's a well known fact that the church roof is in dire need of repair." "And isn't it true that two of your own employees operate the vehicle removal service for the council?" "Sergeant, this is the 21st Century." "Many people hold down several jobs." "I myself host a life drawing class at the Village Hall." "Tina here is a table dancer at Flappers." "Nevertheless, you could have utilized the vehicle removal truck for your own ends." "These accusations are quite meaningless, Sergeant, unless you can back them up with hard evidence." "Well, you've got me there." "I'd need something conclusive." "Something that placed you at the scene of the crime." "Perhaps a wound you sustained on a piece of broken glass this very evening." "This very evening." "Sergeant, this is beginning to get embarrassing." "How could I possibly be in several places at once?" "I'm sure the store's security footage will absolve me." "Do feel free to spool through." "I can handle this, Danny." "You might as well go back and just enjoy the rest of your birthday." " Did you really get me that plant?" " Yes, I did." "But it's been impounded as evidence." "Well, I mean, maybe Dad will still let me water it, eh?" "Yeah." "Sergeant, I wanted you to know that if I do indeed now own the land belonging to... belonging to Leslie, that I intend to turn it into a memorial garden, in her honor." "Mr. Skinner, what you do with your land is of no concern of mine, so jog on." "Michael, will you escort the Sergeant off the premises when he's quite finished?" "Yarp." "I just can't believe Leslie's dead." "How did it happen?" "She tripped and fell on her own shears." "Hey, that weren't me." "Hey, look." "Look, Mr. Treacher's got his big coat on again." " You want anything from the shop?" " Cornetto." " No luck catching them killers, then?" " It's just the one killer, actually." " No luck catching them killers, then?" " It's just the one killer, actually." " No luck catching them killers, then?" " It's just the one killer, actually." " No luck catching them killers, then?" " It's just the one killer, actually." " What's the matter?" "You got brain-freeze?" " No, I got brainwave." "Get us back to the station, now!" " It's more than one person." " Come again?" " It's more than one killer." " It was Skinner a minute ago." "Yeah, well, maybe it still is." "You know, maybe he's..." "Maybe he's not alone." "Maybe there are others." "Nicholas, you're an exceptional officer." "But I've seen this before." " Sir?" " Sergeant Popwell." "It was exactly the same thing." "You've come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." "Yes, sir." "Do yourself a favor." "Sleep on it." "And if you still feel the same in the morning, I give you my word, I'll get right on to it." "Hey." "Hey, what's happening?" "What's going on?" "Nothing, nothing." "I'm just gonna go back to the hotel." " I mean, do you want a lift?" " No, no, I could do with a walk." "Hey, big one, playtime's over." "Michael?" "Michael?" "Are you there?" "Michael?" "Is everything okay?" "Yarp." "Sergeant Angel's been taken care of?" "Yarp." "He's not gonna get back up again?" "Narp!" "Good." "Proceed to the castle." "Frank, this shit just got real." "Skinner just sent someone to kill me, and, now, now he's gone somewhere." "Up to the..." "To the castle, I think." "I'm gonna..." "I'm gonna go after him." "Okay?" "It's Nicholas, by the way." "Oh, my God." "What happened to your Peace Lily?" "Danny." "Danny, just stay here, okay?" "And watch him, and call your dad." " Tell him I was right." " What are you gonna do?" " I'm gonna bust this thing wide open." " Nicholas, wait." " You might need this." " Thanks, partner." "How could I possibly be in several places at once?" "How could I possibly be in several places at once?" "How could I possibly be in several places at once?" "I just can't believe Leslie's dead." "How did it happen?" "You'll find that we run a very tight ship here." "Who could do something like this?" "Seems like Mr. Merchant tried to have a little fry up and left the gas on." "Nasty way to go." "What happened, Danny?" "No luck catching them killers, then?" "No luck catching them killers, then?" "No luck catching them..." "Now, quick announcement before we begin." "Janet Barker has decided to call her boys Roger and Martin." "And the christening will be a week on Saturday and we're all invited." " Tom." " Thanks, Joyce." "Now, you'll all be delighted to hear that the tenacious Sergeant Angel has been taken care of." "Joyce will discover the Sergeant lying on the wet floor of his bathroom, having slipped and tragically broken his neck." "So, with the dispatch of the Sergeant, we will now be able to concentrate on the eradication of our hoodie infestation." "Quite right." "After which, nothing will stand in our way." "Oh, I beg to differ, Mr. Weaver." "Well, well, well, I see we have visitors." "Sergeant Nicholas Angel." "Sandford Police Service." "My, he is tenacious, isn't he?" "I'm arresting you under suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder." "Oh, come, come, Sergeant." "You should be ashamed." " Calling yourself a community that cares." " Oh, but we do care, Nicholas." "It's all about the greater good." "The greater good." "How can this be for the greater good?" "The greater good." "You see, as much as I enjoyed your wild theories, Sergeant, the truth is far less complex." "Blower's fate was simply the result of his being an appalling actor." "Quite appalling." "You murdered him for that?" " Well, he murdered Bill Shakespeare." " What?" "The Dramatic Society is an important feather in our cap." "Couldn't let Blower jeopardize that." "Not when we had two semi-professionals waiting in the wings." "Let's not forget that Greg was an extra in Straw Dogs." "And Sheree played a cadaver in Prime Suspect." "Yes, I know!" "Martin was less concerned with the reputation of the village than he was with his sordid affair with Eve Draper." "And so Eve deserved to die too?" "Well, she did have a very annoying laugh." "Annoying." " And, and George Merchant?" " He had an awful house." "Awful." "We begged him in vain to make his residence more in keeping with the village's rustic esthetic." "And what about Tim Messenger?" "What was his crime?" "Tim Messenger's tenure as editor of the Sandford Citizen has been unbearable." "Our once great paper had become riddled with tabloid journalism." "Not to mention persistent errors." " He listed her age as 55." " When, actually, I'm 53." "Fifty-three." "What, what about Leslie Tiller?" "One of your own?" "Her horticultural expertise helped put Sandford on the map." "Oh, she was ever so good." "Cousin Leslie was a terrible shame." "But it seemed she was set on moving away." "We couldn't have her sharing her green fingers with anybody else." "Not least those heathens at Buford Abbey." "If we can't have her, no one can." "How can this be for the greater good?" " The greater good." " Shut it!" "These people died for no reason." "No reason whatsoever!" "Oh, I wouldn't say that." "Hello, Nicholas." "I was like you once." "I believed in the immutable word of the law." "That is until the night Mrs. Butterman was taken from me." "You see, no one loved Sandford more than her." "She was head of the Women's Institute, chair of the floral committee." "When they started the Village of the Year contest, she worked round the clock." "I've never seen such dedication." "On the eve of the adjudicator's arrival, some travelers moved into Callahan Park." "Before you could say, "Gypsy scum," we were knee-deep in dog muck, thieving kids and crusty jugglers." "Crusty jugglers." "We lost the title and Irene lost her mind." "She drove her Datsun Cherry into Sandford Gorge." "From that moment on, I swore that I would do her proud." "And whatever the cost, we would make Sandford great again." "Sir, this doesn't make any sense." "The adjudicators arrive tomorrow." "We had to get everything ready." "Are you saying this is all about winning the Best Village Award?" "This is the best village, Nicholas." "You've seen the people." " They're happy, contented." " They're living in a dream world." "Sergeant Popwell thought much the same as you." "I'm disappointed you can't see the bigger picture." "Well, I'm happy to disappoint you, sir." "And I'm afraid you're gonna have to come with me." "You are all gonna have to come with me." "No, Nicholas, I'm afraid it is you who is going to have to come with us." "Danny, no." "Back off!" "Back off!" "Or I swear to God, you'll be explaining how Danny tripped over and accidentally cut off his own head." "Come on, Nicholas." "You haven't got it in you." "I mean it!" "Shit!" "Gypsy scum." "Travelers." "Thieving kids." "Dog muck." "Crusty jugglers." "Crusty jugglers." "Crusty jugglers." "Crusty jugglers." "There hasn't been a recorded murder in Sandford for 20 years." "There's a reason we accommodate a few of the younglings at the pub." "Spot of bother up at Ellroy Farm." "I'll make sure everyone gets their just deserts." "If we don't come down hard on these clowns..." "We'll get round to it." "Danny!" "Ta-da." " What are you doing?" " Saving your skin." " This is murder!" " It's not, it's ketchup." "I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the others." " What others?" " The others the NWA have murdered." " That's not true." " It is!" "Dad just said it was his special club, he..." "I thought it was about rapping people on the knuckles" " and sending them on their way." " There are skeletons back there!" "I don't know nothing about no skelingtons." " What did you think was happening?" " Not this!" "It's Frank." "He's appointed himself judge, jury and executioner." " He's not Judge Judy and executioner." " He is!" " You've gotta help me take him down." " I can't." "He's my dad." "Take my car." "Go back to London." "There's nothing you can do." "I can come back." "I can come back, and I can bring the blue fury of the Metropolitan Police Service with me." "They'll make it disappear." "Who are they gonna believe?" "My dad, or a loony London police officer." "But it won't be just me, will it?" "We can do it together." "You and me." "Partners." "Forget it, Nicholas." "It's Sandford." "Is that everything?" "Sir?" "Sir?" "Sir?" " Is there anything I can do for you?" " No." "This is something I have to do myself." "Another beautiful day in God's country." "Danny?" "It's..." "Mum!" "What you gonna do?" "Just walk in and arrest the whole village?" "Not exactly." "Oh, Sergeant Angel?" "Someone from London called for you." "I'll tell them you'll ring them back." " Well, that's funny." " What's that?" "I didn't know we had a mounted division." "Nobody tells me nothing." "Wanna do something useful?" "Annette, that Sergeant Angel's back." "Check out his horse." "Roger that!" " It's..." " Angel." "Morning." "That's what I'm talking about." "Still feel like you're missing out?" "Fascist!" "Hag!" "Stop!" "Stop this, please!" "Let us stop this mindless violence." "Nicholas, my son." "You may not be a man of God, but surely you're a man of peace." "I may not be a man of God, Reverend, but I know right, and I know wrong, and I have the good grace to know which is which." "Oh, fuck off, Grasshopper." "No!" "Jesus Christ!" "Nicholas!" "Nicholas!" "I thought you was a goner." "Drop your weapons!" " Dr. Hatcher, no!" " Shut up, Danny." "I brought you into this world, I think it's rather fitting" "I should be the one to take you out of it." "You and your interfering little friend." "Now... drop them." " You're a doctor, deal with it." " Yeah, motherfucker." " Danny, let's roll." " What you thinking?" "Pub?" "Roy!" "Somebody call the police!" "Freeze!" "Officers, arrest that man." " Danny, step away from the Sergeant." " No, Dad." "Danny, you'll do as you're told." "I'm not taking orders from you anymore." " Officers, arrest these men!" " Wait, wait!" "You can arrest us if you like." "You can throw us in prison and go back to being blind, submissive slaves." "Or you can be real police officers, and help us bring an end to this absurd story." "What the fuck is he on about?" "Fuck are you on about?" "Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low?" " And yet the accident rate, it's so high?" " No." "Yeah." "What?" "You've been brainwashed, Tony." "Brainwashed into naivety by an old man with a murderous obsession." " This is ridiculous." " No, it's not, Dad." "It's very unridiculous." "And it's only now that I'm starting to realize how unridiculous it all is." "Silence, Danny!" " Think of your mother." " Mum is dead, Dad." "For the first time in my life, you know, I'm glad." "If she could see what you've become," "I think she'd probably kill herself all over again." "Sorry, I am completely lost." "Sandford is a lie, Doris." "For the last 20 years, the village has been controlled by Frank and the NWA." "They've lulled everyone into thinking this is a perfect village and killed anyone who's threatened to change that." "I reckon he's got something there." "He says, "He reckons you got something there."" "I know." "You're not seriously gonna believe this man, are you?" "Are you?" "He isn't even from round here." "Maybe it's time to give it up, sir." "You incompetent flatfoots!" "Officer Walker, stay here with Saxon and hold everything down." "Fair enough." "Officers, let's go." " What about Dad?" " He'll come round again." "Want anything from the shop?" " What you thinking?" " Well..." "We should strike now, while we've got the element of surprise." "Longer we wait, more time they've got to mobilize." "I say we go in through the front entrance, take the place aisle by aisle." "They won't be expecting that." "Very good." "What he said." "My, my." "Here come the fuzz." " Maybe they're not here." " Wait here." " Don't go in on your own." " Don't worry, he knows what he's doing." "Okay." "They're in." "You deal with the store." "I'll deal with the trolley boy." "No, listen." "Wait, wait, wait, Michael, wait, listen to me." "Listen, listen." "Is this what you really, really want?" "Yarp." "Suit yourself." "Go, go, go." "Oh, come on." "Andy!" "It's all right, Andy." "It's just Bolognese!" " How's Lurch?" " He's in the freezer." " Did you say, "Cool off"?" " No, I didn't say anything, actually." "Shame." "There was a bit earlier on that you missed when I distracted him with the cuddly monkey." "And then I said, "Playtime's over," and I hit him with the Peace Lily." "You're off the fucking chain!" " What's the situation?" " Two blokes and a fuckload of cutlery." "What do you reckon?" "Idea." "Good work, everyone." " Nice one, Doris." " Nothing like a bit of girl on girl." "Fruit attack!" "Can you handle this, Sergeant Fisher?" "We're gonna go after the big boss." "We're on it, Sergeant." " Danny, let's rock." " Angel!" "Don't go being a twat now." "I wouldn't give you the satisfaction." " We should get down there." " How?" "Skip." " Head them off?" " Fuck, yeah." " I'll drive." " Shotgun!" "Punch that shit!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Swan!" "Swan!" "Stay back!" "Or the ginger nut gets it!" "You little fucker!" "Get out of my village!" "It's not your village anymore." " You did good, kid." " Ta." " What's your name?" " Aaron A. Aaronson." "Sorry?" "Angel!" "It's over, Danny." "It's over." "This really hurts." "I'm going to need some ice-cream." "Yeah, well, don't worry." "There's plenty of ice-cream at the station." "Isn't that right, Danny?" "Stay back!" " Pack it in, Frank, you silly bastard!" " Now, now." "We don't want any more bloodshed." "Frank, this whole thing started because you lost somebody you loved." "Don't expect me to believe you'd let it end the same way." "I'll tell you how this is gonna end!" "I feel like I should say something smart." "You don't have to say anything at all." "Satisfactory conclusion to the whole operation." "Now, my perfect Sunday would begin with..." "What do you say, Nicholas?" "We..." "We..." "We have been trying to reach you for days." " Yeah, well, I've been kind of busy." " We need you back." "The figures have gone a little squiffy in your absence, it has to be said." "Come back to London." "Sandford's hardly a fitting place for such an exceptional officer." "Yeah, well, the thing is, sir." "I kind of like it here." "Besides, we have to do a considerable amount of paperwork." " Fuck's sake, Nick, this is gonna take ages." " Yeah, it's gonna take all night." "Well, good job we've got the manpower, Andy?" "Well, official vocab guidelines state that we say "staffing," not "manpower,"" "'cause "manpower's" a bit sexist." "You don't mind a bit of manpower do you, Doris?" "Oh, dirty bastard!" "Andy!" "You cheeky fucker!" "You know what you are?" "A bloody busybody!" "No!" "Oh, God, no!" "Danny!" "Danny!" "Oh, God." "Hold on, Danny, just hold on." "Hold on, it's gonna be fine." "It's gonna be fine." "Just hang on, hang on!" "Everything's gonna be fine." "Everything's gonna be fine." "Everything's gonna be fine." "Everything's gonna be just fine." "Hope these are okay." "Yeah." "They're lovely." " Any officers near the church?" " Go ahead, Doris." "Chief, we've had a report of some hippy types messing with the recycling bins at the supermarket." " Leave it with us." " Righto." "Sergeant Butterman, little hand says it's time to rock and roll." "Bring the noise."

"( Theme music playing )" "Well, I would have invited the baby's mother, but I never met her." "She was one of Ben's more productive one night stands." "Okay, three words I never want to hear again," ""that's so cute."" "( Gasps )" "Wasn't that cute?" "Best shower ever." "Yeah, those five hours just flew by." "There's not enough football in the world to erase what just happened." "( Gasps )" "Wait." "I almost forgot my present." "So exciting!" "There can't actually be more." "I mean, seriously, what are we gonna do with a wipes warmer?" "Oh, I was actually gonna hold on to that." "Okay." "What?" "Oh, Emma's the only one who can appreciate the soothing comfort of a warm towelette?" "That does sound nice." "Don't worry." "Everything can be returned." "Finally, my little princess has her carriage." "Isn't it perfect?" "Hello, princess." "You said, "everything," right?" "( Rock music playing )" "( Theme music playing )" "♪ It's amazing how the unexpected ♪" "♪ can take your life and change direction. ♪" "Okay, suddenly don't care that dad never let me drive the convertible." "Ah, it's even got that new stroller smell." "Oh-h, this thing is so cool." " Nice stroller." " Hello..." "And it just got a whole lot cooler." "We just drove her off the lot." "Looks fast." "Well, that depends on who's pushing it." "( Chuckles )" "There's no way he's recovering from that line." "Wait." "It's not over yet." " Okay." " I'll call you." "That boy's got confidence." "Stroller confidence." "Her name's Zoe." "Finally one for the "z"s." "This stroller is amazing." "Yeah, give me the keys." "I'm driving." "That is what I call a very successful outing." "So why are we "in-ing"?" "We need to get back on the street." "Dude, what's the rush?" "Maybe you haven't noticed." "But I'm a relationship magnet." "I enjoy casual." "I want casual." "But casual has not wanted me." "Until now, okay?" "This is my fun window, people." "Don't shut it." "( Scoffs ) Wow!" "It even works by itself." "That one's mine." "Oh, crap!" "What's he doing here?" "That's Henderson, the owner." "My shift started five minutes ago." "You don't know me." "Afternoon, sir." "Things can really pile up if you don't stay on top of them." " Hey, Walker." " Wheeler." "Whatever." "Have you seen McNeely?" "Nope." "Could be in the break room." "Don't know, 'cause I've never been in there." "Well, let me know when you do." "I wanna talk to him about a new management position." "Excuse me, Mr. Henderson." "Oh, is my father here?" "Call me "H."" "Oh, you got it, H." "You can call me "W." ( Chuckles )" "Or "B" for Ben." "But we're doing the last name thing, so it's" "What do you want, Walker?" "It's Wheel-- never mind." "About that new position, I like to think of myself as management material." "I'm definitely a leader, not a follower." "Unless you need a follower." "And then I'll follow your lead." "Look, I like you." "I really do." "You're fun, you're personable, a little flirtatious." "Thank you?" "( Weak chuckle )" "All qualities I'm looking for in a bartender." "But not in a manager." "You've got yourself a dream job, kid." "Enjoy it." "So you'll think about it?" "Finally." "There's my little princess." "Mom, remember, the school therapist said you had to stop calling me that." "I thought Emma was with you." "I got us matching outfits." "She's out with the guys." "Something wrong?" " No." " Did something happen at work?" "No, why?" "I'm good." "Honey, you can't hide things from me." "Chip my windshield, I knew it." "Set the basement on fire, I knew it." "Got a girl pregnant-- oh my God, you did not get a girl pregnant again, did you?" "Somebody get me a banana and a condom!" "No!" "I swear, once is enough." "Do you think I could ever be more than a bartender?" "Honey, it wasn't the community-college fairy who left all those brochures under your pillow." "Of course you can do more." "You can be whatever you want to be." "There's a manager position open at work." "Okay, let's not go crazy." "It's not just about me any more." "It's Emma's future too." "Well then, you go back there and don't take "no" for an answer." "Unless there's a chance he might fire you from the job you already have for being too pushy." "Then, you know what?" "I'd just let it go." " Thanks for the pep talk, Mom." " Anytime, princess." "Hey, check it out." "Two different girls, two different numbers." "Or as I like to call it," ""hot guy problem."" "( Laughs ) What?" "I don't know." "I got 11." "I'm new at this." "Savor it, because that might have been your last ride." " Mom's here." " Now?" "Wait?" "What are we gonna do?" " No, I need this stroller." " Relax, my little friend." "I'll handle Mom." "Take this." "All right, Emma." "Let's go get Daddy a promotion." "But let me do the talking." "Come on." "And remember, just follow my lead." " Okay." " ( Elevator bell dings )" " Hey, Mom." " Hey." " Tucker sold your stroller!" " Oh my God, you tattletale!" "What?" "!" "Oh!" "( Groaning )" "Ah-ah." "Oh-oh, ah-ah-ah." "( Mutters )" " Riley!" " Hi." "Perfect." "Can you watch Emma for two seconds?" " Yeah." " Thanks." "Ooh, sweet ride." "H. Hey, what's happening?" "It's me-- Wheeler Walker W, your slightly flirtatious barkeep." "Don't you ever go home, Walker?" "I have wives I see less than you." "I was just thinking about our conversation from earlier." "And I think you're wrong and I'm right." "I mean" " I mean I'm right for the job, and you're wrong not to consider me." "Hmm." "Wow." "When I said this to my myself in the bathroom mirror, it was really smooth." "Look, I appreciate the whole "eager kid" thing, but I'm looking for someone a little more..." "responsible." "And that's exactly what I'm trying to be." "I've got a kid now and I" "You've got a kid?" "Yeah..." "Her name's Emma." "And a hot young wife." "Yes." "Yes, I do..." "Family man." "And there's nothing more responsible than that." "You obviously don't know a lot of family men." "Hi, I am so sorry to interrupt." "But I've got to hand her off." "I have an exam in an hour, and right now, she knows more about immigration law than I do." "Little lady goes to law school and she's running late." "Well, not running, but she should be." " Go go go." " Law school, huh?" "Must be tough with the baby." "I was just saying how great you are with Emma." "Okay, give her kiss." "Wave bye-bye." " Aww, that is so sweet." " See ya." "But Ben truly does all the heavy lifting." "I mean, I'm barely even helping out." "That is one impressive wife you've got there." "Well, I don't call her my better half for nothing." "Got a daughter about her age." "Sadly, they have nothing in common." "( Sighs )" "I might have underestimated you, Wheeler." "( Small gasp ) Oh my God." "That's the first time you've said my name." "Let's have lunch tomorrow and discuss that job." "Oh, and bring your lovely little barrister with you." "If you can get a woman like that, there really must be something about you I'm missing." "Again, thank you?" "What was that about?" "Two questions for you:" "What are you doing tomorrow for lunch?" "And..." "Will you marry me?" "Huh?" "I am not pretending to be your wife." "But I need you!" "You're the glue of my very flimsy lie." "Well, I can't tomorrow." "I'm having lunch with Jack." " Jack?" " The guy I'm seeing." "In the real world." "Where I'm single and not breastfeeding." "Okay, how's this?" "Once Henderson hires me, we'll get a quick- but-amicable divorce." "If only you had anything I wanted half of." "I just want Emma to have a father she can be proud of." " ( Sighs )" " Please, you have to help me..." ""Riley Wheeler."" "I only wrote that in my notebook every day." "I'm just working on our backstory." "So you'll do it?" "Oh, hell no!" "This is going back." "Angry blonde with a baby coming through, people." "Move it." "Come on." "Move it, move it, move it." "Oh, hell no." "This is going back." "Yeah, I just love being an uncle." "Although technically I'm more of a friend." "I guess that makes me a frunkle." "( Both chuckling )" "Okay, frunkle." "Let's see that phone." "All right." "( Chuckles )" " Call me." " Okay." "Impressive." "You seem to be getting the hang of this." "You up for a little challenge?" " I'm listening." " We each take a block." "Whoever lands the most numbers, gets the stroller the whole rest of the day." "Game on." "But I gotta warn you" "Tucker's in the zone." "( Chuckles )" "Thanks for the heads-up, frunkle." "I get this block." "Wait wait wait." "You get the yogurt shop and the nail salon?" "Woo!" "Is it ever hot out today!" "Hey!" "Hey, man!" "That is not fair!" "Hey!" "I wanna re-negotiate!" "Okay, so we met in high school, you had a crazy crush on me, but were too shy because of your weight problem." "Wait, I wasn't fat." "You were." "Not if you want my help, I wasn't." " ( Door opens )" " We tied!" "Well, I had to cry for two of the numbers." "But we tied." "Wait." "You took out the stroller?" "Mom just put Emma down 10 minutes ago." "Turns out the baby part is optional." "You just say she's asleep and nobody looks inside." "Okay, but Mom's still here." " Now." " Again?" " Go!" " Oh my God." "Is that Tucker?" "He went that way." "I don't know which is more fun, siccing Mom on tuck, or cruising around with that stroller." "Ben, you gotta get in on it." "Can't." "I have a wife now." "Wait." "How long were we gone?" "We are pretending to be married so that he can get a promotion." "Oh, which reminds me, I picked this up on my way home." "Riley, will you do me the honor of being my wife?" "( Breathless ) Sure." "Yes." "I do." "Riley, are you sure this is a good idea?" "I'm fine!" "So when did you first know you were in love with me?" "Um..." "After we had sex." "Come on!" "You have to paint a picture." "It has to be something romantic, like" "Spring Break, freshman year." "Down by the reservoir." "You were wearing a blue dress." "And the sun was setting so it made it look like you had a halo." "Exactly." "Something like that, but not so sappy." "And the sunsets were incredible." "Not that we ever left the room." "( Chuckles )" "Well, Wheeler this has been an excellent meeting." " I think I can safely say" " Hi there." " Hey, didn't you" " A-absolutely not!" "Sorry, miss, but we're kind of in the middle of a business meeting." "Take it down a notch, Wheeler." "This is my daughter Zoe." "Your daughter?" "( Exhales )" "Well, uh, so nice to meet you for the first time ever." "Nice to meet you too." "Zoe, this is Ben and his lovely wife Riley." "You should really get to know each other." " Oh, that would be" " Impossible!" "'Cause we're about to head out, right, babe?" "Oh, don't leave now." "There's nothing I'd like more than to chat with you and your wife." "As soon as I freshen up." "Wow, where'd all that iced tea go?" "Oops!" "There it is." "I'll be right back." "Ready for a rematch?" "You go." "I'm good." "You ever think you want just one phone number?" "Been there, done that." "These days I'm shopping in bulk." "( Chuckles )" "I'm talking about one special number." "The kind that makes you want to delete all the other ones." "Wait..." "Is this about Riley?" "Who you swear you don't like?" "No." "I'm just saying, getting lots of women to like you is easy." "It's getting one that's hard." "How do I do that?" "Okay, so assuming there is a special girl whose name doesn't start with "R" and end with "iley"..." "Are you asking my advice on how to get her?" "Yeah." "You're the relationship magnet, right?" "Magnetize me." "Fine." "Look, if you really want a relationship, you gotta tell her how you feel." "I mean maybe she's into you too." "Then it's all sweet, can't wait to see her, send each other fun little texts, get comfortable together, maybe even a little bored." "Until one day you realize it's not even love any more, but a horrible dance of pain that will leave you both damaged, empty shells for years to come!" "That sounds nice." "( Stammering ) I know this looks horrible, but I'm not a cheater." "I'm just faking being married so your dad will consider me for a job." "So you're a liar?" "I'd probably go with creative go-getter." "No worries." "Scamming my dad is my favorite pastime." "So you won't say anything?" "Not a word." "So how about you show me your resume?" "That's not where I keep it." "( Nervous chuckle )" " Seriously?" " Riley, it's not what it looks like." "Really?" "Because it looks like you abandoned me to shove your tongue down some stranger's throat." "Wrong!" "She was shoving her tongue down my throat." "I was trying to push it out." "Ben Wheeler, I hate you." "Okay Wheeler, it's go time." "Take your best shot and tell her how you feel." "No matter what you can't turn back." "Danny?" "What are you doing here?" "Can I use your bathroom?" "Your brother is such a jerk." "If you ever see me offering to help him again, you have to promise to stop me." " I promise." " ( Sighs ) Take this." "God, I can't believe Ben would just take our fake relationship and throw it all away." "Well, maybe it's time for a real relationship." "You know, with a real guy who's" "Not a gigantic tool." " Go away, Ben." " I'm so sorry." "That girl" " I hit on her a couple days ago with the stroller." "Did not know she was my boss's daughter." "When she came, and I went after her to be like," ""hey, don't tell your dad."" "Then she went all psycho and started kissing me." "I would never do something like that." "Danny, back me up here." "Oh, I think you're doing great." "I don't even care about the job any more." "All I care about is you." "I'm listening." "You were so sweet to help me." "Keep going." "Well, I'm gonna tell Henderson that he was right about you and wrong about me." "You're never gonna get that promotion." "No, but maybe I'll get you back." "I'll take a real friend over fake wife any day." "Or... we could go back in there one more time." "Danny:" "Wait." "This is the part where I'm supposed to stop you." "Riley, stay strong." "Well..." "I mean we already made it this far." "At least if you get the job, I won't feel like I totally wasted my time." "Well, Henderson does want to have drinks tonight." "Okay, but this is the last time." "All right, I need my ring back." "Thank you, Riley." "I'll buy you coffee and we can work on our story." "The one where you're a dork, but I marry you anyway?" "( Chuckles )" "All right-- hand." "Thank you." "Ooh..." "( Flirtatious chuckle )" "What's up?" " Tucker?" " Mrs. Wheeler?" "Oh, hell no!" "Oh no no no!" " Oh yeah?" " Stop it!" "You gonna run from me?" " You're so fast!" " You're gonna run from me?" "!" "So now that I've conquered New York," "I'm taking the Henderson brand national" "Chicago, Atlanta, first stop Miami." "You ready for that, Wheeler?" "Wait, are you offering me the job?" "Nothing's final, but why don't you and Riles fly down for the weekend and check it out?" "It'll be fun." "Uh, this-- this weekend?" "You know what?" "I don't think I can make it down to Miami." "Are you sure about that?" "We all know how much you like hotel rooms." "Sounds like an offer we can't refuse, huh, babe?" "Riley?" "I know this might not be the best time to tell you this, but you need to hear it and I need to say it." "I'm in love with you and I think we should be together." "Please say something." "Well, I guess the cat's outta the bag." "Ben, I am so sorry to do this to you, but your brother and I are in love." " We are?" " You are?" "I realize that Thanksgiving might be a little awkward this year, but I'm hoping that in time you'll come to accept it." "You should really hire Ben." "The kid could use some good news." " All right, let's go, babe." " Wait!" "Wow." "Same thing happened with me and my first wife." "Only it was me walking out the door with her sister." " Riley?" " ( Chuckles ) You were brilliant!" ""I'm in love with you"?" "If this whole hockey thing doesn't work out, you should totally be an actor." "Because I swear for like two seconds I actually believed you." " Riley" " You are so sweet to come to my rescue." "You promised you would stop me and you did." "Thank you." "Mm." "Well, guess that finally answers the question of what it's like to be married to Ben, huh?" "( Phone rings )" "Jack-- a guy who's actually interested in me." "Maybe I'll see what that's like do you wanna come with?" "Drinks are on me." "No, I'm good." "Okay." "Thanks." "Man, I gotta work on my go time." " Where have you guys been?" " ( Door closes )" "Tell him." "Fine." "Ben, you are never gonna believe what just happened." " All right!" " I" "Ben, we need to return the stroller." "( Flatly ) We're being immature and selfish and Emma deserves better." "( Mouthing words )" "Can I go to my room now?" "( Grumbling ) And remember-- to your grave." "Hey, Emma, Daddy really missed you today." "Ohh." "Is everything okay?" "I got the job." "( Gasps ) Oh, Benji!" "I just knew you could do it." "I turned it down." "What is the matter with you?" "!" "I couldn't do it." "It's too much travel." "And what's the point of giving Emma everything, if I'm not even here to see her enjoy it?" "There will be other jobs, but there's only one you." "That we know of." "But I think you made the right decision." "Thanks." "So..." "What's the big secret between you and Tucker?" "I was sitting outside having coffee" " and then Tucker comes up" " That is not what happened!" " No no, huh-uh." " Oh, you didn't?" "You didn't go "what's up"?" "No, I did not!" "Okay, I said, "what's up?"" "( Indistinct arguing )" "That's right, Emma." "Grandma is gonna get her princess her special carriage back." "Nice stroller." "Hello... ( Rock music playing )"

"You're a man." "Are you in politics?" "Warm beer." "Tastes like piss." "It's your turn, babe." "Dead or alive?" "Don't you think that's a really stupid question these days?" "You know, he's kind of an asshole, but if you need me to take care of him, I will." "I can hear you." "He's the one in the family with all the brains." "Is that right?" "All right, the interstate's coming up." "What do we do?" "Don't get on it." "Stay on this back road." "How come every time you say that, we end up in a three-hour scenic tour in the middle of nowhere?" "Look, we agreed on the rules, didn't we?" "And by taking it, we're breaking what?" "The rule that says we shouldn't take the interstate." ""I guess we wouldn't want to break any rules," he said, drinking his beer as he drove the stolen Mercedes ridiculously over the speed limit, and, look, no hands!" "Babe, don't!" "Stop!" "Stop it, you moron!" "Don't!" "All right, smartass, I'll read the map." "Can you?" "It has actual writing on it." "Very funny." "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Hey, guys." "All right, windows, everybody." "What the hell is this guy doing?" "My daughter and I, we ran out of gas." "All right, sir, please move your car out of the road." "We left Denver yesterday morning." "Last gas we got was Colorado Springs." "I'm sorry, we can't help you." "Now move your car!" "Look, all we need is just a little bit of gas." "Yeah, I'm sure you do." "You and everybody else." "Stay where you are!" "We can trade you for it." "We got food and water." "Brian, we have more than enough." "More than..." "How do you know that?" "I said do not get any closer!" "Brian, he looks clean." "Or he could be incubating." "Think about it for a second..." "Guys!" "She's got it." "Shit!" "Come on, come on, come on..." "They'll die out there." "Everyone dies." "The rules are simple." "At least, that's how my brother sees it." "One, avoid the infected at all costs." "Their breath is highly contagious." "Two, disinfect anything they've touched in the last 24 hours." "Three, the sick are already dead." "They can't be saved." "You break the rules, you die." "You follow them, you live." "Maybe." "Hey." "Look what I found." "Great." "Hey, if you happen to find a brand-new factory-issued oil pan, holler." "Are you sure you can't fix it?" "It's blown, Ivy Boy." "Brian." "What?" "All that car needed was gas." "Wait, what?" "No." "No, no, no way." "If we sit here, we're just gonna die." "We won't if we go back?" "You saw the girl." "You saw the blood, the rashes." "Bobby, come on, you saw her." "Am I the only one here?" "Kate, we do not have a lot of options..." "They're your rules!" "Danny, tell your girlfriend to get her shit together." "I'm not his girlfriend." "She's not my girlfriend." "All right, then tell me, tell me." "Why the hell is she here?" "Why didn't we let her sit tight in her McMansion," "waiting for the looters?" "Okay." "Could we just calm down and try and think this thing through?" "Please." "Yeah." "So what about the car?" "I don't know, Danny." "I'm trying to think." "Well, we need that car..." "I know that!" "Shit!" "All right, put your masks on, guys." "Frank Holloway." "We're gonna need your car." "Yeah, I figured as much." "Do you really want to splatter your brand-new vehicle with the insides of someone who, for all you know, may be infected?" "We got loads of Clorox." "Cleanup is not my chief concern." "Brian, that's all right." "That's close enough." "I picked up a radio transmission from a school outside of Farmington last week." "People from all over the state are travelling there." "For what?" "The CDC, they set up some kind of emergency response center." "They've got a new serum." "That's one hell of a story, man." "I don't think I've heard that one yet." "Are they getting results?" "No, they're not getting any results, Kate." "They've got a new treatment, and I am taking my daughter there in this car." "Now, if you're onboard with that, great." "If not..." "This is a fairytale, and he knows it." "It's the Baltimore vaccine all over again." "It's a bunch of retrovirals that don't work for shit." "So go ahead, Brian." "Shoot him in the head." "Wait!" "Hey." "I got an idea." "Hey." "Want to know a secret?" "About boys?" "Their bark is worse than their bite." "You know what I mean?" "No." "It's okay." "Don't listen to her, kiddo." "Trust me, she loves it when I bite." "Why don't you eat me, Brian?" "I think we can arrange that." "Jesus, Brian!" "She's, like, eight." "Yeah, well, mentally, so is he." "Adiós, Road Warrior." "You crap piece of shit." "But Godless governments have fallen, and the armies of man have perished by his hand..." "Pattycake, pattycake for this pandemic is the flail of God and the world his threshing floor, and, implacably, he will thresh out his harvest until the wheat is separated from the chaff, the righteous from the sinner." "And make no mistake about it, there shall be far more chaff than wheat." "Few chosen..." "Come to think of it, I haven't seen much weed around lately." "Very funny." "What?" "Just show some respect." "For what?" "That God's punishing my daughter?" "Who's he rewarding?" "Who, you?" "That's not what I'm saying." "What are you saying?" "Some people locked themselves away, piled up food, didn't even pick up the phone." "They were dead in a week." "Me, I worked at the stadium, digging those mass graves for 400..." "400 bucks a day!" "That's exactly right." "You can laugh all you want, but I was up to my knees in that shit, and here I am." "So you're immune or chosen or something?" "I'm here and they're not." "So, then, I guess you won't mind kissing my daughter good night for me, huh, Brian?" "I didn't think so." "So much for being chosen, huh?" "That's hysterical, huh, Ivy League?" "Where'd you go to school, Danny?" "He got a scholarship to go to Harvard." "Yale." "It was Yale, actually." "It doesn't really matter, does it?" "A little something shut the place down before freshman orientation." "Watch it, Brian." "How's that for a knee-slapper?" "Why do you have to be such a dick?" "Come on!" "Watch out!" "Watch out!" "You!" "You stay in the back, you hear me?" "Hey, I will if you keep your eyes on the goddamn road!" "Hey, you can get out anytime!" "You can get out right now!" "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "Kate!" "Kate!" "The tape held." "You don't have to worry about it." "Are you okay?" "What is it?" "Damn it." "I think she knocked a filling loose." "I weep for you." "It's locked." "Danny, be careful." "It's okay." "Shit." "Hey, are you all right?" "Danny!" "What happened?" "Jesus!" "Just get the gas and let's go." "Hey, kids, we'll be back in 20." "Yeah, we'll be back in more like five." "Shit." "Bobby!" "Baby?" "What's that?" "That?" "Well, Brian and I, we had a dad, too." "He was just like yours." "And every summer, when we were little, he would take us to this place." "It's Turtle Beach." "And we could swim and surf, and we'd fish and eat these soft-shell crab sandwiches that were soaked in mayo." "Were there lots of turtles?" "Lots?" "God, there were thousands of them!" "They were everywhere." "I mean, you could barely put your foot in the water without stepping on one." "Sometimes they'd be stacked up on top of each other." "That's impossible!" "It is possible." "They were everywhere." "Can we go to Turtle Beach with them?" "Time to sleep." "What makes you think you're gonna be safe there?" "It's an old motel." "The place has been abandoned for years." "We'll go on scavenging trips and quarantine ourselves every single time we get back," "and wait." "Until they come for us." "Until..." "Until the disease dies off." "The disease or the people?" "It's the same thing, really." "Bobby, I love you, and you know what a dipshit I can be sometimes..." "What's the big deal?" "I think we should see other people." "If that's the way you feel." "It is the way I feel." "You can be such a dipshit sometimes." "I know!" "Probably the biggest in the world at this point." "Do you ever think of Yale?" "Yeah." "Sure." "That, and all those things you think you'll get to do someday." "Jesus!" "Put it out!" "Put the fire out!" "Go, go, go, go, go!" "Where do you think you're going, boy?" "Hurry up." "Hurry." "Just keep it down." "Keep it down." "Put it out." "Okay, I'll be right back." "Daddy." "Honey, I'm just going in there to make sure there are no monsters under the bed." "If there are monsters, you shouldn't go." "Okay, now listen to me." "There's no reason to worry." "All right?" "I'll be back before you can say Captain Feathersword." "Captain Feathersword." "You're too smart for me, you know that?" "I'll stay with her." "Bobby." "Look, now is not the time, okay?" "The girls need some alone time to talk about boys." "I am serious." "Do not get too close to her." "I'm serious." "Just go." "It's gonna be fine." "You know, you are always doing whatever the hell you want." "That's why you love me!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Looks like your hospital ran out of patients, Frank." "Come on." "Let's get out of here." "Where's Kate?" "What is she doing?" "Kate?" "We have to go." "There's nothing here." "You don't know that." "Kate, they failed." "Let's go." "There's a whole wing we haven't checked yet." "You see?" "There are people here." "Wait!" "No way." "Oh, my God." "They did it." "Sir." "Sir!" "Yes?" "Are you in charge here?" "No, you want Dr. Lindus." "His office is on the second floor of the old math building." "But you won't find him there." "He died on Thursday." "Doctor, we've come all the way from Colorado." "We heard that you had a serum here." "It's my daughter, she's..." "My daughter is very sick." "How long?" "A little over a week." "Is she bleeding from her ears yet?" "No." "Well, bring her in." "Okay, kids, these nice people are gonna take you to your parents, who are all waiting outside." "So, as soon as we finish our medicine, we'll all be right as rain." "What are you doing to these kids?" "What's that?" "Where's the serum?" "The serum?" "Yes, we had a serum." "For three days it stabilized the patients." "A few actually improved." "Three days." "That's the best that we could do, or anyone else in the world as far as I know." "Staved off the virus for three days." "Prolonged sickness and pain for 72 hours." "Well, I'm not prolonging it anymore." "What's in the punch?" "Potassium." "Lots and lots of potassium." "Now, if you'll excuse us." "No!" "No, stop!" "You can't do this!" "Kate, they're sick." "They're already dead." "Let's go." "Brian, they are kids." "Who's dead?" "My daughter's alive!" "She's not dead!" "There are other places..." "Stop pulling the goddamn curtain!" "Please!" "Please." "Give me your gun." "Frank, stay where you are!" "Give me your gun, Brian." "Frank, you know I can't do that." "Give me the gun!" "Danny!" "Stop." "Stop!" "Stop, goddamn you!" "Stop it!" "Now!" "Put that down." "Put it down!" "Look around you." "We lost power two weeks ago." "We sucked the town dry of gas just to run the generators." "There's nothing left." "Don't." "Please don't." "Sometimes choosing life is just choosing a more painful form of death." "You're telling me your favorite cartoon's name is Mop-Face Circle-Shirt?" "No!" "Brush-Bill Soup-Jeans?" "No!" "SpongeBob SquarePants!" "Spoon-Lips Boxer-Shorts!" "Frank!" "Frank!" "Okay." "You're gonna be okay, just..." "Okay, listen." "Breathe slow." "Okay, okay." "We're getting out of here." "What happened?" "Nothing." "She took it off." "She had problems breathing, I think." "Come here." "Daddy?" "I have to go." "Number one or number two?" "Number two." "Can you hold it?" "Well, how about if I get you, like, a potty or something, can you do it here then?" "No." "All right, now." "I need you to be a very big girl for me right now." "Okay?" "I need you to be really brave." "You see those little blue huts over there?" "I need you to go over there by yourself, and I'll be waiting right here for you, okay?" "Can you try that for me?" "Okay." "Good girl." "You ready?" "Ready." "Come on." "I'll be waiting right here for you, okay?" "Okay, honey." "It's okay." "Daddy." "I'm sorry." "No, I'm sorry." "You did great." "I'm very proud of you." "Now Daddy will take you, okay?" "You strike me as a good man, Daniel." "We'll be back in a minute." "Come on, honey." "Get in." "Get..." "Get in the car!" "We can't leave them here." "Not here." "Look, we brought them here." "That was the deal." "Now, it's time to drop the fairytales and move on." "You heard what that doctor said." "There's nothing here." "There's nothing!" "You already put us in danger once back there." "Bobby?" "Bobby, say something." "Hey, what was that song..." "What was that song Miss Stevens taught you" "that you used to sing all the time?" "Itsy Bitsy Spider." "The Itsy Bitsy Spider, yeah." "Do you remember how to sing that?" "Itsy bitsy spider went up the waterspout" "Down came the rain and washed the spider out" "Out came the sun and dried up all the rain" "And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again" "How long till the beach, Danny?" "At least two days." "Why?" "Anyone for 18 holes?" "If we're gonna stop somewhere for the night, might as well be high-end." "Right?" "What do you say, Bobby?" "Do whatever you want, Brian." "Hello!" "Hello!" "The service here is for shit." "Hey." "Hey." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Hey." "Look, what happened back there..." "I'm just trying to get us to the beach alive." "You know that, right?" "Yeah, I know." "We all agreed on the rules." "And the sick, they're dead." "There's nothing we can do for them." "Right." "All right, I should go check the back." "Okay." "Okay." "Knock it off, stupid, you're fine." "Hey, Danny!" "I found the pool!" "You want to play Marco Polo?" "Shit!" "Help!" "Help!" "Oh, Jesus Christ!" "Danny!" "Let's play some golf." "Jesus!" "Yeah!" "Hey, are you okay?" "I thought golf was for old people." "Fuck." "Jerk!" "Come on down here, baby." "What?" "Help me out of here." "Come on, it'll be just like the time we broke into Forest Oaks." "Remember how the groundskeeper booted us out?" "Yeah." "Well, this time we're members." "They can't touch us." "It's nice and soft." "Just come out of there." "Come on." "Just give me a hand." "Come over here!" "Get over here!" "Brian!" "Stop it!" "Come on!" "Don't!" "What?" "I'm gonna get all dirty!" "It's sand!" "Yeah, sand is dirt, asshole!" "Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it's the 18th hole, and young Brian Green steps up to the tee." "He needs a hole in one here to get to the Masters, but what he's really worried about is people finding out that he's gay!" "God damn it!" "Dude, my advice to you is put the club down, wait 10 minutes, and just never pick it up again." "If it's so funny, show us what you got." "Thanks, but I think I'll use an actual driver." "It's getting down to the wire, folks." "Katie, Kate, whatever her last name..." "Shut up!" "All right!" "Nice." "Shit, the girl can swing!" "Fairfield Country Club Junior Champion three years in a row, thank you very much." "Tiger Woods can kiss my ass." "Yeah!" "Oh, shit." "Yeah!" "Larry?" "Larry, come in." "Can you hear me?" "If you're there, pick up." "We're coming back." "Do you hear me?" "We're coming back." "What are you doing?" "What the hell are you doing?" "All day long, every single phone!" "The phones are dead." "So, I just gotta try and get in touch with my parents." "They're dead, too." "You don't know that." "I don't?" "Where were they?" "Their cruise ship was quarantined in Piraeus." "Then they're dead." "How do you know?" "You don't even know where Piraeus is!" "It doesn't matter where Piraeus is!" "Everyone, everywhere, is dead, your parents, my parents." "Soon you and I will be dead, too." "Kate, what happened?" "Leave me alone." "Please." "What did she say to you?" "Brian?" "That's not Brian." "No." "Shit!" "We got them!" "This way!" "Up on the second floor!" "It's a mess up here!" "Who are you, and what the hell are you doing here?" "Who are you?" "Maybe we'll be able to talk once we get rid of this." "No!" "Don't touch me!" "Please, don't touch me!" "We've been out a couple of days scouting for supplies!" "We just got back!" "Let him go!" "Now." "We got everybody?" "I think so." "There's nobody else." "Tom!" "My space." "What?" "They breached it." "It's not safe." "I can't..." "It's not safe!" "That's what you get for living in a condom, man." "You get..." "Screw you." "Hey, leave him alone!" "We just wanted to spend the night here!" "You sons of bitches." "What have you done with Larry?" "How the hell do I know, man?" "Maybe he got in a fight with a shower curtain like the rest of you guys." "Larry." "He was guarding the place." "They killed him." "He was like that when we got here." "Yeah, right." "You expect us to believe that?" "Why don't you go in the pool, check out the cause of death for yourself?" "What, no volunteers?" "Shut up." "Tom, he must have been sick when we left and didn't say anything." "That's impossible." "You know that's impossible." "The system is perfect." "Why?" "Because you thought of it?" "He didn't seal up his suit properly." "He made a mistake." "He didn't follow procedure." "Whatever gets you through the night." "You know, I just met you and I'm already sick of you." "I have that effect on people." "Brian, cut it out!" "Jesus!" "I want all of you out of here." "Now." "Hey!" "Please, we need that." "So do we." "Get in." "Not you." "What?" "Danny." "What the hell are you doing?" "Let the girl go." "The girls stay." "No!" "Yeah, they stay." "Get your hands off me!" "Don't you touch her, you son of a bitch!" "Don't move!" "Get back!" "If we keep the girls, what are you gonna do with the guys?" "Kill them?" "We're not that kind of people." "Yeah?" "And what kind of people are we?" "The kind that just sits and waits to die?" "Wait." "Screw you, Tom!" "This isn't the mill." "You're not in charge anymore." "Let the girls go." "We have to check them out." "Make sure they're clean." "Right." "Strip." "Please, no." "I said strip!" "Shit, shit, shit, shit!" "What's going on?" "Oh, my God!" "Back off!" "Back off!" "Somebody tell me what's going on!" "Stay away from her!" "What the hell is going on?" "I said go!" "Shit!" "Get the hell out of here right now!" "I said, right now!" "This one's locked." "I'm gonna look inside." "I'll go check the back." "Danny?" "Do you want to end up like them?" "We will if she stays." "Talk to him." "Brian?" "Help me out, will you?" "We need to talk." "The key to the pump has to be here somewhere." "Brian, we need to deal with..." "Where the hell is that key?" "Get in the car." "Get in." "Any luck?" "Brian." "Get out." "I said get out." "I'll get in the back." "That's not what I said." "Brian, please let me stay." "Brian, please don't!" "Brian, do not do this!" "There's a town down that road." "These are just bruises." "I've been bouncing around in the back of that" "stupid car for days." "I'm sure there's plenty of water in town," "but here's half a gallon." "Of course I have bruises, but I am fine!" "If you ration it..." "I love you." "...it should last a few days." "You love me, don't you?" "The same goes for the food." "Brian, I'll wear a mask." "I didn't know." "Like hell you didn't know!" "l..." "Don't you do that!" "Don't you lie to me!" "I wasn't sure." "Please don't leave me here!" "Please, won't you help me?" "When you get to town, you find a comfortable place, you know, with a good bed." "And get yourself a blanket, even if it feels hot now." "And lots of water." "Do it before you're too weak." "Brian." "Brian!" "I warned you about the girl." "You..." "I told you to stay away from her." "Why the hell couldn't you have listened to me?" "She was choking." "She couldn't breathe." "Brian." "Hey, hand me a beer, will you?" "Warm beer." "Tastes like piss." "What are we gonna do?" "I don't know." "It's almost gone." "I know that!" "Car." "I see it." "We gotta make them stop." "Yeah, we'll just wave politely and ask for help." "Brian." "Brian!" "Hey!" "I'll deal with this." "Stay where you are!" "Don't come any closer!" "I'm gonna stay right here." "We just need some gas." "Sorry." "We don't have any to spare." "I know." "I understand." "But I was just hoping that maybe as a fellow Christian," "you might be able to help us." "Please don't do that." "You see, my wife in the car, she's pregnant." "We're just looking for a cool place to have the baby," "see this thing through." "Go in reverse." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Good luck." "Go, go, go." "Ma'am." "No, I can't." "Please." "I'm begging you!" "No, Brian!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Get the gas." "Oh, God." "What are you doing?" "They weren't gonna give it to us, Danny." "Help her out." "You don't talk to me." "You hear me?" "You don't tell me what to do!" "Don't walk away from me, you son of a bitch!" "I'm talking to you!" "What the..." "I am talking to you, and I'm telling you what to do, you self-righteous shit!" "It must be nice sitting on the sidelines while your dumb brother wades in shit for you." "No, I don't..." "Somebody had to do it." "Was it gonna be you, Danny?" "You didn't have to..." "You remember..." "You remember our last day at home?" "It wasn't you who went up to Mom and Dad's room to get his gun, was it?" "It wasn't you!" "It wasn't you who had to go up there and lie and tell them not to worry, that you'd be back real soon." "They were alive?" "Alive?" "You knew they were." "They were?" "You..." "You told me..." "What you wanted to hear." "You asshole!" "Asshole!" "Come here." "Come here." "I'm an asshole for what?" "Tell me, Danny, asshole for what?" "For what?" "For letting you walk by with a clean conscience?" "Well, that's what you like, Danny." "Remember Bobby?" "You remember Bobby?" "I was the one that had to drag her out of the car while you just sat there watching me do it!" "Bobby was right." "You got all the brains." "Danny." "Hey." "Brian." "Stop here." "Brian." "Brian." "We're gonna stop at this house, okay?" "We're gonna find something to dress your wound with." "Whatever you say, Doc." "Danny." "There." "A little closer." "Keep going." "Okay, stop." "Hello?" "Hello!" "If you can hear me, we just need medical supplies." "Someone's hurt." "We're not infected, and we don't mean you any harm." "We're..." "We're just gonna take what we need, and we'll leave." "What happened?" "Oh, shit!" "What's on you?" "It's not contagious." "It's not human blood." "It's dog blood." "You had me worried, little brother." "I'm sorry." "Sorry." "Hey, don't take this the wrong way." "Can you pull down your pants?" "Hey, so much for being chosen, huh?" "I'm sorry." "He's got it, doesn't he?" "Shit!" "I don't know if there's anybody listening, but my generator is dying." "So, if there is someone out there, this is my last song." "This is Laura Merkin, last survivor of Corpus Christi, Texas, saying goodbye." "Can I see those?" "Bobby had this crazy idea." "She wanted to be a mom." "Can you believe that?" "Why not?" "With me?" "There are some things I'm just not good at, man." "Where did she get..." "A baby?" "Who knows?" "Maybe I would have been good at it." "Hey, Danny." "Danny?" "I gotta tell you something." "It's a secret." "You want to hear a secret?" "Sure." "At the stadium," "some of those people, they were..." "They were still alive, Danny." "We were gonna dump them in the grave and then..." "Some of them would move." "I'd look at the supervisor, and he'd pretend not to see, so..." "So we'd pretend not to see them, but we did." "We did, and we'd bury them anyway." "There were so many bodies, Danny." "I know." "So many." "I know." "How the hell did we get here?" "I don't know, Brian." "You know." "We both know." "We both know." "We both know." "We both..." "Where you going, Danny?" "Where you going, man?" "We're leaving, Brian." "Come on." "Come on, come on, come on, come on!" "Shit!" "Oh, my God." "I need those keys, Brian." "Sure." "And I need a ride." "You know I can't." "Come on, Danny." "The ocean, you and me, one more time." "You remember how it was." "Hitting those waves before everything turned to shit." "Just give me the keys." "You want them?" "Shoot me or take me with you." "Brian, don't do it." "I'm not gonna end up like them, Danny." "Rotting alive, alone." "You can't tell whether they're alive or dead." "Please, Brian." "Don't." "It's what we decided." "I'm dying, Danny!" "I don't give a fuck about the rules." "You made them." "My little brother." "I taught him everything he knows." "I drive and wait for a storm to come and wash us all away, but it doesn't." "It's a beautiful day." "And it shouldn't be a beautiful day." "I wait, but nothing happens to me." "And for the first time, I feel like I am alone in the world." "We made it." "Two strangers with nothing left to say." "Brian and I used to love this place, the hotel, the beach." "They still look exactly the same, but they're just places now." "Brian!" "Danny!" "Come on!" "I don't know what'll happen next." "I don't know how long I'll live." "But I know I will be alone."

"Is he conscious yet?" " No." "Want to see him?" "Will he live?" "All I can say is that he survived the operation." "You shouldn't have bothered." "I'd have called for you." "Is he dead?" "No, but he's still unconscious." "It has been three days already..." "I wonder if it's worth the trouble to intervene." "If he could be moved we could start the experiment now." "We'll think about it." "Any dying person can be maintained like that." "Who knows?" " We do." "The experience would kill him." "We need a healthy man." "There he is." "Will you talk to him now?" "I'd rather wait." "Has he seen anyone?" " He doesn't want to see anyone." "Why don't you want to do the experiment with one of your men?" "You do have volunteers, didn't you?" " Many, but they weren't suitable." "But why him?" "He has nothing to lose." "That's what we're looking for." "Why not pick a convict?" "Offer him a pardon." "That is not an option." "Does he have any chance of returning?" "It's impossible to predict." "This is the first time it's being done with a man." "I'd like to meet him." "I'll call him for you." "Wait a minute." "You left your things back in your room." "Thanks." "I won't need them." "Claude Ridder?" "Yes, that's me." "Do you have a moment, or rather, a day?" "No, we're not the police." "I'm from Crespel Research Centre." "Crespel?" "Never heard of it." "Nobody has." "If you have no other plans for today, I'd like to take you there." "Is it far?" "Some 50 km." "We have a car." "How's the weather?" "Sunny." "Then why not." " The taxi." " I'll take care of it." "Want to go by your house?" " No thanks." "Am I the man you want?" "Without a doubt." "This isn't a kidnapping." "It wouldn't go well for you." "I have no family." "What's Crespel like?" "It's a place that doesn't exist yet." "Is it pretty?" "Not particularly." "Are you tired?" "I've been asked the same thing every hour for three weeks." "Have you recovered well?" "Why so much interest in me?" "Can you smoke?" "Yes, I'm better now." "Apart from cancer, I have nothing to worry about." "Glad you were saved?" "I'm not sure I was saved." "We're nearly there." "You don't seem too worried." " It's all the same to me." "What else would you like to happen to me?" "What if it's something extraordinary?" "Really, as in fairy tales?" "You were right." "It isn't very pretty." "But not without interest." "This is Crespel?" " Yes, here." "I thought it was a town." "There is one 5 km away, but it's not Crespel." "The boss will see you straight away." "Surprised?" "Frankly, yes." "The Centre has existed for 15 years." "Around here it's assumed we study agriculture." "But the subject of agriculture is unknown to us." "Our object of study is time." "Have you figured it out?" " Partially." "Where do I come in?" "I have a question for you, Mr. Ridder, if you'd like to answer it." "All right." "I suppose you had a reason to have attempted suicide..." "Yes..." "Have you changed your mind?" "It may be necessary to ask this question again." " Who for?" " For you." "No, it hasn't changed." "You'd do it again?" "I am the perfect guinea pig, right?" "A volunteer who does not cling to life?" "If I accept, what chance do I have of surviving?" "100% if you were a mouse." "Let me show you something." "The passage of time, no doubt." "I need to think about it." "I found interesting your idea of a municipal agency to distribute time around the city as it sees fit." "It wouldn't work." " Time would break down." "I always thought we should have a team of novelists... paid to put their wild ideas on paper." "In this jar is mouse A;" "in the other, mouse B." "Look at them." "Do you see any difference?" "I don't know." "Is one a female and the other male?" "No, both are males." "But mouse B is a pioneer." "A has never left his jar." "B travelled in time and went back to live for one minute in his past." "A hero." "When did this happen?" "Yesterday." "With no ill effects." "How do you be sure that he travelled in time?" "That's the problem." "We're confident it happened, but he can't tell us." "The technicians thought of everything." "They should have taught him to speak before doing the experiment." "You'll go back exactly one year into your past." "And the experience won't last any more than one minute." "What if it kills me?" "With the treatment we've devised, that won't happen." "Where were you this time last year?" "On holiday." "I had 3 months off last year." "I was in France, on the Riviera." "Are you sure?" "My memories are organised around my holidays." "You'll be in a sort of sphere." "When you return you must wait four minutes to recover." "Four minutes?" "Why?" "I'll explain." "In a way, we could compare it to the decompression chamber that divers use." "Are you interested?" " Not much." "Why the past instead of the future?" "Wouldn't it be more interesting?" "I agree with you." "The result may not seem very spectacular" "But for the moment we can't go further." "So we've started with only small steps." "An experience that barely seems interesting." "No heart problems?" "Nothing, not even a small ulcer?" "You're quite healthy." "You see, suicide is good for your health." "You'll have to stay here for a few days." "On some kind of diet?" "Sort of." "Only for four days." "Will I have to sign a release before the experiment?" "I suppose so." "If something goes wrong, you could say I died in hospital." "Absolutely." "Good thinking." "Was it your first suicide?" " Yes." "With a gun?" " Yes." "I can't imagine you with a gun." " Neither can I." "That's why I failed." "Are you afraid?" " No." "I've been afraid all my life..." "But not anymore." "Do you sleep well?" " Very well." "No headaches?" " No." "We'll see tomorrow." "I have to observe the effects of T. 5." "Doesn't seem to hurt you." "Now we just have to wait." " Three more days." "What will happen to me if I stay for years?" "It will only last 60 seconds." "We know because of the mice." "Can I go in?" "I won't wake up among pirates?" "You'll lie down." "We'll close the door." "You'll go back one year, then come back here a minute later." "Disappointed?" "A bit." "I expected a kind of..." "laboratory." "Something electric." "What if, for example... it fails?" "Impossible." "You'll go back to September 5, 1966 at precisely 4 p.m." "Why 4 p.m.?" "It's the time we chose." "We always sent the mice at that time..." "And they always came back." " It became a habit." "I never thought that scientists would be superstitious!" "Why was I chosen, I wonder?" "Let's say our computer chose you." "Out of millions, of course." " Sure." " Good morning." " Good morning." "There's nothing to worry about." "As we increase the dose of T.5., you'll sleep more and more." "I talk in my sleep." "That is also an effect of T.5. And when you wake up?" "I feel all right." "Tomorrow, one hour before entering the sphere ... we will inject you with a large dose of T.5." "You'll be drugged but perfectly lucid." "Don't worry." "The treatment has prepared you for this stage." "Will I be able to move?" "The experiment requires that the subject be completely passive." "But you will be able to remember." "Asleep but awake." "Is it good?" "Coming?" " Later" "Two sea snakes and a few sharks." "That's about all." " Is it good?" " Very good." "Did you see many fish?" "Two sea snakes and a few sharks." "That's about all." "I don't like that apparatus." "You always say that." "Was it good?" " Yes." "Did you see many fish?" "Let's go out for dinner." "If you want to." "Coming?" "Later." "It couldn't end any other way." "About 4 months." "How long will dedicate yourself to packing?" "As long as there are things to send." "It seems you've developed a good reputation in packing.." "I believe we could use that energy better in something else." "You could manage a line, hold a responsible position." "I hate responsibility." "I felt the same at your age." "C'mon, let's have a coffee." "Rich family?" " Pretty well off, yes." "At your age I had debts." " Is it good?" " Very good." "See many fish?" "Two sea snakes and a few sharks." "We've lost him." "Every time, the same thing." "What time did she come?" " At nine." "If we want to send out those 5,000 circulars by this afternoon, everyone will have to work." "Imagine, she hasn't even done 100 yet!" "In four hours?" "One envelope for each 2 minutes." "Quite a performance." "It's a record." "Is she pretty?" "Who?" "The record-breaker." "In a way." " In a way?" "Send her in." "Left." "See, even your car is a problem." "Shall we stop for lunch in an hour?" "If you like." "I don't know." "Something about Catherine bothers me." "Perhaps the fact that you don't unsettle her?" "You're a quiet sort aren't you?" " When I have nothing to say, yes." "What did you do when you met her?" " Nothing." "And now?" " Not much." "Not much." "Let's stop here to eat." "The effect of the T. 5. is weak anyway." "Seven minutes." " He's come back 5 times already." "The transition period always scares me." "Why not get him out before the four minutes are up?" "Because he could stay like that for weeks." "We'll wait." " If we wait he'll starve." "It's odd to see it all from a heated train." "Was it cold?" "Very cold." "In a few minutes we'll pass a town I liberated." "Were you alone?" " Almost." "We were about 50 against many Germans." "Guns don't suit you." "I never got used to them." "There might be a street with your name on it." "It wasn't so amusing back then." "Why didn't you come on Wednesday?" " I forgot." "Come tonight, both of you." "Which two?" " You and Catherine." "It'll be difficult." "We've separated." "How long were you together for?" " Seven years." "Come alone if you like, then." "Aren't you afraid of having that dirty wall behind you?" "The papers on the table scare me more." "We should redecorate your office." "Paintings and tapestries." "In your office, for example, a big picture of an unpaid bill dated February 17, 1951." "The bookkeeper removed a heap of commas." "He is struggling against effectiveness." "An eraser and no pencil?" "I hate pencils." "And the rubbers?" " No." "Because they are useless without a pencil." "Hello" " Hello" "Compliments of the author..." "Compliments of the author..." "You don't have much imagination." "I don't know her." "I don't know what to say." "A swimmer got drowned." "Is he dead?" " For a good while." "He was a good swimmer." "He must have swum for hours before he drowned." "For hours, you realize?" " Claude." "Be quiet." "You do not need me." "You only need what is right here." "You could have me embalmed and put in a corner." "But I'm alive, I move, come, go, see people." "If I didn't, I'd kill myself." "The more I give you, the worse you get." "I don't think I understand you anymore." "I'm leaving." "Tomorrow, I am leaving." "It's 3 p.m." "However, there are still 3 hours to go." "3 minutes ago it was 3 p. m." "In 3 weeks it will be 3 p. m." "In a century too." "Time passes for everybody but for me stuck in this room It doesn't pass." "Search for your time." "It's 3 p. m. forever." "Hello?" "Hello..." "On the third beep it will be exactly..." "Exactly three o'clock, zero minutes, zero seconds." "Pardon?" "All right tomorrow at the same time, as we agreed." "Love to the family." "For 100 million years the Earth belonged to algae and molluscs and then reptiles ruled the earth until this company I'm working for was created." "I believe that I'm travelling from birth to death at 100,000 kph" "The earth will spin for millions of years more without me..." "And as a result, I'm here, using a pencil to express our sincere regrets to a customer for the loss of his shipment sent on the fourth... and to tell him that we'll do all we can to..." "Ready?" "Yes." "What?" "What's a mouse doing here?" "Did you say something?" " No." "I just saw a mouse." " So?" "Have you ever seen a mouse on a beach!" "Maybe it's on vacation." "How was it?" "In a sense it was successful." "He isn't dead." "On the other hand..." "A time race." "Office time against outside time." "Who's winning?" "Don't know yet." "She's pretty, yes, looks like your kind." "Beautiful, clean, modest..." "Things that I despise." " You like me because you hate almost everything." "I like things that are changeable." "Am I changeable?" "Not really." "Not absolutely." "Rather, you are ... surprising." "A swamp." "A dark night..." "One would rather wring your neck than smile at you or slowly melt into you... ..and sink." "I can't imagine Monique outside your window." "You reek of low tide... drownings, octopus." "Behind, this beach." " This beach is me..." "I need you." "I have needed you since in the office they told me of a girl who hated envelopes." "...and work." "Let's make love." "Here, on the sand?" "I'd run away to a land without nights..." "You know what?" "Your wife has a nice behind." "I'll tell you what you see right now." "You're by a window, no?" "Let me see..." "Everything is blue the sea, the sand, the town..." "Even the people are blue..." "And the many beautiful girls that caught your attention..." "I miss you Claude..." "It both bothers me, knowing that I miss you." "It's the first time..." "I was always unaffected." "I was always indifferent to the presence or absence of things" "Perhaps there's a white sail in the distance." "I also see some seagulls spiralling down to the beach." "Are there any on the Costa Azul?" "They bring rain..." "It never rains there." "We're wasting time, Ridder." "We'll never finish the circulars tonight." "And you keep turning that crank." "It's always beautiful." " It's beautiful." "Here nature doesn't have that ugly green of the countryside." "Coming?" "Later." "And if I'd been married?" " I do not know what would have done." "I wouldn't have cared, surely." "When I met you, I felt nothing special." "It was a matter of... your being different." "You were really out of your element at the office." "I knew the rest didn't matter." "You could have been indifferent." " No, not at all." "I was so scared that night, when we left the restaurant." "Did you quit your job for no other reason than to impress me?" "Yes." "Were you impressed?" "Were you making good money?" "A living." "Have I told you that your eyes are beautiful?" "And I want you." " Me too." "See?" "We are not pioneers." "Shall we answer?" "No." "Catherine, I love you." "Do you hear me?" "I love you." "It was the only reason." "Long before you died." "And now I'm dead." "I'm cold." "I hear my own words." "It's the drug..." "What are my chances of surviving?" "Ah, yes, 100% if I were a mouse." "I am a mouse then, if I'm alive." "They'll come now." "There's still four minutes to wait." "And the mouse?" "Where's the mouse?" "You're delirious!" "Unfortunately not." "Claude, please stop." "You're scaring me." "I don't mean to." "I killed Catherine two months ago in Glasgow." "I went with her without telling anyone, and I came back alone." "I don't believe you." "You're both right and wrong." "What do you mean?" "You're right." "I'm not capable of killing." "But you're wrong, because I did." "Impossible." "I thought so too." "What can we do?" "We won't get out of here until they do away with trams." "Buses are just as bad." "Cars will be useless soon." "I'll give you some advice, sir." "I'd recommend that you hop out and take the tram otherwise, you'll miss your train." "Have you got time, sir?" "We'll have to cook the cat's eyes." "What?" " We have a cat, don't we." "Are psychoses red?" " No." "The future is red." "And psychoses?" "I get them mixed up." "Are you awake too?" "Go to the office for me." "I need you." " I'm hard to live with." "I don't want to live with you." "I want to be with you." "I want you to stay with me tonight." "Don't leave me." "I'm afraid..." " Afraid?" "Yes, I'm afraid of losing you." "Of finding myself alone tomorrow." "Of being without you tonight." "If you like, we could spend the night in ..." "Last time he stayed in the sphere for one minute 29." "He arrived at 4 minutes 23." "Now he's been gone for 3 minutes and 4 seconds..." "He's trapped in that minute, reliving it endlessly." "That's what gives us the best chance of bringing him back." "I couldn't stay there." "Stay here if you like." " No, I'm going home." "Aren't you sleepy?" "She'd be sad if you didn't come." "Sad?" "She's always sad when I'm there...when I'm not..." "...when she's asleep... when she's awake..." "Sometimes I think she's sadness personified." "You should be used to it, after five years." "I think of leaving her." "I can't help her." "Nobody can help her." "She needs you." "That doesn't help." "Could you leave her?" "Probably not." "Sometimes I can't stand it." "I feel oxidized..." "Once I left..." " But you returned." "Yes, after 2 days." "She greeted me as if I'd been to the cinema and asked if I had eaten well." "Claude Ridder, you've had it." "At the time, she wanted to have a house by the sea but was never sadder than when we went to the Riviera." "Perhaps she doesn't like the sun." "She loves the sun, but she can't help thinking that one day it won't exist." "You can't live with her or without her." "And so God created the Earth, looked at it and said: "I'm just waiting for it to turn"." "You go to sleep." "I'm not sleepy." "You're not good at that." "Not especially." "I don't write anything." "This job doesn't suit you." "No job does." "Offices make me sick." "They make you sick?" " Yes." "Do you know what you've earned this morning?" " No." "Exactly 14 francs." "Enough for a pack of cigarettes" "Not much, especially because I won't be back after lunch." "Did you expect to make money in just one morning?" "For how long?" "I don't know." "A day... till tomorrow." "Okay." "Here's what we'll do..." "I'll give you the 14 francs I owe you..." "And you ask me to lunch with that small fortune." "Why?" " Because it doesn't interest me." "You never buy anything." "I do." "Bread, milk, matches, vegetables, tomatoes, mustard..." "Nothing for you." " I don't need anything." "You could buy a sweater..." " I've already got 2." "That's not much, is it?" "No visits?" " No." "I don't want to see anyone." "How about we stay out all night..." "We go to bed very late." "That's different." "Hello." "How are you today?" "Is it good?" "Very good." "Something's gone wrong." "I don't know what time it is." "They didn't give me a watch." "That's the limit." "There aren't watches for time travelling." "I could count the seconds to calm myself." "4 minutes... one... two... three four...five..." "No." " What d'you mean 'no'?" "No." " But what kind of 'no'?" "Just 'no'." "Why not?" " Because no." "Because not yes?" "Yes." " Ah, but you said 'yes'!" "But no." " She sure knows how to say 'no'." "Can't they tell?" "I'm here!" "They must know it!" "I'm back!" "I'm here!" "One travels for a few minutes, and centuries have passed outside." "Those responsible died long ago and I'm here forgotten." "One minute." " We'll get him back in three minutes." "Oh, there you are!" "How have you been?" "You're on a trip too." "Did it go well?" "Did you go far away?" "They can't get you back either." "We're both in a mess." "I know you." "You're the mouse I saw on the beach." "You caught my eye." "You wander through my past here and there." "What would you say if I wandered through yours?" "In the end, you see, everything can be explained." "Everything is reasonable." "You don't have a watch either." "You don't know how long we've been here for either." "It's continuing." "I have to get out of here!" "I have to concentrate." "It's 10:30, you know" "I feel awful." " Are you sick?" "If Catherine had died, we'd have heard about it." "It's not impossible." "It's so simple." "Do you know anything about Catherine?" "You've been telling me about her for years." "But have you met her?" "Have you ever seen her?" "No, never." "The few people I knew never saw her." "It's been years since I've seen them." "They don't even know if I live with her or not." "You hid her." " People bored her." "She had family?" "No, no cousins, no friends." "...no boss, no job..." "She didn't even pay taxes." "To go overseas, she needed papers, and she didn't have any." "No one worried about her disappearance." "No." "Nobody." "People think we've separated, just as you did." "You left her there?" "Why bring her back?" "Why tell me all this?" "Because nobody knows." "You see what you're doing, you let me caress you..." "You'd make love to me." "Yet you say you love that man." "I am, you are, he is, we love each other, you love, they lie down." "I caress... your knees." "Then your thighs." "Because tonight I feel abandoned." "Abandoned..." "If Catherine left me I'd be thrilled." "I once knew a man..." "You are not listening." "I'm listening to your fingers." "Since last week you've had a different expression." "Because last week I was sure that I wouldn't write to you again." "You said the same thing last year." "I'll show you something you'll like." "Is it big?" " No it's actually tiny." "You'll like it because it's tiny." "Animal, vegetable." "astral or mineral?" "A mixture." "I want to stay with you tonight." "What's wrong?" " I'm terrified." "Don't say 'terrified'." "You're just afraid." "For no reason." "What's the difference between 'afraid' and 'terrified'?" "Fear is when you feel hot." "Terror is when you feel cold." "You haven't shut your eyes more than one or two hours." "You need to sleep." "One of my eyes wants to read and the other wants to sleep." "You are absolutely I don't know what..." "But you are it absolutely." "Now I'm afraid too." " Of what, of dying?" "Not exactly." "I'm afraid of not dying." " I've never heard such a thing." "You still here?" "Will you be out late?" "Yes." "He lives quite far away." "It's too hot in here." "Come with me." "I've called a taxi." "Glasgow is too gloomy." "Buy me some oranges." "Are you okay?" " Yes." "Can't you sleep?" "I wanted the light on." "Here, come close to me." "Simple things are harder to understand." "But you did go to school." "Yes, but I never listened." "But you read, don't you?" "Books don't teach everything." "One day Claude told me the electric cable kept the streetcars from falling off the tracks." "I'd never thought of it." "I thought they ran on gas." "It's all right." "It's what they call "The Martian Viewpoint"." "Missed by two minutes." " It's as bad as two months." "The T. 5. has worn off by now." "Three circulars at least." "We've received complaints about it." "Better write a new text." "You'll have it next week." "The release for the seventeenth." "Five days more, the twenty second...." "It'll have to be out after the 25th to meet the payments." "We haven't talked about the number of pages yet." "How many?" "If we have 40 pages more, It won't cost be the same price." "It needs to be cut back." "Who'll take care of it?" "We still can't send them before the 17th." "Mouse B travelled in time." "He's been 1 minute into the past." "A hero!" "When?" "Yesterday." "With no ill effects." "How do you know it really happened?" "That's the problem..." "If during the war someone had told me that I'd be talking about this..." "Where are you going?" "I'll go buy some cigarettes." "What are you doing here?" "What?" "What are you doing here?" "I couldn't sleep." "I was afraid I'd die." "So I came here." "Tomorrow, when you go out, you'd have found me dead on the stairs," "...or simply sleeping." "Come with me." "Come." "I found a girl I didn't know in the bathroom..." "She was very attractive." "Every man's dream." "Nothing happened." "I just washed her as she asked me to." "Have you seen her again?" " Often, in my dreams." "We accolege reseat of your of the 2nd..." "Happy to learn that you never deceived our watchamacallit..." "We'll fend you a new one and cope it alives chafely..." "Except our exclusives." "Yours, screwly, Claude Ridder." "I killed Catherine in Glasgow 2 months ago." "It's late." "We needed it yesterday." "We can work all night." "How can he work without a pencil?" " It's his custom." "Does he know we need it for tomorrow?" "Only his is lacking." "Can't spell "tomorrow"." "It's late." "Isn't he tired?" "And this mark?" "Has he seen this mark?" "You're right about the colour green and the countryside." "And if man were allergic to the colour green?" "Perhaps it's green which ruins our cells." "Thousands of scientists invent can openers, detergents... and bypass this, which would change everything." "I believe that's the secret." "It's so simple that no one has thought of it." "We'll give up salad for a month to test it." "If you buy a boat, I'll learn to steer..." "If I weren't sad for this reason, I'd find another." "I'm just a burden for you." "If I only had money..." "I don't know if I'd have liked you if you were rich." "I'd have pretend to be poor and disinherited." "I'd have gone to see your boss... to arrange for him to give you some money." "Oh!" "A tree!" "It's not a tree;" "it's a weed." "Yes, but the trees are appearing less frequently" "I showed you a rubber tree that you missed." "Are you sure?" "Are you sure?" " Yes." "Okay, leave the other one, and take that one." "Yes, it's better." " I'll tell them." "But the other one..." "I assure you I'm not mistaken." "It was you got me my false papers during the war." "I don't know you." "Don't you know me?" "My name is Claude Ridder." "I was called Claude Rabois in 1943." "You can't know me." "I had false papers too during the war." "You have a calcite." "Is it serious?" "Not terribly." "You killed her all the same." "That'll be 90 francs." "Shall I come back?" "Are you tired?" " Yes, exhausted." "What have you been doing?" " Nothing." "I listened to people talking." "Didn't you talk?" " I didn't say a word." "What did they talk about?" "Nothing." "I wasn't listening." "What are you looking for?" " Something to eat." "I bought spinach." "Plants..." "I'd like huge herring." "I can't do anything." "I wonder, who are you in reality?" "Something blurred more and more blurred..." "I shrink in water." "You never tell me what you write about." "I don't write much." "If you like we can go together to eat." "What worries me is that if you killed her, it was the perfect crime." "It'll be closed." "Okay, I'll go and get dressed." "I like it when you wear mauve." "Imagine for a moment if God had created the cat in His own image?" "The cat?" " Yes, the cat." "Then after a thousand years, or a few hours, I don't know, He created man..." "Man?" " Yes, man with the only object of serving the cat, like a slave." "Like a slave?" " Exactly." "The cat received lucidity..." "And man received neuroses and the passion for making and owning things." "I see." " No, you don't see anything." "Man was created for the cat's sake." "Do you understand?" " Yes, yes, I get it." "There you have it." "All of the civilisation that he has constructed has no other aim than to feed and comfort the cat." "The cat." " Exactly." "He invented lots of things, ...only for the cat's wellbeing." "Fishermen, cushions, carpet and the radiators..." "Maybe even the radio, because cats love music." "I'm glad to know you've discovered who we are and why we're here." "So am I, but you see, it's all a question of thinking." "Claude!" "Look!" "What is it?" "A beetle." "You've been like this for two hours." "What's the matter?" "Nothing's the matter." "Where's the cat?" "Did she sleep with you?" "Does it annoy you?" "And you, do you find it amusing?" "You have a side that's very superficial." "I always dreamed of having something with an especially inept employee..." "Fire her... and escape with her." "I promise, once my three months notice are through, we'll go together ...somewhere." "And after that?" "Then we'll come back..." "Come back." "Another coffee?" "I'd like to know how was it that I was picked for this?" "Let's say a computer did it." "Out of millions, obviously." " Of course." "Good afternoon." " Good afternoon." "Our oldest employee." "Maybe he's the computer who picked me." "This will do it good." "It needs refreshment." "Could you imagine being buried all alone in this cold dirt?" "You could do a guide to graveyards." "It would be a best-seller." "Luceram cemetery." "One shinbone." "Modest, but good location." "Another one:" "Three shinbones." "Worth a detour." "No shinbone." "Avoid." "I'd rather live here than die here." "These situations only occur in books." "And when they occur, one doesn't take advantage." " That's still to be seen." "I don't mean to scare you." "I killed Catherine in Glasgow two months ago." "I went with her without telling anybody and I came back alone." "I don't believe it." "You're right and wrong." "What does that mean?" "You're right, I'm not capable of killing, but you're wrong because I still did it." "Impossible." "That's what I thought too." "That day, it was very cold in Glasgow." "Catherine had never gone that far before." "Me either." "She didn't like the city;" "she thought it gloomy." "I think I'd never seen Catherine as depressed as she was that day." "She was absolutely..." "We haven't slept all night." "I'll be exhausted tomorrow." "Let's try to sleep a little." "It's strange to wake up exactly when I was planning to sleep again." "She was asleep." "And the strange thing was that she was smiling... in her sleep." "I'd never seen he smiling in her sleep." "It was the first time." "She looked relaxed... happy." "That's how it all happened." "I looked at Catherine... 29 minutes." "What have you decided?" "And the risks?" "We must try whatever we can because the T.5. is no longer working." "Are you Mr. Ridder?" "Yes, that's me." "Wiana went out." "She went to the post-office." "That's alright." "I'll wait." "Come in if you like." "We're two girls here in the bathroom." "Which one will you take?" "The one on the right or on the left?" "The left one." "Or if not..." "No." "The one on the left." "You chose badly." "I'm Nicole." "I arrived yesterday." "Do you mind if I take a bath?" "Wash my back while we talk." "What do you do at the office?" "Sometimes I think." "I pick up an object and I start to think." "Here is a pen." "I concentrate and I see that it's a red pencil." "It's red on the outside but it writes black." "Proof that appearances are deceiving." "It's of normal size;" "a common pencil of the kind found everywhere." "It has a point like a pencil." "When you push it, It rolls like a pencil, naturally." "If you hold it up it looks like the trunk of a tree, smooth and straight ..." "In the same way, it also looks like a pencil." "So it would seem that we are dealing with a pencil" "On the other hand, I never use a pencil" "Why would I have one in this case?" "Doubtless because tables are meant for holding pencils." "I like your story." "Keep going." "There are other things apart from pencils." "There are also erasers, pads, paper..." "She has received over 150 letters of complaint." "And she has them piled up there." "They said there were 300 letters that were late." "And now?" "We've caught up." " Even a bit ahead." "Claude told me this morning that he'd responded to a letter that we haven't got yet." "I'm absolutely exhausted." "I hardly slept 3 hours last night." "And besides that, I dreamed that I had to do 100 pages." "It's going to be a nice day." "One knows these things by the sea." "If people are up, it's..." "Everything's ready." "Is it much?" " 5 whole years." "It'll be a few days." "Even though I make love to other girls, I feel drawn to you." "It's hurtful that you do it with other girls." "I don't know what to say." "Do you understand?" "Yes, Claude, I do." "That's why I'm sad." "If Prometheus didn't have his vulture..." "Speaking of vultures, I bought a chicken for tonight." "I don't know what to do." "I can't get down to work." "Move about, I don't know, do something." "What did I do this morning?" "I kept watching the telephone." "What does that girl have?" "Nothing." "But I want her." "I'd do anything for her." "Including sending Catherine to hell." "Well, call her." "I don't have her number." "All I can do is wait." "A kiss?" "I won't be able to stand it." " I'd like it very much." "He's all right." " He's completely immobilised." "Let's wait a bit longer." "The minute flees, but I look for it." "I concentrate on that minute." "I'm in the water." "The sun's hot..." "Catherine is there, on the beach." "The water's warm..." "I swim in it." "I see the bottom." "I want to swim." "Thank you." "Sorry, I don't speak French." "But you understand English, I hope." "Yes, without a problem." "Then where is Catherine?" "Catherine!" "In the end..." " Yes, in the end..." "Nothing..." "Do you have to go?" "I should." "Stay with me." "I can't find an excuse every day." "I'll write you an encyclopaedia with all the excuses you can use." "You're already late." "Like every day, punctually late, never more than an hour." "And occasionally less." "Seen many fish?" "2 sea snakes, some sharks..." "Nothing at all." "Nothing changes." "It's strange." "I'm going to die." "Catherine..." "Do you realise?" "...you were right." "Catherine..." "I'd like to see the mouse." "He's coming back more often." "An interval of 30 seconds since last time." "That's not much." "A storm at 7 a.m. is unusual." "People get up early." "Who?" "God... the workers..." "You don't understand..." " Not today." "You're lucky." "You're all blind." "People are scared because they have a hard life, discouraging." "In those moments, they should be convinced of the reverse." "I doubt it." "It won't last." "Finally, it goes by fast." "When you're okay, that's when it's scary..." "You know that one day it'll all be lost, and it's unsupportable." "It's unsupportable, and the rest doesn't matter." "When you're hungry, time drags..." "It takes 3 months or 60 years to die..." "It's strange, isn't it?" "One even adapts to cancer." "Choose something..." "Carrots are good for the skin." "After..." "Spinach for influenza..." "Fruit, of course, is good for your health." "I don't think I can help you." "I wish I'd never met you." "That can't be changed." "Something to drink?" " I can't drink; it makes me sleepy." "Have you been here long?" "Hello, how are you?" "There it is; we can work now." "We haven't brought all the documents." "Hello, cat..." "I'm happy to see you." "Have you eaten well today?" "'I tell you this woman doesn't give me enough to eat.'" "Yes, I think she's a bit stingy." "'Stingy.'" "But on the street, you'd have less to eat." "'That's no reason for me to starve in an apartment.'" "You exaggerate." "'You won't believe me if I don't exaggerate.'" "'I don't like your records.'" "'They're noisy and all sound the same.'" "'I had more fun outside." "I had friends there.'" "We're your friends." "You can chat with us." "'But you're not very smart.'" "Sophie thinks we are." "What are you reading?" "Where did you find this?" "What does that mean?" " I don't know." "It bores me to explain." "I couldn't care less." "Why do you say that?" "I don't understand this." "It has nothing to do with me." "And with you?" "Not me either." "Then it's a bit silly, a bit sad, depends on how you look at it." "I'm getting mixed up..." "I like you a lot." "I like you more than a lot." "You can't say 'more than a lot'." "You can't say it." " But I can think it, right?" "I used to wake up at night." "I hated it." "I stayed awake so as not to wake up." "But now it's over." "I sleep until morning." "I sleep well, don't I?" "Did you ever think of killing Catherine?" "Many times." "I believe it." " Do you?" "I thought all night about what you told me." "I think you told the truth." "It's possible you've killed her without anybody knowing." "And do you know why?" "To end it all." "To end her suffering." "As you told me," "She had an incurable, mortal illness, didn't she?" "The periods vary." "We can't do anything." "Then everything is lost." "I went there to see a writer." "I was there for that." "We found a room in a little hotel." "We turned on the gas heater because it was a bit chilly." "She'd taken a sleeping pill." "When I saw her, she was asleep," "The strange thing was that she was smiling... asleep." "I'd never seen her smiling in her sleep." "It was the first time." "She looked relaxed... happy." "No longer afraid of anything." "That's how it all happened." "When I was going out I noticed that the room was very cold." "Very cold." "I smelled gas..." "The heater was off, but the gas was on..." "That was all." "I looked at her, smiling in her sleep, and then I left." "When I came back an hour later, she was dead." "The cops were already there." "Claude, I don't know why you're lying to me." "Why didn't they arrest you?" "They thought it was an accident." "Just like that?" "It really was an accident." "I lied to see if you'd believe me." "The heater must have turned off while I was outside." "I returned later that night." "Much later." "She really died there?" "Yes." "For a moment I was glad though it was horrible, I was glad." "Everything happened while she was asleep." "She didn't have to experience her death..." "Then I realized she was no longer there, that she would never be there again." "And I couldn't stand it." "It got worse and worse." "What's wrong?" " Nothing." "George is dead." "Which George?" "Slovain." "He's dead." "I know already." "He died 8 months ago." "You knew it?" "Eight months ago." "His wife wrote me a little after his death." "And you didn't tell me at all?" "You were depressed, so I didn't tell you." "Can you imagine a man who, to spare his wife would hide all bad news from her." "He'd hire actors to replace ...the people who had died." "He'd buy all the newspapers so that she couldn't get one." "He'd have to cover up the whole planet." "It would cost a lot." "It's ghastly." "What?" "Everything." "Even when you're with me." "Page 8, first line, put "Evarista Corriego" in italics." "Same page, ninth line after 'the words'... the word "conjugated" is lacking." "With an acute accent and plural." "Page 9 is all right." "Page 10, twelfth line." "'Tlön' with diaeresis over the 'o'." "Same page, 14th line..." "It has 'solipsism' with 'c' instead of 's'." "Yes, it looks strange, but that's how it is." "Page 11 all okay." "Page 12, eighth, no, ninth line:" ""visual and tactile."" "It's been more than an hour now." "We'll never get him back." "His pulse is weak." "He's lost a lot of blood." "Can we move him?" "Call the hospital, quick." "We'll have to check all our figures."

"There is this theory." "Given an infinite universe and infinite time... all things will happen." "That means that every event is inevitable including those that are impossible." "that's as good explanation for all this as anything else." "Now, a lot of stories start in bars, so that's where we are going to stars this one." "Not because that I was there." "I wasn't." "But because it is a damn good introduction to a very unique... fella." "Legends of every major culture, all contain some sort of character whose purpose is to grant wishes." "except America's." "The Arabs have Jinni's..." "The Irish have Leprechauns..." "The Chinese have dragons and monkeys..." "The Europeans have ferries and wood sprits." "What do we have?" "Santa Claus?" "Santa Claus just brings presents, he doesn't grant wishes." "See, he grants wishes." "Zak, saints predate American culture, he doesn't grant wishes, he makes deals." "All right, I give up." " What do we have here?" " No one." "That's my thesis." "Our culture is unique in having no such mythology." "Oh, you're wrong my friend." "Excuse me?" "There is a fella in America, who grants wishes." "Ad only one to a customer." "And who is this fella?" "O.W. Grant." "That's his usual name, he't got many others." "And he's a loose sun of a bitch." "You'd get easier time finding a Jinni." "So how come, we've never heard of this O.W. Grant?" "You haven't heard O.W. Grant, 'cause America, is a much younger place than" "Ireland or Arabia..." "not too many people have had the chance to meet up with him." "Let me gess You have." "I met him out at interstate 60." "Accidental." "That's his way." "Folks don't find him, he finds them." "He just kinda happens in to them, and they don't know, who he is or what he does... until he does it." "And mostly messes with them, plays tricks, 'cause that's his way too, but sometimes... if he takes a shine to you..." "he'll play it strait." "Now, one story says, that his daddy was a Leprechaun... came over here with Irish." "Now, midgets are notorious ?" ".." "This leprechaun goes and knocks up a Shien Indian..." "Shien get the land taken away in the end up with the immortal, nomadic half-breed with magical powers." " Interstate 60, you said?" " Mhmm" "So, what does this O.W. Grant look like?" "Red bow tie." "He smokes a pipe, curved in an image of a monkey." "Maybe you'd be better of writing your theses without mentioning O.W." "He'd probable rather not have people known about him." "You got it." "Good night." "Hey Quincy, check this out" "There is no Interstate 60." "I 65, 64, 66, and 69." "No I 60." "I guess tonight's everybody's fool-of-shit night." "Guy with a red bow tie and a monkey pipe, who grants wishes..." "Right." "No, damm it, look," "I need, that bidding before twelve... yeah it's critical, just, right call West..." "Holy shit!" "Broken jaw." "I'm sorry myster, I didn't see you." "Are, are you OK como on?" "Are you all right?" "Jesus." "Don't!" "Stop!" "Oh man!" "My bike!" "Look, I'm sorry I'll pay" "Oh God damm it!" "Oh God damm it!" "Look at my suit." "Oh shit..." "Oh fuck." "I've got a sails meeting at 11 o'clock, this is a fucken disaster." "My phone is my fuckin' life line." "God damm it!" "Oh I say everything happens for a reason." "May I guess, I just needed a new bike." "I, for one, did not need this shit in my life." "Not today." "Of all fucken days!" "Oh God dammit!" "I wish, this had never happened!" "I wish, it hadn't happened..." "I wish, it hadn't happened!" "Was that your wish?" "If you had a wish, you wished, this hadn't happened?" "Fucken-A right!" "Granted!" "Mr. Baker." "How did you know my name?" "yeah, I need the bidding before 12... yeah it is critical... look, just call West have him fax it to the main office..." "Get it..." "Speak up, I can't hear you." "I said..." "Some people just don't know what to wish for." "As for my part in this storie, well, it began on a Tuesday." "September 18th." "My birthday." "My 22 birthday to be exact." "Oh, I'm Neal Oliver." "And this mess, is my apartment in St. Louis." "Missouri." "Should I wear a tie to lunch?" "Damm." "Happy birthday Neal." "Truth." "You are not mad, that I'm bailing on you tonight?" "No, no no no." "I mean how cool it you be for you, to bomb your pshytest because of some stupid concert" "No aa." "You have got to wait until lunch." "That is your family rules." "But you can open this." "I intercepted your snail mail." "It's the reality check." "I'm game over on the art scholarship." "We should at least open it." "I can tell a rejection by weight." "You are the wrong sex, the wrong colour and your family has too much money." "I'm sorry." "Just don't, don't mention anything to my old man, please." "You are so wired." "What?" "Well, you actually suppose to cut your grapefruit in half and eat it with a spoon not peel it, and eat it like an orange." "Oh look... it's her." "Again." "Should I be like jealous?" "Oh, maybe if she was real." "So, I had another dream about her, last night." "She was in jail..." "it's got to mean something." "I'll tell you what it means." "You saw her once somewhere and made a subconscious impression, the impression came back to you in a deam, so you drew her which made the impression stronger." "You dream, you draw, you draw, you dream" "Now it's a vicious cicle." "So quit drawing her, and it lid." "Well, thank you Karl Young." "Fact is, I enjoy drawing her." "But, am I..." "Am I any good at this Sally?" "'cause today is the deadline of the Conrada Competition." "Should I even inner these?" "Don't ask me Neal." "I don't want to be judgmental." "But I do know, that just because you enjoy doing something, doesn't necessarily mean that you should make it your career." "Should I enter a painting in a Conrada Competition?" "Here, No worries." "As I said it all started on my 22 birthday." "Specifically here." "At my traditional birthday lunch." "As always, my father has picked the restaurant." "Attending with the usual suspects." "Sally, who my parents actually liked mabey even more than I did." "My dad." "Daniel." "Atterney at law." "My mom." "Marleen." "Atterneys wife." "And my sister and best friend Nancy." "Put on earth by the grace of God, to keep me from going insane." "So what did you wish for?" "Please tell me that it was something about us." "I'm guessing..." "He wished to go skydiving again." "God forbid." "Oh no, Neal you didn't." "Why, if I tell her, it wont come true." "Actually that's no wife's tail." "The truth is, you should always tell your wish." "Kinda Carma thing." "Put it out there, project it." "Then it just might come true." "Never heard that before." "Oh, it's true." "Believe me." "I know." "I'll cut this for you." "OK, so now you have to tell us." "Yeah, come on, tell us Nelo." "I wished for... an answer." "An answer, OK an answer to what?" "An answer to my life." "Here it is." "Happy birthday son." "Your admition to the Bradford Law Fellowship." "Just do the interviev next month, on October 15th, and you're in." "It's all aranged." "By me." "And you can take that to the bank." "Dad, I told you, I wasn't sure yet." "Well, I can be sure for the both of us." "Last candle gone." "Take it with you." "That is, if you want your wish grant." "Thanks." "Oh, cool." "That's my color too." "Thank you." "Sable brushes." "Nanc." "You are the best Nanc." "You are welcome." "As for last." "Happy birthday son." "Isn't it perfect?" "Fire engin red." "You have no idea, how hard it was to find a red convertable in this town." "Fule injected. 160 KM." "Phone." "Yeah, I even got you special plates." "Oh boy, I would have killed for a car like this, when I was your age." "A, you know I thought it was high time for an image changen, and what better way to start." "Now, you see, the engine is a 2,5 liter..." "As usuall, it was all about him." "His idea of cool." "Red was his colour." "Not mine." "It was his pet fraze on the licence plates." "Clearely he was excepting me, to become him." "Well?" "Isn't it the best present, you could ever get?" "It's awsome." "Come on Neal, take me for a ride." "Well, son..." "Neal!" "Oh my God!" "Son!" "Somebody call 911." "Neal, Neal, are you all right?" "Talk to me son." "Neal." "Get better soon honey, Love Mom+Dad, XO" "St. Louises finest increst." "You're all right Neal?" "Yeah, yeah, just... it only hurts when I think." "They want to keep me overnight, to log some tests in the morning make sure, my perception is like worked, yeah." "You're goddess, Nanc." "I know." "So, what's your perception of a dad who buys you the gift, he wants for him self?" "About the same as toxic wastes." "Your perception is fine." "That is one hell of a way getting out of answering dad about the car." "Mom and dad are going to be here soon, what are you gonna tell them?" "Lies." "The truth just gonna piss him of." "Well maybe that's a good thing." "No, no." "Because then I' gonna get the hole riff, about how I'm letting him down" "It's just easy if I role with it." "And maybe someone will steal it." "First a little visual warm up?" "I'll hold up a card, you name the suit." "I'm gonna go faster and faster." "Let's see if you can keep up." "OK." "Diamond." "Club." "Spade." "Hart." "Diamond." "Spade." "Diamond." "Hart." "Club." "Spade." "Hart." "Diamond." "Club." "Hart." "Spade." "Diamond." "Club." "Spade." "Hart." "Club." "Spade." "Hart." "Did I pass?" "No." "But a few people do." "Black harts, red spades?" "Come on, that's like cheating." "Aa, experience has conditioned you, thinking that all harts are red, and all spades are black." "Because their shapes are similar." "It's easier for your mind to interpret them... based on that passed experience." "Then open to an idea that they can be different." "We see what we expect to see." "Not necessarily, what's really there." "Children, who have never played cards, always pass this test." "Makes you wonder how many other things are right in front of you, sight, sound, smell that you can't expirience, because you've been conditioned not to?" "If we'll do the test again you will pass." "Once you are aware, that their can be black harts and red spades, you'll be able to parse them." "Your brain is wired, just like the Interstate highways system." "It's easy to go from one well to the other place" "But the places in between, off the highway." "Even thou they're there, most people just zip right pass them." "Well, that's cool trick" "But there aren't any card games with red spades and black harts." "Well, how do you know?" "Mr. Oliver." "I'm Dr. Craig." "You ready to take some tests?" "Yeah." "Well, that was, some wormer beck you got there, that guy Rey." "Who?" "Ray..." "you know, that guy, who was, he just left." "You know, the tricked cards." "No, there is no one on staff, named Ray." "No, he was just here." "Wacky guy, with the cards..." "with the light-green lapcote." "The staff wears blue here, not green." "But we can test your color perception." "Dropped seven of harts." "Come on in son." "So, how's that new car?" " Awesome?" " Yeah dad... it's very awesome." "What is on your mind, son?" "I'm not so sure about this Bradford thing, dad." "Seams little too easy, you know." "I spent years working very hard, so it would be easy for you." "What?" "You want to work nights in that warehous for the rest rest of your life?" "Come on dad, that just so i don't have to ask you for cash." "Son, let me give you some Daniel Olivier philosophy." "And you can take it to the bank." "When ever someon ofers you an advantage, take it." "And this program is an adventage." "It will get you to any law school in the country." "America needs another lawyer." "Another good lawyer." "We can always use one of those." " That was costs 30000?" "32200." "I out bid two major collectors, to get it." "It's a lot of money for a drop cloth." "That shows you how much you know That is Franklin Samuel original." "He's a name artist." "If you ever sell anything, the operative wolud been if, maybe... maybe... your opinion will count." "Look dad, I'm just not sure, OK?" "I thought about, maby taking some time off." "Time off for what?" "Sort of take stock, you know, tray figure somethings out." "Wast your time with your art?" "It's a hobby son." "Would you live it that?" "Look, I got you into Bradford, because Prat's on the bord, and he wont be next year." "So if you don't take adventage of it now, there wont be a next time." "Why not just go thru the program?" "If you ultimately decide, law school is not for you, then, I'll..." "live with it." "But at least you'll be Bradford ?" "and that's something you can always take to the bank." "Then you can... figure things out." "So you're going Bradford, ha." " I thought you weren't sure." " I'm not." "I think it would be stupid, not to at least give it a shot." "Can't let down the old man." "Bouth you of a fancy car?" "He's maximaizing his options Hrank, It's very mature." "We should be saportive, not judgemental." "Look for the good in your felloman." "The warm wind of romance blows around you." "With good helth, prosperity will follow." "October 15th." "That's the day of my Bradford interviev." "Let me see that." "OK, you got me." "It's blank." "What the hell?" "I would never get on that shit, never." "Just, leve everything behind, not know where are you going." "I can't believe that you would Neal." "Just, leve your friends, and your family, and for what?" "Hey, earth to Neal." "What's the matter?" "Sally my fortune." "Didn't it say:" "October 15th, are you sure?" "Obviousely it didn't." "At the restaurant, when I showed it to you, isn't that what it said?" "Why do you make such a big deal about this?" "Because it is bugging me." "That's why." "You're just projecting your anxiety, about your decision, and that is natural." "It's OK." "You'll do grate." "Because that's who you are." "Here.." "Just take a nice deep breath, relax." "Sally, listen to me." "What are the chances?" "That of all cookies in that kitchen, that exact one ended up on a plate, that was taken to our table, and I picked it?" "It was blank, Neal." "The fortune was blank." "You projected." "I projected?" "Right." "That was the politicaly correct way to say I was seeing things." "I worked graveyard shifts at the grocert wearhouse, filling orders for the trucks to take to the verious stores in the morning." "I liked it for three reasons." "I got the job on my own." "It paid enough, that I didn't have to ask the old man for cash." "And it annoyed Daniel that his son was even working at such a low-clas job." "I hear you are quit'n to become some big shot lawyer in new fancyass car, hm?" "Well, lucky dud." "Hey, Curby." "Get the kid a brake." "You just remember that no mather haw hard shit you think you are," "Its always gonna be more the same." "Another Highschool." " Highschool?" " Hell yeah." "Everything in life is like Highschool." "The're just chang'n names." "You take this place." "Insted of pronciple, we've got boss." "Insted of teachers, supervisors." "Insted of asignments, they give us work orders, and, if you fuck up them work orders you, get fired." "Insted expelled." "Oh yeah, names are different, but it is exact same shit." "Highschool." "Damaged goods." "Well, store can't sell them." "Guess I'll just have to take it of their hands." "Is he right Otis?" "Is everything more the same?" "Yeah, if you look at it like that." "I mean, look at me, I show up here, see the same people, take shipement to the stores, see those same people, eat at the same places, see those same people..." "but not really." "See." "I like seeing those people." "Well most of them any way." "If I want something different, I can make it different, go a different way." "Eat at a different place, do an Interstate gig." "See I never went to highschool..." "Look at them." "In the morning thay will get up, and go to the store." "And the paste will be on the shelves where it always is, and not one of them will give a moment's startles to how it got there." "Holy shit." "That's her." "I must have seen her on the bilbord, and that's how she got in my dreams." "You dream about her?" "Yeah, yeah, Yes." "Pretty silly, huh." "Maybe it means something." "Like what?" "Like the thunderbolt, you know, love at the first sight." "Come on Otis, that's just ferrietales stuff." "That's how I met my wife." "Spotted her in a crowd at the river fornt, 4th of July fireworks." "Couldn't take my eyes of her." "Fireworks were up there, but I was stearing at her." "And I just knew." "Well." "See, all my girlfriends, are awlays a reaction to the one I had last." "Jennet was so opinionated about my art, it drowe me crazy." "So I found Sally, who refuses to be judgemental about it." "Meanwhile she's trying to psychoanalyse my." "So she is not the one either." "Maybe you should go after her?" "Girl like that." "She's a model, she's probably got guys fallen all over her" "Guys with big portfolios." "Yeah, I think it's kinda childish idea." "Chasing a dream." "Hi, your bilboard on DelmarWicker's, the one on the side of the building?" "Yeah, whose adagency is that?" "No, no no..." "Next to the Casino Queen bilbord." "The girls with the phone, says:" "There is another choice" "Blank?" "!" "No, no It can't be blank." "I was just there." "I just saw it." "No, I just saw it!" "Hey, what is the sign on the right said?" "What, are you nuts?" "It's blank man." "Neal Oliver." "Your appointment has been scheduled on tomorrow." "September 25th. 10 AM." "555 Olive Street." "Suite 1300." "No rescheduling." " Neal Oliver, your appointment..." " Who is this?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "10 AM. 555 Olive Street." "Suite 1300, no rescheduling." "Morning, Mr. Oliver." "Why don't show, you actyally show up." "Not everyone does." "Ray?" "I've got a job for you." "If you want it." "Drive cross country." "Delive a package." "Right, what the gell is going on here Ray?" "Because I'm seeing things on signs..." "In firtune cookies..." "I mean wird messages..." "Black Harts, or red Spades." "I told you, you can see them now." "What's it all about?" "It's all about you, Neal." "It's all about you." "Here's the job." "Misspelled Denver." "Yeah, I know." "OK, so why my?" "Why not FedEx?" "What's in here, any way?" "Can't really say." "Yoy can't really say, because you don't know, or you do want, and don't want me to know?" "Either way, the result is the same." "So what is this job pay?" "Can't really say." "What's the catch?" "Or you can't say that either?" "Alwayes wanted the answers, aren't you?" "Consider it, an interesting way to break in the new century." "Or simply, a way to break in that new car." "Before the Bradford interviev." "How do you know about that?" "Open it." "Sit down." "Here'e the deal." "If you walk out of here with that package, you agree to deliver it." "You don't loose it, you don't open it, and you don't trie to find out what's inside it." "You'll be compensated on the other end." "Go by way of Interstate 60." "Delivery date is October 2th." "So you'll have time to visite some towns, meet some people." "See what's out there." "Pick up some traveler's tales." "High way expiriences." "Episodes of the Rode." "This is too surreal." "I mean, you, this office, the 13 floor of a building that has no 13 floor" "My alarm clock gonna go off any second." "Rise and shine." "You'll awake Neal." "Could be your awake for the first time in your life." "It's our standard fold." "And I leed you to seal it with the drop of your blood." "Blood?" "Of course." "I'm the DEVIL." "Just kidding." "Tradicionally, a man means what he says, he'll put his blood where his mouth is." "All right." "Oh, one more thing." "There's a killer out there." "So be carefull" "Now you tell me?" "After I sign?" "The journey of life always includes a possibility od deth." "This killer, what does he look like?" " Who said it's a man?" " It's a woman?" "It's not this Robin Fields, is it?" "I know... you can't really say." "I didn't misspell the name of that town." "You'll find it." "Just go west, on Interstate 60." "Look, we've been over this." "There is no Intestate 60." "There's US 60." "But there is no interstatep 60." "Look... there's got to be." "Well look at here." "Here is 70." "The next major route south is 40." "So if there was an I 60, it would have to be some where between 70 and 40." "But, ass you can see, it's not there." "It simply doesn't exist." "Where do you find a highway, that doesn't exist?" "Well, I decided to look where it be if it did exist." "Ray said, you don't find hidden places, by sticking to the well travelled routs" "So, I skipped well travelled Interstere 55, and went south on Boob Dylan's highway 61." "And there she was again." "Telling me, I was right." "I was fast becoming a believer in signs." "It's you I'm delivering this package, isn't it?" "You're Robin Fields." "Now it makes all sense." "Cool." "Very cool." "Very, very cool." "You are the waiter, from my birthday party" "O.W. Grant." "Neal Oliver." "It's a strange coincidence, seeing you here again." "Onely if you believe in coincidence." "I prefer inevitability." "Every event is inevitable." "If it wasn't, it wouldn't happen." "Right." "Oh, I forgor to give you, your birthday present." "Remember your wish?" "An answer." " Yeah" " That's grate." "Yeah, gets grater." "Go on, go ahead." "Try it." "Yes or No questions." "OK, yhm..." "Eight ball, is there an Interstate 60." "I told you, it get grater." "Who are you mister?" "The O.W stadns for One Wish." "That's what I do." "I grant wishes." "One to a customer." "Your was more interesting, then most." "Opening." "Sicnefies(?" ") story(?" ") insted of greed." "That's what I get most of the time." "gimmi, gimmi, gimmi, gimmi this, gimmi that..." "Usually money, or sex, or easy living." "How I deliver." "Yeah, that depends on what ?" "Eith Ball, is this guy bullshititng me?" "Come on." "Let's find that rode." "Now, one young couple wished to be married." "Live happyly ever after." "So I blue up their car." "At the hurch, on the way to the huneymoon." "Another guy." "He wanted grate, perfect sex every day, with his choice gorgeous wommen." "No pregnancys." "So..." "Everyday ther is a FedEx delivery..." "of a skin magazine... box of tissues." "There's the Stop sign." "Turn right." "There is a sign post, up ahead." "Son of a bitch." "I found it." "It was inevitable." "So, I thought all Interstaes were divided highways, with limited acces." "No, when highway doesn't officially exist." "The rules don't apply." "OK, so how is it, we're on a highway, that is on any map, going to a towns, that presumably don't exist?" "Well, there are unlisted phone numbers, right?" "So, why can't there be unlisted highways and towns?" "I don't buy it." "There's got to be a better explenation, than that." "Better explenation." "OK." "How about it's a..." "parallel dimention." "Or you're in a dream." "Or it has something to do with your wish." "Or... you're in a coma from when that bucket hit you." "Or maybe..." "jusy maybe..." "You're dead." "Well?" "Well, what do you want kid?" "I just gave you not one explenation, but six." "All reasonable." "You want an answer, pick one." "It want change anything." "You, you took a job, and now you got to do it." "Yeah, but it could change something." "So, what if I'm dead?" "What if I'm dead, right now." "There is no reason, why shouldn't drive on oncoming traffic, right?" "OK, go ahead." "Try it." "But that's way you accelerated in way of the big semity, comming at us, which should be in about 25 seconds, I figure." "Come to this." "Now, if you are dead..." "Then, this is the after life, and you made a deal with a guy, sealed in blood, who knew everything about you, even what you are going to say, befor you said it." "Now who do you think, that guy might be?" "And..." "do you think it is a good idea to piss him of?" "Maybe you good a point." "Maby I do." "Oh, I love this highway." "Me?" "I can sattle my selfe an artist, too." "I see life, ass.." "art appreciation." "You know, some artist can't stand the sight of their work once it's finisher." "Me, I'm one of my own biggest fans." "And one of my favourites, will be comming through that door... any moment.." "Now." "Yeah, can I take your order?" "15 double-cheeseburgers, please." "15 double-cheese to go." "Oh, not to go." "I'll eat them here." "Hold the order." "You're going to eat 15 double-cheeseburgers, all by your self?" "Yeah." "Why, they are real big?" "You think 15 to many?" "Way to many." "All right." "Twelve then." "Even dozen." "Look, are you drunk or something mr.?" "Well I don't know." "Can you get drunk on six beer?" "Hay fella." "I've got a hundret says that you can't eat six double-cheese, as much as twelve." "So, what you're saying is, they're really big cheeseburgers?" "My hundret says you can't eat six double-cheese." "Well, I'm kinda hungry." "maby you're right." "Twelve is to many burgers." "I'll tell you what?" "Make it two double-cheese, three orders of fried chicken, one be-all tee, to hams swiss on rie, chicken fried stake," "Turkey club and, two boils chilli extra onions." "And one piece of each of those pies." "One piece of each of thiese pies?" "Anything else?" "Three order onion rings." "That's much more sensible lunch, than twelve double-cheeseburgers." "Oh, and old pickles." "Free bucks." "If you can finishe all that food, in one hour." "Whit out getting up from that counter, and without losing your lunch." "I'm not much of a bet, man." "Two to One odds then..." "no, no I'll give you Three to One." "That's 300 to mine..." "against 100 to yours." "Well, what the Hell." "It's onely money." "Hal..." "You better hold one to this money." "Sure." "Yeah, I'll take some of that." "Eight Ball, is this guy gonna really eat all that food?" "Can I yhm..." "Can I get on this action?" "Ask him." "No I like long shots." "You're crazy your knees." "My money just ass good, right." "Hell about me." "Sir, you want to drink anything with that?" "There's your order." "All right." "It's 13:10." "On your mark..." "Get set..." "Wait." "Ketchup, please." "Thanks." "All right..." "What's the trick?" "Trick?" "Where is the food?" "Can't all be in your stomach." "Actually, I don't know." "The fact is, I always loved eating." "More then anything." "Go into a restaurant, want to order everything of the menu." "But, I was always frustrated, by the small capacity of me stomach." "Well, 17 years ago, I made a wish..." "And amazingly enough it came true." "Now I have, what you might call, a black hole in my belly." "Onely I have to keep eating like this, six or seven times a day." "Gets expensive." "So, I travel a lot, and get advantage on guys like you." "That's a good one." "Excuse me, mister." "I've got to know one thing." "Do you still love eating?" "No..." "now it'a a drag." "Listen kid..." "Nobody minds money taken by that guy, he gave us good show for our money." "But I drow a line over what you did." "What did I do?" "I just bet the right horse, that's all." "You run on it." "I know a hustle when I see one." "I played a hunch, I swear to God." "I've never seen that guy befor in ymy life" "But your friend, there has." "Haven't you fella?" "Oh, I wont deny it." "Now, get beck the money you stole, son." "Look sir, I won a cupple bets." "If that's such a crime why dont we call the police." "I am the police." "Sorry about that." "That's all my money." "Hit the rode, fellas." "OK, so what's your game mr." "Grant." "'cause it seams like you know exactly what's gonna happen, just before it happens, and it's just like fucking with me!" "Oh, don't take it personal kid." "I fuck with everybody." "That's what I do." "If I tie highly recommended as an unending sorce of amusement." "And as far as knowing what's gonna happen." "Well... on this highway, the past, the present, the future, the "What if some maybe's, rodes not taken", could all converge, get jumble up." "I just happen to be tuned into it." "That's all." "So what are you?" "Like an Angel or God, or something?" "Just, picking up certalin people to give him a wish?" "No... no, just a guy who likes to mess with peoples heds." "I'm a Joker..." "in life's deck." "But, why do it?" "I enjoy it." "You should always find something to do, that you enjoy." "Although I will admit I have been concidering a career change." "Job in a convenience store..." "Or maybe becoming... a male prostitute." "You're gey?" " You're fucking with me, aren't you?" " Yeah." "Fact is I'm a virgin." "I always will be." "My penis..." "was cut off i a very wird accident, when I was nine." "Yeah, right." "You want to see it?" "Yeah... show me." "Holy shit." "Oh, God..." "Oh, let me tell you, the world is very different pace, when you're not constantly thinking about sex." "or responding sexually to everything..." "Yeah." "That is a ruby." "Wait, how would you know?" "How would you know, what it's like to not have something, you never had?" "Now you're thinking." "You'd be suprised, how many people take that statement on faith." "Sounds right, so they just except it." "As I say." "Messing with peoples heads, can be a lot of fun." "You should try it." "Some nice scenery coming up ahead." "Hello Lyn..." "you're going my way?" "If you're going west." "Then, that's my way." "Hey, why don't you hop in the back, bacause huggy here is gonna wanna take a good luck at me, and if I'm in the front, he'll have a better view." "And if you're in the back..." "so will you." "I'm Laura." "Neal." "Oh, and that's Mr. Grant." "So, where you going Lauro?" "Me?" "Oh, I'm going to a... find a perfect fuck." "Wow, that's an interesting destination." "Yeah, ever been ther?" " Can't say that I have." " Me either." "But so far chips have been pretty exciting." "Onely, how will you know, when you'v gotten there?" "That is the problem." "It's actually become my obsession, but you don't need to here about it." "Sure, sure I do." "The first time, wasn't that grate." "I'm thinking:" "This is it?" "This is what all these songs are written about?" "I mean, talk about ?" "Second time was a little bit better." "Third time, now that was a hot time." "Forth time, not as good as the third time." "But once I've done it enough to have all this expiriences to compare, just drove me nuts." "I mean, what if the best one was right around the corner?" "You know, how much better, would the perfect one be?" "So this became my quest." "No, there is times, when wish I've gone to the convent." "But my obsession, becomes your opportunities." "You little stun muffin." "You want to take adventage of a girl that can't say no?" "Any guy turned you down before?" "No, unless he was gey." "OK..." "What number would I be?" "2461." "But I have got a very, very good hearing about you, and there's something very, very special." " I think I'm gonna pass, Laura." " What do you mean, you pass?" "Guyes don't pass." "Oh, I'm clean, there is no disease, if that's what you're worried about." "I've got condoms..." "all best kinds." "Come on Neal..." "stick it to me." "I'm not doing it." "Period." "So, you just." "You are not man enough?" "You meet a real woman and you turn in to a wuss?" "Think you want measure up, hm?" "Well, you'll never know, will you?" "Because if I don't do it..." "I want be number 2000 and whatever." "I'll be number One." "That one guy." "Guy you will remember for the rest of your life." "You stay up at night, thinking about me, wondering," "Was he the One?" "The answer is yes." "I am the perfect fuck." "The one you never had..." "Perfect on every way..." "Look, stop it, stop it..." "This is Zen thing, it's amazing..." "I've never been perfect in anything befor." "Well, you can fuck me." "My mind fuck, and it was terrible." "It was good for me." "What about you Mr.?" "I'll bet, you're a real man." "You're man enough to be in my book?" "Oh, Hell yes." "Put me down in there." "But I sometimes got little troubles..." "getting excited." "Let me take care of that baby." "Now, that's a museum you'd really appreciate." "What is it?" "A bunch of bogass paintings" "Stop in Renburg." "Have a look." "You'll find it very..." "thought provoking." "450 mile to Danver." "Quarter tank of gas, and no money." "Well, by Columbus had sailed, he didn't know if it had any wind." "Stop!" "Help." "Stop!" "Jesus lady..." "Help my, please, my son..." "took my car and run of, I think he is in Banton." "Will you take me there?" "I've got to find him." "Look I' sorry, but I'm not going that way." "I'll pay you... 53 dolars..." "It's all I have just take me to Banton." "Help my find my son, please." "You need money." "She shows up." "Coincidence?" " All right, hop in." "I'll take you." " Thank you" "Well, I'll hop out." "You're geting in tune with the highway." "Say, that's important." "Good luck Neal." "Hey, wait a minute." "Am I gonna see you again?" "Always wanting an answer." "Well, maybe you'll find it in Banton." "I'll pay you the rest, when we'll find Filip." "Oh, I'm Susan Ross." "Neal Oliver." " So, how old is Filip, Susan?" " 16." "He's my baby." "He's all I have." "He's run away before, but he's always come back." "God I am so scared..." "What if I never find him?" " Well, did you call the Police?" " They say I should look in Banton" "It's not like I've been a bad mother." "it's just..." "so hard when you're all alone." "We're gonna find him Susan." "We'll find him." "It is illegal to sell, {Y:" "I}consume, or transport Euphoria," "{Y:" "I}beyond the city limits, under penalty of law." "{Y:" "I}Be warn, it is highly addictive." "{Y:" "I}Even in small doses." "{Y:" "I}Withdraw from Euphoria, has known to cause injury and death." "{Y:" "I}All responsible citizens, are urged to avoid this drug at all costs, and stay in the Euphoria-free zones." "{Y:" "I}Euphoria is legal in Banton, and is distributed within the Banton city limits." " However it is illegal..." " What town is this?" "Maybe we should talk to the Police?" "{Y:" "I}Come on." "16-year-old, in town with legal drugs, and a rage." "Sorry, but I don't think he'll be at the library." "{Y:" "I}The next bus to the rave is leaving in five minutes." "The next bus to the rave is leaving in five minutes." "First timers?" "Are you aware, that Euphoria is being distributed inside, that it is dangerous, and addictive substance, and it is strongly advised not to part take of it?" "Well, how can we not be?" "Go on." "You'll need this." "No, thanks." "Don't be stupid." "This is the answer." "This is to everything." "And you really need it." "Susan!" "He's over here." "Filip." "Oh, thank God, we've found you." "Please, let's go home." "Chill ma, I am home." "See this?" "This is the place." "The happiest place on earth." "You can't stay here." "You have to come home." "Fuck off." "Who's this?" "New stud boyfriend?" "Sure can digg him." " You've got school." " Fuck school." "I've got Euphoria." "Here, try some mom, the best." "Filip." "You can't stay here." "Yo, I'm in legal age here." "I can do anything I want." "I want..." "Euphoria." "You stole my car." "It's in the yard." "Take it." "I don't want it." "Eat it." "No, you take me there." "Go away." "Leave me alone" "Hey, what's a matter with you?" "What's going on her?" "Hey now brake it out." "Filip come home." " That's it." " Filip!" "Filip!" "Please come home." "The fact is ma'am, here your son's legal age." "He wants to stay..." "He can't be forced to leave." "And..." "He wants to stay." "No, thay all do." "Thay're addicts." "But he's just a boy." "He didn't know what he was doing." "Oh, no no." "He knew." "They all knew, that's why there are all those wornings posted all over town." "Yeah, but if this drug is so addictive, why is it legal?" "Son..." "This town had siriuse drug problem." "And all the problems that go along with it." "We tried everything." "Punishment for dealing, punishment for using." "More inforcement, tougher inforcement, jail, hell, public humiliation." "But, it all came down to one thind." "Some folks..." "just wanna get high." "So..." "We came up with a radical solution..." "Euphoria." "Syntatic drug, potent legal, and totally addictive, and we warn everyone, not to use it." "But like I said, some folks just wanna get high." "One hit of this, and you are hooked." "And we own them." "Camp controls the suplies so of course we can set the prize, and we made it very affordable." "Live in our camps, eat our food, and still couple off jobs, pick up spome trash, mow tha lawn, force some toilets, and you get your Euphoria." "And at night, man... party till you drop." "Patrol so intense, that everybody payes the price." "It's an incredible achievemet, really." "Drug so powerfull, that it supresses the sex drive." "You know, how many rapes we had here last year?" "None." "Are you saying Filip is going to cleanning toiletes for the rest of his life?" "With no sex delve?" "He'll never marry." "I'll never have grandhildren?" "It's ironick, isn't it?" "Americans fought a war for freedom... another one to end slavery." "What a Salomon choose to do with thair freedom?" "Become slaves." "But they're humen beings." "They have rights." "They didn't know what thay be given up." "Thay made a choice." "But look at them." "They seam miserable to you." "They live a simple, happy life." "No decisions... no responsibilities..." "No problems..." "They found their answer." "You so shure, that your life is better than thairs?" "It's like thay're animals." "Oh yeah, we're all animals." "Just that, some of us have different priorites." "That's all." "Whatever your priorities are, Banton is a really nice place to live." "No, it's a nightmare." "Prease, I want my son back." "I'll do anything." "All right than." "It comes down to three choices." "One." "You move here to the Euphoria free zone, and that way, you at least have the chance to see him." "Hell, some parents end up having their children work for them." "Kind of reverse pay back." "Two." "You go home." "Try to find something else to make your life worth a while." "Or three..." "Join the party." "What should I do?" "You're smart... tell me what to do." "I don't know." "I guess, if it was me..." "I'd want to see my boy." "But he doesn't want to see me." "Oh, my God..." "It's wonderful..." "I... feel so... beautiful..." "I never knew, I can be so... happy." "Well, how about you son?" "You want some?" "No thanks." "I'll pass." "It's Ives here." "We've got a rookie in my office, and short shifted the cleaning gallery again." " Sand the Zoo keeper." " Roger that" "Well, guess you'll need a holer room for the night." "Plus, you get..." "a 300 dollars finder's fee." "Finder's fee?" "Yeah, for her." "You've just increased our labor-pool." "We pay for that, around here." "What's the matter son?" "Somebody offers you an advantage... take it." "I took the room, but not the money." "I couldn't." "And even then I didn't sleep very well." "I never got the rest of the 53 bucks, but, given the dynamics of Interstate 60," "I wasn't concerned." "I knew, something would be just down the road." "It was inevitable." "What did concern me, was whether something else was inevitable." "Eight Ball, should I be worried about this ... killer?" "Can you be more specific?" "Figures." "The inevitable something down the road, was 20 miles ahead, and he was quite the character." "What's the deal there, mister?" "Hey, Bob Cody." "I don't drive." "And I don't like to hitch-hike." "When hitch-hike, I'm at the marcy of the driver." "But when I pay for the ride, I'm the employer, and I call the shots." "That's how I like it." "So.. you wonna work for me?" "Well, I'm going to Danver." "I wouldn't mind making some money." "Good." "I'm going to Renburg." "It's on your way." "Here's mine proposition." "You pay for gas, pay for your meals." "No alcohol while you're on pay role." "I pick radio stations, I initiate all conversations." "I'll pay you ten dolars casch every hour." "And the mileage money, when we get to Renburg." "In all other matters..." "You play straight with me, I'll play straight with you." "So, we have a contract?" "We have a contract." "So, who is my new employee?" "Neal Oliver." "Mr. Oliver, you may call me Mr. Cody." "Or sir." "You got it sir." "He was going to Renburg." "The museum of art fraud was in Renburg." "Coincidence?" "I knew then, that I'd had to check out that museum." "It was inevigtable." "Mr. Cody had rather unique taste in audio stimulation." "{Y:" "I}The choice is clear." "The Orient 620." "The American made car, for American made drivers..." "See, that's a lie." "Orion engins are made in Japan." "{Y:" "I}Guilt Signal." "The movie everyone's talking about..." "That's another lie." "We're not talking about it." "{Y:" "I}We're the United State's Post Office." "We care..." "Oh, that's the biggest wopper of all." "You know, sometimes onely tha chairman will do." "{Y:" "I}I get no kick from champain..." "(Frank Sinatrs" " Kick out of you)" "There's an advert I can't figure?" "What's warmer, the weather, the watter... girl?" "She's pretty, though." "She's Robin Fields." "She's gorgeous." "Sir." "Well, you know her?" "Not yet." "I'm meeting her in Danver." "You're a lucky man." "Yeah, to be honest, I'm a little nervous about it..." "Cuz, you know, what I'm gonna say?" "How do you start a conversation with the girl of your dreams, without coming of like a total dork?" "Don's say anything." "Let her start." "That's, a good idea." "Sit back." "Listen to sweet musical tones of her voice." "Son, you got a bag." "Yes sir, I do." "{Y:" "I} I get a kick out of youuuuuuuuuu...." "(the same song)" "Now there's a sing that's telling the truth, for a change." "Yeah, looks like a motel to me." "No, Frontiere..." "ever hear Fred Turned mister Oliver?" "No sir." "Well, he was an historian." "About a hundert years ago, he came up with the theory about the Frontiere." "Said, the Frontiere was a..." "safty velve for civilization." "Place for people to go, to keep them from going mad." "So... whanever were folks, who couldn't fit in with ways things were..." "Nuts, malcontents, extremists..." "Thay'd packed up and head for the Frontiere." "So America got started." "All the crackpods and trouble makers in Europa, packed up, and went to a Frontiere, which became, The Thirteen Colonies..." "When some people couldn't fit in with that, they moved further west." "Which is why all the nust eventually ended up in Califonia." "Turned died in 1942, so," "He wond around long enought to see what would happen to the World, when we ran out of Frontiere." "Some people say, we had a Frontiere in the mind." "And they go off and explore the wonderfull world of alcohol, and drugs, but, that's no Frontiere." "It's just another way for us to fool ourselves..." "And we've created this phonyfrontiere with computers." "Which allows people to think thay've escaped..." "Frontiere with acces fees..." "What about Space?" "The final Frontiere?" "Ah, Star Trek isn't Space." "That's television." "Find fucken Frontiere, that is." "Besides, how many folks can just pack up, and go to Space?" "Naa, the Frontiere is just here." "Interstate 60." "That's why I was put here." "Give people, who wanted a little different, place to go." "Is that really true mister Cody?" "If it isn't... it should be." "Excuse me..." "Excuse me..." "Excuse my..." "Can you help me out mister?" "Will work for food, ehy?" "OK..." "Here's an apple, food." "Now, I'd like you washed that man's windshield." "Work." "Hey man." "I ain't gonna wash his widnshield for no apple." "Oh, excuse me." "It doesn't say "might work for food", it doesn't say "restricted menues", says "will work for food"." "This is food," "That's work." "What's the problem?" "I ain't do'n it, that's all." "Now, let's be honest." "You don't want to work." "You just want a hand out, so you can buy booze." "And nothing wrong with that." "Drinking..." "that's a grate human tradition." "And if you'd been straight about it, I'd bought you some ?" "But by holding up that sign." "You made an eymployment agreement." "Which I intend to hold you to." "Now..." "There's the apple, you wash that car." "Fuck you man." "I don't want your fucken apple, so I don't gotta wash that fucken car." "Here's what I think of your fucken apple." "Well, now since you've took my food." "You gotta wash that car." "Wash it." " Mr. Cody, this is really unimportant." " Yes it is." "This jerk out here lying in writing?" "!" "I don't tolerate lying from any one!" "Especially not in writing." "You!" "Wast the dam car." "You, shot the fuck up!" "Or I'm gonna cut you." "You all get out of here, now!" "I'm gonna call the sheriff." "Yeah, I wouldn't do that." "You see, I've got lung cancer." "I'm terminal, six months to live." "Onley..." "I'm not going out in a hospital." "It's dynamite." "Enought to take out everything in raydious of 150 yards." "I don't take two farts in a martini, if I go now or later." "But if you do, you'd better wash that car." "OK, OK mister..." "I'll clean it for you." "No!" "He's got to do it." "What are you nuts?" "Wash the windshield." "Clean it!" "Wash the car." "OK, OK!" "I'll wash it, all right!" "Turn it of." "You'd rather call the sheriff, and have that guy shot through the head." "He's crazy." "I've got much simpler solution." "{Y:" "I}Grabe your cote, and snatch your hat." "Leave your worries on the door step." "{Y:" "I}Just direct your feet, to the sunny side fo the street." "Say what you mean, mean what you say." "You know, if everybody followed that rule, there would be a lot less trouble." "Now, we still have a contract mr." "Oliver." "Sure hope, you're not thinking of breaking that contract." "Thinking about it?" "Yes." "Doing it?" "No, sir." "That's a very honest response." "That's a breath of fresh air." "Cigarette?" "No, Thank you sir." "I don't smoke." "I like ciggaretts." "Package says they cause cancer, and they do." "Say what you mean, mean what you say." "Nore, for one, for cigarettes, I don't know where I'd be today." "I used to be an andvertiser." "I got payed for lying." "And one day, a little boy died because of one of those lies." "Well, that fried me." "So, when I got my nicotine death sentence, I decided to make the rest of my time count." "Put and end on some of those lies." "Now, for the first time on my life, I'm fulfilled, I'm content." "Long cancer." "Is now without its benefits." "I couldn't decide if he was for real, or bluffing." "Totally sain or compleately nuts." "Maybe the dynamite was fake, or the detonator was." "Or... maybe not." "As Grant would say, lots of answers, all of them resonable." "I did know that I liked it." "That was for sure." "{Y:" "I}Sunny side of the streeeeeeeeeeeeeeet......" "(Frank Sinatra" " Sunny side of the street)" "Mister Oliver." "You're one of the best employees I've ever had." "I'm giving you a tip." "And my card." "You ever want to wark for me again." "You call that number." "It's mine direct line." " Good luck with that girl." " Thank you sir." "The Museum of Art Fraude was onely three blocks away." "That Interstene 60 dynamic, was clearly a work again." "And my own curiosity was definitely picked." "Of, you must be Douglas." "Oh, thatk Booogness, I'm so glad to see you." "I didn't think you were comming." "I mean, tha agency called to cancel." "I'm mrs James." "The owner." "Hi mrs James..." "And today we're veving the originals, and wright now..." "I know you're confused..." "But if you do as I say, I'll give you a hundred dollars." "Late mr." "James was most proud of five origilan masterpieces in this room." "We're onely seeing, and purchase wishes never photografed." "Monet..." "Cezanne..." "Van Gogh..." "Renoir..." "Degas..." "Each is valude in the milions." "No less then Bill Gates mourn about the attempte to buy them." "Of course they're not for sale." "Now if we can proceed this way..." "Now, take the paintings down very carefully, remove them from tha frames." "And then, after that..." "put them on the easels out here." "Today you're going to be my nephew Edward." "Now, just follow my lead, and go with the flow." "This way please." "Welcome ladies and gentelmen..." "Welcome to our gallery of affordable reproductions..." "It was my late husband's request, That none of his original masterpieces, ever be photographed or reproduced in any book or cataloge." "So, we offer these copies..." "Rendered by my nephew Edward." "At the modest cost of 350 a piece." "And if you have any questions, please, don't hasitate... to ask either one of us." "How long did it take you to do them?" "How long?" "I cnocked them out all in a week." "I can tell." "Some of your brush work is rather uneven..." "Well, you get what you pay for." "It's decent craftsmanshift, perhaps a little slick." "Lackes the artis sole." "Yeah, but I'm just an amature." "It's shamefull." "Cezanne would roll over in his grave, to see such a mockery of his work." "Well, let's be glad for both our sakes, that he wont see it." "Well, you've heard it from the experts." "You have no talent whot so ever." "Well, I've never been more flattered." "My late's husband desire." "Was that his masterpieces be owned by people, who'll enyou them." "Not trophry collectors." "Thus our sharade." "But do you know, an eight years I've jet to sell a painting." "Why don't you donate them to an art museum?" "Oh, upon my death, clones of them will be donated." "Colones?" "Oscar was an art collector, dealer." "Technical genius... and a practical joker, and welthy enough to engorge in his most outrageous wins." "He developed a proces where by, he could duplicate a painting, almost on a molecular level." "He would borrow a grate master from a musemum, and duplicate it, and often send back tha copy." "And he was never found out." "A Stary Night... the original." "The one in New York is a clone." "This Mone..." "tha art world thinks that the original is in Paris." "Unbelievable." "So there're all originals?" "So what one do, with a collecting like this?" "You tell everyone they're fakes." "And so, just befor he died, Oscar created this." "The museum of Art Froad." "The worlds grates art museum." "Masquerading as a cheap turist attraction." "Oh, my God... that's..." "My husband..." "Oscar Warren James." "Of course." "I must say, I was feeling pretty dam good." "Hell I was felling inspired." "I wanted to deliver the package, and the I wanted to go out and paint." "And I wished I could go back in time, and inner a piece in Conrad Competition." "But..." "I'd had my one wish." "And I couldn't look back." "Hot and Cool." "I'm getting warmer, I'm getting coolder." "Of course." "Eigh Ball, that girl is not in Danver and her name is not Robin, isn't it?" "Is she in Morlaw?" "So, if I go there, will I find her?" "So there it was..." "The proverbial fork in the road." "My job." "The word I'd given." "The contract I'd signed." "Versus the lovely Lynn." "The girl of my dreams." "Her musical voice in my head, leading my." "Where?" "So what did I do?" "I did what any self respecting hopeless romantic would do." "I rationalized." "Five days to go 158 miles." "I got time to chase a dream, right Eight Ball?" "Good answer." "Drivers Licence." "What did I do, officer?" "Nothing." "You're surved." "You're being sued by mr." "J.J. Madisona, for your responsibility in a hit and run kill of his pat cat Snickers, three weeks ago in front of the cort house." "But I've never been here before." "I was in St.Louis three weeks ago." "Tell it to the judge." "I'm just proces servent." "Meanwhile I suggest you head to the town and hire yourselfe a lawyer..." "You're gonna need one." "But first..." "park your car in that lat over there, by the lake, you can get sued for poluting the air." "Hey Mr., I'm really good, checke it out Standford, class of 88." "So we become laddy, but more important I know the angles." "You don't need a lawyer." "You need a good lawyer, and that's me." "Parkinson, and that's the onely name you need to remember." "These other guys..." " I'm uninterester." " Valerie McCabe." "Be of 91." "I've got special weights for visitors." "And I know I can win your case." "You don't even know my case." "The Madison case?" "Happens to visitors all the time." "Fact is, J.J Madison doesn't even have a cat." "He's allergic." "I can have a ?" "in no time." "Wait." "He never had a cat?" "So why he's gonna sue somebody for it?" "Because he can." "What?" "Every adolt cicizen of Morlaw, is a lawyer." "So everybody sues everybody else." "It doesn't matter who is to couse." "It's how we make sure, everybody makes a living of the profession." "Yeah, but that's insane." "I can sue you for that." "You just made a defamatory remark about this town." "Hey, don't look at my legs." "I can sue you for that to." "Sexual harassment." "Is there anything you can't sue me for?" "Hire me.That way everything between us is subject to attorney-client privilege." "I'm 75 dollars an hour." "First haur is free." "Well, at least you know my case." "All right." "You're hired." "Im sueing you Valerie..." "For the sexual ?" "or the ?" "of the potential client on the public ?" "He onely hired you, because he found you sexually attractive." "Hurry." "My office." "We can get ?" "a dozen more law suits, just walking down the street." "This will be esential." "Shouldn't make more then a cupple of weeks." "Weeks?" "No, no, no." "I have to be in Danver on October 2nd." "It can't take that long." "That's not long." "Long is our Citylimit sign." "We'vw been trying to get knew one put up for five years now." "But we forgot a fund an environmantal impact report, and as metal in signpost," "Is a potentialy hazardous substance." "We're in cort ovet that." "And another lawyer is chalanging senses figure on the sign." "And another lawyer said we had to do another land survey, to determin the exact city lymits, so, we know precisely where to put the sign." "So we brought an Surveyor." "But he got sued for smoking, and wasn't enjoing for finishing the survey." "I say we're at least two yers, from a new sign." "And you chose to live here?" "I wouldn't live anywhere else." "Every day is a new chalange." "A new president." "A new interpreting of the law." "It's an intellectual fest." "So if everyone who lives here is a lawyer," "How do you live?" "I mean, who runs the grocery stoor..." "Who does your dry cleaning..." "Who fixes the shitter, when it breaks?" "Well, we all moonlight on a law related jobs." "Police, bailifis, cort reporters..." "But those other trivial things, you mentioned?" "They're done by people like you." "Awaiting trial." "It's the onely way thay can afford their legal fees." "Now, I can get you a hearing on Monday October 1st." "Meanwhile..." "We'll have to call witnesses, to testify as your character." "You know, Family." "Friends." "So, that you can qualify for your employmeny program." "It'll help keep cost down." "So, tomorrow morning, when you get me their names and numbers, and I'll ?" "them." "Well, even if thay could get here..." "Wouldn't they get sued too?" "Of course." "But you'll identifie them, and their problems will fall on your sholders, which means more work for me." "I have thise phone numbers." "Thay're in my car." "I'm gonna go get them." "And I'm gonna make few calls, and be right back." "No you wont." "Fred..." "Mr. Oliver is a potential fugitive." " Luck him up." " Luck me up?" "Of course." "We lawyers have to protect out livelihood." "Hey, you can't do this to me." "i have rights." "I know you do, sweety." "I'm here to protect them." "I couldn't even blame the Eight Ball." "It said, a meeting was possible." "Yeah, right..." "A meteor wiping out Morlaw was possible too." "Probably more possible, that ever meeting Lynn." "Lynn!" "Over here!" "I'm gonna get you out!" "I'm gonna get you out!" "In order to get her out, I had to get me out." "But jailbreak, was clearly not happening." "Did o for a tunnel job." "I needed an answer, and my Eight ball was in the car." "Dammit." "There had to be a way, to blow this thing wide open." "And then I knew." "My lawyer needed a character witness." "I needed a witness." "Who was a character." "Please, state your name and aplication." "Robert Wilson Cody." "I'm..." "what you might call it an ex-grinder." "Mr. Cody..." "please, tell the court how you know the defendant." "He was my employee." "And how would you characterize him?" "Honest." "Trustworthy." "Intelligent." "Ask him if he's aware that the charge against me is a lie, and that everyone here knows it." "It's immaterial." "He can onely testify as the character." "Just ask him." "The judge will pull it immaterial." "You ask him... or I'll fire you." "Mr. Cody..." "Are you aware that the charge against Mr. Oliverowi, is not onely a complete lie, but that the judge, the plaintiff and every citizen here know it?" "Objection!" "Immaterial." "It has nothing to do with the character of the accused." "Sustained." "Whait a minute miss..." "your saying that this is a trumped-up charge..." "And you're all in on it?" "Immaterial." "The witness is ordered to ignor the question." "Well, I'm not going to ignore it, your honor." "If, what she says is true, that's a very seriouse matter." "Well, seriouse or not, it's immaterial to this hering." "Next question." "Oh, judge, I asked her a question..." "and I want an answer." "You don't ask here questions Mr. Cody." "You answer them." "And if you wont do what I told you to do, I will hold you in contempt." "Hey, I'm not anserting any more questions, untill somebody answers mine." "Why don't you tell me judge..." "are you in on a lie here?" "I fine you 500 dollars for contempt." "Answer my God dam question, judge." "1000 dollars and 90 days in jail." "Biliff, surgent." "Put Mr. Cody in a cell." "Hold the go, boys." "This is dynamite." "We'll all go with a bang, if anyone takes another step toword me..." "Gentelmen, just drop your guns." "Everyone else, stay seeted." "Judge..." "stick your finger up your nose." "I'm not kidding." "I'm terminately ill and I'll gladly take you all with me to hell right now." "Judge!" "I said, stick your finger up your nose." "You'd better doit judge." "I know this buy..." "He says what he means, he means that he says." "I'm glad we understand, who's in charge now." "So judge.." "This whole deal was a lie." "Is that right?" "Keep that finger in your nose." "Yes." "Yes, sir." "Yes... sir." "All right." "Show our hands..." "How many here knew that it was a railrode job against Mr. Oliver?" "Liers..." "Lawyest." "Mr. Oliver..." "How do we teach these..." "liers a lesson?" "Now, read it judge." "By these order, all legal acctions, charges, fines and fees, against any noncitizen of Morlaw, in any matter pending befor any Morlaw cort," "I here by dismissed, and I declare an unconditional amnesty." "Thank you." "Bailiff." "Make a few hundert copies of that, and post it all over town." "You know this is an interesting town..." "I tihnk I might just stay here." "Any problem with that judge?" "No... no problem." "Sir." "Lynn?" "Hi..." "I'm Neal." "I'm the guy who got you out." "Yo, please to fucken meet you, Neal." "Man, I've been so fucked up in here, for so long," "I thought, I was never getting the fucke out." "Yo bitch!" "I want back my fucken cloths, you cocksucker's confisketed." "I shouldn the fucken wear'n this, I'm on leash no more." "Handsome..." "What you looking at me like that for?" "I just didn't expect you to talk that way." "What, something wrong with the way I fucken talk?" "No, no, no, no, no, no." "I mean, YES." "Yes." "You make Mike Tyson sound like an Oxford graduate." "What do you like fucken dissect me?" "You like saying, that I never went to fucken school, something?" "Yes... that's exactely what I'm saying..." "Don't worry." "It's just an act." "Well, it sort of a test, see." "Guys are always so eger to score points on me thay would be like:" "Oh, no..." "Lynn, no, the way you talk is charming." "Unique, refreshing, a breath of fresh air, yeah." "Air from the sewer, is more like it." "Me, I would..." "never go out with somebody who takled like that." "I'm glad you wouldn't either." "I hope you have a car." "I had to sell mine to pay my legal fees." "I have a car." "So, how many guys did told you that you sound cheap?" "You're the first." "You know, you're better looking than I've expected." "Did o." "Wait a minute... you've been expecting me?" "Of course..." "That's how the stories always go..." "the handsome prince rescues princess from the dungeon." "That was the point of the messages." "The messages?" "Billboards." "My last name is Linden, by the way." "See, I knew somebody would figure out eventually." "At least that's what he told me." "Who?" "O.W. Grant." "See, I made a wish to meet the right guy." "Although if I didn't known, I just spend a year i jail waiting." "Maybe I wouldn't." "The prince has to undergo tests and chalanges, so that the princes will be convinced that he's worthy." "And you passed mine." "So what's yours?" "What?" "My test?" "Come on." "Everybody has the sympathetica test." "Do you cut your grapefruit in half or peal it?" "My?" "I peal it." "Favorite cartoon character?" "Spider-man." "Thin or thick cross pizza?" "I go for thin every time." "We're three to three." "I can't bel..." "OK, Close encounters?" "I would get on ship, no question." "What's wrong?" "This is just... it's all to perfect." "I mean, you know..." "You are." "You know, when something seems too good to be true?" "Hold that thought." "You see?" "I'm not that perfect." "Right." "Right." "I feel much better now." "Did o." "So, you actually wished for miester-right?" "What can I say?" "I'm human." "Humens have certain needs." "Like companionship." "And you." "Did you wishe for me?" "Well, actually I wished for this." "Gives my answers." "But are they the right answers?" "So far." "This were your billboards." "Obviously, I don't need them any more." "Maybe it's time fot the... you know..." "Happily ever after part." "Not quite." "I still have a job to finishe." "Tomorrow October 2nd Danver." "Danver." "What's wrong?" "Grant gave me an envelope." "He said if anyone was ever went to Danver I should open it." "I don't know if these message if for me or you." "Neal... don't go." "I gave my word, to this guy that I deliver this package." "I have to." "Eight Ball, should I go to Danver?" "Are you serious?" "I'm serious." "You mean, you didn't sleep at all?" "No, I couldn't." "I was possessed, by the views." "I love it." " You're not just saying that?" " No." "It's got soul... passion..." "Take me with you." " What about the letter?" " Screw it." "I want to go with you." "Eight Ball, should I take Lynn with me to Danver?" "Bad idea." "Is that, because it's dangerous?" "The killer, does it have to do with the killer?" "I don't care if it's dangerius, or what this thing says." "I still want to go witn you." "No, Lynn." "It would get me crazy..." "I'm not gonna risk losing you, not after I just found you." "What if I lose you?" "Lynn you can't go." "The Ball is never wrong." "I'll come back, I promiss." "Eight Ball, I will come back for her, wont I?" "Yes." "You will come back for me." "Am I nuts?" "The girl of my dreams, and I leave her behind, because of this stupid toy." " What's up, officer?" " Just got word, there's a killer in the aera." "Orders are to close the road." "What's this killer look like?" "It's comming over the radio now." "{Y:" "I}The order suspect is white mail, last seen driving a read BMW convertible," "{Y:" "I}allong Interstate 60." "{Y:" "I}This vehicle has a white pains, splatteres on the trunk lid." "You best turn around son." "It's not safe for you here." "It was ten miles before my hart rait was back in a double digits, and I can think straight." "Then I realised..." "Eigth Ball, is Lynn in danger from this killer?" "{Y:" "I}Cellular service, is not available in this area." "BMW suck." "Jeepy rules." "Oh, shit..." "Oh shit..." "Dam punks, and thair paint again!" "Calling the sheriff." "Here watch where they go." " No, no, no." "Please don't call the sheriff" " The hell I wont." "I'm sick of those punks making trouble around here." "Get me my binolulars!" "Eight Ball, am I the killer?" "{Y:" "I}Latest reports, indicate the suspect is carying a murder weapon, in a square box, wrapped in broun paper." "{Y:" "I}Once again, suspect is carying a murder weapon in a ..." "Oh no." "Shit!" "Eight Ball, is the murder weapon in this box?" "Should I open it?" "Shit." "If it is a murder weapon, I'm gonna get my finger prints all over it." "Eight Ball, I really need an answer right now." "What should I do?" "Damm you!" "Yes or No questions." "Think Neal." "Be logical..." "He called the cops..." "So, which ever way they're going, I've got to go the oposite way." "Well, it's got to be one way or the other." "Right Eight Ball?" "I mean, I got two choices here, so it's got to be one or the other." "Right?" "Take it to the Bank." "Sorry dad." "No, there is another choice." "{Y:" "I}Sheriffs have police two ?" "have closed up Interstate 60 in both directions" "{Y:" "I}The attend of foxtail the suspect, who was last seen driving red BMW convertible," "{Y:" "I}with white paint splattered on the trunks lid." "I knew this wasn't my kind of car." "What were the chances?" "What were the chances, that the killer would be in a car, just like mine, and I get white paint on mine, just like his?" "Now Grant would say, it was inevitable." "That at lesat once in a infinited univers, events would happen that way, and this was that time." "But Grant also said, on this highway, the past and the future, and what ifs and maybes can all get jumbled up." "So, I had to see for my selfe." "Get away from there." "Who was he?" "They say he was some law student from St. Louis." "Went nuts, and killed his old man." "I love this highway." "Eight Ball, I've got a lot of questions." "Was that guy in the car..." "What the hell I'm asking you for?" "Robin Fields?" "Is anybody here?" "I'm here." "Ray?" " Delivery is for you." " No, no, no." "I wouldn't hire you, to deliver package to my selfe." "It's for my cousin." "Here his now." "Robin Fields." "One of my manny synonyms." "Cousins?" "You set in my car, with your own package." " Why didn't you take it?" " Well, you made a deal." "What kind of guy would I be if I couse you to..." "violate your blood outh?" "And, besides, it's the fact that you lost all your money... and you went to jail..." "you left to girl... ditched your car..." "All, to bring this to me?" "Makes it far more valoable." "Now it has... stories to go with it." "Don't you want to know what's inside?" "I did before, but... doesn't really matter now... 'cause, whatever it is... wont be as good as the stories." "Will see, 'cause you understand that." "I'll open it." "You're not gonna light it?" "I don't need to." "So, how's that new car?" "Awesome?" "Dad..." "What's my favourite color?" "Blue." "Why would you buy me a red BMW?" "Red's a grate color." "Specially for a convertible." "You know, my BMW's suppose been a gerat sorce of enjoyment, so I just thought..." "Happy birthday dad." "In the future, if you want to buy me a gift..." "Buy me something I want." "Not something you want." "Sun... it's a gift..." "And if you don't accept it..." "I will take it as a personal insult." "Well, in that case we're even." "Because I consider the gift it self, to me and to who I am." "How would you like it, if I bought you an easel and a pain box for your birthday?" "I never thought of it that way." "Perhaps I could've given it a little more thought." "Thank you dad." "Apology accepted." "Now the Bradford thing." "I'm not going there." " 'Cause I'm not going to law school..." " But sun?" "No but's there." "This is your life, you made it, it works for you." "I've got to find something that works for me." "I'm sorry if you don't approve, but you can tell that to the bank." "Well, I don't approve." "And it's time you face the truth about your art." "It's medium-ok, look..." "Neal... grate news." "That piece, you entered in the Conrada Competition..." "There's a very interested buyer, who wants to talk to you about it right now." "Come on." "I'll take you." "No dad... that thing..." "It's crap." "You got riped of." "And it's upside down." "I must be having Alcheimerc." "I don't remember innering anything to Conrad Competition." "You've left it in motel." "I took the liberty of entering it for you." "Thank you, mister..." "Conrad..." "Oh, you're welcome mister Oliver..." "You're Neal Oliver..." "I just love your painting." "Excuse my, I'm sorry..." "I've just got this..." "Major deja vu about you." "No, no, no." "It's OK, I did to." "Gib time." "I just love this..." "It's got soul... passion..." " I'm..." " Lynn Linden." "Yeah, I know." "I'm with Denver publishing, we do.." "prints, posters, and art books." "Well, it's maybe a little ?" "of me, but would you consider doing a serious of motels, caffees gas stations... on his style?" "It's exactly what I was thinking." " My brother is really talented." " Oh, he's gonna be fine." "Just fine." "He's got a grate future ahead of him." "They both do." "Say..." "you have a birthday comming up, don't you?" "Well, how do you know that?" "Don't forget to make the wish." "SUBTITLES:" "TA-KUMSAWA RESYNCRO:" "JACINTO"

"It's time." "Hey there good morning." "How are you today?" "Hey." "What are you doing up?" "Moo." "Is that Daddy?" "Hey there, cowgirl." "She's a little feisty today." "Babies should be sleeping." ""I'm too hungry for my own good." Yes." "I gotta get ready." "Wrong day to be forgetting stuff." "You know how lucky you are." "Don't screw this up." "All right!" "Jesus." "She go back to sleep?" "Yes." "Ate like a pig." "I know I'm lucky." "I ace this job, the department's wide open." "Get my own division someday." "You should see their houses." "Hello?" "Well, yes." "Don't worry, I will." "He's right here." "It's Alonzo." "Hello." "Hoyt?" "Yes, sir." "Going to roll call?" "I'm leaving now." "Hoyt?" "Yes, sir?" "Fairies go to roll call." "We don't." "Good to know." "There's a coffee shop on 7th." "Be there at 10." "Be in comfortable shoes." "Got a backup gun?" "Only the standard issue Beretta." "Bring it." "Cuffs too." "Maybe we'll do some business." "We're aggressive." "I know." "That's why I signed up." "I want to thank you for this" "What's wrong?" "Feels like football tryouts." "I wish it was tomorrow so I'd know if I made the squad." "Listen, it's not tomorrow, it's today." "I know it's gonna work out." "You do?" "Good morning, sir." "No, thank you, ma'am." "Get some chow in you." "My dollar." "Thank you, sir, but I ate." "Fine." "Don't." "It's nice here." "May I read?" "I'm sorry, sir." "I" "Thank you." "I'll get something to eat." "Hell, no you won't." "You fucked up." "I'm trying to read." "Please shut up." "I'll like not being in a hot black and white all summer." "Tell me a story, Hoyt." "Like my story?" "Not your story, a story." "Since you can't shut up so I can read, tell me a story." "I don't know any." "You don't?" "No." "I'll tell you one." "This is a newspaper, right?" "It's 90 percent bullshit." "But it's entertaining." "So I read it." "It entertains me." "You won't let me read it, so you entertain me." "Tell me a story now." "Go." "There was a DUI stop." "A DUI stop?" "Let me load up!" "A DUI?" "Oh, shit!" "Well, I" "Listen, we were on midwatch" "We who?" "Oh, me and Debbie." "Who's Debbie?" "Debbie Maxwell, my training officer." "A female training officer?" "Yes, sir." "Okay." "All right." "Was she black, white?" "She was white." "Lick-her license?" "A what?" "A lick-her license." "Was she a dyke, a lesbian?" "Is she any good?" "She's pretty good." "Okay, Debbie, midwatch." "Go." "Right." "It was a quiet night" "Boom!" "What the fuck?" "You never know, that's the point." "Go." "It was quiet and we're rolling I'm driving." "This Acura, just a beautiful car..." "He drives for 10 blocks before he pulls over." "Plates run clean, so I test and arrest." "I'm belting in our unit, and she's tossing his car." "She shows me a .38" "and two loaded shotguns." "No shit?" "No shit!" "So she calls and I'm searching." "I find 500 grams of meth." "Turns out he's on bail for distribution on his way to smoke his ex-partner before trial." "Boom." "Prevented a murder." "You got him." "It's amazing." "It is." "That you're out there with a fine bitch for a year and the best story you can tell me is a drunk stop." "But I don't believe you." "You tapped that ass, didn't you?" "Tell the truth." "You know you tapped that ass." "In the back, bam!" "Code X." "I got a wife." "You got a dick." "You do have one, don't you?" "Yes." "Your dick lines up straight." "Right and left of it are pockets." "In those pockets are money." "Look in either one." "Pay the bill." "Grab that menu off that window for me." "Get in, it's unlocked." "Throw that in the glove box." "This is not from the motor pool." "No." "Sexy, though, huh?" "Where's the office, at division?" "You're in the office." "Going up." "Today is a training day." "Give you a taste of the business." "I got 38 cases pending trial 63 active investigations, 250 I can't clear." "I supervise five officers." "Five personalities." "Five sets of problems." "You could be six." "I ain't holding no hands." "You got today to show me what you're made of." "You don't like Narcotics, get the fuck out of my car get a job chasing bad checks." "You hear me?" "I hear you." "Okay." "Why do you want to be a narc?" "To serve my community by ridding it of dangerous drugs." "Right, but why a narc?" "I want to make detective." "Stick with me, you can do it." "Unlearn that academy shit." "Don't bring that here." "It'll get you killed." "I'll do anything you want me to do." "My nigger." "Roll your window down." "Start there." "Got to hear it, smell it, taste it." "Right." "How's your Espa¨¾o." "Learn that shit." "That will get you killed." "They plot all kinds of shit behind your back." "You gonna teach me that old-school Rodney King shit?" "We don't roll like that no more." "Now we use this." "These niggers are too strong." "Think I'm crazy?" "I don't know what to think." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Good." "Good." "Been married long?" "About a year." "Yeah?" "You got a kid?" "A girl, 9 months." "I got four." "Boys." "You need a son, I'll hook your lady up." "Can't miss." "Can we not talk about my family, all right?" "I respect that." "I'm married, I got my queen too." "I remember having a young bride." "You probably fuck her face-to-face, don't you?" "Let's not talk about her." "That's my point." "You're so in love, it's coming right out." "The day you bring that here is the day you don't make it back." "Hide it deep inside of you." "The maggots out here will find it use it against you and chew you up." "Never wear the ring to work." "I'm serious about that." "Thanks." "What's here?" "Transactions." "You see that guy trying to act like he's not slanging dope?" "Yeah." "That's my boy." "That's my boy, Neto." "Only 1 7, but he can kill." "Works for me." "He's an informer?" "Teammate." "I got eyes everywhere." "He gets to make some cash." "Lets me know when big things happen." "Big transactions." "You trust him?" "Damn right I do." "Sprung his mom from INS detention." "Here we go." "Watch this." "That's right." "Come on down." "Come on." "Look at it." "Sexy, ain't it?" "That's right." "See the hand-to-hand?" "I saw it." "When was your last felony stop?" "Two weeks ago." "You need practice." "College kids." "They'll get an education today." "I want them grabbing glass." "You take the back." "Stay off of the Rover." "Let's go." "You little fuckers." "Run, baby, run." "Police!" "Let's see your hands!" "Put them up!" "Put them up!" "Put your hands on the windshield!" "Put your hands on the glass." "Driver, put it in park!" "It's a stick shift!" "Throw the keys out the window!" "Put your hands on your chest!" "All right, fork it over." "What?" "You know." "The marijuana." "Give it to me!" "Give it!" "Okay!" "Sorry, sir." "Shut up!" "Give me that pipe." "My mom gave me that pipe." "She can pick it up in jail." "Give me the cigarettes too." "Control your suspect!" "Palms on the glass!" "Move the hands, I'll slap you!" "Face against the glass!" "Right there!" "You know this is a gang neighborhood?" "Yeah!" "Then don't come down here." "I see you down here again, I'll make you walk home." "I'll let the homeboys run a train on her." "Know what that is?" "Yes, sir." "All right, gentlemen." "Thanks for your cooperation." "Let's go." "Safe your iron, son." "Shit!" "I like that shit." "I like how you move." "You were trained well." "Check that out." "It's a bad dime." "See the hairs, undeveloped seeds." "You see how immature it is." "That's classic Mexican garbage." "Let me see." "It's old." "Probably last year's." "To be truly effective a good narcotics agent must know and love narcotics." "A good narcotics agent should have narcotics in his blood." "What, you gonna smoke that?" "No, you are." "Hell if I am!" "Yes." "You're not?" "No." "Why?" "You a Mormon?" "I'm not losing my job." "This is your job." "Smoke it." "No." "This ain't a test." "Take a hit." "Listen, I became a cop to stop people from using" "That ain't cocaine." "Take a hit." "No, man." "Jesus Christ!" "Yeah, right." "If I was a dealer, you'd be dead!" "Turn shit down out here, and your wife gets a flag." "What's wrong with you?" "You know what?" "I don't want you in my unit." "Get the fuck out of my car, rookie." "Poo butt-ass." "What's the holdup?" "Move it!" "Give me that thing." "I'll smoke it." "Give it to me." "You want me to, I'll smoke it." "Virgin lungs." "Man up now." "Man up, nigger." "Man up." "Go ahead." "Get it." "Come on!" "Shut the fuck up and just wait!" "Man the fuck up!" "Finish that shit!" "Geronimo." "Let's go, nigger." "Let's go." "Oh, shit!" "You okay, kid?" "That's a man size hit you took." "When's the last time you smoked weed?" "The last" " Twelfth grade." "We were...." "Well, we were...." "Smoking weed." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Left that out of your service jacket." "I know you got secrets." "Everybody got secrets." "Didn't know you liked it wet, though." "What's wet?" "Butt-naked." "Ill." "Sherm." "Dust." "PCP." "Primos." "P-dog." "That's what you had." "You couldn't taste it?" "I never done it." "I haven't, but you have now." "Shit!" "Shit." "I'll get piss-tested, and I'll get fired." "The boss has our back." "We know before we piss." "Shit!" "Boom!" "Why did you do this?" "You're an adult." "Nobody made you smoke." "You made a decision." "Live with it." "Not like I put a gun to your head." "Man...." "Oh, man, shit." "Come on, get your shit together now." "This is my dog's house." "We'll see what he thinks of you." "Get your ass in here!" "Roger, what's up?" "How are they treating you?" "All right." "I didn't wake you up?" "I never sleep." "Right." "This my new guy, Jake." "Come on." "Get in here." "Yeah." "Time to get my swerve on here!" "What you drinking?" "The best." "The best, I know." "Best for the best." "I heard about Vegas." "Got a green light on your ass." "No problem." "Russians want you." "I got your back." "I know that." "Thank you." "Here." "Get that medicine up in you." "Back to the world." "Back to the world." "Went and got yourself a daisy-fresh rookie." "He's high as a motherfucker." "What did you give him?" "A little of Mexico's finest." "Yeah." "Garbage." "Where'd you grow up?" "North Hollywood." "What's your last name?" "Hoyt." "Hoyt." "Hoyt...." "Strong safety, North Hollywood High." "Right." "How'd you know that?" "How did you?" "I follow all the good players." "No doubt." "Excuse me." "Shit." "Strong safety, huh?" "It's me." "What's up?" "I can't do anything." "Clean up your own mess." "Don't call me." "Hey!" "Here's a joke, boy." "Man walks out of his house, sees this snail lying on his porch." "So he picks it up, chucks it into the backyard." "Snail bounces off a rock, busts its shell up all to shit lands in the grass." "Snail lies there dying." "But snail doesn't die." "Soon it can crawl again." "And one day snail heads back to the front of the house." "Finally, after about a year the little guy crawls back on the porch." "Right then the man walks out of his house sees this snail again." "So he looks at it and he says:" ""The fuck's your problem?"" "That's not funny." "What you laughing for then?" "I don't know, man." "I" "Hey!" "Figure that joke out, you'll figure the streets out." "Nothing to figure out." "It's senseless bullshit." "You know" " I already figured it out." "Really?" "Yeah." "You already figured the streets out?" "Well, it's all about smiles and cries." "Put the drink down." "What is that?" "Hold on!" "Hold on." "Smiles and cries." "Smiles and cries." "Smiles and cries." "I hear you." "Yeah, you gotta control your smiles and cries because that's all you have, and nobody can take that away." "Oh, shit." "What you think, dog?" "Think this greenhorn can handle undercover?" "You were just like him." "Same silly-ass look and everything." "Saving the goddamn world." "Now that's some smiles and cries for your ass!" "That was you." "Shit lasted a week." "Gotta get back to it." "Thanks for the snort." "Good to see you." "Yeah." "Yes, sir." "What you doing later?" "Stay home." "Save some cheddar." "My dream's less than a year away." "Philippine Islands, here I come." "Let me go too." "You're invited." "Hey." "Open your eyes, man." "You'll feel a lot better." "Boom!" "Come on, man." "Sit your ass up." "Who are you?" "I'm the Zig-Zag man." "Who are you?" "I'm a cop." "Watch out!" "Don't shoot nobody." "Get that beer in you for ballast." "No, man." "Get it in you." "You'll feel better." "Stop the car!" "Stop the car!" "I saw something!" "Just relax." "Stop!" "All right!" "Hold the fuck on" " Hey!" "Fuck me, man!" "Shit." "Police officer!" "Get away from the girl!" "I'm gonna fuck you too, cop!" "Get the" "We didn't do shit!" "Bitch is crazy!" "Roll over, man." "Roll the fuck over!" "Fucking ass prick!" "My nigger!" "Go ahead, cowboy, you got mad squabbles." "Thanks for the help." "You should've shot them." "What's happening?" "You're dead!" "Okay!" "Wait!" "Hold it!" "You too, white boy!" "Okay...." "My cousins will blast you fools!" "Calm down." "Calm down." "You okay?" "No, I'm not!" "Look at my nose!" "I see it." "Put ice on it." "You'll be fine." "What're you doing here?" "I was just" "They probably got AIDS." "Why you not at school?" "I was going to a ditch party and" "You almost became the ditch party." "Where your cousins from?" "Hillside Trece!" "Remember that!" "Tell your cousins to get your back." "Grab your bag and go home now." "No!" "I need a statement" "Don't need no statement." "They'll fuck you up." "We gonna let them go?" "You wanna beat them up, go ahead." "I got a punching bag at home." "They should be off the streets." "You hear that?" "Wanna go home or to jail?" "What you think?" "Got room at the booty house." "You been there?" "You'll grab your ankles." "Suck my dick!" "I know people." "That's how it starts." "What about you?" "What you got?" "Got nothing?" "No." "You sure?" "Yeah." "Where's your horn?" "Got none." "You got money, though." "You lied to me!" "Lucky I don't make you eat that." "Stand up, you." "Stand the fuck up!" "Yeah." "Oh, shit, huh?" "Turn around, sucker." "Turn around." "So you like raping girls?" "Like to rape girls?" "No, man." "That's what you like?" "No...." "That what you like?" "Don't lie." "Told me to suck your dick." "Is that what you said?" "Look at me." "You wanted me to suck your dick, right?" "Isn't that what you said?" "Didn't you say suck it?" "Don't lie." "Am I a liar?" "You didn't say that?" "That's not what you said?" "So I'm lying?" "No, please!" "Where is it?" "I can't find it." "Pull your pants down." "Which nut you want?" "I'll leave you one." "Your choice." "Just make a decision." "All right." "Put your hands on your head." "Close your eyes." "Close your eyes." "Lucky I got other business." "I'd cut your fucking dick off and stick it up your funky ass." "Bitch." "Damn!" "I'm thirsty." "I want a beer." "What about you?" "You want a beer?" "I'm gonna leave you three to it." "Pussy-ass bitch!" "I see you again, I'll fuck you up!" "You won't see shit coming!" "I'll dent your mouth, I'll crack your head open." "You fucking pig!" "Come on!" "That girl's 1 4." "She all woman, though." "You tax that ass for days, man!" "Keep walking, bitch!" "You want a beer?" "No, I don't want a beer, man." "No?" "You mad?" "Want to book that $60, huh?" "Here, go ahead, book it into evidence." "Where the suspects?" "Go get them." "You let them go." "I let them go?" "You did." "You want to run and gun, stay in Patrol." "This is Investigations." "Garbage men handle garbage." "Professional anglers go after the big fish." "Chasing them crackhead motherfuckers...." "They'd have killed you." "They belong in jail." "Why?" "They got beaten, lost their money." "Hillside's ¨¦ses will smoke them." "What more you want?" "I want justice." "That's not justice?" "That's street justice." "So?" "Let them kill each other?" "God willing." "Fuck them!" "Everybody looking like them." "Reality is, the good guys they die first." "The school kids and moms family men, don't want to catch any bullets." "To protect the sheep, you got to catch the wolf." "It takes a wolf to catch a wolf, understand?" "What?" "Protect the sheep by killing wolves." "I heard you." "You didn't hear me." "All right." "Whatever." "Whatever the fuck-ever!" "Do you ever lock anybody up?" "You seem busy keeping people out." "You don't know shit!" "Shit, they build jails because of me!" "Judges gave over 1 5,000 man-years of incarceration time based on my cases." "My record speaks for itself." "How many felons have you got?" "I rest my case." "I'm not smoking crack, all right?" "I'm glad." "Put it in the glove box." "Put the $60 in there too." "That'll come in handy." "We'll use it like a credit card." "No matter what I say, you did the right thing." "Reminds me when I was chasing down bad guys." "Pretty amazing shit you did back there." "Thanks." "I noticed you applied that chokehold though, huh?" "That's a no-no procedure." "I was getting my ass kicked." "You did what you had to do." "You did what you had to do." "That's right." "What a wolf does." "You a wolf?" "Come on, wolf!" "Come on, dog!" "No, I said a wolf, not a rooster, a wolf." "That's a rooster, give me a wolf!" "Give me a beer!" "There you go!" "That's my nigga." "You got the magic eye, Hoyt." "You have the magic eye." "You up your street IQ you'll do some damage, I guarantee." "Crime fighter." "What you need?" "Crack." "Uh, 20 bucks...." "Crack?" "Smell like bacon!" "Do I look like a sucker to you, nigga?" "Fuck you, rookie!" "Go fetch, dog." "You want me to...." "Oh, come on, man, it's...." "Give me a break!" "Hey, you!" "Slow up!" "Come on, stop!" "Police officer!" "Police officer!" "Stop!" "Come on, man!" "Give me a break!" "Shit!" "Get out!" "Get out of here or I call police." "Police officer, ma'am, calm down." "I said stop!" "Stop!" "Get the fuck off me." "Fuck off." "You're making this so much harder!" "Just calm down!" "You love this shit, huh?" "Hey, man, hey!" "Pick him up!" "Civil rights violating motherfuckers!" "Fuck!" "Watch the fucking legs, man!" "Pick his legs up." "Ain't got nothing better to do than fuck with me, man?" "Shit!" "Who you working for?" "I ain't work for nobody!" "I'm on disability!" "Shit!" "You know you cracking." "I don't sell no more." "No rocks?" "No rocks." "But I found this." "No, you don't." "That motherfucker planted that shit on me." "Put me in the front seat, I'll whup his ass!" "Who you working for?" "Told you I don't work for nobody, man!" "Where the rocks?" "I got nothing on me." "I gave it up." "Where the rocks?" "Open your mouth." "You a doctor now?" "A dentist." "Open it." "Lift up your tongue." "Your partner already searched me." "I'm straight." "Yeah, okay." "You got a pen, got a writing pen?" "Didn't see the motherfucker coming!" "Nothing in there?" "Nothing, man!" "Ain't got nothing, huh?" "God!" "Damn!" "Now what is that?" "Crack, man!" "Right." "Jimmy crack corn." "One, two, three, four, five, six." "Oh, you federally fucked now." "You got crack and a gun." "With your record you'll get 10 years per bullet, you know?" "Give me a name, now." "You know I ain't no snitch!" "I know you ain't." "Give me a name." "Twenty." "A name!" "Fuck!" "That's 30 years!" "You want to go to jail or go home?" "He in County." "Who?" "This nigga named Sandman." "That's all I know!" "Shit!" "Sandman?" "See how easy it was?" "Unhook him." "Sick of this shit, man!" "Want the evidence?" "Fuck that, man." "My nigga." "It's Bob." "Hello." "How's it going?" "It's Alonzo." "Got your gang book?" "Why?" "I need a res on a Sandman." "He may be in custody." "Hold on." "I'll check." "No problem." "That doesn't fly anymore." "Shoving a pen down." "What if he complains?" "To who?" "23130, 1 13th Street." "Kevin Miller, a.k.a. Sandman." "Got it?" "I know where it is." "Out there by Imperial Courts?" "Exactly, uh-huh." "Thanks a lot." "No problem." "We go after Sandman?" "We go after him." "Opening a Circuit City?" "No, unclaimed shit from Property." "Hand it out to my CI's, witnesses, victims." "Try to help out their families." "Put this on." "Come on, let's go." "Intel says she lives here alone." "She got two female juveniles possibly a male juvenile." "If he's not here, why are we?" "To serve this warrant." "We can't do that." "Yes, we can." "We the police." "Why not get a real warrant?" "We trying to get shit done." "Stand over there and don't get me killed." "Police, we got a search warrant!" "L.A.P.D., open up!" "Kevin ain't here!" "Just open the door!" "Kevin ain't here!" "Open the door, ma'am!" "He ain't even here!" "I said Kevin ain't even over here!" "We got a search warrant." "Open up." "Ain't nobody here!" "Get your big ass down!" "Right down!" "Down!" "Don't move, spread them out!" "Don't move!" "Anybody in the house?" "Is anybody in the house?" "!" "My nephew, Dimitri!" "In the bedroom!" "Okay." "I'm gonna clear the house, check it for weapons." "Kitchen's clear!" "Dimitri?" "Yeah?" "Put your hands up, son." "Anybody else?" "No." "You sure?" "Yeah." "Okay, just stay right there." "Don't move!" "Don't you move." "Stand up." "Keep your hands where I can see them." "Sit down and place them on your knees." "Sit down." "We're the good guys." "Just sit down right over there next to your auntie." "Right over there." "House is Code-4." "I'm starting the search." "I wanna see that warrant." "The what?" "The warrant." "I need a copy." "My partner has it." "He'll be out soon." "Where's your backup?" "Just be quiet until we're through with our investigation." "You got the gun, don't you?" "That's right." "Punk-ass, bitch-ass, crooked-ass cop!" "You a rookie." "Give me a break, okay?" "How you doing over there?" "You cool?" "Come on." "Don't worry about it, you're cool." "All right." "Ma'am, please sit down." "You act like you pay the rent!" "Sit down!" "You all stink!" "You gotta get drunk to come up here!" "Sit down now!" "Y'all stink!" "You're gonna shoot me, boss?" "Close your eyes." "This punk cop is gonna shoot me!" "Sit down, right now!" "Okay." "Okay!" "Everything is fine." "We made a mistake." "Didn't find a damn thing." "I'm very sorry." "Thanks for your cooperation." "Let's go." "Show me that warrant." "What?" "I want to see that goddamn warrant!" "Here you go." "Let's go!" "Shit!" "Motherfuckers!" "Hey, jackers!" "Give me my money back." "You ain't no police!" "Give me my money back!" "Jackers, why you all standing over there?" "!" "Blast them fools!" "You ain't no police!" "I want my money back!" "Start, you motherfucker!" "Fuck!" "Gun!" "Just get out of here!" "Stay in the car!" "Yeah, motherfuckers!" "That was not cool, all right?" "That was not cool at all!" "Opening fire in a neighborhood." "Where was the Sandman?" "What were you doing back there?" "Checking for narcotics activity." "Drugs, guns, baggies, you know?" "Yeah, cash!" "Speak on it, son." "She's screaming about money" "Bullshit." "She's screaming about having us killed!" "I'll be on the 6:00 news in handcuffs because of you." "With the scandals, it is open season on misconduct." "They'll nail us to the wall." "Pull over." "Pull over." "Here?" "Yeah, pull over." "Shit!" "What?" "Listen." "You're in a privileged position to learn." "Keep your mouth shut, eyes open." "Want to do some good, this is the place to learn." "You can't take it, maybe you should go back to your division." "Get a nice job lighting flares or measuring car wrecks." "You got to decide whether you're a wolf or a sheep." "Get your ink or go give him a hand." "What are we doing here?" "We'll get killed." "You know about this place?" "It's the Jungle, right?" "They say don't come with anything less than a platoon." "This is the heart of it." "Jungle." "Damu headquarters." "Stoners." "A lot of murder investigations lead here." "One way in, one way out." "Thought we were going to eat." "Don't ever come here without me." "I'm serious." "For your safety." "How'd you get a golden pass?" "I treat them fair." "They know if they cross the line, I tax that ass." "What's that, up there?" "They flipping pigeons to signal I'm here." "What's up, Bone?" "What's up?" "What's up?" "It's all good." "I appreciate what you did for my nephew." "For sure." "For sure." "You better call me." "I'm sick of it." "I can't stand him!" "Who are they?" "Nobody." "I got them under my thumb." "What's up, Alonzo?" "All right, Spider." "What's happening?" "Hey, what's up, girl?" "Look at you." "Go ahead." "All that jelly and no toast." "Who lives here?" "Just one of my lovelies." "A loving touch, you know?" "Don't worry." "New guy, Jake." "Nice to meet you." "Welcome to my house." "Give him some food." "Take care of him." "Of course." "Of course." "How are you?" "Good, good." "I have cable." "You watch whatever you want, okay?" "Thanks." "This is your house." "I'll be right back." "How you doing?" "Fine." "Now, this is all El Salvadorian food." "Thank you." "It looks great." "I have to go." "Yeah, all right." "Let's go." "We got a meeting in 1 5 minutes." "I just need to" "Forget it." "Let's go." "I'll see you, buddy." "You okay?" "Here, use this." "Who's here?" "L.A.P.D.'s finest." "Don't speak till you're spoken to." "Come on." "Good to see you." "That's my new guy." "Jake Hoyt." "Captain Lou Jacobs." "Need to talk to the feds, go to him first." "He'll take your back for you." "Stan Gursky, he runs the D.A. shooting team." "Think about him before you shoot someone." "If you're wrong, he'll use your nuts for dice." "Right here, Detective Doug Rosselli handles theft cases for the French-poodle crowd." "He's a good man." "Pleased to meet you." "Good man." "Should I...?" "Shoo." "Get yourself a steak or something." "All right, gents." "I don't know why I'm meeting you." "I don't talk to dead men." "I ain't dead yet." "Fucking prick." "Excuse me." "Why the long face, Doug?" "Feds seize your house or something?" "Fuck yourself." "Tell him the story." "Come on, tell the story." "If it's so funny, you tell him." "It's your story." "Asshole." "All right." "There's a serial burglar." "Chased him for a year." "A real slickster." "Captain's riding my ass the whole time." "Sentencing was today." "Judge is female." "That's right." "Landers." "I know Landers." "She's a sharp lady." "No?" "Guy gets ahold of some peanut butter, packs his ass-crack with it." "He's standing before the bench, waiting to give his statement." "Shoves his hand down his pants, comes out with extra-chunky Jif." "Bailiffs won't come near him." "Now he looks the judge right in the eyes and licks his fingers clean." "Holy shit." "So the judge says:" ""This man's insane." "He can't go to prison."" "Sends him to Psychiatric." "She fell for it." "Yeah!" "She's so fucking smart." "By the time she found out, the guy's already been transferred." "Proceedings closed." "Yeah, closed." "He'll do six months in the puzzle factory and they'll let him go." "Never, ever do a day in prison." "Give him credit." "He worked the system, deserves his freedom." "Yeah?" "Think so?" "Or not." "I'll tell you what." "I'll find this guy on the street and I'll do him." "Better take his bullets away, Stan." "Shit!" "Heard you had an expensive weekend in Vegas." "How did you ever screw up so bad?" "It's nothing." "I didn't know." "It's not my town." "The Russians don't care if you're a cop." "They'll whack you." "You ought to get on a plane." "Why?" "It's an easy fix." "How?" "I'll just cash in an account." "Whose?" "One of my old ones." "My first one." "The guy's a high-security risk." "If I'm not around, who will keep him off the radar?" "I'm just taxing him, that's all." "Okay?" "It's your call." "Don't dick this up." "I do not want to see you on the front page like the others." "Yeah, I understand." "Who's driving?" "Me." "Gray Mercedes." "Get the car." "Black Monte Carlo there, back windows shot out." "It's me." "Listen, we got the green light." "Fax a copy of the warrant to the clerk." "Get it signed by the judge, and I want you and Paul to bring it to me." "Tell Jeff to pick up some tools." "Picks and shovels." "Make sure he signs them out from maintenance." "Copy?" "That's right." "Hurry up!" "Later." "So how much cash was in that jacket?" "Forty G's." "What's that for?" "Really want to know?" "Yes, I do." "Nothing's free in this world." "Not even arrest warrants." "Shit, man, I didn't want to know." "Check this out." "Nice suit, Mark." "Beautiful suit." "Yeah, fuck you guys!" "All right." "Nice, nice." "What's up, Alonzo?" "The picks and shovels?" "In the trunk." "Digging a ditch?" "No, you are." "Nice suit you got on there." "That's what I said." "What up, killer?" "What's up with you?" "Heard you ran into trouble." "It's all good." "Don't worry, everything's fine." "Shit, if we can get away with it, I'm with you." "Who the fuck is this?" "Jake Hoyt." "It's my first day." "You're a long way from Starbucks." "Why the fuck is he here?" "Gotta get his cherry popped." "Stay the fuck out of my way." "This is for the big dogs." "Feel me?" "Here it is, all legit, signed by the judge, okay?" "Thanks to the Sandman." "Now listen." "Safety is first." "He gives us shit, we give him lead." "Let's do this right so we can all go home." "Time to punch in, ladies." "Freeze!" "On the floor!" "Down!" "What are you clowns doing?" "Hey, new guy, watch him!" "I'm on him." "You know what you're doing?" "Drop your gun!" "Five." "Four." "Three." "Boom!" "Give me a reason." "Alonzo's gonna have your ass." "What's up, Roger?" "What's going down, brother?" "Oh, it's all good, baby." "It's all good." "That's for you." "What am I supposed to do with this?" "Wipe my ass?" "Bad news, dog." "Gimme some of that $300-a-glass shit." "Please." "Had lunch with the wise men." "You gotta render unto Caesar." "Those vampires want my pension." "No, no." "Just a tax." "They got their boats and mistresses, house payments." "Nothing I can do." "I'm just a lowly civil servant." "You're their bitch." "What about me?" "I got your back." "Don't worry, we won't take anything you'll miss." "I'm sorry." "Orders, dog." "No you ain't, cop." "In the kitchen, fellas." "Give me the bitch." "You guys hold him down." "Who'll pay for my floor?" "The city." "Right here." "That's what I'm talking about." "What's in here?" "Coke?" "You'll see." "Grab that hammer and knock this lock off." "One, two...." "That's $250,000 you're holding." "Over four million in here." "A $3 million bust on day one." "You said four." "Minus tax, brother!" "Nothing's free in this world." "Buy your wife a car." "Put the kids through college." "The only checks I cash say "L.A.P.D."" "Somebody didn't sleep through Ethics." "You don't want a piece of this?" "No, right?" "Not like this." "No." "No?" "First time, you're not comfortable." "I'll hold it for you." "What about you?" "Oh, I'm comfortable." "How about you?" "I'm very comfortable." "Let's wrap this up." "Don't touch a thing!" "Evidence." "Alonzo, what are those pricks thinking?" "That I'm gonna stand still and let them horsefuck me?" "Could put you out of your misery." "Hey, Jake, here." "Sit down." "Here's a secret:" "When you kill someone on duty they have to be your slave in the afterlife." "There you go." "Start an entourage." "Shoot him?" "Yeah." "Come on, kid." "Do me a favor." "Come on." "Do yourself a favor." "Hit him." "Are you serious?" "Hey, close the blinds." "All right, I'll shoot him." "Go." "Pow!" "Boom!" "Shoot him." "No, man." "Kids these days." "Not gonna do it?" "All right, give it to me." "Rookies!" "You want shit done, you gotta do it yourself." "Holy shit!" "Come on, breathe." "Breathe, there you go." "Just let it go." "Breathe, dog!" "He's finished." "All right, Jeff." "You took fire coming in." "I need some time off, but...." "Watch the shades." "All right." "Ready?" "Kiss me." "One...." "You okay?" "Yeah." "I gotta give you one more, though." "Do it." "Fuck!" "It's not what you know, it's what you prove." "Here it is." "Mark and Paul kick the door." "Jeff's in first." "Roger fires twice." "What, one go through?" "You shot him!" "You fucking shot me, man!" "Don't worry." "Call an ambulance!" "Go to jail, or go home?" "All right, here's the scenario." "Mark and Paul kick the door." "Jeff runs in." "Roger opens fire, hits Jeff." "Hoyt is in second, drops Roger with the shotgun." "Who shot Roger?" "New guy." "New guy." "You two?" "Hoyt." "Fuck Hoyt." "Ambulance time!" "Done." "Paul, call them up." "1 1 -49. 998." "Shots fired." "Officer down." "Repeat, officer down." "5951 Baxter Street." "Congratulations." "You're gonna get a medal of valor for this." "I didn't shoot him." "Four cops saw it." "But I didn't." "You did." ""An L.A.P.D. narcotics officer was killed today serving a warrant in Echo Park."" "Give me the bitch." ""A spokesperson said the officer is survived by a wife and child."" "There's more." "You get the picture?" "Yeah, I get it." "That's the second time you pointed a gun at me!" "Goddamn, boy!" "That's it, Jake!" "Y'all see this?" "That's it!" "I'll put a bullet in that melon." "Wait, wait." "I'm gonna be cool." "Drop the gun!" "Shoot me." "He's coming with me." "I'll shoot!" "He's a fed." "No, he ain't." "He's just a kid that got the drop on y'all." "Let's take a deep breath and just diffuse this." "Jake?" "I didn't sign up for this!" "I know you're angry." "Everybody, put the guns down." "Hell, no." "Choirboy first." "Listen!" "That's an order!" "Put them down!" "Use your ears, Jake." "Sometimes we take this shit all the way." "It's the nature of the business." "You'll never have to pull the trigger again, all right?" "Mark, where are you transferring?" "S.I.S." "Detective." "You give me 18 months, I give you a career." "We make the big seizures, Jake." "But if you're in my unit, you gotta be in it all the way." "I thought you were man enough to handle this shit." "Five decorated officers say that you shot Roger." "They will check your blood for intoxicants." "What are they gonna find?" "You've been smoking PCP all day." "You've been planning this all day." "All week, son." "You talk, your blood gets to the lab." "You wanna take a walk?" "You won't make it out of here." "If you're cool, you're a hero." "You're above suspicion." "Alonzo, there's two shots left." "We need to kill him now and say Roger got him." "No, we ain't killing nobody." "This is a good man." "I can feel it." "Just had a little freak-out, that's all." "I say he's cool." "Nobody's gonna hurt him." "You do have a decision to make." "Because this place is gonna be overrun with blue suits." "So why don't you please go outside, clear your head." "Or shoot me." "Hey, Paul?" "You're dead, motherfucker!" "You hear me?" "!" "Dead!" "Well, lay off the device." "All right." "Make sure that tub is clean." "All right?" "All right, later." "You all right?" "It behooves you not to dick around on this one." "Justifiable homicide in the line of duty." "Now, what happened" "What happened was murder." "And armed robbery." "We had badges, so it's different?" "Son, open your eyes!" "Can't you see?" "That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly." "My friend?" "Tell me why?" "Because he knows my first name?" "This is the game." "I played his ass." "That's our job." "Roger sold dope to kids." "The world's better off without him." "This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles." "I watched that cocksucker for years and now I got him." "This is chess, not checkers!" "What'd you think?" "We'd roll up in a black and white?" "Slap the cuffs on him?" "He's a high roller, dog." "Take the money." "I'm not taking it." "Just take it." "No!" "Look, I don't give a fuck, but the boys'll feel better." "Fuck their feelings!" "Jake, we're a team." "A team?" "You guys are fucking insane." "I'll go back to the Valley, I'll cut parking tickets." "It can't be like this." "It is." "I'm sorry, but it is." "It's ugly, but it's necessary." "I became a cop to put away dealers and criminals, not to be one." "You sound just like me." "I know what you're going through and feeling." "You're scared." "I'm not." "Yes, you are." "Everyone goes through that the first time." "I did." "The sooner you match what's in your head with what's in the real world the better you'll feel." "In this business you gotta have dirt on you to be trusted." "When all this is behind you, a whole other world will open up for you." "I walk a higher path, son." "I have the keys to all the doors." "What do you mean?" "My guys aren't leaders, they're clowns." "You're a leader." "You want my job?" "You got it." "You want to lock up poisoners?" "This is the place to do it." "But you gotta take your time." "You'll make detective, you'll grow wise." "And then you can change things." "But it's gotta be from the inside." "Let's go downtown to the station." "Talk to my guy, Stan." "He'll go through what you gotta say to the D.A." "What are we doing now?" "I told an informant I'd take care of his family for him." "Bring them food, stuff like that." "Gotta help out the family." "Believe it or not, I do try to do some good." "You know where you're at, dog?" "The fuck you looking at?" "Hey, we got some things for the family." "Kitchen's this way." "Put it on the counter." "Where's the head?" "Right through." "I'm gonna go to the head." "Two seconds, we're gone." "Hey, let me get the CD player." "No, the CD player's mine." "Dreamer!" "Come here!" "Count that shit, all right?" "Thanks a lot, I was busy." "Learn how to count, fucking math whiz." "You looked!" "I didn't." "You calling me a cheater, ¨¦se?" "Deal again, Sniper." "You play cards, cop?" "No, not really." "Want a beer?" "Have a cold one." "No, thanks, I'm good." "Come on, sit down." "Play a card game with us." "Don't be rude, ¨¦se." "You're a guest." "Why don't you play one hand?" "Don't worry, we ain't betting money." "We gotta roll in a second." "Alonzo's taking a shit." "All right, I'll play one hand." "Is this five-card draw?" "Yeah, jokers are wild." "Why don't you tell us something?" "How long you been a pig?" "My bad." "My bad." "I meant a police officer." "I've been a pig for 1 9 months." "Is that right?" "You like it?" "I should've been a fireman." "One more." "What you got, dog?" "Three of a kind." "I didn't get shit." "Boo-ya, baby!" "Two pair!" "What the fuck?" "He won." "I got two pair!" "Three of a kind beats two pair, you fucking dumb truck." "You're fucking stupid." "Take your medication." "Seriously." "I know I'm number one." "See why we don't play for money?" "Because of this vato." "Show me your cohete." "What?" "Your gun, homes." "Underneath your shirt." "What is it, .380 stainless?" "9mm Beretta." "Like that?" "Just like it." "Yeah?" "Here's the problem." "I seen this one." "I want to see yours." "Come on, ¨¦se, I ain't gonna shoot nobody." "Let me check it out." "Learn that in the Academy?" "Neat trick." "This is nice." "Nice." "You could fuck a vato up with this." "What you do is, you aim like that." "I'm just playing." "Yeah, I gotta go." "Alonzo!" "Kick back and party." "Ain't nothing out there for you." "What are you talking about?" "Hey, white boy." "If you ask me homes, that's just, of course, if you ask Alonzo played you, ¨¦se." "Big time." "Wait, where you going?" "It's your deal." "It's all there." "Sure?" "You can count it yourself." "Alonzo pulled off a miracle." "Times are tight." "Scared up a lot of cash." "Who'd he jack, homes?" "I don't know." "He jacked Roger." "Blasted that fool." "Alonzo's a low-down, ruthless vato." "But I like that." "That's why I never shake his hand." "He don't respect nada." "Know what the money's for?" "Alonzo, he's a hothead." "Last week in Vegas, some Russian starts talking shit." "Alonzo, he just snapped." "Beat his ass to death." "Turns out, that Russian, he's a somebody." "Now, Alonzo's into the Russians for a million." "How do you know that?" "Alonzo has until tonight to pay up." "But he's still on their list." "Nobody thought he could get the cash." "Good thing he did." "They're looking for him." "If he don't turn up downtown with the cash by midnight...." "Your vato he's dead." "Hey, pig." "Ever had your shit pushed in?" "Simple question." "No?" "No." "Had my shit pushed in." "Yeah, man." "I had my shit pushed in, bro!" "Big time!" "Smiley?" "Sure, I always get love from the homeys." "You guys fucked him up!" "Go next door." "Get the fuck out of here!" "You fucked up." "You're under arrest!" "For being a cop, dogging me in the mouth in my own pad." "You got the right to be bitch-slapped!" "Drag him to the tub." "Punk motherfucker!" "Raid his ass!" "Do it!" "It's gonna be loud." "Let me get his money." "Wait." "Hurry up." "Smiley, check it out." "Is that your little cousin?" "What's this?" "I found it!" "Who had it?" "I found it!" "Where?" "I found it in MacArthur Park!" "MacArthur Park!" "Wait up, I can't even see." "Shut the fuck up!" "Get in your last prayer." "Listen to me, man." "She was being raped." "Two crackheads were attacking her and I stopped them!" "I swear to God!" "You're lying to me!" "I am not lying!" "She was being raped!" "I stopped them!" "Please!" "I got a kid." "Shut up, fag!" "Blast his ass." "I have a little girl!" "Do it!" "I'm gonna get to the bottom of your bullshit." "She's my cousin, homes." "Ain't right involving her." "You fucked up." "If you're lying to me I blow your balls off." "Hello." "Hey, Letty." "What's up?" "Hey, Smiley." "Just doing homework." "You want Tony?" "No, I want you." "You go to school today?" "Yeah." "You didn't ditch?" "Nope." "I went to every class." "Why?" "I heard different." "Cops talk to you today?" "No, no." "All right, Letty don't bullshit me." "I got jumped by two crackheads." "You got jumped?" "I think they wanted to rape me." "But nothing happened, okay?" "Because this cop came." "They almost killed him but he kicked their ass." "Describe him." "He was a white boy." "He looked real young." "You're okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Hey, Letty." "Yeah?" "We're not done." "Okay." "What's up?" "You gonna blast him?" "Vato was telling the truth." "Life's a trip, qu¨¦ no?" "This is some trippy shit." "That's for getting my cousin's back." "Cover your head." "You'll mess up my floor." "You know this was just business, right?" "Right?" "Right." "What you doing here?" "You know you don't belong here." "What's up?" "Must be lost, motherfucker!" "Gonna need more than that up in here, boy!" "You got business here, rookie?" "I'm here for Alonzo." "Hey." "Is your dad home?" "In the bedroom." "He's in the bedroom?" "All right, you wanna open up the door?" "Okay." "Thanks." "You watching TV?" "Yeah, anything good on?" "Do you want me to call my mom?" "No, I don't." "I'll tell you what I want." "Find a good hiding spot." "Do you have a favorite place to hide?" "The closet." "In the closet?" "That's perfect." "Okay, open up the closet." "All right." "Good, good." "Can you sit down in there?" "All right." "Now stay in here and be very quiet." "I'll be right back." "All right?" "It's all good, baby." "You, against the wall." "Move real slow." "Put the money in that bag take your weapons and place them inside that pillowcase." "Congratulations, son." "You made it." "You passed the test." "You're a narc." "Put the gun down before you give her a heart attack." "I said put the money in that bag." "Place your weapons inside that pillowcase." "Fuck your appointment with the Russians." "Oh, okay." "Okay." "Hand me the pillowcase, baby." "Baby!" "Hand me the pillowcase." "You're gonna book me?" "You smoked the dust." "You ran out, and you're the one that shot Roger." "Here you go." "And the one on your ankle?" "Want the one in my back pocket too?" "One problem:" "You got no witnesses." "Who are your witnesses, huh?" "Roger?" "Smiley?" "You think they'll help you?" "It's not what you know." "It's what you can prove." "What can you prove, huh?" "Nothing." "Where's your evidence?" "There." "Oh, shit!" "It's on now, Jake." "Don't move." "Where you at, Jake?" "Come on out, dog!" "Ah!" "I see you." "Shit!" "I'm surgical with this bitch." "How you want it?" "That fool in the wheelchair?" "How you think he got there?" "Mommy." "Alonzito!" "You see what I see?" "Officer Hoyt, job number one:" "Preserve life." "There's my son." "Don't hurt him." "We're walking out together." "Alonzito!" "Alonzito!" "You all right?" "I want my mommy." "I know, I know, I know." "Just sit tight, all right?" "It's gonna be all right." "I know." "Shut the fuck up!" "All right, let me see your hands!" "Where is he?" "The window." "Come on!" "Get your kid, stay down." "Alonzito!" "Hey, man, you tripping?" "It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?" "My nigga." "Hey, first Damu puts one in his head I'll make you a rich man!" "Come on now." "Who wanna get paid?" "Who wanna get paid?" "They're not like you." "You know what I learned today?" "I'm not like you." "That's good." "I'm glad to hear that." "Good." "So, what now?" "Huh?" "What you gonna do, shoot me?" "You gonna bust your cherry killing a cop?" "There it is, Jake." "Hit me." "You never killed nobody before." "It ain't like stepping on ants." "Takes a man to kill." "Are you man enough to kill?" "Hit me right there." "Get me, Jake." "Get me." "Hit me." "Hit me." "You can't do it." "Somebody drop this fool for me." "You got us twisted." "You got to put your own work in." "All right." "It's like that, Bone?" "It's like that." "Player to player, pimp to pimp." "I don't believe you'd shoot me." "Don't do it." "Don't." "I don't believe you got it in you." "I'm gonna get that gun and that money." "You ain't gonna do a thing." "You ain't gonna shoot no cop in the back." "Don't do it." "You know what you'd get?" "The gas chamber." "You know what it smells like?" "Pine oil." "That's where you headed, to pine oil heaven." "I'm gonna get that gun and that money." "I don't think you got it in you." "I'm gonna go get it." "Shit!" "Ah, you motherfucker!" "The next one will kill you." "Son of a bitch!" "You shot me in the ass!" "Okay, wait, wait, wait." "Okay, okay." "All right." "Come on, I need the money." "Give me the money." "Give me that money!" "It's not gonna happen." "You gonna take my own money from me?" "That's my evidence." "You wanna go to jail or go home?" "I wanna go home, Jake." "Give me the money, and let me go home." "You wanna go home?" "Yeah, let me go home, Jake." "Give me the money, and let me go." "Give me the money, and let me go home, Jake." "That's right, come on." "You don't deserve this." "Okay, motherfucker." "Jake, go and bounce, homey." "Get up out of here." "We got your back." "What?" "It's like that." "Oh, no, you didn't!" "Wait a minute!" "No, you-- Hey, hey, Jake!" "Hey!" "Jake!" "Jake!" "Jake, come back here!" "Jake!" "You disloyal, fool-ass, bitch-made punk." "I need my money!" "Jake!" "Oh, you motherfuckers!" "Okay." "All right!" "I'm putting cases on all you bitches!" "Huh?" "You think you can do this shit?" "Jake!" "You think you can do this to me?" "!" "You motherfuckers will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you!" "Shoe program, nigga!" "Twenty-three hour lock-down!" "I'm the man up in this piece!" "Who you think you fucking with?" "!" "I'm the police!" "I run shit here!" "You just live here!" "That's right, you better walk away." "I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down!" "King Kong ain't got shit on me!" "That's all right." "That's all right." "Shit, I don't fuck" "I'm winning anyway." "I'm winning." "I'm winning anyway." "I can't lose." "Shit, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me." "Oh, what a day." "What a motherfucking day!" "An L.A. police officer was killed today serving a warrant near LAX." "An L.A.P.D. spokesperson said Officer Harris was survived by his wife and four sons." "The highly decorated officer, a 13-year L.A.P.D. veteran...."

"(quacks)" "(sizzling)" "(gasping):" "Duckman..." "I beg you... open windows..." "No." "Aerodynamics... bad mileage..." "What about the boys?" "They're having a ball." "Right, guys?" "Oh, yeah." "Where to next week?" "The sun?" "How's Ajax?" "Glassy-eyed, slack-jawed, drooling..." "Good..." "Ajax... normal." "(gasps)" "Water!" "(tires squealing)" "(noisy slurping)" "(all burping)" "No time for bathrooms." "We'll sweat it out in the car." "Listen, shvitz for brains." "We've been driving for hours." "Before we all became too delirious from the heat to question you about it, you said we were going for ice cream." "We are, and I just need to make a teensy, little stop along the way." "Let met guess-- you heard about a jumbo jet crash and we're all going out to lie down in the wreckage so we can get a piece of the settlement money." "I still say we'd be rich today if you hadn't flinched when the doctor was checking for paralysis with that pin." "Anyway, this one's really gonna be great." "Ready?" "I got a flier in the mail that says" "I can get a free clock radio-- free" "All I have to do is drive across five states and hear a week-long sales pitch for time-share condos in Gleen Bay." "The town's called Green Bay." "No, it's actually Gleen Bay." ""A secret city built beneath Green Bay in the 1800s by Chinese railroad workers."" "They say, you can still hear the screams." "Dad, why would you want to buy a condo in a haunted, subterranean ruin?" "Oh, if women were only as gullible as children, how much more fun dating would be." "Charles, the condo wouldn't be for me." "It'd be an investment." "Gee, and for a minute, I thought you were a total imbecile." "Bernice, I am sick and tired of you treating me like some dim bulb melon-head who's always on the verge of his next screw-up." "All right, who had "destroys car"" "in the next Duckman screw-up pool?" "I had "buys Lincoln Memorial."" ""Loses house in pyramid scam."" ""Herpes."" "(siren blaring)" "(hillbilly accent):" "You folks lost?" "(baby talking):" "Ooh, no, Officer." "We had the itsy bit of car twouble, and, well, if you could dwive us to town in your big, shiny car, it would sure be a big help-aly, welp-aly to little willy me." "You folks lost?" "Bernice, let me handle this." "I speak yokel." "Uh, Deputy, sir, we sho nuff gots us a plumb dilly of a predicament here, and we needs your help to keep us a-movin' on." "You folks lost?" "(snoring)" "(speaking gibberish)" "You get the sense the gene pool around here could use a little more chlorine?" "Now, now don't be snobs." "This is the heartland, the soul of our country, the moral center of our national identity." "(slurring):" "Does this look infected?" "Let's blow this hellhole!" "All right." "I'll go with Johnny One Note, see the sheriff about getting our car fixed." "Why don't you see if there's any place to eat here where the menu doesn't have the word "lips."" "MAN:" "I come home from a hard shift at the manure plant and find you sitting in front of the damn TV!" "WOMAN:" "Sis told me," ""Don't marry our brother." "He's crazy."" "MAN:" "Shut your pothole!" "I'm gonna have a drink with Jim-Bob, Bob-Bob and Cal." "Erlene, you almost made me hit a two-headed kid, you cow." "What's this?" "Nielsen box-- whole trailer park's got 'em." "(honky-tonk music playing)" "DUCKMAN:" "Fun, fun." "I haven't seen a crowd this hostile since the Jackson Family Honors." "(snorting and blowing)" "What'll it be?" "(refined accent):" "Tampico and soda with vodka ice cubes, a float and a saucer of Scotch and Pepto-Bismol." "A Duckman Depth Charge!" "How'd you...?" "King Chicken!" "Accept no substitute." "Well, take my advice, K.C., you and your Sunshine Band had better shake your booties." "I'm meeting the sheriff here, and as soon as I give him the skinny on you, your fat's in the fryer." "He'll make chicken soup out of your matzo balls." "You're gonna be up to your neck in biscuits and coleslaw." "You..." "Anyone else hungry?" "Anyway, Chicken Man, you're going straight to jail." "(laughter)" "What, is... something hanging out of my bill?" "Hey, nice coat, but you got a little something stuck on your shirt." "Ki-ya!" "You are such a mallard-headed nitwit." "I'm the sheriff here." "It's my hometown." "Everyone in Coopville is related-- sometimes in two or three ways." "So, everyone is my kin, which is why" "I'm also mayor, justice of the peace, D.A., notary public and the sole owner of the only frozen yogurt place in town." "Are mix-ins extra?" "(sarcastic laughter)" "Oh, I never get tired of your... wit." "All right, King Chicken, you've got me, but let my family go." "I don't want you." "Even better." "Well, take whichever one of them you want, but let me and the rest go." "I'm not going to hurt anyone, Duckman." "In fact, I've already had your car repaired and would be honored if you would allow me to buy you a drink before I send you on your way." "What?" "!" "Why would you let me go?" "!" "So that one day, when you least expect it," "I will trap you in an elaborately woven web of diabolical deceit, craven cruelty and evil so terrible that it will turn your life into an unending, torturous hell on Earth where you'll be too frightened to die" "and too damned to scream!" "Well, in that case, let's have that drink." "Here, have one of mine." "(loud gulping)" "(raspy-voiced):" "Smooth." "Sheriff, we found her snooping around the park bench." "It's called sitting, you podunk pinhead, and if you don't let go," "I'm going to plant my foot so deep in your keister, they'll start calling you Nike-breath!" "(silkily):" "Why, King Chicken, Evil Genius." "How nice to see you again." "And how nice to be seen." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "So..." "if Creature Feature is over, what say we make like a ske and daddie." "Before you go, may I propose a toast?" "Well, why not?" "Here's one of my favorites:" ""An Indian stick is called a totem, but underneath is a big, swinging..."" "I have my own, thanks." ""To Duckman, wherever he may travel," ""may he always know the answer to that most sacred question:" "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"" "The egg." "(all gasp)" "Uh, chicken?" "Good citizens of Coopville, there is serious work to do." "This heretic, this devil, this Duckman wants to subvert our way of life, fill our wholesome community with his big-city disease and corruption." "Will we let him?" "ALL:" "No!" "I promise you this:" "I will act on your behalf, always obeying the will of that greatest power on Earth, that most potent example of democracy in action, an unruly mob!" "(cheering and gunshots)" "I'm going to get out of here, you lousy screw!" "They ain't built a joint that can hold me." "You hear me, screw?" "!" "I'm getting out!" "Hey!" "My little sister made this cup in metal shop." "She was so proud of it." "Now it's all bent and stuff." "Sorry." "Sure, you're mad at being hanged and all, but you didn't have to take it out on this cup." "I said I was sorry." "Well, don't hurt nothing else." "Okay!" "Like that stool-- my brother made that, and that pillow-- my sister-in-law sewed it, and that bucket..." "I said okay!" "You got a visitor." "Just be thankful, you're not a cup." "Corny!" "Am I glad you're here." "They stuck me in jail just because" "I said that the egg came before the chicken." "(grunts) They disagree." "It's heresy in this town to challenge their theory of Chicken Creationism-- the deeply held belief that the chicken came before the egg." "It's the same kind of mindless, intellectually bankrupt belief system once found in the druids or the Reagan Administration." "Did you talk to my lawyer/urologist" "Donald "The Shiv" Grillo?" "Yes, but he didn't talk back." "He's dead-- a rare case of peacetime fragging." "Damn Coast Guard Reserve." "My watertight butt is in a sling." "Now I have no lawyer to defend me." "Objection." "I clerked for a Supreme Court Justice to finance my way through VCR repair school." "Relax, Duckman." "I'll get you off." "I mean, I'll see that you're found not guilty." "I hope so." "Boy, Bernice and the kids must be worried sick." "Whee!" "(carnival music plays)" "(laughing)" "When people on TV watch TV, is everything backwards?" "(all gasping)" "Wouldn't baseball be more exciting if the bats were alive?" "(all gasping)" "Sometimes I get a really bad headache, like my head is in a vise, and usually it turns out that's exactly what's wrong." "(screaming)" "How'd you get to be such a good shot?" "I've got this machine at home." "I can't wait to show you the Coopville Spittoon Museum and Mucatorium." "My heavens, how your civic pride impresses me!" "If I tell you what impresses me about you, you'll blush." "(giggling):" "Tee-hee!" "I try to stay firm." "You succeed!" "(giggling)" "Were you abused by your parents?" "No." "Teased at school?" "No." "A victim of racial rage?" "No." "Sexually harassed?" "No." "Fired for being chronically tardy?" "No." "You ever eat Twinkies?" "It's no use!" "They've got me!" "Mother of Mercy!" "Is this the end of Duckman?" "!" "Duckman, we've been caged, beaten, chased by murderers, blasted by computers, and through all that, one thing never fails:" "the way you fall apart right before crunch time, crying and moaning, like a spineless and pathetic little pansy." "What's your point?" "No point." "Just venting." "(yells)" "This is like coupon night at Sizzler." "Let's string the gol-darn egg lover up." "Now, don't you go and do anything drastic," "Uncle Goopy." "He's got a right to a fair trial." "That's why I got a judge from outside of Coopville to preside." "Hey, that's mighty white meat of you." "Allow me to introduce Judge Kennesaw Mountain Chicken." "Huh." "What are the odds he has the same last name as you?" "Well, of course, he does." "He's my pappy." "Your pappy?" "!" "But you just said an impartial judge from outside Coopville!" "That's right, Duck-tari." "Pappy lives in Bixley." "You mean...?" "Exactly." "The town line is right behind you." "Coopville, Bixley, Coopville, Bixley." "(crowd laughing)" "Coopville, Bixley, Coopville, Bixley." "(nails screeching)" "We gonna give him a fair trial, all right." "Then, we gonna string him and swing him by his scrawny, sinning' neck until... he... is... dead." "Can somebody get him a tic tac?" "(bell tolling)" "Friends of the prosecution to the right." "Defense to the left." "Ajax." "(Elvis-type entrance music playing)" "(people cheering and clamoring)" "Squeal." "Look." "I got his autograph." "It's for a friend of mine who happens to be named..." "Cornfed." "On a brighter note," "I spoke to Fluffy and Uranus this morning." "They said they're working night and day to gather evidence that may help acquit you." "It's limbo time!" "What the heck you staring at?" "Is it my big, ugly butt?" "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" "Yeah?" "Chester Oyez, we've been through this a million times." "Oh, right." "Forgot." "All rise for His Honor" "Judge Kennesaw Chicken." "(people cheering)" "Hold it down, folks." "Want to be able to hear them building the gallows, don't we?" "(laughter)" "Pappy... uh, Your Honor, I move that we dispense with jury selection and empanel the people who mistakenly sat in the jury box instead of the gallery." "Motion granted." "Jury is accepted." "Your client has been charged with espousal of Egg-olutionism." "Who will present his case first?" "I won the toss." "Your Honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury," "I intend to... uh," "Your Honor, I feel it might unduly prejudice the jury if you continue to allow the district attorney to sit on your lap." "Very well." "Sonny, go on over there." "We will prove beyond the shadow..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Sit down and shut up." "You made your point." "Yeah, I've laid the groundwork." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, think of an innocent child picking a daisy on a sunny Sunday afternoon." "Now, imagine Duckman roaring out of nowhere, driving a large truck." "He hits her and kills her." "Then he backs up and he runs over her again and again and again!" "A sadistic beast with a deranged, savage lust for blood." "Objection." "What's this fantasy got to do with the case before the court?" "Sustained." "The jury will disregard the fact that the defendant wantonly, brutally and carelessly killed a little girl." "Ha!" "Won that one." "So, you can't say for sure that Duckman is not the Anti-Christ come to flesh." "No more questions, Your Honor." "Defense, cross?" "No." "Just a little peeved." "(chuckling)" "Order!" "Order!" "Levity will not help your case one bit." "His character?" "Well... he did refuse to give to Jerry's Kids." "His exact words were, "I don't give money to anyone who can't walk up to me and thank me for it."" "Objection." "On what grounds?" "The need to distract the jury from hearing the truth." "Overruled, overruled, overruled!" "Yeah?" "Fred Overruled, you sit your butt down." "This is gonna continue being a problem, ain't it?" "He said egg!" "Plain as day, I heard him say egg!" "Came right out and said egg, he did." "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "Egg!" "You folks lost?" "I mean..." "Egg." "Egg." "Egg." "Egg." "Egg." "Egg." "Egg." "Your Honor, I believe the prosecution has made its point, plus, some people are sneaking back in line for seconds." "He's just mad because he doesn't have any witnesses of his own." "I'm afraid that's a forfeit!" "It's a do-over." "Forfeit." "Do-over." "Forfeit." "Do-over." "It's a forfeit!" "Duckman, is there anything you want before I sentence you to death?" "To sit through the entire director's cut of Dances with Wolves?" "Ha!" "I can't wait to see you dangle." "King, I-I never dreamt you found me attract..." "Quiet!" "Duckman, this court has no choice but to find you..." "Hold it, Your Honor!" "Wait!" "Where did you kids get this stuff?" "We were able to research case law in forensics using a computer spectroscope and centrifuge, we built out of sagebrush and manure." "We saw it on MacGyver." "Duckman, did you know that it was against the law to say egg?" "Uh... ha... eee... no?" "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." "Actually, this is the one time where ignorance is a legal excuse." "I didn't know that." "(murmuring) Me neither." "Well, looks like I got no choice but to find the defendant not guilty." "Not so fast." "I'm taking on my own defense, and I wish to call a witness." "In light of the fact that this case is won and at the risk of sounding insubordinate, are you out of your (bleep) mind?" "I've got a plan, Corny." "Duckman, the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client." "Exactly, old friend." "The defense calls King Chicken!" "Let the defense have its fishing expedition." "The people are confident." "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" "That I'm evil incarnate notwithstanding, I do." "King Chicken, was it you or me that day who said egg?" "This is your plan?" "Just answer the question." "It was you." "Exa..." "Oops." "Well, was my saying egg in any way because of ventriloquism?" "And remember, you're under oath." "No." "There was no ventriloquism." "Uh, ha-ha." "Did you, uh, use any kind of a hypno-ray on the crowd that made them hear "egg" when I really said "chicken"?" "You idiot!" "I assumed you had a reason for..." "Ah!" "You assumed!" "Is that correct?" "(choking growl)" "Yes!" "Well, you shouldn't assume because when you assume, you... you... wait." "There's a trick here." "I used to know it." "You slobbering, simpering..." "Your Honor, I am not the one who's on trial here." "Actually, you are the one who's on trial here." "Well, then forget I said anything." "Is it true you're really Japanese?" "I'm not Japanese!" "You just said you were." "I didn't know you was Japanese." "I'm not!" "I'm not Japanese!" "Methinks thou doth protest too much!" "Me further thinks that thou doth commitst yon crime and does forthwith, to wit, to woo doth pinn't on me, yet blam't on you." "You're mad!" "You're stark raving mad!" "Perhaps, but would it surprise you to learn that there is a method to my madness?" "Yes!" "Me, too!" "What are you talking about?" "I don't know, but I do know that even though there isn't a thought in my head, it is my right as an American to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and..." "(yammering)" "I can't take it anymore!" "I confess!" "I masterminded the whole thing." "I sent the condo flier, I built the water fountain," "I sabotaged your car-- all part of my plan to start a new world worshipping at an altar of my own design." "Chicken Creationism would infect every town and city-- a massive organization of small-minded intolerance so powerful it could defeat anything except, of course, N.Y.P.D. Blue, and I would be the messiah, but I knew I needed a Judas," "so I drugged you to say egg and made you an enemy of the people-- the glue to hold my society together, for nothing so unites the ignorant masses like a common hatred." "I still get the clock radio, right?" "Why, you...!" "You want to know why I did this?" "Made fun of you when you were kids, ridicule, get your revenge, who's laughing now, the whole schmear, right?" "Oh." "Right." "Hang him high." "But, Pappy..." "Pappy nothing." "You're a bad seed." "You're power-hungry, crazy as a loon;" "plus, your frozen yogurt's too damn expensive." "Oh, Kingy!" "I'll always remember our time on the bicycle, and the time under the porch, and those two times inside the mechanical clown at Burger Barn." "Bernice, one kiss before I die." "Ugh!" "(sobbing):" "Adieu..." "Adieu!" "Yeah?" "I hate this town." "Thanks for all your help, boys, but deep down, I knew I'd win." "I've got a higher power on my side." "You mean...?" "Even higher than that." "(Paramount logo music playing)" "Let's go home." "BERNICE:" "That's funny." "One of my hairpins is missing." "(fiendish laughter)" "(stuttering)" "That's everything we've got, people."

"who all behave like they own the sidewalk." "But lately it seemed as if the city had been magically reduced to only two people... us." "Four-hour conversations flew by, and a few days apart felt like weeks." "I realised that Einstein's law of relativity would have to be amended to explain the peculiar effects of infatuation." "Hello?" "I'm trying to get hold of a Miss Carrie Bradshaw." "She used to be a friend of mine." " Good morning." " Wait, I think I recognise that voice." "God, I've been meaning to call you I've just been..." " Fucking your brains out?" " Yeah, well, that's the least of it." "I don't think that I have been hit this hard since..." "No, I won't compare it to anything, because everything else has always ended." "Will I see you again?" " Yeah, how about tonight?" " Yeah, tonight." "Right, I'll see if Charlotte and Samantha are free." "Big's got this dinner thing, so we didn't have any plans." " God, listen to yourself!" " Yeah, I know." " I've become a horrid woman." " Yes, you have." " I can't talk now, I'll call later." "OK?" " All right, bye." "As I hung up, I realised I'd committed the cardinal sin..." "I'd forsaken my girlfriends for my new boyfriend." "That night I faced the tribunal." " We really weren't that concerned." " Just completely hurt and offended." "Actually, you missed a lot." "Miranda had worked on a big successful merger." "Samantha was obsessed with the idea of a new apartment." "And Charlotte..." "Charlotte was practically engaged." "They met the day after I dropped off the edge of the earth." "He was Michael Conway, from a good family, and he absolutely adored Charlotte." "I think this might be it." "I think this might be the one." " We've met him, he's perfect." " Even his dog is perfect." "But... there is one thing." "Last night, after seeing the Philharmonic, they went to his place and began the classic dating ritual... the blow job tug of war." " Oh, come on." " Not tonight." " When?" " Sometime." " The truth is, I hate doing it." " Honey, you can't be serious." "You never perform this act?" "She'll juggle, she'll spin plates, but she won't give head." "I don't like putting it in my mouth." "It makes me want to puke." " That's one way to say no." " It's not like I haven't tried." "I practiced on a banana." "I pretended it was a Popsicle, but..." "I just don't like it." "I love it until the guy wants me to swallow." " That's a judgment call." " Some men take it personally if you don't." " Some guys don't give you a choice." " That's bad behavior." " You honestly like it?" " It's not my favourite thing on the menu, but I'll order it from time to time, and with the right guy, it can be nice." "Oral sex is God's gift to women - you needn't worry about getting pregnant." "Plus the sense of power is such a turn-on, you've got him by the balls." "That is the reason that I don't want to go down this road." "Sweetheart, if you're gonna get all choked up about it... just don't do it." "If you don't go down on him, you can't expect him to go down on you." "I don't." "Oh, well, forget it!" "I only give head to get head." "Me, too." "A few hours and a couple of bottles later, vows of friendship renewed, we were almost out the door when..." " Isn't that Mr Big?" " Yeah." "I'm gonna go over and say hi." " Ditching us now would be bad form." " I'm not gonna ditch you." " Surprise." " Hey, Carrie!" "How are you?" "Good, good." "I was just here with my posse having dinner, and I saw you." "Oh, Carrie, this is Julia Woods." "Julia, Carrie Bradshaw." "Nice to meet you." " Can I talk to you for a second?" " Sure." "Excuse me." " Are you on a date?" " Sort of." "You said you had a business thing tonight." " I said a dinner thing." " Well, she's stunning." "And I should know because frankly, she stunned me." " Enjoy your dinner." " Are you OK?" "Oh, sure." "I was just, you know," "I didn't realise you were dating other women." "Not a lot of other women." "Why don't we talk about this Saturday?" "Sure, sure." "So... enjoy your dinner." "Oh, already said that." "Well, enjoy it twice." "Here we go." "I can't believe it, he's seeing other women!" "Prick." "True, we had never discussed exclusivity." "While for me, seeing another man would be like trying to fit another outfit into an over-stuffed suitcase," "Big was dating another woman like it was the most natural thing in the world." "Is it that men have an innate aversion to monogamy, or is it more than that?" "I wondered." "In a city like New York, with its infinite possibilities, has monogamy become too much to expect?" "I've been in a monogamous relationship for over a year." "It's been wonderfully fulfilling." "Of course, my definition of monogamy includes sex with prostitutes." "The problem with monogamy, it's just so incredibly dull." "My lover and I have a kind of 90's monogamy." "We have sex with other people, but we don't exchange fluids or phone numbers." "Hello." "Monogamy is fabulous." "It gives you a deep connection to another human being and you needn't shave your legs as much." "Of course, I'm monogamous." "Why, what have you heard?" "This is the c-line." "This is the best in the building." "Have you ever seen any place like this?" "Is this to die?" "It's nice." "Hold this." "Just a second." "Excuse me." "Excuse me, was someone looking for a view?" "Oh, Pamela, it's beautiful, but it's a little out of my price..." "I know, I know." "I just love to show the creme de la creme." "I'll break my ass for you, sweetheart." "I just want one small favour in return." "My first born?" "No, sweetheart, I don't even want my own kids." " Promise not to work with another broker." " Of course!" "Samantha didn't believe in monogamy, especially with real estate agents." "This is a pre-war six." "Notice the classic lines." "Very solidly built." "Although Pamela had the hottest contacts in town," "Rick did have a slight competitive edge." "Samantha could combine her two greatest loves - sex and real estate." "That afternoon I dragged my poor tortured soul out to lunch with Stanford Blatch, and attempted to stun it senseless with cosmopolitans." "Monogamy is out again." "It had a brief comeback in the '90s, but as the millennium approaches, everyone's leaving their options open." "Wouldn't you commit to a nice guy?" "I can't even commit to a long distance carrier." "You know you're a whore." "I wish that were true." " Hey, Stanford." " Hey, Jared, how are you?" "My book was well reviewed in Entertainment Weekly." "How marvellous." "Oh, Jared, have you met Carrie Bradshaw?" " No, but I've read your column." "Nice shit." " Thanks." "You should write about me, my life's fucked up." "Jared is the writer of the book "Avenue B"." "New York Magazine just named him one of the 30 coolest people under 30 in the city." "What an honour." "If they were doing the 30 sexiest women under 30, you'd top the list." " You're quite the storyteller, aren't you?" " That's no lie." "The magazine's party is tomorrow at Luna." "I'll put your names at the door." " Thanks." " So you'll be there?" " I'll do my best." " Groovy." "Ciao." "What was happening to me?" "I used to get a rush when men hit on me during their 15 minutes of fame." "In this case, it merely felt exhausting." " Hello." " Well, hello." "I'm calling to confirm tomorrow night." "Are we still on?" "Yeah, of course, why wouldn't we be?" "I was striving for noncommittal, but I was worried I had just bordered on shrill." " I'll pick you up at eight." " Yeah, eight's fine." " I miss you, baby." " Yeah." "Me, too." "There were so many questions I wanted him to answer, but would not ask." "Not tonight at least." "No, tonight I would ask Miranda." "He said, "I miss you, baby." Was that some kind of coded mea culpa?" "Like, "I've been an idiot." "Forgive me for having dinner with another woman"?" " Exactly." " Could be." "So everything that he ever said that I thought was sincere is subjective." "So what I perceive as his feelings for me may only be projections of my feelings for him." "What?" "Oh, God, I'm freaking." "I gotta stop." "Hey, Carrie!" " Hey!" " Hey, you guys, great to see you." " What are you up to?" " Just hanging." "Alison, this is Miranda and Carrie." " Miranda and Carrie, this is Alison." " Hello." " I've heard so much about you." " Me too." "We're big fans of your column at Vogue." " You work at Vogue?" " Yeah, designer relations." "Skipper and I just had the most incredible meal." " It's this little hole in the wall." " This darling French bistro." "I lived a year in Paris and never ate so well, and cheap." "Really?" "Go quick before The Times destroys it with a rave." " It's great to see you guys." " Yeah, great meeting you." " Goodnight." " Bye!" " Who was that self-important bitch?" " Skipper's new girlfriend." "She seemed all right." "I didn't think that was his type." "That's true, Miranda, you're his type." "But you broke up with him, remember?" "Something looks different." "Has he been working out?" "Hey, Skipper here, leave me a message." "Hi, Skipper, it's Miranda." "I just wanted to say it was great running into you today, and..." "You looked great." "Did you do something different to you hair?" "Hello?" "Miranda." "Hey, I can't talk right now." "That's OK." "I just wanted to say maybe..." "I thought we could have dinner some night." " Seriously?" " Yeah, I miss you." "I'll call you later." "Is everything OK?" "Alison, I think you're great..." "But I've gotta be totally honest with you." "The woman who I think I love just called and asked me back." "You're breaking up with me while you're still inside of me?" "As Skipper rededicated his singular affection for Miranda," "Charlotte was receiving her own declaration of monogamy." "What do you think about not seeing anyone else but each other?" " Really?" " Yeah." " That might be a good idea." " I think it's the best idea I've ever had." "Well, in that case, absolutely." "And while Charlotte embraced fidelity, and Samantha flaunted her infidelity..." "I found myself caught somewhere in between." " Who's crowded apartment are we in?" " Max, he's an old friend of mine." "Becky is his second wife." "She's a doll, you'll love her." "Hey, there, stranger." "Melissa." " This is Carrie Bradshaw." " Hi." "Love your column, never miss it." " Thanks." " I've been trying to call you." "You still have my passport." " She's a friend I once travelled with." " Internationally, I would imagine." "Let's find Max." "Hey, Max!" "Excuse me." "Glad you could make it." "Max, I want you to meet someone very special." "Julia." "Actually it's Carrie." "Carrie, well, welcome." "Carrie writes this fantastic column in The New York Star." "It's called Sex And The City." "Well, if you're looking for material, you're dating the right man." "Oh, thank you, Max, thank you very much." "Are we dating?" "I thought we were just sleeping together." "Well, I'm sure after tonight, we won't be doing much of either." "Excuse me." "I'll be right back." "Carrie." "You've got to be kidding." " How many women are you dating?" " In this area?" "Well, let's see there's me, Julia, and let's not forget international Melissa." " I'm not doing this here." " Fine." " Can we just enjoy the party?" " I don't know." "Come on, what do you want from me?" "What do I want from you?" "Nothing." "I don't want anything from you." "I have to go, I'm sorry." "I felt like a fool." "I had gone so far out on a limb with my feelings that I didn't realise I was standing out there alone." "When life gets this confusing, sometimes there's only one thing to do, attend a fabulous party." " Hey, Stanford." " Carrie, what a surprise!" " Where's..." " Don't ask." " What happened?" " He became predictable." "How predictable?" " Hey, you made it." " Hey, Jared." " I'll get you a drink." " Cosmopolitan, thanks." "In a room where everyone was gorgeous, cool, and under 30, monogamy suddenly seemed like a quaint notion." "That was so great." " Don't you want to lie like this forever?" " Well, for a few minutes anyway." "I missed you." "And I want you to know that that other woman doesn't mean a thing to me." "Oh, that's all right." "I don't mind if you keep seeing her." "Oh, God, no." "I broke up with her the second that you called." " Skipper, you didn't have to do that." " Of course, I did." "I was so happy." "We were still doing it while I was talking to you and I didn't realise." " You're kidding, right?" " No, isn't that crazy?" "Yeah, that's exactly what it is, crazy." "Listen, Skipper, I'm not ready for a full blown relationship thing." " What?" " I mean we can see each other and still see other people, right?" "No." "No, we can't." "At least, I can't." " Why did you call me back anyway?" " I'm sorry, I thought..." "I'm not your private stud horse, Miss dial-a-fuck." " Come here, come back." " I'm tired of being jerked around." "I hope you find what you're looking for." "While Miranda misjudged the intensity of Skipper's feelings," "Michael left Charlotte no doubt about his." "You're amazing." "You've got everything I'm looking for, and I've never found before in one woman." "Brains, taste, class..." "And you're very, very, sexy." "Thank you." " What's the problem?" " I hate doing it." "You hate giving blow jobs?" " It's not that big of a deal, is it?" " Well, sort of." "Can't you just do it for me?" "Would you really want me to do something that I didn't want to do?" " You'll get used to it." " No, I won't." "I never have, sorry." "Well, I plan on getting a lot of blow jobs in the future, and I'm hoping that you're around when I get them." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means I'll have to find them somewhere else." "You're telling me that you would give up a woman who really cares for you, who would share your hopes and your fears, and your dreams, the future possible mother of your children, all for a blow job?" "You're right." " Will you at least lick my balls?" " Goodbye, Michael." "Michael was upset, but Butterscotch seemed pleased." "She was finally back in her monogamous relationship." "Half past midnight." "In a city that never sleeps, neither did the real estate market." " It's beautiful." " Isn't it?" "It went on the market at midnight and you're the first one to see it." "Two bedrooms, pre-war, fireplace and views." " Everything you wanted." " I love it, I really love it." " I knew you would." " Let's celebrate." "Oh, my God!" "I can't believe that you are working with another broker." "I can't believe you weren't gonna show me this apartment." "2:00am and I already had a new man in my life." "The greatest thing about writing, besides the validation and acclaim, is knowing that I'm pumping my ideas into the world." "I thought it was that you could behave like an asshole and people would find you amusing." "I'm in love with you, you know that?" "I'm in love with you." " Will you go home with me tonight?" " One minute, I have to make a call." "Hello." "I'm at this very cool party for very cool people under 30, and this very cool novelist wants to take me home." " What the hell happened to you?" " His name is Jared." "He's really cute and really successful, and he just put his arms around me." " Here, say hello, Jared." " Hello, Jared." " That was Jared." " Carrie, just get over here." " No, you get over here." " I can't, I don't know where you are." "I'm at the Luna Park Cafe." "Meet me out front, you're not on the list." "45 minutes later, I realised I was alone in a park at 3am." "And that it was time to call it a night." "What are you doing back here?" "You said to meet out front." " This is the front." " This isn't the front, this is the back." "I've been waiting out front for 30 goddamn minutes." "You see those doors?" "That's the front." " You were waiting at the street entrance." " The street entrance is the front entrance." "Depending on where you're coming from." "OK." "I'm here, now, what's going on?" "I've done the merry-go-round and the revolving door." "I feel like I met somebody I can stand still with for a minute and..." "Don't you want to stand still with me?" "You dragged me out to a park to ask me if I want to stand still with you?" "Yes." "In a city of infinite options, sometimes there's no better feeling than knowing you only have one."

" I must ask you to stop." " Just sit down." "It's a red van, registration..." " Something you haven't told us'?" " I could never harm her." "Theis may do something stupid." "You may think so but he's done nothing." " Where's Kemal'?" " He took a taxi." "Around 10 o'clock the doorbell rings and it's Nanna Birk Larsen." "She returned some books." "She stayed two minutes." " He's lying." " Do a search." "The flat, cellar, allotment..." "The lot." "Have you suspended him'?" "Has Eller dumped you or is she waiting till tomorrow?" " I want you to come back." " You didn't trust me." "They've found her bike outside the teacher's flat." "If Kemal never drove the car how would he recognise it'?" " He could have found out." " That's unlikely, isn't it'?" "It's not him." "On the basis of a talk with the police" "I'll defer suspending the teacher." "What?" "No suspension?" "Are you covering for a murderer'?" "Fix it or I'll out you loose." "You asked me to find this document." "What about your credibility?" "Your party took credit for the role models." "Read your homepage." "You have to come to the meeting." "They want a vote." "About you stepping down for a new candidate." "He was here." "He touched the coffin." " You think it's him, eh?" " Theis, he's finished." "We'll wait like we did that other time." "Don't talk about that again." "You knew he was a suspect." "He held my hand and you said nothing." "You want everyone to adapt to you." "The examiner says he's done it before but I can't find similar cases." " I care about you, not your case." " I need your help." "I'll call later." " And the building waste?" " On Saturday." "What did you put out at 1.30 am. in black bags'?" "An old bedspread." "He carried her out in the rain, covered in black plastic." " His friend was waiting for him." " What did his friend look like?" "One like him." "He had help." "He didn't see him close up." "An Arab." " What's in the background?" " Evening prayer." "Kemal's dad is in a mosque in the west." "I'm on my way." "THE KILLING" "The mobile belongs to a Mustafa Akkad." " Do we know him'?" " No, and no description either." " When did he call'?" " 32 minutes ago." " It's best if you wait here." " Why?" " It's a mosque." "No need to offend." " I'll stay behind." "That would be nice." "For once." "Peace and God's mercy and blessings be upon you." "Lord, accept our prayers." "Prayers and peace be upon our master Muhammad and upon all his family and companions." " Is Mustafa Akkad here'?" " He left 15 minutes ago." " Where to'?" " I don't know." " I'll look around." " Remove your shoes." "How do your son and Mustafa know each other?" "I have no son." "May God forgive me." "Many years ago..." "they were friends." "They arrived here at the same time." "But it didn't seem to mean anything to Rahman." " Do they still see each other?" " No." "No one here sees Rahman." "Any idea where I can find Mustafa Akkad'?" " No." " He's not here." "It's important that we find him." "I think he rents out some garages." " Perhaps you'll find him there." " Where are these garages?" "Want some gloves?" "Only one garage isn't leased out." "Lund..." " Are they here'?" " Yes." "It's looks like a funeral." "How did they react when it was canceled?" "The 200 people who came in vain?" " Who called the meeting?" " Officially it was Knud." " I think others are behind it." " It's a stupid waste of time." " Don't underestimate them." " I won't." "I'll inform them properly." "But they ought to know better." " No news from the police'?" " No." "Shall we get going'?" "Good evening." "Sorry for the delay." "We're running a campaign." "This meeting is without notice so please keep it short." "It's correct that this meeting is without notice." "However there is... a situation in the press and the campaign..." "Fine." "Could we get to the crux of the matter?" "What's on the agenda?" "To be crude, Troels, you are on the agenda." "Let me have it." "We're all happy with you and the work you do." "But lately we've doubted your judgment and honesty" " What utter nonsense." " If I may'?" "Many things indicate that the teacher may be guilty." "Troels hasn't suspended him." "He hopes to appear as though he's protecting an innocent man." "But in fact he's protecting himself." "Secondly..." "Why was Kemal's personnel file not handed to the police?" "I ask myself "ls Troels hiding something?"" "And then there are rumors of leaks from the office." "Very confidential information that ended up in places where it shouldn't." "When we add to that declining popularity and lack of government support" "I have to ask if Troels has any control over all this'?" " Is that it?" " Am I not right'?" "About the file, the police and the leaked information'?" "It's taken out of context." "It's under control." "If Troels doesn't Withdraw I suggest we decide on an extraordinary meeting and a vote of no confidence." "Relax." " It's the only sensible thing." " You can't decide that." "According to the rules, all it takes is a simple majority." " It's up to the members." " I asked them." " Think of another way." " We're here to find a solution." "This will cause more problems." " Anton's bike had a flat Tyre." " Yes'?" " Finished the demolition?" " Yes." "It's none of my business but..." "We're worried about you." "And we want to help." "Have you considered talking to someone?" "Pernille was asleep when we got here and the boys were alone in the room." " I think..." " We do what we can." "I didn't mean it like that." "The police called a while ago." "Call this number." "Thanks." " Where's Pernille'?" " She needs to sleep." " She won't hear about the house." " I talked to the police." "Theis..." " Where is she'?" " Give her some peace." "You'll wake the children." "I just want to talk to my wife, okay?" "They've got the teacher." "They've found the evidence." "Mustafa Akkad says "I'll tell the police everything."" "And you reply "Shut up or you'll regret it forever."" " Meaning'?" " Butt out." "Why go to the police?" "Is it because he's an accomplice?" "If I'm not under arrest I'd like to go home." "Have you used his garage?" "We've just looked at one of them." "We found a little room at the back." "Like a cell." "It was an unusual garage." "I wouldn't know." "I've never been there." "Funny you should say that." "Your fingerprints are there." "I helped him tidy up a month ago." "Listen." "A witness saw you and probably Mustafa that night." "That Friday night." "You carried something downstairs." "Like a body." "You put it in the car and drove off." "You're wasting your time." "Nanna had left long before that." "As far as I know she was never in that garage." "Neither were you, you said." "I want my solicitor now." "We're only following the rules." "The rules don't call for us to behave like idiots." "If only one demands it we must take a vote." "Firstly, I'm not covering for Kemal." "The principle is that a person is innocent until proven otherwise, and not found guilty by the press." "With regard to our role model program, which is not just mine, it's a program that we have spent time and energy creating." "Kemal is an example of this." "Should I just suspend him because the press has convicted him'?" "We're obliged to back him as he has backed us out there." "Yes, We've had problems in the office and administration with regard to information that has been leaked." "That comes with an election campaign with Bremer on the other side." "And what did you expect from the government?" "You chose me because of my position on issues that have always been a thorn in the side of the government." "Don't waver!" "Let's believe in what we've started." "I promise you..." "Switch on the TV." "If we stick together the voters will return." "May I switch on the news'?" "Sources within the police inform us that the 19-year-old Birk Larsen was probably kept hidden here." "We have no comment." "Enough people have an opinion." "The police have a theory that Kemal is connected to the garages." "In spite of this, the teacher has still not been suspended." "Now to the situation in Iraq." "That's not proof in itself." "Who votes for a meeting and a vote of no confidence in Troels Hartmann'?" "It's a news bulletin." "Shouldn't we check it out first'?" "The vote is 5-5." "Now we only need your vote, Knud." "Well... if it can help settle things." "We're hereby calling for a vote tomorrow evening." "Thanks for coming." "I'd like you to look at some photos." "Some things from a garage." "Perhaps you recognise some things as Nanna's." "No." "No." " Was she there?" " We don't know for sure." "Just look at the effects." "What about this one'?" "She's got one like that." "You're sure'?" "You're sure she had one like that?" "It's Nanna's." "She's got one like that." "Thank you." " Where is he now'?" " We've got him." "He's under arrest till we examine everything." "How much do you have'?" "She probably had an affair with Kemal." "It looks as if they met in his flat after the party." "He then drove her out there and... took her to the woods on Sunday." "Thanks." "The police have found something in the garage." " Let's go over there." " You stay here." "Try to find out..." "what to do with the group." " Get hold of the rules." " Knud's right." "A majority can move a vote against you and you must resign." "If you suspend Kemal you may win some votes" "So?" "I know." " And Knud'?" " He's in Bigum's pocket." "We'll meet with them separately." "Change the schedule to make room for it all." "Excuse me." "Could I have a word with you, Troels." "In private." "Okay." "Come on." "It's not good when one of your own stabs you in the back." "They're all cowards." "They're not worthy of you." "Why would that keep you awake?" " I'm a bit busy." "Get to the point." " Very well." "I can save your skin." "Some of your group have approached me." "Bigum wants to talk." "They'll vote you out tomorrow and save what can be saved." " And you shouted a round?" " No, there's nothing to celebrate." "This city needs you." "Your energy is good for many." "And it would pain me to see you go down because... you got entangled in some silly case." "You have a proposal?" "I do." "You forget all about becoming lord mayor at this election." "You suspend the teacher and pacify your support base." "I'll tell your group that I can't use them without you." "The vote tomorrow will go your way and We're back where we were a week ago." "You and I will come to an agreement and with some luck we can use you as school mayor for the next... four years." " Why are you helping me'?" " Don't give me your answer now." "The answer is no." " Shouldn't you sleep on it'?" " I want to be able to sleep." "So... no." "Do you seriously believe the guy is innocent?" "I'll give you till tomorrow." "Sleep well." " Can we arrest Kemal'?" " Yes." "We've got the sweater, the phone call and a witness who saw him put the girl in the boot." " That must be enough." " We'll arrest him." " Yes." " Call Hartman." "His office called." "Bring him up to date." " You take Hartman." " No way." " I'm at Forensics." "Thanks." " I won't take Hartman." "Did you hear me'?" " Good." "I have to talk to you." " I don't have time." "Talk to Meyer." "I want to talk to you." "What did you find in the garage?" "It appears to be where Kemal kept the girl." " Appears?" " We're charging him." "Is he going to court?" "When?" "Tomorrow." "But go and see Meyer." " When tomorrow?" " Is he guilty?" "Yes, I think so." "That you defend him to the press and don't suspend him is your problem." " You think he's guilty?" " Yes." "Right now, I do." "I have problems seeing otherwise." "Lund!" " No doubts at all'?" " The hospital called." "About What?" "Bengt has had an accident." "As far as I understand he hit a crash barrier." "He was luckier than he deserves to be." "Why'?" "He should have stayed in bed." "His blood alcohol level was 1.2." " I want to see him." " Not till he's awake." " As I told you..." " I want to see him." "I'll see what I can do." "Stay here." " Can I do anything?" " No." "But thanks for..." "Of course." "I just think I have to..." "If that's okay?" " Sure." " Come on." "But thanks." "You were right." "He's done it before." "How are you'?" "They say you have concussion and a broken arm." "I was so bloody angry with you yesterday." "I shouldn't have driven home." "I don't know why I am so..." "I read what you gave me." "It Wasn't an impulsive act." "We can talk about that later." "He has a method, a pattern he follows." "We looked at old cases." "There's nothing similar." "Because the victims haven't been found." "The girl was dumped, never to be found." "That's what excites him." "Only he and she know... where... and when it will end." "For him, this is an intimate relationship." "A loving relationship." " So?" "Is he okay?" " Yes." "And you'?" "We have to check Women who've gone missing in the last decade." " Why?" " First here and then the whole country" " There's something else." " Check Kemal's CV and addresses." "We had to let him go." "We didn't have enough on him." " The parents recognised the sweater." " It may not have been hers." " What do Forensics say'?" " They need more tests." " We've got a lot on him." " Such as?" "A witness who saw Kemal carry the girl downstairs." "The witness has recanted." "The old man isn't sure what he saw." "He says he never said what you say he did." "We must talk to him again." "He said quite clearly that..." "But he says something else now." "All you've got is a vague phone conversation." "Imagine what the judge said." "It's not Lund's fault he reneged." "Find Mustafa Akkad." "Brush your teeth." "Now." "We're leaving." "I'll clean out Nanna's room today." "I'll return her books to the school." "I'll ask Charlotte to come along." "Okay." "Can you manage?" " Don't go to the school." " I've made up my mind." "Of course I have to attend to my job." "I was released." "They found out they were wrong." "Shouldn't we buy a pram today?" "Please stay at home." "You've been up all night." "When I was lying in the cell I thought of how much I love my life." "I won't let them change that." " The others will think it's strange." " I don't care what they think." "I only care that you believe me." "Why was there blood on the T-shirt you wore last weekend?" "I told you." " Why did you throw it out?" " I out myself with a hobby knife." "It wouldn't wash out" "I'll go to work as normal and then we'll buy a pram later." "Right, beautiful?" "What happens now'?" " I don't know much." " What will he get?" "I don't know." "It's not important as long as he's punished." " Will you take them in'?" " Sure." "I agreed to deliver them to the office." "Yes." "I'll call you later." "I'll call." " Why did you let him go?" " We had to." " But you had proof." " Not enough." "I'm sorry but..." "How much do you need?" "She was in his flat and the garage." "We need sufficient proof for the court." "And if you don't find it'?" "I just saw him." "He's going to work and Walking around." "I'm Working on the case." "I'm getting closer." " I understand..." " Don't tell me that you understand." "Don't tell me that." "Lund here." "Just a moment." "Make sure someone's Watching Theis Birk Larsen." " Lund." " Do we have an interpreter?" " Why?" " We've found Akkad." "The idiot returned to get some money." " Is he talking?" " I can't understand shit." "They're bringing him in now." "See you." "Off you go." " Want some coffee?" " Just half a cup." " How are things?" " Fine." " What did you do last Weekend?" " We worked on the summer house." "Rama, could you come with me'?" " Could we talk over coffee?" " No." " You'll have to leave." " But I'm not suspended." "It'll cause trouble." "I'm asking you to leave." "So you think I did it." "Excuse me." "My class is Waiting." "I think we should talk about what has happened lately." "I'm sure you've heard a lot of rumors." "But I hope you trust me when I say that..." "I had nothing to do with it." "Any questions?" "Does anyone want to comment?" "Anything?" "Okay." "Let's get to work." "Karen..." "Blixen." "Lisa, where are you going'?" "This is why we must talk about it." "They'll nail him." "They just haven't got enough evidence yet." " We must believe that." " But you don't." " I'm going to the house." " Yes." " Hide in that bloody house." " What?" "Isn't that what you do when things get sticky?" " You did that to Nanna too." " What are you saying?" "Whenever she wanted to talk you told her no." " And then you left." "Right?" " No." "That's not true." "Why did she keep so many secrets?" "Why didn't we know?" " She didn't come to us." " She was 19 and an adult." "And because you two always stuck together." "We had to." "You weren't there." " You let her do what she Wanted." " I didn't." "You did." "And you didn't care." "What?" "I lay awake like you when she came home late." " I didn't want to take it out on her." " And how did that help us'?" "Yes, there's a vote." "Who told you'?" "Of course he won't resign We expect him to win." "We'll send a press release out when we know." "Good." "Bye." "How did it go?" "Well... they'll turn up to see What's going on." " I don't know if they'll vote for me." " The press knows about the vote." "Of course." " We'll talk to the group." " To discuss What?" "Kemal's release changes things." " Why was he released?" " Let's take it as good news for us" "Yesterday they were sure of his guilt." "Today he's suddenly free." "It doesn't add up." "Who says Sarah Lund told you the truth?" "We must trust their judgment." "Knud Padde is the one you have to concentrate on." "She appeared so sure." "He might be out but it's not solved." "They wouldn't let him go if he was guilty." "Henrik Bigum may be right." "The damage is done." "Not yet." "But if you back Bigum the damage will be done." "I want you to stay." "Why not drop the whole thing'?" "If only you could convince me that you can win the election." "Can you'?" "In the end it's up to you." "If you trust Bigum more... go with him." "Only Troels can win this election for us." "When we win Troels won't forget his supporters" "I have to think about this." "I'll call you." "What the hell were you thinking?" "When we checked the logbooks..." "When we told the police that..." "Are you sure Kemal Wasn't near the car she was found in'?" " Yes, of course." " We checked it carefully?" "What about the cars'?" "The police suspect that Kemal has driven the car Nanna was found in." " Shall we get the next one in'?" " I have to make a call." " Do you know something?" " About What?" "I was away when the police asked you." "You couldn't know." "Meaning'?" "When the campaign started Kemal was in charge of an event." "Some young people had to get a lift." "No council cars were available." "So I... gave him permission to use one of ours." " Only one afternoon." " Was it that car?" "I don't know." "We've got a lot of cars." "Was it'?" "That's what I'm checking." "But I think it was." "Check it." "Now." "Rudi and me are going to the house." "Are you coming'?" "Anything I can do?" "You do know how much she meant to me too'?" "Pernille and you have always been there for me." "This is not fair." "I want to be alone now." "You're sure I shouldn't wait for you'?" "I just talked to Knud." "He'll back you for some good committee posts." "Let's get this meeting over with and then have some food and wine." " Did you find out about the car?" " Yes." "It was that car." "Good." "Call the police." "Explain the circumstances." "And that Kemal drove the car." " Wait." " Do it now." "We're taking a vote in a minute." "There'll be no vote, no committee posts." "I'll resign." " Troels, listen to me." " It can't be otherwise." "Send out a press release." " Stop, Troels." " It's not your fault." "It's not up for discussion." "I've damaged the party." "I defended a person who did something gruesome." "Now Bremer will win" "Yes." "So be it." "Let's get it over with." "Okay?" "Am I early?" "No." "Come in." "Welcome." "I don't know for how long." "I want to see Bengt tonight so eat without me." "I have to go." "I'm off." " He's not talking." " Turn it up a notch." "What?" " Are we sure he's involved?" " Yes." " Why?" " He's got a clean sheet." "He's got four kids, prays five times a day." " So What?" " Something is totally wrong." " He could have cleaned up..." " But he didn't." "Shall we go in'?" "Listen to me." "Talk or you'll be an accomplice Is that what you want'?" "Your vow to Kemal won't interest the court." "You'll be deported and go back to the place you fled from." "Some policemen will meet you." "They may smile when they see you." "Not because they're nice." "You've got children?" "Do you want to see them grow up?" " He'll take them along." " Really?" "Not knowing if you can support them or send them to school or care for them if they get ill'?" "The authorities may take them." "It's not what you think." "Rama's a good man." "But he did something stupid." "Talk." "We agreed I should drop in." "He knew the girl would come by that evening." "I told him I wouldn't get involved." "He needed a place." "When I arrived... the girl was feeling ill and she could hardly Walk." "So we carried her down to the car and drove her to my garage." "To hide her from her family and the authorities." " I left but Rama told me..." " Stop there." "What are we talking about?" "I'm talking about the girl that Rama helped." "What girl'?" "The girl from his father's congregation." "Abu Jamal's daughter, Lela." "She ran away from home to avoid a marriage." "He just wanted to help her." "First he hid her in my garage and then he found somewhere else." "Sorry to bother you but Rama hasn't come home." "I see." "But I can't be his babysitter." "He went to the school but they asked him to leave and no one's seen him since." " Have you called him'?" " I left heaps of messages." "He always rings back." "He knows I worry." "We'll find him." "Do you know where Birk Larsen is'?" "He was at home but last I heard he was on his way to Humleby." " Check if he's over there." " I just did." "I haven't done anything." "I told you everything." "Your daughter... she left after a short While." "I helped another girl but I couldn't say anything." "Your daughter came by." "I should've told you before." "It's the truth." "His phone." "Call her." "Yes." "Subtitlingi Zanne Mallett Brenden Dannaher" "Subtitles SBS Australia 2010"

"Your friend Ruth Slater, she murdered two policemen here in our house." "She spent at least 15 years inside." "That's why she hasn't had any contact with her sister." " 15 years for a man's life." "It's not enough." " She's got a sister, remember." "Ten minutes in a room with her, just you, me and a couple of baseball bats." "And it's doing what she did to us, taking it out on something she cares about." " Who's Katie Slater?" " It's Lucy, she has a sister, a biological sister who we've never told her about." " She live local?" " I don't know." "I don't know where she is." "What do you remember about your life before you went to live with Michael and Rachel?" "Nothing." "This private detective woman is saying she can find me this sister." "500 quid." "No problem." " Oh, shit." " Jesus!" "Steve!" "There are things people don't know." "Anybody could have ended up doing what I did." "Ruth." "Police are here." " What they doing?" " Nothing." "They're just sitting there." "Happen we'd be all right in a flat, eh?" "We can't really shoot at 'em." "You know that, don't you?" "I were just mouthing off." "What is it now?" "Is that the bay leafs?" "I don't know." "It's your mate Sergeant Whelan." "They're coming over." "Shouldn't social services be here?" "On their way." "They'll probably turn up some time next week." "Isn't this a bit heavy-handed for a 17-year-old lass and a little kid?" "You won't have met the Slaters." "I think they're gonna break t'door down." "Ruth." "Do something." " They've got a thing." " So open t'window and tell 'em to piss off." "Go on." "Hello." "What's your name?" "Is it Katie?" "Er, can you come down and open the door?" "Where's your sister?" "Is she there cos I need to talk to her?" " I haven't got anything to say to him." " She hasn't got anything to say to you." " It's all been said." " It's all been said." "Yeah, well, I've got a couple of things I want..." "You are wasting your time, pal." "May as well cut to the chase and drag the little beggars out kicking and screaming, cos that's how it'll end." "He's ringing somebody up now." "I'll answer it." "Hello?" "Are you there?" "Can I speak to Ruth, please?" "She doesn't wanna talk to you." "Can you tell her my name's Mr Boothroyd?" "It's Mr Boothroyd." " ...and that I'm a bailiff..." " And he's a bay leaf." "...appointed by the county magistrate." "Nip round t'front, see if there's a window we can get in wi'out doing any damage." "Yeah, all right." "What'd really help me, love, is if you come down and open the door." "He wants me to go downstairs and let him in." "Pass him to me." " You know this in't fair, don't you?" " Is that Ruth?" "You know they haven't treated us properly." " I don't know all the ins and outs, love." " Well, they haven't." "They've screwed us." "You know, the first time I arrested Ruth, she were nine-year-old." "She bit me hand and it went septic." "She nicked a car, which were an achievement in itself, on account of her not being big enough for her feet to reach the pedals, and not be able to see out at the same time." "We had rights!" "I had a right." "I had a right to inherit the tenancy off me father!" "Unfortunately, your father let the rent lapse, didn't he?" "I didn't know that, did I?" " Look..." " I have worked hard to make ends meet" " since he died, and they know that." " I'm not discussing whys and wherefores..." "But that's not good enough, is it?" "Hey, sarge." "The greedy pigs, they've decided to sell it and convert it and bollocks to us." "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" "This is our home, this is our livelihood." "I were born here." "I grew up here." "We both did." "Do you think we wanna live in some stinking concrete box?" "They think they can treat people like shit, and maybe they can but I am damned if I am gonna make life easy for 'em, or for you." "So you can face the consequences." " I hope you're not making threats, love." " Yeah, maybe I am." " That sounded very much like one to me." " Well, I'd watch my backside if I were you." " You wait here." " And that little get Sergeant Whelan, you can tell him to stay right out of my way cos I've had enough of him." "He's a fat bastard!" "You tell that fat bastard if he comes anywhere near me, he's gonna get his brains splattered." "Have you got a gun, Ruth?" "Are you telling me you've got a gun?" "Well, there are no flies on you, are there?" "Jesus Christ." "And the first person that walks in here, they're gonna get blasted into the middle of next week and me, personally, I am hoping it's him." "Believe you me, nothing would give me greater pleasure and do you know why?" "Just..." "Give me the gun." "Help me." "Drop it." "Drop it." "Get in t'Land Rover, turn t'engine over, get in t'passenger seat." " Kick it over here." " Where we going?" "Just do it!" "Eddie, Eddie... could I borrow your car?" "Sorry I'm late." "D'you wanna come in?" "So what do you want to do?" "I've got £500." "I want you to find Katie." " I know this is good news for you..." " I'm not being restricted by some stupid no contact clause in some stupid adoption care plan that had nowt to do with me, anyway." "I know you think it's ridiculous, but if you wade in now, you could blow your chances of ever getting this clause dealt with properly, legally." " John, John, John, she's me sister." " Ruth?" "I just wanna see her, I wanna know what she looks like." "She might ring the police if she doesn't understand who you are, or feels freaked out or..." "Her parents certainly will if they find out you've been there." "And you're on licence." "You're vulnerable." "Stop and think about what you're doing, Ruth." "I'm not saying this for anybody's benefit but yours." "Does Lucy Belcombe live here?" "Lucy?" "Yeah, er, she's gone to the practice rooms in Creative Arts." " Is that what that?" " It's main campus." "That way." "Thanks." " Hey, Lucy." " Hi." "Ruth, hi, it's John." "I just wondered how you got on in York and I'm sorry if..." "Ring me." "If there's anything else I can do, say so, and, er, let me know how you got on... if you've got time." "Whenever." "Bye, Ruth." "Ruth." "Come inside." "Did you see her, your sister?" "He said you'd found out where she was." " Yeah." "Yeah, I saw her." " Did you speak to her?" "No." "John's not here." "It's his badminton night." "Oh." "OK." "Right, well, er..." "I'm sorry I wasn't very friendly last time you were here." "Did John tell you about the ghost not being a ghost?" " No." " It was Rufus and his friend and I overreacted... and I'm sorry." "Right." " Well, if you could tell him that I..." " Would you like some tea?" "Yeah." "There were moments today" "I could have gone up to her and said, "Do you remember me?"" "It were nothing to do with that stupid no contact clause, it were fear that she wouldn't have a clue who I were." "And she looked so... cool." "And posh." "I just..." "I don't think I'd have dared." "I should be happy, I know." "And I am." "She's gifted... and they love her, and she's probably gonna have a great future ahead of her." "I just... would have liked to have been a part of it, that's all." "Maybe this is what it's like." "Maybe it goes on." "Maybe you never stop paying for it." "What happened?" "When?" "That day when you..." "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." "Why?" "People do what they have to do." "What did you do?" "Nothing." "I mean it were my fault... but it weren't me that pulled the trigger." "So..." "What do you mean?" "Well, then, who?" "Not?" "So..." "But... why did you?" "It weren't her fault." "We wouldn't have been in that position if it weren't for me." "I were... mouthing off and making threats." "She only did what I said I were gonna do." "I was just bullshitting." "She didn't know that." "You've been in prison for 15 years for something you didn't do?" "I did what I had to do, I've told you." "I've served the sentence." "They've had their pound of flesh whatever." "That's her address." "Hipperholme." "Lucy Belcombe, that's her new name." "I took some photographs yesterday." "She's pretty." "Your friend'll be pleased you found her for her." "She'll be over t'moon." "Steve?" "What you doing?" "You're not taking the baby!" "You're not taking the baby!" "What've you done with our money?" "I went to t'cashpoint, there was nowt." "You'll manage." "Don't expect owt of our Kieran, though, will you?" "Probably blown you out already, hasn't he, eh?" "So what about Ethan?" "He's your son." "He needs things." "He needs nappies, he needs food." "What's up wi' you?" "This is why I went with him because it's like you don't give a shit about anything, about me, about our baby!" "Steve." "It's like you're not really there." "Steve." "Steve." "But before we take a look at the report concerning..." "What we gonna do?" " What can I get you?" " What d'you want?" " Have you got the money?" " You have what you want." "Chocolate cake." " Yourself?" " Just some tea." "Why did you?" "What?" "You haven't got any money, have you?" "No." "Stop her!" "No!" "Agh!" " Come here, come here." "Oh, you little..." " Ruth!" "Ruth!" "Ruth!" "Ruth!" "While the girls go and do their research," "I'm gonna go off and conduct some of my own." "What better place to do some local digging than in the hub of the local community..." "Who's that?" "Do you know her?" "And she gave me such a dirty look." "Oh, Kirsten!" "Why weren't you?" "I'll call you later." "Yeah." "I've gotta get this." "Oh, shit." " Excuse me." " What..." "Get off!" "No!" "What are you doing here?" "I've come to see you." "Have you been crying?" "People are worried about you." "Your probation officer rang John because you weren't in work." " Have you eaten today?" " No." "Where is she?" "She saw me this morning." "I've been keeping a low profile since then." "I don't know if she recognised me." "There were summat... but..." "I dunno." "Why don't we go and find a nice warm pub and get something to eat?" " No, thanks." " Ruth." "You could get into trouble for this." "You're very vulnerable on licence, you could even go back to prison." "You know... the good thing about being in prison were you didn't have to make any decisions." "How did you cope, day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing you shouldn't be there?" "It's surprising... what you can do, in't it... when you have to?" "You know, I think you must be one of the most remarkable people I've ever met." "Daniel, little year seven boy down the road, says she got off the bus same time as him as usual." "Definitely." " Well, where is she, then?" " I..." "This isn't about you." "Whatever happens..." " Hello?" " Ruth." "It's Steve from housing maintenance." "I brought you round that lamp and DVD player." "Yeah." "Hiya." "I never introduced meself to you properly." "I should have done." "I think you knew me father." "Colin Whelan." "You're not supposed to contact me." "I'm not supposed to speak to you." "No, I know, but I thought you might like to know I've found your sister for you." "Who is it?" "She's here." "She's wi' me." "I've tied her to a chair and I've doused her in petrol, and I've got a gun pointing at her head." " What are you talking about?" " And now..." "I'm gonna set fire to her..." "And you're gonna listen while I do it because I thought you might like to know what it feels like to have someone you love brutally murdered for no fucking reason whatsoever!" "I don't know who you think you've got but that is not my sister." "She's here." "I've got her." "D'you want me to prod her and make her squeak?" "What is her name?" "Her new name, her adopted name?" "Lucy Belcombe." "Well, it's not me sister cos me sister's here." "Tell her your name, you little bastard." " Go on." "Say it." " I'm not Lucy." "I'm Emily." "I'm Lucy's sister." " I'm Emily." " You're lying." " She's lying." " I'm not, I'm not lying." " Who is that?" " His dad's one of the coppers that got shot." " Where is he?" " How the bloody hell do I know?" "Right, listen to me." "My name's Izzie, Izzie Ingram, I'm a lawyer." "You've got to calm down and you've got to let that girl go." "She's not involved in this." "She's completely innocent." "Are you listening to me?" "You've got to let her go." "Oh, fuck." "Oh, fuck!" "Shit." "Oh, fuck." "I'll call the police." "You let her parents know." " I can't." "I don't know their number." " No, but she does." "Police, please." "Go on." " I can't." " Ingram, Izzie Ingram." "Somebody's been abducted." "This is very, very urgent." " What's his name?" " Steve Whelan." "Go." "Go on!" "Lucy Belcombe!" "Look, you don't know who I am, but it's your sister, she's in trouble." " Why are you following me?" " She's in danger." "You've got to phone your mum and dad and let... tell..." "let me tell them what's going on." " What's she talking about?" " Somebody..." " You'd better leave." "...is phoning the police." "I need your mum and dad's number." "Michael and Rachel, their number." " Oi!" "I said I think you better leave." " Please." "Put the number in." "Then I can explain." "I'm on your side!" "Honestly." "I am." " Come here..." " Don't touch me." " For God's sake." " I've explained what I can to the police." " Is this Katie?" " Katie?" " Lucy." " Lucy." "My name's Izzie, I'm a lawyer." "I'm a friend of Ruth's." "Your parents need to know about your sister." " How do you know all this?" " I spoke to Steve Whelan's wife recently." "She's a cleaner, I rang her." "I might have her number in my phone." "She might know where he's taken her." "She might know something." "That's me mum and me dad." "Hello?" "Is that Hannah?" "It's Izzie Ingram." "We spoke a few weeks back." "I don't know if you remember." "I live at Upper Hanging Stones Farm." " Yeah." " Your husband, d'you know where he is?" "Lucy..." "Michael, it's not Lucy, it's Ruth Slater." "I'm ringing you on Lucy's phone." " He's threatening to kill a girl." " Summat's happened to your other girl." " He thinks she's Ruth Slater's sister." " This bloke's nabbed her." " He thinks she's Katie..." "Lucy." " He's got the wrong person." "And we have rung the police but we don't know where he's taken her." "What bloke?" "Why are you using Lucy's mobile?" "Have you got any idea where he might be?" "He's the son of one of the men that got killed when I got sent down." " Why are you on Lucy's mobile?" " There's this woman on the phone." "She says Steve's got this lass somewhere and he's threatening to kill her." "Please speak to him." "Tell him you're all right." "Dad?" "This lady's telling me that Emily's been abducted." " What's going on?" "Is she there?" " No." "No." "No, no, she isn't." " She hasn't come home from school." " Well, did you ring her friends?" "Yes." "Put Ruth..." "Put the lady back on!" "Gortons." "It's a warehouse on Rawson Street in Dewsbury." " He's talked about it before." " Gortons." "It's a warehouse." "Ruth, where is Emily?" " I don't know." " What've you done to her?" "Nothing." "Christ, it's not me." "He rung me, he got me number, I don't know where from." "He says he's gonna hurt her to get at me because he thinks she's Lucy." "His name is Steve Whelan." "He lives in Ripponden, but I don't know where he is." "What am I going to do with you now?" " I don't know." " Eh?" "I don't know." "Oh, no, no." "Rawson Street." "It's a disused warehouse." "Gortons." "That's all we know." "We think he might've taken her there and that he might be hurting her." "OK, come on, we've gotta find this girl." " Do you know where you're going?" " No, but follow me." "I've got a sat nav thing." "Are you my sister?" "You're not my sister." "You are not my sister." "Emily's my sister." "I love Emily." "She's my sister." "She's a proper sister." "If she dies because of you, you're going to fucking die!" "So how come you knew where I was?" "Someone wrote me a letter." "That's Emily's writing." "If you let me go, I..." "I won't say anything." "I'll say you made a mistake." "I'll tell them you didn't hurt me." "I'm sorry about your dad." "Steve?" "You wanna get out of there fast cos they're onto you and know where you are." "Shit." "Shit!" "No!" "No, please!" " Shut up." " No!" "No!" "What are we doing?" "Where..." "What are you gonna do?" "Please." "Oh, fu..." "Shit!" "Male adult driver believed to be Steven Whelan, approximately 28 years." "He has received severe trauma to his head and neck, believed dead." "There is one other passenger, female, believed to be kidnap victim Emily Belcombe." "She's conscious and breathing, appears to have suffered minor injuries." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad, is she OK?" "Don't worry, don't worry." "She's all right." "She's fine." " Oh, Lucy." "Oh, Lucy." " Is that her dad?" "I remembered you." "In the car." "I remember you... driving a Land Rover." "Yeah." "Something bad had happened." "Pretty bad." "Is that when?" "My dad said that you killed two policemen." "I did, yeah." "Why?" "Because I didn't know what else to do." "Because they were trying to chuck us out of us home." "Why?" "Because we had no money." "We had nowhere else to go." "Was it just you and me?" " Yeah." " Why didn't somebody help us?" "Because there was nobody." "Us dad had died, and she'd cleared off when you were tiny, so... it were just us." "And then you went to prison." "I wrote to you every day." "And I sent you all sorts of bits of stuff what I could afford, but..." "Did you?" "I never got any of it." "No." "Yeah, well, they never gave it to you." "But look, they've been good to you." "And they just thought it were for the best that you didn't..." "Thank you for ringing us." "Is Emily all right?" "She's fine physically, er, but they're, erm, they're taking her in, so..." "She's asking for you." "She's asked if you'll go with her in the ambulance." "Yeah, go." "Can I ring you?" "Yeah." "I haven't got your number." "No." "I, er..." "There you go." "I'll, erm..." "Did we once sit on a wall together?" "And there were some cows?" "And, er..." "And it was summer." "And it was bright and beautiful and somebody had their arms around me." "Yeah, that were me." "I'll ring you."

"The French have said au revoir to the franc." "The Germans have said auf wiedersehen to the Deutschmark." "And the Portuguese have said whatever to their thing. #Go!" "Now it's our turn to say goodbye to Sterling." "This Christmas we are going to get the euro. #Goodbye old pound." "Everyone says we are going to miss you. #Come on!" " Faster!" "Faster!" "Hey come on!" " Faster!" "I can't see ya!" "Where are you?" "#I'm over here!" "This is the main drag along here. #That's Portland." "Bisecting that at right angles, is Lundy on that side." "On this side there's Fastnet." "What's yours?" "#Cromarty." "Cromarty and German Bight." "#Cul de sacs." "Over here." "I've come through." " Come on!" "Come on, Damian!" "#There's a train coming!" "Keep pedalling." "Come on!" "Faster!" "Beat ya!" " Come on!" "I'm gonna call it Serendipity. #What does that mean?" " I don't know." "Anyway it's number twenty." " Upstairs!" "#This is my room." " And mine." "Get your own room." "The patron saint of house removals is Saint Anne." "Did you know that?" " No, I didn't know that, no." "Yeah, she lived in the desert, obviously." "#And when she wanted to move house." "Angels came, picked up her house and took it to Italy. #Handy." "She was Our Lady's mother." "#What you on about Damian?" "Saint Anne." "I've got a picture." "Look." "I don't care, just get in the car, will ya?" "We're going'." "Go on!" "Get in the car!" "Was she in it at the time?" " Who?" "#Saint Anne." "When the angels did the... you know the airlift?" "#I don't know." "Start with the money." "#That's what our Anthony says." "That's what people want to know about. #Like if you're moving house... you don't say 'we're moving house and the new one has got a green door.'" "You say how much you're paying." "#How much you got for the old one." "Mortgage." "Interest rates." "Stamp duty." "Solicitor's fees." "How much you'll get if the new one goes up in value. #That's called equity." "Personally, I think, 'so what?" "' Money's just a thing." "And things change. #One minute something's there and you can cuddle up to it." "The next minute it's gone. #Like a Malteser." "That goes in the kitchen." "#Is this fantastic or what?" "Surprisingly spacious, with attractive views." "Oh, that's Anthony's." "That must go upstairs and... #And anyway, in the end, it turns out it wasn't about the money after all." "That's it lads." "Up to the main bedroom." "#Has anyone seen where the phone points are?" "Eh, where do I plug this in?" "#Oh, right, yeah." "Oh that looks good, that does." "Right this is what we're having' tonight, yeah?" "Before Countdown, put the oven on." "#After Countdown, get a packet of these, put them in there with some oven chips, yeah?" "#It's for mum." "The time is on here, yeah. #Ok." "That's how long they have to stay in." "#By the time they're ready, I'll be back." "She may already have won ten thousand pounds. #Her name has been entered in a draw." "All she has to do is..." " Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #Thank you." "Hands?" "#Other sides." "Let's go. #Come on!" "That's you. #Get your bags." "And your book bag, Damian." "Keyssss..." "Now remember it's no good being clever, you've got to be the cleverest, yeah?" "Alright." "See ya Dad." " Good luck lads. #See ya." "Are you nervous?" "A bit." "So everybody sitting up nicely?" "Excellent." "Now we are talking, today, about people we admire." "Dminic?" " Roy Keane, Sir, Manchester United. #Very good, Roy Keane." "What about you Barry?" "#Van Nistelrooy, sir." " Van Nistelrooy, right." "Anyone got any heroes who don't play for United?" "#Jack?" " Robbie Fowler, Sir, City." "Alright, that's enough. #Tricia?" "I don't know any footballers, sir." "#Well, it doesn't have to be a footballer, it could be... anyone. #Don't know sir." " No?" "Damian?" "#Saint Roch, sir." "Who's he play for?" " No one sir, he's a Saint. #Oh that's better, go on." "He was so worried that he might say something bad." "That he said nothing at all for twenty years." "We could do with a couple like him in this class. #Thank you, Damian." "I like a lot of virgin martyrs too. #Like Saint Agatha." "She ripped her own eyes out, so she wouldn't have to marry this man." "Or Saint Katherine of Alexandria." "They tried to kill her by crushing her to death on a wheel." "But she made the wheel explode and all the splinters killed people in the crowd." "The patron Saint of fireworks. #That's where we get the Catherine wheel from." "I did say thank you, Damian." "#Right, I brought in this picture." "This is a hero of mine." "Who knows who this is?" "Nelson Mandela?" " Fantastic, Nelson Mandela." "I should be careful what you talk about." "#Try talking about football or something." "Keep off the weird stuff. #Just don't be conspicuous or you won't fit in." "Aero and a Yorkie please." "And five juicy lips." "Haven't seen you two here, before. #We just moved here." "Our mam's dead." "Yeah, well go on, you're alright. #Thanks." " God bless." "Who's next?" "#Works every time." "You tell them your mam's dead and they give you stuff, every time." "I'm your..." "Community Policeman." "Obviously there is no community here as yet, not to speak of, but you know..." "Anyway the first thing to say is, these new houses and Christmas coming up." "Statistically you're going to get burgled." "Now, not all of you, but some of you, soon. #Probably this week, next." "When you are, call me." "I'll give you a crime number and then you can make a claim on your insurance." "Building maintenance?" "#Yeah, that's right, yeah." "Yeah, I'm usually right, it's a knack." "Do you mind me asking?" "Is the kettle actually on?" "I'm... #Oh, sorry." "Yes?" "#Isn't the problem here, that our houses are built on sand?" "Sand?" "No. #They're not are they?" "If you store up your treasure on earth it will be stolen." "But if you give it away, then it can't be stolen." "Mormons?" "#Well, Latter Day Saints." "Saints?" "#I know all about them..." "Errr..." "Damian, go and give Terry a hand in the kitchen will you?" "You too Anthony, off you go, good lads." "Now, some of you are going to be burgled. #There are things I can tell you, that will lower the odds of it being you personally. #It's a bit anti-social, because if it isn't you then it'll be next door, but ha-ha there you go." "Our mam's dead." "Here." "Go on, help yourself." "Take as many as you like, son." "Result. #Is it completely honest?" "Completely dead isn't she?" "What?" "What do you want?" "Can't you see I'm busy?" "#Just go away." "I don't like having my own room." "Clare of Assisi, Eleven Ninety Four till Twelve Fifty Three?" "That's right." "I used to have a hermitage, myself, once." "I used to go and hide up there." "If anyone needed me, I'd send them a vision, sort them out." "That's why I'm the patron saint of television. #I was like... human television." "You're the patron saint of television?" "#Keeps me busy." "You know?" "Are you allowed to smoke then?" "#You can do what you like up there, son." "It's down here, you have to make the effort." "Do you ever come across a Saint Maureen?" "#She hasn't been there long." "Don't ring a bell. #Then again, it is infinite up there." "Absolutely bloody infinite." "Listen..." "Dad." "What is it anyway?" "#What are you doing with all these boxes?" "What's that?" " Wait and see." "Where did you get that?" "#You can see it too then?" "Well... you know... #sometimes you see things." "Don't you?" "And other people can't see them." "What?" "#Well... you know..." "sometimes, but this is real though." "This is real." "This is real" "Can't wait to tell dad. #You can't tell dad about this." "You can't tell anyone about this. #Why not?" "Tax. #If the government find out about this, they'll take forty percent of it away. #Forty percent!" "Do you know how much that is?" "#Nearly all of it." "Shall we count it before we go?" "#No, we can't we're really late." "How much?" "How much?" "#There's thousands." "Ten thousand. #Fifty thousand." " Seventy." "Two hundred thousand." "#Millions even." "Patch..." "Jenga. #Oink." "Oink." "Oink." "Oink." "Promise not to tell anyone. #What is it?" "How much is it?" " Thousands. #Hundreds." "It's just hundreds." "#No one else knows." "So if anyone finds out, we'll know it's you." "Ok?" "Anyone finds out we know it's you. #No one else knows." "Just me and you." "Here. #Thanks." "Yeah, just keep it shut." "Two hundred and twenty nine thousand, five hundred and twenty pounds, minus... a hundred quid each, spending money." "#Leaves two hundred and twenty nine thousand, three hundred and twenty quid. #And we're going to give all that to the poor." "Where you going to find poor people?" "#There's loads of poor people." "Not round here." "The house prices keep them out." "Go on." "Go." "Go." "Go on." "Go." "Go." "Go on." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go on. #Go on." "Francis of Assisi?" "#Eleven eighty one till twelve twenty six." "You did this didn't you?" "#My first act as a Saint." "What was your next one?" "#Washing a leper." "A leper?" "#You could just help the poor Damian." "Big Issue." "Help the homeless. #Big Issue anyone?" "Oh hello. #And keep the change." "Oh, thanks mate, I've had nothing to eat all day." "Oh we're going to Pizza Hut, want to come." "No... no." "She doesn't." "She just wants more money." "We haven't got any more." " No I fancy pizza actually. #Can I bring my friend?" "Meat feast, deep and juicy, stuffed crust mate. #Two meat feast thin and crispy." "Ah a big New Yorker." " A combo platter." "Do us a farmhouse." " I'll have some garlic bread love." "We'll all have some garlic bread won't we?" "#And Dippin' Chicken." "To share." "This is great." "Anthony thought there were no poor people round here." "Because of the house prices." "#Well they're not from round here." "Come in on the bus." " I come in on the train. #Couldn't afford to live round here." "Who exactly is paying for all this?" "#We are." "You must be minted!" " Yeah we are. #No... no, we're not." "It's birthday money. #His birthday money, he saved it." "Puddings?" " Yes please. #No." "One hundred and sixty eight quid." "Do you know how many times we'd have to visit Pizza Hut to get rid of all the money?" "One thousand, three hundred and three point five one seven times." "It's just not practical." "#We should buy property." "See this house, we could buy two like that." "If they knocked some off the asking price." "And if we did buy property, that'll go up in value. #So we'd have even more money." "Damian?" "Excuse me?" "#Are you poor?" "Beg your pardon?" "#Are you poor?" "Are you asking for money?" "#Me?" "No." "Because we don't have any. #We live in a community, you know, it's very basic." "We don't have a dishwasher for instance or a microwave." "And there's no cash kept on the premises. #So you are poor?" "In a sense, yes. #Brilliant!" "Invergi." "Invergi" "St. Nicholas of Myra?" "#Sanctus quartus saeculus sum..." "Patronus de nautae et, vero, natalis." "It won't all fit. #El fini errant centi cetus poplas" "Saint Nicholas?" "#Do you ever come across a Saint Maureen?" "Ques?" " Saint Maureen." "She's new. #Quat facki abat?" "Skin care." "She worked on the make-up counter at Selfridges. #Sel-frid-ges?" "To betal?" "#Est a quero publican rodeo." "It's less than a fortnight to E-day." "#That's when Britain completes transition to the European Monitory Union." "The EMU." "Oh with twelve days left to E-day, my true love said to me." "The transitional exchange rate is fixed at sixty seven p." "Oh!" "Well all I can say is... ding dong" "After E-day your old money will no longer be legal tender." "Wish pounds goodbye and euros... #Hello." "We don't have to queue up." "Here we go." "How much have you actually got?" "#Plenty." "Anthony Cunningham." " Where's your dad?" "#My dad?" "Well he's not coming." "Eh?" "#Yeah, he's not coming yet." "He said to start without him." "Start what without him?" "#The job is to show him around the apartment." "How can I do that, if he isn't here?" "#He gave me this." "Show me around and I'll fill him in afterwards. #It's what we usually do." "We're looking at this for our investment portfolio. #Not as a residence." "Has it kept it's value?" "#It's gone up twenty percent in the last two years, because of the schools. #He does send you to school doesn't he?" "Or do you just look at photos of them?" "Flood lights." "Scoreboards." "Stadium." "It's the dogs bollocks this, family heirloom." "Fifty quid?" "#Fifty quid?" "You could buy a proper football team for that. #I could buy Crewe Alexander for that." "Yeah but... this has got managers." "#Dan Leavy and Malcolm Allinson" "Never heard of him. #Deal." "You said you would for five quid." "I didn't know you were going to get five quid did I?" "#Ten quid then?" "Look, I've got a good body." "Twenty quid, last offer." "Martyrs of Uganda, eighteen eighty one?" "#That's right." "Ohhhh sorry about that." "I was beheaded." "See. #Before that I was in construction." "I don't know who built this, but they were a right cowboy. #I built it myself." "Well, you'll see what we can do." "#But I can't promise anything." "Why not?" "There's plenty of you. #Yes, come on welcome." "Hello." "What are they singing?" "They are praying for rain." "Where I come from... #people have to pay a tenth of their daily income on water." "It's so expensive that they can't afford to wash their hands. #So they get disease." "You don't need fancy hospitals or medicines to make life better, just a well." "And you... #can build a well for as little as one hundred pounds." "That's fantastic!" "Thanks." "I'm sorry I don't know who you are. #Mutual that then." "This yours?" "Nice." "Near a railway." "What's in there?" " Nothing really." "What's this?" " A dress." "It was my mums." "What are you looking for?" "Money. #Are you poor?" "What?" "#Damian, come in." "Anthony to Damian..." "#What's that?" "Damian, where are you?" " My brother I've got to go." "I'll come back." "I've got loads." "Just wait there." "Loads of what?" " Money." "Just wait there. #Five... four... three... two..." "Who's that?" "#A poor person and you said there weren't any." "I know." "But who is it?" "#I don't know." "Just someone." "What do you mean 'someone'?" "#Did he do anything to you?" "What sort of things?" " Never mind." "Look people are weird." "You've got to be more careful." "You shouldn't really talk to them. #Anyway I've told him now." "Told him what?" " That we have tons of money. #He's poor." "What?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "Leave it to me." "Where is he then?" "#I don't know." "He was here a minute ago." "See. #Loads of money." "We've been saving it up for ages." "You can have it if you need it." "Come on Damian. #You'll have to change it quickly." "Do you think that was really enough?" "#More than enough." "That's him completely sorted out. #Right." "Have you given money to anyone else?" "Not really." "What?" "It wasn't that much." "#Just like a bagful." "What's that?" " Scuba scooter. #It goes at ten mile an hour for up to five hours." "We could have one of them." "We could have one each. #We could have a whole fleet." "She's nice. #Huh!" "I've seen better." "Close the door." "Look you can see it protruding. #What is it?" " It's a nipple." "What's it for?" "#Well it's for feeding babies." "Did mum have one?" "#Two." "They've all got two." "And did she feed us with them?" "#Yeah, course she did." "I remember." "You can't remember when you were a baby." "I don't remember her doing it to me." "I remember her doing it to you." "Anthony?" "What?" "#I thought you'd done the washing up?" "I did it!" "#What do you call that glob?" "Hello what's your name?" "#Keegan." "Alright, K, what's happened to your finger?" "#That's quality." "Pure scary, pure scary." "Hey, give me your money." "Come on, empty your pockets. #Hey you!" "Excuse me, excuse me!" "Give me all your money." "Come on, every copper." "Who feels sorry for poor children?" "#Correct answer." "Everybody sitting up nicely?" "#Ok." "So, as you know, we're going to have new money in the New Year." "Does anybody know how much a euro is worth in pounds?" "#Yes." "Sixty seven p." " Spot on. #Here, there's a little prize for you." "It's your own euro converter." "#Now!" "Who else wants one?" "Anybody?" "Me!" " Ohh." "Everybody." "Ok. #So, who can tell me how much two pence is worth in euros?" "Mmm." "Well I'll tell you. #It's worth not very much." "Almost nothing." "To you. #But if we all put our two pences together." "Then we'll have a lot of two pences won't we?" "#Yes." "How many people are there here?" "One... two... three... four..." "#Five... six... seven... eight..." "Two hundred and fifty. #Sorry?" "There's two hundred and fifty in the school. #Oh clever clogs head master." "Ok two hundred and fifty." "So if you each gave me two pence, then I'd have five pounds. #It's not that much here." "But in Ethiopia five pounds could feed a family for a week." "And if you all gave me two two pences, then we'd have a tenner." "And that's enough to provide that village with a source of clean water forever." "It's no good to you." "So chuck it in the bin." "Excuse me." "Give me all your money!" "#Come on, every copper." "Get out of my way." "Hey you!" "#Hey, give me your money!" "Come on." "Empty your pockets." "Hello, what's your name?" "#Damian." "Hi Damian." "I'm the Bin. #Hello Bin." "Damian, you'll give me some money won't you?" "Yeah." "What did you do?" "#You did it again didn't you?" "What?" "#I saw what you did." "How much?" "#Not much." "She's nice." "I've been thinking. #Why don't we give the money to her?" "So how did it go?" "#Well..." "A thousand!" "#What did you bring a thousand to school for?" "Can't you see that that's suspicious?" "#It's not suspicious." "It's unusual." "How can it be suspicious?" "It's our money." "Right you lot outside... come on." "#Right, that's enough messing around." "Do you know in Africa you can build a well for as little as a hundred pounds." "Just listen." "It was the most daring, most brilliant, cleverest and biggest robbery on record, ever. #The train was here." "The train, the one with the money, Used notes." "Right the van comes up onto the platform... here." "It's a railway van so no one takes any notice. #Until..." "They jump out of this van and some of them got hold of the driver." "Some of them start shifting the money." "By this time rapid response has been mobilised." "Alright, let's go." "Come on!" "The van drives off with a reckless disregard for life. #Rapid response goes after it." "There's... armed units." "Dog handlers." "Helicopters. #Throw everything at them." "The train stays here. #An ambulance comes, takes the driver to hospital." "Get another driver. #The CID count the bags." "There's only one missing." "Then rapid response corner the van." "Trapped. #The robbers dropped the lot and they leg it!" "They've got no chance, except..." "#Newcastle United versusArsenal at Highbury." "One all." "Disappointing result for the gunners." "Please advise car, I think we've lost them." "They don't catch the men. #But that's alright because when they get back to the van... there's the missing bag. #How do you... how do you know all that?" "His uncle works for the police. #The van has gone." "The train is in the station. #And the cops are in the cop shop making tea." "Where are the robbers?" "Where's the last place you're going to look?" "#Our house?" " Maybe." "So the train moves off with a new driver and all the money. #On the train." "The money was on the train and so was a robber?" "#Lateral thinking." "The money stays on the train, but so does a robber." "He sits tight. #And every time the train comes to a slow bend he chucks a sack of money out. #They've got people waiting all over the country." "Could be Stafford or Crewe." "#Could be Preston or Wigan." "Runcorn, it could be. #Could be here." "Damian. #Damian." "Calm down." "It'll be alright." "No one knows it was us. #I don't care." "Leave me alone." "What you have to tell me for?" "Because I wanted you to know the truth. #We have to give it back." "No... no we can't do that." "#They were going to burn it." "Now come on, it isn't the money's fault it got stolen." "I thought it was from God." " What?" "#Well you know sometimes you tell people about mam and they give you money or sweets. #Well I told God and... well who else would have that kind of money?" "#Well... in a funny..." "God doesn't rob banks, alright." "God does not rob banks." "Office." "Now." "Your father's on his way." "Come in." "The Mormons!" "#You stole money from mormons?" "Would you like to tell us why you did it Anthony?" "Our mam's dead." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey Anthony come here." "Anthony, Damian, come here." "Ok." "Team talk." "Your mother," "She would not want you, to stand around crying or to steal things." "She wants you to get on with your lives and do the best you can." "Make her proud, son, eh?" "And not, you know... cry." "Ok." "So let's stop crying eh?" "#And stealing things." "Let's stop that too." "Get in the car." "Don't ever do that to me again." "#Look." "I'm really sorry it was me." "I didn't mean to cause any trouble or anything." "No you did right." "They stole it, what could you do?" "They did give it to a good cause. #I wouldn't have done that at their age." "They must be..." "you did a good job." "Thanks." "Are you from the social?" "#No." "I'm just a visitor." "I go round the schools collecting for this water thing." "And try and tell them about the change over, you know." "Making sure that the kids understand it. #Does anyone understand it?" "Sometimes they are a bit confused, until I talk to them. #And then..." "They're really confused." "I'm sorry." "They're very sorry. #I've sent them to bed." "I want you to know that it won't happen again." "Do you mind me asking how you came to have so much cash in the house?" "It was a donation." "It was left here anonymously." "And you weren't suspicious about that?" "#No, we pray a lot and we thought it was the answers to our prayers." "Only it has been mentioned that you spent close to five thousand pounds in Comet..." "A few days ago. #Digital television." "Mircowave oven." "Dishwasher." "Foot spa." "Did you actually pray for all of these things?" "We were praying for comfort and encouragement." "I think we felt comforted and encouraged. #By the foot spa?" "And the dishwasher." "Samaritans." "Oxfam." "#Christian Aid." "For Christ's sake, don't tick them little boxes." "The ones about putting you in touch with like-minded organisations." "You'll be besieged man." "I'm telling you!" "#Saint Peter, died AD sixty four." "Alright, don't remind us." "#The money... it's robbed." "I know. #Patron Saint of keys, locks and general security, man." "Including up there." "I'm on the door." "#Is it still alright, if it's robbed?" "Can you still do good with it or should you give it back?" "I thought it was a miracle, but it is just robbed. #Damian." "Listen." "One day I was with you know who, Jesus." "And he went up into the mountains and thousands of people followed him." "The police said five thousand, five thousand. #Everybody knows this story." "Loaves and fishes. #See, I knew you'd say that." "That's what everybody says." "This yours?" "#It's the key to the old house." "Jointed pin tumbler Engineering perfection." "Anyway, this kid comes up to us, about your size," "His name was... no I have forgotten." "#I still see him sometimes." "Anyway he comes up with these loaves and fishes. #Sardines." "And Jesus blesses them and passes the plate round." "Now the first person he passes it to, passes it on. #He doesn't take anything." "He just passes it on." "Do you know why?" "Because he had a piece of lamb hidden in his pocket." "And as he is passing the fish, he sneaks a bit of meat out and pretends he's taken it off the plate. #Do you see what I'm saying?" "And the next person exactly the same story." "Every single bastard one of them has their own food." "And every one of them is keeping it quiet. #Looking after number one." "But as that plate went round with the sardines on" "They all got their own food out and started to share." "And then that plate went all the way round And back to Jesus and it'd still got the fish and the loaves on it." "I think Jesus was a bit taken aback. #He says, 'what happened?" "'" "And I just said 'miracle'. #And at first I thought I'd fooled him." "But now I see it was a miracle, one of his best." "But this little kid had stood up and... #Everybody there just got bigger." "Do you understand what I'm talking about?" "#Not really." "I'm talking about you." "#Now I'm really lost." "You're trying too hard. #That kid he wasn't planning on doing a miracle." "He wasn't planning anything, except lunch." "Something that looks like a miracle turns out to be dead simple." "But what am I going to do with all this?" "I just want to be good." "Look I can't say too much about this, because of that whole free will thing." "Right?" "#But... see this key?" "Keep it safe." "Alright?" "And I'll have a word upstairs..." "See if I can get somebody on your case more permanent." "It's three days left to e-day, my true love said to me." "Convert your change or donate to charity. #Huummmmm, marvellous." "There are just three days left to e-day." "Remember the money in your bank account has already been converted." "The easiest way to change any cash you have is to pay it into your account." "The Sterling becomes Euros the moment it's paid in." "And if you don't have an account, why not open one today?" "#Can I help you at all?" "We'd like to open a bank account. #Is your mum and dad with you?" " No." "Well I need an adult signature." "I need proof of who you are." "Oh we thought of that." "Leisure pass." "I'm afraid you're going to have to ask your mum to come in." "This isn't enough." "Just ask your mum to come in. #We can't." " Why not?" "Our mam's dead." "There's two free euros in here And you can keep the rest of your money in it." "It's the best I can do." "I told you." "We should have bought a house." "Right if we can't hide it, at least we can spend it." "Hello." " Now that is quality. #That is amazing." "I can see you." "Can you see me?" "Yeah. #Not here, on there." "Not as well. #I can see you in mine." "This is fantastic." "Anthony. #Why don't we give the money to the lady with the bin?" "It's not ours and we're never going to spend it all. #She could do good with it." "We just gave her a grand and look at the trouble it caused." "And if we gave her two hundred we'll end up in jail." "We're on our own now Damian." "Don't let me down." "Hello." "The speaker went on the bin." "Your dad said he'd fix it." "So I said I'd cook for him." "So you get a decent meal for once." "I'm a fantastic cook." "Aren't I a fantastic cook, Damian?" "#The size of that school bag." "You'll give yourselvesa hernia, is that all homework?" "#No." " Yeah." "Er, costumes for the nativity play." "I suppose it is homework really." "I love a nativity play, can I see them?" "#Yeah." " No." "It's private." "Private property... of the school. #It will spoil the surprise." "Am I going to go too?" "#Are you going to get me some tickets?" "Well I suppose so. #Well I didn't even know they were in it." "I get told nothing you know, nothing." "Are you going to come and do some chopping?" "#It's lasagne, your favourite." "Where was the highwaymanan, Dick Turpin, hanged in seventeen thirty nine?" "York." " How did you know that?" "#It's York." " Glasgow..." "Carlisle..." "He knows everything your dad. #Norwich..." "York..." " Why don't you go on it, you'd be great, wouldn't he, he'd be great. #Fifty fifty please." "It's York!" "#You'd be a lot less frustrated if you went on yourself." "Damian, tell him to go on. #You'd like to have a million pounds wouldn't you?" "It's not a million pounds." "It's a million euros. #That's only about..." "Six hundred and twenty three thousand, one hundred pounds at today's prices." "At least somebody has been listening." "Told you it was York. #Jim, I'm so sorry the answer is York." "We're supposed to go to bed when this is finished. #Yeah right, go to bed." "But you're supposed to read us a story." "I'll get off." " I'll see you out. #I'll see you out too." "I know." "Come again soon. #Sucker for women." " Sucker for men." "Don't forget I want to seethat nativity play." "Your dad'llforget." "Go and get your pyjamas on. #They're good lads." "Nice to have someone to talk to once in a while, though." "Yeah." "Thanks." "I had a great evening. #I know what she's after." "We can't leave it here. #We're going to have tokeep it with us... all the time. #Fill your school bag." "And don't let it out your sight. #Guard it with your life, whatever happens." "Ok?" " Ok. #Damian?" "Have you any room?" "#Have youany room?" " No, Damian," "Damian he's tired, he's walked here all the way from Nazareth." "He's tired." "He's very, very tired. #Well..." " Tired." "The walk fromNazareth, people did that all the time." "And he was a carpenter." "So he was very fit. #He wasn't tired." "He was excited." "His wife was going to have a baby." "#They weren't expecting to go to sleep." "Ok." "You say excited." "I say tired." "Let's try nervous?" "#Ok?" "Shall we start again?" "Joseph the Worker, first century, dates uncertain?" "I wouldn't have said nervous." "I would have said focused." "Well, have you any room?" "What did he want to bring her for?" "#You invited her." "Beginners." "Beginners positions. #Damian, come on." "The word went out from Julius Caesar. #Caesar..." "Caesar Augustus that everybody had to go to their home town to be taxed." "So Mary and Joseph set out for Bethlehem." "# Little Donkey, # Little Don." "Key." "# On the dusty road... #Do you know how much a piece of gold that big would be worth at today's prices?" "#A lot." "An awful lot." "I wonder what happened to it?" "Because he was poor after that." "I wonder what he spent it on." "Can we please loose the anachronistic bag?" "I don't think they had Addidas in the first century." "Far away to the East, three wise men saw a star. #Thanks girls." "Look a star!" "#Let's follow it." "# Come, they told me, # par um pa pa pa pum" "# A new born King to see, # par um pa pum pum" "No, Saint Maureen. #I don't think I have heard of her." "Is she a virgin martyr?" "I don't think so." "Here he is. #He's always got those bags with him." "Pom pom pom..." "Do you remember me?" "#Mmmm...?" "I'm the poor man." "Damian Cunningham, what are you doing there?" "#Come on, where should you be?" "Where should you be, you should be in Bethlehem, come on." "I can't believe you've got... no go back... go back. #As for these." "What have I told you about these?" "#I've told you before." "Ssshhhhh." "Back out!" "Back out!" "Back out!" "#Shhhhh!" "Back on!" "Back on!" "They tried first at one inn." "Do you have any room at this inn?" "#No sorry, we're fully booked." "Do you have any room at this inn?" "#We haven't any room, but we've got a stable." "So he took them to the stable..." "#Oh, this is nice and cosy, Joseph... and cosy Joseph..." "I said this is nice and cosy Joseph. #Damian?" "Damian?" "Yes, this is where our Lord Baby Jesus will be born." "And so our Saviour came, bringing peace to all the earth." "# Silent night, Holy night... #Quick, come on!" "You stay there." "Oh no the keys!" "Oh no!" "Damian!" "#What you doing?" " Dad!" "Come here!" "Oh God!" "#Come here!" "Come here!" "It's alright." "Let's get you down." "What were you doing?" "#Is he all right, Dad?" " There we go," "What's he doing?" " Good lad." "Well he found it!" "#Ltjust fell out of the sky." "Right in front of me." "I thought it was from God." "From God?" "#It's not really his thing is it, handing out cash?" "Why would God hand out..." "Two hundred and twenty nine thousand, three hundred and twenty pounds." "Blimey!" "#I was going to give it to the poor, but it was really hard." "Why didn't you tell me?" "#Anthony said not to, because of the tax." "We could keep some of it though couldn't we, like a reward?" "#Get in." " Oh!" "So what are we going to do with it then?" "#We're going to hand it in." "All of it." "Well what else can we do?" "It's not ours is it?" "Hello?" "#I called round, the door was open." "I've called the police." "I thought you might have come home." "Everyone gets burgled at Christmas, Dad." "This will be your crime number. #So you can get on to your insurance company." "Of course they can't really recompense you for this." "I mean they can't give you your Christmas back can they?" "Probably be next Christmas by the time you get anything back." "I don't suppose you've got any serial numbers, security codes, anything like that?" "No?" "Well, wouldn't make any difference. #It's very rare we get anything back." "Very rare." "Whe know the stolen currency is around here somewhere. #That's what this is all about." "But they can't do anything about it. #All the banks have been warned to look out for anyone making any large deposits." "#And of course, it's only one day or two, before they realise that the money is worthless." "What's that?" "#It's nothing, it's nothing." "It's just my stuff." "Oh dad, don't. #Oh my God!" "This is what they were after." "That's a lot of money." "Where did it come from?" "They took our Christmas." "We'll take their cash." "You can't keep it." " You're going to keep it?" "#It belongs to the government." "They were going to burn it. #They were going to burn all this money, that's a crime if you ask me. #Definitely." " But stealing is wrong." "If you steal something, you have to steal it from somebody." "Who would we be stealing it from?" "#It's not right!" "Damian, my house has just been ransacked." "I work every second God sends just to cover the mortgage, to give you a decent home." "And now it's been wrecked. #I am owed this." "But Da..." " Go to bed. #Now!" "Do you want a story?" " It's wrong. #Who says?" " God." "Yeah, well." "Yeah, well what?" "#Don't you want to go to heaven?" " Look around you, Damian." "We're on our own. #No one is smiling down on us Damian." "No one is is looking out for us." "#So we're looking out for ourselves." "But mam..." " Is dead." "She's dead, Damian. #You'll never see her again." "And neither will I." "And the money, is ours." "We'll take it to town tomorrow and change it and spend it, do you hear me?" "All of it, because it's ours." "I know you've got it." "It's mine." "And you're going to change it tomorrow." "And that's a good thing." "Ok?" "When you come back." "I'm going to call you on this phone." "Open the front door." "Let me in." "And we'll take the money." "And you won't have to worry about it any more." "Understand?" "You make sure your phone's switched on." "...fifteen. #You take one side and we'll take the other and then swap." "All right." " Ok change what you can and what you can't change spend." "Have a ball!" "You do realise, you just kissed goodbye to the money. #Come on let's get cracking." "She's going to run off with it, you must know that?" "Come on!" " How can she, she's got Damian?" "She'll kidnap him, hold him to ransom for the rest of the money." "No, Anthony, that's what you'd do." "Come on." "Ok, you wait here all right?" "It's mine." "We'll have to change more than this. #No!" " What?" "That's the whole point, do it in small amounts and no one will be suspicious." "Look at the queue." "Look at the time." "We'll be lucky to get round three banks at this rate." "You'll be lucky to stay out the jail. #Go on!" " What?" "It's just quite a lot in the circumstances. #It's five thousand quid." "It's the front half of a Ford Fiesta." "#Is this a bank or a sweet shop?" "What?" " I need a wee. #Tell her that." "Can I use your loo?" "#Well I'm not sure..." " Well I'm not queuing up again, the poor kid's been in here half an hour. #You must have a loo?" "What do you do when you need to go?" "Ok, just this once." "You'll have to go here." "#I don't really need one." "You little belter." "I just can't see why it's so difficult. #I need a wee." "It's the front half of a Ford Fiesta, as far as I'm concerned, that's..." "I need a wee." "I need a wee." "Today's the day, that Britain enters a new currency era." "You must spend or bank any remaining old money today." "It's now or never." "Use it or lose it." "At midnight tonight, it's euros only for British business." "Well if you say so for business..." "business is... now what was your name." "What?" " I've got an idea. #What?" " Dollars." "Change it into dollars now and change it into euros whenever." "Actually once all the excitement's over the euro will most likely drop in value." "So we'll probably get a better exchange rate this way too." "What?" " Where did I get you?" "They've got a bank in there." "It stays open late." "You know everything, you do, don't you?" "#Yeah." "What's wrong?" "How did you know about the bank?" "Is this where your mum worked?" "In here?" "Well stay there then. #You'll be alright." "I'll come straight back for you." "I'll do this one." "Ok?" "Don't look." "This is where your mum used to work." "Nice." "Best get a move on, huh?" "Go on." "Damian?" "What you doing?" "Hey, what's up?" "Did you think I'd run off and left you?" "Did you?" "#Well I didn't, did I?" "No, you didn't." "The bank's upstairs." " It's closed." "And I've had a much better idea." "Come on. #Let's go and stuff our faces." "Oh I could have had my eye out. #Where are the glasses?" "Damian, wants to give his to the poor. #Do you?" "Of course they won't be poor anymore, once you've given it to them." "What'll do you do then, take it back?" "#Speaking of which..." "Right mystery activity..." "champagne. #...follow me." "A woman opens the door in her nightie and I thought funny place to keep a door..." "This is your fault this." " What is?" "#You don't even know, do you?" "You brought her and you don't even know. #What are you on about?" "Can you hear them laughing?" "#Even he's laughing." "Listen." "Very good." "Once she's got what she came for, she'll piss off again." "Then he won't be laughing will he?" "#It will all start again like when mam died." "He'll be angry..." " Maybe... she, you know, she won't, she'll stay." "Oh great!" "Much better." "Is that what you want?" "#Her in there with him instead of mam?" "Why are you angry with me?" "#Because you did it." "You and your weird stuff." "Chucking money away." "Talking to yourself." "Seeing things." "I don't." "I mean maybe I do, but..." "#And me!" "Sticking up for you." "For what?" "The truth is, you're a loony!" "Don't say that, Anthony." "Please don't say that!" "You're just a fucking loony and you should be locked up." "Be at the front door with the money in ten minutes." "Damian!" "We were..." "I was just..." "Dad, don't answer it. #Dad don't." " What is going on." "Please!" "#See this little girls." "My girls." "These girls Santa Claus forgot." "You're our last hope. #We haven't got a heater home." "Because no point going back if you don't help... took it out." " Just..." "Who is it?" " Excuse me please. #Wheelchair like these need your help." "Fifty percent of families with a chronically ill child, break up." "You're maybe asking yourself why these Waterloo station need friends." "Oh, Let me explain. #This is a mid of night." "This is a privat time." "Who are you?" "#Get out please." "Get mind." "Just leaving." "Go on, you and your... get out." "#Come on" " Two euro's a month..." "It's absolutely..." " Would you be prepared to consider a direct debit." "Just shut up, will you?" "Damian?" "Damian?" "This is that same donkey as he looks after just a few months in our sanctuary." "I think you'll agree..." " All right love." "Put him down. #Shall we?" "You'd better tell me how this started?" "#I've no idea." "Some one must have said something strange. #Digital?" "Yeah that's right, yeah. #How do you find it?" "I'm yet to be convinced." "Well you can come and have a look, when you get rid of that lot." "Mmm." "One step at a time, eh?" "#Any chance of a bit of toast?" "You do that, I'll have a look around." "Evening, lad." "You." "Where is he?" " I don't know." "#Ha?" "Where is he?" " Upstairs." "Peaceful isn't it?" "#Who are you?" "Who am I?" "Who are you?" "#We're the police." "Oh." "I know you're only a dream." "But I don't care." "It's nice to see you." "Even if you're just a dream." "The money just makes everything worse." "I've got something for you." "#From Readers Digest." "Here." "You may have already won ten thousand pounds." "Please will you talk to me?" "Five minutes." "Ok?" "Now, don't interrupt." "I'm dead." "#I know what I'm talking about, ok?" "You need to use conditioner on your hair." "Your dad won't think of that, but it makes all the difference." "Me?" "#You are not to worry about me." "You have been worrying about me, haven't you?" "I'm fine." "Anthony. #He seems to have taken it better than you." "But he hasn't. #He's got a good heart, he just... he doesn't know where it is. #Damian?" "He's going to need you." "Be good to him. #Dad doesn't believe." "Doesn't believe what?" "#Any of it." "Anything." "He mustn't do or he wouldn't." "Couldn't you talk to him?" "#He can't see me." " Oh." "Is it because of the money?" "#In a way." "The money makes it harder to see what's what." "You know that already." "Never really win with those things anyway. #You just end up with books about the building of the American Railways." "It's her isn't it?" "Your dad and her?" "Damian." "You know how complicated the money was?" "#Well... people are even more complicated." "You need to remember that there is nearly always enough good around to be going on with." "You've just got to have a bit of faith, you know." "And if you've got faith in people that makes them stronger." "And you, you've got enough to sort all three of you out." "Hey?" "That's why I'm counting on you." "I haven't really been worried about you. #I've just been missing you." "That's allowed." "Are you really a Saint?" "Well, the criteria's very strict. #It's notjust a case of doing good and all that." "You do have to do an actual miracle. #So..." "I'm in there." "Course I am. #What was your miracle?" "Don't you know?" "It was you." "Hey?" "#Aren't you going to say goodbye?" "Bye." "Did you see her?" "#What did she say?" "She said to tell you not to worry." "#It's all going to be alright." "She's looking out for you" "Come on!" "Well it was fun while it lasted, eh?" "Look there's no easy way to say this, but I put a bit to one side, for me, to spend." "You can have it back. #Dorothy, six thousand, three hundred and ten euros." "All for the best, eh?" "Dollars. #It's just a few grand." "Dad?" "#Ten really." "Eleven thousand, four hundred dollars. #I was going to tell you." "I sort of kept them by mistake." "Anthony. #I just enjoyed having a wedge." "It wasn't really the money." "I just liked having it." "Four thousand, seven hundred and eighty euros." "Dorothy wanted a holiday of a lifetime." "#Dad wanted to pay off all his credit cards." "Come on Dad. #Anthony wanted one game boy advanced xp." "One play station three." "A Shogun new BMX bike. #A Rekia five hundred super quad bike." "Nimbus two thousand eltro-magnetic stair rider." "A table top candy floss maker." "An ipod, obviously. #An i B0T obviously." "And a stamp on it hydraulic rocket capable of a attaining altitudes of over one hundred metres. #Three..." "Two... #One..." "That's how Anthony would want this story to end. #With big piles of stuff." "But it's not his story." "It's mine." "#Oh, regarde ca." "Qu'est-ce-que c'est?" "This is where I want it to end."

"Vips, whose origins are lost in the night of pre-historic time, have been recognised throughout history as the most powerful of all supermen!" "Their noble aim has always been to protect the weak from the oppressor!" "The first Vip who appeared on earth created the tradition that this breed is heroic, invincible!" "!" "And marriageable!" "And through the ages the tradition has been unbroken until the time our story begins, when BaffoVip equivocated the word "Super"" "and instead of marrying a superwoman, married a girl from a supermarket!" "This marriage produced contemporary History's first two new supermen!" "Supervip!" "!" "And MiniVip!" "But due to the mixed genes these two brothers bore only a superficial resemblance to each other!" "Supervip was handsome!" "Minivip!" "Well!" "Supervip was invulnerable!" "Minivip was!" "Supervip could fly at supersonic speed from one planet to another!" "Minivip could only manage limited flights a few feet from the ground!" "Whereas Supervip was the strongest man ever know on earth!" "Minivip was the weakest superman of all time!" "I c-cant d-do anything right!" "But he can do everything - everything!" "What's the matter Minivip, you haven't eaten anything or talked to anyone for the last two days?" "I want to be a superman - like you!" "But MiniVee - you are a superman even if you're not like me!" "Then why do I have this V, and these wings everybody expects me to be like you!" "And instead I can't do a super thing, not a single, solitary super thing!" "Come on, Minivip, I know some psychiatrists who might be able to help you!" " When did it start?" " What?" " Whatever started" " Tell it in chronological order" "Be as brief as possible, please!" " Well, my name is Minivip!" " This means nothing!" "!" "And I've always envied Supervip" " Does it hurt when I prick?" " Ouch!" " Would you like to be a superman?" " Tell it in chronological order" "Yes, I would, but as a matter of fact!" "Say, ahhh " "Ahhhh!" " You're jealous of Supervip, aren't you?" " Who is SuperVip, man?" "My brother" " Tell us about your Mother" " You hated your Mother, didn't you?" "No!" "I didn't!" "I loved!" "Tell me, do you ever hear strange noises" " Does this look to you like a dog or a superman?" " A dog!" "Then why do you want to be a superman?" "I'm not - he's the one who does everything!" "I think your images are confused!" "Take a deep breath!" " Are you his brother?" " Yes" "Alright - you can come in!" "The patient is exhausted!" "He needs a long rest and a complete change!" "I suggest a cruise!" "But it would be best if he covered up and travelled incognito" "You see, we suspect it's the color red that excites him!" "Goodbye MiniVee!" "Try to enjoy yourself and remember:" " Forget to be a Vip!" " I'll try, SuperVee - goodbye!" "Hurry!" "The gang-plank is going up!" "So long, MiniVee!" "Be careful not to catch cold!" "!" "And keep the hat and coat on!" "You want to see what color my next dress is going to be - see!" "Oh, lovely!" "!" "A real sick green!" "IShoutsl" "Oh no!" "We've hit a tunnell" "There's one on every cruise!" "Well, hell-lo!" "PANTING) Oh boy!" "I'm sorry, sir!" "Only passengers in costume!" "At this party!" "Good evening, Madam" " evening Sir!" "Lady or Miss?" "A mysterious woman, eh?" "A Vip!" "Ladies and gentlemen, attention please, an exciting event!" "We have among us a genuine Vip, a fascinating fantastic man who comes, perhaps, from other planets!" "A mysterious legendary being who flies in sidereal space, invincible, invulnerable, he can go through concrete or steel as if they were butter!" "Here he is, folk, a big hand for THE VIP!" "Those who want his autograph line up on my right!" "However, before interviewing the wondrous Vip!" " Blood's running to my head!" " Oh, sorry!" "We'd like him to give us a small demonstration of his renowned invulnerability!" "We're going to ask him to swallow this stick of dynamite and let it explode in his stomach!" "Squeamish ladies or those with weak hearts are requested to leave the room!" "All set, Vip?" "Come on, stupefy us!" "You saved my life!" " How can I thank you!" "That roar sounded real!" "A carnivorous lion!" "Helppppp!" "Holy mackerel," "that water's cold!" "I wonder!" "If it has teeth!" "How many teeth do you have?" "Ah!" "You should have told me at once, that you were a second hand lion!" " What were you doing aboard the ship?" " Ghieghen din ghighen din ghieghen din den den!" "Oh - you like dancing, eh?" "I like it myself, you know!" "But I haven't found the right girl!" "!" "The one I love, I mean!" "And maybe I'll never find her!" "I'm good for nothing!" "Here is the latest new!" "A Vip, one of the famed supermen has disappeared from the ship 'Annabella' while cruising in the Pacific!" "The Vip was last seen as he jumped through a port hole and it is now assumed that he fell into the sea!" "MiniVee!" "Fish don't bite at this hour!" "Got it?" "!" "Let's see, now!" "This is the route, yesterday it should have been here!" "I hope I can get there in time!" "A fish?" "Leave it, leave it!" "Still there?" "Maybe it's asleep!" "It's the first fish that ever smiled at me!" "Never mind!" "Well!" "It's means that I'll have to cut your tail!" "Uaaaa!" "Uaaa!" "Uhhh!" "Uhhhhhhhh uh uh!" "Not a sign of a ship!" "MiniVee!" "This must be the spot!" "But there's no trace of him here!" "Hallucinations are beginning!" "I'd better write a message!" ""Dear, whoever reads this, we need water and blankets and a motor!" "Yours truly, MiniVip!"" "Go and do your duty!" "This is the way to start a day!" " Uh!" "Uh!" "Uh!" "Uh!" " If you're asleep you don't catch fish!" "Land - we're saved!" "I can touch bottom!" "Let's get out!" "Next time it will be your turn!" "To save me!" "Well!" "It seems quite a nice island!" "MiniVeeeee!" "MiniVeeeee!" "Now let's count - the odd one out, goes to look for food!" "One, two, three, four, five, six!" "Sorry, six always loses!" "While you're gone, I'll get the fire ready!" "How the hell did they get to light the fire with two sticks?" "O!" "K!" "O!" "K!" "It will catch in a minute!" "Uh - uh - ahhh!" "Suffering Toledo!" "Why don't you try to help with the fire instead of making such a racket?" "Uh - hu - uh!" "Wh - who - who are you?" "First commander for spies elimination!" "Marsc!" "One two, one two!" "One two, one two!" "There's something down there!" "It's from MiniVee - he' s still alive!" "One two, one two!" "Stop!" "Get into the car!" "Wake up microbe!" "Move you slacker!" "Yiiiiii!" "Fasten your seat-belts and no smoking!" " Have you got a driver's license?" " Shut up - you flying shrimp!" "Ha- ha- ha!" "Fire, fire, fire!" "Ach!" "It's you!" "I didn't recognise you!" "Shultz, you idiot - for an excuse to fire that gadget you'd shoot your own grandmother!" "What has my grandmother got to do with it?" "THIS time I'm gonna report you to Happy Betty!" "Blast you!" "Blast you!" "Bis teine deworchen!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" " Who is Happy Betty?" " She's the smartest woman in the world!" "She owns the H-B Supermarkets, 15,000 of them, all over the world!" "R!" "Vip!" "Please, don't leave me!" "Look!" "I'm not a lion!" "An island!" "An abandoned dinghy!" "And a trail!" "He' s there!" "Hooray!" "It's O!" "K!" "MiniVee, I've got you, we can go home now!" "No!" "No!" "My friend, she isn't a lion she's a girl!" "She's been kidnapped, I must save her!" "Tell me again, Confucious - who am I?" "Ichantsl Happy Betty, the super Supermarket Queen who's super- super - brains are super- super keen!" "Smart boy, Confucius!" "Have a pep-pill!" "Ha!" "Colonel's coming back!" "You - down there!" "Look out, here comes Colonel" "You'd think by now he'd know how to use those brakes!" "Stupid fool!" "It will be dark in a few minutes, then we'll have a look around for Miss Lion!" "No!" "You cover me, while I look!" "After all, she's my friend!" "Let's not start that again, MiniVee you know!" "You're not cut out for rough stuff!" "When it's a matter of power let me handle it!" "He was there, right behind me in the car, with the lion!" "Then poof!" "He disappears!" "If that description is right he can't be anything but a Vip!" "Hmmmm!" "I don't like it!" "I don't like it at all!" "The shareholders committee are due tonight and!" "I don't want any slip-ups!" "Tell Schultz to increase security!" "What about this lion?" ""Lock him in the tower;" "he might be useful for an experiment later!"" "Are you afraid of that little Vip?" "Afraid?" "I'm not afraid of anybody!" "Now get going!" "And don't forget who I am!" " Super brains!" " Shut up!" "Up there, go on, move!" "One two, one two!" "One two, one two!" "One two, one two!" "And if you try any funny stuff, you'll end up bald-headed!" "Come on, boys!" "I promised my wife I'd get home early!" "Don't fly, MiniVee, they might see your infraglow!" "Midnight!" "And we wish you happy dreams in your Happy Betty pyjamas!" "If that's the man who was taking you to Happy- Betty, he should be wearing the H-B badge!" "It's him!" "He's the one!" "The one who drove the car!" "Then the girl is sure to be somewhere near!" "Look out, SuperVee, a helicopter!" "At last, it's the shareholders' committee!" "Quick, go and meet them!" "Happy Betty extends you all a cordial welcome!" " Bon-jour" " Good evening" " Salve" " Buenas dias" " Chee-hi" "I better hurry!" "Wait here, MiniVee!" "I'll go in trough the window, get the girl and come back!" "I want to come, too!" "Please, MiniVee, let's not start that again!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Zuborneit!" "Verboten!" "Fahreneit!" "What in tarnation is going on?" "I have heard a zibilant noise like the hizzing of a snake and I have pulverized and disintegrated it!" "It was a very small man like an inzect, and with two red eyes which zent out flames!" "You stupid!" "Miss Lion!" "Miss Lion!" "Incredible!" "Everything is going according to plan!" "Only a matter of hours now to demonstrate the experiment!" "But that Vip business makes me nervous!" "Get the projection ready and tell the Committee!" "!" "That Happy Betty will join them shortly!" "I wonder where is she!" "Maybe upstairs!" "Mother!" "There's a Vip out here!" "Well, well, what an interesting visitor!" "Can I get you something?" "I'm looking for a lion!" "Hmmm, lions!" "Lions!" "George, have you seen any lions around?" " Not recently!" " Sorry!" " Thanks anyway!" "Goodnight!" " Goodnight!" "Did you see him, George?" "A Vip!" "I must tell Mrs!" "Martin right away!" "Mrs!" "Martinnnnnnnnnn!" "Ssssshhh!" "Aaaahh!" "I heard once more the zibilant noise!" "Something fishy going on up there!" " Oh!" "You are a girl!" " You scared me!" " Sorry" " I guess I should've knocked?" " Another Vip?" "Who are you?" "I'm Supervip" " Minivip's brother!" "Uh-huh!" "There's a definite family resemblance!" "But what a difference in physique!" " That will make an interesting point for my thesis!" " Thesis?" "Uh-huh!" "I'm an anthropology major and I'm doing my thesis on Vips!" "That' s why I followed your brother when he jumped off the ship!" "I wanted first-hand information!" "Then I got into this crazy situation!" "By the way, where is your brother?" "Minivip?" "Oh, he's waiting outside in a safe place!" "Ztrange!" "Very ztrange!" "An overturned tree!" "Thig iz very Zuzpicouz!" "Goodnight!" "Gentlemen, we are all aware that the most important factors of modern times!" "!" "Are advertising and publicity!" "Now I have found a way of harnessing them!" "!" "By an ingenious method which will give me single-handed power over international markets!" "Gentlemen, you are about to witness the birth of the brain-missiles!" "Colonel, get the Professor!" "I am hungry!" "You'll eat later!" "Right now, show these gentlemen the results of your research on man!" "Start the film!" "This is man!" "Trough a slow but inexorable process he has been "absorbed" by civilisation which has transformed him into a different being!" "Here is man as he is now, who because of the progress of our mechanised civilisation, has become almost completely automated!" "He crosses the road to the signal of the traffic lights!" "!" "He gets up to the alarm of the clock!" "!" "When raising his glass he says 'cheers'!" "!" "And when insulted his reaction is always 'who do you think you are'!" "The physical structure of human body, both internal and external!" "The substantive difference between the two consist in this:" "If, when viewed sideways, one of the two ossesses curves, that one is the female!" "The main parts of the human body showing residual activity are four:" "The right hand, the right foot, the eyes and the mouth!" "The right hand is to signal, to pull levers to sign checks, and push buttons and to carry out actions of public utility!" "The right foot is to exercise pressure on the accelerator of a car!" "The ideal man of the future will be born with two right legs!" "Eyes are for looking at television, movies and highways!" "Intellectuals also use them to read book covers!" "The mouth is used mainly for smiling and smoking!" "Those who use it for speaking become politicians!" "Those who don't use it at all become subtle humorists!" "Internally man is very simple!" "He has a few organs, all numbered, whose job it is to become diseased!" "The most important organ is the heart because without it, it would be impossible to tell whether a man is dead or alive!" "However, the most important result of my research is that this automated life has caused a partial atrophy of the brain!" "This organ that yesterday was considered the most important of the human body has now almost totally disappeared leaving a considerable empty space in the skull!" "But I had a different concept!" "A small missile, with an electronic remote control receiver, operating on one single wave length controlled by one person only, can be launched into men's heads!" "The impact is so sharp as to be painless!" "Lts immediate effect is to wash what's left of the brain and eliminate any residue of hostile or wicked thoughts!" "After that, it enters an active phase in which orders sent out on the same wave-length will encourage man to harbour only feelings of fraternity for all living things, whether human or animal," " thus giving man a new possibility for!" " That's enough!" "Colonel, take him away!" "I am very hungry!" "With a little!" "Encouragement," "I 'persuaded' the Professor to make some slight modifications in the missiles using the local island inhabitants for our initial experiments!" "My next test was a sample launching on the people of South Coniferus where I have two markets!" "The impact of the missiles was timed exactly to the release of the supersonic notes of the activating theme song containing the control message!" "The control message, gentlemen, which I and I alone can send is!" "BUY FROM HAPPY BETTY!" "Let me tell you, gentlemen, in under two hours those people bought both of my super supermarkets completely empty- for cash!" "Now I have a new rocket ready for my first major launching of thousands of brain-missiles to the Continent, and after that, others, larger and still more powerful, will follow, until saturation point has been reached and I control the buying power of the entire world!" "But to complete this colossal operation will be costly, and that is why you are here, for the present I need financial support!" "Well, gentlemen, what do you say!" "All this is very interesting, Madame, but how can we be certain that the missile will, in fact, be effective on every individual?" "Before we invest in this project we must be sure that the brain-missile can work effectively on superior individuals, not only on mediocre ones!" "After all, for the average individual, television, radio, and movies works well enough!" "That's correct!" "He's right!" "He's here, Happy Betty!" "It's him!" "The Vip!" "Catch him!" "The Vip is my answer to your query!" "I have him here for a final experiment, to satisfy your doubts!" "Colonel!" "Get Schultz and find the Vip!" "I want him alive and I want him quick!" "Get me out of here!" "Come out of there, you stoop, and help me find the Vip!" "Put on your pants, stupid and go search the tower while I look in the underground passages!" "Listen, Miss Lion, would you like me to take you out?" "What a question at a time like this!" "Of course, I would!" "I mean if I were someone else, would you go with him?" "Come on, Supervip, let's go!" "Don't be childish!" "He's not here!" "Yah, up here is everything normal!" "Halt!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Feuer!" "Verdampte Vip try to hide, he?" "Dressed as a mouse, eh?" "!" "Very clever, Vip, Yah!" "I'll be ready in a minute, SuperVip!" "Achtung!" "Vass ist das?" "I hear voices!" "Ya, ya, Ich feuer nachforsehen!" "Ach!" "Stop, stop, stop!" "Gee, Miss Lion, I bet you're the most beautiful anthropology major in the world!" "My name is Lisa!" "!" "And my hair must be a mess!" "Lisa, your eyes are like sparkling Jewels!" "Supervip!" "Listen!" "I hear something!" "Ich du fortasse kleine Vip!" "Let's go out on the terrace and look at the stars!" "Don't be silly!" "There's no terrace on this horrible cell!" "There isn't, well, I can fix that!" "There you are!" "Wonderful, isn't it?" " What?" " The peace and quiet!" "We are those who represent progress" "We don't mind being fools nonetheless!" "Hurrah!" "Hurrah for the advertising atmosphere!" "We, with a missile stuck in our head" "Nothing but Carousels we watch like mad" "We put tiger in double soup!" "Two blue drops into off-white!" "Great cook in your engine, durum wheat!" "Wash the dirt into bright!" "I've been waiting such a long time for you!" "I knew you'd come for me!" "But I never thought you'd be so handsome!" " What's your name?" " M-m-Minivip, what's yours?" " Nervustrata!" " Nervustrata?" "Don't you like it?" "Oh yes, yes I do, it's a lovely name!" "But why are you kept in there?" "See this thing in my head?" "I've been used by these awful people as a Guinea pig for their experiment!" "And it hasn't worked very well on me!" "But it doesn't look bad on me, does it?" " You're beautiful!" " I am?" "Then you will get me out of here, won't you?" "Hmm!" "Well, certainly!" "At once!" "It may take some time!" "Though, but don't you worry Nervustrata!" "I'll get you out of there, that's for sure!" "Oh!" "But Minivip, you don't have to cut the bars!" "I can get through them, see!" " But!" "But!" "Then why?" " It's the jump that frightens me!" "It's dangerous!" "But if you could catch me!" "?" "Whooops!" "What huge muscles you have, Minivip!" "I'm so weak, Minivip, I need protection!" "!" "And you're so strong and virile!" "Don't you think we make a good couple?" "Marvellous!" " So you're the strongest man in the world, eh?" " We-ell!" "I knew it!" "I was sure it would be you!" "O!" "K!" "Let's see who's the strongest!" "Come on, step forward!" "Don't hit him too hard, Minivip, he's got a long way to fall!" "Come on MiniVip!" " Oooohh!" "You're super Minivip!" " No!" "Super's my brother, come on!" "Let's go!" "Supervip!" "Help!" "That sounded like my brother's voice!" "Wait here a minute!" "Who's there?" "What do you want?" "You!" "I mean the little you!" "Vip!" "The big one!" "In the cellar big one!" "Small one!" "Anyone!" "Vip doesn't matter!" "I'll kill any size!" "Sorry, I thought it was my brother!" "Hah!" "You little squirt!" "I've got you!" "Na-aang!" " Let him alone!" "You big bully!" " Now it sounds like a woman's voice?" "Ha!" "You wriggling super-worm I'll squash you for good!" "Do you mind letting go of my brother!" "Minivip!" "You were wonderful!" "Wasn't he, sir?" "He certainly was but he shouldn't have come in here!" "And the next thing to do is to get you out as fast as we can!" "I'll take the girls to a safe place and then come back for you!" "Safe place?" "Where?" "To the beach!" "No-one will look for them there!" " The beach, huh!" " Come on, Lisa!" "All set girls!" "?" "We're off!" "This time I'll get him!" " There, girls!" "Safe!" " Oh, take a look at the sea!" "Beautiful, isn't it?" "So many wonderful birds!" "Look!" "A butterfly!" "What beautiful colours!" "Stay close, young lady!" "You'd better be careful!" "Never mind, sir!" "I'll stay nearby!" "Such a cute butterfly you are!" "Hmm, yes, that should be a safe place!" "Whooops!" "What's going on up there?" " Help!" " Yes, help!" "IchantslHappy Betty, the super Supermarket Queen!" "Hey!" "Look who's here!" "Colonel!" "Schultz!" "Somebody, hurry!" "I caught him!" "So hot, isn't it?" "No wonder!" "With that costume you have on!" "You know what I'm gonna do?" "While waiting here for you, I take it off and go for a nice swim!" "Do you mind, SuperVip?" "Not at all, just be careful not to swim too far out" "Don't be silly!" "I swim like a fish!" "Especially without such a costume on!" "SuperVip, what's going on?" "Are you all right?" "Lisa!" "Lisa!" "I love you!" "So?" "Well?" "Lisa?" "Lisa?" "Lisa?" "Lisa?" "So?" "Oh, SuperVip, I love you too!" "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!" "Ha ha!" "That must be him!" "As promised, gentlemen, I have captured a Vip, the Superman of Supermen!" "Schultz!" "Show the gentlemen!" " Incredibile!" " Wonderful!" " C'est vraiment lui!" " Diablo!" " Non I'avrei mai creduto!" " Mein Got!" " You have forgotten who I am!" " Happy Betty the Super!" "However, before carrying out the experiment on him which will prove to you that my invention works perfectly even on super-brains," "I would like to show you something unique!" "Gentlemen!" "You are about to see missile base 'Happy Betty'" "Ready?" "!" "Come on!" "Pull!" "And this, gentlemen, is only the outside!" "In a moment we'll have a brief tour of the works!" "Schultz!" "Take Vip to the experiment room!" "Alright, gentlemen, let's go!" "Yaaaaooohhhh!" "Hello, my name is Nervustrata!" "Don't be afraid!" "I won't hurt you!" "What a lot of lovely flowers there are!" "I wish I could pick them all!" "Here it is, the marvellous small steel city where the consumer destinies of future human generations are forged!" "Lts working population is one hundred thousand strong!" "A Million six hundred thousand fingers working incessantly at our great project!" "Excuse me, you mean:" "ONE million Fingers!" "I mean what I said!" "Our bio-electronic laboratory has been able to create" " collaborators with an eight-fingers hand!" " Marvellous!" "And how do you manage to discipline such an enormous work-force?" "By taking advantage of the most modern methods of industrialization, and safeguarding each individual's personality!" "For example, after deducting part of their wages, we provide meals for our collaborators!" "Not the usual fixed menu, but a free choice!" "Butter!" "Each guest can have his grain of rice with either butter, ketchup or onion sauce!" "Ketchup!" "Furthermore, we see to it that our collaborators get a good relaxing rest!" "After deducting part of their wages, we allow them to use an apparatus which gives immediate, deep and healthy sleep!" "When, after a few minute of such special rest, our collaborators wake up, ready to go back to their work, they are conveyed by mechanical means to avoid loss of energy!" "The collaborators have some way of entertaining themselves?" "Why yes!" "After deducting a small sum from their wages, we offer them the use of a Park specially created for them with a particularly gay atmosphere!" "Where the collaborators can instantly satisfy their various and varied" " er!" "Venal appetites!" " What about vacations?" " Short, intensive, exciting, healthy!" "Our collaborators are given the opportunity to see the most beautiful sights in the world!" "While international artists sing and dance to their local music!" "There is also special apparatus to provide sun-bathing!" "!" "And for local 'souvenirs'!" " Do you provide medical attention?" " Of course!" "No bureaucratic delay or lack of interest here, attention is immediate and categorical!" "Each illness is tackled decisively and rapidly carried to its solution!" "Supervip, now let's see if you can swim!" "SuperViiiippp!" "Heeelllppp!" "OH!" "SuperVip!" "You're wonderful!" "You saved my life!" "This time you're not getting away!" "SuperVip!" "Watch out!" "Come on, good looking, I'll let you in too!" "!" "And then this handsome man named Minivip!" "!" "Came along and rescued me from prison!" "Boy, you gotta hand it to Happy Betty!" "If you please, Miss, step right in!" "And now for some maximum security measures!" "Phew!" "That's that!" "Now we'll proceed to the production area!" "The supporting part of the missile is plunged into a fusion at 1,400°!" "When the arm of the special expert in charge falls off, we know that the temperature of the metal bath is correct!" "In another department the missile undergoes a test for heat resistance!" "The technician after swallowing a mixture of gasses proceeds to the rigorous test!" "Unfortunately, we lose one match at each test!" "This custom of bowing causes a loss of approximately 15 percent in productivity!" "On the other hand, the problem of going to the wash-room has been brilliantly solved!" "As you know, gentlemen, this arbitrary and uncontrollable break in the work pattern is of capital importance in a large plant, and our research department has solved it by strategic placement of a running generator, which stops from time to time" "giving out charges of 60,000 volts!" "This inspires our collaborators not to waste time and prevents them from lingering longer than necessary!" "Wunderbar!" "If we had had something of the kind at the time, perhaps we wouldn't have lost the war!" "Phew!" "That's that!" "To return to the actual making of the missile!" "At this point, the electronic brain, produced in cans by a secret process, is grafted on the missile-head!" "!" "And the whole thing is thoroughly sterilised!" "After which it is ready to be fitted into its final shell!" "The brain-missile are then taken to the great rocket which can house up to 15,000 and which is ready on the launching pad!" "When the rocket takes off, goes up !" "The small missiles detach them and by means of the electronic eye are directed automatically towards the people on all continents!" "This rocket cannot be picked up by radar, because it is motor-less!" "Ninety specialised collaborators, who pedal with all their might, activate a propeller which projects the rocket into space!" "The first rocket in history to work without a carburant!" "And now, gentlemen, let's go back to our friend, the Vip and to his new gold-plated brain!" "Look at it carefully Vip!" "See, we had your name engraved on it!" "Get ready, Vip!" "One two, one two!" "I caught the Vip O!" "K!" "I've got him locked in the safe!" " See!" " Be quiet, you idiot!" "I captured the Vip, not you!" "Heellpp!" "Stop him, don't let him get away!" "Catch him - quick - quuickk!" " Gosh, it's dark!" "Where am I?" " Ohh!" "At last!" " I see a lot of little hearts!" " Supervip!" "Get us out of here!" " We are locked inside a safe!" " Inside a safe?" "Where?" "Why?" "How did we get in here?" "Listen to me Vip!" "This is Happy Betty speaking!" "Running or hiding won't help you!" "The missile will reach you wherever you are!" "For the simple reason that you are the only one on the Island without special protective cover!" "All the others are safe!" "Inside our base!" "In a few seconds the missile will be firmly planted in your super square head!" "And you'll come meekly back here asking me for instructions - ha!" "Got it?" "See you soon Vip!" "O!" "K!" "Girls, don't worry, I'll get you out!" "That's it!" "Man, what a kiss!" "What a kiss!" "Wow, my head!" "I see hearts whirling around!" "Mmmhh!" "What a kiss, boy!" "Oh boy!" "Oh, oh!" "Next time I better send it to you by telegram!" "Oh good, here's my suit!" "And my belt!" "It was Minivip who saved us all from those terrible men!" "It was, wasn't it Miss Lisa?" " Minivip!" "Were is he?" " Minivippp!" "If I were you!" "I wouldn't worry too much!" "Up to now, he seems to be doing fine!" "All by his mini-self!" "Hmm, you might be right!" "Maybe I've underrated him!" "But then again, maybe I haven't!" "I'd better reconnoitre and make sure!" " Minivippp!" "Let him alone!" "Well, you atomated banana, are you through?" " How was it?" " A little too bony, but not bad!" "There you are, gentelmen!" "Success!" "This signal indicates that the missile has hit the target and now even the invincible Vip has become one of our "devoted clients"!" "Hmm, yes, very good, but I think rather it should be under our direct control?" "Intolerable insolence!" "You seem to have forgetten who I am?" "Happy Betty, the super!" "The supreme rocket will be launched in a matter of minutes!" "There is no time left to discuss stupid and useless controls!" "You'll have to make up your minds right now!" "Well?" "O!" "K!" "We agree!" "Congratulations, you made the right decision!" "Colleagues, slaves, worms!" "His is Happy Betty speaking to you to announce that the count-down will start in a few minutes!" "When our creation starts lifting itself into the sky advertising will become a PURE science!" "Posters, film and radio commercials will be useless because there will be no more doubts on the part of the consumer as to what to choose they will forever buy only Happy Betty products!" "After this rocket, others, increasingly powerful, will follow, because a cartel of international shareholders has now decided to finance my colossal project!" " Long Live Betty!" "Long live!" " Clear the launching pad!" "The count-down will start at once!" "Hurry, Minivip!" "Hurry!" "Do you remember which was it was?" "That way, no, that way no wait, maybe!" "Ten!" "Nine!" "Eight" " Seven!" " I must find it!" "!" "Six!" "Five!" "Four!" "Three!" " Good!" "Here it is!" " !" "Two!" "One!" "Zero!" "There you are, this way it won't bother you any more!" "Buy from Happy Betty, you must spend-spend-spend" "Buy from Happy Betty, it's the trend-trend-trend" "When you're out of money, you must bend-bend-bend" "Every effort into making more to spend!" "Buy from Happy Betty, always shop-shop-shop" "For soup or salt or syrup by the drop-drop-drop" "Happy Betty's merchandise is top-top-top" "So keep on buying, you must never stop!" "Happy Betty's best for anything you want to eat" "Happy Betty's best for shoes to wear upon your feet" "Happy Betty's far the best by any test for all the rest of" "Sales clinching, penny-pinching, labor saving, patio paving," "Incoming, outgoing, budget wrecking, back breaking, cooking, Sweeping, cleaning, sleeping articles you buy from Happy Betty!" "Keep singing the Buy-Buy, keep singing the Buy-Buy" "You've got to swing the Buy-Buy" "And lay your money on the line!" "Buy from Happy Betty, you must fly-fly-fly" "To buy from Happy Betty till you're dry-dry-dry" "The last thing you must do before you die-die-die" "Is to struggle out and make a final buy!" "Happy Betty's is the store where you get more things you use for" ""Mixing, fixing;" "steaming, gleaming;"" ""winding, grinding;" "hide behinding"" ""Looping, grouping;" "standing, stooping;"" "indoor, outdoor, ous-ge-pooping" ""Washing, squashing;"" "milking bilking, everything you'll find from Happy Betty!" "That was great, marvellous Spectacular!" "Wonderful, fantastic, delightful!" "How nice!" "Well, that's it!" "The show's over!" "Let's go!" "You go ahead, Supervip, we'll follow in the helicopter!" "This is a lovely ride, SuperVee!" "Can I pay my fare in super-kisses?" "Take it easy, Lisa Things melt up here!" "Be caref..." " LISA!" "Oh!" "How awful!" "Look, Minivip!" "Could it be one of Happy Betty's Missiles!" "No, it's something even more powerful !" "It's love!" "Are you really a superman?" "You know, Minivip, you're wonderful!" "Without your help that fellow!" "!" "Would have been killed at least twenty times!" "Hmmm, you must try to remember, Nervustrata, he's my brother!" "Oh?" "Yes, of course!" "Well, I hope he realizes how lucky he is to have a superbrother like you!"

"Nothing unusual so far." "Everything looks normal." "Reade, Zapata..." "Anything suspicious?" "Negative, just the support staff coming and going." "Something's not right." "The message said to stand by." "I think they want us to wait." "All right." "We wait." "I went to the precinct and broke into the crime lab." "I stole the knife that killed Jones." "I was trying to protect you." "Tasha, I didn't kill him." "Why can't you believe me?" "Well, I believe you now." "The knife isn't yours." "It's Freddy's." "What?" "How do you know it's Freddy's?" "I saw him with it when he was staying in your apartment." "I have evidence for a murder case underneath a beach towel in my closet, and I can't figure out how to put it back without getting caught." "Put it back?" "What are you talking about?" "That knife convicts Freddy, you can't put it back now." "Shots fired inside the west end of the building." " FBI!" "FBI!" " On the ground, now!" " Get on the ground!" " FBI!" "Ohh!" " Everyone all right?" " Yeah." "It's Burton." "I got her." "Stand up." "Hands behind your back." "On me." "Fan out, we need to find the rest of 'em." "I got Doyle." "Hey!" "Where are they?" "The man and the woman you were with, where'd they go?" "Anyone got eyes on Jane and Weller?" "Nas... they're not here." "Okay, uh, take them to interrogation." "Those two are our best shot at finding Weller and Jane." " We gotta get them talking soon." " How the hell did this happen?" "I'm awfully curious about that myself." "Matthew Weitz, Assistant U.S. Attorney." "There is not a lawyer in the land who can get you out of this." "What are you doing here?" "Monitoring this investigation." "U.S. Attorney has assigned me to audit this team today, which is standard procedure when the FBI gets involved in a matter of Homeland Security... in this case, a car bomb going off outside a major political summit" "between the U.S. and China." "Hi, you must be Nas Kamal." "I came here expecting to actually talk" "Assistant Director Weller, but instead I was sent to you." "It seems as though Weller and his asset Jane Doe simply vanished from a crime scene." "It's funny how that keeps happening to members of this team." "You know what I find funny?" "You being assigned to audit us after you tried to put our boss away for murder." "Is that standard procedure too?" "Reade, why don't you start with the interrogations?" "Are you making an accusation of misconduct?" "Not yet, but this is a team with a proud history of breaking the rules, and now they're working a joint task force with an NSA agent." "I'm sure I'll find something." "I have two missing operatives, okay?" "This is... this is a waste of my time." "Pardon me if I can't take your word for it." "Now, you are gonna tell me everything you know about whatever ill-conceived op you were running at that summit." "So, let's start at the beginning, shall we?" "Agent Patterson had a case this morning." "So, remember Jane's Ashwell Creek Kennels tattoos?" "How could we forget?" "They pointed us to that online puppy forum that led us to Rich Dotcom." "After that case, I thought it would be a good idea to put up some coded posts listing criminals for hire, see if we could catch anyone else, all under the disguise of dog adoptions." " Smart." " So, I put up profiles for all of us, and no one was biting until now." "Congratulations, Jane and Weller." "You've both been hired for a heist crew." "Well, do we know who hired us?" "Unfortunately, no." "The account was untraceable, like, crazy untraceable." "But here's the good news." "There were two other people who were hired for the same crew." "Lynn Burton, young hacker who surfaced on the dark web a couple years ago, believed to have stolen over $100 million, all through bank cyber heists." "And Clive Doyle, your standard violent career criminal, rap sheet's a mile long." "Half of it is homicide charges." "This is great work, but we should send another team." "That's not an option." "I used real descriptions, real skill sets." "The profiles are specific to Jane and Weller." "It has to be them." "This is a straightforward sting op." "Yeah, but it's still risky." "We'd be putting you and Jane undercover for an op that's not really relevant to our larger mission." "What..." "larger mission?" "No... that's above your clearance." "Uh, no." "See this... this warrant states that there is nothing above my clearance." "That warrant covers information that is relevant to today's events, and I'm telling you that it is not relevant." "You know, if you didn't approve of the op, then why did you agree to it?" "Who's calling the shots here?" "Is it you or is it Weller?" "Look, Assistant Director Weller and I trust each other." "He made a very good case as to why we should do the mission, and that's why we did it." "Do we have to cover my tattoos for this one?" "I'm supposed to be a criminal." "Well, you're supposed to be a con artist, which means being able to blend in, and those do not blend." "And you'll be wearing this." "There's a burst transmitter woven into the fibers that's completely undetectable." "It won't emit a signal to us until you press the top button." "I'll hit that as soon as Clive and Lynn get there." "We'll be outside to make the arrest." "Should be a clean job, in and out." "Well, that is great, because you all need to prepare your taste buds for this pink or blue party cake." "Now, I did a third test batch last night." "One word... scrummy." "I know Baby Weller is the star here, but this cake is gonna give the kid a run for its money." "Patterson." "It's a small party." " No, I get it." " Yeah." "Allie wanted to throw it." "Please, really, it's fine." "The cake is terrible, it's just uneven bake, s-soggy bottom." "Good save." "We put a mobile TAC team together and dropped Jane and Weller off at the meet." "See you in there." "And that's the last time I saw them, at an abandoned warehouse in Green Point." "So, just to be clear, you sent two highly-trained operatives into a mission that, by your own account, should have taken a matter of minutes, and instead, they turned what was a peaceful, diplomatic gathering" "into a war zone, and then disappeared without a trace." " How did that happen?" " I don't know, okay?" "But Jane and Weller do, so if you want answers, then... why don't you help me get my people back?" "How do you propose that we do that?" "Through our original targets, Lynn Burton and Clive Doyle." "They're sitting in interrogation." "Look, my guess is, is that they have information that could help us track them down, because right now..." "they could be anywhere." "Uhh!" "Resist all you want." "Either way... your life's over." "Neither one of 'em is talking yet, but Lynn's our best bet." "Clive's done a lot of hard time and he's used to being interrogated." "Lynn's never been caught before... she's terrified." "Good, I'll take her." "Lynn!" "Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Weitz, and I am your best friend in this building." "You know why?" "Well, look, no matter what happens in this room today, you're going to prison." "Grand larceny, fraud, a whole mess of cyber crimes." "But hey, nice middle-class girl, nonviolent, you're looking at, I don't know, if you're lucky, eight years in a white-collar joint." "You'll be out in plenty of time to get your life started again." "But if these FBI agents turn up dead or they don't turn up at all, then you're looking at a life sentence, Lynn." "Supermax." "And nice middle-class girls, ooh, they don't do so well in there." "So..." "I'm your best friend in this building because I'm the only one who can offer you a deal." "But you're gonna have to tell me where they are." "I don't know." "Then you gotta tell me what you do know." "I was hired on the message boards." "It said to meet at this warehouse." "I was the last one there." "It was me, Clive, the cops." " Mm-hmm, Jane, Weller." " Yeah." "And Emile, the one who hired us." "You've been brought here today to steal a high-value item from the Evergreen Environmental Summit." "What's the target?" "That's not important, the point is, security is extremely high." "Both Secret Service and their Chinese counterpart, the CSB, will be present." "It's a risky job." "But my employer has had his eye on this item for a long time." "If you succeed in delivering it to him, you'll each be wired $2 million." "Pfft, eight-mil on one job." "Who's bankrolling this, the Queen of England?" "Nico Marconi." "Did she just say..." "Nico Marconi, number eight on the FBI's Most Wanted List." "One of the most notorious arms dealers in the world." "No one's ever been able to put a face to him, let alone get in the same room with him." "That's why Weller didn't send the signal." "He must have decided to stay undercover to get to Marconi." "So, they could be with Marconi now." "I'll dig a little deeper into Marconi's history, look for any known locations within a few hours of New York." " And I'll start working on Clive." " No, let me have him." "Nico Marconi." "We know that you were working for him." "Is that why you're not talking?" "You're scared of him." "I'm not scared of anyone, lady." "You see this?" "I got this at Rikers." "It's Sanskrit for "brass balls."" "Well, that's funny, though, because, uh..." "Lynn was saying that you froze up back there." "That sounds like a classic case of "he said, she said."" "Except she's the only one who's talking, so unless you tell your side of the story, that's all we've got to go on." "But that's fine, I'm sure your prison rep can survive a five-foot hacker saving your ass." "Hey, don't believe a damn word that comes out of that IT nerd's mouth." "Then give me something to believe." "Five years... and I want conjugals." "No, no, you know what?" "I wanna go to Otisville." "My buddy Kevin's doing life there." "I'll see what I can do." "Start talking." "Emile had everything planned out." "He arranged for us to go undercover as a bunch of caterers." "If we run into any trouble at the summit, we'll communicate through these." "Emergencies only!" "I was in charge of smuggling in all the weapons." "Slapped the hardware together, and we were ready to go." "No, it wasn't just him." "Jane and Weller were helping." "After they put the guns together, we changed again to look like we were attending the summit." "There was something going on between Jane and Weller." "I think they were having problems." "You damn right they were having problems." "She was vibing with me and he was jealous." "This is my favorite." "Let me show you how to use that." " Okay." " Don't hurt yourself." "Oh, yeah, Lynn gave something to Emile." "Some sort of equipment with "Timberland" on it." "Timberland Defense Systems." "Manufactures radar jammers for the U.S. military to hide their boats and planes from enemy radar." "It sounds like that's what Lynn gave Emile." "And she didn't want us to know." "What did he want with a radar jammer in a conference center?" "If the jammer wasn't for the heist, then it had to have been for the escape." "Maybe Emile had to get the item out of New York after they stole it." "And the only use for a jammer like that is to cloak a boat or a plane." "So if Jane and Weller are still with them, then that's what we're looking for." "We should search the Coast Guard and FAA for radar disturbances." "Okay, do it." "So, you armed up, you blended in to look like the delegates... then what?" "We split up." "Lynn and Emile were supposed to cause a distraction while the rest of us secured the item." "Emile had done all the recon ahead of time, so he explained each layer of security we had to get through." "We'll take it from here." "Hell, we had access to everything but the vault." "Clive!" "Help us!" "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "You're telling me that you rescued two FBI agents?" "Yes." "Yes, I am." "Did you get the item or not?" "Well, that was very anticlimactic." "That looks like the design for the green energy device." "Corporate espionage." "Definitely not in the Nico Marconi's style." "Damn it!" "It's weight-censored." "But Emile knew the security to this place inside and out." "How could he not tell us there was a weight censor?" "'Cause he wanted us to get caught." "That alarm just sent every guard on this floor to this room." "We're not the ones stealing the item." "We're the distraction." " Just throw the knife out." " I can't!" "Someone saw me at the precinct." "An old coworker." "At any moment, the lab is going to realize that the knife is missing, and when that happens, I will be screwed." "You should have thought about that before you decided to steal evidence." "I did!" "You think I didn't realize that I could go to prison for this?" "But you are my best friend." "That was the risk that I was willing to take to save you, but I will not go to prison to save Freddy, and that is exactly what will happen if we don't put that knife back." "You don't understand." "I made Freddy testify." "I brought this back into his life." "If I hadn't done that, maybe none of this would have ever happened." "How am I gonna turn him in?" "So, Emile lied about the briefcase?" " It was just a distraction?" " Yes." "They weren't stealing the real item, we were." "The real target was being monitored 24/7 by two CSB guards." "But Emile knew their emergency protocols." "When the alarm sounded, the guards would head to their helicopter on the roof." "He had me rewire the elevator so that when you select "roof,"" "it went to the basement instead." "I never saw what was in the bag." " Come on." " We just ran to the van." " We've got two minutes." " Okay." "Damn it... the van's blown." "We gotta find a new way out." "But all my equipment's in there, I need to get it." "There's no time." "Aah!" "Lynn said that you never made it back to the rendezvous point." "What happened?" "They've got us trapped." "Hey, uh-uh." "No, no, no." "It's a steel box." "The bullets will ricochet like crazy." "It's gonna have to be hand-to-hand combat." "What?" "No." "Hand-to-hand combat, I-I-I..." "I can't make a fist after that fight." "Don't worry." "I got it." "Aaaargh!" "Let's just skip the part where you singlehandedly fought off 20 armed guards." "What happened next?" "I got us out of the vault, but those Secret Service guys, they... they caught up to us." "Those are some trigger-happy sons o' bitches." "Change of plans, new getaway vehicle is a black Cadillac." "Get to the east entrance in 60 seconds or get left behind." " All right, okay, come on." " We don't have enough time." "You go, I'll hold 'em off." " Clive, no." " Okay." "Hey... go." "I'll never forget you." "I took out as many guys as I could before I got KO'd." "Then I woke up to you poking me like a damn porcupine." "Right, so the last time you saw Jane and Weller, they headed for a black Cadillac." "As far as I know." "Oh, by the way, that tattoo?" "Uh, it's not Sanskrit, it's Arabic." "What?" "What does it mean?" "Ah-ah, don't do that, what does it mean?" "Yo!" "A black Cadillac left the east entrance shortly after the bomb went off." "No plates, but we tracked it for about a mile." "It got on the 87 going north." "Of all the locations in the northeast with ties to Nico Marconi, only 15 are near water or an airfield, and only one of them is off 87 North." "A plot of land on the waterfront." "Marconi's shell company owns it." "It's a defunct state park that closed down due to contamination, so no one goes near it." "A pretty good spot for covert weapons deals." "Okay, let's move." "We've been driving for an hour." "Are you sure this is the best use of our time?" "There's a lot of ground to cover." " Wait, up ahead." " Jane!" " Are you okay?" " Just winded." "Where's Weller?" "He went on the boat with Chen." "Who's Chen?" "She's what we stole from the summit." "Dr. Mingxia Chen, she's a leader in plate tectonics who was giving a talk at the summit." "She invented a method of converting tectonic shifts into green energy." "What does a weapons dealer like Marconi want with an earthquake scientist?" "I think I might know." "Over the past year," "China has been conducting a massive study on tsunami activity off their coastline." "But there's been chatter that it's a cover, and that what they're really doing is developing a tsunami bomb." " A what?" " It's a bomb that's detonated on the ocean floor to mimic a tsunami." "Concept was created during World War II, and they thought it could be just as deadly as an atomic bomb." "But they've never actually made one work... have they?" "Well, last month, a small island near China's research station was completely wiped out overnight, literally." "On the map one day, gone the next." "It's believed that that was their first successful test." "And Mingxia Chen is..." "Head of RD for the project." "Instead of stealing a tsunami bomb," "Nico Marconi kidnapped the only person in the world who can make one." "So, the question now is..." "who's he gonna sell her to?" "Clive and Lynn both said they were stealing an item, not a person, which means either Emile kidnapped Chen from the summit all by himself, or one of them knows something they're not letting on." "And if they knew that Chen was the target, they might know where Emile is taking her." "We need to compare their stories to Jane's, see what doesn't add up." "When we got to the summit, Weller filled me in on Nico Marconi." "We both agreed we should stay undercover to try to get to him." "We disabled the guns without Clive seeing." "We knew we had to get a line out to you with our location." "Hey, how'd you put that Ruger together so fast?" "He couldn't risk speaking, so he dialed 1-0-1-2 instead." "Police code for "do not engage." We got the message." "We know Clive lied about the casualties in his story." "None of the bodies were found at the scene." "How'd you stop him?" "No." "No, Clive." "No guns." "Sir, I was just..." "We made it out of the vault before security arrived, but the Secret Service was on our tail quick." "So, Clive was with you the whole time like he said?" "Which means that Lynn must have known about Chen." "Well, that would make sense." "I'm pretty sure they knew each other." "They were the first two there when we got to the warehouse, and she pretended that she didn't know him, but later, I overheard her." "We cut it close." "The conference badges almost didn't clone." "You told me they'd be the same as last time." "You weren't just another hired hand, were you?" "Emile and you are associates, and you planned the heist with him." "I..." "Just part of it." "What part, the part where you kidnapped a woman?" "It wasn't a duffel bag that you took, was it?" "It was Professor Chen, right?" "Right?" "!" "I swear to God, if you don't start talking," "I'm gonna make sure that you never see sunlight again." "Yes." "It was Chen." "So why didn't you tell us about Chen?" "Because I was trying to protect myself from kidnapping charges!" "So, when you guys got to the Cadillac, that was the first time you saw Chen?" "No, we didn't see her till the boat." "_" " Who the hell is that?" " This is the item." "_" "_" " Chen." "Chen Mingxia." " Don't talk to her." "Weapons." "Please, help me." "Good work." "Marconi will be pleased." "Take it in the woods and burn it." "You can find your own way back." "All right, what do we do?" "We can't just leave Chen." "Wherever she's going, that's where Nico Marconi is." "There's too many of 'em to take down without guns." "We're at least 20 miles from civilization." "You start running out of here, all right?" "Try and find a way to contact the team." "I'm gonna get on that yacht so we don't lose 'em." " No, I'll get on the yacht." " No, Jane." "We both know how dangerous this is." "You have a baby on the way." "You have Sarah, you have Sawyer, people who would miss you if anything happened to you." "Look, I'm just being practical." "But no one would miss me." "So, I'll get on the yacht." "Do you hear that?" "There's a guard." "He's on the other side of this building." "He must be staying behind." "All right, let's box him in, see if we can take his weapon, his phone." "All right?" "Go right." "Wait, Emile paid you in cash?" "Yeah, I buried our cut in the woods." "Lynn said the money would be wired." " Maybe she just misspoke." " Maybe, or maybe she slipped up and actually told the truth." "Whoa, what are you doing?" "She's still lying to you, but it's not for Emile." "That equipment that you were trying to get out of the catering van, there was a hard drive in there." "The blast damaged the fireproof housing pretty badly, but the inside was intact." "And I just cracked it." "Yeah, very, very not good for you." "She builds the money transfer sites for Marconi's sales, and they're pretty good, actually, super secure, unhackable, but the real beauty is... that her cut is automatically wired to her on completion of the sale." "You want this Chen sale to go through because you're still getting paid." "Except I just found your offshore bank account that you're transfer empties into... and it's just been seized by the FBI, so you're not gonna make a cent off this sale." "And if it does go through, you'll be implicated in human trafficking, so I suggest you hand over the site you built and let us shut it down." "It's not a sale this time." "Marconi thought Chen was one of a kind." "Wanted to see how much he could get." "It's a dark web auction." "Tell us how to access it." "Okay, so I've been doing some thinking... and you're right, we gotta return the knife." "Good." "That's..." "We just have to figure out how." "I think I found a way." "You can't bring it into the lab yourself because you were already seen, but what if we make somebody do it for you?" "Why would somebody do that?" "Same reason why Lynn's lying:" "self-preservation." "So... so, last year, a lab tech got suspended for misplacing evidence." "It cost them a case." "He's still on probation." "Now, what if he were to find the knife in his car?" "He wouldn't report it and risk getting fired." "He'd just put it back." "Yeah, but what if he panics and throws it away?" "Not very smart... if anything comes up missing, he's gonna be the first person they blame." "You got a better idea?" "Reade, Zapata, get in here now!" "What's going on?" "The auction's going live." "_" "_" "Oh, my God." "A top FBI official for sale on the black market is a unicorn." "Weller is a wealth of intel." "Look, the auction site is airtight." "I've got my whole team trying to trace it to a location, and so does Patterson, but... that would take weeks." "Weller and Chen will be long by then." "Can't Lynn just shut it down?" "That's not the way that it works." "She lost control of it as soon as she handed it over to Marconi." "There's gotta be some other way to find them." "We win." "What?" "We pose as a buyer, we get in on the auction and we win." "Marconi will have to provide a location for us to collect the merchandise." "Uh, in case you've all forgotten, the United States does not negotiate with terrorists." "We are pouring our best resources into finding them through legitimate channels, and that is all we can do." "Fine, understood." "Jane, let me see you in the conference room in five minutes to make a more specific ID on Marconi's boat." "That boat's a dead end." "You know that." "Why are you giving in to him?" "I'm not." "I have an idea, okay?" "But it's risky and... it's not exactly legal, so I don't wanna involve any of you." " We're already involved." " We're a team." "If there's a chance to get Weller back, we're in." "Congratulations." "You've been sold, 40 million, even more than I expected." "I guess an FBI assistant director fetches a pretty good bonus." "But you..." "I've had my eye on your for months... just waiting for you to figure out that bomb." "I knew you could do it!" "You're Nico Marconi." "Guess neither of us was who we purported to be." "Jeep's ready." "I'll wait there." "I want to leave as soon as the second half of the payment comes through." "I think that I can get us out of here." "But I'm gonna need your help." "Were they circular windows here or rectangular?" "Or no windows?" "Jane?" "I'm sorry, this will have to wait." "Excuse me?" "You need to request that a rescue team be sent to this location immediately." "That's where you'll find Weller along with Nas," "Reade, and Zapata." "What the hell are you talking about?" "They won the auction." "Nas used the money from Lynn Burton's offshore account, 20 million in total, although that's just the first half." "Marconi will be expecting the second half as soon as they get there, and they do not have it, so they're gonna need some serious backup." "They defied my direct orders, and you expect me to go bail 'em out?" "Well, the way I see it, you can either stick to your guns and let four federal agents and a kidnapped civilian die, or you can get credit for capturing the FBI's Eighth Most Wanted." "Moving day." "The buyers are here." "It's time to go." "No, please, I feel sick." "You gotta help her." "Please, look!" "Uhh!" "Go hide behind that tree." "I'm gonna need you to wait here." "No, take me with you." "No, we don't have a chance of getting out of here on foot." "Our best bet is Marconi's jeep, so I'm gonna go and take that from him." "But it's safer if you stay here." "Okay." "You must be the lucky winner." " Where are they?" " You paid half up front." "They're not yours yet." "Transfer the other 20 million." "Then you get your prize." "As far as I know, they're not even here." "Or you could have beaten them half to death, and they're of no use to me." "I need to see them first." "Fair enough." "They're running!" "They were just there." "Find them." "Make sure my property isn't damaged." "I need them alive." "Stop!" "Uhh!" "Stay down!" "We got cops!" "The buyers are cops!" "Uhh!" "Uhh!" "Here, come on." "Are you okay?" "We have to find Weller." "Chen said he ran off that way." "He's going after Marconi." "All right, let's go." "Looks like you could use some backup." "Nice to see you both." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "You?" " Yeah." " And you?" "Let's get the hell outta here." "Go around." "Nas." "FBI!" "Freeze." " Hands up!" " Drop your weapons!" "Drop 'em!" "Down on the ground, keep your hands where I can see 'em." "Move." "Down on the ground." "On the ground!" "Turn around." "Nico Marconi... you're under arrest." "You went behind my back and stole 20 million dollars from the U.S. government..." "that is a federal crime!" "But we have Marconi in custody!" "I mean, we'll get all of that money back." "What if you lost him?" "This was not a calculated, tactical decision." "This was a coin flip." "And you don't get to keep your job just because it came up heads." "You don't have the power to fire me." "Oh, then I will walk it up the chain till I find somebody who does." "You will never work for the United States government ever again." "That's a promise." "You know, Matthew," "I have worked with a lot of men like you." "You get off on instilling fear, 'cause it makes you feel more powerful." "You wouldn't know what to do with real power." "How'd it go?" "Is he bringing up charges?" "It's fine, there's nothing to worry about." "Really?" "Yeah, it was... just a slap on the wrist." "Patterson, can I talk to you for a second?" "You know, when I first brought my theory about Sandstorm to my superior... she laughed at me." "The only proof I had that these lone wolf attacks were connected was this one man in a lime green hat." "She thought that it was a coincidence, and that the link that I was looking for wasn't there." "She gave me the lecture, "When you hear hoofbeats..."" ""...think horses, not zebras."" "But..." "I just knew that it was connected." "It made perfect sense to me long before I could convince her." "You know, Patterson, it's not always gratifying to be the person who sees things that no one else can see." "We both know that." "But it's a gift." "This grants you access to all the systems in this room." "It's six years of my life's work, everything that the NSA has on Sandstorm." "I..." "I'm honored." "Well, your work on the tattoos has been exceptional." "I look forward to seeing what you do with this." "Come to the party." "You really don't have to do that." "What you said on the pier, it wasn't true." "I... never thought I'd say this again, but... if something happened to you," "I'd miss you." "You're my friend, Jane." "So I want you at that party." "Okay." "I'll be there." "All right." "Wash it down with that." "Lovebirds..." "So, uh, where is this, uh, mysterious boyfriend of yours?" "Conor is stuck on a stakeout, unfortunately." "Yeah, and I was so excited to introduce you as my baby daddy." "By the way, I'm feeling pretty confident we're having a boy." "Game on." "50 bucks it's a girl." " Hm?" " You're on." "Wait, why... you can't take that." "We gotta cut the cake to find out." " Oh." " It's not fair." "It's done." "I put it back in his car." "Now, we just wait." "If he puts it back tomorrow morning, they should trace it back to Freddy by... end of day." "You okay?" "I just want it to be over... yeah." "Thank you." "For what?" "You... you thought I killed somebody and you still stuck by me." "You'd have done the same." "Uh..." "I..." "You're kidding me." "The hazards of being a bartender." "Let me..." "let me do it." "All right." "Weitz is coming after you, isn't he?" "Yeah... maybe." "Whatever happens, we fight it together, okay?" "You were only in that position because of me." "You know, when you were missing, I was..." "Don't." "Weller, it's cake time!" "Good timing." "Let's go get some cake." "All right." "All right, coming!" "You can never come back." "_" "Wh-what are you doing here?" "Shepherd doesn't know I'm here." "What's going on?" "We have been through so much." "You haven't always been by my side, but it's better when you are." "I'm better when you are." "I don't wanna do this without you." "I need you to see that, understand how great this can all be." "I want you by my side when it happens." "When what happens?" "Phase two." "It's time." "In a few hours, we're gonna change the world."

"The world as we know it has ceased to exist." "In just four years, the earth's atmosphere has heated up by 10° Celsius." "People are fighting for survival." "Water and food supplies are quickly running out." "Social order is collapsing." "Alex." "Alex!" "Please!" "Alex!" "You have to go." "They're coming." "No." "No." "It won't work." "Leave me here." "Hurry up." "Go now." "It's a trap." "Run!" "Run!" "Leo, that's not funny." "There's nothing coming out." "This works too, doesn't it?" "Last petrol can." "Button up my shirt." "Look for the next exit." "Do you think it will work?" "That'll last for another 80 kilometres." "What if it's no better up there?" " What if there's nothing up there?" " At least we will have tried." "Come on!" "There we go." "I just saw a bird." " What?" " Yes." "Quite a sight." "It was flying the same direction as we're going." "See?" "It's a sign." "Yeah, birds know where the water is." "Isn't it too dangerous?" "No, there's nobody around." "I'll have a look around." "What's so special about him?" "We help each other." "We wouldn't be here without him." "We wouldn't be here without his car." "Shit, it's coming off." "Give me that stuff." "Go in and see what else you can find." "I'll check the tanks." "Put on your jacket." "Scientists clueless:" "Solar storms with record highs" "Somebody was sleeping here." "Leonie?" "Leonie?" "You can't just take off." "What are you doing anyway?" "Toilets, water lines and heating pipes - there's always water." "Something Mum showed me." "Wait outside where Phillip can see you." "I'll look around the back." "OK?" " Did you hear what I said?" " Yes." "Leo, you won't believe it." "Look what I just..." "Phillip!" "Shit!" " Where did he go?" " I couldn't tell." "What did he take?" " Let's get out of here." " He stole at least a week's worth of stuff." "Why was the car even unlocked?" "You've got the key." "Do I have to do all the thinking?" "Leonie!" "Leo?" " Where is he?" " Let her go." "There are three of you." "Where is he?" "Somewhere outside." "Put that down." "I said, put it down." "Call him over here." "Phillip!" "Louden" "Phillip!" "Even louder." "Phillip!" " I have..." " What?" "I have." "What?" "Petrol." " What are you looking for?" " My watch." "Five litres." "I could get at least 20 for that." "Maybe in the city." "You're not the only people who come by." "OK, 15." "Ten, and a can of those peaches." "Quick, the cups!" " How far do you want to go?" " Into the mountains." " Why?" " That's where the water is." "Even says so on the bottles." "I wouldn't do that." "You got it from the diesel tank." "By the sound of it, your oar will only do another 50 kilometres." "How do you know?" "Give it more gas." "It's the fan belt." "The parts aren't built for this heat." "This has nearly had it." "And then?" "You might find another fan belt in one of these cars." "How much petrol do you have left?" "How many peaches do you have?" "I have a better idea." "You find a spare fan belt and take care of the motor." "We take you with us and you get something to eat." "Another man would be good anyway." "Marie will make you a new bandage." "The first-aid kit is under my seat." "What happened?" "Someone knocked me out and I woke up in the blazing sun." " How long were you lying out there?" " Don't know." "Two or three hours." "You were lucky." "I mean, that you realised it in time." "We were all lucky, weren't we?" "Here." "You lost it." "What's your name anyway?" "Tom." "Phillip." "Thanks." "Watch out!" "Got a tow cable?" "The three of us push, and the girl drives." "That should work, shouldn't it?" "Press the clutch down." "Now step on the gas a little." "Slowly let out the clutch." "Good." "Now put it in gear." "What do you still need it for?" "It's from my mum." "She wasn't so lucky." "Did that hurt?" "It sure did." "But don't drive off." "More gas!" "Even more!" "Leonie, turn off the engine!" "Turn it off!" "From now on you'll sit in the back, OK?" "There's probably still petrol in the tank." "They might have even had some food." "Arsehole." "Too long." "An insult, with five letters." "Phillip?" "Still too long." "Marie?" "Is this working?" "Yeah, I can hear you." "I have to go and pee." "When the sun's gone, OK?" "French." "Nobody could have survived, eh'?" "They probably continued on foot with their supplies." "Or someone was here before us." "Let's check the tank." "Marie?" "Yes?" "Bring me an empty petrol can." "Can't one of you come up?" "that'll take too long." "We have to get out of here." "I don't want to leave Leonie alone." "Then let her bring us the petrol can." "It's time you got her under control." "Marie, is that clear?" "Yes." "I'll do it." "Hey!" "Who cares about him, eh?" "As long as we stick together." "Can't we just drive off?" "Now." "Just the two of us." "You have the key, don't you?" "Marie?" "Marie, are you there?" " I'm on my way." " See?" "He has you under control." "You stay in the car." "Don't go anywhere." " Got it?" " You're not Mum." "Got it?" "Mum's not around any more." "I'm all you have now." "Lock the door." "As soon as we're somewhere safe we'll get rid of him." "Marie." "Here." "Straight from Paris." "Phillip..." "You don't have to worry." "I got my period." "Leonie?" "Someone's here." "Where's Leonie?" " Where's Phillip?" " We have to get out of here." "Come on." "What happened?" "Tom?" "Talk to me." "They drove off with Leonie just as we got up there." "It was a trap." "I shouldn't have left her alone." "We'll look for her, OK?" "Phillip!" "Where's Leonie?" "I don't know." " Maybe they just took the car and let her go." " Just the car?" "Everything was in there." "Everything." "Leonie?" "Leonie?" "Leonie, tell me where you are." "Leonie." "Leonie." "Nothing." "Just static." "But I saw smoke, about three kilometres away." "Someone's started a fire." "What if they're no different?" "Maybe your boyfriend has a better idea." "Let me go!" " We have to do something." " Shh." "Wait." "Get down." " I've seen enough." " No." "We'll get her out of there." " Now's our only chance." " They'll be back any time now." "We'll take the car, too." "Give me the water, and the petrol can." "We need it empty." "Drink." " I'm getting sick of this..." " I'm gonna make a Molotov cocktail." "They'll be back soon." "And if you don't cooperate..." "I'll douse you with your fucking petrol and set you on fire." "Quick." "Drink it." "You go to the car." "There are loose cables under the steering wheel." "You have to hold the right ones together." " It's easier than it sounds." " I'll do it." "When this thing goes off, they'll run towards it." "You just concentrate on the cables." "Try them all." "The engine will start." "They'll be preoccupied." "We'll get the girl and jump into the car with you." "Can you do it?" "Now." "Fire!" "Come on." "Shit." "Drive!" "Drive!" " Where's Leonie?" " Just drive, will you?" "Where are they?" "Just drive, damn it!" "Just drive!" "Floor it!" "What happened to Leonie?" "Marie, we didn't stand a chance." "Shit!" "What happened?" "What happened?" "The whole plan went wrong!" "That's what happened!" "What a stupid idea that was." " A Molotov cocktail!" " You didn't even try!" "How was I supposed to cut through an iron chain with a pocket knife?" "They were all chained up!" "Should I have torn her foot off?" "Don't you get it?" "We can't help her any more." "We keep driving." "It's our only chance." "Or we'll die here, both of us." "Which ones do I connect?" "What are you doing?" "Better not be the fan belt." "Come on!" "Marie?" "Marie, I'm sorry." "Let's stay together." "Then help me find her." "What's the range on these?" " No idea." "No more than three kilometres." " Then she's got to be close." " Did she say something?" " I couldn't understand her." "Let me see." "You have to go on alone." "I'll be fine." "Or do you want to push me on the bike in the scorching sun?" "Go!" "I won't hurt you." "I thought you were dead." "I'm looking for my little sister." "They attacked us and took her with them." "There was a whole group of them, and they had several prisoners." "They come down every few weeks, catch people and disappear again." "That's just what I heard." "I've never seen it happen." "I saw it." "You can't go now." "Not during the day and without water." " Can you give me something?" " This is all I have." "But we live nearby." "We have water." "You can rest there." "I have to find my sister." "I have a son." "He'll help you." "Wait here." "Our farmers had to slaughter all their livestock." "For three years now, there's been no harvest." "Only a few of us survived." "My son is all I have left." "All I have is my sister." "This is what's left of our field." "But you have water." "Some, in cliffs and caves." "It's hard to get, but there's just enough for drinking." "Some people say it's raining above the tree line again." "I don't believe it." "What could possibly be up there?" "We're not leaving our farm." "Flori!" "Get inside!" "The Brückners have joined up with us." "It's not always easy, but this way we can get by." "Everyone here has his job." "Flori, you're supposed to sleep during the day, not play out in the sun." "We have a guest." "Grandma Brückner." "Thank God she's not really aware of all this." "You can rest here." "I'll wake you up before it gets dark." "By then I'll have spoken to everyone." "Here." "Excuse me..." "Yes?" "I had to leave someone behind." "He's badly injured." " He's lying in a railway tunnel." " Oh, the Berchen Tunnel." " That's not far from here." " But he can't walk any more." "I'll send my son to help him." "Thank you." "It's all right." "Now, more than ever, we need our men." "Try to sleep." "What's your name?" "Marie." "Nice." "My name's Elisabeth." "Delta 3, enemy has fallen" "Where's my sister?" "Leonie!" " Leonie!" " Please calm down!" "What are you people up to?" "We don't have any more livestock." "We have to survive." "We don't have any other choice." "Please don't hurt her." "Nothing will happen to you two." "On the contrary." "You're pretty and healthy." "And just the right age." "My son needs a wife." "Otherwise we can't keep up the farm." "And in a few years, your sister will be ready." "For Flori." "Think of your little sister." "She needs a proper family again." "I want to see her." "I like that." "How you look after your sister." "Leonie!" "What happened?" "Oh, nothing much." "It has to be cleaned and bandaged." "I'll send my son to do it." "Afterwards we'll have dinner." "You must be hungry." "You'll look beautiful in this." "Marie..." "Hit her." "You'll like him, he's my youngest." "Why didn't you hit her?" "I'm scared." "I'm so sorry." "Have you seen Phillip?" "And Tom?" "He's down there with the others in the barn." "How many others are there?" "I don't know." "OK, Leonie..." "we have to get out of here." "The curtains." "Give it to me." "Look in the closet." " Locked." " Get the backpack." "You first." "Lie down and don't move." "My mother said... your sister..." "She's sleeping." "My mother said you're a... gift from Heaven." "What?" "Because she found you... in the church." "Close the door." "Is he dead?" "What?" "Come on." "Turn off the lamp." "There." "Don't look down, look at me." "Everything OK?" " Yes." " Not so loud." "Get going." "Run and hide in the forest." "Run, now!" "Marie?" "The others will be right down." "He's still doing her bandage." "How beautiful you look." "And it fits you." "It used to be mine." "Come on, I'll introduce you to your new family." "This is Marie." "We need another chair for the girl." "What's taking them so long?" "Micha!" "Dinner!" "Come now." "O Lord from whom all things come" "We thank you for all the gifts you bring" "The soil from which it springs" "The sun which made it ripe" "Dear sun, dear soil We shall never forget your toil" " Amen." " Amen." "Micha's still not here." "Bruckner, I decide when we eat." "Flori." " I'll get Micha." " No, he's just coming." "Thanks." "No!" "Marie!" "Micha!" "Marie?" "Come on!" "Come on, all together!" "Run away!" "Hey!" "Marie!" "Marie!" "Get out of here!" "Get lost!" "Let go!" "You're just like the rest of them." "You come crawling, begging for water." "I thought you were different." "But you'll burn in the sun." "Your mother christened you Marie." "What a shame." "You're worth nothing." "But your sister... she's still young, so young." "And with Micha, she'll have a better life..." "Mum?" "Mum?" "No!" "Mum?"

"How do you know what love looks like'?" "They say ifs no!" "in the physical appearance... but in the attitude." "Some don't bother a bad attitude as long as the looks are good." "Bu!" "I already know how I!" "looks like." "I did no!" "look for I!" "bu!" "I!" "found me." "I forge!" "about my problems when I look at her." "lam hopeful when Pm with her." "I fee!" "overjoyed when she's around." "That's why I felt so much sorrow when I lost her." "He's so cute!" "Like an actor!" "Go for it!" "We're here to help you!" "It's almost Christmas break." "Who knows?" "You might not see each other again?" "So, go talk to him!" "Tell him that you had a crush on him for years and years now!" "He might not even know we go to the same school." "Doesn't matter." "Go for it!" "Miss?" "Are you okay?" "Jillian?" "Jillian?" "Are you okay?" "You know me?" "Of course." "I've seen your performances in school." "Isn 't this your stop?" "No, we're going somewhere else." "Alright." "Don't you have a car?" "Why are you on the train'?" "To avoid the heavy traffic." "This is my stop." "See you guys at school." "Bye..." " See you guys!" " Bye..." "Oh my God!" "Bye..." "He smells good!" "You owe us!" "Yes!" "Oops!" " Ouch..." " Sister, be careful." " This is embarrassing!" " Oh, you two." "Th ere she is." " Can I smell it again?" " You're selfish!" "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Miss!" "Miss!" "Grace!" "Sheryl!" "Ivy!" "Baby!" "Baby?" "Baby!" "Baby!" "Baby!" "Kuya!" "I'm here." "Mai, why aren't you at Bodjie's?" "It's already late." "Because..." "I cooked for you." "This is good for dinner and for tomorrow." "I also got home late from doing too much projects in school." "School projects?" "Really?" "Are you sure you're not entertaining boyfriends?" "Excuse me kuya!" "My high grades can speak for myself." "And I don't date around!" " Not me, maybe you're dating!" " Wow, my favorite!" "Mai!" "Let's go home!" "Hey, I'll take her home." "Kuya Bodj, let's have dinner with Kuya first." " Eat with us!" " Okay." "Patrick, what kind of work is this?" "They're all dark!" "It seems like you just played around with your paintbrush!" "Remember, your exhibit is coming in three months!" "And you don't have one good painting yet." "Don't worry." "I'm working on new ones." "Better and more colorful." "Better?" "Where?" "Sh ow it." "I don't have it yet." "It's still here." "Really now?" "And who's inspiring you?" "What's her name?" "Baby!" "Baby?" "What's her surname?" "I don't know yet." "But all I know is..." "Baby." "Oh, you don't know her yet." "We'll meet again." "Let's eat!" "Come on!" "I've been looking for a girl but no luck yet." "She's just around the corn er." "There's too many girls here." "Thanks." " Is that the last trip?" " Yes, sir." "Here's your order." "Please stop the car." "Let's go." "Handsome!" "How do I get to Quiapo?" "There's the terminal." "Thank you." "Baby!" "Remember me?" "On the train ?" "Baby!" "Baby!" "Hey!" "Mang Kaloy, let's drop by Chummy's." "I'm returning a book." "Yes Ma'am!" "Man on g, h old on." " Let's go." " Yes Ma'am!" "Man on g, stop for a while." "Hi, Baby!" "Man on g, let's go." "Baby!" "Baby!" "Manong!" "Ma'am, I'll just look for help." "Hi, can we be friends?" "What's your name?" "Weird!" "Weird?" "That doesn't sound good." "I saw you on the train." "I couldn't follow you." "You were too fast." "So I looked for you." "Please take out all your paintings!" "I'm Patrick." "What's your number?" "Baby, what's your number?" "Remove your hand, I'm closing the window!" "Now you're unkind, I'm the one who got hit!" "You 're really persistent, h u h ?" "Take off your h an d!" "Give me your number first." "This is the man we hit." "No, I'm alright." "Sorry for the trouble." "I'm sorry." "Man on g Kaloy, let's go." "Baby!" "Baby!" "Baby!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Where are you my baby?" "Look!" "Wait, Mommy!" "Did you open it?" "No, I want you to do it." "Hurry up!" "You go open it." "No, you should do it!" "Please?" "For me?" "Open it!" "Go go!" " Are you sure?" " Yes!" "I'm so excited." "Oh my Baby!" " I made it?" " Yes!" "Yes!" "How did this happen?" "What do you mean "how did this happen?"" "I had no doubt about you getting in!" "But, only you and Dad are my admirers." "Stop that." "Th at's n ot tru e!" "You're a beautiful and capable young lady." "That's how you should look at yourself, okay?" "I just want to make you and Daddy always proud." "But you always make us proud." "I'm going to call Tita Mari and I'm going to tell her... to prepare everything for your arrival." "And you leave as soon as the semester is over." "' Okay?" "' Okay!" "Your Dad called and he wants you to meet him in the office." " He wants to talk to you." " Okay, I'll go change." "Wait." "Mommy!" " I'm so happy!" " I'm so happy for you!" " Here bring this to Dad." " Okay!" " Ma'am." " Ma'am." "Clips!" "Baby?" "Baby!" " I knew it!" "We'll meet again!" " You again?" "Baby, did you see my paintings?" "Did you see them?" " That's not my name." " "Hu u?" "Wer na u?" "Hirna me."" "Remember?" "Yes." " What's your name?" " Let me clear this," ""Baby" is not my name." "And please stop calling me Baby." "Snob..." "I just want to make friends with you." "I'm Patrick Javier." "Don't worry." "I'm harmless." "Here are my IDs." "My license, my police clearance." "My name is Patrick Javier." "I live in #21 Masaya St. Poblacion, Makati City." "You know, I can't stop thinking about you since the first time I saw you." "I think of you every night." "I am a painter and I want to make you my subject." "Baby, please?" "Yeah, right." ""Yeah right?" Snob!" "Weird!" "Come on... she'll say yes." "Give that to me." "That's mine!" " Oh, you go to St. John's Academy." " Give it to me!" "Jillian!" "Your name sounds so foreign, so class!" "St. John is a school for sensitive artists right?" "So you're sensitive?" "I'm not sensitive, okay?" "If you're not then why don't you agree to be my subject?" "So, will you do it?" "Come on!" "Stop pretending like a snob." "So..." "Say yes!" "Don't be hard to get!" "What do you want me to do for you?" "You want me to sing?" "You want me to dance?" "I know you want to..." "Hard to get!" " Baby!" "Baby!" "Snob!" "See you!" " Excuse me." "Handsome, she's nice!" "Nice?" "She snobs me." "Her name is Jillian." " Her family owns this building." " Really?" " Yes." " That's why..." "My name is Alora." "In case you wanna know." "No thanks, I'm good." "As we discussed in the meeting, construction is in full swing." "Foundation is in place and we're right on schedule." " Oh, I'm sorry." "My daughter is here." " Okay, thank you." "It's my pleasure meeting you." "Okay, bye." " I'll see you in the office." " See you sir." "Thank you." "' Daddy!" "' Baby!" "How's my baby?" "Dad, Mom said you wanted to see me?" "Dad, what are we doing here?" "Well, you'll see." "Here." "What's this?" "Open it." "I think it's about time that you learn to drive again." "It will be easier for you to go around Amsterdam... when you start sch oolin g th ere." "What do you think?" "But Dad, I can walk around or maybe ride the bike." "Don't tell me you developed a phobia in driving?" "I don't think I'll ever learn to drive again." "Jillian..." "You'll get used to it, okay?" "You'll get over it just like when you fell on your bike..." "I thought you weren't gonna ride it again but you did." "All you need is time, okay?" "All he wants is simple, to make you his muse." "If I were you, I'd do it right away!" "Are you for real?" "What if he's a stalker." "I agree." "What if he's a serial killer and then..." "What if he's not?" "What if he is True Love." "And our friend is just being choosy." "Well, I'm going to Amsterdam soon... and I will focus more on my Advanced Learning." "I'll think about dating and other stuff later." "If I meet someone then that's good." "If not, it's okay." "Aren't you going to be sad?" "Of course I'll be sad because the two of you will be left here... but I'll be back as soon as I finish my course there." "No, I mean, sad that you'll have no boyfriend!" "No." "Especially if that, what's his face?" "That Patrick guy would be my boyfriend?" "I'd rather die." "Bored to death, Pm always restless." "Pm useless when you're no!" "around." "Come to me baby." "loan'!" "imagine life without you." "It's hard to be alone." "And every nigh!" "I long for you." "How long will I wait for the time to be with you... in my life full of difficulties." "Come to me baby." "Come to me baby." "Come to me baby." " Is that Patrick?" " Yes." "He's yummy!" "Yummy?" "Oops!" "Where are you going?" "Baby..." "So, will you say yes?" "I sang for you, I danced for you." "Now will you agree to be my muse?" "Say YES!" "Say yes!" "You are my inspiration." "I think of you every night." "I can't get you out of my mind." "You're the only one I want to draw." "I'll go down on my knees?" " Getup!" "Come on!" " No." " You know what you're crazy." " I'll sing some more." "You 're crazy." "Stop it!" " Crazy!" "I don'!" "know what to do..." " Okay." "Okay!" " Okay, I'll think about it." " Is that a yes?" "We'll see." "Good afternoon Ma'am." "I'm Patrick." "I'm your server for the day." " Can we take-out?" " Yes ma'am." "What's your order?" " You." " You." "Include a whole chicken okay?" " Jillian!" "What's your order?" " Jillian!" "What's your order?" "I've been painting since I was a kid." "' Really?" "." "Yes!" "But I take other job also." "I paint houses and cars." "I went to college but I did not finish it." "I was just in my third year." "I took Fine Arts in UP, but I had to stop when my mother died." "I had to send my sister to school." "I h ad to work to provide for the two of us." "That's kind of you." "Of course!" "Why do you seem so serious?" "Well..." "I'm just not used to boys talking to me." "Why?" "I guess they don't like me." "What?" "They are fools not to like you." "With a face like that?" "Your eyes are twinkling." "Your nose is tall and pretty." "Your lips are appealing." "Then you'll tell me they don't like you?" "That's silly!" "They don't know what they think!" "So, are you going to pose for a painting?" "Sure, I guess." "Finally!" "Patrick, Jillian's here." " Joke!" " Crazy!" "I'm getting more n ervou s." "You 're too tensed." "Kuya!" "Kuya, Jillian's here." "Mai, stop fooling around." "I can't focus here." "Are you serious?" "Do I look good?" "You look great!" "Sorry, I ran late." "I got stuck in traffic." "No, it's okay." "You're actually early." "I'm not yet done with preparation s." "By the way, this is my sister Mai and my cousin Bodjie." "Hello, nice to meet you." "My name is" " Nice to meet you Jillian!" " Nice to meet you Jillian!" "Sorry, that's my tummy." "It's okay." "I'm just really hungry." "Here, I bought you food." "I'm sorry this is all I could find outside." "But I'm not sure if you eat this." "And this is what we always eat here." "But don't worry it's good." "Do you eat this?" "Dried blood, pig's ears and chicken intestines." "They're good." "Try them!" "Go on." "I forgot that you're high-class." "I don't think you eat food like these." "People like us, always eat these." "I'm not high-class." "Really?" "Because I kn ow th at high -class girls are ch oosy." "Jillian, are you sure?" "You don't have to eat that." "Do not force yourself." "I may have offended you with something I said." "Pm tired of all the people tel!" "about me... that I know nothing and a high class only." "I am hurt of ah' the things I don't have." "Always sad going home because I'm always alone." "I only have few friends and no other siblings." "No one knows but I only ask for simple things." "I ask to love, be loved and be happy." "To have things that money cant buy." "You can be ghetto." ""Ism!" "Here, relax." "Put your hands here." " Straight body." " Okay." "Patrick..." "What's that?" "I hope you can make it." "This is hard!" "This is beautiful." "It's expensive, right?" "That's my Daddy's gift for my 7th birthday." "He searched around Europe for that brand." "That's why I never replaced that because it's special." "For me, it's not about the brand." "It's about the artist." "Do you know why it sounds beautiful?" "Why?" "Because you're beautiful." "Serious'?" "Yes." "Let's go there." "Others find my life boring." "On second thought, maybe it is boring." "I only have violin lessons, got to school and go home." "Then I spend time with drivers all the time." "So maybe it's really boring." "You're in the right age now." "If you want we can go to Tagaytay next time!" "Are you sure?" "I still can't drive that far." "You know why I feel comfortable with you"." "And why I don't get bored with your stories?" "Because we're both artists." "And I think you're my soulmate." " Soulmate?" " Yes." "So is this a date?" "Is that why you brought me here?" "What's wrong?" "It's nice here." "It doesn't matter where we are." "If you want, I can take you to an expensive place." "We can have dinner in a five star hotel!" "That's what you're good at, flattering me." "No, I'm serious." "Let's run away." " Are you sure?" " Yes!" "What about Mang Boy?" "Text him where we're going." "Are you sure?" "Hey!" "Don't be scared." "Wait." "Patrick, what's this?" " Stay here." " Okay." "Hold on." "Keep your eyes closed." "Th ere..." "Wait, okay?" "1... 2... 3..." "Do you like it?" "So, what do you think?" "What's your favorite flower?" "Tulips." "I'm going to show you something." "That's Vermeer's masterpiece." "And you are going to be my masterpiece." "Do you like it?" "Very much!" "Are your subjects always like these?" "Your paintings are really beautiful." "They only had colors when I met you." "But before that..." "everything was so dark." "When my moth er died..." "I felt my whole life fell apart." "I felt I was destroyed." "My life was different when my mother was still alive." "Change places!" "Th ere!" "H!" "take many pictures with me." "You don'!" "have to go..." "Are you okay?" "What about us?" "We have bills to pay including this house, right?" "And what about your tuition tees?" "Especially you rs." "You wan!" "to go to the an school in Japan right?" "We might get that chances!" "Bu!" "ifs going to be sad without you." "Stop being dramatic." "You're always like that!" "H!" "go home after you graduate." "I'll make sure." " Promise?" " of course!" "And when I go home you'll work for us..." "And you know what H!" "do?" "I'll just sit like a queen and enjoy life." "Ma, you can'!" "bear to lei Kuya work." "You spoil him!" "Mama is just being dramatic, she's not really leaving." " I agree." " Spoiled?" "You wan!" "me to beat him?" "When my faiher died of hear!" "afiack, my mother made sure we continued living." "She was our father and our best friend." "Ma..." "Here, you can take this." "I made this for you." "You drew me again?" "Aren't your professors complaining about all your drawings of me?" "How can they complain?" "My mother is like a beauty queen." "You take care of your sister, okay?" "Don'!" "get into trouble while Pm away." "Don'!" "hurt other people, especially you." "Even if they hurt you first, don't venge on them." "Even just a little knock'?" " What did I say?" " Joke!" "You know your son is a good boy." " And Mai..." " Yes Ma?" "I hope you understand why I'm doing this..." "Pm doing this for you." "My moth er was leaving for Doha." "She was going to work there." "But she got in an accident." "She got hit by..." "By a careless person." "After the inflammation we can proceed with the operation." "Bu!" "Doc, we don'!" "have money." "Kuya..." "We did everything we could but she still died after the operation." "I had to leave Mai with my auntie, Bodjie's mother." "Kuya..." "We had to separate when Moth er died." "Whoever did that to her, I wish he is dead now too." "Patrick, don't say that." "What if it really was an accident he didn't mean." "Accident or not..." "He took away my mother's life." "Does he know what we had to go through?" "What I had gone through?" "Sometimes I think that... maybe I want to revenge." "I want to make him feel what it's like to lose a mother." "Patrick..." "Patrick, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry for your loss." "No person wants to hurt other people." "So I hope, whoever hit your moth er..." "I hope you forgive him." "Do you know why..." "Do you know why I can't learn to drive again?" "I also ran over someone." "I can't forget that day." "May 15, 2010." "I can R even try to pass by that place." "I!" "scares me." "In Poblacion around Makati." "Patrick, no one wants to intentionally hurt people." "How can we have missed that?" "Steve Linden signed the quit claim." "It was Jillian who ran over Mama?" "My client will pay tor the hospital bills including medicines, food and the operation." "They will pay for everything." "Al!" "you have to do is sign this and we will draw the check." "What's this?" "Quit claim." "I!" "means you are dropping charges against my client." "Are you buying my mother's life?" "I!" "was an accident, no one wanted it to happen." "We also wan!" "for your mother to undergo operation right away." "She needs brain operation as soon as possible, Mr. Javier." "Right now, this is what you need to do for her." "He disappeared after all the chase?" "I really have no idea what happened." "I always reach out to him, calling him." "But he doesn't answer my calls." "Don't be surprised, they're boys." "They disappear after they get what they want." "L agree!" "I have a surprise for you." "I thought I won't see you again." "This exhibit is for you." "Surprise!" "I promised I show you the paintings right?" "I'm your only subject?" "Do you like it?" "Are you ready?" "Put this on." "Your hands here." "Okay?" "I'll come and get you!" "Gotcha!" "I love you." " Thank you." " Good evening, Ma'am." "Come in, I'll introduce you to my parents." "You can also have tea or cake." "What do you want?" "Jillian, it's okay." "I don't want to come inside looking like this." "No, it's okay." "You look cute." "Really?" "I am?" "Cute like a dog?" "Wait, come here." "Huh?" " Hi Ma." " Hi." "Good evening Ma'am." "I'm Patrick Javier." "I'm Karen." "Karen Linden." "Why don't you invite your friend for dinner tomorrow?" "Is that okay with you ?" "Of course, Ma'am." "So we'll see you tomorrow then." "Okay Ma'am." "Let's go Jillian." "What was that all about Jillian?" "Is there something I should know?" " Is that boy your boyfriend?" " Ma..." "Jilliana please, I'm asking you a question." "Don't walk away." "I don't know him then all of a sudden I see you almost kissing him." "For all you know he's a crook." "Ma please!" "You can trust me." "And you can trust him." "He's a decent person and he makes me happy." "But how long have you known him?" "Ma, please!" "Have trust in me." "Just one bit." "Jillian!" "Jilliana!" "I'm not done yet." "Can you please come down here?" "Honey..." "It's okay." "You know Jillian is a smart girl." "She loves us and she's not going to disappoint us." "This is the first time she talked back like that." "It's okay." "She looks at me like an evil enemy in a movie." "She's no longer a little girl." "You can no longer control her." "She's our little girl growing up." "See you later." "Come in." "You have a huge house." "Do you meet your parents daily?" "Of course." "It feels happy here." "I'm sure everything is comfortable around h ere." "You have everything." "That's what you think." "There's only three of us in this big house." "And I only have two friends, Yummy and Chummy." "I'm really glad when you came into my life." "That makes six of us now." " I'll tell Mommy you're here." " Okay." "You can send your sister to school while being a working student right?" "You don't really have to stop school." "It won't work Ma'am." "There's plenty of bills to pay." "But I join my cousin's exhibit once in a while to get extra earnings." "How often do you get the chance?" "Do you want more wine?" "No, I'm still good." "I'm sure you have plans for your future?" "I don't really have plans for myself." "All I want to achieve is for my sister to finish her studies." "Oh..." "What about dessert?" "I'll go check." "Excuse me." "Patrick..." "Jillian is our only child." "And she likes you." "Ifs the firs"!" "time I see her like this." "You make her happy." "I'm her moth er..." "And as a mother, I only want what's best for her." "I never want to see her get hurt." "So to be honest..." "I think you're not the right person for her right now." "She deserves better." "I hope you understand." "Pm home!" "Dad!" " Jillian..." " Dad, you made it." "You must be Patrick." "I'm Steve Linden." "I'm the father of Jillian." "Happy New Year, Sir!" "Have we met before?" "Not yet, Sir." "I see..." "When do you paint?" "When you're alone or happy?" "When ever I feel like painting." "I play when I'm happy, or sad or when my emotions are strong." "My mom can easily tell how I feel with the music I play." "Really?" "What do you think I feel right now?" "Love?" "Let's go Jillian." "We need to get you home, they might be looking for you." "It's still early." "I have to be home soon." "I h ave work tomorrow." "I knew it!" "You 're really good!" "You sold-out!" " Not one painting left." " Not one?" "No, nothing." " Thanks." " Who bought them?" "I don't know." "They say it's Mai's friend." "Did you rehearse?" "Okay." "We'll take it from this part..." "Yes?" "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Jillian." "Oh, she's not here." "She already quit." "Do you know why?" "Not really, we were surprised." "We know this is important to her." "She even sold her violin." "This is hers, right?" "This is the violin that her father bought for her 7th birthday." "She won '1 even let anyone hold this before." "She suddenly sold it." "Okay, thanks Sir!" "Hi Patrick." "Patrick, you're late than usual." "Patrick!" "Come here!" "Why?" "Happy birthday!" "Happy happy birthday!" "Happy birthday!" "Happy happy birthday!" "Happy birthday!" "Happy happy birthday!" "What are you doing here?" "Kuya, she prepared all this for you." "She called us up this morning." " Thank you." " You 're welcome." "Excuse me." "Happy birthday." "Here, you can use this in painting." "Look at it." "Jillian, what's all this?" "Why do you have to spend all your money to buy my paintings?" "Why do you have to sell your violin?" "And this party?" "What's this for?" "Your mother's right." "Maybe we're not meant for each other." "Patrick, I don't know what you're talking about." "I just want to help." " I thought" " Help?" "You're insulting me with what you're doing." "Patrick, I did not mean that." "Whatever I do and no matter how hard we try..." "I will never be right for you." "Do you know why?" "Because you're rich." "And I'm like this." "Patrick, I don't understand." "Is it really that much of big deal to you?" "The difference of being rich and poor?" " I'm sorry I never meant to..." " Do you know what you're sorry for?" "Do you really know what you never meant to do?" "No..." "But you're mad at me." "I'm just showing you how I really feel." "Because I know that whatever I do we will never be together." "Patrick, are you breaking up with me?" "Why?" "Were we ever in a relationship?" "Patrick, let's talk about this." "What happen ed to you ?" "Patrick please, let's talk." "You should go, Jillian." "Go home." "Patrick, let's talk about this." "Patrick, please?" "Are we back to your dark paintings'?" "Do you think opportunities come often?" "They don't." "And this is what you're showing?" "Maybe you should..." "Stop thinking about Jillian even for a week." "Look for 0th er subjects." "Go away for a while." "Do whatever!" "Just don '1 let yourself dwell on your anger!" "I'll paint whatever I feel and whatever I'm going through." "If they don't like it, fine!" "I can sell them to anybody else." "What the fuck!" "Do you understand what you're saying?" "Patrick, this is your dream!" "Yours and Mai." "I'm just helping you out!" "Then don't help us." "Did I ask for your help?" "You ass!" "You think you're the only one who will benefit from this?" "You want to give Mai a good life, right?" "Are you going to deny her that because of your anger?" "I'm also doing this for Mai." "No!" "You're doing this for yourself!" "You can easily say that!" "Because you did not experience loss." "You did not let the person who killed your mother pass you by." "You did not let them buy your mother's life!" "Do you hear what you're saying?" "You're talking about Jillian!" "When you did not know that she killed your mother, you loved her!" "Admit it or not." "She holds a place in your heart!" "She means nothing to me." "Keep telling yourself that!" "But you should man up!" "Love her if you really do!" "Leave her alone if you don't!" "Stop playing around with her emotions!" " Hello?" " Patrick, I'm sorry." "I realized that what I did was wrong." "I shouldn't have bought your paintings." "Patrick, please don'!" "be mad a!" "me." "I've been trying to reach you but you won't answer." "I visited your place but I didn't find you there." "And..." "You didn't go to my graduation." "Don't you get it?" "I told you that I want to end things right?" "Is that hard to understand?" "Patrick, don't be hard on me." "Let's talk about this." "Can we meet later?" "At the hotel." "I can't today." "I'm working on my exhibit." "How about tomorrow?" "Jillian, you're so annoying." "Sorry..." "It's okay, I'll wait for you no matter how late." "You're going somewhere?" "I'm meeting with Patrick." "Why do you have to go to him?" "Why don't you ask him to meet you here?" "Ma, give him a chance." "He loves me." "Loves you ?" "Why didn't he go to your graduation?" "He has other things to do." "Like his exhibit, he needs money for Mai's college." "You know Jillian, it's up to you..." "You should think things twice..." "You're flying to Amsterdam soon." "Ma, I'm actually thinking about taking my Masters here." "What?" "What are you saying Jillian?" "Everything is all set for God's sake!" "Ma..." "Alright, fine!" "I'm going to let you talk to him." "But..." "Think about how your actions will affect your future." "Love can either make you or break you." "And I can see that this guy..." "He's breaking you apart!" "I'm not going to cancel your schooling in Amsterdam." "And I'm not going to rebook your plane ticket." "You still have few days to think about it." "You're a smart girl." "I trust you'll make the right choice." "I have to get that scholarship in Japan." "So I can leave soon." "That's my only hope." "Bodjie, are we doing the exhibit next month?" "Yes, for sure." "Patrick, can we talk?" "I'm leaving soon." "Is that it?" "You're not going to say anything?" "Patrick, I'm talking to you!" "Why?" "What do you want me to say?" "I want you to tell me to stay..." "I want you to tell me that I'm not just a girl in your painting." "I want you to tell me that you love me." "Don't expect that from me." "Patrick, I'm talking to you!" "You're unfair!" "You're so unfair!" "I did not come to you!" "You're the one who came into my life!" "You made me fall in love with you." "And then what?" "You're just going to leave me hanging?" "I don't need to explain myself." "Patrick, you love me right?" "You loved me right?" "Patrick, tell me that you loved me!" "Stop it, Jillian." "Did my parents talk to you?" "Did they threaten you ?" "Tell me!" "Is that why you suddenly changed?" "Please, tell me!" "Patrick, give me a reason!" "Do you really want to know why?" "!" "Jillian, I can't love you!" "Why?" "Patrick, why?" "Tell me why, Patrick!" "Why?" "Because you're the one who killed my mother." "You killed my mother." "What?" "May 15..." "It was May 15 when my mom got ran over." "I don't understand it." "That's not true." "You're lying." "Dad told me that she was okay." "They made you believe in a lie!" "That's not true..." "I kept on asking them..." "They told me it was just a scratch, that she's okay." "My mother is dead." "For almost three years now." "Do you know how much it hurts?" "Now you know much you hurt us?" "I don't know what you're talking about..." "Patrick, tell me you're lying!" "Now I can make you feel the pain that you caused me." "Go away!" "Leave me alone!" "I want to tell you something..." "I hope you understand." "When I first met Patrick..." "I can't get him out of my head." "I wanted to know where I met him before." "That's a quit claim." "The woman that you hit on the accident..." "We told you she was okay, that she got out of the hospital..." "The truth was, she was in coma." "We made arrangements and we gave them money." "She died two days after." "I'm sorry, Jillian." "No one wanted it to happen." "I'm so sorry." "You've been quiet for days..." "Is it Jillian?" "She loves you so much, Kuya." "Aren't you mad at her?" "At first, I was." "But when I got to know her, I forgave her." "Because she's a good person." "She had no idea that she killed mother, right?" "Remember what mother said?" "That even if someone hurts us, we should not hurt them back." "Especially if they didn't mean to hurt us." "Let go of your anger." "Learn to forgive her." "You are destroying the woman you love." "Jillian!" "Anyone?" "Jillian!" "Jillian, sorry!" "Jillian!" "Jillian, sorry!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian I Jillian!" "Jillian, let's talk!" "Jillian!" "Jillian, sorry!" "Jillian, let's talk!" "Jillian I Jillian!" "Jillian I Jillian!" "Good afternoon!" "Good afternoon!" "How are you ?" "Good!" "Here are your scholarship papers." "Your plane ticket is inside the envelope." "See you next month in Japan." " Thank you, sir!" " Excuse me." "You don't want to go to Japan anymore?" "I want to find her." "I shouldn't have hurt her." "If it's going to make you feel better..." "Go." "Find her." " Bye Jillian!" " Alright!" "Here are your materials." "This is my collection." " Congratulations." " Thank you Ma'am." "Jillian is the reason why Pm here." "I worked hard in this cold place..." "Just to find her." "Mai and I are starting to get our lives together... bu!" "I can'!" "seem to be complete." "And I won '1 stop until I find her again." "It's been almost two years..." "And I don'!" "plan to stop." "I won '1 stop until I see the only girl I love the most." "Painting." "Painting..." "Jillian!" "Jillian!" " What?" "I'm not Jillian." " Sorry." "How long have you been here?" "Almost two years now." "That's quite long already." "Patrick, are you okay?" "That's the ninth address already." "Thanks Derek!" "I hope you find her." "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hold on." "Are you a Filipina?" "Yes, why?" "I'm looking for Jillian Linden." "Does she live here?" "Yes, why?" "Please tell her that Patrick Javier is looking for her." "Can I talk to her?" "I'm Jillian Linden, what can I do for you ?" "Oh, nothing." "I'm sorry." "This might be the wrong address." "Thanks, anyway." "Jillian!" "Patrick, went here earlier." "Good thing, I made a cover." "I pretended to be you." "So he left." "Are you okay?" "Jillian?" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian..." "Jillian, we need to talk." "I know the things I've done wrong." "There's something I need to tell you." "You need to know the truth." "Patrick, I know everything." "Before I went here." "My father told me..." "Patrick, I'm sorry if I stole a good life from you and Mai." "I never meant to do it." "I never had peace of mind." "I had to seek out help from a psychiatrist just to get over it." "Patrick, I'm sorry." "It was all an accident." "I did not intend for it to happen." "But does it have to be that way?" "Th at if you get hurt... you get the right to hurt other people too?" "You should have confronted me instead." "Or screamed at me." "Or you should have hit me also." "It would probably be better if you killed me instead." "Jillian..." "I regret everything I did..." "I know I hurt you." "I've been trying to be better." "I'm getting my life together." "My life and Mai's." "I'm doing this so when I finally see you..." "I'll be whole." "I'll be worthy and brave enough for your love." "Jillian, I love you very much." "Please give me a chance to make it up to you." "To make all things right." "Patrick, if all you want to know is... if I'm okay..." "I am now okay." "I have moved on." "Years have passed." "Things have changed." "I'm sorry Patrick, but I'm already whole." "Jillian..." "I wish..." "I wish that you find someone that would make you whole." "Nice to see you." "And I hope... it will be the last." "Jillian..." "Jillian, let's talk!" "Jillian..." "Sir, open the door please!" "Jillian!" "Jillian!" "Jillian, let's talk." "Jillian!" "Hi guys!" "Thank you for coming!" "Jillian!" "Excuse me." "Jillian, let's talk." "Patrick, it's over." "Patrick, we can't go back to the way we were." "Jillian, I'm sorry." "Let me explain." "Jillian, forgive me." "Give me a chance to explain." "Oh, there you are!" " Jillian, Mort's waiting for you inside..." " Patrick..." "What is Patrick doing here?" " Who's Mori?" " Hon!" "Hon, let's go!" "Patrick, I'm getting married." "Hon, this is Patrick." "Patrick Javier." "Patrick Javier!" "I'm Mori Cristoff." "We heard so much about you." "Jillian used to tell me stories about you." "Come join us." "It's our engagement party." "Hon, let's go." "Our guests are waiting for us." "okay"" "Let's go." "Jillian, someone's looking for you." "Who?" "It's him." "I just want to say goodbye." "I just want to give you back..." "The life I stole from you." "Jillian, I'm sorry." "You know what?" "I love you so much." "But if you don't love me as much... this relationship probably won't work." "Loving someone takes a sacrifice." "I know how much you love Patrick." "That's why I'm letting you go." "Please come in." "Why did you have to find her?" "There's nothing more I need to explain." "Jillian is happy now." "And I don't plan to take that away from her." "Don't worry." "I'm going back to the Philippines." "And you won't ever see me again." "Can we still do something to change your mind?" "Why?" "What do you mean?" "We don't know you..." "We don't know if..." "We will like you." "But we're willing to give you a chance." "Our daughter loves you so much." "Patrick, take care of Jillian."

"♪ My daddy, he's a handsome devil" "♪ He's got a chain five miles long" "♪ And on every link a heart does dangle... ♪" "Help me." "Help me!" "And in." "And slowly out." "And again, please." "Did I survive another year, Doctor?" "Your as fit as a lop, as they say up here." "No idea what it means." "Lived here 26 years, still no idea what anyone's saying." "Tell me, Chief Inspector, when does it hurt the most?" "First thing in the morning or last thing at night?" "Your phone." "No, I can't remember, either, pet." "I don't miss her less as time passes." "I just..." "Just miss her differently." "How long?" "Four years, three months, two weeks and..." "It's the never again, you know?" "Never." "Do you talk about this to anybody?" "No." "Your sergeant, perhaps?" "Oh, yeah, that's a thought." "Is she identified?" "'Who?" "'" "Is the woman identified?" "'Which woman?" "'" "Which woman do you think I'm talking about?" "!" "Twiggy?" "The woman in the car." "Listen, tell them, do not move that car until I get there, is that understood?" "'Aye.'" "And where's Gently?" "Has anybody found him?" "Has he gone fishing?" "I bet he has!" "I bet he's gone fishing and not told anyone!" "'We don't know where he is.'" "Great, thanks, George." "Thanks." "I'll look after the dead woman, shall I?" "On my only day off this month." "Thanks, pal!" "Do you believe in dreams?" "Try me." "I've been having the same one recently, time and time again." "I go back to a house that I used to live in." "And she tells me she'll meet me again later." "Your wife?" "Can't see her face." "Then I go through the door, I'm glad to be back... and then slowly I realise that everything's different." "All the rooms are different." "Different shapes, different sizes, different things in them." "Everything's changed." "And then..." "And then?" "Then there's water coming down the walls and across the floor, and I'm drowning." "Helpless and drowning." "Morning, sir." "Good morning, John." "Right, well, I wanted to have a look before they disturbed it." "Got a girl here with a bruise on her head." "Could've been unconscious." "Let's hope so." "This was in the car." "What about the driver?" "Ah, there's no sign of him." "The metal's caved in by the impact." "And her left foot, it's trapped." "You can see it." "OK?" "Right, let's cut her out!" "I don't think she was unconscious." "Well, either way, he didn't call for help." "Panic maybe, because he'd nicked the car." "Young man, too much to drink." "Or an older one with a wife somewhere." "He left her to drown!" "She was helpless." "Dead and alone out here." "All night." "I woke up with a complete stranger next to us this morning." "Some men pay money for that." "Should have seen the state of her." "It's like waking up next to somebody's grandma." "Hair was sticking up, and..." "Two secs." "Yes?" "'The Austin A40 is registered to Hector Blackstone.' Guv." "'The address is Abberwick Hall.'" "We got a trace on the vehicle." "Say that again for Mr Gently, will you, please?" "'Abberwick Hall.' Registered to Hector Blackstone." "He's the 13th Earl of Guyzance, don't you know!" "Friend of yours?" "No, no, but I know his son pretty well." "James Blackstone." "I've nicked him twice for being drunk in charge of a vehicle." "And...?" "Mummy and Daddy hired expensive lawyers." "And Mummy and Daddy waved a magic wand over the charge sheet, which then magically disappeared into thin air." "And then Mummy and Daddy got me reprimanded for victimisation..." "Yes?" "Nothing on her, sir, except this key." "Thank you." "We haven't even got her name." "I bet you 100 quid the Right Hon James Blackstone will know her name." "Why don't you go and ask him?" "Nicely!" "Are we nearly there?" "I mean, how much of England is one bloke allowed to own?" "Do we get to Abberwick Hall if we keep going?" "Did yous come through a big gate marked Abberwick Hall?" "Aye." "And have yous turned off the road since?" "You got a cold or summat?" "Throat cancer." "Oh." "You look more intelligent." "Faint praise." "Hey, I've got four O-levels, me." "Tell us who wrote this and I'll tell yous the way." "We don't have time for double your money, pal, all right?" "Who is there that has not jeered at the House of Lords, the military caste, the Royal Family, the public schools, the hunting and shooting set, the horrors of a country society?" "No, I'm sorry, I've no idea." "Rudyard Kipling." "Kipling was a king and country imperialist, you clot." "George Orwell." "And Orwell knew summat that gets forgot these days." "The English ruling class are not as stupid as they look." "Look at the workers in Paris last night." "Pulling up the pavements and chucking them at the boss class." "Now look at me, repairing the boss's fences to keep his deer oot of his rose gardens." "Makes you think about this country, doesn't it, bonny lad?" "Sorry?" "200 yards." "Hang onto your wallets!" "They'll have the rings off your fingers!" "They've stole England from the workers!" "What the hell was all that about?" "Did you ever meet the Earl and his good lady?" "Oh, no!" "Goodness, golly gosh, me?" "No." "No." "I was never granted an audience." "But if they're anything like the son, get ready to throw up." "Inspector Gently, Sergeant Bacchus, I'm so sorry." "I was in the stables, working on my motorcycles." "Something about a car, I'm told?" "Yes, a car registered to you has been involved in a fatal accident, sir." "Hector, just call me Hector." "Is your son in at the minute, there, Hector?" "Fatal to whom?" "A young woman, early 20s, late teens." "Does your son have a girlfriend, Hector?" "Which car was this?" "Austin A90." "A40." "A40 Farina, blue, registration number BOJ 174C." "Are you saying that you weren't even aware that this car was missing?" "Totally." "Any chance of talking to your son, Hector, please?" "I'm not sure if he's even here, Sergeant." "My wife may know." "Have you seen my wife, Colin?" "She's through there, sir." "Just in there." "Alethea?" "Ah, there you are!" "These two gentlemen..." "Just give me a second." "This man, Cohn-Bendit - someone should shoot him, shouldn't they?" "Like they did the German, Red Rudi." ""Be realistic, demand the impossible." The naivety!" "Do they really think they can overturn the natural order of things by throwing a few stones?" "De Gaulle's run away, of course." "Chief Inspector Gently, Sergeant Bacchus." "Is there a problem?" "A fatality." "A young woman." "Oh, dear." "We found your husband's car, Mrs Blackstone..." "I beg your pardon?" "You hard of hearing?" "My wife prefers to be Your Ladyship." "Well, I wouldn't mind being Bobby Charlton, but..." "Your Ladyship, an Austin car belonging to your husband was found five miles away, upside down in the river... with a dead girl inside." "Well, then." "Somebody's stolen one of our cars." "Is it a write-off?" "Don't you care about the dead girl?" "Why should I care about a car thief?" "What if it wasn't stolen?" "What other explanation is there?" "Is your son at home?" "He may be." "It is a large house." "Would you like me to organise a search party?" "Was he here last night?" "We had supper together." "Hector was at one of his..." "musical self-flagellation evenings in the village." "Musical what, sorry?" "My husband likes the music of downtrodden workers." "Fiddles and squeezeboxes, starving children, wicked mine owners, tragic underground explosions." "Singers with their fingers in their ears." "That sort of thing." "So you stayed in with your son?" "Mm-hm." "James and I sat talking and playing backgammon." "I kissed him good night..." "at 1.00am." "And you haven't seen him this morning?" "I'm his mother, not his maid." "Could you go and find your son?" "Now." "What sort of school did you go to, Sergeant?" "One with an outside lav." "And did they teach you the word "please"?" "Please." "Thank you." "When did you last use your car, sir?" "It was the Austin, you say?" "Yeah." "How many cars you got?" "Well, there are seven or eight dotted around the estate, all registered to my name for insurance purposes, but intended for common use." "Austin A40 Farina." "Blue." "Registration number..." "No idea when I last drove it." "I tend to avoid cars if at all possible." "Prefer my motorcycles." "So, you don't know who the girl was, then?" "No, no, not yet." "You say various people had access to this car?" "It's a very large estate." "Who keeps the ignition keys?" "Actually, they're usually just kept in the cars." "Right." "Well, I'm going to need a list of all the employees, then." "Of course." "Right." "More money than sense." "My wife has misremembered one thing, Inspector." "James did in fact come down to the village last night to hear the music." "He then had a late supper with his mother on his return." "But not you?" "No, I went straight to my rooms." "Your wife's a very forceful woman." "Alethea's my second wife, hence the discrepancy in our ages." "My first wife died 30 years ago." "Bonny." "That was her name." "Though, in fact, she was very bonny." "An incurable disease." "Do you still miss her?" "Miss her?" "Well, that would be disloyal, wouldn't it?" "Guv!" "Guv!" "Excuse me." "You found him, then." "Ah!" "Of course." "It would be you." "Oh, um..." "Bacchus." "Sergeant Bacchus." "Yes, of course." "How splendid to see you again." "Ohh." "That's a nasty cut you've got there, Your Highness." "Did you get that playing backgammon?" "Sergeant." "I actually don't mind what he calls me, Chief Inspector." "Well, I do." "So now, then, how did you come by that injury?" "I fell into the French windows and broke a pane." "Can anybody corroborate that?" "I can." "If you're actually doubting my son's word." "So how did you come to walk into a pane of glass?" "Um..." "Brandy." "When was this, exactly?" "I can't exactly remember." "Can't remember?" "A whack like that?" "Of course he can remember." "It..." "I'm not asking you, I'm asking him." "It was just after supper." "Yes." "It was... just after supper." "Just after supper." "Yeah." "I'd like you to come down to headquarters." "Are you harassing my son again?" "No, I'm asking him to come down to headquarters." "Are you arresting my son?" "No, but if he doesn't come voluntarily, I will arrest him." "A lawyer will be present at all times." "You don't need a lawyer." "He's not being charged with anything." "Our solicitor will be present at all times." "Hector, get on the phone." "Come on." "Mr Gently, you had better be SO careful." "You know, this could go very badly for you." "Do you know what makes me laugh, Your Battleship?" "Your career prospects?" "After all your greed and all your wealth and all your privileges and it's all been shown up, and the whole country is laughing at you for wearing tweed underwear and shooting furry animals and going, "Oh yah, yah, Gertrude"," "you still think you should be running the country, don't you?" "You know, when I first met you, I took you as one of those angry young men with a chip on his shoulder." "But now I see you're actually quite well balanced." "You have a chip on both your shoulders." "Oooh." "You're for the knacker's yard, Mrs Blacksmith." "Sergeant!" "Tell me, Sergeant, who DOES run the country?" "Grammar school boys like Mr Wilson?" "Clever little men like David Frost?" "The boilermakers' union?" "The Marxists at the BBC?" "The Royal Shakespeare Homo Company?" "OK, you're the expert on the Right Hon James Blackstone." "Let's have it." "He's 24." "He's just resigned his commission in the Coldstream Guards, which was Hector's regiment." "Studied at Marlborough public school, then went on to St Edmund Hall, Oxford." "Apparently, that's where the thick ones with money get in." "Says who?" "I asked a friend of mine." "Good work, Sergeant." "How many O-levels did you say you got?" "General science, biology, German and technical drawing, OK?" "Fully rounded human being!" "Look, are we discussing me or him?" "Sorry, go on, carry on." "Right." "Continuing the military theme, he got made General of the Bullingdon Club." "Their main activity is getting plastered, smashing restaurants up, throwing loads of money on the floor and then leaving with stupid, smug grins on their faces." "Now about to take up a position - "take up a position"... that's known to the rest of us as getting a job... in the City, at Lloyd's, where he'll no doubt sit on his backside" "until it's time to shoot pheasants or murder young women in car crashes." "One of the two." "I don't think James'll be sitting on his backside." "Not with a mother like that." "Sir?" "Busy!" "Bob Anderton's ready for you, sir." "Unknown female, approximately 20 years of age." "No distinguishing marks or features, except the fingers are cut and scratched." "Death was by drowning." "What about this bruise on her head?" "Consistent with the crash, but a glancing blow." "I doubt whether she lost consciousness." "Sexually active." "Recent?" "I'd say fairly recent." "The fingernails on the left hand are much more worn than the right." "Presumably she was scrabbling at the door with that hand." "Or because she plays the violin, yes?" "Anything else I should know at this point, Bob?" "Yes." "The blood sample on the metal frame, driver's side..." "Oh, aye?" "Yeah." "It's a pretty rare type, actually." "Might help you." "A2B positive." "After all night in the river?" "Apparently the car was at a slight angle." "Not all the frame was submerged." "I see." "OK, well, I think we're done here, thanks." "Did James Blackstone have a rare blood group?" "Oh, I can't remember." "Why don't we go and ask him?" "I'll ask the questions." "You take a back seat." "Sir." "Assistant Chief Constable's waiting for you in your office." "Ah!" "Your questioning of His Lordship will take place here, with Mrs Acklington in attendance." "I'll remain but will play no part." "Oh, I think you already have, sir." "This is not for discussion, Chief Inspector." "It's a necessary precaution, given the history." "How would you like me to address you?" "James is fine." "Very well." "James." "May I ask you once again how you came by that cut on your head?" "You don't have to answer that." "Well, he's already told us, in fact, that he fell into a window frame, whilst under the influence of alcohol." "Would he care to elaborate on that?" "Were the French windows open or closed, for instance?" "They were open." "I was talking to my mother." "Not paying attention properly." "WHY were they open?" "That's what French windows are for." "Quite." "So, were you on the inside or on the outside?" "We were outside." "Just the two of you?" "Yes." "No-one else to distract you?" "No, I was drunk." "Yeah, you were drinking with your father." "At a musical event in the village." "Although Her Ladyship had previously told me that you were at home having supper and playing backgammon." "So, which is true?" "The countess isn't here to answer questions." "The question is for James." "They're both true." "James and his father came back about 11." "So why did you first tell me..." "The countess isn't here to answer questions." "Well, she has no problems answering for her son, I notice!" "James, we have a car upside down in a shallow river, and a young girl dead." "Do you know what happened to her last night?" "The Chief Inspector must ask specific questions, not go on a fishing trip." "Agreed." "I'm asking James what he knows about a young girl whose life ended in the early hours of this morning." "Trapped, frightened and helpless in a metal tomb, waiting for the cold river water to enter her lungs and drown her." "Just a name would help." "A little bit of dignity for her?" "I..." "I think I might know her." "Put a stop to this." "James, there's absolutely no obligation to..." "Why might you know her, James?" "Just, um..." "Just if... if she's local, I might recognise her." "Certainly." "Would you like to see her?" "She's here, just down the corridor." "Yes, I would." "Very much." "Stop this." "James, I forbid this!" "I strongly object to this procedure..." "Mr Blackstone has very kindly agreed to assist in identifying the body." "This way, James." "You said you could control this man!" "Come on." "Down there." "James?" "Ellen." "Her name is Ellen." "No, no, no." "You can't touch her." "You can never touch her again." "Never?" "No, never." "Were you driving the car, James?" "James, were you driving the car?" "Your son's waiting for you in reception." "What did he tell you?" "Just the dead girl's name." "Nothing more." "Aren't you curious to know what it is?" "Yes, of course." "Ellen Mallam." "Oh, well, that begins to make sense." "Her father works for us." "Oh." "Does he have access to the car?" "He's free to use it any time." "Gosh." "What a run of bad luck he's had." "He lost his wife, lost his job at the pit, throat cancer, now this." "Throat cancer?" "Mm-hm." "Yous want to buy a compass, you two." "Straight past the House of Lords stable block." "Go quiet, cos they're fast asleep in the afternoons." "Turn right at the Profumo swimming pool, over the bridge at the Christine Keeler goldfish pond..." "Billy Mallam?" "Aye." "I went over the water to see Ellen Wilkinson speak the day the Jarrow March set out." "The Fiery Spark, they called her." "You know, she had that thing about her." "You moved towards her, you know?" "And I thought to myself - and I hadn't even met her mother yet... if I ever have a girl child, I'll call her Ellen." "And my Ellen had that fiery spark, an' all." "♪ A holiday, a holy day" "♪ The first one of the year" "♪ Lord Arlen's wife came into church" "♪ The gospel for to hear" "♪ And when the meeting, it was done" "♪ She cast her eyes about" "♪ And there she saw little Matty Groves" "♪ Walking in the crowd" "♪ Come home with me little Matty Groves" "♪ Come home with me tonight... ♪" "'This was last night, in the Miners' Welfare in your village?" "Aye." "'I'm going to need the names of the other band members." "'It was whoever was free." "Except Anthony.'" "♪ .." "You are Lord Arlen's wife... ♪" "'Anthony always played." "Anthony...?" "Anthony Baugh.'" "How can I find him?" "Well he's here, usually." "In the library." "Writing some kind of book." "Weren't you concerned when Ellen didn't come home last night?" "Well, nah." "Cos she told us she was getting the bus out of Newcastle, for London." "Bus leaves at three o'clock in the morning." "Her bags were packed, sitting on the floor." "She was going to slip in later, pick them up after I'd gone to bed." "They were still there this morning." "So was her bus ticket." "Did she have a boyfriend up here?" "No, no." "How long has she been home from London?" "Three or four days." "She was a student, yeah?" "At the Royal College of Music." "From a bairn, Mr Bacchus, she could pick up any instrument and play it." "Never knew where she got that from." "Not me or her mam." "What a voice." "She made the angels weep." "♪ Little Matty Groves, he laid down and took a little sleep" "♪ When he awoke Lord Arlen was standing at his feet" "♪ Saying, how do you like my featherbed?" "♪ How do you like my sheets?" "♪ How do you like my lady" "♪ Who lies in your arms asleep?" "♪ It's well I like your featherbed" "♪ And well I like your sheets" "♪ But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep" "♪ Well, get up, get up!" "Lord Arlen cried" "♪ Get up as quick as you can" "♪ It'll never be said in fair England" "♪ I slew a naked man. ♪" "'Who was in the audience?" "'People from the village." "Farms round about." "'People from the hall." "'Who from the hall?" "'Well, Hector." "'He always came when Ellen sang.'" "So Hector had known Ellen all her life?" "Always used to tell her she was beautiful, you know?" "Give her presents on her birthday, and that." "She'd give him that big smile, and say," ""Hector, give all the land and money you've pinched back to the workers" ""and I'll have a dirty weekend with you."" "Oh, she made me blush sometimes." "She reminded him of his first wife, I think." "OK, yeah." "So, Hector was there." "Why was James there?" "I don't know." "But I do know he never took his eyes off Ellen all night." "♪ .." "And then Lord Arlen He took his wife" "♪ And he sat her on his knee" "♪ Saying, who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?" "♪ And then up spoke his own dear wife" "♪ Never known to speak so free" "♪ I'd rather kiss dead Matty's lips than you and your finery!" "♪ And then Lord Arlen, he stood up" "♪ And loudly he did bawl" "♪ He struck his wife right through the heart" "♪ And pinned her against the wall" "♪ A grave, a grave, Lord Arlen cried" "♪ To put these lovers in" "♪ But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin. ♪" "She had your politics?" "She believed in justice and fair shares." "Thank you." "You've been listening to The Fiery Spark." "Please give generously to the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign." "Support the people of Vietnam." "Victory to the Vietcong!" "America out!" "One last time, Ellen Mallam!" "If you want to hear her do one more, you better let her know." "Thank you." "Beautiful, darling, beautiful." "Very kind." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I'm glad you enjoyed it." "Did James have a gash on his head, Mr Mallam?" "A gash?" "Aye." "No, why?" "Sure?" "Has he got one now, like?" "He says he walked into the French windows." "He's done this before, you know?" "Crashed cars and got away with it." "Can you think of any reason why Ellen would be in a car with James Blackstone late last night?" "'They were talking, after the concert." "'What were they talking about?" "They were too far away." "'I just remember thinking," "' "There he goes again, drunk behind the wheel."" "'Well, her coach was at 3am.'" "Could he have been offering to come back later and give her a lift to the coach station in Newcastle?" "She did say she had a lift." "With James?" "Well, I assumed Anthony." "Anthony?" "Oh, Anthony Baugh, the guitarist that's writing a book?" "Why did you assume that?" "Cos that's what usually happened." "They were close." "They grew up together." "Has he got a car?" "No, he uses the ones off the estate." "So, if he thought he might be needing a car last night, he..." "So sorry, Inspector." "Billy, this is appalling." "This is appalling!" "I'm sorry, I just wanted..." "It's all right we'd finished anyway." "We want to speak to Anthony Baugh." "I'm afraid he's not here today." "Could he have borrowed the Austin yesterday?" "Yes, of course." "He frequently takes a car." "We need to find out who left her to drown, Hector." "Yes." "Mr Gently will, I'm sure." "Whoever it is, Hector." "Yes, of course." "Whoever." "I'm so sorry." "He won't hesitate." "To do what?" "Pull whatever strings it takes to save his son's neck." "Well, aye - he's going to be Prime Minister one day, we keep getting told, whereas a young lass like Ellen... who had more brains and more heart in her little finger than he'll ever have - her life can be snuffed out like that." "He's killed her, hasn't he?" "The only one who had any time for him, and he's killed her." "Why is he not locked up?" "Hall here." "Village here." "A1 to Newcastle and the coach station here." "River winds round this way." "Death occurs here at the bridge." "Is there a point to this?" "She had a ticket to London." "Her father told us she left her luggage in the middle of the floor, so presumably whoever was driving her went back to pick it up." "The rest of her band had gone home in the van." "Guv, me brain's gone." "We'll talk about this tomorrow." "You've got nothing to say to me?" "What about?" "OK." "Let me just tell you one of the vast array of things wrong with planting false evidence." "Whoa." "Whoa there, Nelly." "False evidence?" "Yeah, the blood smear." "James Blackstone is A2B, I take it?" "Come on, you must know from all the times you tried to nick him." "So?" "So, a smear of it turns up conveniently on the car frame." "That blood sample never even existed, did it?" "Guv, he's got a three-inch gash on his head!" "He's got previous for drinking and driving!" "They tried to stop us putting him away twice before and now, guess what, he's killed somebody, and you're trying to stop us a third time?" "!" "No, I'm trying to stop you from perjuring yourself and ruining Bob Anderton's career!" "He's got a wife and four kids depending on his salary, and you are asking him to risk all of that because you are SURE you've got the right man, you just haven't got the evidence to prove it!" "Blokes your age, you can't help yourselves, can you?" "What?" "!" ""This bloke here, he was in the Army, he must be a good bloke." ""This bloke here, he's got a posh accent," ""he couldn't POSSIBLY tell a pack of lies!"" "How many times have these people got a free pass just because they won the pools on the day that they were born?" "Is that what you think of me?" "Somebody who knows his place?" "These people have been farting in our faces for centuries and now we don't have to take it any more and here is my guv'nor calling this stuck up cow Your Ladyship." "And that excuses you from inventing evidence against her son?" "A, I'm doing nothing of the kind." "You're imagining it." "B, he's guilty." "And C, do you think these people got all their land, all their titles, all their wealth by sticking to the rules?" "Go home." "Guv..." "Go home." "You disappoint me, John." "This wouldn't have happened if we'd arrested him yesterday." "Four O-levels AND 20/20 hindsight!" "What business is this of theirs?" "How's your son?" "They don't really know yet." "Would you like a cup of tea?" "No, thank you." "I wouldn't mind, actually." "Anthony?" "And a tea for Sergeant Bacchus." "Anthony Baugh." "Yeah, you find out all you can." "I'll take him outside." "So Alethea found James with his throat cut?" "Yes." "Did he manage to say anything?" "Presumably not, with his throat cut!" "Were you at the hall last night?" "At night?" "Of course not." "How come you learned about James so quickly?" "The countess telephoned." "She was... very upset." "I came over." "You think he tried to kill himself?" "James was - is - probably the most unhappy human being I've ever met." "And one of the least likeable." "What makes him unhappy?" "I'm not a psychiatrist." "What makes him unlikeable?" "Proximity to him." "Where do you fit in at Abberwick Hall, Anthony?" "The ruling class of England went mad about ten years ago, shortly after Suez, didn't you notice?" "I'm writing a book about it." "Through A Class Darkly - The Decline Of The Old Order." "Think it'll sell?" "Is that your son's blood?" "Why doesn't he make them open the kitchen?" "Is there really not a woman here to boil a kettle?" "What happened to your son?" "He used be a soldier." "They play with death." "They're reckless." "I'm sorry." "You're saying that James accidentally cut his own throat?" "He really is quite unbelievable, isn't he?" "Darling?" "Do you have any shrapnel?" "My husband was conceived upon a flannel." "I beg your pardon?" "His mother - my predecessor as the Countess of Guyzance... was a notorious "horizontale"." "Sorry, I...?" "Rarely in the vertical plane." "Oh, right." "Why am I telling you this?" "Because sometimes..." "we just need to talk, don't you?" "My parents owned the village shop." "James and I were at school together." "You went to public school?" "Yep." "Thrifty shopkeepers." "Yes." "But not that thrifty." "Hector paid for my education." "And, no, I'm not his illegitimate offspring, it was pure philanthropy." "Hector does a lot of good in this world." "All he asks in return is that you try and do the same." "And will you?" "I'd like to go into politics." "As James is meant to." "Except he's got a mother who controls the local Tory Party and decides who the MP will be." "Lucky boy, eh?" "But if James was no longer a candidate...?" "Oh, crikey." "Am I a suspect?" "Tell me why you shouldn't be." "What's your name?" "John." "Well, John..." "She slept with everybody." "Except Hector's father, whom she couldn't abide." "You won't say a word of this to anyone, will you?" "Promise?" "I promise." "So there came a point... where they hadn't had "conjugale" for six years, at which point the old bird announces she's pregnant." "Well, even Hector's father... who was given dinners at Eton for his imbecility... even HE could do simple arithmetic." "So he sued her for adultery in the High Court and tried to have Hector declared a bastard." "What happened?" "Oh, he lost his case, obviously." "Can I get you anything, you chaps?" "Oh, no, no, no." "Are you sure?" "Well... how did the, um... the "old bird" get away with it?" "She simply told the judge the facts of the matter." "Which were...?" "That because he wasn't getting any sex," "Hector's father was in the habit of relieving himself on a flannel in her bathroom." "One night in her bath, she used the flannel to wash herself down there, thus impregnating herself with his sperm." "And the judge believed that?" "Of course he believed her." "Her father was a duke." "So who is Hector's real father?" "Probably some horny-handed son of toil from the local coal mine." "That would explain a lot about Hector." "Tea at last!" "Getting to know each other?" "Is there a Mr and Mrs Guyzance here?" "A friend of yours has just lost her life in a car crash, somebody that you were close to, according to her father." "Were you?" "Mm." "So why weren't you driving the car?" "Cos Billy..." "Billy assumed that you would be giving her a lift to the coach station." "Why didn't you?" "She wasn't going to the coach station." "James was driving them both to London." "How do you know this?" "She told me." "How close were you, Anthony?" "Did you love Ellen, Anthony?" "All my life." "Guv?" "He lost too much blood." "They couldn't bring him back." "I'm very sorry." "What can you tell me about what happened?" "Very little." "I heard my wife's screams, I went to the window," "I saw the scene and I immediately phoned for help." "When I got outside... there was blood everywhere." "James was barely alive." "We tried to bandage his neck." "He was drowning in his own blood." "The ambulance took an age." "And you saw no-one else?" "Such as who?" "Anthony Baugh, for instance?" "No, of course not." "And the previous evening, the night that Ellen met her death, was he at the hall then?" "Why would he be there in the evening?" "Hector, I'm sorry, too." "The silver dagger that was found beside James?" "It's a letter opener." "Was it familiar to you?" "It was my wife's." "Oh." "A gift from James on her 40th birthday." "There's an inscription on it..." ""To Mummy, from James"." "It normally lives on a desk in the day room." "Do you think that your son could have ended his own life with it?" "Yes." "I do." "Why would he do that?" "I don't know." "And yesterday evening, were the three of you at home together?" "Yes." "I myself went out for a while." "To go where?" "I went to Billy Mallam's house to share a drink with him, but he slammed the door on me." "There was real hatred in his eyes." "I fear he may have been led to the wrong conclusion about his daughter's death." "I think your son killed himself last night because he felt responsible for the death of Ellen Mallam." "Why do you keep pointing your finger at other people, I wonder?" "Confucius had a saying, Sergeant..." ""When a wise man points at the stars," ""only a fool stares at his finger"." "Darling..." "Are we letting Anthony go?" "Yeah." "For now." "These people are weird." "Yeah." "Better question Billy Mallam." "Oh, right." "Yeah." "Billy Mallam has now gone to the hall, has he, huh?" "To open James Blackstone's throat with a silver dagger that belonged to Alethea, huh?" "And because of me, apparently." "Are you taking this rubbish seriously?" "I have to." "What, because an earl says that it's true?" "Oh, well, then it must be!" "You..." "You as good as told Billy Mallam that James was driving the car!" "It's a smoke screen, guv!" "The truth... the truth has just walked out that door!" "Listen, you don't have to be there." "I'll question him on my own." "No, no!" "I'll do it, sir." "I'll do it!" "It's all my fault, apparently, so I'll do it!" "That's for slitting envelopes, not throats." "There's easier ways than that of killing a man, bonny lad." "Such as?" "A shotgun." "Yeah, but... you wanted poetic justice, though, didn't you?" "For your beautiful, artistic daughter?" "Cut the killer's throat with a knife inscribed to his Mammy." "What's sweeter than that?" "Having Ellen alive would be sweeter than that, bonny lad." "Yeah, but she's not alive, though, is she?" "You're never going to see her again, Billy." "Never." "You had hate in your heart last night, Billy." "Says who?" "Who came knocking at your door?" "Hector put yous up to this?" "James Blackstone left Ellen to drown." "James Blackstone drowned in his own blood." "Nobody, nobody on Earth, would blame you for that, Billy." "Nobody." "Did you leave the house after Hector came to see you?" "Where did you go to, Billy?" "The river." "I went to the river." "To see where my bairn lost her life." "Thinking I might die in the same spot." "I couldn't kill myself last night." "This was not simple cowardice." "At age 19," "I spent six days trapped by a rock fall, underground on me own, so I've met despair before." "Wrapped tight round my throat in the dark." "But I survived it." "As I will the loss of Ellen." "As I have everything else." "Anthony Baugh says James and Ellen were leaving for London together." "Knows it for a fact, he says." "He only knows one thing for a fact... that Anthony Baugh will one day be atop of the greasy pole." "I've watched that lad grow up." "He believes in nothing except himself." "All the same, why would he make it up?" "Huh?" "I mean, you said it yourself, didn't you?" "James held onto her hand, she kissed him." "That's a funny thing for a fiery working-class lass to be doing." "Standing necking on the street with a bloke whose mum's posher than the Queen." "Billy... the postmortem tells us that Ellen had sex with somebody in the days before she died." "Did yous have to tell us that?" "Could it have been James?" "Never in a million year." "Anthony?" "I think they used to..." "but that was years ago." "Well..." "Thank you very much, Mr Mallam." "I'll arrange for a squad car to take you home." "When the undertakers have done their work, people can come and pay their respects." "He was so, so very loved, my son." "England has lost a future leader." "Have you ever lost anyone you were really close to, George?" "Of course you have." "We're the generation, aren't we?" "I lost my father and my brother in the war." "In the same week." "I lost some comrades." "Anzio." "Sicily before that." "I also lost my wife a few years ago." "I'm so sorry." "It's been very much on my mind recently." "I can't quite work out why." "It's because you're a sensitive man, George." "But life will be good again." "Life always works out well in the end for good men... like you." "Your Ladyship..." "Why don't you call me Alethea?" "Hmm?" "When no-one else is around." "I think I'll call you Your Ladyship, if it's all the same to you." "The night Ellen died..." "Back to that again, are we?" "Anthony Baugh says James and Ellen were going away to London together." "Gosh!" "Hasn't he a lot to say for the son of village shopkeepers?" "Can I help you in some way?" "Yeah." "Sometime before she died, somebody shagged Ellen." "Any idea who?" "You really are something." "An easier one, then - was it you or was it James?" "Body's hardly cold, Sergeant." "I'm sorry." "If you want coppers with good taste, then mebbies they should send us all to public school." "Could learn how to cane each other." "I just went to the local grammar, me, so I never really got into bondage." "This is an amazing, kind, beautiful, talented human being who's lost her life in tragic circumstances." "The fact that you think it's funny, the fact that you think she's to be mocked, does you no credit." "And, actually, maybe that IS something to do with your education." "Oh, where did I go wrong?" "Let me tell you what I'm thinking, Ant." "I'm thinking this - there's you sent to school to learn how to parrot the upper classes, right?" "But it'll always be all right, won't it?" "Because there's Ellen, childhood sweetheart, the Fiery Spark," "Red Ellen." "And as long as she still loves you, then you haven't turned into a complete toady." "And then one day - disaster." "She thinks to herself, "Why am I wasting my time dropping my knickers" ""for a pretend upper-class twit when I can have a proper one?"" "Eh?" "James never took his eyes off her at that concert." "That must have made you angry, did it?" "Then he leaves her to drown in a river." "You expect me to believe that you spent all last night playing draughts with your mam and dad up in Seahouses?" "Ask them." "I have." ""Ah, yeah, no, he was here the whole time, honest."" "What are mums and dads for?" "What was James's relationship with Ellen Mallam?" ""Relationship"?" "James was a man of action." "A soldier." "They're allowed to sow wild oats." "Well, village girls... sometimes get the wrong idea." "She laid herself down for him and then expected a wedding ring." "So she threw herself at him?" "She... ensnared him with sex." "This proud working-class girl, named after a famous working-class heroine, expected a life with your son?" "And isn't that just typical of the working classes?" "Once they smell money and opportunity..." "They envy wealth, success, brilliance... all the things that James had in spades." "Exactly." "So why did he kill himself?" "He didn't kill himself." "Your husband says it was suicide." "How would he know?" "He wasn't there." "Nor were you." "Exactly." "Nobody was." "So nobody can say that James killed himself." "Mm." "Anthony Baugh says so, too." "Well, God damn Anthony Baugh." "He would say that, wouldn't he?" "Why?" "Because he hated my son." "Hated and envied him." "Because you can give a boy an education... but you can't give him breeding." "But Anthony's family, really, isn't he?" "James is home, my dear." "Would you excuse us now, please?" "One more question." "Did Ellen visit you the night she died?" "What an absurd idea." "Were you here at the club the night Ellen Mallam was playing?" "I wouldn't miss it." "So you knew Ellen, I assume?" "Watched her grow up." "Lovely lass." "Breaks your heart, you know?" "Was there anything different about her that night?" "Anything unusual happen?" "Well, she was never usually short of a lift." "Sorry?" "Turns the lights out, locks the place up, she was out here, sitting here on her own." "What did she say?" "Just her lift never turned up." "Did she say who the lift was?" "No." "She just said, "I don't care, I'll walk."" "Like, determined, you know?" "If I don't see you through the week, I'll see you through the window." "'And she gives us this big smacker on the lips." "'She was...happy.'" "Heading which way?" "That way." "Towards Abberwick Hall?" "It's a simple enough question, Tone - was it you or was it James who shagged her before she died?" "Well, it wasn't me, no." "Oh, dear." "The thought of her and James would have hurt, wouldn't it?" "But it wasn't James either, was it?" "I nicked him twice before for being drunk behind the wheel." "Both times he was with a lad." "Different lads, but never any sign of any lasses." "And Billy?" "He just laughed at the idea of her and James." "James was queer." "Everybody knew that." "Except one person, of course." "Four prancing horses will draw your carriage." "You will be engraved in marble." "Earls and dukes will attend you." "And men and women everywhere... will weep... for their fallen hero." "'Ellen gave him hope.'" "For the first and only time in his stupid life, he had hope." "How'd she do that?" "By singing to him." "A song called Silver Dagger." "Silver Dagger?" "It was the last song she ever sang." "'It's about a mother who won't let go of her son.'" "One more, then." "This is for mothers everywhere." "♪ Don't sing love songs" "♪ You'll wake your mother" "♪ She's laying there" "♪ Right by your side" "♪ And in her right hand" "♪ A silver dagger" "♪ She says that I" "♪ Can't be your bride" "♪ All maids are false" "♪ Says your mother" "♪ They'll tell you wicked" "♪ Winning lies" "♪ And the very next evening" "♪ They'll love another" "♪ Leave you alone" "♪ To pine and cry" "♪ Go find yourself" "♪ A rich young maiden" "♪ And hope that she" "♪ Will be your wife" "♪ For I've been warned" "♪ And I've decided" "♪ To live alone" "♪ All of my life... ♪" "So what were your movements after the concert?" "Packed up the instruments, offered Ellen a lift, but she declined because she was..." "Carry on." "She was waiting for James to come back and pick her up, which obviously he did." "Why do you say that?" "Come on." "We all know who was driving the car." "But it wasn't James's car that crashed." "It was an old Austin." "Well, then that's the car he was driving that night." "No, no." "James was in his Volvo P1800 earlier outside the Miners' Welfare." "Well, then... for some reason he must've come back for her in the Austin." "Why?" "What car were you driving, Anthony?" "Just one of the Abberwick cars." "I don't remember which." "Don't you?" "Ellen walked to the hall." "I have an eye witness." "Five miles on her own in the dark." "It is now nearly one in the morning and Ellen will soon get into the car that will crash and drown her." "Where were you?" "I was at home." "Stop wasting our time." "You were about to get a big surprise, weren't you?" "Not to mention the countess." "Oh." "Is that why he paid for you to go to that posh school is it, Anthony?" "So his wife could have a bit of well-spoken rough?" "Or is this your way of saying, "Thank you, Hector"?" "I was with Alethea when Ellen arrived." "Doing what, exactly?" "How's the uprising going, village boy?" "Oh, it's..." "It's coming along." "Give me some of that." "Good." "Because I'm ready." "'.." "Resembles a battlefield after an uprising on a scale 'unequalled in the postwar period...'" "That'll be you one day, my lady." "Your house will burn, baby, burn." "Oh, really?" "I'm so scared." "The working classes on the rise." "At last seeing through all our ruses to keep them enslaved." "Oh, Lord, what shall become of me?" "You'll be up against a wall." "Oh, will I?" "Up against a wall..." "And where will you be, village boy?" "I'll be standing right behind you with my gun in my..." "Sh." "This girl is insane!" "She's come to collect James, Alethea." "He wants to go to London with her." "Wants to drop out." "Find his own space." "The police can deal with this." "Tell her she has ten minutes to get off my property!" "I can't talk to her!" "Oh, she still doesn't know?" "Well, I think that it's about time that she did!" "Alethea, why not just let him go with her?" "He isn't what you think he is." "He isn't clever enough." "Oh, and you are, I suppose?" "Don't get ideas above your station, Anthony." "Your parents ran a shop!" "He's weak, Alethea." "And not very bright." "Have you ever met any Government ministers?" "I wrote his essays all through school and Oxford." "And were amply rewarded!" "Can't you see what you've turned him into?" "He's a vain, lazy, stupid... ♪ And I've decided" "♪ To live alone all of... ♪" "Anthony?" "Oh, Anthony..." "I always worried you might sell your granny but I never thought you'd shag her!" "Make her shut up!" "You are a total nightmare, Mrs Guyzance, do you know that?" "Does Hector know?" "Well..." "Good luck." "Get rid of her." "I'll take you to the coach station, Ellen." "No, thanks." "I've got a lift." "But she did get in that car." "Who with?" "I don't know." "I went back upstairs." "That was the last I ever saw of Ellen." "Stay here." "Don't talk to anybody." "I call them my steeds." "They're like old friends, really." "Ellen Mallam came here the night she died." "You've been lying to us." "Isn't that against the rules for barons?" "Yes, she was here." "Were you expecting her?" "I thought I was dreaming." "Shall I tell you something, Chief Inspector?" "If I'd been 40 years younger, I wouldn't have hesitated." "I would have run off with her myself." "You knew why she'd come, then?" "To rescue James." "♪ Right by your side" "♪ And in her right hand" "♪ A silver dagger" "♪ She says that I... ♪" "'James wasn't at all what he appeared to be." "'He was a frightened young man, really." "'Desperately unsure of what he wanted of life.'" "Desperately unsure he could deliver what life seemed to be asking of him." "What life was asking of him?" "Or his mother?" "Where was she while all this was happening?" "You'll have to ask her that." "Oh, no, I'm asking you." "No, no." "What?" "We spoke to Anthony Baugh." "We know where your wife was." "Where is your wife now, please?" "Asleep." "Exhausted." "Somebody's responsible for the death of Ellen Mallam and I think she knows who, so could you go and tell your wife "wakey, wakey", now, please?" "All right." "You do it your way, I'll do it mine, all right?" "I'm sick to the back teeth of these toffee-nosed hypocrites." "All right." "We'll do it your way." "Right." "Ellen Mallam walked here at 1am the night she died." "According to your husband, she came here to talk to James." "You were in your bedroom." "With him." "Oh, aye, he's given us all the gory details." "So what happened next, when Ellen tried to take your son away from you?" "Go back to bed." "Come with me." "It's not as hard as you think, James." "Go inside, James." "There's an amazing world out here, beautiful man." "You'll find different friends, do different things" " I promise." "I'll help you." "Just... forget about me, Ellen." "No, I won't just forget about you." "The police will be here shortly, my dear, so I suggest that you pack up your fiddle and clear off back where you belong." "Let him choose his own life, Alethea." "He has chosen." "Haven't you, James?" "Get back in the house." "Now!" "For goodness' sake." "Oh, my God, James!" "Are you all right?" "Now do you see what you've done?" "!" "'So Anthony had gone upstairs, yes?" "'" "Yes." "Another man she had twisted round her little finger." "Really, what was the attraction?" "Why all this fuss about her?" "For goodness' sake, Alethea, she was an extraordinary creature!" "So..." "She left in a car." "Driven by whom?" "We have no idea." "We were with James and his cut head." "James was... hardly conscious." "Chief Inspector, it seems to me that you would like us to solve this mystery for you." "And you've obviously failed to come up with any evidence of who was behind the wheel or you'd have produced it by now." "That's where you're wrong." "John...?" "No, no." "They're not getting away with this." "We have a blood sample." "Taken from the crashed car." "It's quite rare." "A2B, James's blood type." "So presumably one of yours as well." "Blood types...?" "It's quite simple, Mrs Blackstone." "James was A2B, so one of his parents must be." "What are you?" "O." "And you?" "It was my blood." "I drove the car." "Somebody had to." "James was incapable, my wife was under the influence, so I took the nearest car and drove Ellen home for her baggage." "Except we didn't get there." "I lost control of the car on a bend." "I lost consciousness for a while." "When I came to, we were upside down in the river." "Ellen was trapped." "I tried to free her." "The water was rising." "I kicked my door open and I scrambled out." "God help me, I tried to save her, but I couldn't free her foot!" "I talked to her." "And I held her hand until she was covered by the water and then she drowned." "You could've just told us all this from the beginning, man." "What, and have all of this brought up for public scrutiny?" "My life - our lives - a laughing stock?" "There go the aristocracy again!" "Mad, degenerate, sexually incontinent, no longer fit to lead..." "Who wants to be led by people who can leave a dead girl in a drowned car all night?" "!" "You're under arrest." "He's under arrest when I say he is." "Your blood type's B, Hector." "I checked in the hospital." "What?" "That's just basic police work, Sergeant." "Then how could there be an A2B blood stain in the car?" "Well, yes." "Good point." "How could there be, Sergeant?" "Must have been some kind of mistake." "Yeah." "Just like Hector thinking that James was his son." "I was never under that misapprehension, Sergeant." "We have no evidence except your confession." "Do you wish to retract it?" "No." "Someone should pay." "I was brought up to honour a debt." "You are a fool, Hector." "Perhaps so." "But I can live with being a fool, Alethea." "What I couldn't live with, however, was knowing that I'd as good as killed my own son." "How could the poor chap live, after all you'd done to him?" "No, it was... a silly accident" "I saw it, Alethea!" "I saw it!" "Please, James, please!" "I am begging you." "Sweetheart, please don't." "I am going to count to ten." "One..." "No, no, please don't!" "No, no, no, because you're brilliant." "Two..." "This is us." "We can talk away any problem." "Three..." "I love you with every fibre of my being!" "Four..." "What if I do this?" "What if I crawl?" "What if I crawl to you?" "Yes, laugh at me, but don't destroy yourself!" "Please, not after everything that we have done together!" "What have I ever done?" "The world is waiting for you." "Ah..." "The world." "Five, six..." "Please." "Please, please, please!" "Let me take all the pain away!" "She was the only friend I've ever had because she didn't want anything from me." "She only wanted to help me." "Tell me, Mummy, why did she have to die?" "It is so, so hard to lose what's precious, which is why you must not do this." "Why?" "Because it will hurt you?" "Because the world needs you." "You know that, James." "You've always known that." "We've always said that, haven't we?" "Since you were a little boy." "No, no." "YOU have always said that." "I just wanted a life to live." "You are the master of your own destiny, James, and, one day, of all our destinies." "My darling son." "My brave, brave boy." "She was right about you." "You are a nightmare." "James?" "Seven, eight, nine, Mummy..." "Help!" "Hector!" "Hector, would you stand up, please?" "Hector Blackstone," "I'm charging you with causing death by dangerous driving and attempting to pervert the course of justice." "You do not have to say anything, but anything you do say may be used in evidence." "Do you understand?" "Perfectly, thank you." "Is there anything?" "Yes." "No, I'd like you to hear this, too, Alethea." "I want you to know exactly what happened because I will never tell it to a court." "Stop for a minute." "I want to talk to you." "Hector... when did you stop breathing?" "Let's go for a walk." "But..." "There's bags of time." "♪ My daddy, he's a handsome devil" "♪ He's got a chain five miles long" "♪ And on every link a heart does dangle" "♪ Of another maid he's loved and wronged. ♪" "What are you thinking of?" "Or should I say "who"?" "I've never, ever been so happy in all my life." "Ah." "Is he waiting for you in London?" "It can happen for you as well, Hector." "I want you to believe that." "Can you?" "I'll try to believe it." "Good." "When you get home, start making changes." "OK?" "Promise?" "I promise." "Look at the time!" "Oh, God!" "Come on!" "It's perhaps hard for you to understand what those few minutes meant to me." "Just to be touched by a beautiful young woman." "It was only when Ellen kissed me that I realised the truth of what she'd said." "I had stopped breathing." "I had stopped breathing the day Bonny died." "We were late." "I wanted Ellen to get to London to meet the man she'd fallen in love with." "I drove too fast." "He'll get off, guv." "I'm telling you, he'll get off." "His posh lawyer'll say he was in shock or something." "He held her hand until she died, John." "And then he walked home and he told his wife and his wife's boyfriend what had happened." "I don't understand these people." "It's like The Wizard Of Oz, isn't it?" "Everyone thinks there's some amazing brains running the operation and you look behind the curtain, it's just some weird Hooray Henry who was once in the Bullingdon Club." "But the game's up." "Because once you start laughing at the high-ups... they lose their power." "I wouldn't worry too much on their behalf." "It might be all over for the toffs, but they've trained the Anthony Baughs of this world to carry on the good fight." "Hi." "I'm Anthony." "I think, you know, people like me cos I'm a straight sort of guy." "That's why people trust me." "Hi." "Call me Tony." "OK, why should you vote for me?" "All right." "The blood thing, that was a mistake." "But it got us a confession." "So... bingo." "No." "Not "bingo"." "I wouldn't have had to make it up, would I, if he'd have coughed up in the first place." "What were the lies all about?" "Honour, I think." "Dignity." "Memory." "Well, like I said, I don't understand these people." "Just out of interest, what sort of people do you think should be running this country?" "People like me."

"Fifteen isn't nearly enough." "You need a 25." "Skin as lovely as yours should never be tainted by the harsh light of day." "Your cash." "Come on, fast." "You, over here." "Are you looking to dye today man?" "Death and I are already well acquainted." "You however, I have no wish to know." "You are going to drop that gun." "Now you're going to show me how sorry you are for hitting an old man." "You're sorry too." "No sense banging your head against the wall." "Use the floor." "Give me 911." "I was never here." "You were never here." "What do you think of my new, uh, shirt, Clark, pretty cool huh?" "I like it, it has like, it's a confident, it's a joie de vivre..." "No, it's a je ne sais quoi, like je ne sais quoi." "Do you like it?" "Well it, it certainly..." "'Cause you can borrow it, if you want to borrow it." "So here's the scoop, Clark." "I contact this, uh, t-shirt dealer, um, in Taiwan." "And he can get me a boatload of these little beauties for next to nothing." "Andy, look out!" "Clark?" "Uh, wow." "Uh, could somebody call an ambulance or something?" "Uh, Doc?" "How is he?" "Persistent." "He wants to go home." "We're going to run one more test just to be on the safe side." "Uh, can I see him?" "Oh, sure." "Clark?" "I, um, just wanted to tell you, um, well..." "What is it, Andy?" "Uh, so there I was today walking along, talking about my shirt and before I knew it you were saving my life." "I guess what I'm trying to say here is, uh, you know, thanks." "Mr. Kent, I am Dr. Shelley." "Dr. Johnston said I'm supposed to have a look at you before we send you home." "Amazing." "It's like I've been telling everybody, I, I'm fine and the girder barely grazed me." "So it appears, but sometimes appearances can be deceiving." "If you'll hold these, and hop up here." "Lie back." "But, but, what are you..." "what are you doing?" "But, but..." "This is a CAT scan." "But, but..." "Just to make sure there are no surprises hidden under that resilient scalp of yours." "Clark, don't be embarrassed." "Naked brains, they, they must all look alike." "Keep your head very still please." "That's odd we seem to have a dead screen here." "Um, those things happen sometimes." "Thank God." "I thought you might be in a coma or something." "Is, uh, this guy tough or what?" "We meet again." "Byron Shelley, I'm a visiting resident here." "Lana Lang, I'm a friend." "I can see that." "She's my friend too." "I'd like you to make an appointment for another X-ray, just to be safe." "Okay, Doctor, I'll do that." "Thanks very much Dr. Shelley." "Come on, Lana, let's go." "Good bye Dr. Shelley." "Good bye, take care." "Byron, is that you?" "Come closer my dear." "I don't really know why I'm here exactly." "I just knew I had to see you again." "It's a power we have child over the female of the species." "We are irresistible." "So I found you at last." "You will not stay here." "I'm taking you with me, alive or undead once more." "No." "Lana, are you all right?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, he didn't attack me." "He was trying to help." "He's like nothing I've ever seen." "We better get him out of here." "How did you know where I live?" "The address is on your paycheck." "That's extraordinary X-ray eyes of yours." "Hi." "We keep meeting, you and I." "I keep wanting to see you." "I know." "I just wish we were somewhere else at the moment." "Oh it's all right." "I, I told him everything about how you saved me from that thing." "Speaking of things Dr. Shelley, you're unlike any human being I've ever seen." "There's something flowing through you, some strange energy force that defies the laws of science." "What if I were to tell you that this energy force prevents me from living a normal life?" "Or dying a mortal death?" "I'm listening." "That creature who accosted Lana, that was one of my kind." "One of your kind?" "Yes." "A lot stronger than me and older, but yeah." "And we may not be safe here." "Well we got Superboy to protect us." "You don't know what we're up against." "Follow me please." "Fortunately I have a few powers of my own with which to demonstrate." "That's great." "How did you do that?" "I'm a vampire, not a magician." "Fear is the usual reaction I get when people see proof of the supernatural." "It's the same for me when people find out" "I'm from another planet." "You're sort of like kindred spirits." "Sadly enough, one side of me is not at all like, Superboy or anyone else alive." "As you grow older, Superboy, you will find there are forces on the dark side that not even your powers can withstand." "Yes I know." "Supernatural forces seem to be one of the few things that can harm me." "You never believe how much practice that took or how many injections." "My mother was just one of his many victims." "He used his forces to make her carry his child." "She hated him." "But she loved me from the very day that I was born." "So she took me far away from him." "Growing up I thought that I was normal, she knew different." "She knew it was only a matter time before the curse of my bloodline caught up with me." "So she instilled me with the courage to fight back." "To reject my father's ways." "That's why I went into medicine." "All those years of hard work finally paid off." "I came up with this." "The chemicals in that solution could be fatal." "Not to me." "A daily injection of my serum enables me to make my reflection appear, resist my craving for blood" "and endure the sunlight." "Mortal enemy of all vampires." "You've made a lot of progress." "Well not enough." "History says vampirism is a curse." "I say it's a disease." "The oldest and most dreadful affliction known to man." "But it is controllable." "And one day, maybe even curable." "When that day comes, my father will understand why I rebelled." "And the others, they will finally know that" "I'm their salvation, not their enemy." "They don't share your desire to be cured?" "Most of these creatures are hopeless addicts who have been stalking their prey for centuries." "The old one in the garage, he was there for me." "But when Lana came along his bloodlust took control, nothing else matters." "Look out!" "Cheers." "He used me." "Byron." "He's dead." "The young man is beyond life and death and now, he has no choice but to return to the fold." "Your bite, what did you do to him?" "Soon he will rise, but the unholy blood of his father will flow through his veins once more." "He tried to help you." "To lead you all into the light." "Death and thirst and blood." "That's all there is." "Not where I come from." "In any event no trace of this research must be prevented to survive." "This house of blasphemy must burn." "Not a chance." "Where I come from, Superboy, they've mastered skills beyond the grasp of mortal men." "The power in our eyes to bend the will of any living for example, a most useful talent." "You will forget this foolish nonsense about vampires." "Superboy, don't give in." "Another moment nothing will remain of this dwelling but smoke and ash." "And you will start the fire Superboy, with your heat vision." "Do it now." "Start the fire Superboy." "You cannot defy me." "He used me." "Fight it." "Fight it!" "You cannot defy me." "He used me." "What are you doing?" "Are you mad?" "Good and mad, now I'm in control bloodsucker." "Over my dead body!" "Pathetic creature." "You think all it takes is strength to hold me?" "Watch, feel me slip through your fingers." "No, you watch." "You fool." "Darkness is my friend." "The nights will cloak me." "Not for long." "The sun!" "No, not the sun!" "Well, I'm glad to see you made it back, my friend." "And the old one?" "Well, for what it's worth, you didn't really kill him, he was already dead." "So he said." "And you?" "Are you all right?" "Oh, it's just a scratch." "But he bit you." "Is that going to make you just like the rest of them?" "Not on your lifeline." "Your serum, I suppose you built an immunity." "Science marches on." "Schuster kind of grows on." "You sure you won't change your mind?" "No, I have to stay on the move." "You've destroyed one of them, but my father will send others." "You don't know him." "Maybe we should keep it that way." "Well perhaps one day you and I may meet again." "Who can say?" "Can't you?" "That's right, you're a vampire, not a fortune-teller." "Good bye my friend." "So long Byron." "Good luck." "Huh?" "Captioned by Grant Brown"

"(DOOR OPENING)" "MR. AARON:" "Okay, Abrams." "Allende." "Bernstein." "Brown." "Come on, come on." "Attboy, Todd" "Buckley." "Cohen." "Garcia." "Paul." "Take a seat, Lisa." "I just wanted to take a minute to talk to you about your test." "Sure." "Now, I know you had a little help." "Well, I mean, I didn't cheat, if that's what you mean." "I'm just saying I know you had a little help." "A lot of people did." "Well, be that as it may..." "I mean, I'll take it over again if you want, but, like, what would be the point?" "It's not like I'm ever gonna actually need to know this stuff in my daily life." "Well, that's just not necessarily true, Lisa." "Haven't you ever developed an interest in something that you didn't initially think you were gonna develop an interest in?" "Um..." "No, not really." "(MR. AARON CHUCKLES)" "Haven't you ever..." "Haven't you ever been put in a new situation and found that after overcoming its difficulties, you had developed a new set of skills and new experiences along the way?" "No, I really haven't." "Okay." "Anyway, it was open-book." "So, what's the difference between using a book and, like, I don't know, using somebody else's mind who's really good at math?" "I mean, it's not like this person did the whole test for me." "Oh, no?" "No, I did some of it." "Well, next time I'd appreciate it if you did it all." "Okay?" "You are so fair." "What did he say to you?" "Nothing." "Mr. Aaron and I have an understanding about my math problem." "MR. KLEIN:" "So the President of the United States, William B. McKinley, authorizes the use of private detectives to break the strike and they went out there and shot 'em down!" "Just like they did in Virginia, just like they did in Pennsylvania." "Because they didn't care!" "They did not care!" "And that's basically it." "That's basically all there is to say." "All right?" "Go ahead." "Uh, Becky." "BECKY:" "Well..." "Mr. Klein!" "I mean, was there ever, like, a good president of the United States?" "(SCATTERED LAUGHING)" "MR. KLEIN:" "I don't know, Becky." "I think that's a good question." "What do you think?" "You." "Lionel." "What do you think?" "Did we ever have a good president?" "Um..." "I don't know." "I guess most of them have just been, like, totally corrupt." "MR. LEWIS:" "Lisa?" "Can I just say that I'm not necessarily, like, a big fan of all the presidents of the United States, especially the current one." "But I still don't think it's necessarily all that useful to categorize every president as universally corrupt, because that just seems really general to me." "Especially if you're gonna judge them by the standard of whatever they're supposed to traditionally be like in some mythical version of America that probably never existed to begin with." "Lisa has raised a salient point." "(STUDENTS LAUGH)" "MAN:" "Tell him to be polite, tell him to answer the questions, and I'll arrange for his bail in the morning." "Yes." "DARREN:" "Hey, how'd you do?" "Hey, Darren." "It was fine." "Thank you so much." "So he didn't give you a hard time or anything?" "Well, he knows I'm not planning to go into mathematics or anything." "He was totally cool about it." "He's so cool." "Oh, yeah, everybody loves Mr. Aaron." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Nothing." "The man is very lovable." "What are you doing now?" "I was gonna go look for a cowboy hat." "Why?" "Because my dad is supposed to take me and my brother to this ranch in New Mexico to go horseback riding and I don't think it would be right to appear on horseback in New Mexico without the appropriate equestrian paraphernalia, Darren." "You wouldn't understand these things." "That is a definite possibility." "Anyway, thanks again." "Well, before you venture forth on your bizarre quest for a cowboy hat..." "Yes, Darren?" "What are you up to later?" "Like tonight." "I don't know." "You wanna go to a movie?" "What, you mean, like on a date?" "No, not on a date, just go to a movie." "I don't know if it's a fucking date!" "All right." "Calm down." "What do you wanna see?" "I don't know, I don't even know what's playing." "I don't know if it's a date." "Let's just forget about it." "I hate the fucking' movies anyway." "They're just bullshit." "They're all bullshit!" "Okay, take it easy." "I'm sorry." "I was just asking!" "What if it was a date, anyway?" "Would that be so horrendous?" "Oh, my God." "Are you like..." "Are you asking me out?" "(DARREN MUMBLING)" "I don't know." "Are you?" "(STUTTERS) Yeah." "I mean..." "I feel like we're already really close..." "Oh, my God." "...and I think we'd be a really good match." "Well, I would definitely have to think about this." "Absolutely." "Give it some thought." "Okay." "I will." "Okay." "Why do you look like that?" "Like what?" "What do you want from me?" "Not a thing!" "AH right." "I'll see you later." "All right." "Hello!" "(TRUMPET PLAYING OUTSIDE)" "Hi." "Is Mom home?" "She went to the store." "(PLAYING PIANO)" "Hey!" "BECKY:" "What are you doing tonight?" "Nothing." "Darren wants me to go to the movies with him." "Oh, my God." "What's that about?" "(CHUCKLES) I have no idea." "(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "LISA:" "Becky, there is not a cowboy hat to be found in the entire Upper West Side." "And I am very depressed about it." "BECKY ON PHONE:" "The Upper West Side is saving you from yourself because no one wants to see you in that hat." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Where'd you get..." "How you doin'?" "Your hat!" "What?" "(MUFFLED) Where'd you get your cowboy hat?" "What?" "What are you, crazy?" "Hi." "Where'd you get your cowboy hat?" "My hat?" "Yeah!" "Your cowboy hat!" "You like my cowboy hat?" "Really?" "Yes!" "Where did you get it?" "(THUD) (SCREAMS)" "(BRAKES SCREECHING)" "(GROANING)" "(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "WOMAN:" "Somebody see what happen?" "MAN 1:" "Somebody call an ambulance!" "Call an ambulance." "Everybody just step back!" "I'm calling one right now!" "LISA:" "Can you hear me?" "MAN 2:" "Get an ambulance!" "Someone's calling one!" "Ma'am, can you hear me?" "Can you hear me?" "PATTERSON:" "I don't know!" "Where am I?" "LISA:" "You're on Broadway and 75th Street in New York." "Between 75th and 74th Street." "LISA:" "You were in a bad accident." "PATTERSON:" "Who are you?" "My name is Lisa." "What do you mean?" "Am I dead?" "LISA:" "No, you're not dead." "You were in a traffic accident, but you're gonna be..." "What do you mean?" "What happened'?" "You were run over by a bus." "You've got to be kidding me." "A bus?" "Yeah." "MAN 1:" "ls there a doctor anywhere?" "PATTERSON:" "Is it still happening?" "An ambulance is on its way." "LISA:" "The accident's over." "I think you're a little confused." "I'll say I'm confused." "MAN 1:" "Here." "Let me just try..." "PATTERSON:" "No!" "Don't let go!" "Ma'am!" "Don't let go of me!" "Don't let go of me." "LISA:" "I won't." "I won't." "I'm not gonna let go." "Thank you." "Thank you, honey." "She needs a tourniquet or she's going to die." "Okay, let me just..." "Oh, my God!" "(PEOPLE EXCLAIM IN SHOCK)" "Jesus Christ!" "Help!" "God, what's happening to me!" "I'm sorry." "I'm trying to put a tourniquet on you." "Ma'am, we need to get a tourniquet on you." "Do you have a belt?" "You can use your belt." "I just can't see where to do it." "LISA:" "You're gonna be all right, so just hang on." "Thank you, honey." "Just don't let go of me." "LISA:" "They're gonna put a tourniquet on you." "What do you mean?" "Are they doctors'?" "No, they're not doctors." "They were just passing by." "Well, get 'em the fuck away from me!" "MAN 1:" "Ma'am!" "Ma'am!" "We're only trying to help you!" "Never mind that!" "Just try putting it around..." "Do you wanna do it?" "You know how to do it." "You wanna do it?" "Are you kidding me!" "PATTERSON:" "I can't see anything." "Are my eyes open or closed?" "They're open." "(FRIGHTFULLY) What do you mean?" "(SOBBING) You were in a terrible accident." "But you're gonna be fine, so just hang on, okay?" "MAN 1:" "There's no place to put it." "I can't even find a..." "Will somebody call the fucking ambulance!" "Calm down!" "We already called them!" "They're obviously not coming fast enough, so maybe you should call them again!" "Why not call them again?" "(PATTERSON GASPING)" "You're gonna be..." "Could somebody..." "Could somebody call my daughter?" "Sure!" "We can call her." "What's her name?" "Just tell me her name and give me her number." "It's Lisa." "No, that's my name." "Is that your daughter's name?" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm sorry." "I'm not trying to be confusing." "My name is Lisa." "Is that your daughter's name?" "Jesus Christ, just call her!" "Would you call her?" "I can't call her if you don't give me the number." "I got it." "I got it!" "Ma'am?" "You're gonna be okay." "KID:" "You're gonna be okay!" "LISA:" "What's your daughter's number?" "Sweetie," "I don't think I'm gonna make it." "(WEEPING) Oh, no!" "Please hang on." "The ambulance is gonna be here any minute!" "So just hang on, okay?" "Please!" "MAN 1:" "It's okay." "She's gone." "LISA:" "No!" "No!" "MAN 1:" "She's gone." "LISA:" "Please let go of me!" "Please, let go of me!" "Please, let go of me!" "Just hang on." "They're gonna be here any minute, okay?" "So just hang on!" "You're gonna be okay!" "(SIREN WAILING IN THE DISTANCE)" "You were going the speed limit?" "Yeah." "Lisa?" "You're Lisa?" "I just want to ask you a few questions, okay?" "Yeah, sure." "MITCHELL:" "Now, just tell me everything you saw, even if you think it might not be important." "All right?" "Think of it like a movie." "Like you're watching' a movie in your head..." "It was green as I came to the intersection." "LISA:" "Could somebody call my mother?" "We already called your mom, but I'll have 'em put another call in to your mother right now, okay?" "I know this is hard for you, but we gotta get this while it's still fresh in your mind, okay?" "Some of these questions might seem like they don't make a lot of sense to you." "(SOBBING) They do make sense." "Just ask me!" "Okay, that's what I'm doin'." "All right?" "So now I'm gonna ask you, from where you were standing, could you see the traffic light?" "Could you tell me if it was red?" "Yellow?" "Green?" "DETECTIVE:" "She just came out of nowhere?" "MITCHELL:" "What color was the light?" "Boy, I'm sorry... (INDISTINCT)" "I..." "I guess it was green?" "Green?" "I think it was just an accident." "DETECTIVE:" "Where were you at?" "I was on Broadway." "(DOOR OPENING)" "(VIDEO GAME BEEPING)" "What happened to you?" "Nothing." "JOAN:" "Hello?" "(DOOR CLOSES)" "So, does anybody know who she was?" "I don't know." "I guess she lived around here if she had all these Fairway grocery bags." "What did they do with her leg?" "I have no fucking idea." "Hey..." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR) (DOOR OPENING)" "JOAN:" "Lisa?" "Are you sure you don't want me to call in?" "Oh, no, thanks." "I mean, thank you." "That's really sweet." "But I'm supposed to go see Becky anyway, and I don't really want to sit here thinking about it all night." "Go to work." "I'll be all right." "LISA:" "Hey." "BECKY:" "Hey, Darren." "DARREN:" "Hey." "(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)" "WOMAN:" "Joan?" "Yeah?" "You got some flowers." "Can you bring 'em in?" "JOAN:" "Oh, that's good." "I'm glad you guys liked it." "WOMAN:" "You were great." "JOAN:" "Well, we have a lot of work to do, but it'll be good." "WOMAN:" "The critics are gonna love it." "They don't even know me anymore." "Hey, are you comin' out?" "Um..." "I don't know." "I'm not sure." "Come on." "Maybe I will." "I don't know if I'm going to." "But I might." "See you later." "Bye." "Goodnight." "JOAN:" "See you later." "Hi, are you Ramon?" "Yes." "Hello." "You were wonderful again." "Oh, you're so sweet." "And thank you for the beautiful flowers." "You're very welcome." "And you've seen the show before?" "Yes, two times." "Gosh." "That's a lot!" "(CHUCKLES)" "It's a beautiful performance." "I'm sure you will have a big success." "Well, right now, we're just trying to focus on what we're doing." "I don't know if you are busy, but would you allow me to buy you a drink?" "If you like to ask your friends..." "I'm sorry." "I can't." "I'm just on my way home." "Okay, that's no problem." "Tomorrow I'm going to London for a few days." "Perhaps when I come back." "Um..." "Yeah." "Okay." "I'm sorry." "I really have to go." "Okay." "That's no problem." "Anyway, thanks again for the beautiful flowers!" "It's a privilege to meet you." "It's nice to meet you, too." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Hey." "I thought you were at the movies." "Yeah, it wasn't very good." "(IN FUNNY VOICE) I was doing a show in Detroit and this woman came backstage, and she's like, "Wanna come back" ""to my place and do some cocaine?"" "I was like, "I know the kind of pussy..."" "Why you pop in at 4:00 in the morning?" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "I'll get us thrown out." "Oh, oh." "Do the Shirley Temple!" "Come on, do the Shirley Temple." "Okay." "(SINGING AS SHIRLEY TEMPLE) ♪ On the good ship Lollipop" "♪ It's a sweet trip to the candy shop" "♪ And there you are" "♪ Happy landing on the chocolate bar" "♪ If you eat too much" "♪ Oh!" "Oh!" "You'll... ♪" "Keep going!" "That's awesome!" "VICTOR:" "Wait, what's that one?" "Do the baby." "(NORMAL VOICE) No, it's too weird." "VICTOR:" "You have to do the baby." "Some inspiration." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(IMITATES BABY CRYING)" "It's so disturbing." "I know." "It's too weird." "No, it's not." "Have another drink." "I think we can tell I've had enough." "(INAUDIBLE)" "Matthew, if you would read the role of France." "And, Anthony, why don't you read Burgundy?" "Ah, Burgundy." "And I guess I'm gonna hog the part of Lear again." "Okay, Anthony?" "Uh..." ""Royal Majesty, I crave no more" ""than what your highness offered," ""nor will you tender less."" ""Right, noble Burgundy," ""When she was dear to us, we did hold her so," ""But now her price is fall's."" "RAMON:" "My family are from Colombia." "My father worked in the diplomatic service." "Really?" "Wow." "I grew up five years in Panama and nine years in Paris." "And what do you do, Ramon?" "I have a company." "We design computer software to help companies in South American countries that use an incompatible software, so the computers can talk to each other." "It's a big problem in South America where there is not so much coordination in computer communication." "Right now is a lot of opportunity for us because for the big software companies, we are still the backwoods." "That's changing quite fast." "(RAIN PATTERING)" "Can I give you a lift?" "Oh, no, thank you, I'm just gonna grab a cab." "But thanks." "May I call you sometime?" "Okay." "Sure, that would be great." "May I have your telephone number?" "(MOANING)" "LISA:" "Mom?" "Just a minute!" "Can I come in?" "Just a second, please." "Hold on." "Come in." "Can I talk to you?" "Sure." "What's up?" "LISA:" "I'm supposed to go back to the police to confirm my statement the day after tomorrow." "So what do you think I should do?" "(SIGHS)" "Well, I don't know, sweetie." "I mean, that bus driver probably has a family to support." "He could probably lose his job." "So I think you should really think about that before you say anything." "Okay?" "Yeah." "MR. KLEIN:" "Think of the implications of what you're saying." "I'm saying what is the frame of reference for the average Arab on the street?" "Angie." "Yeah." "My mother's family is from Syria, and they're not exactly in love with the current regime." "And I definitely don't agree with a lot of their religious views, especially when it comes to the oppression of women." "But I just wanna say that Americans have no idea how much people hate them all over the world." "BECKY:" "It's pretty clear to us now, Angie." "And all my relatives in Syria think what we did in Afghanistan was terrorism, okay?" "MR. LEWIS:" "Anthony?" "Not to mention Iraq." "Syria is a theocratic military dictatorship." "No, it's not." "Sorry." "Syria is not a theocratic military dictatorship?" "I think we have a pretty good idea how much people hate us now, actually, Angie." "No, we don't." "They blew up our city, okay?" "So, yeah, I think we have a pretty good idea and personally, I don't give a shit." "You should." "The people who blew up the World Trade" "Center were a bunch of sick monsters." "Oh, they were monsters?" "Yes!" "Why, because they're Arabs?" "No, because they killed 3,000 people for no reason." "Maybe they think they had a reason!" "One at a time!" "Like what?" "ANGIE:" "Why did we drop bombs on them?" "What should we have done?" "ANGIE:" "Why did we invade Iraq ?" "BECKY:" "They declared war on us." "ANGIE:" "No, they didn't." "Iraq didn't declare war on anybody!" "They didn't do anything to us!" "MR. LEWIS:" "Come on, guys, one at a time!" "Anthony." "They did have a reason." "Thank you." "They wanted to establish a medieval" "Islamic caliphate in the Middle East and destroy Western civilization." "Where did you read that?" "It's on their website." "Okay, forget it." "Angie!" "No!" "Forget it!" "Go ahead with what you were saying!" "No!" "Why should I?" "But why are you defending someone who murdered 3,000 people?" "I'm not!" "Why are you defending a country that unilaterally invaded two Muslim countries and supports the Israeli occupation of Palestine?" "Give me a break!" "And drops bombs on women and children and then calls other people terrorists for doing the exact same thing?" "Because it's not the same thing!" "Yes, it is!" "MR. LEWIS:" "Come on, guys." "MR. KLEIN:" "Lionel!" "Go ahead." "Yeah, I just want to ask why is it okay to drop bombs on men but it's not okay to drop bombs on women and children?" "I mean, isn't that just like reverse sexism?" "I don't know." "I agree it's a bullshit term." "This is totally stupid." "MR. KLEIN:" "Monica!" "I think the whole class should apologize to Angie, actually, 'cause all she did was express her opinion about what her relatives in Syria think." "Thank you!" "And everyone started screaming at her like she was defending the Ku Klux Klan!" "They are the Ku Klux Klan!" "They throw acid in woman's faces." "Who?" "Afghanistan?" "Why not drop bombs on the Ku Klux Klan!" "Because they're white?" "Six people raised their hands before you, Lisa." "MR. LEWIS:" "Come on, guys." "ANTHONY:" "The correct term is Afghans." "Okay, I'm not even saying I disagree with you." "I'm just saying it's pathetic the way people in this class treated Angie just for saying something they didn't happen to agree with." "Because that's censorship." "Right?" "Right?" "It's not censorship!" "Right on!" "This class is not the government." "It's censorship." "Oh, my God, no, it's not!" "We work out of Highway One out in the Bronx." "Near the Bronx Zoo." "Oh, okay." "But for a situation..." "Hey, how are you doin'?" "But for something' like this, we usually find a local precinct or an apartment." "Whatever will expediate the situation most effectively." "Have a seat wherever you want." "Just pull up a chair." "According to this statement, the light was green when the bus passed through the intersection." "Yes." "So you're saying she walked against the light?" "Yeah." "It's true." "Two years of college, two years at the magazine." "Two years with you." "I'm kind of a two-year gal!" "What's funny about that?" "What did you think of the play?" "It was okay." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "LISA:" "Hi, Dad!" "Yeah!" "Hi!" "How are you?" "I'm okay." "I'm fine." "I'm just sitting here, looking at the ocean, trying' to do a little work, listening to some music." "How are you?" "I'm okay." "Are you practicing your horseback riding?" "Oh, yeah, I've really been riding a lot." "I'm getting' these really bad saddle sores." "Are you?" "(CHUCKLES) No, I'm kidding." "Yeah." "Do you know" "Claremont Stables on 89th between Columbus and Amsterdam?" "Yeah." "Well, it might be really worth your while to go over there and maybe sign up for a couple of lessons." "No..." "I'd be happy to..." "I'm sorry, what?" "I was just saying I'd be very happy to spring for it if you want to take a couple of lessons." "I think it would pay off in the end." "Thanks." "I actually may take you up on that." "Yeah, just let me know." "I appreciate that." "So, how's school?" "School's okay." "I'm kind of fucking up in geometry." "But I assume you're not torpedoing your scholarship or anything like that?" "Nope." "The scholarship's on." "Okay, good." "Well, math was never my strong suit either, so..." "I guess I'm following in your footsteps in that regard." "Well, I'm proud to hear it." "So, how are you?" "Um..." "I'm okay." "Things are okay." "They're a little slow and a little frustrating." "But there's one or two projects we're going after that seem to look promising." "And I don't know, I think it's okay." "Okay." "How's the boyfriend situation?" "Oh." "The same." "Nobody..." "They're all kind of the same." "Well, I know this is not going to go anywhere, but our next workshop is comprised, for the most part, of strapping young men of about 17 years old who, for some peculiar reason, are interested in using their brains" "to get on with their lives." "Nobody really understands why or how this happened, but if you're interested in meeting any of them when you come out next time..." "Yeah, I don't really go for the California type, but thanks." "Well, I don't either, per se." "It depends on the person, obviously." "Hard to argue with." "I think I'll stop generalizing now." "Well, that's about it on my end, sweetie." "I'll give you a call in a week or two." "Give my love to Curtis." "Okay." "Well..." "I love you." "I love you, too." "Bye." "You do know I have two kids, right?" "Yes." "I would like to meet them." "You are really smooth." "(RAMON CHUCKLES)" "I would love to meet your kids." "I have two boys myself." "I'm not smooth." "Would you like to have a nightcap?" "I just..." "I feel like we used to be really close, like, up until a few days ago, and I'm really not getting that from you anymore." "Becky, give me a break." "(BECKY SCOFFS)" "(PARTY MUSIC BLARING)" "(SNORTS)" "Now you wanna do the other nostril because you always want to be symmetrical." "Very important." "(SNORTS)" "(LAUGHS) You are so funny." "(SNORTING) symmetry" "So, what do we do now?" "Now we make out." "Paul!" "What about your girlfriend?" "I'm sorry." "It just sounded like you asked me about my girlfriend." "Oh, never mind." "(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING)" "I don't know, man." "I don't wanna get into it." "You know I really love you, right?" "Not really." "I gotta go home." "I'm just gonna head out, too." "You need a little help, I take it?" "(DARREN LAUGHS)" "(HORNS HONKING)" "(KNOCK ON DOOR)" "RAMON:" "Joan, are you all right?" "Yes, fine." "I'll be out in a sec." "Okay, we're gonna start with a few simple stretches." "I want you all to watch me first, and then you'll follow." "All right, so left arm goes up." "And then all the way over to the side, you're gonna feel a long stretch along the side of your body." "MR. AARON:" "All right." "Mr. Aaron?" "Yes, Becky..." "Lisa?" "Are you still mad at me about the test?" "What's going on, Lisa?" "LISA:" "Because maybe the bus driver is completely devastated as it is, and I'm just gonna be this rich girl who calls up the cops to ease her conscience." "What does your being rich have to do with anything?" "You know what I mean." "No, I don't." "I don't mean literally rich." "I mean rich compared to the bus driver." "Lionel?" "I'm going to need five minutes." "I just thought you wanted to know that there's a lot of people out here and it's kind of hard to breathe." "You better close that door now, Lionel." "I'm sorry, I gotta let these guys in." "I don't want to leave you hanging." "Look, if you're hurting, we could get a cup of coffee after school." "I'd do that." "(INAUDIBLE)" "(TV PLAYING)" "Hey, does this dress make me look fat?" "Um..." "A little." "Well, there's nothing I can do about it." "Where are you going?" "The opera." "Why are you going to the opera?" "Turns out he's a big opera fan." "Anyway, don't you think it sounds kind of fun?" "We should all go sometime." "No, thanks." "Why not?" "I bet you'd like it." "I don't like that kind of singing." "You like classical music." "Yes, that's true, but I don't like opera singing." "When have you ever..." "It's like their entire reason for existing is to prove how loud they can be." "I don't really find that all that interesting." "Yeah." "I know what you mean, but it's not all like that." "You like The Magic Flute." "Okay." "I guess I'm wrong." "I guess I do like opera singing." "I just didn't realize it." "What is the matter with you?" "Nothing at all." "Why are you pushing this?" "I don't want to go to the opera!" "Yes, okay." "I'm not pushing anything." "All you have say is, "No, thanks."" "I did and then you were like, "Why not?"" "So then I told you, and then you started debating me, like you assumed that I've never thought this through for myself, which I have, many times!" "Okay, well that was a really contemptuous assumption on my part." "I don't actually like the opera that much myself, but I'm trying to expand my mind, maybe that's wrong." "(JOAN SIGHS)" "I'm sorry." "I guess I'm a little nervous about you guys meeting Ramon." "Why?" "What's the big deal?" "Why are you so influenced by what Curtis and me what Curtis and I think?" "Hey, why does everything I say annoy you?" "Jesus Christ, I'm just sitting here." "Here, you be me, and say anything and I'll respond to you the way you've been responding to me this whole conversation." "Go ahead, you say something to me..." "No!" "I'm not gonna do that." "Why not?" "Because it's dumb!" "I'm horrible." "I get your point!" "Oh, okay." "Whatever." "Was that supposed to be an imitation of me?" "Mmm." "Okay, withdrawn." "Are you coming to my opening night?" "I will if I have to." "You're a little cunt, you know that?" "Yes." "You're a big cunt." "Okay, let's not start talking to each other that way." "You just called me a cunt, Mom." "I'm sorry I said that..." "Why?" "It's refreshing." "If you're saying you're not aware you've been really annoyed with me, or really irritable with me and it doesn't matter if I express it exactly accurately, because you know what I'm trying to say." "Not really." "If you're really saying that you're completely unaware of that, then I have to say I don't think you're being honest about it." "Now, maybe I'm doing something horrible to you without being aware of it, but I have a show opening in two weeks, I'm really nervous about it," "I'm seeing a new person and I'm obviously anxious about you and Curtis liking him, you were involved in this horrible, traumatic accident, you're going on this crazy horseback riding trip with your father..." "Oh, my God!" "..." "Which sounds like a recipe for disaster to me." "And on top of everything else, Lisa, ever since I told you about Ramon, you have been treating me like I'm insane." "I think you're exaggerating." "Now, what am I supposed to do?" "What am I supposed to do?" "Just stop whining about everything!" "It doesn't matter." "None of it matters at all." "You've been in a million plays, you always get freaked out because of what some dumb critic is gonna say about your dumb play." "I don't frankly give a shit about Ramon or who you're going out with this week." "I never go out with anyone." "I don't care!" "Don't talk to me like that!" "I've barely had a date for the last two years!" "Yeah, but I don't care about any of it." "It doesn't matter." "Your boyfriend doesn't matter." "Your play doesn't matter, except to you." "I don't care about New Mexico, because to tell you the truth," "I'm probably not even going." "What do you mean?" "Want to know something else, Mom?" "There are more important problems in the world than our relationship." "There is a whole city out there full of people who are dying, so who gives a shit if I like your fucking boyfriend?" "It is so trivial." "Why are you bothering me with all this?" "It doesn't matter." "(DOOR BELL RINGING)" "Well, should I have him come up now?" "(VOICE BREAKING) Or should I have him wait downstairs?" "Do whatever you want." "I don't care." "Lisa, I don't even know what we're talking about." "I know you don't." "That's the problem." "Oh, give me a break." "Everything is all right?" "Oh, yeah." "Oh." "I'm so excited to be going to the opera." "I don't think I've really gone more than one or two times." "I wish it wasn't Norma, but still it's fun to go." "What if we went to see something else instead?" "You don't want to hear Norma?" "Oh, no, I don't mean that." "I just meant, wouldn't it be funny if we walked into one of the other events?" "Like, what if we just went to see the Daniel Goldfarb play instead?" "RAMON:" "I think you will enjoy this." "(OPERA MUSIC PLAYING)" "(SINGING)" "It's beautiful." "Shh." "(PEOPLE CLAMORING ON TV)" "This is the dumbest book I've ever read." "(TV CHANNEL CHANGING)" "(TELEPHONE RINGING)" "Yo." "LISA:" "Hey, Paul." "Hey." "It's Lisa Cohen." "Yeah, how's it going?" "Okay." "What have you been up to?" "Seeing some questionable movies, and not deciding where to go to college." "Sounds good." "So, I was just thinking..." "This is gonna sound really queer, but by any chance would you want to meet somewhere and, like, take away my virginity?" "Um..." "All right." "Really?" "To what do I owe this inconceivable honor?" "Actually, it's because of my deep, passionate feelings for you, Paul." "That's pretty much what I figured." "Do you wanna give me your address?" "Oh, um..." "It's 252 West 85th Street." "Okay." "All right." "I'll be there in like a half hour, or more." "Okay." "All right." "I'll see you." "Bye." "(TELEPHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "DARREN:" "Hey." "What are you up to?" "Writing my Lear paper." "That's impressive." "Not really." "I've just never known you to be so devoted to your studies before." "So, what did you do tonight?" "Actually, Darren, I don't really feel like talking right now." "Okay." "Okay?" "Yeah." "I'll talk to you later." "Okay." "Okay, bye." "Bye." "(SOBBING)" "(DOOR BELL RINGING)" "Hey." "Hey, come in." "I think I just alienated one of your neighbors by smoking in the elevator." "Really?" "What did they say?" "She basically said there was no smoking in the elevator." "That's original." "So, this is the living room." "Very livable." "We like it." "My mom hasn't read any of these books, by the way." "Have you?" "Some of them." "Not all of them." "This book is a very cool book." "Yeah, I think The Third Reich may be a little bit too much for me right now." "It's pretty hard to put down once you get started." "Do you want anything to drink?" "I'd take a beer." "Okay, that's in the kitchen." "This is my room." "Ta-da." "Very nice." "These are some drawings I did." "Not that I should be showing them to you, because" "I know you're like a really good artist, right?" "I would like to be a really good artist." "At this point, I think it would be more accurate to say I'm good at drawing." "Yeah, I just do it for fun." "But I've always really liked it." "So, can I ask you something?" "Yes?" "This is probably gonna sound very immature, but how can you be so relaxed, knowing what we're about to do?" "Or is it just like no big deal to you?" "Okay, that was a really stupid question, and I'm totally embarrassed right now." "I'm actually more embarrassed than I've ever been in my life." "If you wanna go home now, that's totally okay." "Easy there." "Don't be embarrassed." "It's basically, like, the world's greatest activity, but it's not actually worth getting nervous about." "Yeah, I don't usually get nervous because I think it's worth it," "I usually get nervous because I can't help the way I feel." "There is that philosophy." "You are so funny." "Do you have an ashtray?" "You can just chuck it out the window." "PAUL:" "How would one just chuck it out the window?" "Oh, you just slide the little door... (WINDOW SLIDES OPEN)" "Like that?" "Yes." "Am I supposed to go really fast at the end or something?" "Yeah, but we're gonna move on before that." "Here." "Oh, oh." "You don't have to do that." "I know." "I want to." "(PANTING) But don't do that." "I'm just embarrassed." "Let me do it to you." "All right." "Uh..." "Um..." "Any general guidelines?" "Just be careful." "Okay." "Are you ready?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Now, this is a little tricky." "It's probably gonna hurt a little at first, but then it's gonna get better." "Just be patient." "There are certain technical difficulties on my end that have to be addressed, or it's not gonna happen." "Okay." "You sound insane. (LAUGHS)" "Okay, ready?" "Yeah." "Okay." "LISA:" "Mmm-hmm." "Okay, hang on." "Okay, there we go." "Does it hurt now?" "Kind of, yeah." "Okay, just try to relax." "It'll get better in a second..." "Did you bring a condom?" "Uh-huh." "Shouldn't you put it on?" "I will in a second." "This is really kind of hurting." "Okay, one second." "I love you." "What?" "Nothing." "Okay." "Hold on." "Shit." "What?" "Okay, one second." "Oh!" "Sorry." "Sorry." "(PAUL EXHALES)" "Oh!" "Sorry about that." "(PAUL PANTING)" "Kind of got away from me." "Did any of it get inside me?" "I don't know." "Yeah." "It definitely did." "Honest to God, it's probably okay." "The odds are overwhelmingly that it's okay." "(DOOR BELL RINGING)" "That's my little brother." "Hey, Curtis." "Hi." "(CHEERS IN ITALIAN)" "JOAN:" "I loved it." "It was so exciting." "But how about those people yelling "bravi" and "brave"?" "RAMON:" "How do you mean?" "Well, it's just so pretentious." ""Bravi, bravi." Why can't they just say "bravo"?" "Well, it's the plural." "It's what they say to acknowledge the ensemble." "No, I know it's correct, but don't you think there's just something a little pretentious about some of those people?" "Pretentious?" "I don't mean they didn't really enjoy it, but you know how you can be enjoying something, but you're also kind of looking around, out of the corner of your eye, because you know people are watching you enjoy it?" "Yes, but I wouldn't say that it was pretentious." "In Italian you say "bravo" for the man and "brava" for the woman, and "bravi" for the whole company." "Uh-huh." "Okay, I see what you mean." "You use the masculine for the male singer and the feminine for the female singer." "Anyway, I really enjoyed it." "Thank you." "We'll have to go again." "It was so glamorous." "(ON PHONE) Accident Investigation, Detective Mitchell." "My name is Lisa Cohen." "I was a witness in a bus accident case a few weeks ago." "Yeah, hi, Lisa." "What can I do for you?" "Well, are you allowed to tell me how to get in touch with that woman's family?" "I really wanted to send some flowers or something, or is that like classified information?" "No, the family's been notified." "Let me see what I got." "She mentioned she had a daughter." "Just hold on a second." "How are you doing, okay?" "I'm okay." "(SIGHS)" "All right, let me just..." "Okay, I don't have anything for a daughter." "The only contact I have is a cousin, Abigail Berwitz." "I got a phone number in Arizona." "Okay." "520-5555." "Mmm-hmm." "I'm trying to reach Abigail Berwitz?" "This is Abigail." "Hi." "My name is Lisa Cohen." "You don't know me." "Yes?" "Hello?" "I'm actually calling about your cousin, Monica Patterson?" "Okay?" "Um..." "I was actually there when she had..." "During the accident, I didn't know her, but I was holding her hand at the time." "Yes?" "What can I do for you?" "(PIANO PLAYING)" "Uh, um..." "Okay, well..." "I saw her obituary in the paper, but can you hold on one second?" "(SHOUTING) Can you shut up for five minutes?" "CURTIS:" "What am I supposed to do?" "I have to practice." "I don't give a shit!" "Sorry." "Um..." "I didn't see anything about a funeral." "I assume they had one." "As far as I know, they're doing something or other next week, but..." "I'm sorry, I was also wondering..." "She said something about her daughter?" "No." "She wanted someone to get in touch..." "No." "Her daughter's not alive." "She passed away quite a long time ago." "Oh, my God." "Was she sick?" "Or was it..." "She had leukemia." "Oh, my gosh." "Mmm-hmm." "And do you mind if I ask..." "Could I just interrupt?" "How did you get this number?" "This is harassment!" "I'm sorry." "I'm not trying to harass you." "I've been getting calls about this for three weeks, and I gotta tell you people," "I didn't have any kind of relationship with Monica whatsoever." "The person you should be calling is" "Emily Morrison, who was Monica's friend." "She's the person who's been dealing with all of this in New York." "It has nothing to do with me." "I'm sorry!" "I didn't really know who to contact." "Now, I can give you her number, but I would very much appreciate it if the calls would stop." "Yeah..." "Can you hold on while I get a pen?" "Yes." "All right." "Okay." "(CHILDREN SHOUTING)" "Hi, are you Lisa?" "Yes." "As most of you know," "Monica was not a religious woman." "Anybody who ever had to sit through a wedding or a funeral with her knows how she felt about formal occasions." "So Harry, Elise and I, we were talking about this, decided we would just have everyone over, and let anyone who wanted to talk about Monica, just talk about her." "Maybe share some remembrances." "Some of us know each other and some of us don't." "But we're all here..." "We're all here because we loved Monica and because we want to pay tribute to her in a way that might conceivably not enrage her." "(PEOPLE CHUCKLING)" "(SIGHS)" "Now, I don't wanna tell anyone what to think, or how to feel." "And I don't want to kid myself about the stupid, meaningless way that she died, because that would really make her throw up, but I don't want it to become the summation of her life," "because it's not." "When her Lisa died..." "When her Lisa died, I said to her, "How can you stand it?"" "And she said, "First of all, I can't." ""But I don't want to take away the 12 years she did have" ""and turn them all into leukemia, because they weren't."" "And so I do think it's important to remember that despite the fact that she got ripped off, she was the most fully developed person" "I, personally, have ever known." "She was also impossible to get along with," "(PEOPLE CHUCKLING) but that's another story." "So, now I've said my little piece." "And now I want to talk a bit about the first time we ever met." "She was..." "She was 21." "WOMAN:" "It's okay, Emily." "(SOBBING) I know." "I was 19." "Even though I realize it's impossible for my children to believe I was ever that young." "Hi, Dad." "Yeah, hi, how're you doing?" "Okay, how are you?" "I'm just sitting here listening to some music, having a delicious glass of beer." "That sounds pleasant." "Yeah." "How's everything going?" "How's the boyfriend situation?" "Well, there's this one guy I sort of had something going with, but..." "But he kind of has a girlfriend, so..." "Uh-huh." "I realize I'm incredibly enthralling." "You are." "You're very lucky." "You're a very beautiful girl, and you've got brains." "That makes you a little dangerous." "Don't forget mature." "Well, I hope you're not too mature." "No, don't worry." "Good." "That was a very good answer." "Anyway, I do think it's a pretty longstanding relationship." "Then you know what?" "You just do nothing." "Do absolutely nothing." "And I guarantee you one of two things will happen." "Either you're going to get the guy to start doing back flips to get your attention or you're going send him a crystal clear signal that if he doesn't do back flips, he's not gonna get your attention." "I think he already knows I like him." "Uh-huh?" "Okay..." "I think I might have spilled the beans on that one." "That's okay, because now, if you stop acknowledging him, if you suddenly give him nothing," "I guarantee you, the guy is going to go berserk and forget his girlfriend, unless he's just not interested." "In which case, you just gotta take your lumps, which is tough." "Okay, thanks, Dad." "I'll be sure to try out the technique next time I see him." "Well, everything's okay here." "Things are a little slow, but..." "Actually, Dad?" "Yeah?" "I actually have something kind of serious I want to ask you about." "Okay." "I'm kind soliciting people I respect for their views on this." "Okay, what's up?" "(DOG BARKING)" "Do you think I should go back to the police, or what?" "Well, first of all, I'm very glad you told me about this." "I want you to let me call my friend who's a lawyer, just so we can find out what some of the ramifications would be." "Maybe the three of us could talk on the phone and possibly..." "Hey." "Hey, babe." "Actually, Dad, please don't call anybody." "Did you get my message?" "Um..." "I got a message." "Hello?" "KARL:" "Sorry." "About the flowers for my mother?" "Just one second." "Annette just walked in." "I'm sorry." "That's okay." "Who are you talking to?" "I guess I would just like to know later that I would have done the right thing by myself, if you see what I mean, because I don't think I have so far." "Uh-huh." "Not that I'm trying to make this woman's horrible death into my own personal moral gymnasium..." "Right." "Well, that's that Shaw quote, right?" "What?" "The Shaw quote?" "That great Shaw quote." "(STAMMERS)" ""The Englishman sees the world as expressly" ""designed to be his own personal moral gymnasium."" "I think it's in one of those wonderful prefaces." "I don't know where I read it." "Who is that?" "It's Lisa." "Oh, good." "Will you please ask her..." "Anyway..." "Hold on." "I'm sorry, Lisa." "Can you hold on one second?" "Yes?" "Please ask if there's anything we don't know about that she won't eat, for the trip." "I have to call the ranch because they do all the meals ahead of time." "KARL:" "Okay, I will." "I really will." "We're just in the middle of something." "Karl, I was supposed to call them last week." "You said you were going to call her." "If I hear about this fucking ranch one more time, I'm going to blow my brains out." "I'm just in the middle of something." "I don't..." "What do you want me to do?" "Fine, but if they put anything in the baskets she can't eat, well she's not going to have anything to eat." "I will ask her..." "The last time she came out here, we went to three different restaurants and she..." "I will ask her." "We're just right in the middle of something, okay?" "Okay." "Tell her I said, "Hi."" "I will." "Okay." "Hello?" "Yes." "Hi." "Mom?" "(GASPS)" "(WATER RUNNING)" "LISA:" "Monica!" "(PANTING)" "(DOORBELL BUZZING)" "(INAUDIBLE)" "(BOY SHOUTING)" "MRS. MARETTI:" "There's somebody here to see you." "Hi." "I'm really sorry to bother you." "We never met." "I'm Lisa Cohen." "Yeah." "What can I do for you?" "Well, do you remember me from the bus accident?" "I don't know." "What's this about?" "Would it be okay if I talked to you for a minute?" "What do you want to talk about?" "(CHUCKLES) I don't understand." "I just wanna talk about the accident for a minute." "I don't want anything, and I'm not here to do anything bad." "I just wanted to talk to you about it." "Where did you get my address?" "I called information." "I was gonna call first, but..." "It would have been better." "We're about to sit down." "I don't get what..." "All right." "Let's go outside." "I'm sorry." "Could I use your bathroom?" "No, let's just go outside." "Gerry, let her use the bathroom." "I don't want her to use the bathroom." "I don't understand what this is." "It's right down the hall, honey." "Hey, will you kids settle down, please?" "I'm not kidding!" "What's the matter with you?" "Who is she?" "Some girl that was at the accident." "Nothing is the matter." "I let her use the fucking bathroom." "Who is she?" "Honey, just do me a favor and wait inside." "No, I want to hear what this is." "Look, we're just..." "Okay." "What?" "Okay." "I hope this isn't going to insult you too much." "Insult me?" "I was just wondering if you felt bad at all about what happened." "About the accident?" "Yeah." "Honey?" "Are you just upset about the accident?" "Yes!" "I'm upset about the accident." "I'm very upset about the accident." "And I wanted to talk to you about it for a minute." "Why is that so strange?" "Gerry, why don't we all go inside?" "Could I please talk to you alone?" "Okay, what is going on here?" "Nothing's going on here." "So why don't you calm down?" "Look, go ahead inside." "Let me find out what this is." "In the meantime, why don't you make sure those kids aren't killing each other, all right?" "All right." "No, you know what?" "Let 'em kill each other." "Give us all a rest." "All right, Lisa." "What?" "I just..." "Well..." "I just want you to know..." "Yes?" "What?" "Speak." "Well, you probably already know, obviously, that" "I told the police, on the police report, that I thought the whole thing was an accident." "Uh-huh." "Right." "Because it was an accident." "Well, I mean..." "I know you didn't do it on purpose." ""O" Purpose"?" "But it wasn't like..." "What?" "What?" "Speak." "What?" "Well, I mean..." "We were looking at each other." "Who was looking at each other'?" "You and me?" "Well, yeah." "I mean, not like romantically or anything." "Romantically?" "Scratch that." "That's not even relevant." "You're not coming through very clearly here." "If you could just let me..." "From my point of view, the way I remember the accident is you were wearing this cowboy hat, and I was out that day to buy a cowboy hat, so I was waving at you, because you were wearing one," "and you were kind of waving back." "And..." "I know I was distracting you, but I did see the bus go through the red light," "and that's when it hit that woman." "(SIGHS)" "Okay." "I'm getting a little confused here." "Only nobody said that to them, and I wanted to acknowledge with you that that's what happened." "I don't know what you really mean by "waving at you."" "Were you trying to catch the bus?" "No." "Yes." "But I wanted to ask you about your cowboy hat." "Maybe I was waving at you, like waving at you to say, "Step away from the bus."" "Because if the bus was in motion," "I would be waving you away for your own safety, but that's all that would be." "You don't remember looking at me and waving at me?" "Not really." "No." "Well, I think we both remember something different." "Your brother's on the phone." "Tell him I'll call him back." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "I'm not trying to get you in trouble." "I know you're not, because you can't, because I didn't do anything wrong." "There was no criminality found." "That's it." "The report is final." "So you're just gonna leave it?" "I'm gonna leave it because that's all it was." "If something else had happened," "I'd take that to whatever that was." "It was tragic." "It's a tragedy." "But there's only a certain speed that those brakes can react." "That's the physical limitation of the machine." "I don't know what else to tell you." "It's shocking." "It was a shock." "But you can't bring her back." "You cannot bring her back." "I'm not talking about bringing her back." "I'm talking about telling the accident investigators what really happened." "You already talked to them!" "I know that." "But I lied." "You lied." "I can understand if you don't want to get in trouble, but..." "Why didn't you say that right then?" "Because when they were asking me what happened it seemed like you were looking at me like we were saying to each other," ""Let's not say anything about what happened."" "Now, I really don't know what you're talking' about." "I can't prove you were doing that." "What, did I say something to you?" "(STAMMERS) Did I threaten you?" "No!" "I am not blaming you for any of this!" "All I'm saying is I didn't really tell the cops what happened, and I didn't want to go back without having spoken to you first." "But you told 'em what you saw!" "And so did I!" "Only I'm the one driving the bus!" "I'm the one behind the wheel!" "All right, Gerry, calm down." "Leave it alone." "You wanna ruin my life?" "Start telling them about looks and you waved at me and I had my cowboy hat on." "Go ahead, but you're gonna go home and you're gonna do your homework, and I'm gonna lose my job." "And who's gonna take care of my family'?" "You?" "Are you gonna do it?" "And for what?" "She's dead!" "Okay?" "She's dead!" "And there's nothing I can do to bring her back!" "I just want to say what really happened." "You do whatever you fucking' want, lady!" "But those cops are gonna laugh in your fucking face because this was not my fault!" "It was both our fault." "Don't ever say that again unless you got a fuckin' lawyer." "What's your phone number?" "Why?" "Give me your number." "No!" "Why do you want it?" "You wanna show up at my house like some anonymous person" "I can't get in touch with?" "What's your fuckin' number, Lisa Cohen!" "Gerry, take it easy." "(STAMMERS) Fine!" "It's 212-5..." "Hold on!" "Go on." "555-0157." "Why do you need it?" "You do whatever you're gonna do." "I hope you get a good lawyer." "Why are you being like this?" "This was very traumatic for him!" "Yeah, it's almost as bad as getting your leg cutoff!" "I don't understand." "(STUTTERS)" "I guess I was afraid." "I didn't know what to do." "You didn't know what to do?" "I know it doesn't sound very impressive." "Impressive!" "(SOBS)" "Okay, I know you're trying to do the right thing now." "What does your mother say?" "My mother hasn't really been that helpful." "What do you mean?" "She's got a lot going on right now and she hasn't been that interested, I guess." "What could she possibly have going on?" "Her show's opening." "What do you mean, "her show"?" "What show?" "She's in a play." "Okay." "Okay." "I'm gonna talk to a friend of mine who's a lawyer, and you're gonna go talk to the police." "Do you want me to go with you?" "No, thanks." "Do you think maybe you should ask your mother to go with you?" "I think I can handle this part myself." "VICTOR:" "She's been so suspicious lately." "I don't know how to get her into the office without..." "Now, what do you think?" "Hey!" "Let me tell you something, Eliot." "(PEOPLE CLAPPING)" "You want to fire me, go ahead and fire me." "Only don't tiptoe around me like some kind of deranged ballerina every time I see you in the fucking hall!" "Now, do you have anything to say to me, Eliot?" "Um..." "You're not fired?" "(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "Oh. (CLEARS THROAT)" "So..." "What are you guys talking about?" "(PEOPLE LAUGHING)" "MAN ON RADIO:" "A suicide bomber attempted to set off a blast Wednesday in Jerusalem." "JOAN:" "No, Lisa read it to me." "No." "I never read 'em unless I know for sure there's nothing bad in them." "WW, do you?" "Well, you're brave and stupid." "Um... (LAUGHS)" "(INCREASES VOLUME)" "Victor, I wish you wouldn't talk that way to me." "You know I'm..." "JOHN:" "Spring and Fall, to a Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins." ""Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving?" ""Leaves, like the things of man," ""You with your fresh thoughts care for, can you?" ""Ah!" "As the heart grows older" ""it will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh" ""Though worlds of wanwood leaf meal lie," ""And yet you will weep and know why." ""Now no matter, child, the name:" ""Sorrow's springs are the same." ""Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed" ""What heart heard of, ghost guessed:" ""it is the blight man was born for," ""it is Margaret you mourn for."" "Any thoughts?" "Lisa?" "Could I help you?" "Yeah, is Detective Mitchell here?" "No, he's not." "Oh." "I talked to him on Monday and he said he'd be here after 3:00." "Yeah, he's not back yet." "Could I help you with something?" "Um..." "Well, do you know when you expect him?" "What's this about?" "I was involved in an accident a few weeks ago, and I filled out a report with Detective Mitchell, but I wanted to amend the report..." "What do you mean?" "How do you want to amend it?" "There was something I didn't tell him, and I wanted to tell him because..." "I don't understand." "You wanna change your statement?" "Yes!" "Yes, I want to change my statement." "Yes." "Well, you'd usually have to talk to the investigating detective on the case." "Yes, I know." "That's why I asked to see Detective Mitchell." "Who said he'd be here now, but he's not, so..." "Do you remember the case number?" "No, sorry." "It was that woman, Monica Patterson, who got run over by the bus on Broadway." "It was in a lot of the newspapers..." "Sure, okay, sit down." "Thank you." "I..." "You know the case is closed." "I assumed it was." "But part of the reason it's closed is because of my statement, and the statement I..." "Because of your statement?" "Yes." "What do you mean it was closed because of your statement'?" "I mean, I was the..." "The DA's office closes the case." "You don't close the case." "The DA's office closes the case." "I'm sure it does." "I obviously didn't mean" "I personally closed it, like legally." "I meant what I said was probably instrumental in getting the case closed..." "What's your name, honey?" "Lisa Cohen." "Okay." "Don't call me "honey," okay?" "Okay." "Are you not gonna help me now that I've said that?" "Look, what's your name?" "Lisa Cohen!" "Okay, Lisa, first thing, you're gonna calm down." "I'm calm right now." "Okay." "Just checking." "Second thing..." "Oh." "Here he is, your knight in shining armor." "This guy giving' you a hard time?" "No." "So now you're saying' he ran the light." "Yes." "He wasn't even looking at the road." "And I was definitely trying to get his attention." "MITCHELL:" "Okay." "Well, before we do anything, Lisa, anybody will tell you that just because he ran a red light is not a criminal offense." "Even if he kills someone?" "Even if you cause an accidental death, that's right." "Now, in order for it to be a criminal offense, the law says you need two aggravating circumstances." "Like he ran a red light and he was speeding." "Or he ran a red light and..." "So he's not liable to be prosecuted for manslaughter or 2nd degree murder?" "No." "He could be charged with reckless driving, or filling out a false police report, which..." "That's no joke..." "That's unbelievable!" "What does he have to do?" "Kill her on purpose?" "Yes." "Because that's the definition of murder." "Killing' someone on purpose." "Now, you're not saying' that he ran her over on purpose." "Are you?" "Are you?" "No." "Okay, look..." "Let me take another statement." "We'll look into it, okay?" "You're kidding." "No." "I'll talk it over with my sergeant, probably pull this guy in again." "Put a little pressure on him." "We'll see what he says." "Thank you!" "(LISA AND BECKY LAUGHING)" "LISA:" "The Central Park Conservatory, or whatever it's called, put up about 500 miles of these cheap, shitty-looking fences all over the park, which is totally antithetical to what the park was originally designed for." "BECKY:" "We are so gonna miss the game." "Oh, my God, it's John!" "LISA:" "Hi, John." "BECKY:" "Hi, John." "You want some?" "(LAUGHS)" "Come on, guys." "Come on, you can't be smoking' a J on your way to a school soccer game!" "Now, come on!" "LISA:" "Sorry!" "BECKY:" "We're really sorry." "(LAUGHING CONTINUES)" "LISA:" "So, how about how he was like, "smoking' a J"?" "Like, "You can't be smoking' a J."" "BECKY:" "Like, "Everybody, let's go over to John's house and smoke a J."" "Hi, Mr. Aaron!" "Lisa, how are you?" "Pretty damn good." "How are you?" "I'm all right." "Tell me something." "Whatever happened with that situation?" "Oh, I'm working on it." "I'll tell you all about it sometime." "Hey, what kind of a bike is that?" "It's a Trek." "I'm supposed to take a horseback riding trip with my father over Christmas break and I was wondering, does it bear any resemblance to riding a bicycle?" "As far as I know, no." "But you must have ridden a lot of horses." "What makes you say that?" "Aren't you from Texas or Wyoming or some place like that?" "Some place like what?" "You know, not New York." "I'm actually from Indiana." "But don't let me overwhelm you with superfluous details." "God, so what are you doing at a New York private school teaching geometry to a bunch of over-privileged liberal Jews?" "(CHUCKLES)" "Well..." "Um..." "I came here to be a teacher, and that's what I'm doing." "So, would you say you've reached the summit of your lifelong ambition?" "Is that a real question or is that a Lisa question?" "About half and half." "In that case..." "Before you go." "I'm actually thinking about getting one of these." "Can I try it?" "Just for a second?" "All right." "Thanks." "Here, I'll adjust the seat for you." "Thank you." "Watch my bag?" "Yeah." "Oh, hi." "Where've you been?" "I didn't know if you wanted dinner." "No, thanks." "I'll order something." "Someone named Emily called." "And Detective Mitchell called from the Accident Investigation Squad." "Is that that one we met?" "What's going on?" "Did you ever go back and see him?" "I'd rather not talk about it when you have one foot out the door, if that's okay." "All right." "(CLEARS THROAT) I'm gonna go." "Have a good show." "Thank you." "Dave, Lisa." "Hi." "How are you?" "So..." "Lisa, Dave is one of my best friends." "He's a terrific lawyer, and if he doesn't know what to do himself, he'll certainly know someone we can talk to." "Okay, great." "When someone is killed, it's what's called a wrongful death suit, which is a statutory case, which means there's a statute passed by a legislature which gives you the right to bring the case." "As opposed to what?" "As opposed to common law, which is law passed by judges which is why the damages are limited." "I don't understand." "Just skip that part." "We don't care about that." "I thought we were trying to get the police to arrest this guy." "No, the police are not gonna..." "Why not?" "They told me they were gonna look into it again." "I'm just telling you that even if they do, there is no way in this world the police are gonna recommend to the DA that they charge this guy." "So, what can we do?" "I'm getting to that." "Sorry." "That's okay." "EMILY:" "That's okay, honey." "I'm just getting to that." "You can't do anything unless you're a relative..." "She didn't have any relatives, except for those idiots in Arizona." "Hang on a minute." "Or unless you're the executor of her estate..." "I am the executor of her estate." "Which is Emily." "I know." "Because the executor of her estate can bring a wrongful death suit, but the beneficiary has to be a relative." "So let me explain about that." "In a wrongful death suit you can sue for pain and suffering, pecuniary losses, loss of support or services." "Also what's called care, comfort and society." "It's like advice or counseling of the parent that the kids aren't gonna get anymore." "I don't understand." "Who are we suing?" "The bus driver?" "Well, no, because the bus driver wouldn't have any money." "You basically sue everybody and hope something sticks." "The person who pays will probably be the MTA's insurance company." "But do you think the driver would get fired?" "No." "Not necessarily." "Even if all the facts came out at the trial?" "Maybe." "I don't know." "But how much could they be liable for?" "It depends..." "How badly do you think we could ever hurt them?" "If she was alive, and in pain for an extended period of time, they give more money for that." "I'd say she was alive for 10 minutes." "Was she conscious?" "Was she awake the whole time?" "I'm sorry, Emily." "Yeah, awake." "It's okay." "Well..." "If she was in a lot of pain for that long," "I don't know, maybe 300,000, half a million dollars to get a sustainable verdict." "A brain damaged baby would be three million." "But the truth is, Lisa, when all is said and done, it's not a very good case." "Why not?" "Because it's your word against his, and because you already lied on your first deposition." "A red light case is a 50-50 proposition already." "And with only one eyewitness, with two conflicting statements?" "I wouldn't take that case." "Nobody really cares about getting a lot of money here." "I understand that, but..." "We just want this prick to suffer, and we want the bus company to take responsibility for hiring this guy." "I understand that." "But no matter how you slice it, the fact that Lisa lied on her first statement is a disaster for your lawyer." "Can't I explain why I lied the first time?" "It's not like I'm trying to get any money for myself." "That's true." "She has no financial interest, she can't be impeached for bias." "Impeached for what?" "She can't have her credibility attacked on financial grounds because the jury knows you're not gonna get any money if you win." "So that's something, isn't it?" "But do you really think we know what that means?" "I'm sorry." "That's what it's called." "But who are you talking to?" "You know we don't know what that means." "It's like you're not really concentrating." "You're not concentrating." "I don't know." "I am concentrating." "I'm just thinking out loud." "Okay." "All right." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry!" "Okay." "All right." "EMILY:" "He wasn't always a lawyer, you know." "He used to be a very nice, little boy." "(DAVE CHUCKLES)" "Anyway..." "Anyway, the whole point of this is to get..." "To fucking get this guy!" "It was to get him out from behind the wheel of a bus!" "Did she know she was dying?" "I only ask because the terror of knowing you're dying raises the damages." "I think she had a pretty good idea." "If she had lived for a couple more days it would make the case better." "Thank you." "Thanks." "I know that sounds horrible, but that's what it comes down to." "We know, Dave." "It's okay." "I would just like somebody to take responsibility for what happened." "JOHN: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods." ""They kill us for their sport."" ""As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods." ""They kill us for their sport."" "What do you make of that?" "Lisa?" "Lisa?" "I don't know." "You know what, Lisa?" "That's not good enough." "That's just not good enough." "Shakespeare wrote something." "What's your response?" "And don't tell me you don't have one, 'cause I don't buy it." "I don't really have a lot to say." "It seems pretty self-evident to me." "Matthew?" "MATTHEW:" "I think it is self-evident." "I think he's saying that human beings don't mean any more to the gods than flies do to little boys who like to torture them for fun." "As far as the gods are concerned, we're just ants." "Nothing." "Darren?" "(DEEP VOICE) Thank you, Matthew." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(NORMAL VOICE) Yeah, I agree." "Only it's not Shakespeare saying it, it's Gloucester." "Maybe another character would have a different point of view." "Okay." "That's a valid point." "Just because Shakespeare has one of his characters say something, doesn't mean he personally agrees with it." "Yes, David?" "Yeah, maybe Shakespeare isn't saying the gods don't care about us." "Maybe he's saying there's a higher consciousness that we can't see." "That the gods' perception of reality is so much more developed than ours that, compared to their perception, our perceptions are like comparing flies to boys." "Okay, I really don't think that that's what he's getting at." "What I think he's getting at here is a very dark view of the arbitrary nature of human suffering." "But maybe he's not." "Maybe he's comparing human consciousness to divine consciousness and that even though it seems to us that human suffering is just arbitrary, that's just because we're limited by our viewpoint." "Okay, I..." "I still don't think that's what he's saying." "No, like, if you say they kill us for their sport, when our perception of the gods is so meager that we can't even tell what they're doing, then how can we be so arrogant as to think" "they'd even bother to kill us for their sport?" "I don't know." "Uh..." "Monica?" "I don't think that's what he's saying at all." "I think he's saying the gods don't give a shit about human beings and that they just like to kill and torture us for fun." "But if the gods' consciousness is so much more developed than ours that we seem like flies to them, then how can we be sure what they have in mind for us or why they do anything?" "Okay, David, I think you've made your point." "But it's not what Shakespeare meant." "Scholarly opinion is pretty consistent that he's trying to say something..." "Scholarly opinion?" "...about human suffering here." "What are you saying?" "1,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong?" "No, I'm not saying that." "But I would like to move on..." "DAVID:" "Well, I think he is saying that." "Because he's comparing human consciousness to flies and he's saying we can't see the truth around us because our consciousness is undeveloped." "No, David, you're wrong." "That's not what Shakespeare meant." "He says it somewhere else in the play, but I don't want to get hung up on this, because that's not what Shakespeare meant." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "I would really like to move on." ""Poor Tom's a-cold."" "(PHONE RINGING)" "(DETECTIVE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)" "Detective Mitchell." "Oh, hi, it's Lisa Cohen calling." "Hi, Lisa, what can I do for you?" "I was just wondering whatever happened, if anything, with the case." "You said you might re-interview the bus driver." "Yes, we did." "We brought him back in." "You did?" "What happened?" "Well, he basically stuck by his original representation and that was pretty much it." "I brought it up with my sergeant, and he agreed with me that we still don't have enough to charge this guy, so there's not a lot more we can do at this point." "Well, I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but how did you ask the questions?" "Excuse me?" "He's obviously not gonna change his statement if you just ask him really politely." "Why would he?" "We already know he's a liar." "Hey, in the old days, Lisa, we'd just throw him in the back room with a rubber hose and get whatever answer we want out of him." "But, fortunately, we don't do that anymore." "Yeah, not to white people." "Excuse me?" "You don't do it to white people." "Anyway, I'm not saying you..." "Wait." "We don't do it to who?" "Oh' my God Shh!" "First of all, I don't understand why you bring this guy's race into it." "There's 40,000 cops in this city..." "Yes..." "And I hate to disillusion you, but most of them are pretty good guys just trying' to do their job." "Now, the bottom line is the DA is not gonna take this case." "Now, you could take it up with my sergeant if you want to, but he's..." "Yes, I would." "Well, I will patch you through, then." "The original decision was based on false information." "So what's the point of even bringing..." "So there's no way to appeal?" "But how do you know Detective Mitchell interrogated him aggressively enough if you weren't there?" "What's going on?" "RAMON:" "My family is all there still, but Rodrigo is studying in London," "and Hector is in Geneva." "Uh-huh." "I'm sure they will go back eventually because they will like to do something for their country." "But it's a worry." "It's very bad there now." "Yeah?" "I haven't really been following it." "It's a big mess." "Last year I helped to found an organization to work with children whose families have been killed or the parents have been kidnapped." "We try to find homes for them, preferably in Colombia, because if we lose our young people, that's it." "That's the future." "Yeah." "I wish I knew more about it." "You think Lisa would be interested in acting?" "No." "I don't." "I think she has a lot of contempt for it, actually." "Anyway, maybe it's the age." "She would prefer the world with no plays?" "No films?" "Oh." "Who knows?" "Would you like to see a picture of my mother?" "Sure." "These are all my aunts and uncles." "See?" "Big family." "Mmm." "DAVE:" "So after I talked to you guys the other day," "I called this P.I. I know to see if he could..." "You called a what?" "A what?" "(DAVE CHUCKLES)" "Private investigator, to see if he could find anything out about your bus driver." "Really?" "Yeah." "Dave!" "I can't believe you called..." "DAVE:" "Wait, let me tell you what he said." "So he calls someone he knows who used to work as a cop at the MTA." "And you know the MTA have their own police?" "The MTA police?" "They have their own uniforms..." "Yeah?" "Yeah?" "Just a minute!" "Jesus Christ!" "What the fuck do we care about the MTA police and their uniforms?" "Okay, so this guy gets a look at your guy's file." "It turns out he's had two previous accidents less than two years apart." "What?" "But that he's never been disciplined or cited, just moved around to different shifts." "Are you kidding me?" "Why does this not shock me?" "If you read the papers, you'll know that they're going through a protracted labor dispute at the MTA right now." "And according to my P.I., management doesn't want to aggravate the situation by firing this guy." "This is making me sick." "I know, but what it means, Lisa, is that we have a case." "We do?" "We can now sue for what's called "negligent retention."" "Which just means they should have known this guy was a bad risk, and they negligently retained him until, finally, he killed somebody." "You can prove that?" "Sure, because we can just subpoena their personnel records, which we already know contain damaging information." "But you wouldn't be our lawyer, right?" "No." "LISA:" "Why not?" "I'm not a personal injury litigator." "It's not his area." "I don't know enough about it." "I would lose." "But you could recommend someone?" "Sure, sure." "I know a very good guy." "His name is Russel Deutsch." "He's not a sleazebag." "Very, very experienced." "You gotta get that crazy cousin on board, she's gonna be your beneficiary." "She's not gonna want to come to New York." "I can tell you that right now." "If you win, she stands to get anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000." "She's coming to New York." "You're awesome!" "First thing we do is we file a summons and a complaint against the MTA." "They get 20 days to respond, and when they do, we can make our discovery requests." "Accident reports, personnel records, etcetera." "But now, you gotta realize, this is going to take some time." "The law says you have to have a court date within one year." "Usually it takes around six, depending." "Six years?" "Yes, depending." "Now, I mentioned to Dave," "I have a friend who writes for the Metro section of The Times." "Yes, now, if it could really happen, this changes everything in our favor." "If they think there's gonna be adverse publicity, especially in The New York Times, they're gonna want to settle right away, as soon as possible, and as quietly as possible." "So they'd make it a condition that we didn't..." "It usually works, you get the money, but you can't talk about it." "Nobody knows the terms." "So what good does that do?" "You get the money." "Is that bad?" "This is how our society punishes people for doing bad things." "By getting money from their employers' insurance companies?" "Yes." "It's called "punitive damages."" "Could we insist they fire the driver?" "As part of the settlement?" "Sure, why not?" "Is that something people do?" "Sure." "It's one of your conditions." "And you think we're gonna win?" "They're gonna settle?" "Oh, they're gonna settle." "Oh." "Hi." "I want to talk to you." "I take it that's my report card?" "It sure is." "I had a friend who used to live on this block, at 262?" "Oh." "That's so nice." "Yeah, I don't know if you know her." "Cheryl Rowan?" "She's a physiotherapist?" "No, I don't know her." "I think about 1,000 people must..." "What?" "Nothing." "Lisa says you're in a play, Joan?" "Oh, yeah." "LISA:" "It's really good, you should go see it." "Well, the play is great, and it has this really nice cast." "LISA:" "She's being modest." "She's gonna win every award in New York." "Oh, all that stuff's a long way off." "EMILY:" "I don't go to the theater very much." "No, it's just nice, because you can work a long time in the theater and play a lot of great parts and not get a lot of recognition." "And even though you don't necessarily do it for that as your primary motive, it is nice when people do notice something you've done." "Mmm-hmm." "I was on a television show a few years ago." "I'd been doing theater all my life, and suddenly all my relatives started calling to congratulate me because they thought I'd finally made it." "(CHUCKLES)" "All it was was this dumb show that paid the bills for a while." "That show was so stupid." "Well, it wasn't that bad." "Anyway, I realize this is horribly embarrassing for Lisa, but I just really wanted to meet you, Emily, because you've frankly become such a big part of Lisa's life, and I don't want to be intrusive," "but this whole court case seems to be suddenly dominating everything and I can't get Lisa to tell me anything about it." "That's not true." "Well, I can't." "I want you to know, Lisa," "I'm very, very proud of you for pursuing this the way that you have." "But I can't let you pursue it to the point where it's taking over your life or interfering with your schoolwork." "See, it's come down to a question of homework." "Lisa's on a half scholarship at her school." "I know she feels a real sense of responsibility about what happened." "Yeah, I do." "I know you do." "I know you do." "But you can't not do your homework and you can't throw away your scholarship because of it." "I'm not." "My grades slipped a little." "They'll get better." "Anyone can do their homework." "You just sit down and do it." "I've been distracted." "I'll stop." "All right." "We didn't need a big conference about it." "It's not a big conference." "(SIGHS) I just wanted to know what was going on." "And I wanted to meet Emily." "I know it's a little awkward." "Lisa?" "Do you think Emily would like to see the play'?" "I thought you could both come, and then we could go out afterwards." "All right." "Let me ask her." "Okay." "Dig in, everybody." "I was thinking about spending next year with Dad." "Oh?" "Yeah." "You're worried about my grades." "They have really good public schools in Santa Monica and if I officially lived with him, you wouldn't have to worry about my scholarship." "Have you talked to him about this?" "We've had some general discussions." "Do you want to go, too?" "CURTIS:" "Me?" "Yeah." "Do you want to move to LA, too?" "No." "Well, let me know if you do." "LISA:" "Why are you being like this?" "Why am I being like what?" "Why are you about to start crying?" "Because it's your intention to make me start crying!" "No, it's not." "You want to move to LA, move to LA." "Why can't this even be mentioned without you taking it personally?" "I'm just introducing a possibility!" "(CLATTERING)" "Here's a possibility, that you can make your own fucking dinner!" "Here's a possibility, that you can do whatever you want to do..." "Jesus Christ!" "What is with you?" "I don't care anymore, you heartless little fucking bitch!" "Keep it up!" "This really makes me want to stay here!" "You think you're so fucking perfect?" "No!" "Nice one." "Shut Up!" "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" "Let me tell you something, Eliot." "DEUTSCH:" "How would you describe the relationship overall?" "Did you talk on the phone a lot?" "Were there a lot of visits?" "I would say we talked on the phone a couple of times a month, at least." "Sometimes more than that." "I would call her, she would call me." "And what were the nature of the conversations?" "Oh, family stuff, mostly." "Her family, my kids." "She'd give you advice about your family?" "That kind of thing?" "Oh, I would say so, yes." "Do you have any phone records?" "I have all my phone bills, if that's what you mean." "I didn't record the actual conversations." "No, no." "You'll see we talked on the phone quite frequently." "Okay, terrific." "I see you came prepared." "Well, I wanted to bring everything." "Now, when they take your deposition, you're gonna say the same thing you just told me." "Just talk about the relationship." "Uh-huh." "Kind of advice she used to give." "Okay." "Now, Emily, where did you find this lawyer?" "EMILY:" "He was recommended by my friend." "I'm asking because my husband knows a real good New York lawyer and I'm not entirely comfortable with someone no one's ever heard of." "EMILY:" "My friend's heard of him." "He says he's very good." "Well, I'm sure he is." "But I have a responsibility in this situation and I would feel a whole lot more comfortable with someone who didn't just drop in out of the clear blue sky." "He didn't drop in out of the clear blue sky." "He was recommended by my friend." "But, Abigail, even if we switched lawyers, we'd still have to pay him." "It all comes out of the settlement, so it's really up to you." "No, if you all think he's good..." "I don't know whether he is or not." "My friend thinks he is." "All right." "Now, Lisa, what's your involvement in all this?" "What's your angle?" "I just wanted to..." "I was just there." "LISA:" "And that's you and Monica, obviously." "EMILY:" "Mmm-hmm." "Oh, my God, is that you?" "That's me." "Oh, my God." "Is that her daughter?" "Mmm-hmm." "God..." "So, how old was she when she died?" "Twelve." "God, I can't even imagine." "Neither could we." "Do you know Monica asked about her when she was dying?" "No, I didn't." "Yeah, I think she was confused, like," "I think she thought I was her daughter for a minute." "Then she was asking me to call her, like, to tell her what happened, you know?" "Like she didn't remember she was dead." "But, then it got confusing, because I said, "Sure, what's her name'?"" "And she said her name was Lisa." "And I said, "No, that's my name."" "I didn't realize we had the same name." "And when I found out her daughter was dead, ever since then" "I've had this really strange feeling that, some way, for those last five minutes," "I kind of was her daughter." "You know, like in some weird way, this obviously amazing woman got to be with her daughter again for a few minutes, right before she died." "And is she still inhabiting your body?" "Or did she go right back to the spirit world after it was over?" "I didn't mean she was literally inhabiting my body." "I don't believe in all that stuff at all." "I don't give a fuck what you believe in." "Oh, my God!" "Why are you so mad at me?" "Because this is not an opera!" "What?" "I said this is not an opera!" "You think I think this is an opera?" "Yes!" "Because I think it's dramatic?" "I think you're very young." "What does that have to do with anything?" "If anything, I think it means I care more than someone who's older, because this kind of thing has never happened to me before!" "No, it means you care more easily." "There's a big difference." "Only it's not you that it's happening to." "Yes, it is!" "I know I'm not the one who was run over by a bus..." "That's right, you weren't." "And you're not the one who died of leukemia and you're not the one who just died in an earthquake in Algeria!" "But you will be." "Do you understand me?" "You will be." "And it's not dramatic." "I'm well aware of that!" "This first-blush, phony deepness of yours is worth nothing." "Oh, wow." "Do you understand?" "It's not worth anything!" "Because it'll all be troweled over in a month or two." "And when you get older and you don't have a big reaction every time a dog is run over, then we'll find out what kind of a person you are!" "I'm sorry, but I didn't start this conversation and I don't play these games." "I'm not playing games!" "And don't look so outraged!" "You have every right to falsify your own life, but you have no right to falsify anybody else's." "It's what makes people into Nazis!" "And I'm sorry, but it's just a little suspicious that you're making such a big fuss about this when you didn't even know her and you're having troubles with your own mother." "Oh, my God!" "But this is my life we're talking about, 'cause it's my real friend who got killed, who I'm never going to see again, who I've known since I was 19 years old myself." "And I don't want that sucked into some adolescent self-dramatization!" "I'm not fucking dramatizing anything!" "I was there and you weren't, and if I happen to express myself a little hyperbolic ally, Emily, that's just the way I talk!" "I can't help it if my mother's an actress!" "Why are you being so fucking strident?" "(SLAMS)" ""Strident"?" "Yeah." "Okay." "You should leave." "Why?" "Because I called you strident?" "Yeah." "You should leave." "Okay, I will." "Now!" "Okay, let me get my bag!" "LISA:" "All I meant by saying you were strident is that you were being emphatic!" "I obviously misused the word." "Look it up when you get home." "Jesus Christ." "You're amazing." "Yes." "I'm amazing." "Why are you doing this?" "Lisa, I'm not doing anything." "I'm a human being." "Monica was a human being." "So was her daughter and so is your mother." "We are not supporting characters in the fascinating story of your life." "I never said or thought you were, and I really didn't mean to call you strident." "I totally misused the word." "I wasn't trying to insult you, Emily." "I really wasn't." "(WEEPING) I feel so bad about what happened and I'm trying so hard to do something about it." "I don't understand why, if I say something wrong, you can't just give me a break." "Thanks for letting me come over." "I know you don't want me here." "MR. AARON:" "It's all right." "But I didn't have anyone else to talk to." "You have always been very sympathetic to my craziness, and I may not show it all the time, but I actually really appreciate it." "It's no problem." "So..." "What's been going on?" "I just need to talk to somebody who doesn't completely misunderstand who I am." "Or not even who I am, but what's going on inside me, or all around me." "Sound confused enough?" "No, no." "Anyway, for whatever reason," "I always felt like we understood each other on some level." "Even though I'm like this mass of conflicting impulses, and you're basically the most grownup, rational man I know." "I doubt that's actually true, but thank you." "(SIGHS)" "It's just a little hot." "A little warm." "Is this all right?" "Yeah, it's fine." "Do you allow smoking in your apartment?" "You can smoke." "I like your apartment." "Thanks." "It's a sublet, actually." "Sorry." "That's okay." "This is terrible." "What is?" "What's terrible?" "I just like you so much." "Sorry." "What a moron." "Hey, Lisa." "Lisa." "I'm your friend." "And that's not gonna change." "It's not gonna change." "Thanks." "I like you so, so much." "What's it like in Indiana?" "It's okay." "MR. AARON:" "Please don't do that." "Don't do that." "I really wasn't expecting anything like this to happen." "I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to react." "Don't worry." "I'm not gonna tell anybody, if that's what you're worried about." "I totally initiated the whole thing." "Anyway, it's just sex." "You're acting like a little kid." "I'll see you in school." "You're a fuckin' idiot!" "I think teenagers should definitely rule the world because teenagers aren't corrupted by adult life yet and they're idealistic and they care." "And I know a lot of people feel that teenagers are really naive, which they are, many of them." "But they still haven't had a chance to get burned out by the disappointments and harsh realities of learning how to play the game." "So, yes, I would vote "yes."" "All right." "Lisa?" "I'm not even gonna comment on the fact that you just compared a 19-year-old Palestinian to a member of the Hitler Youth!" "That's right, because they both like to kill Jews." "Lisa!" "Hey!" "Come on, guys." "It's not because they've been occupied and humiliated and bombed out of their homes for the last 50 years?" "That's partly why they like it." "It's not like killing civilians is their last resort." "It's their first resort because it's easy and they like it." "MR. KLEIN:" "Raise your hands." "They like it?" "They're just bad people and they like it?" "Yes!" "There are bad people in the world." "I think they liked blowing up the World Trade Center!" "They kill their own sisters when they get raped!" "Who?" "It's called barbarism!" "It's practically all people do is kill each other." "If they didn't like it, they wouldn't do it." "You guys aren't the only ones in the class!" "You're not even Jewish, Lisa!" "The next person who opens their mouth without raising their hand..." "I'm fucking half Jewish, and who cares what I am?" "I'm anti-murder, not pro-Israel." "Lisa!" "You can leave!" "Fine." "Thank you." "(INAUDIBLE)" "I guess I lost my cool a little, but there is such a thing as..." "Who is running these discussions?" "But, Lisa, you have to remember, it's always easy for the dominant side to be content with the status quot." "How do you mean, Ramon?" "I mean the oppressor uses violence to maintain his position and calls it the rule of law." "But when the person underfoot uses violence to change his status, he's called a criminal and a terrorist." "And the violence of the state is called upon to put him down." "EMILY:" "I see." "And what would you like them to do?" ""They" meaning?" "The Jew oppressors." "What would you like them to do?" "I didn't use that expression." "No, you didn't." "RAMON:" "But since you ask..." "I spent the whole day arguing about this." "I didn't really mean to bring it up again." "Don't handle me." "I'm not handling you." "What did you think of the play?" "Don't bother, Mom." "And I think it's ironic in the extreme that the victims of Nazis find it essential..." "If Israelis were like Nazis there wouldn't be any Arabs left." "...to use Nazi tactics..." "That's what I've been saying!" "EMILY:" "And I'm leaving." "That seems excessive, Emily, come on." "That's the response." "That's the Jewish response." "It's the what?" "It's the Jewish response." "You don't like what I am saying or what I do, so you..." "Oh, my God!" "That's my Jewish response." "RAMON:" "That's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "That's all right." "It's a perfect little encapsule." "It's the Jewish response." "RAMON:" "Joan, I won't defend myself." "All what I meant was that was the typical response you will get from someone who will take that position that woman was taking." "If I would have said the word "Israeli" instead of the word "Jewish" "I don't think there would be a problem." "But if you want to break up with me because I used the wrong adjective..." "What I'm going to do?" "I'm not going to beg you." "(LINE RINGING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "Hi, Dad, how are you?" "Really?" "What's the matter?" "I never said I didn't want to go." "I can't get a straight answer from anybody about what they want to eat..." "Annette says she's called you four times and you haven't called her back." "The ranch seems to be putting some kind of intolerable pressure on her to choose five lunches for a five-day trip that we're not taking for a month and a half." "I talk to Curtis about it and all I get is monosyllables." "So what is the point?" "I think he's really looking forward to it." "Well, that hasn't been my impression." "I also think, Lisa, it would be a good idea if we just tabled the notion of you coming out here next year." "Things look like they're gonna start picking up for me a little bit in the fall and that means I'm not gonna be around the house all that much, and since you and Annette detest each other," "I honestly don't think that's what" "I want to come home to after a 14-hour day." "We don't detest each other." "Well, I gotta tell you, it doesn't strike me as something you seem that serious about." "Okay." "So, just tell Curtis that New Mexico's off and I'll talk to you whenever." "Okay." "All right." "What's wrong?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "ABIGAIL:" "Mr. Deutsch?" "I'm right here." "ROB:" "I had the thought, if they're willing to settle so quickly, maybe we're better off waiting a little bit, you know, ratlin' the saber a little more?" "Maybe we're cutting' our own throats here." "They are responding to the story in the paper." "ABIGAIL:" "That's just common sense." "But what you gotta understand is they're offering to settle now because they want to get the story out of the paper." "That's why Russel thinks..." "Besides, the point is not to jack up the price." "ABIGAIL:" "I'm sorry?" "ROB:" "We didn't hear that last bit." "Ladies, let me just..." "Rob." "Abigail." "Let me just finish my thought." "They are jumping at the bait right now." "But if another six months goes by, we run a serious risk of losing our momentum." "You see what I mean?" "Now I'm gonna hit them very, very hard, I guarantee it." "That's why I wanted all of us together on the phone, so we could talk about your other terms, besides the damages." "I promise you, lam gonna be very, very aggressive." "ABIGAIL:" "What other terms would there be?" "ROB:" "What do you mean, like some kind of a fund?" "A what?" "Some kind of fund for the kids?" "I don't understand what you mean by a fund." "What does he mean, "Besides the damages?"" "ABIGAIL:" "Mr. Deutsch, do you mean some kind of trust fund?" "A fund that would be set up by the bus company for our kids?" "For tax purposes?" "What fucking fund?" "These people are retarded." "ABIGAIL:" "Because I have to tell you, we have just lived through that nightmare with Monica and our children, and it was not a pleasant experience." "We just want a clean, straight..." "Damages is fine." "Lisa, I'm really proud of you!" "Thank you." "Really, really proud!" "Thank you." "So, what happens now?" "They have to figure out the terms." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "Yes?" "What do you mean!" "What's the matter?" "Yes?" "Yes." "What?" "Ramon's had a heart attack." "What?" "Is he gonna be okay?" "Quiet!" "Yes?" "Okay." "Okay, let me write that down." "(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)" "(WHISPERING) Okay, I'm really not trying to be funny, but isn't this a Jewish funeral home?" "(WHISPERING) I guess they do both." "Excuse me." "Joan?" "Yes." "Oh, you must be Rodrigo." "Oh, my God, I'm so sorry." "Rodrigo, this..." "I want to tell you, Joan, my Dad talked about you all the time." "He did?" "Yes." "Thank you for telling me that." "And, I don't know if this is appropriate..." "No, it's okay." "But..." "He went out a lot." "Do you know, the last time I spoke to him, he told me, from the moment he met you," "he knew he wanted to marry you." "Because, for the first time since he lost my mother, he finally met a woman he could really connect with." "Well, he was..." "Excuse me." "(SPEAKS IN SPANISH)" "(WOMAN SOBBING)" "Thanks for coming with me today." "I really appreciate it." "Oh, you're welcome." "I don't want to be macabre, but..." "Ramon and I were supposed to go to hear" "The Tales of Hoffman the week after next and I still have the tickets." "Would you be interested in going?" "Or should I give them away?" "It's Monday night." "We can dress up." "I'll go." "What did you make of that?" "People don't relate to each other, Mom." "They're totally disconnected." "That's what I make of it." "Well..." "I think that's kind of unfortunate that you think that, because I feel like you and I used to relate to each other really well." "I'm not trying to hurt your feelings." "It's just a general observation." "(LISA TYPING)" "Okay." "Hey, can I get a hug?" "Sure." "(SOBBING) I just feel totally at sea." "(SIGHS)" "ROB:" "Hi, Emily." "Hi, Lisa." "ABIGAIL:" "Hello." "LISA:" "Hi." "EMILY:" "Hello." "I am very pleased to be able to inform you all that I had a long meeting with the lawyer from the bus company and they have agreed to settle for $350,000." "ABIGAIL:" "What?" "Fantastic!" "ROB:" "That is just great!" "I assume this is agreeable with everybody." "ABIGAIL:" "Yes!" "ROB:" "It's just fantastic!" "But, of course, I gotta bring the offer to you, and get your approval." "ROB:" "Mr. Deutsch?" "Now," "I know there was a concern after our last call that we were jumping the gun a little bit." "ROB:" "That's okay." "ABIGAIL:" "We're only..." "Abigail." "Rob." "Could we just listen to what Russel has to say and then talk about it once he's told us the whole story and given us his recommendation?" "ROB:" "Yeah." "Yes." "Sorry." "Fire away." "I was gonna say," "I know there was a concern after our last call that we were jumping the gun a little bit." "ROB:" "Well, that's okay." "Would you let him talk, please!" "It's okay." "ABIGAIL:" "We're sorry." "ROB:" "Sorry." "I want to tell you that I think it's a very good offer." "I think they're very anxious to settle." "But I also do think that at this moment, they are under the maximum amount of pressure that we can really bring to bear, and I don't believe they're gonna come up any higher." "ABIGAIL:" "Hey, $350,000, that's nothing to sneeze at." "ROB:" "Let me just..." "I just want to introduce the thought..." "ABIGAIL:" "Can you all hear me?" "ALL:" "Yes!" "Was that everybody?" "Okay." "Emily?" "What do you think?" "I think it sounds like we should do it." "But I'd like to be..." "Okay." "If that's the vote." "ROB:" "Unless you think there's something to be gained from holding out for more." "I think that would be a big mistake." "ABIGAIL:" "Robbie, what do you think?" "Sold!" "ROB:" "Sold!" "Okay." "Now, the only downside to this as it stands, and I know this may be a serious wrinkle for all of you, is that the bus company will absolutely not discuss the removal of the driver." "What?" "What do you mean?" "ROB:" "The driver?" "Then tell them to forget it." "What do you mean?" "They won't discuss the removal of the driver?" "Ladies." "Let me finish what I was saying." "ABIGAIL:" "It's just a blast in our ears." "Let him finish." "Finish what?" "Forget it!" "Thank you." "Lisa, I want you to understand," "I pressed them very, very hard on this, but they will not discuss disciplining a company employee as part of the settlement because it could be seen as an admission of guilt on the part of the MTA." "What does giving us $300,000 mean?" "Settling out of court does not imply an admission of guilt." "It simply does not carry the same stigma." "On top of that, you may not know, Lisa, that they're currently involved in a very tricky labor dispute right now." "Yeah, we know about that!" "Just tell them to forget it." "I know that's your reaction..." "It's the only reason we're here." "ROB:" "Can lump in here?" "Russel?" "It's really not your decision." "It's Emily's decision." "Hello?" "Are you still with us?" "Hello?" "No." "ABIGAIL:" "They're not listening, Robbie." "It's not?" "EMILY:" "No!" "It's Abigail's decision, because she's the next of kin." "But she didn't even know about it!" "That doesn't matter." "ABIGAIL:" "Could we get back in this conversation, please?" "Yes." "I'm sorry." "Obviously there's some strong emotions going either way here." "Listen, Emily?" "I don't know what you're thinking, but Rob and I are thinking we should take" "Russel's recommendation while we can." "Because if they won't fire the guy, they're not gonna fire him." "And six months or a year from now..." "ROB:" "Exactly." "ABIGAIL:" "We're gonna be in a situation where we're begging them for half this much..." "The entire point of the lawsuit was to get the guy fired so he doesn't kill somebody else." "It was not to get you $350,000 you didn't know you were entitled to for somebody you didn't even like!" "And the only reason you're getting the money at all is because I started this whole fucking thing in motion!" "I'm sorry for swearing, but you should be willing to trade in all the money for getting this guy off the street!" "For getting him, Abigail!" "ABIGAIL:" "Well, I'm sorry, but I have a responsibility to Monica and I take that responsibility very seriously." "And rather than being cursed at over the telephone for having the courtesy to involve you in these discussions, Lisa," "I would hope you would be guided by our judgment." "Unless I'm wrong about that." "None of that matters." "Unless I'm wrong about that, just what is your interest in this?" "Because I'm the one who killed her!" "I'm the one who killed her, but at least I know I did it." "And that guy has no idea!" "He is wandering around blaming everybody else." "All I want is for somebody to let him know that what he did was wrong." "(WEEPING) And if they don't fire him, and all you want is the money, and the police won't do anything, then how is he gonna know he's wrong?" "You can't take the deal, Abigail!" "It wasn't to get you any money, it was because we wanted to get him fired!" "ABIGAIL:" "Well, it may not matter to you, but where I come from, $350,000 is an awful lot of money and to my mind is a positive result of all this tragedy and not just negative." "Not just getting someone fired for one mistake, no matter how bad it was." "Shove it up your ass!" "EMILY:" "Lisa!" "You sleazy fucking lawyer!" "And you're a moralistic cunt!" "MR. AARON:" "At this point, I literally have a zero-tolerance Roger policy." "BONNIE:" "Good for you." "Glad to hear I'm not the only one." "LISA:" "Hey!" "Hey, Lisa." "What's up?" "Hey, did you guys know I had an abortion last week?" "No." "I didn't know that." "Yeah, it cost $400." "BONNIE:" "Um..." "Should I..." "No, no, don't go anywhere." "Yeah, don't go anywhere." "Do you want to tell us about it?" "Yeah, I do." "Okay." "Go ahead." "Well..." "Do your parents know about this, Lisa?" "Yes." "And have you told the father, honey?" "No." "There's a couple of people it could be." "Well, I think you better tell them, whoever they are." "No." "No." "Never mind, I mean, I'm sure he's sorry, anyway, whichever one he is." "I don't see how that makes any difference, at all, if he's sorry." "That doesn't matter." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have brought this up." "Please don't tell anyone." "We're not gonna tell anyone." "But you're gonna have to tell whoever it could be." "It's okay, I..." "I gotta go..." "It doesn't matter about the father because the whole thing was my fault." "I'm sorry." "What was that?" "Mom's looking for you." "What for?" "She thinks you're going out with her tonight." "Where are we going?" "I don't know." "(CAR HONKING) Don't get run over." "Wait." "What?" "I want to see if that's him." "It's him, Mom." "That's the one." "Hey." "Well, so far it's not the greatest opera I ever heard." "What do you mean?" "It's okay." "(ORCHESTRA PLAYS OVERTURE)" "(WOMAN SINGING)"

"The style of Jeet Kune Do demands speed... accuracy and power." "Master, Master..." "Someone else is here to challenge you." "He's waiting outside." "These fools, they'll never learn." "Some tea for you, sir." "Oh, thank you." "Your tea, sir." "You're no fighter." "Catch." "It's your move." "Come on." "You dare to challenge me?" "You're lucky I'm a fair man, Or else you'd be dead." "Beat it." "Challengers are everywhere." "Everybody wants to be number one." "Then something must be cooking." "Yes, I was challenged, too." "But you beat him, of course." "Yeah." "You mean the challenge came just out of the blue?" "That's right." "Last week..." "I received a letter of challenge from a Korean master." "He said people like you and I aren't as good as our reputation." "Seems like quite a few people want to see us dead." "He said if I didn't show up for the fight... he'd do something bad to my family." "I was so intrigued by his letter, that I decided to show up." "I'm not here because of your stupid threat." "I just want to meet the man who's dumb enough to write that note." "Come on, let's get it over with." "Remember, kung fu is the art of self defense." "I'm not interested in killing." "I just want to prove how bad your kicks are." "You must be talking about yourself." "That's what we call control." "Something you may never understand." "Now my friend, listen." "You'd better hope that we never meet again." "If you dare to harm my family, you'll regret it." "Because I swear, you'll never be able to kick again." "I wonder what's behind all these challenges." "But I don't think we need to fear them." "What do you think?" "Someone may want us dead." "Let them try." "I think something will happen, something bad." "Use staves." "Power them like thunder." "A visitor." "So it is you." "It's Billy Lo." "Buddha's name be praised." "Abbot." "It's been a long time." "Forgive me." "I trust you're well." "We've much to discuss." "Abbot." "The pigeons sensed your presence." "But I'm afraid their swift departure is a bad omen." "You must take care." "I shall take your advice." "Billy, remember this," "No one is unbeatable." "It's important that your brother learns from you." "He's still making trouble?" "Since you're already here why not stay for a few days?" "Your brother would welcome it." "I know what you mean." "Bobby's a rebel." "That's why I felt that I should come and see him." "I've determined to make sure that he practices hard, work more, and I'll see that he stays clear of trouble." "Actually, he doesn't appreciate what he has here..." "The chance to learn kung fu from a master... such as you." "But if Bobby persists in being lazy, he must be punished." "Be patient with him." "He's still young and impatient." "But I know him too well." "So little training and he thinks he's good." "But to become an expert, he has to study and practice harder!" "I'm sure he will take your advice." "He's my only brother, and my father and I want him to succeed and pass on to others the benefits of kung fu." "I understand that." "I know, too, how much you care about him and his future." "But when you talk to him, don't be too mean to him." "Be sincere with him." "Make sure he understands." "And remember..." "When you were a child, you were also... always up to mischief." "You didn't study hard." "Instead you wandered the streets, stealing things." "Yes, I remember that." "I had no discipline, no principles, no respect for anybody." "You weren't even afraid of the police." "You also had that innocent look that would fool any adult... couldn't tell what that mischievous mind was up to." "Hey, you little thief!" "You're stealing my... you were also a bully." "I sure was." "What did you do that for?" "Because I don't like you." "And I hate you, too." "I'll go tell your parents." "I hope you'll get beaten." "Fortunately, you didn't know any kung fu." "You even attacked old blind men." "As a martial artist I'd never do that." "I'd forgotten I was such a terror." "My goodness...so small, and you dare to attack an old man!" "Who cares if you're old?" "Only the strong survive." "I'll kill you." "Help..." "It was only later after you had grown up..." "and moved in with your sister, that you started listening to her pleas for self-discipline." "Here, Mother wouldn't take my money." "Of course she wouldn't." "You got it by cheating at cards." "At least I didn't steal it." "I know how you feel." "You're ashamed of me." "I'm the black sheep of the family." "Everybody despises me." "I don't care what they say, Billy." "Our mother and I care about what you do to yourself." "Don't worry." "I know what I have to do from now on." "Mother, I've been wrong." "But I understand now." "I'll make sure you're proud of me." "Now it's your brother's turn." "He's still young, immature, full of his own ideas." "I'm sure he'll soon change his outlook once you have a talk with him." "I just hope that you're right." "You've never failed." "Go meet your brother." "Right." "Dear Bobby." "How are you?" "I was hoping to see you... but you were out." "I gather you're not studying or training so hard lately." "I guess I don't have to tell you... that to become an expert in the art of kung fu you must practice more." "There'll be time for girls later." "Learn all that the Abbot teaches you." "I'm leaving you my boxing manual." "In the hope that you'll find it useful." "Try to concentrate." "Don't let Father and me down." "Take care of yourself." "Bye now." "Your brother, Billy." ""Mysterious Death of Famous Japanese Martial Artist Chin Ku"" "Died too suddenly." "You haven't slept all night." "Yes, I know." "Sit down, Dad." "Too bad about Chin Ku." "Kung fu expert dies so young." "That's right." "Tell me." "Do you think that he over-trained?" "There's nothing you can do now." "Don't think too much." "Try to get some sleep." "Don't worry, father." "I won't let it bother me." "I'll attend his funeral in a few days." "And I'd like you to represent me, too." "You're not going?" "No." "I'm far too old to travel, my son." "It isn't wise." "Think Bobby ought to come along with me?" "No, I'd rather he didn't go." "He shouldn't be told of this." "But why not, father?" "It's better that we shouldn't disturb the lad." "Okay." "In that case, I'll go alone." "First thing to do is to look for his daughter." "He has a daughter?" "The truth is, she's his stepdaughter." "That's a surprise." "He sure kept that quiet." "Only his friends knew the truth." "Do you know where she lives now?" "What's her name?" "Her name's May" "I think she sings at a club in Ginza." "You'll have to make some inquiries." "Welcome, Sir." "What do you want?" "Who are you?" "I'd like to talk to you." "Talk to me?" "I don't even know you." "Don't let that bother you... because I know you." "You must be crazy!" "You're talking rubbish." "No, I'm not." "I'm Li Chun Chang." "I knew your father." "We were good friends." "Your father just died" "Aren't you ashamed of singing and enjoying yourself in here?" "Don't you feel any grief at all?" "I don't." "So, he's dead." "So what?" "Being sad won't bring him back." "You seem to have very little respect for the old man." "He never cared for me." "So I sing to make a living." "Nevertheless, you ought to respect him." "He was your father." "Some father!" "Where was he when Mother died?" "Forget the past." "You bet I will." "Nothing I can do about it now." "Just pretend it never happened." "I can't figure out why he died so suddenly?" "Chin Ku was a strong man, so full of life..." "It's strange." "I don't know much about him at all." "We hadn't been in contact for a long time." "But he came to see me last month." "If you lost contact for so long, why did he suddenly come see you?" "I don't know." "But he left a box with me." "He said to keep it safe." "What is it?" "I'm not sure." "A roll of film, I think." "Where is the film?" "Can you show it to me?" "Here!" "Inside this box." "I'm going in." "Stay here and wait for me." "I need a moment." "What do you want?" "No one's allowed in here." "I'm a good friend of Chin Ku's." "I just want to pay my last respects to him." "That's all." "I told you, no one comes in." "If you're wise, leave right now!" "Bobby, my son." "Sadly I must tell you... that your brother, Billy, is dead." "He was trying to find out why his friend Chin Ku died." "He devoted his life to the art of kung fu." "His own style of Jeet Kune Do... recorded for the benefit of everyone... in his books and manuals." "My son, after you've read this letter... go to Japan and meet up with Sherman Ian." "Find out who killed your brother." "Seek revenge." "Only then, will his soul rest in peace." "Hey, Bobby!" "Hi Sherman!" "I'm sorry I'm a bit late." "Just arrived myself." "Let's go!" "This is all your brother left." "It's a roll of film." "I think you'd better have it." "This dart is the weapon that was used to kill your brother." "Do you have any idea why they wanted to steal Chin Ku's coffin?" "I've no idea." "It's a mystery to me." "It's all very strange." "I don't understand." "There must have been a reason." "But what?" "Anyway, I'll take you to our master." "He's waiting for you..." "Sherman, I'm going to get my revenge." "Of course, we'll help you all we can." "But you need to think it through carefully." "What's this place?" "The Palace of Death." "Who's that foreigner?" "That's Lewis." "Master of the palace." "Who's that guy?" "That's Lewis' valet." "Oh, Chin Ku..." "What's he doing there?" "Well, he was Lewis' guest." "They look like great friends." "The valet's lost an arm." "He doesn't look handicapped, though." "He's very loyal to Lewis." "Never leaves his side for a minute." "What's Chin Ku doing...teaching Lewis kung fu?" "Seems that Lewis is interested in kung fu for the purpose of killing." "Seems to enjoy it." "The man is mad!" "It's strange...that Palace of Death." "I think I'm going to check it out." "Forget Lewis." "His kung fu's not that hot." "The Death Palace is a death trap." "No one ever leaves that place alive!" "So please, be very careful." "Master, there's a Bobby Lo to see you." "Bobby Lo?" "Could he be Billy Io's brother?" "I wonder what that little punk wants with me?" "Tell the valet to show him in." "Right." "Maybe it's about Billy's death." "So you are Mr. Bobby Lo." "Welcome." "I suppose you're Billy Io's younger brother." "That's right." "I hear the Palace of Death really lives up to its name." "They say no one leaves here alive, like I walk into the valley of death." "Not true." "They're just vicious rumors." "You know what people are like." "People tell me you were a very good friend of Chin Ku." "Yeah, his kung fu is excellent." "I respect him." "Perhaps even jealous of him." "What are you trying to suggest?" "Chin Ku did spend some time here before, but I have nothing to do with his death." "Is that right?" "Anyway, that's over, Let's forget it." "Since you had the guts to come here, let me show you around." "I think you'll find it interesting." "I'm sure it'll be an experience." "The pleasure's all mine." "I'm impressed with your manners." "Now, let's see if you have courage." "Come on, I'm sure you'll find it fascinating." "Now, look over there." "I keep a lot of specially trained peacocks." "They obey my every command." "Peacocks obeying your command?" "That's quite remarkable." "Exactly." "It takes a lot of training." "It's quite fantastic, isn't it?" "Look at that." "Yeah." "They're really big lions." "God, I'm frightened!" "There are so many of them." "They had them all imported from Africa." "I selected the biggest and best of their breed." "They have enormous appetites." "And their favorite food is fresh, juicy, raw human meat." "They all eat a lot, bones and all." "Anyone who comes to challenge me, and then loses ends up as dinner for the lions." "My challengers all try to act very tough." "But not for long." "I'm not surprised they're scared." "I certainly hope I won't end up as their dinner tonight." "Don't worry, friend." "You won't." "What are we waiting for then?" "Come on." "Let's go. come on, ok?" "The lion is truly King of all beasts." "They're the fastest and most powerful of all." "A good martial artist should have the speed and power of a lion." "Especially when fighting his enemies, he should be ruthless like the lion, a killer!" "Why do you keep the peacocks?" "I like the way they move." "So swift and so sure." "Martial artists should be fierce like a lion... and swift like a peacock... so I study their styles." "An interesting theory." "Sir, two men claiming to be the Yen brothers want to challenge you." "Those two stupid fools!" "There are no match for me!" "All right Sun, take them to the cemetery first." "Let them look around." "May be then they'll change their minds." "Sir." "See." "These are the gravestones of my master's challengers." "I'm afraid you'll be joining them very soon." "I'd leave now if I were you." "Unless you want to die young." "You can't make us change our minds." "We're not afraid of him!" "Call him out here." "It's rather late." "What are you doing?" "Somebody has just attacked me." "Someone attacked you?" "No way." "No one would dare to." "I just fought him off." "Take it easy." "We'll talk tomorrow." "Morning!" "So you're an early riser, too." "Have a seat." "I hope I'm not interrupting your breakfast?" "Of course not." "Why not join me?" "Great meal." "This is raw venison." "Deer's blood." "Why not have some with me?" "No, thanks." "Not my idea of a nice breakfast." "About last night." "Were you serious about that attack?" "Don't worry." "It was all my fault." "I really shouldn't have been out late anyway." "There's nothing to stop you." "You are my guest." "Lewis." "I know you mean me no harm... but I'm certain that someone here is plotting to kill you." "Really?" "Who would dare to do that?" "What about your staff?" "Did you suspect any of them?" "Tell me...why did you employ your valet?" "Has he always been handicapped?" "Why ask about him?" "There's something strange about him." "The fact is I suspect him." "He's been with me for years." "He used to be a monk." "A monk?" "Yes, for the Fan Yu Temple." "I was sorry for him." "I hired him." "Where is the Fan Yu Temple?" "Quite near here." "There's rumor to be a Tower of Death." "But then, no one has ever seen this tower." "Why is that?" "Well, people say hundreds of years ago..." "An abbot called Hung Kuang built the tower under the ground." "Excuse me, mister." "Please leave us for a moment." "I have something to discuss with Master." "Hey, who are you?" "My name is Angel." "Lewis asked me to come to keep you company." "A drink?" "No, thanks." "Don't touch it." "Something else?" "A rest." "I'm tired." "Want to kill me?" "Everyone, quick!" "Master's been murdered!" "He's been with me for years." "He was a monk before then." "A monk?" "Yes, in the Fan Yu Temple" "Felt sorry for him." "I hired him." "People say that hundreds of years ago... an abbot called Hung Kuang built the tower of death. under the ground." "Lewis asked me to keep you company." "Do you want to kill me?" "Why did you kill Lewis?" "What do you gain by it?" "Funny way of being grateful!" "You killed Chin Ku, didn't you..." "but you tried to frame Lewis." "What do you achieve by doing that?" "And you're the one who attacked me, aren't you?" "Where is the Tower of Death?" "Don't try to play dumb with me." "I'll take a handicap." "Just one hand." "Even fairer, no hands." "Now where's the Tower of Death?" "Take me there." "Better speak up." "I'm tired of playing games with you." "Start talking or I'll tear you apart." "Now where's the tower?" "You can go to hell!" "Cause I'm not afraid of you." "I hate to tell you that hand will do you no good." "Hey, who are you?" "Me?" "Jack the Ripper." "You're still alive." "Of course, I'm alive." "No one can defeat me." "But why did you pretend to be dead?" "You're asking too many questions." "I'll let you go since you're Billy Io's brother." "Get out while you can." "It's your last chance." "I'm not leaving here till I know the truth!" "Bobby Lo, you'd better stay out of this." "Now get out before I change my mind." "My brother died for you." "He tried to prevent someone from stealing your coffin, and you had him killed!" "You're nowhere near to the truth, kid." "I had nothing to do with his death." "He was my good friend." "Why should I kill him?" "I'm sorry." "He brought it on himself." "I might be a kung fu expert but I need cash." "Drug trafficking was my answer." "Now I can live in luxury forever." "So you've been in this drug business for some time." "That's correct, my boy." "I really had to work hard to get where I am." "You see there's a lot of competition." "That's why I won't let anything stand in my way." "If you value your life, you'd better leave right now." "First tell me why you used the chopper... to steal your own coffin." "Many people know that" "I'm in this business." "I wanted to shake Interpol off my trail." "I was afraid they'd check the coffin." "Now, they have no evidence." "You won't get away with this!" "Cause I intend to take revenge for my brother!" "Take revenge." "You're not good enough." "You'll never defeat me." "And now I'll be more than happy to let you join your brother." "You've asked for it, kid." "It takes more than that to fight me." "Chin Ku's deadly sword." "I'll have to use Billy's Jeet Kune Do style."

"CULTURE GIVES ME A HARD-ON" "What do you think?" "You hate it and you think it sucks." "It blows." "You think it fucking blows." "Awesome!" "So you think it's awesome." "Fuck yeah!" "Yes sir." "Hi!" "I'm number seven." "My name is Simón Holgado." "I'm 23 and, well, I guess you have my head shot and resume there." "That's fine Simón." "Now imagine she's the girl of your dreams." "And you're going to improvise a romantic scene." "You know, a summer night, moonlight and all that." "Blanca will follow your lead and respond if necessary." "Got it?" "You can start whenever." "So what you're saying is I'm on my own now?" "Ok, not a problem." "Just give me a sec." "To concentrate, ok?" "Another method actor." "How can I put into words all this passion that I feel inside?" "How can I forget that it was on a night like this one, with the same moon up above, that our hearts finally came together and began to beat as one?" "That was a long time ago, more than a year spent trying to silence that deepest desire." "And today I wonder:" "Do you still love me?" "How can you have any doubts when my body and soul, my very self, longs to be one with you?" "That's it!" "That's exactly what I was getting at!" "Because in all this time, all this talk about the coming together of bodies, more like the coming together of nothing." "And the spiritual part is ok." "But the physical is so important." "And I need to put out this inner fire by caressing you, possessing you, penetrating you." "I want you to take me to the paroxysm of pleasure." "I want you to get me drunk on sex." "I want..." "I want you to suck my dick!" "A genius." "The man's a genius." "Covered in dark chocolate, slivered almonds..." "Baked fresh by our very own pastry chef, a true work of art for only 45 euros." "And how much for this other one?" "Industrial cake making." "A much poorer example." "Glucose gelatin frosting on top of lady fingers." "High in cholesterol, saturated fats, acidifiers, artificial coloring E-150 and soy lecithin flavoring: 14.80 euros." " Like I said, a lesser cake." " At least it doesn't have preservatives." "Yes, those too:" "E-338, 345 and 331, the colon cancer special." "Sounds delicious." "Of course, there's the price." "We're talking about Art versus imitation," "Man versus the machine." "So, which will it be?" " That one." " That one." "Ok, so we're going in?" "It's for sure, right?" "Now, this very morning." "Friend." "Ok, understood." "Yeah, yeah." "Yes." "Yes, at this hour there'll be a big group." " I'll be with them, of course." " Watch good, waterproof." "And cheap for you." "Twenty euros." "No, they're not expecting anything." "Fifteen?" "Chief, present for you, friend, present from me to you." "Goodbye chief." "Eviction notices?" "They have them, only they use them to wipe their asses." "Give me back my keys." "You don't understand." "My hands are tied." "Oh really?" "I hadn't noticed them tied in bed." "The keys." "As long as there aren't any changes in programming we can't do anything and you know it." "No, the only thing I know is that we had a very simple agreement:" "You got in my panties and I got on the midday news." "And since I'm not presenting the news, you're not presenting yourself in my house." "The keys." "You know something?" "I think I'm going to give them to Valdés." "I've noticed that every time I cross my legs," " his wires cross." " To that pig!" "And why not, he's from the same pigsty as you?" "Plus, he's the "honey baked ham" of this station and you, my dear, are nothing more than "spam"." "I'll get him to ask me out for dinner and get him eating out of the palm of my hand with some black stockings, some sexy lingerie and a tight little dress." "So I'll have to go shopping this afternoon." "And, if you don't mind, I'll ask your wife to come with me." "It's so boring going from store to store alone." "What are you saying?" "Don't even think about it!" "You wouldn't do that to me, would you?" "All set." "We can go whenever you're ready." "The only role I'm going to be doing is rolling a joint." "The third millennium and these losers are stuck in Romeo and Juliet!" "It's not about tender looks and drippy phrases anymore, right?" "Forget about them, man!" "What they need to understand avant-garde romanticism is to catch a mean case of crabs." "Let's move." "That bite their balls little by little with their hands tied so they can't scratch, itching like a motherfucker!" "No." "They're going to shit themselves, though literally." "When they realize their helmet's gone." "You "socialized" the director's helmet!" "But what for, we don't have a motorcycle?" " To give it to Grandpa." "Grandpa's gift." " That's perfect!" "Grandpa as a biker." "Wow, Grandpa, this is unbelievable, you're so good-Iooking in this one." "Come on, I'm sure back then you got all the women." "What are you talking about!" "Why do you think I joined the Communists?" "To fuck the Republicans!" "Because... the Nationalist women, good-Iooking yes, better built and better fed, but... with all those masses and communions... mortal sin!" "And no hanky panky." "That's enough, Vero!" "Enough of this mystery and bullshit, you have me locked in here, and without my breakfast!" "No, Grandpa." "Wait just one second." "And all of those stories about the militia women being so liberated?" "Because not everyone is the same." "I'm sure that some of them weren't up for it." "No way!" "What else are you going to do in the trenches for months on end." "No food, freezing cold, and not knowing if you'll be alive the next day and without television." "You did it there?" "With all those people, in the mud, and without any privacy?" "My God!" "Verónica!" "It's like everything else in Spain, girl." "Everyone watching and only one person working." "Wow, Grandpa, she's so pretty." " Is she one of them?" " Bring that here." "She is... different:" "Irina, from the international brigades." "A different breed." "Not the same at all." "So what happened?" "She left for Moscow and I never saw her again, ever." "But were you lovers?" "One second, Vero." "Didn't you tell me that you were a virgin?" "Then what's with all the interest in my leftist sexual activities?" "No Grandpa, it's the truth." "I still haven't slept with anyone." "But that doesn't mean that I don't like guys." "I don't know, it's something else." "Like you say." "Yeah, I know." "Not only are you thin, you're also narrow minded." "Is that it?" "No, Grandpa, it's just that for a woman the first time is really important, and if you have a bad experience then your karma suffers the consequences and it brings you bad luck." "And then gives bad vibes to the whole next generation." "Do you understand me now, Grandpa?" "No." "But it is so simple, Grandpa." "It's all about finding a parallel karma complementary to your own and then coinciding in the perfect cosmic moment, that's all." "Now just between us, what the hell kind of drugs are you on?" "Me?" "Finally!" "It's about time, don't you think?" " After you, Grandpa." " What were you up to?" "A coffee, I need a coffee, right now." " Quickly, a hot coffee!" " Fresh made." "And give me that, joints kill!" "Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Grandpa, happy birthday to you." "To hell with happy birthday!" "Knock on wood!" "This looks like a wake!" "But Grandpa, 90 years means 90 candles." "Since they didn't all fit on one cake, we had to put them somewhere." "Come on, don't act so tough, today is your day." "Here." "A gift from all of us." "But you shouldn't have troubled." "At my age, I don't know, it would've been enough to just..." "A helmet." "A helmet?" "You're gift is a helmet?" "Take it easy, Grandpa." "Of course it's a helmet." "Have you gone blind too at your age?" "Now you can drive your wheelchair without getting a ticket." "Also, this is a special helmet." "Imagine you are going down the street and you have to take a dump." "You turn it over and use it as a bedpan." "And what's more:" "Frontal drainage, like washing machines." "Cool, huh?" "And that's not everything." "Goyita, the master of spray-paint, has something awesome to show you." "What are you guys trying to do, ruin my day?" "This is "The Last Supper"... and I'm Jesus!" "Erase it!" "Erase it, everything!" "Come on, Grandpa." "Now the most important thing is your wish." "Make a wish before you blow out the candles." "Blow out the candles?" "All of them?" "Me?" "No, not me, I'm ninety years old." "And a lifelong smoker." "I would blow my guts out more likely." "Ok, let's do something." "First, just concentrate." "Think only about your wish and we'll project all of our energy towards making it come true." "Then try to blow out the candles on the cake." "And we'll blow out the rest." " Ok?" " Ok." "Concentrate on your wish." "Are you making a wish?" " Yes, yes." " Ok." "On the count of three, we'll all blow them out." "One, two, three!" "We are currently witnessing a brutal police retaliation in response to the violent reaction of the squatters!" "Get this!" "Get this!" "Wait, I am..." "I am..." "We have with us one of the survivors of this eviction." "How does it feel to be the victim of police brutality?" "Well, I'm not really part of the group." "I just came here with Simón." "Fuck, it hurts." "How do you think it feels when they're beating the shit out of you?" "At least there used to be a dialogue with the cops:" ""Why have you come to fuck with us today?"" "They would respond:" ""Our job is to get you out however we can"." "And you could understand that." "And then all hell would break loose." "Don't you think that in the end it's the same old story?" "Rebelling against authority." "Anarchy versus order." "I don't know," "We don't hurt anyone." "And if you think that these pigs represent order" "I can assure you that they give beatings without taking names." " You!" " You!" "It is very, very important that we give you the glamour of an American presidential election." "Osvaldo Ballesteros, the perfect president:" "A cultured and attractive "moderate" socialist, and the father of a model son." "At the head of the PCP, the new Popular Castrist Party." "Of course in these cases, merchandizing is of vital importance:" "Stickers, buttons, maracas, baseball caps and... the King." "What?" "What do you think?" "Wait a second, what happened to my sideburns?" "Yes?" "Dear Ambassador!" "Everything ok, Mister Patrick." "My English?" "Perfect, yes, yes." "No, no, no." "Commander Fidel still hasn't spoken." "But this time he will announce it for sure." "Excuse me, Mr. Osvaldo." "Cuban television is going to emit a statement from the Commander right now." "Just to let you know." "Well dammit, don't just stand there, turn it on." "No, no, no." "I didn't mean you, Mister Patrick." "Néstor?" "Don't worry, a very big patriot and national boxing hero, right Néstor?" "Madison Square Garden, packed to the rafters, tenth round." "Nestor Cienfuegos in the ring with the very same "Kasius Klein"" "and he throws him a straight left." "Glorious fight." "Lost." "Gringo bastards." "No, no, of course, Mister Patrick." "Of course I wasn't talking about you." "What are you waiting for?" "Go and get some rum for a little drink with my fiends here." "You know which one." "Mister Patrick." "Thank you, thank you." "AMBASSADOR" "Yes, yes, of course, of course, Mister Patrick." "When I am elected president everything will be fine and we'll do a lot of business together." "Now don't forget." "You know that the American people and the Cuban people have always been indebted to one another." "Of course, of course..." "And remember, for the time being not to mention this." "Of course, don't worry about anything." "This matter has my utmost discretion." "Ok, so that all our viewers can understand, tell us, what did this building mean to you?" "Well, it meant everything." "Because it was an empty and unused building that we converted into a self-sufficient and alternative cultural space." "We made something where there wasn't anything and you could ask people from the neighborhood." "They're grateful." "When we organize a concert or something, they attend and have a good time and it's cool, know what I mean?" "It's not like those girlfriends that just leave you gutted." "Or that won't screw you because they're with someone else." "When a guy gives himself to a cause it's like when he falls for some heartless bitch." "You give your all, you take care of her and, when you least expect it, you wake up one day in the fucking street looking like an asshole." "And no word from you since." "What's this idiot saying?" "Sign off and lets go." "The studio called and we're going to the Cuban Embassy." "Come on, come on." "And later on you're still so messed up." "Do you have some kind of explanation for all this?" "Let's hear it." "Why, eh?" "Why?" "And there you have it, why?" "That is the question that we must all ask, why?" "Cristina Melero for Canal On." "Signing off and we're out of here." "It was great to see you again, but I'm kind of in a hurry." "And you're going to leave me..." "leave "us" just like that?" "I'm not done!" "What do you want me to do?" "You know how it is." "We go where the story is." "And when one is aired it's on to the next, Chuso!" "You're already yesterday's news." "Grandpa turned 90 today, 90 years of action and radical protest." "Grandpa's birthday!" "What a touching exclusive!" "And he's a squatter like us, and an anarchist and a defender of the Third World and gay collectives." "No, not them." "Ah, no?" "And why not?" "What a bitch." "So we're not news anymore..." "Not good, you try take glasses." "You want glasses, you pay ten euros." "Hey, hey, easy." "I was only going to try them on." "Good." "Try glasses, good." "Glass no break." "No break." "Ten euros." "Ten euros?" "And you're sure they won't break?" "No break." "Well, let's see if you're trying to cheat me." "And now what?" "How much are they worth now?" "Half five and half five, ten euros." "You break on purpose!" "Come on, come on, get going." "Come on guys, everyone in the van, I have an idea." "Let's go!" "What are you up to now?" "To give those TV guys hell until they notice us." "Now I get it." "And if you get a piece of ass from that reporter girl, well, even better!" "Because the two of you have some history goin' on and I want to hear what it is." "Broke glass." "Eh, scarf, scarf, scarf!" "Has stole scarf!" "Has stole scarf!" "Has stole scarf!" "Come on, come on!" "Get in!" "Go, Chuso, go!" "I don't get it, first you send me to that shit-hole and now you want me to land an exclusive interview with the Cuban Ambassador." "I owe you one." "And you're the best, the most prepared..." "The only one available, don't bother." "Now to the point; what's this about?" "Fidel showed up in the middle of the night at the Cuban television station to record a surprise statement." " The way he likes to, you know." " Yeah, I know." "And what did he say?" "No idea." "Nobody knows anything." "There haven't been any leaks and the strangest thing..." "Our brakes don't work and I don't even have a driver's license." "Is that story enough for you?" " Only if you crash." " Fine!" "Don't go too far 'cause you're gonna get one." "NIGHTSTICKS ENGLISH FOR POLICE OFFICERS" "Repeat." "Hey kid, put your hands over your head." "That's it." "Assholes!" "Those guys are crazy!" "Chuso, stop!" "What are you doing?" "Right!" "That's it!" "Stop or..." "Stop or I'll shoot you." "We are here in front of the Cuban Embassy, anxiously waiting to find out the contents of the surprise statement made by the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, on Cuban television." "Contrary to other occasions, this time we do not know..." "Shit!" "It looks like it has brakes after all." "Only problem is it's still making that noise." "Oh well, could be worse." "We're not bothering you are we?" " Name." " Martín Martínez Cabrera." "Purpose of your trip?" "Business." "Sir, no one's going to swallow that guava." "I'll put "Business" here or whatever you want." "But don't you forget to bring a big ole bag of condoms, 'cause they're expensive and not so easy to get there." "Condoms?" "But I'm not going for..." "Nothing." "Only business." "Of course." "It says here nice and clear:" ""Profession:" "Radiator Salesman."" "That's good business, selling heaters in Cuba." "What do you want?" "Don't we look toasted enough?" "Huge ladies man is what you are." "Don't try to play it off, I can see it all." "I'm a santera." "Omo-Yemayá, my love." "Santera?" "Well, how nice, no?" "Fellow Cubans:" "I am here today to bring you a message of optimism and compromise for the future." "That same future that those who have imposed an asphyxiating embargo since the revolution in 1959 have been trying to deny us." "All his life in power and no one has ever told him that olive green is not his color." "And all this, because we haven't accepted either the madness of neo-liberalism or the fierce capitalism that they propose." "All because we haven't given in to the idea of seeing our beloved Old Havana with a McDonald's on every corner" "and certainly because we didn't want to call our Salsbury steaks "hamburgers"." "Thank you, comrade Raúl." "Thank you, comrade Ventura." "He said Ventura!" "He knows my name!" "He knows what my name is!" "He knows everything." "And the heroic Cuban people, who have resisted with honor, who have never compromised their convictions," "who have been unjustly accused of being a people without freedom," "Today, these heroic people stand ready and committed to initiating our process of revolutionary rectification." "And in order to carry out this process, this process of... of..." ""Fidel's Speeches"." "A model for clumsy political speaking." "... of revolutionary rectification..." "Say it, dammit!" "...is the reason why..." " Go on already, say it!" "... we have decided to... to announce free elections in Cuba!" "To Victory." "Always!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Ok!" "We'll see each other in the elections." "To victory!" "Barbatruco!" "Azúcar!" "Let me be the first to congratulate you, "Mr. President"." "Not yet, not yet." ""Future"." ""Future President"." "It's not the end of the world." "Even though there are elections doesn't mean we have to vote." "Now you listen to me." "If the Commander says that there are going to be free and democratic elections, then we all have to vote!" "And those who don't vote will be thrown in jail!" "And we hope to be able to offer you the first statements of the Cuban Ambassador after Fidel Castro's unexpected speech announcing the holding..." " That could have killed me!" " Are you ok?" " But Grandpa..." " That was awesome, Grandpa!" " What are you doing, Goyita?" " Outlining the body." "There they are!" " The brakes don't work!" " We've got them now." " The brakes don't work!" " They don't?" "Fuck, the van!" "Comrade, this is complete mayhem!" "I'm going to see what I can do!" "You're in for it, you little shits!" "Stop or I'll shoot!" "Well, well, well, like a boat of illegals!" "To the embassy!" "Go get an interview with the ambassador, the spokesperson, or whoever the fuck," " but do it now!" " Of course, shit!" "To the embassy, guys, the cops can't go in there!" "Goddammit, this fucking holster!" "Let me see your documentation!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Go back, go back!" "This is an invasion of Cuban territory!" "To hell with freedom of expression!" "Ok, we did get a little carried away with you out there," " but fuck, let's talk!" " Get lost, Chuso." "The ambassador?" "Upstairs in his office." "But he's in a meeting." "Stop, dammit!" "You're not going up" " by pushing and shoving like that." " Not even God himself's getting past me." "What are you saying?" "God doesn't exist, idiot." "Maybe you haven't heard of freedom of information but, if Castro wants a democratic Cuba," " you'll have to get used to it." " Well said, miss." "Because in the new Cuban state, freedom of expression will be in the grasp of all citizens." "We are done with the age of silence." "We are done with repression." " We are done with the lies!" " We are done with the interview." "Comrade ambassador, you know that we cannot comment on anything until we have received instructions from Havana." "RaúI, you are such a numbskull!" "These formalities are getting boring already!" "No." "And let me remind you that they are not formalities, they are orders, comrade." "And you, Néstor, guard the door and don't let anyone in or out." "What does it mean to you to have free elections in Cuba?" "Great question!" "That's enough!" "How do you think he feels if he's never voted in his life?" "Don't worry, just do your thing, go guard the door." "Do you think this news will affect daily life in Cuba?" "You heard Commissioner RaúI, miss." "I can only say that the Cuban people" " have been, are, and forever will be..." " Cuban." "Right?" " Or not..." " So you work at the embassy?" " No." "I just came to get a visa." " Is the trip for business or pleasure?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Business, business." "Of course, a great fucking business!" "Yeah, like trade a couple of stockings for a couple of suckings!" "No." "What's with everyone?" "Only business." "And are you also a santero?" "That's enough!" "They threw you out, so you know, one eviction means another occupation, so why don't you all just go to hell?" "Look for a toilet, get in, you can make your little demands and I can do my job!" "It turns me on when you get angry." "And me." "I'm getting heated up too." "So the reporter turns you on too." "Eh, Grandpa?" "No, it's not that, man!" "It has nothing to do with that." "Heated up, of course I'm heated up." "I'm mad." "It makes me so mad." " But she's right." " About what?" " About ignoring us?" " Well yes." "Yes she's right, we look like a big squad of idiotic assholes." "First of all, they give us a beating in one place, then we run somewhere else following the television crew, it was a fucking miracle that we didn't get killed in the van, by the grace of God." "We almost run over a ton of people and two cops who later want to shoot us." "Then we don't have any better idea than to run into the Cuban Embassy so that they can take us prisoner." "Shit!" "Our Civil War was a lot more relaxed than this!" "That's what we're talking about." "According to the guerilla warfare manual:" ""If a superior enemy attacks, get the fuck out of Dodge"." "What would you have us do?" "Do something besides going back and forth wildly from one place to another." "And not this either anymore, because now, the Cubans have decided that we have to stay here." "Great." "Well, then let's do something, or I'm going to start feeling like an old man." "I don't know... break the windows, piss on the rugs, kill them with our farts, burn down the embassy..." "Squat here as a form of protest." "Now that would make for a good story, Chuso." "Meeting!" "Ok!" "Ok!" "Listen!" "It's not so hard to understand!" "They don't want to let us out because that mob of reporters might get in." "Fine, but the fact is that they have us by the balls!" "So we can either fold our arms and show Grandpa we're a bunch of losers, or we can stir shit up in here with the Cubans!" "Yes, that's it!" "All in favor of squatting here, raise your hand!" "Like in the trenches, Grandpa?" "Like in the trenches, Vero, like in the trenches." "I mean, does nobody here realize that we're going to commit a crime?" "You don't get it!" "This is a protest!" "This is ideological squatting, in protest." "It'll allow us to use the television to make our demands:" "To get back our cultural center and to leave us alone to do what we want." "But we are still squatting here and that's still a crime." "And in this case, an international one." "No fucking way!" "Don't be so uptight!" "Crime?" "The real crime is the price of hash or a hit of acid these days." "That's it, dammit!" "We're going to do it." "And let Fidel come if he has the balls!" "Come on, man, shit." "It was brutal." "To them we're only a bunch of dirt bags." "And everyone that becomes a part of our cause is immediately turned into a dangerous anarchist or an urban pirate without giving us an opportunity for dialogue because they have systematically refused to listen to us, forcing us to take a more radical stand." "Therefore, we have met and decided to declare the ideological occupation of the Cuban Embassy, as a means for our active non-violent resistance." "Because it's our only alternative to demand they give us back our cultural center known as "The Factory", as well as the right to manage it ourselves." ""Don't let the truth ruin a good story."" "Also get rid of the "ideological" part." " Done." " Good." "Now let's lower the lighting a bit and add contrast to everything." " How's that look to you?" " That's it." "Now we only have to fix his voice." "Increase the bass, add some distortion and we've got it!" "Let's watch the whole thing, from the top?" "Ok, let's see it." "In response to the brutal persecution of our anarchist group by the repressive forces of the state, to violently and systematically demand the meeting of our ideals, we have decided to radicalize our actions and declare our occupation of the Cuban Embassy as a form of active resistance." "Ready to air!" "Good work!" "What do you think?" "Convincing." "They're going to be up in arms." "We want to..." "We want to speak to the..." "To the leader of the group!" "Leader of the group!" "We want to speak...!" "You're not alone, we're with you!" "Mr. Ambassador, there's just a pathetic handful of them?" "And they're not armed." "Don't worry then." "What you need to do is ask for permission from your government for us to enter the Embassy." "We'll take care of it." "Call us as soon as you have news." "Perfect." " Sergeant." " Yes sir, Commissioner!" "Stop being such a moron!" "And quit with the megaphone bullshit!" " What channel's airing the images?" " Canal On." "Let's see that video, Cifuentes." "I'm Commissioner Burgos and this..." "I don't fucking believe it, son of a bitch!" "What an asshole, right, Commissioner?" "Asshole?" "Did you just call him an asshole?" "Well, this "asshole" was able to take over a whole embassy, while you, Cifuentes, aren't even capable of putting on your hat correctly." "Get out of here!" " And get them to rope off the area." " Yes, sir!" "Good." "Now let's see the tape." "Yes, of course, no problem!" "And what are their conditions?" "They haven't said anything?" "The thing is that it's not very clear." "No idea." "The truth is that it isn't very clear, no." "And I'm not willing to let a small piece of our revolutionary country serve as a platform for the residue of the capitalist society." "So you must put an end to this farce for once and for all." "Don't worry, my Commander, everything is under control." "It is a very small group, and in my opinion, if you give the police authorization to enter..." "The police?" "Now you listen to me, Osvaldo Ballesteros:" "We haven't spent the last forty years resisting the Yankee imperialism to now have the oppressing forces of a capitalist country cross our border." "You are the only one responsible for getting us out of this bad situation." "I would hate to have to call you again, and I'm sure that you would hate it too." "RaúI!" "RaúI!" "One day you'll have to tell me your secret" " to getting here so quickly." " Of course." "Actually..." "Not now, dammit, not now!" "Right now what I need is to throw out those bastards." "We need to take care of this zoo immediately, before the Commander in Chief loses his temper." "But that's impossible!" "In order to kick them out I would have to open the gate, and all of those reporters would invade us." "Do you see what I'm saying?" "Don't give me the runaround." "If we want to walk on water we have to get our feet wet!" "You can't do it peacefully?" "So do it another goddamn way!" "You trained in guerilla warfare in Angola and the Congo." "You were the army assistant to the Soviets in Havana, weren't you?" "Well, assistant, assistant..." "more like a tour guide, prostitute administration..." "Stop playing dumb and kick their asses out the door!" "Ambassador." "Oh, yes, but without anyone knowing;" "don't leave a mark." "So anyway Infovisión is now offering us a permanent contract, a fortune and the three o'clock news." "That's what you wanted, wasn't it?" "I wouldn't even think twice about it." "It's always the same old story, if you want to get ahead in this business, you have to break the rules." "Period." "That doesn't bother me." "The only period I'm worried about not getting is my own." "And if Jorge agrees that we switch to Infovisión, then fine by me." "What do you say?" "That I'm taking off this "Canal On" sticker." "Fuck yeah!" "You're the bomb." "Hey, one question." "Any of you any good at that graffiti stuff?" "Now listen, come here." "I know that you're trying to put up a fight to those capitalist dogs." "And I'm in complete agreement." "But please, you must leave here at once, comrades." " This situation is already untenable." " Ha!" "No way!" "First we can't leave and now you want us to get the hell out?" "What's this, National "do-whatever- comes-out-of-my-ass" Day?" "We're not leaving, especially not with "Beatings without Borders" out there." "Do you think that I don't know how you feel?" "You need a revolution, and I understand that perfectly." "Don't forget that in 1956" "Comrade Fidel took off for the mountains with a handful of men." "And he raised hell up there because, like you, he had an ideal, he had an enemy," " and he had the people behind him." " Enough of this nonsense!" "What he had was a rifle." "I told you to throw them out, not bore them to tears so get your priorities straight before I explode!" "Don't you come checking up on me!" "I was on the verge of convincing them!" "Néstor, take the "King"." "Give a good thrashing to the first one that gets tough, no reservations!" "Now listen to me!" "Gentlemen, don't you realize that these actions are making a mockery of Cuba?" "Of Cuba, or of you?" "Confiscate that camera immediately!" " I can't." " What do you mean?" "They won't give it to me." "Like hell they won't!" "That's all the chances that these little shit-head morons are going to get!" "But what are you doing?" "Give me the pistol, you idiot." "No, no!" "I said no!" "Ok!" "You can have the camera." "That's it, calm down, ok?" "But we haven't had money to buy bullets since '92." "That was the last one." "I was saving it in case the Commander needed it." "Well, what are we gonna do?" "No bullets, no camera." "What is wrong with you guys?" "Are you out of your minds or what?" "Dad!" "What's going on here?" "Has the war started without me?" "Great!" "It's the little princess!" "This is Commissioner Burgos, what?" "Can you just stand still for once, Cifuentes!" "And put away the gun before you shoot me!" "What's going on, what was that shot?" "Look, it's very simple." "It was an "accidental" shooting." "But everything's under control and looks like it is returning to normal here." "Normal, you say?" "And my balls are daisies, because this is a bomb!" "A bomb?" "A bomb?" "A bomb?" "Inside here?" "No, Commissioner." "The "heart", the "bomb", you know." "After the shot was fired, understand?" "You are so observant!" "Nothing gets by you!" "Right now I'm a little busy." " I'll call you later." " I'm outta here." "In the name of the Blessed Virgin, what are you thinking?" "What am I thinking?" "Could it be that I am bored and I have nothing better to do with my time, too fucking bad!" "Welcome to the show, Grandpa." "You're going to make us rich!" "What is all this shit about there being a bomb?" " Do we have images from inside?" " They are on live, Commissioner!" "Wait one second, Grandpa, aren't you a pacifist?" "Pacifist?" "Of course!" "As well as a dynamite expert in the Langreo Mines!" "But if they want to ignore us when we're playing nice, then here, they get me, a senior citizen terrorist." "And with Alzheimer's and that stuff" "I'm even scarier!" "Yes, I understand you." "You have every reason in the world to be angry." "But I don't know..." "I'm a little scared, Grandpa." "I'm afraid they'll put you in jail and I won't get to see you anymore." "Relax, relax." "Don't worry about anything, Vero." "If they catch me, it will be the same as with Pinochet:" ""Humanitarian reasons" and they'll let me the hell out." "He's crazy." "Don't you see that he's gone senile?" " Aren't you going to do anything?" " This is the fucking perfect moment for you to start harping on us." "That's not it, dear." "I've actually never been clearer than I am now." "You are the one that has no clue as to what this is all about, because you're so stuck up that you piss perfume and fart through a straw." "You out there should know that I'm an asshole, and if you don't give us back our cultural center, which is also my home, my goddamm house!" "Then I'll light the fuse and leave these imbeciles with a crater for an embassy!" "Get everything ready, Cifuentes!" "I'm going in!" " I'm scared!" "Let's get out of here!" " Do you want me to leave Chuso here?" "Screw over the whole group and to hell with my ideals or "brain farts", as you call them?" "Do you really believe Grandpa's so nostalgic about being a miner that he's going" " to blow up the embassy with us in it?" " I don't know and I don't care!" "And I definitely don't plan on sticking around here to find out, or to get arrested because of your stuff!" "I've had it!" " Shit!" " I told you, it's all shuttered up." "We'll see about that, and in any case, it's my problem." "But your problem is even worse." "Because you think you're doing something important staying here and being true to your "principles", while to the world you're just an idiot." "I love you too, but I don't feel like saving my own ass if it means spending the rest of my life kissing everybody else's." "Or, in other words, to be more exact:" "Fuck you!" "Ok?" "What are you doing there?" "I'm "Sleeping Beauty", what do you think?" "Are you a moron or what?" "Ambassador Osvaldo Ballesteros speaking, my Commander in Chief!" "What kind of idiot are you, Osvaldo Ballesteros?" "!" "Our Cuban state has always been an unprecedented example of heroic resistance." "Until today, when everything has gone down the toilet because you allowed a miniscule group of ideologues to bring chaos and anarchy, finally putting a bomb and holding us hostage inside our very own embassy!" " But you see, my Commander." " Shut up!" "It is clear that to resolve this humiliating crisis we need a political willpower that you don't possess, and therefore, the time has come to demand that you immediately resign from your post." "Comrade Raúl Ochoa?" "Son, I'm sure that you continue your custom of eavesdropping on all conversations." "So listen carefully to this:" "As of right now and with all of the powers that this appointment entails," "I name you the new Cuban Ambassador to Spain." "My political career is over." "Son of a bitch, piece of shit!" "I believe that you have a message for... the Cuban people." "And with the television crew here this is our opportunity!" "Ok, Mister Ballesteros." "The moment has arrived to unmask yourself." "Listen to me." "Look, I know that you prefer the good cigars, but don't split hairs with me over this." "I looked for them and I couldn't find a single one, only these cigarettes." "But you'll have to forgive me." "Because I've got to ask you for a big favor." "And... we're on the air!" "We are currently in the office of the Cuban Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Osvaldo Ballesteros, who has asked that our cameras be here to make a statement to all of you." "Another clown just signed up for the circus." "...but we are sure that it will be of the utmost interest due to the serious occurrences that today have made this embassy the center of everyone's attention." "Live for Infovisión, Mr. Ballesteros, Cuban Ambassador to Spain." "What do you mean Cuban Ambassador?" "Whenever you're ready." "Well, I would first like to thank this news team for giving me the opportunity to stand before all of you, and especially the Cuban people." "What kind of story is this son of a bitch going to spit out now?" "People who are demanding urgent changes to our current system of government." "You will see that I am going to speak to you about a political alternative, one that has the greatest amount of international support, that will allow us to better face our destiny with the security that there is a future." "A future?" "I'm going to make sure that you never have a future again!" "Worm!" "Traitor!" "And you, get the hell out of here with your little camera!" "You listen to me, RaúI." "This is an attack on my human rights!" "You don't have human rights!" "You are nothing more than a foreign ass kissing suck up!" "What kind of an idiot are you?" "Don't you get that we are in a democracy now?" "Yes!" "But a Castrist one!" "Because we don't want the Americans to come, nor anyone else, to tell us what we have to do!" "And that's the thing!" "Understand me?" "That's the thing." "Witchcraft?" "Voodoo?" "White Magic, or Black Magic passed on through the ages, in secret, by the sinister sorcerers of the satanic and ancestral tribes?" "That this prayer rises up to you." "You know the past, the present and the future." "And now for the translation." "It's the shit, dude:" "A bilingual fortune-teller who can clue us in to what's going on!" "You are the guardian because Olofi gave you the keys." "...where the hostage situation continues among disturbing invocations." "But to whom, or to what?" "That's the question we ask ourselves." "You may not enter, spirits of Darkness." "Only the Good can enter and the Evil will stay outside." "Fly somewhere else, fly, because Elegguá will never open my door for you." "And there you have it:" ""Evil shall not enter."" "This seems to be the fundamental goal of these spells and exorcisms." "A goal that comes too late because, in reality, the Evil is already here," "Hidden beneath the inoffensive appearance of a handicapped old man, but willing to..." "What the hell are you saying?" "Don't over do it with the rhetoric, not that, because I'll shove a stick of this dynamite up your ass and get rid of your cellulite the explosive way!" "Cellulite?" "Me?" "No." "Yes?" "No." "All of you are making a mistake." "There's no evil in the old man." "He doesn't want to do us any harm." "I know because I saw it in the coconuts." "And then I began to understand that they have conjured a mysterious curse." "What curse?" "And no!" "That's not it!" "My home!" "They have thrown me out of my home!" "And I have to get it back" " or I'll blow us to Kingdom Come!" " What else did you see?" "¡Comrade Yolanda!" "That's enough with the spells and witchcraft." "All of this stuff is no more than ideological diversionism." "But... what are you doing with the diplomatic sash, Comrade RaúI?" "Ambassador." "Comrade Ambassador RaúI Ochoa, by direct appointment from the Commander in Chief." "And you, give me one more chance and your attention here." "Look." "I know that this situation is a big mess, but I have a great offer that you won't be able to refuse." "Quick learner!" "One minute as the Ambassador and already talking like the Home Shopping Network." "The issue is very clear." "You have demonstrated today that you are capable of resisting and staying firm in your fight against the injustices of the capitalist system." "And it is for that that we need you." "Our Revolution needs more militants like you." "And so... don't delay any longer..." "and start reading." "Go on, read it all." "Here." ""Cuba:" "Caribbean Sun"." "What an asshole!" "It's a travel brochure!" "And don't ask how much the trip to Havana is going to cost you, because the wheels are already in motion to give you political asylum and you will be our guests." "Us?" "In Cuba?" "Are you crazy?" "You think it over." "You only have to visit Cuba to enjoy all of her delights." "Don't forget that Cuba is known as the "Pearl of the Caribbean"" "because it is a small country, but really beautiful." "And with a privileged climate that..." "Shut up already!" "Do you want to shut up already!" "We're not going anywhere!" "And especially not to an island with a tropical climate and the fucking sea all around it!" "Because I have a bitch of a rheumatism!" "And I'm allergic to Fidel Castro." "What are you saying?" "To the Commander in Chief?" "Yes!" "Yes." "Yes." "Because I'm Red, and Communist." "But Anarchist, shit!" "Therefore, that means that you, sir, are nothing more than a mean old pain in the ass!" "The Ambassador and political attaché RaúI Ochoa on the line." "To whom am I speaking?" "To Commissioner Burgos of the National Police Force." "Stop screwing with me and connect me with the Ambassador immediately." "This is not a time for playing games!" "Do you hear me?" "How could I not hear you!" "But you are not going to act tough with me because, as it should happen," "I am now the ambassador here by direct appointment from the Commander in Chief!" "Fantastic, this's fucking great!" "Great!" "Well, if you are the new ambassador, listen to me and we'll try to understand one another." "I am coming in to negotiate with the hostage takers and I want you to advise them and speak with them so that they calm down and everyone stays calm, is that understood?" "No, no." "It's not that simple." "You know that I cannot allow you to intervene in Cuban territory without a direct order from Havana." "But look." "If you want," "I'll put you on with the person responsible for this brouhaha and hopefully you can sort this out, but over the phone." "Wait there and I'll hand you over." "Listen, stop this..." "Hello." " It's for you." " For me?" "Hello!" "It's been ages since anyone called me." "Hello!" "This is Emiliano Carreño." "Who is this?" "Commissioner Burgos, National Police." "No, then it's not me." "You talk!" "It's the police and I'm also allergic to them!" "What's going on here?" "Hello!" "Yes?" "About time, dammit!" "Who am I speaking to?" "With Chuso Burgos." "Chuso Burgos." "Well." "That's a nice last name." "You fucking irresponsible, useless, immature shit!" "I'm going to beat you so badly that your own father won't even recognize you!" "In other words, me!" " Dad?" " Yes!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Your father!" "Not one word, Cifuentes, or you'll be a beat cop for the rest of your life!" "Dad?" "What do you mean "dad"?" "Don't fucking tell me that your father is a cop?" "And what can I do?" "It's nothing to brag about and I can't divorce him." "Can I ask what the hell you are doing?" "Do you think it's normal that you leave home just like that?" "We don't hear anything from you and all of a sudden you are on the news for occupying an embassy with a kamikaze grandfather who's holding half of Cuba hostage?" "You can tell that he missed you." "And just wait until your mother finds out." "Because that's something else." "She'll be hysterical, like always, and unbearable!" "Let's just solve this peacefully and stop making my life difficult!" "End this shit and get the hell out of there!" "Sure." "Right now." "As soon as you hang up we'll go outside, get a few beers and have some laughs." "No, dad." "You still don't understand what this is all about?" "You know that Grandpa has the bomb and he's not letting anyone out!" "What do you want?" "That we leave him alone to take all the blame himself?" " Don't bet on it!" " That's it!" "You tell him!" "Arguing with you is a waste of time!" "You always have to have your way no matter what and do whatever you want no matter the cost." "Ok, fine." "If you insist on screwing this up, then at least do it right and do it the usual way, dammit!" "The thing with the damn cultural center is an issue that the politicians have to resolve and I can't do anything." "In the meantime, you make a series of demands, and in exchange let a couple of the hostages go!" "The way it's always been done, dammit!" "Don't freak out!" "Grandpa isn't letting anyone go!" "But you do have a point and yes, we do have a few demands." "Because this morning your cop buddies busted in and fucked up our party, and so now it's your turn to eat shit." "And in exchange you'll just have to accept that we're having a good time in here and there's nothing going on." "So do you have a pen and paper?" "..."old man"..." "Shit!" "I've always wanted to do this!" "It's so queer." "Yes, but you see, I'm queer." "Then you didn't like it?" "I only wanted to pay homage to you because in Cuba I'm as cast out as the rest of you." "Yes!" "And our "homosexual comrade" was fucking fantastic." "Come on, don't be ungrateful." "And cheer up because now there's the cake and blowing out the candles." "Again?" "No way in hell." "I'm not blowing!" "It brings bad luck, dammit!" "If I blow it will just ruin everything and my wish will go all screwy, like it did this morning." "If you want cake then you blow!" "Fine." "We'll blow them out, don't worry." "Come on, let's blow already." "See how nothing bad happened?" "And I made a wish for you." "You did, and what was it?" "I can't tell you." "If I do it won't come true." "Come on, cut the cake." "With this?" "No way." "It would be an insult to the cake." "It's almost better to just grab it with our hands, in the end it's going to be just as messy." "Fine, I'll do it for you." "Start passing me the plates." "The first piece is for the birthday boy." "Here, Grandpa." " Give me two." " Two?" "Why two?" "One for me and the other for Ana, but since she's blowing me off screw her, and I'll eat it." " Then I want two also." " What a lot of nerve!" " And why should you?" " Same reason." "One for me and the other for Molinero." "He's also disappeared." "That's right, fuck!" "Where did Moli run off to?" "Here's our way out." "I knew it." "What are you saying?" "Down here?" "This must be the sewage system." " It smells like shit!" " Exactly!" "The sewers!" "It works!" "It's not like it's rock or some kickass metal record, but it's what we've got so..." "Crank it up!" "This is great!" "It's candela!" "Come here." "Don't you hear the telephone?" "It sounds like it's from Havana." "Shit, it's him!" "It's the Commander in Chief calling, comrade!" "And to top it off we are now celebrating the happy birthday of the suicidal terrorist that has taken us hostage!" "Magnificent!" "We are the laughing stock of Miami and all the rest of the capitalists!" "Don't you have anything to say for yourself?" "Yes, my Commander in Chief." "I mean, no, my Commander in Chief." "Thanks to your complete ineptitude at finding a solution," "I was obliged to personally intervene in this affair and take some categorical measures" "I did not want to be forced to take!" "I don't fucking believe it!" "Wait!" "What?" "You're shitting yourself!" "I know." "The frosting from the cake, but we have a problem." "There's no water and the fucking toilet is clogged." "Hold it a little longer, we'll have this fixed in no time." "Give me a hand." "In accordance with the orders given by the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro, you, RaúI Ochoa, are dismissed from the post of Cuban Ambassador to Spain." "In addition to the dishonorable loss of your military and political rank." "Good afternoon and thank you for making this station your choice for up to date coverage of today's dramatic news of the crisis at the Cuban Embassy." "This will be the main focus of today's news program, which we will kick off right now with a summary of the most important news headlines." "Best thing for clogs." "My old lady taught me!" "Quiet!" "Listen!" "I hear voices!" "See, I told you!" "I told you we'd get out of here!" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "Hold it, relax." "You have to give it some time." "It's this way, I'm sure." "Just a little bit farther and we'll get away from all this shit!" "As we announced at the beginning of this broadcast, the leading story of the day is the occupation of the Cuban Embassy and the taking of hostages by a radical anarchist group." "The last few hours have seen some new developments that could prove to be decisive in the development of this crisis." "After the eviction of "The Factory", the cultural center of these squatters, the authorities decided to go through with their previous plans and as you can see in these images, recorded only a few hours ago," "proceed with its demolition." "They are telling us that we now have exterior images of the embassy." "I am Colonel Zuazo and I am taking control of these operations." "What operations are you talking about?" "No one told me that you guys were coming and invading Cuban territory!" "The governments of Cuba and Spain have reached an agreement." "You'll have to speak to your superiors." "Now, clear the area and keep everyone away from the embassy!" "And I want all of those reporters out of here immediately!" "Understood?" "You heard him, Cifuentes!" "So move your ass!" "Quick!" "What?" "!" "Leave?" "Just like that?" "Fuck, that's what I'm telling you, and I'm your dad!" "Listen to me for one time in your life!" "You have to convince Grandpa to stop this crap and get the hell out of there, because these guys don't screw around, goddammit!" "It's the special assault team, I can't do anything to stop them!" "Come on, Chuso." "Get the hell out of there!" "This really sucks, man!" "Now what the hell do we do?" "We're fucked!" "Talk to Grandpa and get the hell out of the embassy." "If there's gonna be hell to pay, I prefer it to come from my dad!" "Go tell everyone." "Grandpa?" "Grandpa." "Grandpa." "Grandpa!" "No fucking way, Grandpa, eh?" "Simón!" "Simón!" "What happened?" "What's wrong?" "Grandpa." "These are cigars!" "The old man carried out his destiny." "Get that fucking camera out of here!" "You knew, didn't you?" "When did they tell you that they were going to demolish the center?" "This is your station, right?" "Of course, it was better for you not to tell us anything!" "Forget her!" "It's not worth it" " to let this bitch get to you." " You know?" "You little piece of shit!" "You make me sick!" "Get the fuck out of here!" " Get out of here!" " Ignore those fucking assholes." "Happy birthday, Grandpa." "Sons of bitches!" "Sons of bitches!" "And with the rapid and effective intervention of the special assault forces to overcome the terrorist group, the crisis at the Cuban Embassy seems to have come to an end, preventing the hostage takers from making good on their threats" "and carrying out what would have invariably been a complete massacre." "That is all for now." "At this time we will have a commercial break followed by an in-depth and detailed report on everything that happened here today in the Cuban Embassy." "From the very heart of today's most important story," "Cristina Melero, for Infovisión." "We will be back with you in a few moments." "Please stay tuned."

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"You mean this" "Let me guess" "You won't get it right" "Here he comes" "It can't be" "Hey, Roland" "What are you doing" "Did you hire a secretary" "What did you say" "That girl" "What's your name, Rolanwaz?" "Belluto?" "Essabelle?" "Laetitia" "What a romantic name" "May I invite you for dinner" "Don't play no more" "Listen" "What" "Be serious, like it's the real thing" "He did it!" "25 million francs can be expected soon!" "The engine is a total success 10-thousand-convolution super power house" "400 kilometers an hour" "My name is Manu" "That was great" "Really" "If you wanna have a ride, help yourself" "But she is your secretary" "No, not my daughter either" "If so then come on in" "Put on the blinder" "Buckle the seat belts" "Be careful" "Luxuriant imitations again" "It's really exciting" "We are fatigued" "Do you feel good?" "Very good" "Is this your first time" "This feeling is addictive" "Really" "You are so happy" "What do you wanna say" "Don't be shy" "He is envying me" "You are sure to succeed" "When are you flying" "Tomorrow" "Where's the vidicon" "We have brought it" "Give the film to the company and they will pay us" "Find the one whose name is Kyobashi" "This is the number, tomorrow I am not gonna be in" "Keep it up" "Bye" "How about a cup of drink" "I have to get the scrap iron from my old friend" "Roland" "Let me give you a ride" "A beautiful girl" "She truly is" "Don't you have work to take care of" "Flying practice with two interns tomorrow" "Yes manager" "Please give me a cup of coffee" "How are you lately" "Did you have your meal" "I had an appointment with Roland" "Is it gonna be late before you get back?" "I am not sure" "I will be back early" "I am driving really slow" "I don't believe it" "You will know when you get on, hold tight" "What is that" "This?" "Racing car" "Racing car" "6500 convolutions" "In an hour?" "In a minute" "Then?" "6500 convolutions a minute" "So what" "Flying speed is determined by convolutions" "Increasing nitro methane to 98% and we can reach 8000 convolutions" "Is it great" "The thing is about the transmissions" "If our system can be done it will be highly reviewed" "But it's a secret for now" "Wish you success" "Thank you" "What about the vidicon" "There lens and can be zoomed" "What a nice little factory" "Lease me a fraction of place, will you" "For what" "Give it her" "Let me tell you" "That one" "That red door" "Mudguard" "Front" "Move it" "It's dangerous" "Can this be sold" "Not really" "I'll give your a cheap price on the rent" "Come here 9 o'clock every day" "Is it too early" "No" "Is it okay" "Put the aperture of the vidicon to F8" "Put it to F2 if it's cloudy" "I got it" "See you around" "Be careful when you are piloting" "Is it Roland you got up" "How can I leave you empty stomached" "You are so considerate" "Nothing abnormal, you can pass" "Roger, I will be right there" "He's got company" "We will show you his skills soon" "Not good!" "What" "It's the flag" "Flag!" "He's coming" "Flag!" "Down below" "What are you talking about!" "Manu are you hearing me" "Answer me" "He's coming" "Where" "Really!" "Everything is moved here" "My father was an accountant" "His wife is an ordinary housewife" "For me I can only choose to be a pilot" "I am going home, see you tomorrow" "See you" "They said low altitude flying over streets is prohibited" "And then" "My license was revoked" "Till when" "Forever" "I will not be able to fly for life" "I am gonna be weak-spirited" "May I speak to Mr. Kyobashi" "Who is speaking?" "Manu Brielle" "Please hold on a second" "Mr. Brielle" "I don't know him" "But he knows you" "This is Kyobashi" "I am the one consigned the ask by you to fly through the Triumphal Arch" "Did it work well" "I couldn't do it 'cuz the flag was raised, and my license was revoked" "Please pay me the compensation" "What are you talking about!" "Sorry but I am afraid that I will let you down" "We are gonna fly to Etrute, right" "And we can see the escarpment there" "Put out the smoke" "You look good" "Don't get closer, I am very good at karate" "Oh really" "That's too much" "Roland leave that guy to me" "I apologize, it's just a joke" "Oh, just a joke" "Wait I have something good to tell you" "Some way to make a lot of money" "Really, it sound rather good 500 million francs sank to the sea" "Is it true" "In Congo" "Congo, huh" "Congo, right" "I swear it is true" "I didn't lie" "I am an insurance guy" "That's enough" "I haven't calmed my anger yet" "Enough" "I am not lying, it's in Congo" "If the same color appears 7 time in a row" "Wait until the 5th time" "Bet it using the opposite color 5 plus 7 equals 12" "Unless you hit nothing, you won't be broke" "What's the odds?" "It's there but very unlikely" "Let's try" "Black once" "We need more capital" "What did you say" "Black twice" "Not even a little bit" "A little I have" "But I need to spend it on research" "Black 3 times" "Laetitia the cars won't sell this way" "Never mind" "They're mobile sculptures" "I know but..." "What are you trying to manifest" "Only free people would understand" "Black 7 times in a row!" "If it were me I wouldn't want a ride" "Reconsider it" "You can come back to the company" "I will wait for you" "Hopefully it's not the slowest car in the century" "How many convolutions" "Keep it up" "Are you okay" "We are so worried" "Nothing but a little more work is needed" "21 red odd" "Do we maintain black" "Let's fight to the end" "Black 320 francs" "I will wait for you in the bar" "Please chip in" "No more chip in" "Would you dance with me" "Please chip in" "Red 14 times" "I don't want it" "Enough" "No more chip in" "What a pity" "Black even" "It's unbelievable" "If you were a pilot would you fly through the Triumphal Arch?" "Flying through the Triumphal Arch?" "Don't be silly" "If you were an engineer would you try to reform the car industry?" "I wouldn't do that" "That's right" "It's obvious that we were gonna win" "Red 14 times in a row" "Did you not guarantee that" "If I obtain the patent for my research we are gonna make money" "Don't even dream about it" "I am not dreaming" "Large enterprises are sure to fight for it" "Paris 70 kilometers" "What do you think of those words" "What words" "The words about the crashed airplane said by that beaten guy" "In the sea of Congo" "Do you believe that" "How much money was sunk to the sea according to him" "Probably 300 million" "Even more 500 million right" "A huge money" "It must be phony" "Damn" "What" "We forgot Laetitia" "Move those things" "Don't break them" "How are you" "I am here to move things" "Are you gonna go" "Do you hate us" "Why are you saying that" "That night we forgot to pick you up and came back" "We were..." "That night I had a great time" "Today I bring an invitation of my personal exhibition" "Why don't you come" "I am gonna go" "Be careful" "This and that" "Who paid the expense for the personal exhibition" "Of course myself" "Did you sell your jewelry" "I have savings" "I will pay you also" "Rent" "Let's talk about this later" "I don't know if I am gonna be here or not" "Really" "Hold on" "Accept this it's now valuable" "You are really great" "Now we have properties" "Do you have invitations" "Show me" "Over there" "Hurry" "Don't press us" "Mr. Belutan I apologize for my disrespect last time" "Actually I need your help" "If it's in my power" "Certainly" "There is no information about that airplane" "The last radio contact record happened here" "The pilot and the magnate Belluci disappeared with all their properties" "People think they sank in the sea" "What if they are found" "Then our insurance company and the discoverers will share the money" "It's regrettable that there are no evidence showing the magnate keeping the money on the plane" "Roland" "Hey listen" "The prisoner said to the executioner" "I am ticklish, don't put the rope around my neck" "Where's the car" "What car" "What, are you gonna travel" "There are 500 million here" "In 5000-meter deep sea?" "No, water area there is less that 100-meter deep" "Every map says that" "There" "For sale" "197, 198..." "So tired" "Laetitia!" "What brings you here" "How about your personal exhibition" "You didn't come" "We did" "There were too many people and we couldn't find you" "Angry?" "What's wrong" "What happened?" "Tell us" "Don't be emotional" "All wasted" "All efforts to date" "Look at this" "You will feel better when you talk to us" "Take it easy" "It's press commentary" "Exciting but lacks personality" "Rote aesthetics" "It's just because they envy you" "How about taking a break" "Travel would be best" "Wanna go with us" "Where" "Guess" "The coolest place near equator is 16 degrees" "Hold on" "You are not gonna pay the fare for the ride" "Keep this" "Your cigarette" "Want a cigarette?" "France?" "Here you are" "Got a fire?" "Are you collecting coral" "Yeah" "Hold it Manu" "I want a job" "Hire me" "We don't need one" "Just three meals" "We have enough labors" "Listen to me" "Blow it" "Kiss" "Go there" "Sit" "What do you want" "Nothing" "Are you sure this is the place" "Don't move" "Excuse me" "We met again" "No playing tricks" "It's no use" "What do you want" "Listen to me" "What?" "About treasure in Congo" "I will pay you back" "See you in Brussels" "You will get the rest money over there" "He has a huge fortune" "The plane crashed near the coast" "That man dies" "But I was saved" "That's what I wanted to say" "Then" "Isn't that enough to interest you" "Got any proof" "No" "I know where it is" "Where 8 kilometers northeast" "Too vague" "The plane left some marks on the cliff when it crashed" "What marks" "You will know that" "Laetitia if we succeed you will get at least 100 million" "What are you going to do with that money" "I will buy the house floating on the sea" "Laroshuru City" "This has been my dream since young" "Want some coffee" "It's said that the house is a fortress surrounded by sea water" "I will re-decorate it" "Then I don't even have to fear of tsunami" "The sea is my first love" "The sea in Winter is especially beautiful" "I know" "I once spent a Christmas in the Brutanue Island" "Invent when floating in the sea" "And I don't have to publish any works" "Are you gonna live by yourself in such a big house?" "You are going to be lonely" "The island of your home seems not bad" "How about staying together with me" "Don't you want it?" "You are more than welcome if it's both of you" "Look!" "Slow down" "Haata fish" "Haata fish also lives alone in its long long life" "You are becoming a lonely philosopher" "You can't be like that" "Stop" "Over there" "Air tank" "What about those two" "Where's him?" "Here" "What's going on?" "Let's divide it into 3 shares" "But Laetitia, she" "What are you talking about" "Large ones..." "Small ones..." "We can buy a new car" "This is worth 150 million" "They seem to have found it" "Let me have a look" "What about putting ours together" "Want a drink" "Okay" "I shouldn't have asked" "Do you care about" "What" "That girl Laetitia" "She and you...just friends" "Is it unbelievable" "Yeah" "You should be lovers" "No" "Why are you asking this, what do you think?" "How about you" "Yeah" "I am gonna buy a small airplane" "For what" "To tell you the truth" "I am a pilot" "My license was revoked though I used to fly for a club" "Which club" "Praisy Club" "You know what" "I went way back with the manager there" "Kyobashi" "This is the sunset we can't find in cities" "Yeah, regrettably it's all blocked by buildings" "Cities are not meant for living" "Are you going to buy a sculpture studio?" "No, I want to live with you" "With me?" "But..." "Manu?" "Steer for me" "We are police, temporary check-up, stop the boat" "We are checking passports and logbooks" "What's happening" "There are always check-ups" "How many people on the boat?" "3" "Give them the logbooks" "What are you doing" "Temporary check-up" "Grovel down" "Are you crazy?" "They are fake police" "Laetitia!" "Stay" "I have no other way" "Why asking him to stay?" "Anybody here" "Anybody here" "This is Tamprue Village, right" "Is this Mr. Thomas's?" "My son went to other places" "What about your husband" "Hello" "We've heard that" "You know the Weise's, right" "Weise?" "They left here during the war" "Oh, Weise" "Got any messages" "One day when he was caught by the German armies" "He never came back" "He is Jew" "He left his daughter Laetitia, right" "Laetitia...she's a wonderful child" "Does she have any relatives?" "Bring the postcards" "The child should have grown up" "Shall we give them" "Let them have a look" "There are relatives looking for her after the war" "These are the addresses" "In Shalanto" "It became so lonesome after the child is gone" "Is this her" "Yeah, when she was a child" "We want to give you some gifts" "No thanks" "Are you sure" "We don't need anything" "Anything" "What is that camel?" "Napoleon used to ride it" "The museum here borrowed it from elsewhere" "Welcome" "Are you Mr. Debru" "Yes, what can I do for you" "Is Laetitia your niece" "Police?" "No" "We need to talk to you about something" "But my husband is not at home now" "He will be back in the evening" "Let's come back again, Roland" "What?" "I am thinking" "About what?" "It's me who asked her to go" "You mean the travel last time" "I brought her to that place" "It's us two who brought her there" "Don't blame it on yourself only" "I know" "How much 2 francs" "Alone?" "Is it a problem to put our luggage here" "No problem" "Where" "Over there" "From here, right" "Let me introduce to you" "This museum is founded by Baron Grugo" "Gorilla is the largest among apes" "When it's attacked by human it becomes fierce" "These are serpent and panther" "That is a flying squirrel" "This bow and arrow is usually used by people living in deserts" "Karahari Desert..." "Karahari is a desert" "You will die at once when you are shot by the arrow" "There are made by the Brue people" "You know everything" "I recite them all" "How much is 7 times 8" "Why ask this?" "Nothing" "You are great" "What are these?" "Mosquito and fly, they are big" "You will be in a coma if stung by them" "Sleeping on and on" "Like sleeping beauty" "Napoleon's camel?" "One-hump camel" "There seems no hair on it" "People plucked it for commemoration" "You haven't seem the room of lions and crocodiles" "Not this time" "Goodbye" "Your tip" "Thank you" "A little fellow who knows everything should recognize this" "Did you steal it" "Native of Congo" "Have you been there" "Yes, do you want it Yes" "Keep it then" "So great" "Bye" "I am coming" "Please come in" "Sorry for the wait, please get seated in the dining room" "There" "This is my husband" "Hello" "Are you the uncle of Laetitia" "But I don't have to take any responsibilities for her" "She never came back after she left" "We don't know anything she did" "She is a very frank girl" "Although left home by herself" "We will make up for anything she did" "I think you didn't get it" "She is dead" "This is her relic" "Dead?" "An accident on Africa sea" "Unbelievable" "You don't have to fake it" "Farewell" "Thank you for sending her relic all the way" "Thank you" "Excuse me" "It's you" "This is my home" "Your son?" "Yes" "Her brother" "Whose" "Laetitia" "Yes" "This is 100 million francs inheritance" "It all belongs to your son" "It'll be left at the notary first" "When he grows up" "He will get the money by himself" "Where does the money come from" "Relax" "It all belongs to Laetitia with certificates" "Suddenly all that money..." "It wouldn't bring any trouble to you" "You don't have to thank either" "We came here just because we wanted to" "Afterwards you only have to sign at the notary" "Roland" "I don't have to make money by collecting shells" "You seem to be happy doing that" "Beautiful, huh, I will give you if you like it" "Did you find treasure in the sea" "Why do you ask this Nothing" "How is Laetitia" "Roland, I find treasure too" "You?" "Are you kidding" "It's true, come with me" "Over there" "Grownups had brought me there" "I will bring you there" "Come on" "Hurry up" "Not bad, huh" "It's said that the house is a fortress surrounded by sea water" "I don't even have to fear of tsunami" "Invent when floating in the sea" "Freeze!" "Put your hands up" "That is not a toy" "It's my treasure" "Have you fired them" "I can't" "Don't do it with children around" "He won't be scared" "Is it broken" "Yeah" "There are many more" "Where are you going" "Here" "Hurry up" "Inside here" "It's the secret of three of us" "And ammunitions" "If it drops we will be blown up" "I shouldn't be working since its so old" "Really" "Throw it down" "The shipping is setting off" "I am returning to Paris" "When?" "Now" "Be careful and take it easy" "You will be the next" "You too" "Manu Polly?" "A fellow teaching control in the past" "His is as skillful as before" "With big heart also" "Your skill is not rusty at all" "Yeah" "It's reassuring to fly with you" "I am like returning to my childhood" "Then that's great" "Great skills" "I will buy you a champagne" "Flawless skills" "No license though" "Try re-apply one" "No, that's my past" "Don't you miss it" "I will pay" "You are so rich" "I inherited a fortune" "Come on" "Cheers" "Cheers for the Triumphal Arch" "What about Ebett" "One card" "Bet of 1000 francs" "Banker wins" "The piston compresses the air" "At the same time plug the power" "When it explodes press the piston" "Then the piston will be moving" "Understood" "Not a bit" "Is Manu's car fast 200 kilometers an hour" "I will buy the same build but with red color when I grow up" "What do you want to be when you grow up" "Librarian in a museum" "Ebett" "Manu" "How come you are here..." "Understand at the first sight, right" "I have a car" "You car is so beautiful" "Is that the guy" "Is that the guy over there" "No" "Are you sure?" "On the top floor" "What do you say" "It's not him" "Okay, let's go" "Manu" "Roland" "To the Fortress Island" "Come on in" "Please be quick" "Are you sure it's him" "The guy who bought the Fortress Island" "Thank you" "This is personal property" "Manu come on up" "Here you come" "Did you buy this place" "Does it surprise you" "Come here and I have a plan to talk to you" "Unbelievable, huh" "Transform this place to a hotel and restaurant" "Nice, huh" "You will see the ocean from any guest room" "You can fish right from the window" "The best part is guests could gather together" "I have epoch making ideas" "I wanna use helicopters to transport guests" "You will be in charge of this" "I'll build a small airport" "And use transparent glasses" "A big pillar in the center" "It also gives off huge fogs" "That will make this look like a ship" "The restaurant will be above this" "Having meals while surrounded by sea water" "What do you think" "Is this for her?" "Who" "Laetitia" "This idea" "She said it to you, right" "When" "Certainly the last day" "No" "Never heard of it" "You two on the top, put your hands up and get down" "You can't run away" "Put your hands up" "Hurry" "Get down" "If you are not coming out we will get up there" "Don't kill him" "Get out!" "I'll blow you up" "You bastards" "Put yourself together!" "Laetitia said" "she wanted to live with you"

"(GROANS)" "(GASPS)" "Sorry to keep you waiting, Detective Beckett." "Not a problem, sir." "You're a busy man." "Tell that to the Attorney General." "He just had his first grandchild and now wants to show me pictures." "So, Agent Stack spoke very highly of you." "Smart, tenacious, innovative thinker." "Said you were a good candidate for the opening on the AG investigative team." "Well, I appreciate his confidence, sir." "You don't agree?" "No, sir, it's just that, um..." "I'm a Homicide detective." "I don't have any federal experience." "Attorney General's not looking for federal experience." "He wants people who can get the job done." "And from everything I've read, that might be you." "Well, that's very kind of you, sir." "It's not kind." "It's what you believe to be true, isn't it?" "It's why you got on the plane this morning." "Because given your background, your qualifications, and your track record, you know that you're headed for bigger things." "Just like you know that opportunities like this come along once, maybe twice in a lifetime." "But if that's not what you believe, if you think that you're just a Homicide cop," "door's right over there." "No, sir." "I know why I'm here." "Well, take a seat." "Let's get started." " Dad, we need to talk." " Which of these do you like better?" "Dad, I'm serious." "I like the green one, but it kinda looks like a giant green lizard is attacking the city." "Which is cool, but it's not what the book's about." "So I either rewrite the book to make it about a giant lizard, or..." " Dad." " Magenta." "You're right." "It's classic, it's cool, it tells the story." " (CLEARS THROAT) Dad." " What?" "Professor Rankowsky still hasn't received the check for my Costa Rica trip." "He didn't?" "That's so weird." "You didn't send it, did you?" "Why do you want to go study the rainforest for six weeks anyway?" "Dad, we talked about this." "I know, but you're going to be staying in the middle of a jungle." "Miles away from the nearest phone, hours from the nearest hospital." "You could be bitten by a poisonous spider, or a poisonous snake." "I looked it up." "Toucans are extremely aggressive this time of year." "Is this about Paris?" "I will admit to being slightly overprotective in light of recent events." "Dad, I can't stop living my life because of what happened." "And, yeah, I still have nightmares, but that's one of the reasons I want to go." "I don't want to let fear win." "No." "No, of course, you're right." "I'll write the check." "But it's not gonna stop me from worrying about you." "Or missing you." "(SIGHS)" "And I wouldn't want you to." "But it's only six weeks." "It's not like I'm going away forever." "(CELL PHONE RINGS)" "No, but it sounds like someone has." " Always a pleasure." " Hey, Castle." " Good to see ya." " Hey." "(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)" " Hey, Sito." " Hey." "Where's Beckett?" "How the hell should I know?" "Aren't you two practically living together now?" "Well, she left me alone for a couple days so I could finish Deadly Heat, which, by the way, is both deadly and hot, thank you very much for asking." "I didn't." "Right." "Hey." " Sorry I'm late." " Everything okay?" "Um..." "Yeah, fine." "So, what've we got?" "This way." "The Cedric's your pretty typical no-star residential hotel." "Mostly transients and foreign tourists that don't know any better." "Guests started complaining of a strange-colored water and also a foul odor coming from the pipes this morning." "When maintenance finally checked it out, they found her." " Hey, Lanie." " LANIE:" "Hey." "So, we've got a Caucasian female." "Probably 20, 21 years old." " How'd she die?" " Not sure yet." "There's evidence of blunt-force trauma to the head, but I won't know cause until I get her back to the morgue." "CSU found traces of blood and hair on that ventilation fan." " They're running it for a match." " (CAMERA CLICKING)" "So someone smashed her on the head and then dumped her in the tank?" "Looks like it." "They found blood at the base of that ladder, and on the hand-railing." "Also, a bloody partial print." "Who else had access to the roof?" "ESPOSITO:" "Pretty much anyone." "The latch on the door has been busted for years, and often the residents will sneak up here for a smoke." "And what do we know about her?" "The building manager identified her as a resident named Crystal Sky." "Checked in 10 days ago to a room on the 18th floor." "Paid with cash." "ESPOSITO:" "Crystal Sky?" "That name's so fake it sounds like something out of one of your books." "Right?" "Whoa." "What is that supposed to mean?" "What do you mean, "What is that supposed to mean?"" "Derrick Storm, Nikki Heat, Jameson Rook?" "Would it kill you to name someone "Gonzales" every once in a while?" "Well, with no ID found on the body, and no purse, wallet, or phone in the room, it's hard to know who she is." "She's been here for 10 days." "She must have made some friends." "ZIFF:" "Yeah, I knew her." "You know, we'd talk sometimes in the laundry room." "Did she tell you anything about herself, like where she was from?" "Texas." "Lubbock, I think." "But, you know, things were bad at home." "Her dad..." "Any idea what she was doing in the city?" "Oh, I can tell you what she was doing." "The girl was a prostitute." "She wasn't a prostitute." "Why you gotta say that?" "Because it's true." "The way she dressed, the sounds coming out of her room at all hours of the night." "We all knew it." "What kind of sounds?" "Her with her johns." "Walls here are pretty thin." "Hey, you don't know what you're talking about, okay?" "Ziff, I know you liked her." "But somebody killed that poor girl." "These folks need to know the truth." "When was the last time any of you saw her?" "I saw her yesterday, around 11:00 p.m. She was heading for the laundry room." " Was anybody with her?" " She was alone." "Okay, thank you." "Yo." "CSU just finished their sweep." "Did they find anything?" "It's what they didn't find." "There were no prints." "It's like the place has been wiped down." "The killer must've come back to the room to get rid of the evidence." "All right, set up a canvass, see if anyone else entered or exited that room." "And let's pull surveillance footage from the security cam in the elevator." "Maybe it will tell us who she was with." "Right on." "It doesn't take a best-selling mystery writer to figure this one out." "Small-town girl with big city dreams ends up turning tricks to survive." "It's a tragic yet all-too-familiar tale." "Except that's not this girl's story." "We just got a fingerprint match off the victim's body." "Her name's not Crystal Sky, she's definitely not from Lubbock, Texas." " Well, who is she?" " Erika Albrook." "She's an honors student at Harvard." "BECKETT:" "Our skid row hooker is a Harvard honor student?" "Like I said." "A tragic, yet not-so-familiar tale." "This makes no sense." "She was supposed to be in Europe, backpacking with her friends." "I mean..." "We dropped her off at the airport." " When?" " WOMAN:" "Last Monday." "The same day she checked into that hotel." "Any idea what she'd be doing in the city?" "None." "And why would she stay there?" "My sister has a place in Midtown." "Were there any personal issues that we should know about?" "Did she have any problems with drugs or money?" "Erika would never use drugs and she had..." "And she had plenty of money in her bank account for Europe." "Is it possible she met someone in the city?" "A new boyfriend?" "She would've told us." "Are you sure about that?" "I don't know anymore." "The only thing I do know is our daughter would never stay in a place like that." "Detective, this isn't her." "Straight-A student, no history of trouble, on a dream European vacation, turns into a hooker in a ratty hotel." "There is no way I'm letting Alexis go to Costa Rica now." "Maybe she broke under the pressure of being perfect." "Or maybe she just decided she needed a change." "Honors student to prostitute in less than a week?" "That's quite a change." "Yeah." "It doesn't make any sense." "Hmm." " Hey, where were you this morning?" " What do you mean?" "Just called you a bunch of times." "Uh, my phone must have been off." "Ah." "Hey, guys." "Come check this out." "ESPOSITO: 11:00 p.m., the night Erika died." "She takes the elevator down to the laundry room." "Now, this is 11:05." "She takes the elevator back up to her room." "Seems perfectly normal." "Yeah, but watch." "This is just after midnight." "She takes the elevator up to the top floor." "Alone." "But watch what happens when she gets there." "Looks like she's making sure no one sees her." "ESPOSITO:" "Or following her." "But that's it." "She doesn't come back down." "And no one goes back up there until 4:00 a.m." "What about earlier?" "Nope, the last person to go up to the top floor was another hotel guest an hour earlier." "But the guy is 80 years old, there's no way he's climbing a water tower with a body." "Sounds like whoever killed her used the stairs." "Hey, so no recent activity on her phone." "She'd left it with her parents, since she was supposed to be in Europe." "But check this out." "A credit card charge?" "Yeah, from two days ago." "It's her only transaction since checking into the hotel." "Margo's." "That's a restaurant in Midtown." "It's expensive." "Yeah, and she wasn't alone." "Turns out she split the check with a Talia McTeague." "Okay, run her down." "Maybe she can give us some answers." "Hey, is there anything on the canvass?" "Nothing useful." "None of the occupants of the hotel admit to seeing anyone going in and out of her hotel room." "But given what they heard coming from her room at night, it's pretty clear she was a prostitute." "If she was a prostitute, she wasn't very good at it." "Seriously?" "You can tell that?" "Prostitution usually means sex, and there's no evidence of sexual activity." "But what I did find were defensive wounds, bruising around the neck and evidence of multiple blows to the head." "I'm guessing someone held her by her throat, and slammed her head into that ventilation fan." "Lack of water in the lungs indicate that she was dead before she went in the tank." "Then why bother even putting her in there?" "Water has a great way of washing away things like trace DNA." "BECKETT:" "Wait a minute, I don't understand." "If she wasn't having sex, then what were all of those sounds coming out of her room?" "(WOMAN MOANING)" "Okay." "So she wasn't really a hooker, she just wanted everyone to think that she was." "Why?" "I don't know, but not everyone thought she was a hooker." "That guy next door." "He was pretty adamant she wasn't." "So what did he know that the others didn't?" "I already told you what I know." "Not everything, Ziff." "How did you know she wasn't a prostitute?" "Please." "Look, I don't want any trouble." " Did you murder her?" " What?" "No!" "Then nothing you say is gonna get you into trouble." "Well, I heard those sounds, you know." "Come on, Ziff." "There's a hole in the wall in the back of the closet." "You were spying on her?" "What did you see?" "Well, that's the thing." "I heard all those sounds, but there was nothing going on." "It was just her sitting on the bed all night, fully dressed, with her headphones on, typing on her laptop." "There wasn't a laptop in the room." "There used to be." "She'd be on it all night, staring at the screen." "Did you ever see anyone else in there with her?" "No." "It was always just her." "Thanks for coming in, Ms. McTeague." "Of course." "I can't believe she's dead." "So, how did you know Erika?" "We were friends from Harvard." "We were both computer science majors." "Do you know what she was doing in the city?" "No." "But you had lunch with her two days ago." "Why?" "McTEAGUE:" "It was weird." "That morning, I was getting coffee from this place in the Village, and I saw her in this big argument with some guy." "She was dressed very different." "Sexed up and her hair was pink." "Anyway, he storms off, and I go up to her to say hello, and she just looks at me with this panicked look on her face and bolts." "Later that day, she tracked me down, called me at my office, and said that we needed to meet up right away." "So, what happened at lunch?" "She begged me not to tell anyone that she was in the city." "That if people found out, she could be in a lot of trouble." "And did she say why?" "I kept asking her what was going on, but she wouldn't talk about it." "She said she was on some sort of a mission." "A mission?" "This guy that she was arguing with." "Do you know who he was or what they were arguing about?" "No." "I just heard him say," ""You have no idea what you're up against." ""These people don't mess around."" "Can you describe him?" "Yeah." "Uniforms are canvassing The Cedric." "But so far, nobody recognizes him." "RYAN:" "Here's what I don't get." "Why go through all the trouble of creating a fake persona when you're just going to be on your laptop all night?" "Wait." "Does The Cedric have Wi-Fi?" "Yeah, that's about all it has." "Computer science major, hours on her laptop." "She's a hacker." "Which is why she was staying at The Cedric." "She could pay in cash and remain anonymous" " while she was using the IP address." " Exactly." "And whatever she was hacking into was either so illegal or so dangerous she had to make sure they couldn't trace it back to her." "And even if they did trace it back to her, they'd still have to find her amongst hundreds of residents." "BECKETT:" "So she created a whole false persona." "And who's going to look twice at a runaway hooker?" "I mean, she's like the girl with the dragon tattoo." "Only they did find her." "Which is why we can't find her laptop." "Whoever she went up against killed her and took it." "Problem." "We don't know who she went up against and none of her friends seem to know either." "Okay, contact The Cedric's Internet provider and get a list of all the IP addresses accessed by residents over the past two weeks." "There's gotta be an answer somewhere in there." "How about I take a break from writing tonight, you come to my place, I open a bottle of wine." "Detective Beckett." "Can I have a word?" "BECKETT:" "Yes." " I'll catch you later?" " She's all yours." " Sir." " Shut the door." "Have a seat." "I, uh..." "I just got a call about you." "From the Deputy Director of the FBI." "Apparently you had quite the interview in DC this morning." " Look, sir, it was..." " I just want to tell you that..." "I gave you my highest recommendation." "You did?" "Kate, this is the kind of work you were meant to be doing." "You'd be on the national stage, utilizing all your talents." "This is an incredible opportunity." "I would've killed to have a shot at something like this when I was your age." "Thank you, sir, but it was just an interview." "I mean, it's a long shot at best." "No, I wouldn't be so sure about that." "From what I hear, you're on a short list." "And with any luck, this could be your last case." "(GASPS)" "Oh, girl, you scared me." "What are you doing here so early?" "I just wanted to see if you had anything new on the victim." "Well, I was able to place time of death between 12:00 midnight and 1:00 a.m." "Mm-hmm." "Oh, and I found traces of creosote under her fingernails, which is probably meaningless, since the boiler room is right next to the laundry room and it could've gotten on her hands when she went down there." "But..." "That's not why you're here, is it?" "Okay, what's wrong?" "Nothing." "(SIGHS)" "Yet." "Lanie, if you had the opportunity to do something that you wanted to do, but it would mean that" "everything in your life might change, would you take it?" "Well, it depends." "How good is the opportunity?" "Great." "Really, really great." "But the job's in DC." "And you're worried about Castle." "(SIGHS) I mean, we're in this relationship, but we never talk about where we're going." "And that's okay right now." "It's just..." "But if I get that job..." "Then you're gonna have to." "Yeah." "Maybe that's not such a bad thing." "Yeah, but what if it is?" "(CELL PHONE RINGS)" "(BEEPS)" "Hey, Castle." "Yeah, no, I just wanted to get an early start on the day," "I didn't want to wake you up." "Okay." "All right, I'll meet you there." "So I ran down all the IP addresses that were accessed through the hotel's server to find out what our victim was up to." "Any luck?" "The majority of the IPs were to porn sites." "Really?" "Which ones?" "I took the liberty of ruling those out, as well as normal commercial sites." "Google, Amazon, YouTube." "That narrowed it down to a couple hundred sites." "So we're still looking for a needle in a haystack." "Not necessarily." "I took those and went back, looking for multiple unique site hits that coincided with the dates your victim was checked into the hotel." "That left about 20." "Ooh." "Now we're talking, girl." "I can deal with 20." "You might not have to." "Of those 20," "I looked for IPs that were accessed late at night, during the period when your witness claimed the victim was on her laptop." "This is your most likely candidate." "The server IP was accessed multiple times a night, nearly every night Erika was at the hotel." "And who does it belong to?" "IP was traced to Banks and Bauer." "It's a boutique law firm in Midtown, represents high-level politicos and corporations." "Maybe Erika was some kind of online Erin Brockovich, you know." "A crusader for good, delving into the seedy underbelly of the legal system, in order to uncover some seamy truth." "Or maybe she was just hired by a rival firm to steal privileged information." "Now, why must you be so cynical?" "It's in my job description." "Which is why you need me." "Okay, why don't you dig into Erika's life." "Castle and I will hit the law firm and see if there's any connection." "Thank you?" "No." "I've never seen her before in my life." "Ms. Banks, you're sure?" "I'm positive." "Mitch!" "This is my partner, Mitch Bauer." "Do you know this girl?" "No." "Should I?" "The police think she may have hacked our server." "Why?" "What did she access?" "We don't know." " Well, is she in custody?" " Sort of." " What do you mean, "sort of"?" " She's dead." "Actually, she was murdered, and we believe it might have to do with whatever it was she was trying to access from your system." "Security software and firewall protection don't indicate any incursion." "Yeah, but if the hacker is good, your software may not pick it up." "Is there any way to trace network activity on your server" " for the past week?" " Yeah. (TYPING)" "There." "Between 11:00 p.m. And 3:00 a.m., all last week." "But according to the usage logs, no one was signed onto the system at that time." "Are you telling me this girl had access to our records for the past week and a half and you have no idea what she was doing?" "I'm afraid so." "BECKETT:" "Are there any cases or litigation that your firm's involved in currently that might hinge on privileged information?" "Are you kidding me, Detective?" "We're a law firm." "All of them." "So no one at the law firm knew what she was looking for either?" "Either that or they're covering something up." "But the only evidence of what she was up to is on that missing laptop." "So without it, we're dead in the water." "Much like Erika." "BOTH:" "Too soon." "Hey, guys." "I got something." "That phone call that she made to her friend to arrange lunch had me wondering exactly where that call came from." "Turns out, it was a payphone at the hotel." "So I ran down the other calls made from that phone." "One of them popped." "Lan Blaylock?" "Yeah, he was an attorney at Banks and Bauer until he was fired six months ago." "She made three phone calls to him from that phone, each lasting over five minutes." "This is Blaylock." "(BANGS)" "Mr. Blaylock, NYPD!" "Mr. Blaylock?" "Open up!" "(WHISPERS) I think our plot just thickened." " (CAMERA CLICKS)" " I'm pretty sure this wasn't a suicide." "How can you tell?" "See that diagonal ligature mark running up his neck?" " BECKETT:" "Yeah." " Well, that's what we'd expect to find because the weight of the body pulls the cord into a vertical line." " But..." " But this other faint ligature mark, see how it runs horizontally across his neck?" "He was strangled first." "Mmm-hmm." "Then strung up." "So we have a second murder." "Well, technically, it's the first murder." "Given temperature and decomposition," "I'd say he died at least a day before our lady in the water tank." "RYAN:" "Beckett." "So I was going through Blaylock's recent activity and I found this chat exchange between him and an anonymous user." ""Changed my mind." "Can't live like this anymore." ""Will tell you everything I know." ""Where can we meet?"" "Person replies, "There's a place near where I'm staying." ""Cedric Hotel." "Rooftop." "At midnight."" "She asked him to meet her up there." "She must've thought it was a location she could control." "Guys, look what time he sent that message." "RYAN: 10:00 p.m. The night she was murdered." "Right, but according to Lanie's time of death, Blaylock was already dead." "So this was sent by whoever killed him." "They lured her out." "Then killed her, too." "So the folks at the law firm claim that they have no idea why anyone would murder Blaylock, or why Erika was looking for him." "Did they at least tell you why they let Blaylock go?" "Only that it was a personal issue." "Well, must have been pretty serious." "We checked with friends." "Apparently, he was a rising star at the firm." "Till about a year ago, when out of the blue, he just became distant, withdrawn, marriage fell apart and he started doing drugs." "It's like something happened." "BECKETT:" "So Erika was looking into the firm." "Blaylock used to work at the firm." "Now they're both dead." "Why?" "Hey, just heard back from Erika's parents." "The law firm rang a bell." "Turns out that Erika's best friend from high school interned there last summer." "A Pam Bonner." "Okay." "Maybe she can give us some answers." "Where do we find her?" "Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester." "She was killed last summer in a car crash." "What were the circumstances?" "Well, there were no witnesses, but according to the police report, she was driving home from the firm's summer party, she lost control and crashed into a tree." "Autopsy indicates that she was intoxicated at the time." "But Erika never believed the official account." "Any reason why?" "Well, she believed that Pam would never drive drunk." "And when they found Pam, she was wearing high heels, and Erika said she never drove in heels." "Three deaths, all leading back to the law firm of Banks and Bauer." "Is it just me, or is this starting to smell like a John Grisham novel?" "A single car accident with no witnesses?" "Guys, this is a classic conspiracy cover-up." "Though only a lowly intern," "Pam stumbles onto something that the firm is doing." "Something big and nefarious." "She has to be silenced." "Only after the accident, Blaylock can't take the guilt or admit the truth." "So his only bastion is to escape into the sweet oblivion of drugs." "And then when Erika starts coming around, they realize they're gonna have to act by eliminating them both." "But what are they covering up?" "Whatever it is, the only possible evidence is on Erika's laptop," " which our killer took." " Yeah." "Wait." "Are we sure about that?" "Erika was meeting Blaylock on the roof, right?" "A guy who, according to the emails, she didn't know very well." "If I'm Erika, I'm hiding that laptop." "Well, we searched her room." "It wasn't there." "Wait." "Do you guys remember the footage from the elevator?" "Yes." "She went down to the laundry room first." "And Lanie said that she found traces of creosote under her fingernails from the boiler room next door." "BOTH:" "The laptop's in the basement." "Man, this was Castle's theory." "How did we draw the short straw?" "I don't know." "Let me ask you something." "You notice anything weird about Beckett?" "What do you mean?" "Well, she's different." "Something's off." "What are you saying?" "Like she's pregnant or..." "What are you talking about?" "Where did that even come from?" "Well, you said she was acting different." "They're consenting adults..." "Beckett is not pregnant." "Come on, man." "What's so wrong about being pregnant?" "You know, I can't even talk to you about this right now." "Okay." "Well, try to get over it before Jenny tells you the news, okay?" "What?" "Are you serious?" "Wow!" "Congratulations, man." "That's great." "Thanks, bro." "(METALLIC CLANK)" "Hold up." "There's something up here." " What's that?" " That's a laptop." "Okay, no, that's great." "Thank you." "So, they found the laptop." "I knew it." "So what was on it?" "Well, the hard drive is encrypted, so techs are going through it now." "Well, somewhere on that computer is a conspiracy of lies so heinous, so deadly..." " What's this?" " What's what?" " Boarding pass." " Castle..." "You fly to DC yesterday?" "Yes." "I did." "Why?" "I was invited down for an interview." "What kind of interview?" "For a position with a federal task force." "I'm sorry." "You interviewed for another job in another city and you didn't tell me?" "I didn't tell you about it because it was just an interview and I knew that you would be upset." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You're damn right I'm upset." "Castle, I just wanted to see what was out there." "What's wrong with that?" "What's wrong with it is that you hid it from me." "In fact, you lied about it." "I wouldn't do that to you." "Castle, this isn't about you." "This is about me." "This is about my life." " So you're seriously considering this?" " Yes." "This is a wonderful opportunity." "It'll be a chance to do more." "Without me." "Castle, please don't do this." "Please don't make this about us." "I'm sorry, tell me how this isn't about us." "You get this job, you move to DC, I'll never see you." "That's pretty much the end of our relationship, isn't it?" "You don't know that." "And I probably won't even get the job." "That's not the point." "The point is, you knew what this could mean, and it didn't occur to you to include me." "Or worse, it did occur to you, and you chose not to." "Now, what does that say about us?" "Not much, if you ask me." "Castle." "I can't be here right now." "(DOOR SLAMS)" " Hey." " Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah." "Where's Castle?" "I don't know." "We had a fight, okay?" "What, like a regular fight, or..." "How bad?" "Hey, guys." "We got something." "Once your victim hacked into the law firm, she started with the basics, emails, calendars, payroll." "Then she moved on to client and personal files." "Do we know what she was looking for?" "Hard to say." "But for the last few nights," "Erika became very focused on the firm's accounting department." "The accounting department?" "It appears that she was looking into lan Blaylock's billable hours records." "Focusing exclusively on one week last summer." "Wait a minute." "That's the same week as Pamela Bonner's car accident." "Right." "Now, check it out." "The highway patrol determined that" "Pam Bonner's accident occurred between 1:30 and 2:00 a.m." "And lan Blaylock billed for an incoming phone call from a client at 1:45 a.m." "So, you think one of his clients might have been involved." "Maybe ran her off the road." "According to the highway patrol, it was a one-car accident." "You guys, what if Erika was right?" "What if Pamela wasn't driving drunk or in her high heels?" "In fact, what if Pamela wasn't driving at all?" "Someone else was driving." "Someone who crashed and didn't want to be blamed for Pam's death." "So he put her behind the wheel, fled the scene." "And then called their lawyer." "Who made that phone call to Blaylock?" "For security, the firm replaces its clients' names with codes." "This one's 47BGO." "Okay, that firm's never gonna give up that information." "Let's see where else that code shows up." "Cross-reference it." " See if we can ID our person from there." " (TYPING)" "You don't have to look too far." "Blaylock billed that very same client for a round of golf the day after the car crash." "Well, that would be a perfect place to discuss details." "No one would overhear them." "BECKETT:" "So according to the starter at the pro shop," "Blaylock was playing golf with another member, Colin Rigsdale III." " Of the Rigsdale political family?" " Yeah." "Word is, Daddy's grooming him for a state Senate run." "Not if this gets out." "A fatal car crash with a college chick?" " Nah, he'd be done." " That's why he was covering it up." "With Blaylock's help, until the guilt set in." "And then Erika started poking around, and people started dying." "It says here Rigsdale's still represented by Banks and Bauer." "Give them a call." "Tell them I'm coming." "Right." "Hey." "What's going on?" "Where's Castle?" "Don't ask." "Thank you for meeting with me, Mr. Rigsdale." "Well, when Jessica told me someone had hacked into their system," "I was, of course, concerned." "I think we all know what my political opponents might do if they managed to access confidential information." "So the girl who hacked into our system, did you find out what she was after?" "Yes, and we also believe we know why she was killed." "Are you familiar with a girl named Pamela Bonner?" "Detective, what is this about?" "Mr. Rigsdale?" "Name's not familiar." "Really?" "I understand that she was an intern here at the firm last year." "Isn't that correct?" "And isn't it also correct that you attended the Banks and Bauer summer associate party last year?" "BANKS:" "Don't answer that." "Detective, what are you doing?" "The same thing that my victim, Erika Albrook, was doing." "Trying to figure out how her best friend, Pamela Bonner, actually died." "Her death was an accident." "Really?" "Then why do we have a record of lan Blaylock," "Mr. Rigsdale's attorney at the time, receiving a phone call from him at 1:45 that night?" "Detective, this is privileged information." "It's inadmissible." "And we're not in court." "This meeting is over." "You need to leave." "Now." "Just tell me, how am I supposed to trust her?" "How am I even supposed to be in a relationship with her" " if she won't let me in?" " Well, Richard..." "After everything that we've been through together, I..." "I just don't understand." "I hate to say it, kiddo, but I do." "Look, the truth is Katherine is a bright, ambitious woman." "She should be interviewing for that job." "Whose side are you on?" "You want her to put you first when neither one of you know where the relationship is going." "Do you know how absurd that is?" "I mean, that is as bad as your not signing that check for Alexis' program." "This isn't about me." "Are you sure?" "I know you." "You do not hold back." "Except this thing with Katherine." "It took you, what, three years to tell her how you felt, another year to act on it." "And now, the first sign of trouble, you're ready to run." "Why?" "And you're having a good time." "You both are." "And I know you say you love her." "But, darling, this is who she is." "So is it possible that the reason you have held back is because somewhere deep down inside, you don't think this is going to really work?" "I take it he didn't confess." "I didn't need him to." "I just needed to see his eyes." "It's him." "Well, the evidence begs to differ." "His prints are in the system from his arrest at a political protest a decade ago." "I ran them against the partial." "It's not a match." "And the papers put him at his family's compound in Maine during Erika's murder." "Yeah, well, he'd never do this himself." "And hiring someone else is too risky for a public figure." "He'd get a close associate or a trusted friend to do it." "So why don't we dig into his life and find out who." " All right." " (CELL PHONE RINGS)" "Beckett." "Detective." "Deputy Director Anthony Freedman calling." "Remember?" "From the interview." "Yes, sir." "Yes, I do." "What can I do for you?" "You can say yes." "Detective, you got the job." "Hey, where's Beckett?" "She took off about an hour ago." "Something's going on, but she wouldn't tell me what." "Well, I was looking into Rigsdale's known associates when I came across this photo." "That is Martin Tillage, Rigsdale's half-brother and the black sheep of the family." "Look familiar?" "Yeah, we interviewed this guy." "He was one of the guests at The Cedric." "He must've checked in to try to find her and then hung around so his departure didn't look suspicious." "He's gotta be our guy." "I'll have uniforms pick him up." " See if you can find Beckett." " Yeah." "Sounds like a great offer." "Yeah, it is." "Your mom would be proud." "Hell, I'm proud." "So, what're you going to do?" "I don't know, Dad." "It's like I'm standing at a crossroads and I have to choose between two possible futures." "Why do you think you have to choose?" "Because, Dad, he's right." "If I take this job, then there's not gonna be time for anyone else." "And then if I don't..." "It'll be because of him, and you'll end up resenting him for it." "Or worse." "Dad, I don't know what we have." "I don't know if it's real." "It's like we've been doing this dance for the past five years and..." "I mean, what happens when the music stops?" "What if all we were in love with was the dance?" "You know, your whole life you've never had a relationship go this far." "You know, somewhere around here you always end them." "Now, why is that?" "Look, Katie, I know you." "When you get scared, you hide in your work." "And I just want you to be sure, whatever decision you make, it's because it's what you want." "Not because you're afraid." "(WHISPERS) This job." "It's what I want." "Then tell him." "(SIGHS) He's gonna hate me, Dad." "That's something you'll have to live with." "(CELL PHONE CHIMES)" "My last case." "I better go end it." "There you are." "I'm sorry it took me so long to write it." "Go have fun." "Thanks, Dad." "Dad, are you okay?" "Yeah." "You seem sad." "No." "I'm fine." "It's only Costa Rica." "I'll be back before you know it." "Oh, that's sweet, but, no, it's not about that." "It's something your grandmother told me." "Comes a point in our lives when we have to stop fooling ourselves into thinking life's gonna be the way we want it to be." "Start seeing things for how they really are." "So, I was there." "So what?" "I needed a place in the city to stay for a couple of nights." "Is that a crime?" "No." "But killing a girl is." "What did your brother promise you, Martin?" "Respectability for the black sheep?" "A place at the family table..." "I told you, I've never seen this girl before in my life." "You're wasting your time." "Do you have any idea how many people have sat across that table and confessed their sins to me?" "What makes you think that you're any different?" "Any smarter?" "You've only been in this room for one hour." "But this room..." "This room has been my life." "My home." "And I will not let you sit there and lie to me in my own home." "This is a partial print found at the crime scene, in the victim's blood." "It's a match to yours, Martin." "Am I still wasting my time?" "I've got enough to convict you." "So the question is, how many years of your own life are you gonna sacrifice for someone else's future?" "Or are you ready to deal?" "He's prepared to give a statement implicating his brother in both murders, as well as the accident." "Would you guys mind taking it?" " Yo, Kate." " Yeah?" " What's up?" " Yeah." "What's going on?" "(SIGHS)" "Look, there's something that I have to tell you guys, but there's someone else that I have to tell first." "(CELL PHONE RINGS)" " Castle." " BECKETT:" "It's me." "We need to talk." "Yeah." "We do." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have kept secrets." "It's who you are." "You don't let people in." "I've had to scratch and claw for every inch." " Castle..." " Please, let me finish." "I've been doing a lot of thinking about us, about our relationship." "What we have." "Where we're headed." "I've decided I want more." "We both deserve more." "I agree." "So, whatever happens, whatever you decide," "Katherine Houghton Beckett," "will you marry me?"

"Here come the boys from UK." "Okay, I won't be able to play golf today." "My phone predicts bad weather in the afternoon." "Then?" " What else?" "I will stay at home and serve you." "Stop it." "You start this from the morning itself." "Bitter gourd juice, uncle." "I made a mistake by getting the test done." "I wonder what else they will make me drink." "Shut up and drink it." "How many times do I have to tell you that I am fine?" "You can make me empty a trailer full of sand manually." "Now the doctor's orders will be followed, not yours, uncle." "Drink it quietly." "Fine." "I'll drink it." "Call Roopinder, her darling son." "Mr. Garewal, is he only my darling son?" "What's the hurry?" "He will come." "Yes, right." "He doesn't have to go to the office." "Good morning, mom." " Good morning, son." "Hi, dad." "Good morning." "Channo, get me some 'Paranthas'." "Also get some butter." "Dad, eat some veggies." "Teasing your father?" "Didn't you start it?" "He said he doesn't have to go the office." "Now say something." "Why are you so quiet now?" "What can he say?" "He has left no work for me." "He's made so much money that our four generations can live comfortably." "Have fun at your father's cost." "I have all the fun I can." "I don't start something that I cannot finish." "Why don't you go for an international vacation?" "Why should I?" "Just like that?" "'Paranthas!" "'" "Who will feed me these there with such affection?" "You aren't getting any." "Eat your cornflakes." "Yes, Bholi." "Tell me what happened?" "The place where we wanted to fix Roopinder's marriage." "Yes?" " I don't think it will work out." "They want their girl to marry an NRI, aunt." "This is the limit." "They haven't been beyond Moga." "And they want an NRI for their daughter." "Tell them I don't want my son to marry their daughter." "They think they are great." " Who was it?" "Everyone wants to go abroad these days." "They say they want an NRI groom." "Why?" "What's wrong with boys from Punjab?" "Right." "A donkey is making a fuss." "They have locked up their destiny by saying no to our son." "My son can hire 50 employees." "Right?" "Why?" "What was I saying?" "If you would've gone abroad then families having daughters would've been running after you." "I cannot marry just any girl, dad." "As soon as I see the girl I want to marry I should.." "What should happen?" "I should lose my senses." "Be careful, son." "Those who make people lose their mind usually dominate their husbands." "Oh really?" "What do you mean?" "What do you mean by that?" "You mean mom has locked you in a cage?" "I didn't say that." "I always take care of you and you say such things to me." "Hear that." " Continue." "I am leaving." "I don't look after you, my love?" "Son, where are you going?" "In search of the one who will make me lose my mind." "Good luck." "Uncle, your medicine with warm water." "I don't want it." "You will have to." "I've locked him up in a cage." "Have your medicine." "Bye-Bye India Marriage Bureau Only foreign marriage alliances" "Daljeet Jugaadi?" "What is he up to?" "Bye-Bye India Marriage Bureau Only foreign marriage alliances" "Hello, mister!" "First fill up the form then I'll arrange a meeting with sir." "He might be a sir for you, he's my buddy." "'Wow!" "'" "Wonderful!" "All by yourself!" "What a pair!" "Shake hands!" "Forget the hand shake, give me a hug." "Good to see you after so long, buddy." " Same here." "You are doing well." "See for yourself." "Doesn't it look grand?" "What is this?" "You met Obama?" "It's fake, right?" "No." "He really is Obama." "I am the fake one." "All the universities give paper degrees." "I am the one who makes careers." "That too in dollars and pounds." "This is what is called cutting the cake and having it too." "Have a seat." "Let's sit and talk." "We are meeting after a long time." "Has someone accepted you or is your status just like mine, 'applied for'?" "This means you too are single like me." "My friend now the whole world is in my hands." "Close your eyes and place your finger anywhere on the globe." "Let me know from which country do you want the girl to be." "And you my friend are hero material." "You won't even need an airplane." "She will take you in her hands." "These are the pictures of girls who stay abroad." "See if you like any." "I can go abroad anytime I want." "My family will feel lonely." "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'I have devoted them to you.'" "'I have lost them to you.'" "'I have devoted them to you.'" "'I have lost them to you.'" "'My eyes only worship you.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'Now nothing that I have belongs to me.'" "'Nothing's mine.'" "'Whatever I have is yours.'" "'It's all yours.'" "'Now nothing that I have belongs to me.'" "'Whatever I have is yours.'" "'You are the one in front of me.'" "'You are the one away from me.'" "'You are the one who keeps quiet.'" "'You are the one who speaks.'" "'You are the one in front of me.'" "'You are the one away from me.'" "'You are the one who keeps quiet.'" "'You are the one who speaks.'" "'Being with you has made my loneliness go away.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'The claims the eyes make.'" "'The claims the eyes make.'" "'They claim a right over your face.'" "'They don't look away.'" "'The day and night belongs to you.'" "'The sunshine and the rains too belong to you.'" "'The day and night belongs to you.'" "'The sunshine and the rains too belong to you.'" "'I have given my fate in your hands.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "Hello?" "Where did you get lost, young man?" "You went by air." "This coffee was hot when it came." "Now it has become a cold drink." "I have lost my mind." "I found the one I was looking for." "Oh really?" "Let me look at the angel who made my friend lose his mind." "Hey, she is an Indian." "A local." "That makes things easier." "Lift your foot from the accelerator and hit the brakes." "Keep your engine cool, my boy." "Why?" " Try taking a simple path at least sometimes." "You messed with the non-medical in college." "You ended up giving supplementary exams, didn't you?" "Once again you are placing you hand on the wrong thing." "This is the first time I have chosen something right and you say it is wrong." "Pal, her father will marry her to an NRI beggar but he refuses the proposal from even a king who stays here." "That's nothing great." "Give me her name and address." "I'll take care of it." "Okay." "If you insist, her details are behind the photo." "Take it." "Disha Dhillon, daughter of Dilip Singh Dhillon." "Village Kheri. 9815292359." "Let's go." " Where?" "To meet Disha." "What's wrong?" "He's home early today." "Strange." " Welcome." "You are all smiles today." "Did you find someone special?" "Both of you worry about getting me married." "I thought I should get married." " Really, Roopinder?" "With any girl?" "Not with any girl, mom." "With one girl." "As soon as I saw her I felt she is the one who will look after my mother." "Was it written on her forehead that she'll look after her mother-in-law?" "Stop joking." "If you like the girl then I too like her." "What is her name?" "Where is she from?" "Disha Dhillon, daughter of Dilip Singh Dhillon." "Village and post office Kheri." "It's nearby." "Look, dear, the way he is behaving I feel you'll have to make her your daughter-in-law." "You always keep cracking jokes." "I will talk to her family." "Hello." "I cannot just swallow pills." "I can talk as well." "She wants to talk to the girls family!" "So, do you have their contact number?" "9815292359." "Great." "He has memorized it as if it is of some helpline." "Dad, it's not the girl's number." "It's her father's." "Father!" "You call me dad and you are already showing him respect." "Are you calling him or not?" " Have I ever said no to you?" "I will call even if the line is dead." "So, shall I call him up, son?" "Call him up." "We'll see what happens." "981.." " 9815292359." "Oh really?" "Oh!" "Hello?" "Dhillon speaking." "Hello, Mr. Dhillon." " Hello." "I am Harjeet Singh Garewal from Gilla." "Garewal from Gilla?" " Yes." "Yes, tell me." "I want to meet you regarding my son's marriage proposal." "Most welcome." "You can come any time you want." "If you don't mind, can you tell me what your son does." "We have millions rotting." "We have 50 acres of land." "He's my only son." "And you ask me what my son does." "Mr. Garewal, you can come any time you want." "But don't mind" "I am looking for an NRI boy for my daughter." "Why, Mr. Dhillon?" "Aren't boys from Punjab good enough that you don't want your daughter to marry them?" "You are insulting me." "You are humiliating the whole of Punjab." "I didn't open my doors for you and you wish to sunbath in my courtyard?" "She is my daughter." "I can get her married anywhere I want." "I don't understand what you want." "People check the family, the prospective groom." "And you are adamant on the groom being an NRI." "Excuse me, but I am not pleased to speak to you." "I too am not very happy." "It would be better if we end this here." "Don't need to chant a mantra to end the conversation." "Dad?" " Disconnect the line and the conversation will end." "This conversation is over." "Don't call me henceforth, even by mistake." "You hit hard." "Is this any way to talk to someone?" "What all should I teach you?" "Sorry, son." "I spoke to him at your request." "But I think this Dhillon is not an easy person." "You should forget that girl." " Dad" "We will find someone else." "Who is he to teach me?" "I want to send my daughter abroad." "Do foreigners talk like this?" "We Indians aren't that bad." "Stop defending him." "I have seen a lot when I was in Germany for two years." "Only foreigners know how to live life." "What can we do about my problem?" " I have a solution." "What?" "Forget her." "Shut up!" "What kind of a person are you?" "Have you never been in love?" "I am in love with her." "You are in love, my brother." "But her father wants an NRI." "And you are not one." "So your love story ends here." "How can it end here?" "Now there's just one aim in my life." "To be with Disha." "Wonderful." "You seem to have fallen in love." "If it is so then what's the problem?" "Then be an NRI." "You mean I should go abroad." "Settle there and then come back." "By then her old man will marry her off to someone in Muscat." "My boy, I told you to be an NRI, not become one." "Try to understand what I mean to say." "Why do you talk about things that can get us thrashed?" "Wonderful." "You want to love but you are scared of getting thrashed." "Wonderful." "For how long can we survive as fakes?" "Till her father doesn't agree." "What about when he finds out the truth?" "Nothing." "You can tell the girl the truth that you had to do this drama to be with her." "Otherwise her father wouldn't have agreed." "The girl will kill me." "It is not that easy." "Yes." "You are wrong over here." "My boy, love is a disease that has no cure." "No matter where in the world you take the patient." "Just sweet talk her into calling you sweetheart." "Once she calls you sweetheart she will go against her family." "There is no other option?" " There is." "The one I told you about earlier." "Forget her." "She is in my memory card." "Now I cannot remove her." "Fine then." "You don't have to worry." "Make noise." "Tell the world that modern boys can make commitment too." "Ranjha became a shepherd for 12 years for Heer." "Can't you become someone else for her father for some time?" "I am feeling scared." "But it's okay." "We'll see what happens." "Come on, make preparations." "What do you mean?" "You have to make the preparations." "That's your job." "My brother, you are the director of this film." "You will have to handle if anything goes wrong, right?" "I can handle things." "It's not a problem." "But I will be with you only in the beginning." "I'll start the film and then leave." "You will have to take the film to its end on your own." "Fine." " Fine?" "But which country does the hero of your film belong to?" "He can be of any country." "All of them are the same." "Is it good?" "It's great." "So, this is a map." "I never said it's a painting of horses." "I am just informing you." " Where's Southall?" "Southall?" "I just printed the map from the internet." "I too couldn't find Southall." "But it's here somewhere." "You just need to remember that." "You stay on Gilford street in house number 118 and I stay in 119." "Don't worry much about London." "Keep talking about Southall." "There are only a few things to remember about London." "Remember the London bridge." "Remember the Big Ben." "A huge bell." "Remember London Eye." " What is London Eye?" "London Eye." "The wooden swing in our village?" "Yes?" " These foreigners have made a huge one made of steel." "Don't bother about it." "And Piccadilly Circus." " Piccadilly Circus?" "Circus." "It's not the regular type." "Dirty kind of shows take place over there." "A lot of Punjabis go to watch them, but we don't." "It reduces our score." " Okay." "Anything else about Southall?" "Just remember we drink at Glassi Junction in the evenings." "We go to watch the 'Baisakhi' fair at Park Avenue." "And we eat at the Jalebi Junction." "And whenever you get stuck just go back to the big Gurudwara." "We go to the big Gurudwara quite often." "Don't go beyond that or we will be in trouble." "That's it then." "It's good." "We will keep discussing as we progress." "Right?" "Shall we make a move?" "Make a move?" "Wait." "Does your aunt stay at Kheri village?" "Where will you stay?" "Let me make arrangements for our stay." " Do it." "Hello!" " Hello?" "Hello?" "Deep!" "How are you?" "I am doing great, brother Jugaadi." "I am in London, all thanks to you." "Else, I would've been enjoying the police station in Ludhiana." "Listen, I need your help." "Two of us want to stay in your farmhouse at Kheri." "No problem, brother." "My cousin Moni stays there." "I'll call him up." "Yes, call him up and tell him that your two friends are coming from UK." "Don't say Jirakpur." "Say, we are from UK, okay?" "What's this all about, brother?" "I'll let you know some other time." "Call him up and say that your friends are coming over from UK." "Bye." "This is a nice fix you have found, you scoundrel." "No cursing." "Boys and girls don't curse in this manner in UK." "They curse in sign language." "I'll teach you that as well." "Okay?" "Our syllabus is over." "Can we go now?" "We will have to go now." "Yeah." " Yeah?" "You still aren't done puking?" "Give me a second." "Not a government treasury that can be cleaned out in no time." "Careful with that, or you might pop your eyes out." "My eyes always yearn to see you." "How can they just pop out?" "I didn't let even a drop of locally brewed stay inside me." "Deep had called." "There's a scotch coming from UK." "You start counting chickens before the eggs are hatched." "Madam." " Yes?" "You can hatch eggs later." "Keeda has brought someone with him." "Who is it?" "Your guests with ugly faces have come." "God bless you, Keeda." "My bottle of scotch is here!" "Welcome." "Hi." " Hello." "Hi, how are you?" " I'm Moni." "She's my wife." "Mitho." "Hi." "She is shy." "She has accepted your greetings." "Hello, sister Mitho." "Let's shake hands." "He says she is shy, but her hands are firm." "She is very frank while shaking hands, I guess." "Nice couple, huh?" "Yeah." " Not slippers, just sliders." "She wears sandals sometimes." "She wore them for our wedding." "You are late." "My throat has gone dry waiting for you." "My bus was late." "Airbus." "Plane is also called airbus." "It means the same." "Be grateful for I met them, they were wandering around." "See you, telephone exchange." "Bye." "He cracks funny jokes." " Yeah." "I know he's a funny guy." " Yeah." "I like it." " Nice place, eh?" "Deep has made it for us to enjoy." "He sends us clothes too." "This is as good as UK for us." "We eat and drink well." "We are fed up of having junk food in UK." "Now we are here to have some greens." "Don't you worry." "We'll feed you so many greens that your navel will turn green." "You can ask around if you want to." "Navel?" " Ask around?" "Oh, I know." "Local language, you know." "Okay!" "He's a rustic!" "Rustic!" "Still rustic?" "Okay, Mithe.." " I'm Moni." "My wife's Mitho." "Order me." "Oh, so sorry." "I wanted to ask will you just keeping talking or show us our rooms as well?" "Yes." "Thanks for reminding." "Shera!" "Take their luggage and show them their room." " Yes." "Freshen up and then we'll drink." " Okay." "Which scotch have you brought with you?" "Hey." " Scotch?" "Customs officials have held the bag with Scotch." "We'll get it by day after tomorrow." "What if they drink it all?" " Yes." "No, I drank a little from it before leaving it behind." "They don't drink from an unsealed bottle." "I puked the locally brewed liquor anticipating the scotch." "And it is still at the airport." "Fine." "Follow Shera." "Okay." "See you guys." "You jinxed it." "You are riding busted bikes." "Are you guys idiots?" "Watch it!" "I'll give you a tight slap." "We're from UK." " Okay." "You should be polite, brother." "You should know how to speak to your elders." "That's a quick change of tone." "Not a problem." "I'll see you." "Here you go, my boy." "Have a look at your in-laws' place." "I'm here with a lot of hope, the father of my beloved." "Don't make me leave alone." "Stop laughing." "You shouldn't hesitate to bow before the place that leads you to your destiny." "Wonderful." "Not the place, the direction." "It's the same." "Get into your character." "Okay, get into your UK returned character." " Yeah." "Roop, do you see this house?" "I like it." "Its design is great." "Yeah, I like it too." "Looks like a copy of a design from abroad." "No." "I don't think this is a copy." "I think it's original." "Someone has personally designed it." "Let's ask uncle." "Yeah, I don't mind." "Hello, uncle." "Hi, uncle." "Hello." "Can you help resolve our issue?" "I think your nice house's design is Indian." "I think it has been copied from abroad." "It has been designed by me." " Oh." "But it's inspired by international style." "I love abroad architecture." "Wow." "Wow." "My boy.." "You look familiar." "This is my first time in India." " Uncle." "We have just landed in India." " Yes." "I was born in UK." "Can I click a pic of it?" "Pic?" "Photo?" "Picture?" "Snap?" "You can click a picture but you cannot copy the design." "It is my personal design." "Thanks." "Thanks a lot." "Why don't you get in the frame?" "I'll click a picture of you too." " Oh yeah." "Come inside." "Have some refreshments." "Come with me." " Thanks." "Thank you so much, uncle." "First of all tell me what will you have?" "Tea, coffee, buttermilk or juice?" "Tea would suffice." "Suffice?" "Roop loves Punjabi." "It's our mother tongue." " Yeah." "What did you say, where are you from?" "We are from UK." "Born and brought up in UK." "Wonderful." "You are fortunate to have been born and brought up there." "In India one is born only to give attendance." "You seem to be fed up of India." "You know how it is abroad." "You will know how it is here." "You cannot compare the two." "That's heaven and this is hell." " Oh yeah." "That's good, but this too is nice." "No." "You'll know in a while." "You've just landed here." "Are you brothers?" "No." "We are friends." "But like brothers, you know." "We've been in a lot together." "We are spoilt." "By spoilt I mean, he says he wants to get married in India." "Otherwise he won't get married." "I say." " My better half." "Jeet." "Hi." " Hello." "God bless you." " Hi." "God bless you." "Please have a seat." "They are from UK." "Okay." " I met them outside." "He wants to get married here." "Here?" "At our place?" "In India." "Here." "Okay." "It is my mom's wish that I get married in Punjab." "This boy is very 'official'." "It's cultured." "It's the same, right?" "Son, I am sure we have met before." "How is that possible?" "This is my first visit to India." "It's possible that you must've seen me in UK." "Not in UK, I lived in Germany for two and a half years." "In 1969." "I couldn't go back because of some property issues." "Now I get it." "We must've met in Kelowna." "Isn't Kelowna in Canada?" "It must be in Canada." "There's one in Germany as well." "I have sent people there." "I have a huge business in London." "I keep sending my staff there." "Bye." "We'll get moving." " No, son." "It was a pleasure meeting you." "You should at least have tea before leaving." "Maybe some other time." "We'll see you again soon." "Okay." " Don't hesitate to ask for a car to move around." "Yeah." " No, we'll let you know." "Bye." " Bye." "Yes, let's go." "Bye." " Bye." "Goodbye." " Okay." "Bye." " Bye." "I like this boy." "What do you say?" "You like anyone who comes from abroad." "No, I think Disha too will like him." "Fill it up for the Punjabis, Shera." "You are pouring it miserly as if this is scotch." "Hey, why are you taunting us about scotch?" "Two like you can fit into a bottle of scotch." "DJ?" "Yes?" " You are UK." "Deep first offers me scotch and then gets inside the house." "Offers it to you?" "Why?" "Are you a saint?" "Why are you ruining this?" "Moni.." "Do you know Dilip Singh Dhillon?" "The one from Germany?" "Yes." " Yes, I know him." "How is he?" "He's fine." "He's good." "He has a lot of wealth and property." "He has just one daughter." "But he is stubborn about one thing." "He wants his daughter to marry someone from abroad." "Has he found someone?" "I don't know." "He says he wants.." "You guys are also from abroad." "You want me to talk to him about you guys?" "No, only about you." "And that too only if I get scotch." "Hey, why do you worry about the scotch?" "Just talk about him." "We will drown you in scotch." "You will come out from the scotch, gasping for breath." "People usually talk in English after getting drunk." "They are the first ones who talk in Punjabi." "Don't you worry." "Your job will be done." "Bottoms up!" "As you wish." "Hey!" "Well done, mix-breeder." "He too is celebrating." "Hello, papa!" "How are you?" "All good, dear." "What about you?" "I am missing you and mom." "Then come over in the morning." "I want to introduce you to someone." "Did he find an NRI?" "Who do you want me to meet?" "Two boys have come from UK." "One of them is a perfect match for you." "Oh God!" "You like all NRIs." "No, dear." "I request you to please meet him just once." "Okay." "I'll be there." "Come over." "Be here on time." "I'll be there." "I'm hanging up now." "Bye." "Jeet Kaur!" "I won't say yes to dad." "I wish my dad too finds an NRI for me." "I'll say yes for him even without seeing him." "There are two." "Dad has chosen one for me." "I am so dead!" "Fix me up with the other guy." "I'll say bye-bye to India." "Have you lost your mind, duffer?" "You haven't even seen him and you are ready to marry him." "What's there to see?" "He must be 6 or 5 feet tall." "He might be handsome or not." "It makes no difference to me." "I just want to go abroad." " Okay." "Your funda is very clear." "Come with me." "I don't know about my future but let me set yours." "Okay?" "I say you too should give your consent." "We will leave together." "I'll keep you company." "Kindhar Kaur, I'll put in a good word for you right away." "Good afternoon, sir." " Good afternoon." "Hi." "Hello, dear." "What are you doing, sunbathing?" "You should try the coziness of a library as well sometimes." "We were just leaving, dad." "Sir, Kindhar wanted.." "Anyway, forget it." "Why do you hesitate?" "Tell me what it is." "Nothing, dad." "She was just enquiring whether if someone finds me an NRI boy then will you give your consent?" "Naughty." "My daughter is very naughty." "It makes no difference to me whether he is staying here or abroad." "But you will have to find him, I don't have time." "Yes!" "Oh, Kindhar, I wish my dad was just like yours." "Then he would've been teaching history." "Listen, whether or not you like the boy, I'm going to say yes." "Okay, if it pleases you, I'll take you to my village." "Rest depends on your fate." " So nice of you." "Now watch my aim." "See how I'll reel in that boy from UK." "Wow!" "Great command over Punjabi!" "Reel in!" "What do you think?" "Will Disha agree?" "What can I say?" "This is the first time they are meeting." "You look familiar." "Me?" " Yes." "This is my first visit to India." " Okay." "Maybe you've pictured me." "Perhaps in your dreams." " Oh." "Very funny." "Where are you from?" " From Gilla." "Gilla?" "Gilford street, London." "People in my circle call it Gilla street." "You mean you stay in London." " Yeah." "Kindhar likes your turban." " Is it?" "By the way who is Kindhar?" "I am." "Right before you." "Oh!" "Is that you?" "Your name is Kindhar?" "I like it." "It's a nice name." "If you don't mind, can I address you as Kindi?" "Whatever you call me, it makes no difference." "But don't stop talking." " Oh." "What's your name?" " DJ." "Not your profession." "Your name." "My name is DJ." "Daljeet, in short, DJ." "Nice name." " Thank you." "People abroad go by such names." "DJ, AJ, SJ." "People change their names to anything they like." "It's a nice name." "I just have a nice name." "Kindhar is nice in every way." "Thank you." "I want to see Punjab." "You don't need to ask." "What you see around you is Punjab." "Like that is agriculture and that is a house." "I want to see Punjab's pure culture." "Oh." "Okay." "You mean, the wells, the carts.." " Yeah." "The old Punjab, right?" "Well, you've copy-pasted me well." "But I still want to see that Punjab." "Old is gold." "You are a tad late." "I mean you should've come 40-50 years ago." "Punjab has modernized." "Hi-tech, you know." "I too keep myself up-to-date." "Can I ask you something?" "Very personal." "Don't mind." " Yeah." "Sure." "How many girlfriends do you have?" "Now.." "I have many." "I am casual with many girls in the neighborhood." "But I don't have a permanent one." "Then make Kindhar your permanent girlfriend." "You sure?" "Oh, my God." "What happened?" " You have very rough hands." "I work." "One needs to work hard." "Moving the steering has made my hands rough." "My hands might be rough but my heart is soft." "Just like sponge." "I'll act like water and let the sponge soak me up." "Don't say that or I'll jump off the building." "You will jump and I'll be the one who will die." "Can I come to your college?" "As a guest?" "College?" " Yeah." "You can surely come to my college." "But I have a request to make." "Please don't refuse." "Don't insult me by making a request." "Order me." "I want to surprise my friends." "Come in a bullock-cart when you come to see me." "A bullock-cart." "A bullock-cart." "On a bullock-cart." "You are going to refuse, right?" " No." "I.." "I like.." "I love bullock-carts." "Really?" " Yeah." "I love bullock-carts." "Yeah." "Great." " A bullock-cart." "Foreigner, you'll come only when you find one." "Why did you have to agree to it?" "She is messing around with me." "Let me think of something." "We'll be humiliated if we go to college on a bullock-cart?" "I wonder why she fancies bullock-carts." "She is testing me." "And I don't wish to fail." "My job is done." "If you are not pleased, you can leave and go do your job." "Oh really?" "How can I leave you in the middle?" "I am your true friend." "I know what friendship you are talking about." "Then why are you asking me to leave?" "Try to understand, brother." "You too have lost it, brother." "Kindhar has cast such a spell on me that I've lost my heart." "Who's done that?" "How does that concern you?" "Come, have a seat, Moni." "We are practicing to talk like you." "We have come to Punjab so we should learn something new." "Right?" " That's nice." "He is acting stupid." "He wants to go to the city in a bullock-cart." "He says bullock-carts aren't easily available these days." "He says Moni will arrange for one." "He says it's very difficult to ask that from Moni." "Oh really?" "How many do you want?" " One." "When?" " In the morning." "You'll get one with horns and decorations." "Now tell me." " Hey, now our job is done." "The job is not done as yet." "My scotch?" "Don't worry about it." "I'll give you a sack full of them." "You can even bathe with it." "Then your job is done." "God's given us carrots.." "Let's make a carrot cake." "You know this one as well?" "Everyone's mother tongue is the same, after all." "You can laugh later." "First call for a bullock-cart." "Okay." " Make the call." "Okay." "Disha, I say if you don't decide about marriage now then when will you?" "Why have you turned marriage into a PhD degree, Kindhar?" "You can call me Kindi." " What?" "The UK guy has given me a pet name." "Oh my." "You've raced ahead in the first meeting itself." "You are impossible, Kindhar." "Especially if I have a friend like you." "Why did you have to keep the condition of the bullock-cart?" "They won't get a bullock-cart and they won't come." "That's what I want." "They shouldn't get one and they shouldn't come." "And we'll lose such good guys." "Let it be." "Wow!" "Great." "We would have lost them." "What happened?" " Look over there." "Oh God!" "They are very stubborn." "Not stubborn, committed." "The boys from UK are committed." " Shut up." "Stop!" "What's this?" " A helicopter." "Can't you see the bullock-cart?" "I know." "But how did you get it in?" "We rode it." "We didn't push it." "Hear that." "I won't let you take it further." "Park it in the parking." "How can you park a bullock-cart in the parking?" "Brother!" "Don't you worry." "Nothing will go wrong." "They are professor Chawla's guests." "That's fine, but who will pick up their dung?" "Want us to put diapers on them?" " Yeah." "Does their dung harm you?" "In India I've seen walls filled with dung cakes, like plasters." "Hey." "Hello." " Hi." "Can we come down, Disha?" "It would be nice." "Yes, yes." "Of course." "Please." " Let's go." "Hello." "Is the bullock-cart okay?" "With two bullocks." "Or did you want the one with one bullock?" "Well, it's not required." "I am totally impressed with this bullock-cart stunt." "Where did you get it from?" "We got it with great difficulty." "We first requested the owner." "Then we begged to the bullocks." "And then we could take it." "But as it is said no test is big or small in love." "For you I can get anything, this bullock-cart is nothing." "I was just joking." "You took it to heart." "You are right." "I took it to heart." "Something that touches the heart, touches the soul." "Oh my!" "You've memorized a lot of dialogues." "Tell me, are you taking any classes on romancing?" "No, no, no." "Love always teaches something." "And one needs to learn on his own." "Oh." "Get it." "What's happening?" "Who brought this bullock-cart?" "Dad!" "They are from UK." "They are our guests." "Oh." "There are two of them, dear." "Which one is yours?" "The one in the turban." "He's handsome." "DJ, my daddy." "Hi, dad." "How are you?" "I seek your blessings." "Hello." "Why did you come on the bullock-cart, son?" "We were fed up of the steering and gears of expensive cars." "Just for change, you know." "We are trying to link the heritage of Punjab." "Very good." "Besides, petrol is expensive." " Yeah." "You kids talk." "I'll make a move." "By the way, he's handsome." "Bye, uncle." "He was talking about me?" " Yes." "Tell me, what will you drink?" "Tea, coffee or something else?" "You tell me." "Do you want a ride?" "Ride?" " I've brought a bullock-cart." "Okay." "There's a condition if you want to give me a ride." "No more conditions." "More conditions." "Love doesn't strive on conditions." "Tell me." "You were saying something?" "About the condition?" "Oh right." "Do one thing." "Get a rickshaw tomorrow." "Rickshaw?" " Yes, a rickshaw." "A three-tire one." "Three tires." "You know, black and yellow." "A local cab." "Oh." "We'll take a ride in it tomorrow." " Oh yeah." "Okay?" " Done." "DJ.." "DJ, let's go." "Sorry." "I'll have to leave." " Yes." "See you." " See you." "Okay." " Bye." "See you in a rickshaw." " Yeah." "Okay." "See you." "Let's go, sir." "Work fast or things will go too far." "Tomorrow she will ask you to come in a train." "How will we lay the tracks?" "Now even if she asks for a beach in the village" "I'll get it." "Bye." "Yeah." "I love you too." "Yeah." "'The fortunate ones enjoy themselves' 'on locally brewed liquor.'" "You are cutting a lot of vegetables." "Not a lot." "Just one." "I am making greens." "Don't bother." "Keep it simple." "What can get simpler?" "Grass?" "You are in your house." "You are wearing green and making greens." "How are you?" "Hello." "Can't you say it in Punjabi?" "If that is what you like then okay." "Hello, uncle." "Okay." "She is sister Mitho and I am your uncle." "This is how it is." " Stop it." "Your hubby is jealous." "Hit me now." "Here's your scotch, Moni." "He's floored." "Are you happy now?" "Enjoy." "Hi." "Say hello." "Shake hands." "You shouldn't mind." " Oh really?" "And why are you cutting this grass?" "Cook chicken." "My brothers are here." "I'll go and get the glasses." "Even if he doesn't get glasses he will drink it from his palms." "Oh my." "He even knows about palms!" "These boys are intelligent." "Shera!" "We'll find a nice woman in Toronto and have Shera settle down in Canada." "First let's get ourselves settled." "You still haven't?" "Listen up, everyone." "My Mrs. Roopinder Garewal has made a request." "She wants to ride a rickshaw." "Wonderful!" "You should first listen." "Is he reciting a poem that you are praising him?" "Listen to him." " Yes." "Order me." "Ms. Disha needs a rickshaw." "Why do we need to ask him for it?" "We'll go and find one in the morning." "Who knows what will happen in the morning?" "Let's call for one right away." "Shera, go and get a donkey." "Hey." "Not that." "A three-wheeler rickshaw." "The one in black and yellow color." "The one people ride in." "Okay." "The one who takes people back and fro." "It carries 70 people and the driver still asks more to sit." "Yes, that one." "Okay." "You want that rickshaw!" "I'll call for one right away." "Amazing." " Right?" "Long live Moni!" "Long live Moni!" "Hello.." "Hello!" "He's saying long live Moni!" "Rama, my god-like brothers have come down from London." "Who has come from London?" "There must be someone." "How does it concern us?" "Yes, how does it concern who is it." "They want a rickshaw first thing in the morning." "Be here on time." "You can charge whatever you want." "Be there." "Love you, Rama." "Okay, DJ." "Your job is done." "Did you do me a favor?" "Who will do our work if not you?" "Why?" "Am I your assistant?" "Then are you Tony Blair's assistant?" "Hey, you said hey to Mohan Singh?" "Look at him acting smart." "Come to Jirakpur, I'll break your legs." "There's Jirakpur in London as well?" "Friends!" "Our job is done." "We have arranged for a rickshaw." "So, long live Moni!" "Long live Moni!" "Long live Moni!" "Mitho!" "Wake up and see, they are praising me." "Long live Moni!" "I think they are drunk." "I'll have to finish this scotch." "Why have you come here so early in the morning?" "Moni called for a tempo." "Why does he need a tempo?" "Moni!" " Long live!" "Moni!" " Long live!" "Why have you called for a rickshaw?" "Why do I need a rickshaw?" "I have my own car." "Ask him to leave." "Fine." "He's making the whole house stink." "Rama, we haven't called for a tempo." "You must've been mistaken." "Go and do your work." "I had just two drinks." "So brother, is the rickshaw ready?" "Which rickshaw?" "You spoke to a guy on the phone last night." "We need to take it to the college." "I forgot." "I sent him away." "Crap!" "Now?" " Now it's difficult." "What you did was not right." "You want to give him more scotch?" "You have cheated us." "Why do you drink if you cannot take it?" "What an idiot!" "Don't use a lot of rustic words." "We made a mistake." "We gave you scotch." "We made a mistake by coming to you." "We asked you to get a rickshaw." "We should've gone somewhere else." "You promised us a rickshaw last night." "Why are you after my life?" "Hold this." "Brush your teeth, I'll go and get a rickshaw." "Darn you!" "Look how he speaks!" "What do you think, will he get it?" "Don't worry." "The way we treated him, he'll get us a rickshaw for sure." "I've seen, India has progressed a lot as well." "Look, it's so beautiful." "'Where has this love brought us!" "'" "'My heart sings!" "'" "You guys are awesome." "If you are getting bored next time I'll have an LCD installed in the rickshaw." "No, actually I was wondering.." "Like lovers don't last for long, they won't come back." "Right?" "I was wondering, we could settle down in Chandigarh as well." "No!" "Don't say that." "I was thinking of making a bungalow in Chandigarh and live here after marriage." "I don't even like the name of Chandigarh." "Is that all?" "I'll change Chandigarh's name." "I'll name it after you." "Kindigarh." "So what's your next condition, Disha?" "Don't hesitate." "Now it's like, whatever you say will come true." "Oh really?" " Yes." "Then come tomorrow." " I will." "Alone." " What?" "Alone." " Alone?" "Why?" "Are you shy to come alone?" "I was not born to be shy." "Tell me, which ride do you want?" "Whichever you like." "Watch it." "You'll have to sit with me." "I will." "I am sitting with you now as well, right?" "She's trapped." " What did you say?" "I was thinking about tomorrow morning." "'I came ringing the bells.'" "'Come and ride with me on my cycle.'" "'I came ringing the bells.'" "'Come and ride with me on my cycle.'" "Hello." "What are you waiting for?" "Have a seat." "Where?" "Here." "Where else can you?" "Where's the carrier?" "You are not meant to sit on the carrier with me." "What if I refuse?" "You will have to sit." "I brought the bullock-cart." "I brought the rickshaw." "Now you cannot refuse when it's your turn." "It's not so." "I'll sit." "After all I promised you." "Tell me, Disha." "Which direction should we take for our long drive?" "I'm seated." "Take me wherever you want." "'It's you..'" "Thanks." " To whom?" "To the one who made the cycle." "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you..'" "'It's you, I desire.'" "Boys take girls to cafes." "And you have brought me to a field." "What can I do?" "My soul lies in the fields." "Strange." "You love the fields so much even after staying abroad." "We love fields." " Love?" "You are well-versed with our lingo despite staying abroad." "So what if I don't stay in Punjab." "I'm Punjabi at heart." "Thank God you don't stay here." "Otherwise, the boys here are so spoilt they can have their honeymoon near the tube well." "Please don't mind, but I liked the idea." "Now I'd like to have my honeymoon near the tube well." "Then find a tube well in UK." "And take the one you marry there." "The one I marry?" "Why don't you give your consent?" "For what?" "Honeymoon near the tube-well, marriage.." "You are so stubborn." "You are being so direct." "I don't know how to beat around the bush." "I say what is in my heart." "I've said it." "Now you tell me." "I'll think about it." "Fine." "She will at least think about it." "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'These things indicate that you are in love.'" "'You don't agree but I am sure.'" "'I tried reasoning with my heart.'" "'It couldn't understand a thing.'" "'I wait for you to express your love.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'You feel linked to me.'" "'You feel linked to me.'" "'You turn towards me.'" "'You turn towards me.'" "'You feel linked to me.'" "'You turn towards me.'" "'You have been engulfed by my love.'" "'Whether I like it or not, my paths lead to you.'" "'While trying to refuse, I expressed my love.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'I just wanna be with you.'" "'You make all my dreams come true.'" "'All I think about is you.'" "'The way your hair soars with the winds.'" "'And the way your stole caresses the flowers.'" "'The way your hair soars with the winds.'" "'And the way your stole caresses the flowers.'" "'It feels restless with a sight of you.'" "'Now my heart belongs to you.'" "'Whether I like it or not, my eyes follow you.'" "'From a distance they express my love.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "'The way you steal glances at me.'" "'And the shy smile on your lips.'" "Super rich house." "We'll get a lot of money from here." "We'll get a lot." "You just keep control over your English." "Alright?" " Yo." "Hello." " Hi." "Hello." " Hi." "Please have a seat." "Please have a seat." "We have come from Jalandhar." "From Canada." "Got it." "You don't need to say." "We come to know through the winds." "Then ask someone to remove all the sign boards and fix windmills." "His sense of humor is good." "Funny boy." "He's my cousin." "Mintu." "Mintu." "Yes, Mintu is my house name, actually." "Permanent name is Mahinder Pal Singh." " Wonderful." "Lots of happy with you." "In front of you." "Good." "Thank you." "We have come to India to get him married." "Oh." "Congratulations." " Right." "Welcome." "Let's eat something first then we'll talk." "Please." "You will sit." "We are alright." "We didn't say you are wrong." "No, no, no." "He means we are alright as in we are fine." "We aren't hungry." "You should have a good look at Mintu." "Me, permanent Canadian from lots of years." "Wonderful." " Thank you." "You can interview myself." "If you feel right then introduce me to your girl." "Very simple." "Right." "You are good." "My girl is busy in college so she couldn't make it." "We'll fix another meeting soon." "No problem." "We come again and again." "But 30 days only in India." " Oh, I see." "Actually, we have proposals from Banso and Sangru." "But I want Mintu to get married to your girl." "I think she's so pretty." "I love her picture." "That's why we want to pick her." "Lovely is the beauty, your girl is." "Your house is very beautiful." "Beautiful house." "We just came to see it." "We want to make similar houses in Canada, not in India." "Thank you." "Where is it?" " Do you have it?" "In your pocket." "My phone's ringing." "Hello?" "Yes, Mintu Canada speaking." "Yes." "Yes." "I'll reach within an hour." "Okay." "Bye." "Uncle has sent 50,000 dollars." "The agent wants me to 'correct' them right away." "Oh." " Collect." "Correct." " Then we will have to leave." "I'm so sorry but we'll have to go." "I like it here, I don't feel like going but who can go against destiny?" "How is that possible?" "You didn't drink or eat anything." "It's okay." "If we are fortunate then we'll eat a lot of sweets and have a lot of drinks." "It's not a problem." "But come what may, your house is so 'corrupt', I like it." "Correct." "Anyway, I think we should leave." " Yes." "Let's go." "Thank you." "Bye." " Bye." "Let's go." "I didn't like this boy." "And then we are talking to Roop about this." "They have been after me since a long time." "We won't refuse them right away." "We'll keep them on hold." "Who knows when we might need them!" "Their girl will be as beautiful as their house is." "You concentrate on the house." "Otherwise you'll have to face the music." "You are taking me seriously." "You fool, I belong to you." "Let's go." "I mean, I'm saying this to me on your behalf." "'Come on, Mintu." "Drive the car.' Let's go." "Better." " Please." "Have a seat." "She must be beautiful." "Jugaadi, the game is now in our hand." "The ground is set." "I think at the first opportunity I should tell Disha everything." "What are you two whispering about?" "Nothing special, brother." "Roop was saying that he is thirsty." "Thirsty." "Feisty." "Rebellious." "What?" "I didn't get you." "Bye-bye." "Daljeet Singh Jugaadi has the traffic in Jirakpur reduced?" "How do we know that?" "Roopinder Singh Garewal, son of Harjeet Singh Garewal." "Village and post office Gill Kala, Fatehgarh Sahib." "Isn't that your address?" "Should I tell you the pin-code as well?" "I think someone has instigated him against us." "Instigated?" "Am I that easy?" "I have searched your bags." "Daljeet Singh Jugaadi, isn't Bye-Bye India your company?" "I.." "I told Roop." "Not Roop." "Roopinder Singh Garewal." "I had told Roopinder.." " Drop your accent." "I had told Roopinder Singh that we should tell everything to Moni." "He said we should check whether or not you are strong enough." "We should first test him." "Hats off to you." "You have found out the truth about us." "Come to the point." "Look, we are not here to cheat anyone." "Right?" "I am in love." "You know what happens when one falls in love." "Talking won't suffice." "Cut a deal with me." "Ask Jugaadi to send me and my wife to UK." "That's all?" "It's very easy to send you to UK." "I can make you leave for UK tomorrow itself." "Keep it in mind." "Don't forget." "Have you forgot when you were trying to impress me?" "You had started a restaurant in my village." "Hear that." "Sister-in-law is here." "One should help others, right?" " Yes." "Behave, or I will set you straight." "He is troubling these poor kids." "God bless you." "Please agree, my lord." "Let me have my beloved." "Such respect!" "No one will make you a juggler, he's calling you lord." "What else do you desire?" "Look, the bell rang before I could say something." "Hello?" "No phone?" "No message?" "I thought I shouldn't disturb you." "What if I want to be disturbed?" "Fine." "I'll change the Facebook status today itself." "Disha now belongs to Roopinder." "No one should take the trouble of trying to impress you." "You shouldn't be so over confident." "I haven't given it in writing." "Then give it in writing." "Okay." "Boy from UK, come to me as fast as you can." "I want to introduce you to someone." "Alright." "Ask him to get my beloved as well." "Get your friend as well." "He is ready to get inside the car." "End the call and we shall start the car." "Who do you want me to meet?" "What's the hurry?" "I'll introduce you." "Hi, Disha." " Hi!" "Sorry I am late." "It's okay." "She is my best friend, Jyoti." "Jyoti, she is Kindhar." " Hi." "He's.." " DJ." "From UK." " Hello." "And he's Roop." "Roop." "Hi." " Hi." "Hello." "Come, sit." " Yeah." "Roop." "Oh!" "Your name matches your looks." "I pass him." "Without even giving a test?" "I scan with my eyes." " Shut up, Jyoti." "Don't mind her." "She's very talkative." "No, no." "Never mind." "Boys don't mind girls talking." "Specially in UK, right?" " Yeah." "Oh God." "I forgot to tell you." "Jyoti too is from UK." "Oh yeah?" "!" " Oh yeah?" "!" "Yeah." "Oh." "Disha told me that you stay in Southall." "I stay at Ashley Road." "My house number is 28." "And yours?" "What.." "I am getting cramps." "I'll have to go." "I'll hit you." "You can't leave me alone." "How will I handle this alone?" "I asked, where do you stay?" "We.." " Gilford, Glassi Junction." "Oh yeah." "I didn't ask the drink time." "I asked where your permanent residence is." "She is just asking." "She won't come to your house." "Actually her husband is of the suspicious kind." "Oh." " That's nice." "We stay near the Gurudwara." "Yeah." " That's fine." "But do you stay near Nanaksar Gurudwara or Singh Sabha Gurudwara?" "Singh Singh Sabha." " Yeah." "Singh Sabha." " We go there daily." "I too have been going there daily, since four years." "But we never met." " I know." "Strange." "By chance we mostly go at night." "They must be at work during the day." "Yeah." "There's lot of work." "Anyway, where do you go to eat out?" "We go to the Gurudwara to eat at the community kitchen." "We don't go to the restaurant that often." "We sometimes eat at the community kitchen." "A person's thinking is more important than eating." "As to how you think." "No, no, no." "No philosophy." "You have to tell me." "I should know your taste." " Hey." "Taste?" " How can you test him after you have cleared him?" "Yeah." "Not fair!" "Tell her, please." "We will go there in the future." "Strange." "Why aren't you answering?" "Okay Roop, tell me which is the place you will first take my friend to." "Oh, I'll take her to the Statue of Liberty." "What?" "That's in New York." "We stay in London." "We'll go to New York for our honeymoon." "Yeah." "By the way, I work at the Tube." " Tube?" "She is cracking jokes now." "Who can work at the Tube?" "You can work at the Tube factory." "She says she works at the Tube." "Yeah." "Tube means Metro train." " Oh yeah." "You stay in London and you don't know about the Tube." "Of course." "There's a river in London." "What's its name?" "Oh yeah." " Hear that." "There are many rivers flowing through London." "It's hard to keep track of them." "There's just one river in London." "And it is called the Thames." "Yeah." "Obviously Thames." "Thames." "Forgot the name." "There is a Punjabi Bikaneri restaurant at Oxford street." "I am sure you keep going there." "Oh yeah." " Very often." "We have Indian snacks there, right?" "They are so tasty." "Spicy." " We visit that place so often." "There is no restaurant with that name in England." "Where do we eat those snacks?" "Has it shut down?" "It must have shut down." " How.." "Now stop this drama." "Sorry, Disha, they have failed my test." "What do you mean?" "I didn't get you." "They are frauds." "They have never been to UK." "This.." "I too was wondering they have more accent than I have." "Roop.." "What is Jyoti talking about?" "Why don't you say something?" " What do I say.." "Jyoti is right, Disha." "I am from Gilla." "Roopinder." "What?" "Actually, the first time.." "Shut up." "You don't need to say anything." "You have cheated me." "I love you, Disha." "Don't you take my name." "Boys have turned love into a joke, these days." "Don't you ever show me your face again." "Get lost!" "Disha.." "Sorry, guys." "Where should I keep the bags?" "On my head." "Why are you getting irritated with him?" "We failed because of our own mistake." "You get a degree in love only after failing a few times." "This isn't just about failure." "We were caught cheating." "Even a penny is valued." "So don't consider yourself worthless." "Mitho is right." "Don't lose hope." "Bye, sister." " Bye, brother." "If you feel that we can be of help to you, do let us know." "I couldn't form a relationship with her but I formed with you one that will last a lifetime." "Please forgive us if we have made any mistake, sister." "No, my brothers." "You are a gem of a person." "Moni told me everything." "Don't cry." "We will feel bad." "We won't like it here without you." "We will go and meet them in the city." "They live in India." "Get in, brother." "Lovely.." "Did the Dhillons call?" "No." "They didn't call." "I'm going through a bad phase since the past 6 months." "For you it's only since the past 6 months." "My bad luck began the day I got married to you." "Aren't you tired of saying the same thing everyday?" "What else do I say?" "Your parents lied about your property and had me married to an illiterate like you." "And as a punishment for cheating you I am cheating other people." "Oh really?" "Won't I recover my money which you splurged in casinos in Canada from you?" "By calling your husband your cousin?" "I think we are done." "Get this straight." "If it remains the same then I'll go back to Canada." "Go back to Canada, my foot!" "As if you have multiple factories there." "As if you have a mint opened for me over here." "I had." "But I couldn't get this family." "I wonder how Bye-Bye India's Daljeet could influence them." "He is the thorn in our flesh." "We need to get his details." " We will." "But by keeping a safe distance." "A little mistake and we go straight to prison." "Please, gain command over your English." "Now do you wish to stay as my cousin?" "Disha.." "She won't listen to you." "Why?" "Ask her to talk to me just once." "Where is the one who ties a small turban." " He'll come too." "I'll bash him up if he comes in front of me." "Forget about him." "You ask her to talk to me." "No." "You were playing a game, right?" "Now the game is over." "Fine." "I played a game." "I played it because of her." "Disha!" "Tell her, I won't back off." "I love her." "You are a liar." "Why did you lie to me?" "I loved you." "I will never forgive you." "Never." "'Being separated from you, my heart aches.'" "'It shows in my eyes.'" "'As tears they started pouring.'" "'All my dreams have shattered.'" "'Even God isn't favoring me anymore.'" "'Why didn't our hearts beat as one?" "'" "'They were yet to give consent but they parted ways.'" "'Being separated from you, my heart aches.'" "'It shows in my eyes.'" "'As tears they started pouring.'" "'I go down memory lane and I miss you.'" "'I fear I'll have to live being separated from you.'" "'This troubles me, I cannot endure it, my beloved.'" "'I regret giving away my heart.'" "'I cannot even breathe, my beloved.'" "'Being separated from you, my heart aches.'" "'It shows in my eyes.'" "'As tears they started pouring.'" "'Being separated from you, my heart aches.'" "'It shows in my eyes.'" "'As tears they started pouring.'" "What's wrong with Disha?" "She is always in her room." "I spoke to her, she says she is worried about the exams." "I am worried about her marriage." "What will we do if Roop says yes to someone else?" "I will speak to her." "I suggest we should get them engaged." "Heed my advice, don't pressurize the girl." "Let her make the decision." " You never listen to me." "You always do as you please." " Do as you please." "'Don't pressurize her.'" "We have found such a nice boy." "What if we lose him?" "One doesn't come across such boys everyday." "And he is an NRI." "Why are you scanning this?" "Scan your brain." "Think of something." "What should I scan for in my brains?" "My mind is shut." "It is locked." "There's a curfew on my heart and my mind." "I cannot think of anything." "Do one thing." "Call Kindhar." " Kindi." "Whatever." "Ask her to make me speak to Disha once." "I cannot call Kindi." "She keeps insulting me." "I cannot endure so much humiliation." "Call anyone you want." " Here." "Stupid.." "Why?" "Hello!" "Hello?" "Why do you keep calling me?" "Shameless." "Liar." "Stupid." "Take some." "She is distributing it for free." "You think I am giving you offerings?" "Don't you ever call me again!" "I am dead for you." "No, Kindhar." "Sorry Kindi, please don't say that." "Will you hang up or should I disconnect?" "Look.." "The thing is, please make your friend meet Roop just once." "He is sitting with me." "He is in a bad state." "He will die." "If I take his name, Disha will kill me." "Ask her where she is." " Just tell me where she is." "Why should I?" "Don't you ever call me again, Mr. Jugaadi." "Fraud." "Okay?" "Here's your toy." "Go and meet Kindi today itself." "I feel that you will convince her." "Oh really?" "You think I wasn't insulted enough over the phone now I should go there and get insulted." "A friend in need is a friend indeed." "Only Kindi can help me meet Disha." "Last time." "After this if anyone will get insulted, it'll be you, not me." "Thank you, brother." "Kindi look, I am the same person." "Only the UK tag was a lie." "That is the problem." "There is nothing wrong with me, right?" "I am not a bad person, right?" "You are a nice person, but you are from India." "100 percent Indian." "But I want someone who is 100 percent NRI." "That is why I loved you." "No matter how you would've been but you should have been from there." "What do you mean?" " My funda is clear." "I will love and marry only the one who shall take me abroad." "Is that the problem?" "Not the problem." "The only problem." "Hey, that's not difficult." "I send 150 people abroad every year." "We can settle abroad later." "That's not a problem." "Are you lying?" "No." "Look, my parents' souls are watching me." "Ask them whether I have ever lied to them." "I swear on God." "Have I ever lied?" "Never." "Fine." "I forgive you just once." "But things will work out only if you take me abroad." "Want a cup of tea?" "I have never tried it but I cannot refuse it today." "I'll drink it." " Let's go." "Disha.." "I accept that I was wrong." "But whatever I did, it was to be with you." "Disha.." "Please listen to me." "Please don't give me such a big punishment." "Please." "Please!" "Disha!" "Disha, you are the first and the last girl I am pleading to." "Madam." " Yes?" "Is it wrong to love?" " No." "Who says so?" "Heard that?" "Disha.." "Brother, is it wrong to lie to make someone yours?" "It's okay to lie a little." "Madam." " Yes?" "Should you forgive if someone apologizes from the heart?" "I would." " Heard that?" "Listen up, everyone." "Brother, please." "Hear my plea." "Madam.." "I love this girl." "I lied about a small thing." "Not out of greed for something." "Just to make her mine." "That too because of her dad." "And today" "I apologize to her in front of all of you." "Here you go." "Here you go." "Please forgive me." "I am your culprit." "Enough of this." "Will you stop this drama now?" "This is the limit." "This concerns my life and you are calling it a drama!" "What do you want?" " I want you." "And I want to be forgiven for my mistake." "You are a liar." "You are a beguiler." "You deceived me." " I didn't have an option." "You should have spoken to my parents." "You should've asked my hand in marriage." "I had." "My dad phoned your dad." "He said he wanted an NRI boy." "You are lying." " I swear." "I swear on my mother." "I will wait for you near the pumping station, tomorrow." "I was sure I won't have to wait forever." "I still don't believe you." "If you didn't believe me you wouldn't have come here." "I am here just to let you know my decision." "Who are you and I to decide?" "God has decided for us." "We shall be together forever." "I am not going to follow you." "Who is asking you to?" "I'll follow you." "You have your way with words." "You are a liar." "You are a beguiler." "You have made me cry a lot." "You didn't cry alone, I too cried with you." "For once, I thought I should die." "What is the use of living now?" "You tell me what I could have done?" "Your father needed an NRI boy." "What if something would have happened to me?" "I wouldn't let you die alone." "You made me cry a lot." "Now don't you ever leave me again!" "This goon spoilt a decent girl." "You can say anything you want." "Now you are my queen and I am your servant." "Fill your name over here and your address over here." "Fine." " Did you understand?" "Okay, ma'am." " Excuse me, sir." "Sir, a ma'am and a sir have come to meet you." "They are sitting in your office." "A ma'am and a sir?" " Yes." "This means Kindi is here with her father." "She is very intelligent." "Get back to work." " Okay, sir." "Yes?" "How can I help you?" "Hi." " Done." "Tell me." "I forgot to say hello." "Take my hello and lots of intro." "I am called Mintu." "Who says?" "Tell me." "I shall talk to them." "That's not a problem." "No, no, no." "Me Mahinder Pal Singh." "My grandma affectionately calls me Mindu." "Anyway, when I was wake, my aunt said me, Mintu." "The another this is.." " Excuse me." "If he takes so long, don't bother to tell me her name." "No." "I'll tell you my name." "It's Lovely." "Lovely." "Short and sweet." " Hello." "By the way, we are into the same business." "Ever since you started this business we have suffered huge losses." "The lots of difficulties in on front of us, actually." "I think he recently flunked the IELTS exam." "Was a ban issued on him?" "Actually, he means we can earn lots of money together." "What do you think?" " 50-50, lots of profit." "What do you mean?" "I mean we will send a few people abroad and rest can go to hell." "Simple." " No!" "What did you think before coming to my office?" "That we will convince you." "Deal will come through." "Nothing else." "Yes." " I don't know about the deal but when I hit you with my slippers lots of time you will feel very bad." "I am restraining myself because of Ms. Lovely." "Otherwise I would've turned you bald by now." "Don't try to act smart, mister." "Use your brain." "You stand to lose a lot." "You shouldn't ever lock your luck." "You mean you won't leave until I thrash you." "Cool, mister." "Cool." "It's okay if you don't accept our deal." "Come on, Mintu." "Let's leave." "What's the hurry?" "Do one thing." "Order tea." "People sometimes change their mind." "No problem." "He has kept the bell way down." "Let me get some tea for you." "You love cricket, don't you?" "Come on, let's go and get the ball." "We will play some other day, brother." "Nice meeting you." "You come sometime." "Me permanent." "Follow me." "Let's go." "Short and sweet." "Hello, sir." "What's up?" "What can be up?" "The sky seems dull, you know that." "Recharge the battery of your heart." "We are back on track." "Everything has been settled." "What!" "Swear by God." "Calm down." "I will tell you everything once we meet." "There is an invitation for Jyoti's marriage anniversary." "Isn't Jyoti the one who ruined everything for us?" "Yes, that's her." "Today at her function we will set everything right." "Listen, dress well, don't get us humiliated." "Well done, my boy." "You have pleased me." "'You are wearing a traditional yellow dress with ornaments.'" "'For that I wish to give you a salute, my girl.'" "'I salute you, my girl.'" "'You are wearing a traditional yellow dress with ornaments.'" "'For that I wish to give you a salute, my girl.'" "'I praise the lock of hair on your forehead.'" "'The lock of hair.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'I've been spoilt for choices in my life.'" "'I am a beautiful damsel.'" "' A beautiful damsel.'" "' A beautiful damsel.'" "'I've been spoilt for choices in my life.'" "'I am a beautiful damsel.'" "'I am like a delicate glassware.'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Your blush has ruined me.'" "'Your shyness has killed me.'" "'Your shyness has..'" "'Your beautiful shyness has..'" "'Your beautiful shyness has..'" "'Your blush has ruined me.'" "'Your shyness has killed me.'" "'Your beautiful shyness has..'" "'You are worth millions when you move.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'She is of the color of the afternoon sky.'" "'She moves in style.'" "'Moves in style.'" "'Moves in style.'" "'Moves in style.'" "'She is of the color of the afternoon sky.'" "'She moves in style.'" "'Moves in style.'" "'She is like a live wire when she dances!" "'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'From the time you have come of age.'" "'Boys have stopped guarding their fields.'" "'They have stopped guarding their fields.'" "'They have stopped guarding their fields.'" "'From the time you have come of age.'" "'Boys have stopped guarding their fields.'" "'They have stopped guarding their fields.'" "'You are the one I like to see dancing!" "'" "'To see dancing.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'Yes!" "'" "'I hang strings from my earrings.'" "'I fill my fair arms with beautiful bangles.'" "'My fair arms.'" "'My fair arms.'" "'My fair arms.'" "'I hang strings from my earrings.'" "'I fill my fair arms with beautiful bangles.'" "'My fair arms.'" "'I look beautiful like the dawn.'" "'Wherever I dance.'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'You are my first choice, my girl.'" "'My first choice.'" "'My first choice.'" "'The crazy youth dances in a carefree manner.'" "'Dances in a carefree manner.'" "'My first choice.'" "Wow." "Excellent." "It was great." "I felt like I am dancing at my wedding." "To tell you the truth, I too felt the same." "Then start the preparations." "What's the problem?" "So, madam?" "Why do you wish to wear the wedding dress?" "It's not that easy." " Why?" "What's the problem now?" "The high court is ready." " But the supreme court isn't." "Supreme court?" " My dad." "Go and tell your father everything." "You want me to tell my dad about you?" "Of course!" "I don't know about you, but he will send me to Canada." "Who is from Canada?" " There's someone." "Dad has kept him on hold." "Your old man is very cunning." "Excuse me." "Manners." "Okay." "Sorry." "Please go and convince your father." "Otherwise we won't be able to take things forward." "You should do something." "I am scared." "I cannot do it." "How can we go and tell your dad that we have committed a fraud with him?" "It is not right for the boys to go and meet him." "And with your dad's anger, he won't even need a stick." "He will beat us with his mustache." "True." "You read newspapers all day long." "Don't you want to spend time with our daughter?" "She is here only for a day." "Where is she?" "Why are you standing over there?" "Come over here." "Come on." "Have a seat." "Silly girl." "I wanted to talk to you." "Dad, I too wanted to talk to you." "I shall listen to you." "But you first hear what's written in the newspaper." "Look what's going on in this world." "A foreigner groom turned out to be an Indian." "How is that possible?" "Someone got a girl married in Roopnagar." "They were told the boy was from America." "But he was from Mohali." " Oh God." "Such people should be arrested." "Arrested?" "I would've shot such people dead." "They have no shame left." "They don't think before ruining someone's life." "The girls' families too blindly get their daughters married." "Forget about it." "Tell me, what did you want to say?" "I.." "I was saying that.." "You shouldn't worry about me." "You have made all my worries go away, dear." "Tell me when should I call those guys from UK?" "Whenever you feel right, dad." "As you wish." "What can I say?" "Dad.." "Will you have tea?" "I'll send tea for you." "I'll be right back." "Saw that?" "My daughter is so smart." "Learn something from her." "You too should learn something sometimes." "You have spent all your life teaching others." "You will never say the right thing." "I left Germany because of you." "But you will never stop nagging." "One should never marry a girl richer than oneself." "She never listens." "I cannot tell the truth to my dad." "He will shoot both of you." "Why both of us?" "It's his mistake." "I was unnecessarily dragged into it." "You are trying to shy away from this?" "It was your idea, wasn't it?" "We should go as guys from UK." "Now lead us." "Monkey gets the cream and I get kicked." "Who did you call a monkey?" "You shouldn't take everything seriously." "It's a saying." "You shouldn't take everything personally." "Listen, if you want to talk nonsense then do so after I go to Canada." "Your old man.. your dad." "Anyway, tell me what should we do now?" "It will be same as before." "Stay as boys who have come from UK." "You come to my house with your family and ask for my hand in marriage." "We will tell the truth to my dad at the right time." "I should bring my family?" "To your house?" "Hear that." "Yes.." "As people who are from UK." "That is not possible." "It's impossible." " Why is it impossible?" "You don't know my dad." "He will beat me black and blue." "Think of something else." "Fine, I have an option of Canada." "He is not a bad person." "You think of something for yourself." "My family will kill me." "Jugaadi, you think of something." "Great." "You want me to fix everything." "You will never do anything on your own." "He thinks I am Google." "He searches for everything on me." "Yeah, right." "Your system has already hanged." "Look, love is all about the heart." "You cannot resolve the issues by talking." "You need to put your heart into it." "Look how strong this girl is acting." "Why are you so scared?" "Hey, I am not scared of anyone." "I am just a little nervous." "If you are not scared then do as she says." "Go for it." "Make the declaration." "She can also tell her family.." "Else, you should forget about me." "You.." "Brother!" "Brother, come and eat breakfast." "Do you want it in writing?" "I don't want to eat." "I said it once." "No means no." "Why are you venting your anger on food?" "Don't be stubborn." "Come on." "You didn't eat anything last night as well." "Didn't you hear what I said?" "Don't trouble me." "Go and do your work." "Go away from here." "What happened?" "Why do you look so sad?" "I had gone to ask brother for lunch, aunt." "He said he doesn't want to eat." "He scolded me as well." "Why?" "Why doesn't he want to eat?" "I don't know." "He didn't eat anything last night as well." "Why didn't you tell me?" " Is he feeling well?" "I'll go and find out." " No." "Let it be." "I'll go and talk to Roopinder." "Yes, dear." "What's up?" "I am fine." "I've set the right ambience in the house for you." "They are expecting you." "I too have created the right ambience here to create a scene." "Do whatever you want to, quickly." "My family is confused but I'll convince them somehow." "Convince them quickly." "Otherwise, you will end up being a guest at my wedding." "Don't you worry." "I won't let that happen." "Someone's coming." "I'll call you back." "Roopinder!" "Roop.." "You haven't eat anything since last night." "Don't do this, son." "I am not hungry." "What is wrong?" "Are you angry or upset with us?" "Please tell me." "We have never said no to you." "But now you will." "Yes, tell me." " Roop, has your family agreed?" "No." "I know in this house no one likes me." "Oh my God." " Don't say that, brother." "My story is linked to yours." "You are right." "We should leave everything and become hermits." "No, my son." "Don't." "When did I advise you to become a hermit?" "You are saying it." "I'll call you back." "Roopinder.." "What are you saying, son?" "For what have we ever refused you?" "Tell me, I will agree to anything you say." "You promise?" "I swear on you." "But dad won't agree." "Then you don't know your mom." "It's my job to convince him." "Just tell me what's the problem." "Yes, dear." "So how is Roopinder feeling?" "Did he eat anything?" "Hello.." "I am talking to you." "Have you stuffed cotton in your ears?" "You don't keep quiet even while doing yoga." "Why are you quiet today?" "Fine, don't talk to me if you don't want to." "Channo, breakfast." "I've already eaten." "I was talking about breakfast for me." "Your breakfast hasn't been prepared as yet, uncle." "What do you mean?" "Aunt has issued an order that no food will be cooked in this house." "What is this I hear, madam?" "I am talking to you." "What's happening in this house?" "She is on a hunger strike and has vowed to keep quiet." "What is Channo saying?" "This is cheating." "You are openly blackmailing me." "I will go crazy." "At least tell me the reason for this fast." "Hello?" "Dear?" "For God's sake don't trouble me anymore." "Tell me what's the problem?" "You'll have to sign on a blank paper unconditionally." "I can give you a palm print on a blank page." "I want Roopinder to marry Mr. Dhillon's daughter of Kheri." "The one to whom I spoke to over the phone?" "Roopinder loves that girl." "And they have agreed to get them married." "Then let's get them married." "I never said no." "But for that we will have to behave like we have come from UK." "From UK?" " Yes." "How can one act like that?" "The thing is Roopinder met them as a boy from UK." "That's why we will have to act for our son." "Have you lost your mind?" "I won't be able to do anything like that." "Fine then, I shall continue my protest." "Where's Roopinder?" "Roopinder!" "I hold you under oath, you cannot say anything to him." "Roopinder, what is this I hear?" "It's sad." "You hid this from me?" "From your dad?" "You should have spoken to me at least once." "What made you think that I won't stand by you?" "Sorry, dad." "Love you, dad." "You shouldn't lose hope." "Dhillon takes Punjab lightly, doesn't he?" "Now, we'll pretend to be from the UK and show him the power of Punjab." "What are you waiting for, dear?" "Start preparing." "Yes." "Yes." "Alright." "Alright." " No, no, no." "Oh no." "This is not right." "Oh God." " Yeah." "Oh God.." " Madam, what have you gotten me into?" "Memorize it sincerely, dear." "I've been trying to memorize since so long." "Yes!" "Yes." "No." "Yeah!" "Oh yeah!" "Yeah!" "I got it." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Nice." "Nice." "I'll rock!" "Now hear me talk." "I wanted a daughter-in-law from Punjab." "Yes." " No." "No?" " Called?" "Call?" " No, not even that." "I desired a daughter-in-law from Punjab." "Desired!" "She asks and she gets." "Now hear me talk." " Okay." "You have to give in to your kids' wishes." "I got it." "Now I won't worry." "This is the first time" "I've seen wedding preparations taking place like this." "Hey, even I have learnt how to say it." "It's been so long since I changed my status on Facebook." "Boys must be wondering." " Boys.." "Here's holy offering." "Today is the first day of the month." "Lord Almighty." "It is the first day of the month of our calendar." "They are one of us." "They aren't foreigners." "We need your help, Moni." "You are declaring it to the world." "Today is an auspicious day." "Why not go to the Gurudwara and say it on the loudspeaker?" "'Everyone in the vicinity is being informed.'" "'Two people pretending to be from UK are in the village.'" "'Lock your doors." "Dilip Singh's daughter is in danger.'" "You have taken it to heart." "I was just joking." "Your jokes will ruin us." "Watch out." "Roop, I think your love story will surpass all." "Hey, he's saying such bad things." "All epic stories had a bad ending." "We want to marry them." "Right?" "Don't you worry." "You have God's blessings." "Now just wait for the wedding band to play." "When should we make the families meet?" "Why delay it any further?" "Let's go this evening." " That's better." "No." "Not in the evening." "Go now." "You are not in the state of going anywhere in the evenings." "My brother is very naughty." "What is her name?" " Gurdisha." "Guru Disha." "Nice name." "You have given your daughter a very rare name." "Oh yeah." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Your daughter's name suits her image." "She is now your daughter as well." "Now she will come here only as a guest." "She can come every second day if she wants." "We aren't going to be strict in-laws." "You see.." "I still speak like I used to 30 years ago." "You know, I told my wife that I'll try to speak the local lingo in Punjab." "And I told him he won't be able to do it." "He must've forgotten it." "I haven't forgotten, darling." "I haven't." "Hey, dad." "You speak so well." "I like it." "It's nice." "I'll learn how to speak the lingo from uncle." " Yeah." "Okay, we can talk about such things any other time." "Now let's decide when we should hold the engagement and the wedding." "Right?" " Hey, he's in such a hurry." "We agree to whatever they say." "Look, we don't believe in showing off." "We want to keep it simple." "We don't want to waste any money." "We don't want any gifts either." "There is a bad tradition in Punjab." "What is it called?" "Dowry?" " Yeah." "No dowry." "Just the girl." "You mean you won't give me a ring either?" "Hey, he is eager than the bride and the groom." "We'll give you the traditional gifts to you first." "That's for the girls, DJ." "Now don't say that it's the same." "Whatever you say is right, brother." "It is your country." "Look, don't talk about dowry, please." "You have made me happy, Mr. Garewal." "This is how they think." "This is why I want my daughter to marry an NRI." "Yeah." "I suggest we should finalize everything on the next Sunday." "What say, Kindi?" "What do you say?" "Whatever my elders suggest, I will let my dad know." "Okay." " Alright." "We'll finalize on Sunday?" " Yeah." "Yeah?" " You seem eager." "Sorry." "You shouldn't speak when your elders are talking." "But it's alright." "It's alright." "So, we will come here on Sunday?" "Whatever you say." "Mr. Dhillon, hear I, but tell me what's wrong." "Look, I know you are nice people." "But I have given my consent to someone else." "He too is an NRI." "It does not good look, Mr. Dhillon." "You know out of lots of girls, I didn't see any." "Because me very much look on you." "I cannot speak anymore." "Please talk to Lovely." "Talk to him." "He has refused." "What happened, Mr. Dhillon?" "Look, Ms. Lovely, we never said yes to you." "But we had our hopes high." "You know Mintu keeps looking at your daughter's face all day long on Facebook." "It's okay." "Now you tell him to stop looking at Disha's face on Facebook." "Okay?" "Bye." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Did he hang up?" "Oh God, I wonder what ruined it for us." "I know." "Bad luck." "Now I will turn this bad luck into good luck." "They are rich." "I got into this because of you." "If you hadn't wasted my money in casinos then.." "Then what?" "Would you be sitting next to the queen of England?" "Hear her talk." "Forget the past and think about the present." "Sorry, darling." "I wasn't angry." "We are in here to make others worry, not worry ourselves." "Let's think of something." "Worry not." "Yes." "Don't talk to me in English." "Oh sorry, I forgot." "You are my wife." "You should get serious at least sometimes." "All the time comedy, comedy, comedy." "Stupid." "She tells me to get serious." "I won't get serious." "I want to make others serious." "You have cleaned out my ATM card even before the wedding." "You'll clean out my credit cards as well after the wedding." "You are giving up already?" "My real shopping will begin in UK." "She is paying all her bills." "She doesn't let me pay." "Don't worry." "After the wedding you'll be paying for everything." "Oh really?" "I didn't know getting married was such a hard work." "How mean." "Just a minute!" "Getting married is hard work for you?" "Okay." "Wait." "I'll go and buy another dress." " Listen.." "Sorry, guys." "If I am not wrong, isn't that girl Dhillon's daughter?" "Has this girl lost her mind?" "Was she crazy from the beginning or has she just lost her mind?" "You must know." "You know her from a long time." "Yes." "That's her, Mintu." "But forget about it." "Why should we bother?" "Wait a minute." "Isn't that guy whom we met at Bye-Bye India's office?" "I don't believe in black magic." "Yes." "It's him." "I think he has fixed Disha's marriage." "He must've fixed it with the boy standing next to him." "I think I'll have to do something now." "The boy's smart, Mintu." "Your intentions change very quickly." "I was just saying." "I don't know much about such things." "Why is he smiling so much?" "What I don't understand is that why is he speaking in an accent?" "I know, Mintu." "I didn't think about that." "Then think." "Until I get married, I think.." "I think they are elephant teeth." "Elephant teeth?" "For eating use different ones, for cheating use different ones." "What do you mean?" " Game." "I think God has given the game back in our hands." "So now?" " Now we shall play." "Let's go." "Oh, she's there now." "Look at her." "Why are you looking at him?" "Just forget him." "Remember me." "I am permanent." "Come on." "Just follow me." "Hello!" "Let's go." "What are you thinking about, Ms. Disha?" "Something bothering you?" "There's a lot bothering me." "For how long will we hide the truth?" "You can tell your family whenever you feel right." "I told you, I won't tell them." "Either you or your family will tell them." "Hello?" "What is it?" "You seem to be in a hurry to get married." "What?" "What do you mean?" "I mean are you dressed?" "Had you placed the head gear?" "Who are you?" "The one who wanted to marry her." "But you boys entered with fake IDs." "Come to the point." "What is your problem?" "Stop acting smart, fake UK returned people." "Make sure Roopinder Garewal from Gilla understands this." "I want to talk.." "Hello." "Don't waste your time, Daljeet Jugaadi." "Come and meet me at Mitra Da Dhaba." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "What's this new problem that has cropped up?" "Hello?" "Hello, Roop?" "Our hard work is going down the drain." "What happened?" "Why are you getting hyper?" "We are ruined." "You'll be divorced even before you can get married." "Have you lost your mind?" "I'm fine, but I guess we'll have to help someone find his." "Do one thing." "Come and meet me." "Right away." "Okay." "I am coming." "It's ringing." "It's him." " Answer it." "Yes?" "Hello?" "Look straight ahead." "Where are you?" "In front of you." "On the table." "Drinking tea." "Over there." "He's sitting over there." "I think he has escaped from the zoo." "Hello." "Yes." "Yes." "Have a seat." "You have identified me correctly." "Wouldn't have it been better if you would've made a deal with me earlier?" "What do you want?" "I want Dhillon's daughter to be my wife." "I'll kill you." "No, no, no." "A case will be registered under section 302." "You'll die unnecessarily." "I'll talk to Dhillon right away." "Who are you in the truth of life!" "Just a minute." "First tell me, why you have called us here?" "I want to make a deal." "That too for just 10 million rupees." "Otherwise I'll go and create a scene at your wedding." "What do we do now?" "What's there to do?" "We'll give him 10 million rupees." "He deserves it." "You have cash?" " I do." "In my office." "Deal done, my friend." "But you will have to come with me to my office." "Because the cash is over there." "Not I mind." "You can take me anywhere." "Full money." "Full deal." "So sweet of you." "Here, we have paid you." "We didn't wait till the wedding." "I was just kidding, brother." "I know you too are kidding, right?" "10 million, right?" "If you think 10 million is a lot, give me 100,000." "It doesn't suit you to refuse a friend, right?" "He is shameless." "Please listen to me, brother." "I'll be fine even if you give me currency from the years prior to 2005." "What other discount can I offer you?" "Let's go, DJ." " Come on, untie me." "Untie you?" "I'll slap you." "Darn you, you should bathe sometimes." "Your clothes stink." " Where are you taking my clothes?" "Listen." "Hello, brother." "My clothes.." "Stop talking nonsense." "I am not taking all of them." "You can keep some." "My clothes!" "Stay in the character." "Our hard work will be ruined if anyone finds out the truth." "The one we have tied up is the one who is getting ruined." "That fool tried to mess with us." "Look, all weddings should be like this one." "No commotion, no crowds." "Mr. Chawla, how many in India can you convince?" "Here show off equals to marriage." "Excuse me, Mr. Dhillon?" "What's the delay?" "If it's okay with you shall we go ahead with the ring ceremony?" "Thank God he remembered." "I was worried that if it gets delayed, things could get worse." "Stay in the character." "Our hard work will be ruined if anyone finds out the truth." "What did you say?" "Who are you talking about?" "You don't have time to come and meet me." "I was telling DJ that you look beautiful in this dress." "Hot and happening chick!" "Hey, even my girl is looking beautiful today." "She's feeling shy." "Hello?" " Hello!" "Such a big hello?" "I guess our job is done!" "My game is nearing end." "Come early." "DJ has locked me in his office." "Hurry up." "Oh my God." "Don't worry." "I'll come right away." "Don't worry." "Fine." "Listen, get some clothes for me." "And also.." "Hello?" "Hello?" "It got disconnected?" "Women never hear everything." "They can keep talking nonstop but never listen to what's important." "Yes, mom?" "Come, son." "Let's begin the ring ceremony." "Yes." "This isn't a ring but a commitment of a lifetime." "Now." "No, you first put it on my finger." "They have exchanged the rings." "Now everything will be fine." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "One second." "What's the hurry?" "Which idiot tried to stop the engagement?" "Me." "Myself." "In front of you." "Who is this person who has come here like this?" "Who is this?" "Who is this beggar?" "Get him out of here." "Mr. Dhillon, at least you shouldn't be saying that." "Trace me with care." "Me." "Mintu NRI." "From Canada." "What have you done to yourself?" "You have come in shorts for a wedding." "Don't you have any shame?" "These two have done this to me." "That was sitting on chairs." "I am telling the truth, Mr. Dhillon." "Cancel their marriage." "Who are you to cancel the marriage?" "You have been cheated, Mr. Dhillon." "These boys aren't from UK." "Really?" "You are doing this because I am not getting her married to your cousin." "They are not NRIs, they are Indians." "One moment." "Isn't your name Mahinder Pal Singh?" "Yes, I was." "I mean I am." "Aren't you from village Dalle?" " Yes, I am." "Aren't you two husband and wife?" " Yes, we are." "100 percent!" "Look at that." " Hear that!" "Hear that!" "You are such cheap people?" "You two are husband and wife?" "You scoundrel!" "Beat me!" "Beat me!" "But truth is truth." "They are frauds." "They have never been to Goa, so how can they go to UK." "You are a fraud and you are defaming others?" "He is Roopinder Singh Garewal from Gilla." "And the one who is pretending to be DJ he is Daljeet Singh Jugaadi." "He runs a company called Bye-Bye India in a dirty building in Jirakpur." "Yes." "And they are the ones who have started all this drama." " Yes." "And let me tell you, their parents are also a part of it." "Mr. Garewal, why are you quiet?" "Make them shut up." "Speak up, Mr. Garewal." "Cat caught the tongue of the people from UK?" "Look, Mr. Dhillon, we are from Gilla." "Just a minute." "Aren't you the Garewal from Gilla who had called me once?" "For my daughter's hand in marriage?" "Yes, I am." "I had clearly told you not to call me again." "But you are so cheap that you came here with a wedding procession?" "Shame on you." "You should feel ashamed." "You are the one who should feel ashamed." "You couldn't find a single boy in Punjab for your daughter!" "She is my daughter." "I can get her married anywhere I want." "Who are you to interfere?" "I am the father of the boy who loves your daughter." "This means you can lie and get them married." "You didn't leave any option for them." "It is my fault, uncle." "Don't say anything to my parents." "I forced them." "Mr. Dhillon, we want our kids to be happy, right?" "What difference does it make?" " Wonderful." "That means all of you were fooling me." "You kept my daughter in dark as well." "No, dad." "I knew everything." "I tried telling you a number of times but I couldn't gather the courage." "You were stubborn on getting me married to an NRI." "I didn't force you to marry an NRI, did I?" "I always asked your opinion." "I couldn't tell you even when I wanted to." "I thought we will tell you whenever we get a chance." "But we were scared." "You have always done whatever you pleased." "You should listen to others too sometimes." "Have everyone said what they wanted to?" "Has everyone given their justification?" "I wouldn't have refused if Disha would've told me that she likes him." "You mean you give your consent for this?" "That's great Dhillon, you were so determined to go abroad that you could never keep your family happy." "You forgot that there is a life here as well." "What should we think?" "Is it a yes or a no?" "Do you want it in writing now?" "Exchange your rings." "Why are you so upset, brother?" "Come, give me a hug." "To whom?" "The one from UK or the one from Gilla?" "The ones from UK always blabber in their accent." "You will have to hug the one from Gilla." "Come on." "You scoundrel." "Hello?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "Was that the cops?" "There's a proposal from a girl in Phagwara." "She is very rich." "Where there is a tea, there is a way." " What?" "Where there is a will there is a way." "These idiots don't even know English." "What are you two whispering about?" "Nothing, brother." "They are getting cash gifts." "Can you please check if they have change for a hundred?" "Okay." "Please go." "I am going to run like Milkha Singh." "You can run like P.T. Usha if you can." "Come on, run." "My sponge like heart wishes me to put a ring on your beautiful finger." "You can put in all ten of them." "You will make the one from Jirakpur go bankrupt." "Do one thing." "Let me put it in one." "The other nine, after we get to UK." "Okay." "By the way where will we go after the wedding?" "On a honeymoon." "You want us to go on a pilgrimage?" "Yes." "But where will you take me?" "OBT." " Which country is that?" "On that pumping station where you said yes." "You are still acting like a local." "The pumping station." "I found a tube well in Southall." "You mean we are going to UK?" " Yes." "Now the boys from UK should go to UK." "What say?" "'They do incredible things non-stop.'" "'Foreigners are crazy about their good looks.'" "'They are heroes, not zeroes from Hollywood.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'The boys from UK.'" "'The handsome guys come to the club.'" "'They sing folk songs over there.'" "'Friends, they sing folk songs at the club.'" "'They sing.'" "'They dance till the floor wears out.'" "'Girls beware, they will dance their way into your heart.'" "'Girls beware..'" "'Once they take a stand, they don't back out.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'" "'Girls in the neighborhood are always talking about them.'" "'Even fairies are crazy about them.'" "'They have fast cars.'" "'And lovely babes in those cars.'" "'Music on full blast, with a drink in hand.'" "'Music on full blast, with a drink in hand.'" "'They go around with pockets full of pounds.'" "'Never running out of cash.'" "'Modern yet traditional are the boys from UK.'"

"Let's go back" "Back to the beginning" "Back to when the earth, the sun, the stars all aligned" "'Cause perfect didn't feel so perfect" "Trying to fit a square into a circle" "Was no life" "I defy" "Let the rain fall down" "And wake my dreams" "Let it wash away" "My sanity" "Cause I wanna feel the thunder" "I wanna scream" "Let the rain fall down" "I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean" "I'm shedding" "Shedding every colour" "Trying to find a pigment of truth" "Beneath my skin" "Cause different" "Doesn't feel so different" "And going out is better" "Then always staying in" "Feel the wind" "Let the rain fall down" "And wake my dreams" "Let it wash away" "My sanity" "Cause I wanna feel the thunder" "I wanna scream" "Let the rain fall down" "I'm coming clean, I'm coming clean" "I'm coming clean" "Let the rain fall" "Let the rain fall" "I'm coming..." "Let the rain fall down" "And wake my dreams" "Let it wash away" "My sanity" "Cause I wanna feel the thunder" "I wanna scream" "Let the rain fall down" "I'm coming clean" "Let the rain fall" "Let the rain fall" "Let the rain fall" "I'm coming clean" "Let's go back" "Back to the beginning"

"One thing I've learned in the last seven years, in every game and con there is always an opponent and there is always a victim." "The trick is to know when you're the latter, so you can become the former." "How deep did you bury that shareholder, Paul?" "Deep." "Are you sure this is a good idea?" "He has to pay us something, doesn't he?" "But you've got more money than you could ever spend." "That's all you think about nowadays." "He owes me and he owes you." "Now he has to pay." "It's cause and effect." "Sorry, sir, this table is closed." "Send him up." "I'm not sure that's a good idea, Mr. D. He's got better." "I mean, a lot better." "All the tables are closed." "Send him up, Paul." "20." "Hold on." "I think we'll take the stairs, eh, Billy?" "You want to walk 20 flights, Jake?" "Don't be silly." "I don't like to feel trapped." "Never did, never will." "Why should a man do what he doesn't like to do?" "Jake, if you want to take the stairs, we'll take the stairs..." "There's always a choice." "What's wrong with the stairs?" "Come on, you'll be all right." "I've got to spend the next two minutes shaking and sweating like a crack whore clucking for a fix." "Should have taken the stairs, cos it's getting very, very tight in here." "I'm afraid it's only two at the table, Mr. Green." "Freddy, you're done." "Have a seat, Mr. Green." "I hear you've done very well for yourself and against all the odds." "They do say, the harder the battle the sweeter the victory." "A wise man once told me there's only one rule in this world, a small question that drives all success." "The more a man invests in that question, the more powerful that man will become." "Can you guess what that question is, Mr. Green?" "What's in it for me?" "I've been warned if I let you sit down at this table I might regret it." "They say you've become very ambitious in your maturing, and you now wish to acquire yourself a business," "a business like my business?" "But we both know what you are, don't we, Jake?" "You're a man who needs a master." "You're an employee." "So, what's in it for me?" "The pleasure of doing an old employee a favor, by reminding him of the position nature chose for him." "Rade, how much have you got?" "What's that got to do with you?" "Toss you for it." "He's got you there, Rade." "It's not worth a heart attack." "Get on with it." "I'll toss you for a tenth." "You're a risk-taker of the highest caliber, ain't you, Rade?" "I'll take red." "Very impressive, Mr. Green." "You've honed those talents most skillfully." "Pay the man his money, Billy." "Should have bet the whole lot, Rade." "You have to teach me that trick sometime." "You're on." "I'll toss you for everything under your chin." "There isn't a problem is there, Mr. D?" "You've got a big mouth on a small head, sunshine." "Be my guest." "I'll take purple." "You're on." "It's a lovely color, purple, discretely sandwiched within the color spectrum between blue and white." "Always a royal winner." "Billy, do the honors." "Don't you fucking move." "Don't let your mouth put you in more trouble than your body could handle." "I'll tell you what I'll do." "I'll exercise a bit of charity." "Double or quits?" "You're on." "Come on." "Mr. Green, Mr. Macha would appreciate it if you came back to the table." "I haven't finished with him yet." "Now would be a good time." "I think it's time to fly, don't you, Jake?" " Excuse me." " We're coming through here." "Relax." "You're in trouble, Mr. Green." "We could help." "Thank you." "I take the stairs." "He got lucky, Mr. D, that's all." "Fuck luck, the man's a danger." "Since he's been out, he's made a fortune, Mr. D. He's fat and comfortable." "He's got what he wanted." "I'm sure we won't be hearing from him again." "He ate seven years, Paul." "Seven years doesn't taste nice." "Not to mention the accident with his brother's wife." "And what the fuck does "I haven't finished with him yet" mean?" "Get rid of him." "And I don't want any mistakes." "No crackheads with sharp sticks acting like silly fucking gangsters." "You take Sorter and Slim Biggins." "You do it quickly, you do it quietly." "We don't know what caused the blackout." "But we've run some blood tests and we'll have the results within a few hours." "It's a miracle you didn't sustain any damage from your fall." "Can I go now?" "Once you've put your clothes back on." "We'll call you back with the results." "All right, look, I'll take your man back." "Billy." "You go home." "It's late." "Go easy now, yeah?" "Joe." "Joe." "Jake." "Move." " Joe." "Move." "Get the hell out of here." "Al, drive the fucking car." "Sit down and hold on." "Get in the car." "If I wanted you dead, I would have shot you already." "Sit back and be quiet." "What?" "He missed?" "Sorter never fucking misses." "I don't know what happened." "Something went wrong." "I had him in my sights... three times." "You never miss, let alone three times." "Somebody told him we was coming." "Something is very wrong here." "Yeah, something's fucking wrong all right." "Don't make me angry, Slim." "I might have missed him, but I ain't going to miss you, not at this range." "Maybe it's better you just drive." "Doreen, Mr. Green." "Mr. Green, Doreen." "Good morning, Mr. Green." "Avi, Mr. Green." "Mr. Green, Avi." "Sit down." "I gather you're quite the player?" "I'm a bit of an enthusiast myself." "I thought maybe we could have a few games." "I think you should tell me what is going on, don't you?" "We have your medical results from the hospital." "It's not important how we got them." "What is important, however, is what it has to say." "You will die within three days from a very unpleasant ailment that contaminates your blood and organs." "Thanks, fellas." "I'll get back to you on this one, yeah?" "Mr. Green." "30 seconds, and you can be on your way." "The longer you listen, the sweeter the pitch." "30 seconds?" "We've already saved your life once." "The next time will not be for free." "We shall assist you under two conditions." "These conditions are not negotiable." "Oh, I'm being grafted." "Condition one." "We will bleed you dry." "You have to put on a better shirt before you bleed me dry, my friend." "You will give us every penny you have got." "This is a con." "It's only natural that you think that you are somehow being conned, but think a little harder, and you will realize that this is not a trick." "Now, condition two." "You will do as we tell you without argument." "This includes answering any questions that are asked." "You don't have a lot of time, and, in reality, you don't have a choice." "Now, the most sensible thing to do would be to get a second opinion." "Macha has unleashed his legions." "We can protect you from the dangers you face." "That is our deal." "You have three hours to decide." "After that, you will be beyond our help." "Think I'm going to part with my hard-earned cash for a set of home-made hospital results?" "I don't think so." "Not today." "I don't have good news, I'm afraid, Mr. Green." "They've thought this one through all right." "Oh, they're smart." "Smart as a pair of a little boy's shoes." "She has to be in on it." "That's how they got the results." "Got to find someone they couldn't have got to." "Well, Jake..." "I'm sorry, there's... there's no easy way to tell you this." "You have a rare blood disease." "How did they get to him?" "He's in on it." "After a few days I think..." " How much did they pay you?" " What?" "Who?" "How much?" "What are you talking about?" "I have no idea what you mean." "You've got five seconds." "Five..." "I have no idea what you're talking about." " Four..." " Wh?" "I..." " Three..." "Two..." " I don't know what you mean." "God." "No, no." "When you're winning, who thinks about losing?" "But when you're faced with what I'm looking at, a new and cold reality dawns." "A fact we like to ignore." "You can not win." "The only prize they guarantee when you play this game is that you will lose." "It's only a question of when." "I made a mistake." "You never miss, so why now and why three times?" "I had a bad feeling." ""Feeling?"" "I'm not sure if I paid you to have feelings, now, did I, Sorter?" "I paid you because you're the best in the business." "Why would you let feelings confuse that relationship?" "Listen to me." "Urgency has become something of an issue." "So if you could restrain those feelings until you've completed the mission, I would be most grateful." "Do you think you could do that for me?" "Sure." "I'd appreciate it." "If there is one thing I have learnt about experts, they're experts on fuck all." "If there's a rule, you can bend it." "If there's a law, it can be broken." "From now on, I am breaking all the rules, because desperate men do desperate deeds." "Cash just seems to remain king, doesn't it?" "New bills." "Not too many of them in this town." "I love a new bill." "Represents so much hope." "Look how clean and stiff it is." "It even smells proud." "Your work starts now." "You'll be driving." "We are, and I apologize for the unnecessarily dramatic moniker, loan sharks." "People hate and fear us, just like you will learn to hate and fear us." "We know how much you love a dollar bill, and it won't be easy watching them fall through your hands, because it will be your money that we will be loaning." "Don't say a word." "Just hold the bag and if we nod, leave it on the table." "There's nothing left." "That's a very sad story, Mr. Horowitz." "My sympathies are with you and your colleague." "Maybe I am being conned, maybe I am being fooled." "Excuse us for having to know the reason for your loan, but we have to assess our clients very carefully." "They say the sentence has been passed, the certificate signed, so what's the point?" "The point is, this is the only option." "If you snap those fingers at me again, I'll fucking break 'em." "You know our rates, right?" "And our policies?" "No offence, gentlemen, but you have a reputation." "I wouldn't be speaking to you if I had a choice." "It's a strange thing, but I still don't like to give it away." "I know I can't take it with me, so why the pain?" "Why the fuck does it still hurt?" "And greasing the sheaths of these two pricks isn't making it any easier." "We need to know your history with Macha." "How much of it?" "All of it." "Macha had these three clowns working for him called the three Eddies." "Flash, loud, proud and stupid." "They were looking after these shitty little games going on all over the city." "They were wild and dangerous, but if you won they paid well." "Macha had lost his card man just before a big game." "Anyway they knew I could play, so they wanted me to take his place." "Like any man who was thinking, I refused." "So they started to lean on my brother and his family." "He'd just had a little girl at the time and the whole situation was getting messy." "# How many legs has daddy long-legs got?" "So, for the sake of keeping the peace, I rolled over and agreed to play." "I won, and I was done." "That's very good, Mr. Green, but tell me, does your mum..." "from a donkey?" "Then some cowboy starts mouthing off." "I wasn't having any of that shit." "I'm not having any of that shit." "I've got a funny one for you too, George." "Very funny, George." "This one will make you laugh." "Next thing you know, it's a gunfight, people get hurt and money disappears." "Two weeks later, someone drops my name and I'm being questioned." "The Eddies thought I might talk, so they threatened my brother's daughter." "The mother reacted badly, like they do when their little ones are in danger." "They got into a fight and she took an angry stray bullet." "My brother lost his wife and his daughter lost her mother." "I lost my sense of humor and seven years because I wouldn't tell the authorities that Macha had organized the games." "Sometime after that, the Eddies upset Macha in some way, so he had them used as aggregate and mixed into some concrete on one of his buildings." "Macha had to pay something, didn't he?" "And I know nothing hurts more than humiliation and a little money loss." "I employ hundreds of people." "They have to be paid tomorrow." "We need three more days." "Try to understand." "What did I sign up for?" "Don't try to make sense out of it, not now, cos it doesn't make sense." "I just know if you start a job then finish it." "I promise." "Yes, you will." "Goddamn right." "Their idea of discretion is to choose a motel whose only clients are blood, come and afro sheen." "Make yourself at home." "You'll be hearing from us." "We can't see Gold." "What are you talking about?" "I've been here for an hour." "I'm not the one who asked for a fucking meeting." "Apparently, no-one sees Gold." "We've got one of his representatives, Walker." " Lilly Walker?" " That's right." "Mr. Macha, I don't think we've met." "I'm Miss Walker." "I work for Mr. Gold." "Do you mind if we walk?" "I understand you have been commissioned to do some work for us?" "I thought it might be a good idea if we had a little chat to make sure you understand the gravity of the endeavor you have undertaken." "Yeah, I do, I understand." "Everything's set." "The date hasn't changed, you'll get the powder by Friday." "Good." "Mr. Gold has put his faith in you, and he has people to please." "We've heard you might be having some problems?" "No, no." "We don't like publicity, Mr. Macha." "No, neither do I. I won't let you down, I won't let Mr. Gold down." "So, we're clear?" "Mr. Gold doesn't give more time or second chances." "As you can appreciate, there is no shortage of people who wish to do business with Mr. Gold." "Good day." "Here's your money." "What now?" "Have a seat." "We need to know how much time you did, and who you did it with." "Why?" ""Why?"" "The deal is we ask the questions." "I had two choices inside, 14 years' normal time or seven years' solitary." "I chose the solitary." "I spent 20 hours a day locked up in between two salty convicts who had been down there for more years than they cared to remember." "One was a chess master, the other a master conman." "They had never seen or spoken to each other, but they might as well have been married, they knew so much about one another." "Once a day, the library on wheels would be pushed around by a pair of axe-murdering twins, that had pushed the trolley for 22 years." "My neighbors used to write down chess moves and concepts of the con in the back pages of books based on subjects like..." "Theoretical Astrophysics Part Four, The Mathematics Of Quantum Mechanics." "They just used them for the con." "I used to intercept the books, because I was sandwiched in between their cells." "It's a dangerous combination, chess and cons." "These boys were locked up on their own for ten years with no distractions." "Nothing to do but think about how to steal one another's pieces." "Yeah, they thought." "They really thought." "I was under the impression that I was the clever bastard before I went in." "But these boys were a completely different class." "Head tricksters of the premier division." "Their sole ambition was to create the ultimate con and win the ultimate game, always thinking quicker, always thinking bigger." "Gradually, they thought they'd found a formula to the con." "Check." "A formula to win the ultimate win, the formula." "I couldn't understand the depth of it, but they were confident it was real and I believed them." "After all, they'd been right on everything else, so now they felt they'd had their moment and it was time for them to leave the confines of their cell." "The concrete and steel wasn't even mentioned." "I didn't even doubt them." "They got whatever they wanted anyway." "I could smell their food through 12 inches of concrete." "Bastards knew it used to drive me mad." "You bastards." "We were all going to go together, they swore to me. "You're coming with us, Jake."" "And I trusted them." "Never for a second did I doubt them." "Next day, they were gone without a trace." "For the next week, the authorities tore the place apart." "Couldn't find evidence of their existence, let alone their exit." "They just evaporated." "Check." "Two years later, I was out." "But those two knew everything about me." "Everything." "All my dirty little secrets, how much money I had, where I kept it." "The hustling bastards cleaned me out." "They didn't leave so much as a pair of socks, only a note." "Rule one:" "You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent." "But I had their formula and it worked." "It really worked." "Not doing you much good now, is it?" "Checkmate." "He needs to get moving." "Give him the addresses." "Why are they dragging this on?" "They could just clean me out in one hit." "They want me to suffer." "These twisted bastards are making me pay." "Pay for my own pain." "Hands down, that's the most radical concept I have ever heard of and a part of me dies every time I think about it." "I told myself if this is my last round, they'll have to tear me out, piece by piece, but this I can't take." "They've found a weakness." "Caught me fair and square, cross-haired, blind-folded, one foot in the grave and two hands on the coffin." "I'm cooked, well done, stick a fork in me and see if I bleed." " Checkmate." " You're quite good at this game, Mr. Green." "I am stuck in a trance somewhere between hell and a hard place in a gear that doesn't exist," "and all I want now is a little peace." "Where are you?" " At the old lady's house." " Does she have it?" "Of course she doesn't have it." "She's barely got a heartbeat." "How the hell is this woman going to get that kind of money?" "That's what she owes." "Any furniture?" "No." "Take the dog." "I am not taking the dog." " Then take the TV." " The TV don't work." "Then get your ass over here." "How do you sleep at night?" "How are we doing?" "Ask the man." "No thanks, darling." "Time's up, lets go." "Mr. Green, you took your time." " Did you get anything from the old lady?" " No." "Did you get anything from Horowitz?" " No." " Why not?" "Because he didn't have it." "Listen, pal, either he pays or you pay." "I pay anyway." "Don't be a smartass." "Look, man, we are not sending you out to polish door knobs." "You've got to get with it, man." "Doreen, take his car." "Come with us." "What is this?" "Where was security?" "They gassed them." "We found them tied up." "Hold tight, Mr. Green." "It was a 12-ton Hermann and Ziegler safe, Mr. D. It was impossible to break into." "Time's up, let's go." "Obviously, it wasn't fucking impossible to move, was it, Paul?" "What did anyone take it for?" "We don't even use that safe, do we, Paul?" "Checkmate." "How in the hell did you do that?" "Not usually, no." "Sam Gold's powder was in there." "It came in yesterday." "No, Paul, you're wrong." "Try again." "You stupid motherfucker." "That should rattle him." "What the fuck was it doing on one of our properties?" "Why don't you just fucking rape me, Paul?" "Pull the troops together." "Break some bones, hurt some people, results." " You hear me?" " I'll take care of it." "You're damn straight you're going to fucking take care of it." "The word "excuse" does not exist in Sam Gold's lexicon." "We are the walking dead until you fucking remedy this situation." " Do you understand?" " I'll take care of it." "I said, do you understand?" " Yes." " You'd better." "In the meantime, get some more powder." "I don't care where it comes from or how much it costs, just get it." "There's only one man who can get us that amount on such short notice." "Who?" "Lord John." "No way." "I'm not nourishing the competition." "That's twice the market price." "Sorry, we can't help, Mr. Paul." "Tony'll show you the way out." "All right." "Hold on, hold on." "I am prepared to talk." "What do you want to talk about?" "OK, get it." "What?" "Am I having déjà-vu, Paul?" "Didn't I just say "get it"?" "This is Sam Gold I have found myself chained to." "Mr. Black Magic." "Mr. "l-run-this-game" Gold." "Not some plastic gangster with a pocketknife for backup." "Gold doesn't give second chances, Paul." "I want in and I want rewards." "Got it?" "Paul, when you make the deal, keep both eyes on that untrustworthy, greedy motherfucker." "If anyone asks, you don't speak the language." "After you, Mr. Green." "I'm taking the stairs." "What's the problem, Mr. Green?" " I don't like elevators." " What are you scared of?" "Are you fucking deaf?" "I said I just don't like them." "Tough, because you're getting in." "Everything?" "If he wants a fucking war, I'm going to give him a fucking war." "I don't think it was Lord John, Mr. D. He knows you'd come looking for him." "He's not far from wrong." "Because that is exactly what I'm going to fucking do." "I'll take the stairs." "Before we do anything, Mr. D, we have to get Sam Gold his powder." " Don't pull the trigger..." " Shut your fucking mouth." " I'll get out." " You ain't going nowhere." "I said you're staying right here." "Get rid of the Lord..." "there will be consequences." "Do I look like I'm afraid of the consequences?" " I'm taking the stairs." " You ain't going nowhere." "You motherfucking listen." "Look at me." "You think I'm afraid of the fucking consequences?" " Take the stairs." " You listen to me." "You open your mouth one more fucking time, I'll blow your fucking head off." "Fuck him." "Fuck the consequences." "Fuck them all." " Do I look like I'm afraid?" " No." "Do you understand me?" "Do you?" "Lou, what's going on?" "We're here." "How many?" "We're doing a deal in the next room." "When do you make the trade?" " Ten minutes." " Ten minutes?" " Don't trust those yellow dogs." " I don't trust anyone." "Lou?" "Talk to me, you motherfucker." "Or I'll kill you myself." "The consequences can kiss my black ass." "This has become a large problem, Avi." "There's no such thing as problems, Mr. Green, only situations." "Wake up, Mr. Green." "Checkmate." "How?" "How what?" "We've kept you alive, now you can tell me." "How do you keep winning?" "It's very simple." "You do all the hard work, I just help you along." "The art is for me to feed pieces to you and make you believe you took those pieces, because you are smarter and I am dumber." "In every game and con there is always an opponent and there is always a victim." "The more control the victim thinks he has, the less control he actually has." "Gradually he will hang himself." "I, as the opponent, just help him along." "Is that the treasured formula?" "The formula has infinite depth in its efficacy and application, but it is staggeringly simple and completely consistent." "Rule one of any game or con:" "You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent." "Rule number two." "The more sophisticated the game, the more sophisticated the opponent." "If the opponent is very good, he will place his victim inside an environment he can control." "The bigger the environment, the easier the control." "Toss the dog a bone, find their weakness, and give them just a little of what they think they want." "Check." "So the opponent simply distracts their victim by getting them consumed with their own consumption." "Check." "The word "snake" springs to mind." "Don't knock it." "You only get smarter by playing a snake." "The bigger the trick and older the trick, the easier it is to pull." "Based on two principles." "They think it can't be that old and they think it can't be that big, for so many people to have fallen for it." "Eventually, when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means the victim's investment and thus his intelligence is questioned." "No-one can accept that, not even to themselves." "Checkmate." "I ain't playing you again." "You'll always find a good opponent in the very last place you would ever look." "You've got more tricks than a clown's pocket, don't you, Mr. Green?" "Everything all right?" "Can they hear you?" "Two minutes." "You're OK." "Get out, Jake, as soon as you can." "I had to dig very deep to find someone who'd talk." "They're the last resort." "They're the last resort." "When no other loan sharks will lend them, your boys move in." "They stepped on Gold's toes and he wouldn't touch 'em." "Gold?" "Yes, the Gold, Sam Gold." "Mr. Clandestine." "Mr. Ambiguous." "Mr. Mystery." "Get out of there." "Get out of there, Jake." "No-one lives and displeases Gold." "No-one but your two friends." "Got to be something wrong with 'em if Gold won't touch 'em." "Got to be something wrong if the Goldfather won't touch 'em." "No-one sees Gold, but Gold sees everything." "The smoke signals say, "Dodge 'em like an angry bullet."" "Tell your friend to get out of there." "Jake, get out of there." "Get out of there." "Get out of there." "Tomorrow." "You're worse than a stuck record." ""Tomorrow, tomorrow."" "Tomorrow is never going to come, is it?" "Hello, it's warming up." "Zach, kick him, see if that jogs him on." "You want me to play mother?" "I took care of Horowitz." "It's your turn." "Change of plan." "I can see what's coming." "Give it to Mr. Green." "Mr. Green." "Shoot Fred for me." "Not dead, stupid, just in the back of the knee." "I ain't shooting Fred, Zach." "Sometimes, a little voice tells you to think about number one." "Told you, Avi." "Never had the gumption, never going to have what it takes." "It's easier than you think." "It's one little squeeze, just like a tube of toothpaste." "Who the fuck are you two?" "You can't see what's right in front of you." "You're supposed to be stiff, cold and horizontal, and you still don't trust us?" "Shoot him in the kneecap." "The debt has to be paid." "And sometimes it's best to listen to it." "Get your arse up, Fred." "Go on." "Get out." "He can't do that, Jake." "Then why don't you stop him, Avi?" "What the fuck do you know?" "Shoot that toad now." "One more step, Avi." "Just like a squeeze of toothpaste." "You realize what you're doing, Mr. Green?" "Hold on, Jake." "This isn't the plan." "This won't have a happy ending." "One more step, Avi." "Wake up, Mr. Green." "Congratulations, Mr. Green." "It's past the third day and you have risen." "I think you're due for a check-up." "Did the bad guys get you?" "There's no such thing as "bad guys", Rachel." "Yes, there are." "That's why Daddy's friends are looking after us." "Never mind about that." "Why don't you be a good girl and get your Uncle Jake a cold drink?" "It's a bit of a mess, isn't it?" "Things will sort themselves out." "Is she all right?" "Don't you worry about her." "You just look after yourself." "Mr. Green, I don't know how to tell you this." "Our first results, they must have been wrong." "I cannot apologize enough for this error." "You're not a well man, but..." "We have to assess our clients very carefully." "There is something about yourself that you don't know." "Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it." "It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears." "This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are." ""Fear or revere me, but please think I'm special."" "We share an addiction." "We're approval junkies." "We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch." "The "hip, hip, hoo-fucking-rah."" "Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy." "Shine on, you crazy diamond." "Cos we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others." "If we knew this, we wouldn't do this." "Someone is hiding it from us." "And if you had a second chance, you would ask..." "Why?" " Why what?" " Why am I still alive?" "Why did you give my money away?" "Why didn't you want 'em to know?" "Why didn't you want me to know?" "You'll find out soon enough." "Whilst I've been digging around on Lord John" "I came across a couple of cash-talking shit-sniffers who came up with the name..." "Green." "That's right, Jake Green." " Go on." " I'm working for his brother." "Patrick." "A couple of opportunists, looking after his older brother, got a little bit greedy." "Want to impress you." "All right, you take Sorter and Slim Biggins and enough men to avoid an excuse." "It's about fucking time." "Now that is a picture." "You took your sweet-ass time." "I was starting to get bored." "You should have kept busy with a swim." "Funny you should say that." "Zach's quite a swimmer, aren't you, Zach?" "20 lengths in ten seconds." "We thought it might be a record." "You want to try to beat it?" "Come on in and join us." "I'll just pop upstairs, grab my trunks, and be down in a jiffy." " I wouldn't do that if I were you." " Oh, and why is that, Avi?" "Why do you think we're in this icy birdbath, when we could be upstairs, toasty and cozy, watching the naughty channel?" "How long can it take to get five coffees and a couple of pizzas?" "You are on your own, Jakey boy." "Move." "You've got to tell the boss." "Why me?" "Because you're the one who ordered the pizza." "This time you're going to tell me what's going on." "Two sugars, am I right?" "Forget the tea, Avi." "Thank you, Jenny, that will be all." "You didn't tell us the truth about the three Eddies did you, Mr. Green?" "The Eddies upset Macha in some way so he had them used as aggregate, and mixed into some concrete on one of his buildings." "Would you like us to remind you of what really happened?" "The Eddies were waiting for you when you got out of prison." "It was Macha's fault." "They didn't work for him any more, and wanted to..." "What they really meant was they wanted to put 12 grams of angry lead in the back of your fucking head." "But you gave them an offer they couldn't refuse." "No-one kills a man who's going to make 'em money." "So you would give them 3% a month on any money they would lend you." "You needed the money quickly for some small but profitable deal that you'd made on the inside." "In fact, it was more profitable than any rate they can get anywhere, legal or illegal." " So, one of them said..." " I'm in." " A month later he got his money back." " Plus your 3%." " Now, nobody kills a man..." "...who's going to make him money." " They always protect their investment." " I can give you 4% a month." " You know this is just between us?" " That's right, Eddie." "Next deal - this time they're all in." "I give you 4% a month." "For two years you always came through, regular like clockwork." "But there was no deal." "You would take money off of one Eddie and repay the other Eddie, plus the 4%." "Plus your 4%." "On top." "You were not greedy, you did it nice and slow." "You were paying for their trust." " This is just between us, right, Jake?" " That's right, Eddie." "It was the easiest money they'd known." "Soon they couldn't give you their money fast enough." "A few months later they didn't have enough of their own to lend, so they started to borrow money off Macha." " 3%?" " Plus your 3%." " 4%?" " Plus your 4%." "5%?" "Macha became interested." "How could the Eddies have such a good little earner?" " They hid you like a dirty little secret." " Find out who's behind this." "Who's behind this?" "Ask no questions, hear no lies." " They tell anything but the truth." " Find out if Green is behind this." " Is Jake Green behind this?" " I'll tell you, no, it's not Jake Green." " They'd do anything to protect their investment." " I'm not sharing the golden goose." "But Macha got his interest, so he kept loaning them more and more." "Lend them the money." "You were back gambling, making more money than you knew what to do with." "You were rich." "I am rich." "Seriously fucking rich." "After a year, you had enough of the Eddies' money, or should I say Macha's money..." " Now I'm richer." "A lot fucking richer." "...to buy a chain of hotels." "So you went on a discreet three-month holiday." "You took your brother, his daughter, Macha's money and you enjoyed yourself." "A bit of the old sun, sand, sea and sausages." "The Eddies meanwhile were having a terminal argument about how they were going to pay back Macha that obscene amount of cash they owed him." "I want my money back, Paul." "Those boys really suffered, Jake." "The more they told the truth, the more they suffered." " It's Jake Green." " He's telling the fucking truth." "They told me that story already." "Give me the truth." "You gave them just enough rope to hang themselves." "You're a good little conman, Jake." "And you think you're smart, and you are, just not as smart as you think you are." "Elvis." "Come here." "If I wanted vinegar, I would have ordered French fries." "Get me something with a price tag on it." "...Mr. Green." "What did he do, anyway?" "Hamish?" "It's OK, we're among friends." "Come on, what have you got for me?" "What am I going to tell him?" "That's your problem, but it had better be good." "I turned up to pick them up and that is what I saw." "That's a fascinating story." "I have one question for you." "How?" "How what?" ""How what?"" "There were six of us, plus Slim Biggins, who counts as another six." "How many were there of him?" " One." " One." "So, how exactly did this "one" manage to disarm and overpower a four-time national body-building champion," "drag him half a block, throw him over a six-foot wall and then get him to eat his own gun?" "Get down, boss." "Just find the gunman." "Don't fucking move." "Lou." "Lou." " Keep the boss down." " What the fuck's going on?" "I don't know." "Sorter just shot the and he went in the kitchen." " Nobody fucking move." " Bastard." "Keep the fucking boss down." "She shot my finger off." "The bitch shot my finger off." "Who is it?" "Happy Tony, Lord John's man." "Not looking so happy now, is he?" "Check she's dead, Lou." "Greed gets them all in the end." "Now, shoot straight, Sorter." "Glad to see you've got those feelings in check." "Find a couple of Lord John's boys and persuade them to tell you where my powder is." "What is the first rule of any game, Mr. Green?" "The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent." "What's rule two of any game?" "The more sophisticated the game, the more sophisticated the opponent." "Almost the same, but where does it stop, Mr. Green?" "Where does this game stop?" "It stops when you start to give me answers." "Don't let them play head games with you, Jake." "Is it me that's playing head games with you, Mr. Green?" "You've heard their voice for so long, you believe it to be you." "You believe it to be your best friend." "They should believe their opponent to be their best friend." "Where's the best place an opponent should hide?" "In the very last place you would ever look." "Do you know who Sam Gold is, Mr. Green?" "You should, because he knows who you are." "The Gold," "Sam Gold." "Mr. Clandestine." "Mr. Ambiguous." "Mr. Mystery." "He's all up here, pretending to be you." "No-one sees Gold, but Gold sees everything." "You're in a game, Jake." "You're in the game." "Everyone's in his game, and nobody knows it." "And all of this, this is his world." "He owns it." "He controls it." "I've had enough of this shit." "Tell him you've had enough." "He tells you what to do..." " Look, that's enough." "...and when to do it." " Tell him." " I said that's enough, Avi." "Eventually, when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means the victim's investment and thus his intelligence is questioned." "No-one can accept that, not even to themselves." "He's behind all the pain there ever was." "Behind every crime ever committed." "How can I be behind all the pain, all the crime, if I don't even exist?" "And right now, he's telling you that he doesn't even exist." "No-one lives and displeases Gold." "No-one but your two friends." "We just put you to war with the only enemy that ever existed, and you, you think he's your best friend." "And they will protect their best friend with everything they've got." "You're protecting him, Mr. Green, but with what?" "Where's the best place an opponent should hide?" "In the very last place you'd ever look." "He's hiding behind your pain, Jake." "You're protecting him with your pain." "Embrace the pain and you will win this game." "And I know nothing hurts more than humiliation and a little money loss." "If you change the rules on what controls you you will change the rules on what you can control." "How radical are you prepared to be, Mr. Green?" "The more power you think you have in Gold's world, the less power you have in the real world." "You are still in prison, Jake." "In fact, you never left." "Remember who they are, Jake." "Head tricksters, word slicksters." "You wanted answers and they gave you riddles." "You know the rules, the longer you listened, the sweeter the pitch." "He's got all the tricks and all the right answers." "Don't let them do this to you, Jake." "Don't let them turn you against you." "You don't give because it's good." "You give because it hurts him." "What are we doing here?" "He's the enemy, Jake, not me." "Use your perceived enemy to destroy your real enemy." "Do not listen, Jake." "You've got a gun." "Use it." "Don't wake him up." "Suffocate him." "Put the pillow over his head and suffocate him." "He'd do it to you, Jake." "If you can't do it, then you're not a free man." "You are controlled." ""Controlled?" "Free man?"" "Jake, wake up." "Look, Mr. Macha, I'm very sorry to have woken you." "Please listen to me." "Who's that?" "Mr. Green?" "Mr. Macha, please, I'm sorry to have woken you." "Listen to me." ""Sorry." Listen at how you sound." "I came to apologize." "Forgive me for the things I've said and for cheating you out of your money." "I couldn't think clearly." " Shut up." " No, no, that's too much." "Shoot the fucker." "Shoot him." "He's been trying to kill you." "He killed your friend, shot like a fucking dog." "That's better, Jake, in control again." "Do the right thing." "Take care of your enemy, take care of business." "Use any means possible to induce head pain, and engage the enemy." "Shut up." "Wake up, Jake." "What are you fucking doing?" "Leave it." "You're groveling." "I now realize you're a man to be feared and respected." "I now realize you're a man to be feared and respected." "Stop groveling." "Where's your pride?" "Where's your pride?" "I made a big mistake, Mr. Macha." "Shut up." "I underestimated your power and your intellect." "I've made a donation in your name as a peace offering, as a token of my apology." "I want you to..." "Shut up." "I want you to forgive my stupidity." "Wherever you don't want to go is where you will find him." "What is it that you are afraid of, Mr. Green?" "Why are you doing this to yourself, Jake?" "It's too tight, Jake." "We've got to get out." "You're going to die in a tiny space, Jake." "Have to get out." "We're stuck, stuck." "The walls are moving in." "It's tight." "I'm scared." "We've got to get out." "I can hear you." "I can hear you." "What?" "I can hear you." "I'm onto you." "Who takes care of the good times?" " We're a team." " We're best pals, Jake." " You want to get rid of me?" " Do you know life without me?" " No." "Because it doesn't..." "...exist." " Do they talk about me, Jake?" " No." "Because I don't exist." " Tell all your friends about me then, Jake?" " I protect you and I control you." "I say do, you obey." " If I say you're scared..." "...you're scared." "You've been listening to the other side, haven't you, Jake?" " Listening to people who want to hurt you." " New people." "New." "Not old friends like me." "People you shouldn't trust." "Not me." "I've been your friend forever, since the beginning." "Get rid of them, Jake, forever." "They're the enemy, not me." "They're new, I'm old." "I stay, they go." "I say you do." "You do." "You're weak without me, weak." "It's us against them, Jake." "It's us against them." "I'm coming to get you." "You want to get rid of me?" "You want to make an enemy out of me?" "You want to get rid of me, do you?" "Do you?" "You want to get rid of me, me, me, me?" "Still here, Jake?" "How long have I looked after you?" "You can't win this one without me." "You know why?" "I am you." "You ain't me." "The greatest con that he ever pulled, was making you believe that he is you." "You ain't me." " I am you." " You're not me." "Come on." "Your best fucking friend." "I am you." "You don't control me." "I control you." "You come to my house with a loaded gun." "You speak to me like I'm a fucking idiot." "What's your game?" "What's your game?" "Speak to me." "Speak to me." "Or I'll kill you like the fucking dog that you are." "Fear me." "Fear me." "We have already killed Lord John and two of your colleagues." "If you value your life more than a few bags of white powder, you will tell me... where it is hidden." "Is everything all right, Mr. D?" "It will be when you take care of my security, Paul." "What are you holding the papers for?" "Because you're on the cover of half of them." "If you don't mind me asking, what has come over you, Mr. D?" "They think you did it." "Oh, my god." "Take the credit, they'll never know." "This feels good." "This feels quite good." "I'm going to take the credit." "It might come as a surprise to you, Paul, but I do have a heart." "I have some news about Green." "I'll give you news about Green." "He now knows who's boss." "He was sniveling like a baby begging for forgiveness." "It was embarrassing." "We're not going to be hearing from Mr. Green for a while." "I'm not sure if that's the case, Mr. D." "Whilst you've been sleeping, we've been busy." "If Lord John's boys know where the powder is, they took it to the grave." "We know Green's behind everything." "He took your powder, not Lord John." "He's been playing games with us, and he's been playing games with you." "Fear me." "Fear me." " Shut up." " Fear me." " Shut up." " Fear me." " It doesn't look good." " Shut up." "It doesn't look good." "The drums have been talking." "And what have the drums been saying?" "They've been saying what Sam Gold's been hearing." "Fear me." "Hearing about the little problems Mr. Green has been giving us, that's embarrassing." "We have an address for his brother." "We can take care of it." "Get him to talk, do whatever it takes." "Take Sorter and an army." "If they give any trouble, hurt 'em." "Let me read about that in the paper." "Get a hold of Green and get my powder." "Go." "Are we expecting anyone?" "I'll get it." "I said, are we expecting anyone?" "Shouldn't you check first?" "If you love your daddy, be a good girl, hide in that cupboard." "Now." "Check the house." "You know why we're here?" "Serpent." "I said, do you know why we're here?" "I've some kind of an idea, yes." "Are you going to tell me?" "Paul, I swear to you," "I haven't got a fucking clue where he is." "He's been moving about." "I swear to you, I have no idea where he is." "It's all right." "That's it." "That's better." "That's better." "I still don't believe you." "You can't trust anyone." "They're out to destroy me." "They're out to destroy you." " You can't trust anyone." " I can't trust anyone." "Can't let Gold down." "He'll finish the business." "Then he'll finish me." "He's coming." "I won't see it coming." "He's coming." "And I won't see it coming." "There's a woman here to see you, Mr. D." "Said she cannot wait." "Don't tell me her name." " Says she works for Gold." " Don't tell me her name." "Anyone but her." " What's her name?" " Walker." "Anyone but her." "And everybody thought you were such a disgusting man, Mr. Macha." "Here it comes." "Here it comes." "Mr. Gold wishes to extend his respect for such a magnanimous gesture." "But he was wondering..." " That's a wreath." " That's a fucking wreath." "...if you can afford the time to give so generously, why you haven't had time to conclude our business?" "Everything's under control." "I need more time." "It's anything but under control, isn't it, Mr. Macha?" "Mr. Gold doesn't give more time." "And he doesn't give second chances." "You will be hearing from him." "Good day." ""Good day?" What the fuck does that mean?" "What the fuck does that mean?" "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?" "Some fucking street hustler?" "If he wants to meet me, you send him here and we'll see what he has to say." "I'll kill 'em, I'll kill all of 'em." "I'll kill 'em first." "They'll kill us first, they'll fucking annihilate me." "Beg, beg." "Take it back, beg, beg." "Beg, you idiot." "Wait, wait." "I didn't mean what I just said." ""Good day?" What the fuck does that mean?" "That means he's going to end my game and I won't see it coming." "I'm going to make this fair." "This is for you." "These for me." "One good chop, and you'll make the sink." "OK, that's enough." "Question me again, Sorter, and we will have a falling out." "Tell me what's happening, Lou." "I got tired of waiting by the car, so I went inside." "Paul, he was getting excited, you know how he does." "He started messing with the little girl's hair." "Out of nowhere, Sorter shot him." "Your daddy loves you so much." " Shot who?" " Paul." "Then he turned the gun on the two bodyguards, both gone in a blink of an eye." "Listen to me, sweetheart." "None of this is real." "It's just a game that the grown-ups are playing." "Now what I want you to do," "I want you to get in the cupboard and I want you to put your fingers in your ears, and it'll be all over before you know it." "Do as the man says, babe." "Put your fingers in your ears and go in the cupboard." "Good girl." "Pull yourself together, man." "Sorter, we're going to have to take the girl." "Of course you have." "Now all you've got to do is come and get her." "I'm the only one left." "Where's the girl?" "What are we doing here?" "One last treat, and bring the powder." "Jake Green is in the Casino." "How the fuck does he know?" "Why are we here?" "You have a meeting." "Got a little time to spare." "Let's have a game." "Bring him up." "You know what's so elegant about this little game, Jake?" "Nobody knows where the enemy is." "They don't even know he exists." "He's in every one of their heads." "And they trust him because they think they are him." "If you try to destroy him to save them, they'll destroy you to save him." "It's beautiful, man." "You have to admire the opponent's elegance." "Check." "You're quite good at this game, Mr. Green." "I know because I'm quite good at this game." "Check." "Check." "Check." "The art is for me to feed pieces to you, and make you believe you took those pieces, because you're smarter and I'm dumber." "Checkmate." "Wake up, Mr. Green." "You can't see what's right in front of you." "I never saw or spoke to those boys in all those years, but you know I would have died for either one of them." "One was a chess master, the other a master conman." "Dangerous combination, chess and cons." "Those two knew everything about me." "All my dirty little secrets, how much money I had, where I kept it." "Hustling bastards cleaned me out." "My neighbors used to write down chess moves and concepts of the con in the back pages of books based on subjects like The Mathematics Of Quantum Mechanics." "Wake up, Mr. Green." "We were all going to go together, they swore to me." ""You're coming with us, Jake."" "We were always going to take you with us, Jake." "You just weren't ready to hear how hard that was going to be." "We didn't do this because we like you." "We did this because we are you." "Time for that meeting." "Give him what he wants." "I'm sure that will make him very happy." "I know you're still there, cos I can feel you dying." "I can hear you, tapping me for a little nutrition." "Now who's clucking for a fix?" "Think it's a little tight in here, do you?" "You're not wrong, cos the walls are moving in." "No food here, not today, sunshine." "My eyes are open and the restaurant's closed." "Jog on, slide off." "Find someone else to fill your pipe, someone who won't see you coming or know when you're there." "You think I'm an evil man." "You think I am an evil man, don't you?" "Rachel, look at me, honey." "Think I don't know your fucking game?" "I do, I know your game, I see your game, I am your game." "Rachel, look at me, baby." "You don't play by the rules, Mr. Green." "You like to play silly games with my head, don't you?" " You're a fucking survivor," " A winner." " You're a pussy drowning in his own shit." " Shut up and leave me alone." "He chose his hiding place very carefully." "I can't let him kill me." "You're weak." "It's too late." "You're a dead man anyway." "You'll be dead before dawn." "The word "excuse" does not exist in Sam Gold's lexicon." "This is Sam Gold I found myself chained to." "Mr. Black Magic." "Mr. "l-run-this-game" Gold." "We can't see Gold." "Apparently, no-one sees Gold." "No-one gets away from Gold." "Get control of yourself." "It's anything but under control, isn't it, Mr. Macha?" "He's going to kill me, he'll kill me." "Where's your pride?" "Where's your pride?" "I'd rather kill myself than let him kill me." "Why isn't he scared?" "He's just staring at me." " You'll be hearing from him." " But he can't kill a dead man." "But he can't kill a dead man, can he?" "He can't kill a dead man, can he?" "You can't even do it, can you?" "The greatest con that he ever pulled ...was making you believe that he is you." "Ripped by:" "SkyFury"

"New Orleans, good morning." "It's Rob Ryan in with you." "Coming up, tickets for the big Voodoo Fest coming to town Ponchartrain, to the banks of the Mississippi, from Baton Rouge to Bayou Boutin, this is Hooks checking your news headlines." "Good day to be in New Orleans..." "How's the birthday boy ?" "Huh ?" " And this is for Mommy." " Thank you, sweetheart." "Look at Grandpa." "Look at Grandpa." "Say hi." " You wanna open a present ?" " Yeah !" " Good morning, Mr. Wood." " Morning, Katie." " Paper." " Oh." " Thank you." "How was your weekend ?" " Great." "How was yours ?" " Very nice." " Good." " How are the kids ?" " Great." "Oh, sh..." "Henry !" "Jacob." " Ted." "Morning." " It's happening." " What ?" "What's happening ?" " Does your car have a radio ?" "Greenspan's speech was delayed after the FOMC meeting." "Rumor is he's sick, and my screen looks like the end of the world is factored into prices." "Let's have everyone in the conference room in ten minutes." "Deborah, I need you for five minutes." "Ted, it's Monday, buddy." "There'll be a Tuesday." "OK, you have a conference call about the anti-trust approvals with Hallory at 11." "Close the door, please." " So, how did Henry's party go ?" " Terrific." "He had a great time." "Good." " L-I have a problem." " OK." "What is it ?" "He taught me a song for his birthday, and I have to sing it for him tonight at bedtime, and I can't think, for the life of me, what it is." "OK, OK." "Just, you know, sing me a little and we'll figure it out together." "Whoo !" "What the hell is this ?" "Call 911 !" " 911." " Yes, I wanna report a shooting." " Get behind the desk." " What ?" " Get behind the desk and stay there !" " Ma'am ?" "Uh, the Laurel-Morgan Building." " Third floor, Pete Murray and Colfax." " How many are injured, ma'am ?" " Ma'am ?" " I don't know." "I don't know how many..." "No, you gotta stay with me !" "God !" " Quiet..." " They put me on hold." " Hello ?" " Oh, shit." " Deborah." "Deborah, calm down." " Can you see anything ?" " It's gonna be fine." "I promise." " Hello ?" "Hello ?" "Come on..." "Come on." "Please send somebody." "Somebody pick up." "Please pick up." " Good morning, Mr. Pulaski." " Morning, Nick." " Do you need some help with that ?" " Ah, bilge ring keeps crapping' out, blocking up the damn pump." "I got it now, Nick." "Last time, you nearly took out every sink in the quarter, you know." "Hey, that was those kids messing with the water main." "You know, you should really quit those things." "What for ?" "Christmas comes a little early this year." "Ah, there's our boy." "So, what do you say ?" "Does he stop in for coffee and a cruller ?" " Ah, let's give him a cruller." " Oh, bingo !" "We have a winner." "I can smell the fried dough over here." "And..." "Ah, there he is." "Breakfast of champions, right there." "Oh, and we're losing him." "I'll take just a couple more." "Say good-bye to Mr. Nicholas Easter." "Who's next on the hit parade ?" " Hi." " Bonjour." " Can I look at that candle ?" " C'est la ?" "No, I'm sorry." "The red one." "It's just to the left of that scary pentacle and the jar of bloodroot." "Right there ?" "Oh !" "Oh, thank you." "What did you say ?" "She's Cajun." "I told her that you wanted the St. Nicholas candle." " Right ?" "Is that what you wanted ?" " Yeah, that's the one I was pointing to." "Now, what happened right there ?" "What did she say ?" "She said you're a nice-looking boy, but she doesn't trust you." "She didn't say that, did she ?" "You know what it is ?" "Jury duty." "Got a summons in the mail." "Just trying to pray my way out of it." " Where's your sense of civic duty ?" " Um, I flunked civics." " Oh." " Do you have any other tips ?" "I would go with the St. Catherine candle." " What did she do ?" " She's the patron saint of unmarried women and... jurors." " Really ?" " Really." "That's not what that candle really is, is it ?" "This your first time in New Orleans ?" "No, no." "I've been here a number of times." "Hm." "I had you pegged as a first-timer." " Is that right ?" " Yeah." " How's your mother ?" " Excuse me ?" " Is she feeling better ?" " How do you know about my mother ?" "She was in the hospital, but now you're taking care of her at home." "She had a stroke." "Your wife wants you to put her in a home, but you're feeling guilty about that." "You've checked out a few of them, and it doesn't feel like the Christian thing to do." "My advice:" "Reconsider the home." "Better an unhappy mother than an unfriendly wife." "I'm up here on the right." "The same thing with guns and Vicksburg Firearms." "The only thing that's gonna win the case for us is because for the first time, we got a gun company ex-executive who's gonna go up against his former employer and, with good conscience, he's gonna testify for us." "I promised Celeste that I would win it for her and all the other victims that died that day." "You're gonna make history, Celeste." "We're gonna make history together." "Thank you for your courage." "Barry, we got the Strickland SUV case at noon, and, Celeste, I'm gonna see you and your son at Arnaud's at six..." " Just as long as we don't talk about..." " Nothing about the case." "This is dinner with you and Henry." "Barry, you got time to see her to her car ?" " Absolutely." " Thank you." " Mr. Rohr." " Yeah ?" "Lawrence Green." "Lindus Hostetler." " Ah, Hostetler." " We..." "Yeah." " Yes, jury consultants, New York City." " Philadelphia." "I wanna thank you for agreeing to meet with me, sir." "Thank you." "I just want you to guess how many phone calls and letters" "I get from expert jury consultants such as yourself." " I can imagine, sir." " Go on, take a guess." "Well, I appreciate that you invited me down here, sir." "Well, this is more important now." "Which one ?" " I'm sorry ?" " Well, I'm off to court." "This is the striped, non-striped." "Striped, non-striped." "Go..." "I would go with the striped one, sir." "It matches your jacket." "And you have a striped one because you're from New York City." "Philadelphia, sir." "I think we're gonna go with the non-striped one, Phyllis." "You know, as a clever jury consultant, you should know that jurors down here don't trust a lawyer" " who's too nattily turned out." "Huh ?" " It's..." " How familiar are you with my case ?" " Very, sir." " You think it's a strong case ?" " Yes, sir." " Ooh." "Do you think it's a winning case ?" " People don't win gun cases, Mr. Rohr." "I think I can help you with that, sir." "There's gotta be another commuter flight." "Have you tried one in Richmond or Atlanta ?" "I gotta call you back." "He's here." "You represent the widow of a man shot by a Vicksburg Firearms gun." "That gun company's finding out things about prospective jurors their husbands and their wives don't even know." " Is that right ?" " Yeah." "And the word is, the defense has retained Rankin Fitch as their lead jury consultant." " Rankin Fitch ?" " You don't..." "No, I know who he is." "Mr. Fitch, how was your flight ?" "Fine." "Are we up and running, Miss Monroe ?" "We are." "Kaufman's inside with Birk and the kid from MIT, Lamb, he's here, too." " What about Broussard, Forensic..." " Linguistics out of Rochester." "He missed his connecting flight in Atlanta, but he'll be here by three." " Who's our backup ?" " Sir, he'll be here by three." " Who is our backup ?" " Levon Raines, out of Dallas." "All right." "Call Mr. Broussard." "Tell him his service is no longer required." " See what time Raines can be here." " Yes, sir." "Mr. Fitch." "I just want you to tell me why I need a jury consultant." "Fitch's team will be scientifically picking jurors predisposed in his favor by using video surveillance, wiretaps, psych profiles, graphology..." " Barry, where's my car ?" " It's where you parked it." "All right, come on." "We're going together." "Sir, I have a master's in psychology from the University of Chicago." "I know handwriting analysis." "I know this stuff." "I really do." "Plus civics, OK ?" "Delores Kinnerly, registered Democrat, 46 years of age, unmarried, occupational therapist." "Devout cat lover." "Yeah, look at the way she turns away from the man walking his dog." "She's definitely self-conscious about her weight." "Maybe she just hates dogs." " Good morning." " Morning." "Freeze that, Mr. Lamb." "We love fat women, people." "They're tight-fisted, unsympathetic." "I want her on my jury." "Ladies and gentlemen, let's find 11 more jurors and three alternates just like her." " Who's next ?" " Jerry Fernandez, 40 years old." "Puerto Rican." "Works for a local moving company..." "I got 35 years of experience in courtrooms, and my instincts for picking jurors has served me quite nicely so far." "I wanna thank you for your time." "Mr. Rohr, I flew down here on my own dime." " Why ?" " Because I..." "I..." "Because I believe in..." "I believe in this case !" " Why ?" " I..." "I believe in a world without guns." "That's very sweet, but a little naive." " 30 percent." " I'm sorry." "Excuse me ?" "30 percent of your usual fee, you're hired, strictly probationary status." "You don't wanna check out my résumé..." "Already did." "It's impressive." " OK, here's the thing." " What've you got ?" ""The following are automatically exempt..."" " I read through that stuff." " "Not a resident of New Orleans Parish."" "That's not gonna work." "What am I gonna say ?" " We have to be thorough." " Russell, I'm gonna tell these people" " I'm just gonna pack up and leave ?" " Number two..." "What do you mean, pack up and leave ?" "I've seen your stuff." " You ain't got nothing to pack." " No, it's true." "They own you." "But I'll tell you this." "One thing you can do:" "Leave the country." "Why am I gonna leave the country ?" " Uh, church convention." " Sex change." "You're leaving because you're becoming a woman." "Yeah." "You got a goat farm..." "This whole thing is a disaster because I got my life, I got my work and I got my training." "The Challenge." "The Challenge." " Ooh !" "Ooh !" "You can claim hardship." " That's eight weeks away..." " Eight weeks and you're gone." " I can't do it." "And you can't do it." "You've got the Challenge." "You can't go." "All right, all right." "Check this. "If you have been convicted of a felony..."" " Have you been convicted of a felony ?" " No." "You should commit a felony." "Just commit a crime." " Are you serious ?" " It doesn't have to be a bad crime." " You're out." "You're gone." " I should commit a crime ?" "You're asking to get out of it, are you not ?" "You registered to vote." "That's the problem." "If you register to vote, then they got you in that jury pool." "We need to de-register him." "You know, one of these days, I'm gonna get organized, throw half this stuff away." "Oh, what's that ?" "A Walther PPK." "That's a nice piece." "That's the same gun James Bond uses." "You know that ?" "Really ?" "Can't be too safe these days." "Walking on the streets all alone." " Smooth, Maxine." " Tell you what." "It's easier to find an honest firearm these days than a good man." " Ouch !" " You know how to use it ?" "Oh, my brother took me out to the dump one time." "Mm-hm." "You should let me take you down to a firing range, really." " Attaboy." "Attaboy." " Yeah, I'll show you how to shoot." " I got a few ideas." " I bet." " Nice job, Maxine." " Way to go." "Frank Herrera, Cuban, 43 years old." "Retired Marine sergeant." "Served tours in Panama and Grenada." "Twice divorced." "Now he makes his living cleaning swimming pools." "Fair to say that he misses his former position of authority." "I think Frank would make an excellent jury foreman, don't you, Mr. Cable ?" "Well, I'm only lead counsel for the defense, Mr. Fitch." "I don't pretend to know very much about jury selection." " Really ?" " Really." " Who's next ?" " Next is Nicholas Easter." "34, co-manager of Game Trader in the Esplanade Mall." " Who's it for ?" " Oh, he's gonna love this." "Yeah." "Now watch me hit this lady in the head." " See how her head explodes ?" " It completely explodes !" "You're not supposed to hit her." "You know, you hit the bad guys." " I can try ?" " Give it a shot, yeah." "OK." "Show me how to hold it." " Here you go." " Thank you." "I threw in this little, um, sniper game." "I thought he might like it." "Uh, I wrote down my phone number." "Oh, OK." "So that's a local number." "You're here." " Yeah, we're close." "Perfect." " Right on." " I'm Maxine." " I'm Nick Easter." "He calls himself a part-time student." " Uh, Tulane ?" "City college ?" " Currently nowhere." "So he's lying." "Where's he from ?" "Moved here eight months ago." "Trail's cold." "Just dropped out of the sky like the Archangel Gabriel, huh ?" "You put him on a jury with Sergeant Herrera, he's gonna be doing dog tricks inside five minutes." "Look, without reviewing his questionnaire, without a formal Q and A, I don't think I can trust this." "Well, you're only lead counsel for the defense, Mr. Cable." "You shouldn't pretend to know very much about jury selection." "Nicholas Easter, he's an entertainer." "Wants to make everybody happy." "Not a bad way to go through life, making everybody happy." "But in court, it's not that simple." "Somebody always loses." "Just not me." "He's a risk." "Let's move on." "The case stems from the shooting death of New Orleans stockbroker Jacob Wood two years ago." "Seating a panel won't be easy in this highly watched, politically charged trial that begins with jury selection today." "On the defense, Vicksburg Firearms." "Attorneys will begin questioning potential jurors today..." "The gun industry has never lost in the courts, but this time, the man leading this fight, attorney Wendall Rohr, says it'll be different." "He says this time, the gun industry will pay." " It's not sticking." "I need the other tape." " Ah, for pity's sake." " You know what you're doing ?" " You're good to go." " Could I get your glasses, big guy ?" " Perfect." "Same prescription." "The frames, however, will feel a little bit heavier." "Put 'em on." "Right side of the table." "Keep it square." "Keep it clear." "Mr. Cable." "I'm gonna be putting this behind your right ear." " What is it ?" " Well, it ain't Dramamine." "Right there." "All set." " You're done ?" " I am." "Mr. Rohr." " Can you smell that ?" " 200-year-old mahogany." "Furniture polish, cheap cologne and body odor." "Wendall." "How you doin' ?" "I'm Nick." " Lydia." " So, what are we supposed to do ?" "Are we supposed to sit here all day ?" "Is that it ?" " What do they want us to do ?" " I'm sure we can think of something." "All rise !" "Oyez, oyez, oyez, civil district court for the Parish of Orleans is now in session." "The Honorable Frederick Buford Harkin presiding." "God save this state and this honorable court." "Thank you, bailiff." "You may take your seats." "This suit is brought by the plaintiff Celeste Wood..." "Over your left shoulder." "Rankin Fitch, 2:00." "Dark suit." "You've heard the myth." " Now meet the man." " I'm quaking in my Florsheims." "...used to kill Jacob Wood." "Celeste Wood claims that Vicksburg Firearms is liable for her husband's wrongful death and seeks special damages for loss of Mr. Wood's future earnings, as well as general damages, including pain and suffering." "Plaintiff has exercised her right to a jury trial." "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now ready to begin the voir dire." "Miss Coleman." " Mrs." " Mrs. Coleman." "Excuse me." "I see from your questionnaire that you have no particular feeling about guns one way or another." " Briefcase on the jury." " Would you say that's correct ?" "Yes, sir, that's correct." "I don't feel one way or another about guns, but I sure hate to see people get hurt, though." "I understand." "Do you or your husband own a gun ?" "We do not." "Ever fired a gun for sport or in self-defense ?" "Uh, look at the shoulder shrug." "Now, she's evaluating the person asking the question before she ever answers." "I mean, she's telling Rohr exactly what he wants to hear." " So you think she's lying ?" " Not necessarily." " But she knows how to." " Rikki Coleman, 36 years of age." "Her husband's a Baptist minister." "She's a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club and a registered Democrat." "Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats." "What else you got ?" " She had an abortion two years ago." " And, and, and ?" "And the guy holding her hand at the clinic, not the Baptist minister." "Ooh !" "Tone of voice, body language." "She's got an open mind." "I like her." "She's gonna be fair and sympathetic to Ms. Wood." "Mr. Rohr, do you wish to exercise challenge for cause ?" "No, Your Honor." "We accept this juror." " Mr. Cable ?" " Take her." "Take her." " No objections here, Your Honor." " Enter Mrs. Coleman as a juror." "I'm co-manager of Circle Foods." "It's a local grocery chain." "I've been living here about 14 years." "Circle Foods." "Take him, Mr. Cable." "Take him." " We accept this juror, Your Honor." " Mr. Rohr ?" " No objections, Your Honor." " Thank you." "You may enter Mr. Shaver as a juror." "Next ?" "Prison." "Prison for those people who break the law." "Your Honor, we'll accept this juror." " She looks good." " No objection, Your Honor." "Enter Miss Hullic as a juror." "It's ridiculous." "They're just flooding' the community with..." " No, no, no." " Preemptory challenge, Your Honor." "Go ahead, sir." "What are your grounds ?" " We accept this juror." " Mr. Rohr ?" " No objection." " We accept this juror." "Do you have a gun in your home ?" " I'm thinking about getting one." " Thank you, Mr. Black." " A Mossberg Pump." " I like him !" "Yes !" "Thank you, Mr. Cable." " Your Honor, we accept this juror." " No objection." "... Frank Herrera as a juror." " I'm an auto mechanic." " What about gun control ?" "Same way I feel about birth control, man." " It doesn't work." " We accept this juror." " Please enter Eddie Weese as a juror." " Yes." "Yes, definitely yes." " Rohr ?" " No challenge." "No, we accept this juror, Your Honor." "They call me Millie." "I'm an ironwork sculptress." " Accepted." " Go ahead and take her." "...Deshazo as a juror." " We accept." "...Ms. Deets as a juror." " We accept this juror." " Having an AK-47 overstates the case." " I want her." "Yes, I want her." " No objection, Your Honor." "...Vanessa Lembeck as a juror." " Mr. Cable ?" " No challenge." " No, let's challenge." "Preemptory challenge, Your Honor." "Nine-millimeter." "It was more of a man's kind of gun." "...Jerry Fernandez as a juror." " We talked about this." " I like him a lot." "We know about her..." " I don't carry a gun." "Your Honor, we accept..." " Let's not do down this road." " Thank you, Mr. Rohr." "Well, thank you all for being here." "Thank you." " Mr. Docken ?" " Yes, sir." " How do you do ?" " Fine, thank you." "How do you feel about being a juror in this trial ?" "Do you feel you could be fair..." "Look at the way he's hunched over and his fingers are interlaced." "I mean, he's trying too hard not to be too obvious." "Yeah, but he's definitely on our side of the fence." "It's a veneer." "He's campaigning." "He wants on." "Bounce him, Cable." " Go ahead and bounce him." " We're almost out of challenges." "I don't care !" "Bounce him !" "Bounce him, Cable !" "Bounce him !" "Preemptory challenge, Your Honor." " Hold on." "Hear me out." " Thank you, Mr. Docken." " You're excused." " No, I wanna be heard !" " Mr. Docken, you may be excused." " I wanna be heard !" "Bailiff !" " I wanna be heard !" " Get that man out of the courtroom." "This is the blood of innocent children gunned down by greedy corporations !" "Get this self-righteous lunkhead outta here !" " You son of a bitch !" " Help him !" "Help him !" "Come on !" "Help this man !" "Help this man !" "Get him out of here !" " Let me go !" " It's not a show in here." " How does it feel ?" " Get him outta here !" "Our nation's trying to kill itself, and you wanna give it the weapons to do it !" "You son of a bitch !" "Let me go !" "Let me go !" "Let me go !" "Greedy bastards !" "I guess that's lunch." "Somebody add "class clown" to Mr. Easter's ever-expanding résumé." "Court's adjourned." "Voir dire will resume tomorrow at 9:00am." "Attorneys, both of you, see me in my chambers right now." "Good call." "There are some things, however, that seem to live eternal." "That's a tendency to always come back, asking for more." "A total of 12 million more." "Now, each of our gun companies has already ponied up $4 million into this Sportsman's Legacy Fund." "Now, that may not seem like a hell of a lot of money where you come from, but we think $20 million ought to be enough to secure a jury in the People's Republic of Berkeley, California, let alone here." " How about 30,000 ?" " 30,000 ?" "What are you talking about ?" "It's an interesting amount to reflect on." "The number of gun deaths every year." "Or the number of men, women and children who are disabled by your gentlemen's products last year alone: 100,000." "Or we could focus... on the number one." "Because one is all they want." "One win, one precedent." "Because once they get that, they're gonna be traveling around this country, filing civil actions and siphoning away at that $2 billion that you gentlemen sell in firearms and ammo every fiscal year." "$2 billion." "Whoo !" "Where I come from, that's a lot of money." "What I'm asking for is a pittance compared to what a negative verdict is gonna cost you." "Our share price is down 25% just on word of this trial." "I'm down almost 30." "I'll kick in an extra 1.5, but no más." " 1.5 each." "That's 7.5 total." " Well, I'll take it." "Do you have any additional plans for this pittance ?" " Matter of fact, I do." " Lonnie Shaver." "Manager here ?" " All day." " Ernie Strode." "I'm gonna put you gentlemen in the grocery business." "Grocery business ?" "We're in the process of acquiring your store." "...meeting with all the store managers to discuss their future roles in the organization..." "Poor bastard hadn't had a promotion in five years." "Not all employees are gonna make the transition." "We've identified you as one of our candidates for the Superhouse program." "How soon can we fly you up ?" "Mr. Shaver, in subtle and unspoken ways, will be made to appreciate the terms of advancement in the Hammond Foods empire." " I don't like the looks of this one." " Ex-Marine drill instructor." "These people are looking for a leader." "They'll follow Frank Herrera." "And if they elect someone else foreman ?" "Whoever they vote for will be following me." "Just like in Cincinnati and Oakland and Pittsburgh." "Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries." "God save this state and this honorable court." "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen." "You may take your seats." " Who's next ?" " Herman Grimes." "Who ?" "Who'd did he say ?" "Is there a Herman Grimes in the court ?" "Mr. Grimes is not on my list." "There's a swinging door ahead of you, honey." "You got it ?" "45 degrees to your left, then 20 degrees to your right." "Uh, hold on a minute there, Mr. Grimes." "There's no need for you to have come down here today." "You're excused for reasons of disability." "And what if I do not wish to be excused, sir ?" "Well..." "I've never known a blind man to serve on a jury, and I must say, I can't recall any case or law or statute that would permit or prevent..." "State v. Jack, Your Honor." "The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that it is a violation of constitutional due process to just automatically dismiss the visually impaired..." " He's right." "...from jury service." "Well, Mr. Grimes, that's very impressive." "Why are you smiling, sir ?" "Mr. Rohr, Mr. Cable, any objections to Mr. Grimes serving on this jury ?" "The plaintiffs would welcome Mr. Grimes to our jury, Your Honor." " "Our jury."" " Mr. Cable ?" "As would we on the defense, Your Honor." " Who's next ?" " Nicholas Easter." " Who's next ?" " Nicholas Easter." "Mr. Easter ?" " Mr. Rohr." " Your Honor." " Good morning, Mr. Easter." " Good morning." "Well, it says here that you work in an electronics store." "Yes, sir, that's correct." "How would you feel if you knew there was a gun behind the counter in case of a robbery ?" " Well, we're in the mall, sir." " But I think you'd agree that robberies take place in malls on occasion, do they not ?" "Yes, but we're in the Esplanade Mall, which is right across the street from the sheriff's office in Jefferson Parish." "Yes, I'm familiar where it is." "Well, I mean, you'd have to be on crack to try to rob it." "I guess that's my point." "I see." "Well, tell me..." "Mr. Easter, that's the second time you've looked at your watch." "Are we keeping you from something ?" "No, Your Honor." "I wouldn't presume to waste your time." "I just..." "I think if you knew my situation, you might be inclined to excuse me from..." " Your situation, Mr. Easter ?" " Yes, Your Honor." " It's the Madden Challenge." " The Madden what ?" "You know, "Madden Football." It's a video game." "Well, you'd be surprised at how many people play." "At any rate, every year, they choose the best 15 players from across the country to compete in a kind of tournament, you know," " against NFL players and celebrities..." " I'm not following you." " Against NFL players and celebrities..." " I'm not following you." "It's like this, Your Honor:" "The prize is $100,000." "So I just don't know if I can afford to pass up the opportunity to make that kind of cash." "It's a big deal." "I'd like this boy to have a lesson in civic responsibility." "Do you have any objection to that, Mr. Rohr ?" "Your Honor, it's something I've been doing for a very long time." "The jury system was originated, Mr. Easter, because, for thousands of years before that, an individual judge had the power to hang, for example, any young man he simply did not like." " Yes, Your Honor." " Any objections, Mr. Rohr ?" "I have no objection whatsoever, Your Honor." " Mr. Cable ?" " What do I do ?" " Any time today, counselor." " Harkin sandbagged us." " Go ahead and take him." "Take him." " Uh, no objections, Your Honor." " Enter Mr. Nicholas Easter as a juror." " Freeze that right there, will ya ?" "Freeze it." "30 years in the trenches have taught me this:" "There's always a loose end." "Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find." "Find it." "First group, Ms. Monroe:" "Rikki Coleman, Sylvia Deshazo, Vanessa Lembeck." "Mr. Klein:" "Herman Grimes, Millie Dupree, Eddie Weese." "Mr. Garson:" "Loreen Duke, Lonnie Shaver, Frank Herrera." "Mr. Lamb:" "The three alternates." "Lydia Deets, yoga teacher," "Phillip Seville, shrimp fisherman." "Henry Wu." "Let's find out everything we don't know." "Mr. Doyle, you know the city better than anyone." "You take Jerry Fernandez, Stella Hullic, Nicholas Easter." "These are your babies, people." "This is what you live for." "I think you got the wrong apartment." "What are you gonna do ?" "Call the cops ?" "Hm ?" " You weren't there today." " I couldn't." "I was too nervous." "What are you gonna do ?" "You gonna hit me in the head with my... my George Foster big stick ?" "What are you nervous about, huh ?" "You are not juror number nine in the biggest case of the year." "You're kidding." "You're kidding me !" " You're kidding me !" " No, I'm not kidding you." " How'd you do it ?" " Let go of that thing." " How'd you do it ?" " Madden Challenge." "It was a thing of beauty." "The judge even threatened to hang me." " Juror number nine." " Juror number nine." "What do you have for me ?" "I love St. Catherine." " How do I look ?" " Handsome." " Do I look honest and trustworthy ?" " Hm..." "To an innocent eye." "Good enough to survive 10 to 15 in the state pen ?" "Don't say that." "It's bad luck." "Look..." "We're not gonna be seeing each other for a while." "They're gonna be watching us." "You have to come back to bed." "Now." "We're just gonna have to be more careful then, aren't we ?" " How much do you think it's worth ?" " 10, 15 million." "Maybe more." "Look, that's enough." "Come back to bed." "We only need eight of them for a verdict." "Everybody's got a button." "We just gotta find out where and push." "You have them." "We don't have anything yet." "...Celeste Wood." "You'll recall that two years ago," "Wood's stockbroker husband Jacob was gunned down in a mass slaying inside the brokerage firm where he worked." "...two years ago by a failed day-trader who later turned the gun on himself." "Never before has a jury found the gun industry liable for murder." "You might remember also the former mayor of the city after her husband was gunned down in the prime of his life." "The man leading this:" "Famed New Orleans attorney Wendall Rohr..." "Mr. Cable, do you feel that this lawsuit is frivolous ?" "Uh, it's capricious." "I find it's unfortunate that Mr. Rohr has chosen to use Miss Wood and the courts as vehicles..." "Mr. Rohr, how do you expect to win this case ?" "It's very simple." "Reckless, profit-hungry gun companies like Vicksburg have been getting away with murder for too long, and we have..." "I'm losing a lot of money on this jury thing." "Oh, really ?" " What ?" " 16." " 16 ?" " Yeah." "No way. $16 a day ?" "What is this, 1892 ?" "Well, you're not supposed to do it for the pay, darling." "You're supposed to do it out of civic duty." " Nice to meet you." "Frank Herrera." " Henry Wu." "I became a citizen..." "Well, he deserves it." "He's the president of the free world." "There's coffee and donuts over there." "Now, these muffins, I made 'em myself." "A treat for the first day." "These look like they are a treat." "OK." "Morning." "Well, everyone's here." "All accounted for ?" "Good." "I think we should elect a jury foreman, like Judge Harkin instructed us." "And who would that be, Mr. Man ?" "Well, if no one else feels strongly about it, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring." "Uh-uh, excuse me..." " Mister..." " Herrera, ma'am." "Frank Herrera." "Mr. Herrera." "Out of all of us, what makes you think you're the best person for the job ?" " Well, Miss..." " Mrs. Loreen Duke." " Mrs. Duke." " Mm-hm." "I was a master sergeant in the Marine Corps." "I served my country in Panama, Grenada, Beirut." " You name it, I was there." " I can run a 6-minute mile." "Young lady..." "Well, if nobody minds, I'd also like to be considered for foreman." "I mean, I might not have served in Grenada or Panama, but I'm the mother of two small children..." "In that case, y'all ought to consider me." "Hell, I got three kids." "Ladies and gentlemen, with all due respect," "I think I know who would make an excellent foreman." " Oh, and who might that be, Mister..." " Easter." "Nicholas Easter, sir." "I was watching a lot of people very closely during the jury selection, and only this man..." "I don't know your name, sir." " What is your name ?" " Herman Grimes." " Only Mr. Grimes..." " No, just Herman." "Only Herman had the guts to stand up to the judge, and only Herman seems to know a little something about the law." "So, in my book, you know, I think it'd be a good idea for him to represent us." " But..." " But he's blind, man." "So what ?" " So is justice, right ?" " That's right, brother." "What do you think, Herman ?" "Are you up to it ?" " Well, of course I am." " All in favor of Herman." " Did I get any votes ?" " Hey, it's unanimous." "You're in." " Congratulations." " All right, listen up." "Court's in session." "Lunch is set for 1:00." "We order out from Verdi's Mart." "Please fill out a menu." "Make sure you circle what you want, now." "Don't make it too expensive." "Thank you." "Oh, I had this last week." "It's really good." "Thank you." " Think I'm gonna have salmon." " Nothing on that menu." "All right, all right." "Thank you." "October, two years ago, at 8:45 am on a Monday morning," "October, two years ago, at 8:45 am on a Monday morning, a man by the name of Kevin Peltier casually walks though the brokerage house from which he was fired the previous Friday morning." "He walks into the elevator." "He loads a 36-round magazine into his Performa 990 semiautomatic, and when he reaches the third floor, he opens fire on his former coworkers, killing 11 and critically wounding five before turning the gun on himself." "Now, they never had a chance." "This was all less than two minutes." "They couldn't stop him." "11 lives ended." "That's all you jurors, minus one." "And among them was Jacob Wood, the husband of my client, Celeste Wood, and the father of their son Henry, six years old." "I don't know about you, but I'm angry at the tragic and senseless loss of life." "Why does the Vicksburg Firearms company make it so easy to buy these guns on the underground market ?" "Because they care more about making money than they do about your life or my life or the life of that woman's husband." "A very courageous former executive of Vicksburg Firearms is gonna come in here, and he's gonna testify that this Performa 990 semiautomatic was manufactured for, principally, criminals, all those others poised for violence." "Excuse me." "Would you please give these to Mr. Rohr and Mr. Cable ?" "...into a very efficient mass murderer." "Yes, it was Mr. Peltier that squeezed the trigger that awful Monday morning." "But it was the Vicksburg Firearms company, through a deliberate and negligent distribution policy, that put that assault-type weapon into the hands of Mr. Peltier." "As such, they were complicit in those murders." "And this I'll prove to you during the course of the trial." "Thank you very much." "Your Honor." " Mr. Cable." " Thank you, Your Honor." " I feel so nervous." " You'll be fine." "That was quite provocative." "Now, I wanna tell you two things about guns today." "I don't think either of them will be news to you, but the first is guns are dangerous." "They're guns." "This is their function." "And I wanna tell you today that no one is more aware of that or takes more responsibility for it than the gun industry, especially Vicksburg Firearms, as a company that's been in business since before the Civil War." "Now, the automobile industry works every day to ensure that their cars are safe." "Why ?" "Because they drive them." "Now, the people at Vicksburg work every day to keep the guns out of the hands of the criminals." "Why ?" "Because they have families with children..." "Did you see who handed this to you ?" "Well, it was a woman." "She had blond hair." "She had pretty blond hair, just like that woman on television." "We didn't catch her on any of the CCTVs." "Doesn't matter." "I'm sure she was wigged." "I doubt you'll find any, but have this sprayed for prints." "Anything turns up..." "I'll process it through the Printak database." " We're not here to legislate." " Mr. Cable is winding up." "Well, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, amidst all the finger-pointing, Mr. Rohr did say one true thing:" "This case is about money." "You know, it looks like Judge Harkin won't be breaking till after two." "Would you mind holding his jury's lunch order till then ?" "Thank you." "What do you think about her ?" "I hear she teaches a class over at Tulane." " Yeah ?" " Wouldn't mind takin' that class." " What subject ?" " Yeah, well, she's a tall glass of iced tea." "A little too much lemon, a little too much ice." "Um, I'm sorry, but would you mind not doing that in here ?" "I'm predisposed to asthma." "Come on, I'll open the window." "It ain't gonna bother you." "Actually, I mind, too." "Sorry." "Secondhand smoke." "I gotta tell you, Mr. Shaver, I don't wanna smoke your cigarettes, either." "Damn." "I can't smoke, can't leave the room." "What is this, California ?" " It is against the rules." " Aw, man, be quiet." "You're just an alternate, man." "What does that have to do with anything ?" "Come on, come on." "We're gonna be here for a while together." "So why are you bothering me ?" "You know that I think ?" "I think we're all just really hungry." "And where's our lunch they promised us ?" "It's 1:30." "That's why I wanna smoke." "I'm starving." "Tamp down my appetite." "Herman, you want me to go check out what's going on with lunch ?" "Good idea, Nick." "Go see what's taking 'em." "So they go over there and he sees a cow and he sees a golf ball up in that cow's ass." "And he says - well, this is delicate - "Excuse me, ma'am."" "And he raises that cow's tail and says, "Does this look like yours ?"" "And she hit him with a four-iron !" " Excuse me, Judge." " Huh ?" " There's someone to see you." " All right, all right." "Excuse me, gentlemen." " You are... ?" " Nick Easter, juror number nine." "Yes." "Now, what do you think you're doing outside of that jury room," "Mr. Easter-juror-number nine ?" "And where's Lou Dell ?" " She's chattin' it up in the hallway, sir." " Well, Mr. Easter," "I would strongly advise you to return to that jury room and finish your lunch." "That's the problem, sir." "I think somebody forgot to order our lunch." " The jury has no lunch ?" " That's why I'm here, sir." "Everybody knows you here in the parish." "They know you like to keep a tight schedule on your bench." "If we're gonna be back in less than 45 minutes..." "I gotta be honest with you, sir." "We're hungry." "Well, what exactly, Mr. Easter, would you like me to do ?" "Hey, Lonnie, Lonnie !" "Could you pass me some garlic bread ?" " You got any over there ?" " Oh, absolutely, man." "Stuff is delicious." "I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch for this jury." "Jury's right there." "Well, in 35 years, that is the most absurd thing I've ever seen." " You got a little mustard on your tie." " I did it on purpose." "First day of the trial, judge is having lunch with the jury." "What's that about ?" " Look at that." " What ?" "Let's go." " Hey, hey, hey !" "To Nick !" " To Nick !" " This is horseshit." " It wasn't me." "It wasn't me." "It was Judge Harkin." "Judge Harkin !" "OK, that's enough." "Thank you very much." "All right." " Here's the deposition you needed." " Thank you, thank you." "We gonna talk about this ?" "I cannot believe you had the nerve to bring that in this office." " I think we ought to discuss it at least." " Well, a better idea:" " Why don't you just give it to the judge ?" " 'Cause they'd throw the case out." "Let me explain something to you." "That's a defense tactic, OK ?" "All it's meant to do is just throw our focus off, so that we can just move toward a mistrial." "But I'd really like it out of the office, so give it to me, please." "Barry, after you shred it, burn it." "OK ?" "You know how many of those crank things I get ?" "What if it's for real ?" " No, it's not for real." " What if it is ?" "Well, if it's for real, then this isn't a trial, is it ?" "Then this is just an auction, and I might as well get on this phone here and call up all those anti-gun activist friends of mine in Washington and tell 'em we're just gonna put on a telethon and we will buy this verdict." "'Cause they're not gonna think of that, are they ?" "Somebody wanna get that phone ?" "You got any other suggestions ?" "Well, look at it." "Syntax, handwriting, word choice." "Clearly a woman did the note." "Someone's working the inside." "A juror." "Miss Monroe, I think seven hours spent on this topic is sufficient." " Can we agree ?" " Mr. Fitch, I got a call for you." "Line seven." " Yes." " Hello, Rankin." "I'm the agent handling the property you were notified about earlier today." " I'd like to know who I'm speaking with." " You can call me Marlee." "Pay phone, 15 miles away." " You can call me Marlee." " Where are we going with this, Marlee ?" "All the way to the verdict." "The fact is, the jury's mine, and I can push it either way." "For a price." "Sounds good." "So good, in fact, I don't believe you can do it." "I'll bet you're old enough to remember a time when people delivered on what they promised." "I'm one of those people." "I'm also old enough to remember Watergate, Abscam, Linda Tripp and a whole bunch of other times people got entrapped for engaging in conversations just like this, and you'd do very good to remember that, young lady." "There are consequences." "Well, let me worry about those." "For now, I just hope you're feeling patriotic." " You hope I'm feeling..." " Patriotic ?" " Morning, Nick." " Morning, Lou." " Good morning, Vanessa." " Morning." " Nick." " Hey, guys." " How you doin' ?" " What's up ?" "OK." " Hey, Lonnie, Sylvia." " Hey, man." "Good morning, Frank." "Frank, you were in Panama and Grenada, right ?" " And Beirut." " Wow." "That really must've been something, huh ?" "Yeah." "Pulling the bodies of friends of mine out of the rubble." " It was really something, Nick." " No, no, no, no." "You don't understand." "I had a friend who was in Desert Storm." "He was in the Corps, too." " What division ?" " The 1-4 out of Pendleton." "Yeah, well, that was mostly air power." "Not much real action down there anyhow." "Actually, there was, Frank." "You don't know what the hell you're talking about, Easter." "My friend's name was Donny Rabbs, and his helicopter was shot down in a Kuwaiti oil field." "He was killed 12 years ago today." " Sorry to hear that." " I'm sorry." "It's just a strange day." "I always figure, if I don't remember him today, nobody else will." "That's the way people are." "Short memories." "That's a terrible thing, y'all, but we don't always know God's plan." "Listen, I don't know if it'd be inappropriate, but do you think we could do something today to remember him ?" " We could say the Lord's Prayer." " Well, I don't wanna ask people to pray." " How about "God Bless America" ?" " I couldn't ask people to sing." " I don't sing." " I don't sing, OK ?" "You know what ?" "I have an idea." "Good morning." "You may take your seats, please." "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "I don't know about you, Wendall, but I'm feeling pretty patriotic." "Uh, thank you, ladies and gentlemen." "Will you please take your seats ?" "Jesus." "Shit." "Pull !" "You wanted to see me ?" "Mr. Cable called me last night in a bit of a panic." "Now, he's concerned that someone's trying to monkey with our jury." "As am I. As are my associates." " Who is it ?" " It's a parlor game." "Just because somebody can influence where a jury has lunch, that doesn't mean they can hand us the verdict." "Ah, well, you see, Mr. Fitch, this is where I get a little confused, because I was under the impression that we had already purchased ourselves a verdict." "You know what I love best about this gun ?" "Though it's 70 years old, it's just as reliable as the day it was made." "Mr. Fitch !" "You find out who it is, will you ?" "Pull !" "...one nation under God..." "At some point, everyone on the jury acknowledges Herrera, like they're doing it for him." "It's not him." "Right here at the end, Loreen Duke, our juror number 10..." "Right there." "Freeze there." "Yeah." "Tighten in on her left hand." "Right there." "Isn't that sweet ?" "Nicholas Easter, our song and dance man, has an agenda." "Mr. Lamb, how did this confidence man crash my jury pool ?" "I don't know." "I'd-I'd need some time, sir." "Now." "I'm asking for an educated guess." "Maybe he just did it." "I mean, who wants jury duty ?" "Nobody, right ?" "It's like going to the dentist." "It's worse than going to the dentist." "It's a municipal database that nobody would ever wanna hack into." "The security protocol is weak, so he'd put a name on the list..." "I got it." "I got it, Mr. Lamb." "Thank you." " Mr. Doyle ?" " I'm on it." "Your Honor." "Good afternoon, Mr. Murphy." " You own and operate Excalibur Guns." " Yes, sir, I do." "Yes, and isn't Excalibur Guns a retail outlet store" " for Vicksburg Firearms ?" " Yes, sir." "Would you tell us about your arrangement with a man," "Michael Kincaid, who illegally sold this Performa 990 semiautomatic to Kevin Peltier smack-dab out of the trunk of his car ?" " My arrangement ?" " Yes, sir." "Well, Mikey..." "Mr. Kincaid bought guns from my store..." "At a rate of more than 25 guns a month, didn't you ever wonder who your friend Mikey was turning around and selling these guns to ?" " Well, that's none of my business." " Oh, you mean it's not your problem." " Now, hold on there." "I didn't say that." " Objection, Your Honor." " The counsel is testifying." " Sustained." "Mr. Rohr..." "Yo !" "Thanks a lot." " Afternoon." " Afternoon." "... your friend Michael Kincaid 28 guns in December." "Now, did you ever wonder why one man would buy 112 guns in a period of four months ?" " A collector ?" " A collector, sir ?" "112 weapons, and all of them semiautomatic assault weapons ?" " I don't know." " Come on, take a guess." " Christmas presents ?" " That's a guess." "Objection, Your Honor." "This is all speculation." " Sustained." " Did they send a field rep" " out to investigate ?" " No, sir." "No, because they were very pleased with your success, weren't they ?" " Say again ?" " Is it not true that Vicksburg Firearms, instead of investigating the increasing number of guns that were being sold to one man, instead send you and your wife on a trip to Jamaica." " No." " No ?" "My wife hates Jamaica." "We switched to Cancun." "I have no further questions, Your Honor." "Thank you, Mr. Rohr." "We'll adjourn today." "Hold cross till tomorrow." "Release the jury 45 minutes early." "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen." "Oh, hi." "Yeah, the landlord let me in." "He said some of the tenants had been having trouble with the cable." " Uh-huh." " But, uh..." "I checked yours out and, uh..." "Hey !" "Whoa !" "Hey !" "...looks fine." "I don't think you have anything..." " What do we got, people ?" " The drive's been erased twice over." "It's empty." "But it's not zeroed out." "He may have been more sloppy than he thought." " Give me a few moments." " Mr. Fitch." "Lamb, trace it." "Fitch here." " You don't play nice." " What are you talking about ?" "You broke into Nick Easter's apartment." "You freely assume it was me." "Oh, wouldn't you be disappointed if I didn't ?" "I'm bumping a juror." "One of yours." "This time it's just gonna be a pinprick." "Next time it's really gonna hurt." "Looks like somebody had themselves a good time last night." "I woke up on my stove." "Oh, man." " You don't got any aspirin, do you ?" " Uh-uh." "I think I can do a little bit better than an aspirin." " Yeah ?" " Mm-hm." "A little hair of the dog." " Oh." "Can you sweeten this up for me ?" " Yeah, put it under the table." "You're an angel." " No, let me pour it." " I'll pour it." "Let me do it." "Let me do it !" "It's mine, sir." "I didn't take you for a day drinker, Mr. Easter." "I'm usually not." "You still trying to get off my jury ?" "Is that it ?" "Your Honor, I took an oath to do my level best, and I meant it." "Difficult as that is to believe, Mr. Easter, it's even more difficult to believe this is your liquor." "I might be wrong, but I don't think that's your shade of lipstick." "Ms. Hullic ?" "And moving into Ms. Hullic's spot will be first alternate Ms. Lydia Deets." "Ms. Deets... will you join the jurors in the box, please ?" "Welcome to our jury." "I trust you got the same instructions the rest of the jurors did." " You ready to go ?" " Yes, sir." "Very good." "Well..." " Cell phone, untraceable." " Marlee ?" " I'd like your offer, Mr. Fitch." " Not over the phone." "If you thought this whole thing was gonna take place long-distance, you're mistaken." " You wanna lose another juror ?" " Anybody can get a juror booted." "That doesn't show me that you can deliver a verdict." "Hell, I could get Nick Easter canned if I put five man-hours into it." "But you won't do that." "You need him to guarantee the jury swings your way." "So next time I call, have your offer ready." "Ladies and gentlemen, this girl is an amateur." "You understand ?" "A dilettante !" "And I want this nonsense ended today !" "I want you to find her !" "I want you to contain her !" "Because you're losing me my jury !" "Now find something on every one of them !" "Pull their files !" "Review every word, every photo, every medical record." "Do it !" " Who do we have ?" " Rikki Coleman's boyfriend's name is Neil Pollard." "Mrs. Coleman broke it off with him two months after the abortion." " Who's gonna help Daddy ?" " Me, me !" "The good news is Mr. Coleman has racked up three cases of domestic battery, and there's no way she would've cried on his shoulder about it." "Your husband looks a lot different than your boyfriend with you at the clinic." "We'll be in touch." "Back up, back up !" "About four months ago, Mr. Weese began filling prescriptions for the following drugs:" "Crixivan, Epivir, and AZT." "Unbeknownst to his mother, his employer, his church and his friends," "Mr. Weese is HIV-positive." "Get off me !" "That's what I'm talkin' about !" " Get a little present for ya." " Who are you ?" " An NBA scout or something?" " This is gonna change your life." " Yeah?" " We'll be in touch." " Hey!" " Millie Dupree," " married 18 years to Hoppy Dupree." " Hey, Hoppy..." "One of the city's more unprincipled real estate agents." "OK." "Nice meeting you." "As you know, our Mr. Ringwald has set the bait." "You know, Mr. Ringwald, if anybody can help you walk that land deal through with the county, it'd be me." "Owens and Strode are about to close the snare as we speak." "Is that convincing enough for you?" " Freeze!" "Nobody move!" "Get down!" " FBI!" "Gentlemen, keep your hands on the table." "Hoppy Dupree, you're under arrest." "Hoppy Dupree, you're in violation of federal code, attempting to bribe a government official." "attempting to bribe a government official." "Mr. Kincaid, you wanna tell the court just a little bit about your schooling ?" "Well, not a whole lot to tell." "I mean, I guess most people got a college degree, and about the only thing I ever got was the third degree." "I appreciate your sense of humor, but let's try to stay a little more on the topic." "Stay more on Kyle Murphy and his shop, Excalibur Guns." "All right." "Now, when you went over there to get your shipment of guns, did Kyle Murphy ever say to you, "Sorry, we're out,"" "or, "Now, why do you need 25 assault-style pistols in a month ?"" " Did he ever say anything like that ?" " No, he never said anything like that." " He always had plenty of guns around." " Gotcha." "Thank you, Mr. Kincaid." "Your witness." "Mr. Kincaid, you were the one who sold the gun used by Kevin Peltier in the brokerage house shootings." "Is that correct ?" "Yeah, that is correct, and I did a stretch for that, too." "Now, to your knowledge, was Vicksburg Firearms aware that you were out there reselling their product ?" "No, not to my knowledge." "He flipped on us." "So Vicksburg Firearms never sent you on any trips, or endorsed or fostered you selling their guns in any way." " Is that correct ?" " Yeah, that's correct." "But I wish they had." "I wish they had endorsed me, like they did Kyle, 'cause I saw some pictures he brought back from the trip he took down to Cancun, and, man, livin' it up down there." "I could've gone for some of that." "I wish they had sent me." "I'd have been on the beach right there with him, looking at some big ol' butt thongs and sipping on margaritas." "It would've been great." " Simple answer, please." " Simple answer is no..." "And I want it on record here now, too." "I didn't have any idea what Peltier was gonna do with that gun when I sold it to him." "He was a wack job." "I wasn't about trying to get anybody hurt." "OK, I've retrieved some fragments." "I've got two things." "One:" "List of registered voters for Cincinnati." "Why would Nicholas Easter want a list of registered voters in Cincinnati ?" "Because voter registration lists lead to potential jury pools." " What else you got ?" " Well, this is from the drive's directory." "It's time-stamped the day he got his jury summons." "He synchronized the data on his drive to another device." "That's what you should've snagged." "Doyle, you're going back in, and this time I want you to take Mr. Janovich." "Oh..." "Why do I have to take him ?" "Because Mr. Janovich can find anything." "I'm going for it." "Thank you, thank you." "Watch this." " Nick..." " Got one for me ?" "What's going on, Eddie ?" "You seem kind of gloomy." "You all right ?" "Oh, no, no, I'm fine." "You know, I just got a lot on my mind, that's all." "You OK ?" "You wanna talk about it or anything ?" "I'm cool." " Really." " OK." " Here's one more for you, Miss." " Thank you very much." "Sorry, man." "I left my key inside." "Congratulations." "We got it." "Let's go." "Janovich, you don't have to do this." "I said you don't have to do this !" "Did you hear me ?" "Hey, guys." "There's something really wrong with Rikki." "I mean it." "Come on !" "See ?" "Right there." "Come on, Rikki." " Oh, God !" " Give me a towel." "Give me a paper towel." "Paper towel, now !" "Oh, that's nasty." "She's had five shooters." "It's no wonder." " Call for help." " What ?" "She just had too much to drink." " Call 911 now !" " OK, OK !" "Damn !" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, Rikki." " Is she breathing, Nick ?" " Yeah, she's gonna be OK, I think." "I can't believe this." "Damn lucky the place is still here and no one was hurt." "People can't move back into this place." "They got to Rikki Coleman." "The woman was president of the PTA." "She bakes cookies for her kids." "And whatever that son of a bitch had on her, he brought out the heavy lumber." "She swallowed a fistful of sleeping pills." " Who's her replacement ?" " Who's her..." "Did you hear what I just said ?" "The woman almost killed herself tonight." "I'm sorry." "And they're putting the heat on the others." "Eddie Weese and Millie Dupree." "They torched my place tonight." "Well, at least we know we have them motivated." "Oh." "Here's the fun part." "They got the MP3 player." "Those files are encrypted." "Yeah, they're encrypted, but these guys are good." "They got teams of people." "You don't think they're gonna crack that ?" "We got three, four days, tops before the walls cave in." "If we stay." "If we stay ?" "What do you mean, if we stay ?" "What are you saying to me, Nicky ?" "You saying to me you wanna run away ?" " Is that what you're saying ?" " Listen, Marlee." " People are getting hurt." " We're inside." " People could get killed." " No." " No, I'm inside." "You're on the street !" " Don't say that to me." "We're in this together, and it is your job - it is our job - to protect ourselves." "Well, there's only so much I can do, all right ?" "It's not just them that I worry about." "I can't protect you." " Where are we with Rohr ?" " He hasn't stepped up yet." "He will." "And Fitch wants to meet." "I mean, we knew I'd have to go face-to-face with him." "It's OK." "I can play him." "I can..." " Set a date." " OK." "We can't afford to lose any more jurors." "I know the math." "And we put Fitch on his heels right now." "This video is from a security camera inside juror number nine's apartment." "Take a good look." "Oh, hi." "The landlord let me in." "Lot of people had been complaining about their cable, but, uh, I checked yours out." "I don't think you have..." "Gentlemen, this malfeasance will not stand." "Now, I don't know which of you this man was working for, and I don't care." "But you are lucky I can't make out his face, because if I could, I'd be inclined to turn this matter over to the DA's office." " Outside." " Your Honor, I move for a mistrial." "No, Mr. Cable." "There is not gonna be a mistrial here !" "Motion denied !" "Not because of maneuvers like this !" "Now, for the remainder of this trial, ourjury is to be sequestered." "Bailiff, would you please inform..." " The guy in the video..." " Yeah ?" "Set fire to Nick Easter's place last night." " What ?" " Set fire to his place last night." " How would you know that ?" " Because I was there." "You were there ?" "You went to a juror's residence..." " Yes, yes." "...without asking me ?" "I'm gonna tell you what." "Wendall, listen to me." " We're done." "We're finished." " That's what you pay me for." "No, no, no, no." "You're a young punk, and you should've asked me." " You're fired." "You're..." " Nick Easter is spinning this jury." "That's why Fitch ransacked his place." "There's some kind of twisted power play going on between these two." "You're afraid, you go to the judge and you tell him, they're gonna call a mistrial." " The defense would love nothing more." " That's right." "Why hasn't the defense told the judge about Nick Easter ?" "Because they're really gonna buy this verdict." " Bastards." " Celeste, behind you." "Hey, Celeste !" "Henry !" "Wham !" " Mr. Rohr..." " What's going on ?" " That reporter just told me..." " Yeah ?" "She said something about a mistrial." "No, that's nonsense." "Don't worry about that." " Well, she said the judge is gonna..." " No, no, now listen to me." "Let me explain something." "Everything's fine." "The judge has sequestered the jury." "You understand that ?" "And it's not unusual when you have a heated trial." " You said we had an excellent case." " Yes." "When I met with you a year ago, you said that we could change the way these people do business, that my husband's life, that all of those lives wouldn't be..." "What ?" " What's the matter, Celeste ?" " I just need to hear it." " Tell me we can win this." " We can." " We are gonna win it." " OK." " OK ?" " Come on, Henry." " Henry, you going to the park ?" " Yeah !" "I'll see you later." "How about we walk over to Jackson Square..." "I got Mr. Easter's list of potential jurors." "Boston, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati." " What are the dates ?" " Boston, 2000," "Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, '99, and Cincinnati, '98." "They've been stalking gun cases." "Now they're in the house." "All right." "Amanda, I want the jury files on all four cities." "I want 'em tonight." "Line two." "It's her." "Good afternoon, Marlee." "I see you and Mr. Easter are keeping busy, busy, busy." "The Palace Cafe on Canal Street." "Downstairs, main dining room. 15 minutes." "Thank you." " Mr. Fitch ?" " Marlee." "Good." "I just won a bet with myself." "I figured you for blond." "Oh, please have a seat." "Nice massé, sequestering the jury." "Close ranks." "Makes them harder to rea..." " Mr. Fitch ?" " Yes ?" " This is for you." " Thank you." " What's your price ?" " 10 million." "Nonnegotiable." "This is made out to cash. $500,000." "To walk away from my jury." "I wouldn't drop off your dry cleaning for that." "You wanna ask Nick about that ?" "OK, OK." "How do I know that you can provide the verdict ?" "We got the jury sequestered, didn't we ?" "Look, we know you're leaning on a couple of jurors, but it's not enough." "You need nine warm bodies." "Nick Easter can deliver them." "He's very persuasive." " You're such a good hustler." " Mm." "You're a good arsonist." "We both know what's at stake here." "You lose this one, and every civil lawyer in the country is gonna be holding out his hand." "This is mine." "You won't get off until the next stop." "It's the zoo." "I'm gonna give you a second chance to take this." "I want you to consider it." "I think it's fair." "I do." "I really do." "Listen, Fitch, when you're ready to pony up the ten, email me at this address." "It's a free account, untraceable." "But then I'm sure you already knew that." "Here you are, sir." "OK." "I get the being sequestered part, but why put us all the way out here" " by the east Texas border ?" " I know." "Hell, I can see Port Arthur from the parking lot." "Does anyone know how Rikki's doing ?" "Oh, she was released from the hospital about an hour ago." " That's good." " Lovely girl." "She seemed fine to me, but you never really know what's going on with a person." "Could be her marriage, her church..." "No, no, no." "It was nothing like that." "Look, somebody got to that girl." "Oh, now that's hokum." "Why would anyone wanna get to her ?" "The same reason they wanna get to any of us." "To influence the outcome of the trial." " My Lord, are we safe ?" " OK, here are your keys." "We are now." "Hoppy was arrested." "They said they would put him in jail for life if I didn't vote in favor of the gun company." "It's OK, sweetheart." " We'll talk about it in the morning." " Thanks." "Good night." "Good night." "Didn't take you for a man who goes for the big girls, Easter." "You're just full of surprises, ain't you ?" "I'm fine, Frank." "How are you ?" " Can I get by ?" " I've been watching you, Easter." " From day one." " I just wanna go to my room, Frank." "You're a real boy scout, aren't you ?" "Playing everybody." "Playing the judge." "Playing Millie ?" "I've put up with guys like you my whole life." "Now, I want you to understand something." "OK ?" "I don't like my hand being forced." "You understand ?" "Get some sleep, Frank." "Mr. Rohr ?" "May I sit down ?" " I know you're playing both sides." " We are." " May I sit down ?" " Yeah, go on." "Sit down." "Sit down." "Now you tell me... you tell me why I shouldn't go to the judge, get a mistrial and have that provocative little bottom of yours thrown into jail." "You know how serious we are about jury tampering down here ?" " You wouldn't do that." " Oh, don't you be so sure." "You wouldn't put Mrs. Wood through the pain and the expense of a mistrial." "She couldn't afford it." "You don't know anything about Celeste Wood." "You don't know what drives her." "Unlike you, young lady, she's not in it for the money." " And what are you in it for, Mr. Rohr ?" " Oh, you're something, aren't you ?" " What do you think I'm in it for ?" " You tell me." "I'd like to get the law changed." "That's why you're here." "But you need help." "It's up to you." "You can be a good boy, play by the rules... or you can win a huge victory for gun control." "The choice is yours." "You know, this may come as a surprise to you, but I don't have to make that choice." "Don't tell me." "Your whistle-blower from Vicksburg is gonna testify his company knows about the number of guns that wind up on the black market." "That's right." "That's precisely what's gonna happen." " Mr. Rohr." " What ?" "What makes you think this witness is ever gonna make it to the stand ?" "Because that whistle-blower came to us." " Fitch is gonna get to him." " We didn't call him." "He came to us." " He's your star witness." " We didn't..." "Listen to me." "You don't know what this man's capable of !" "Sweetheart !" "Hey !" "Hey !" "Hey !" "He came to us." "He's tucked away right now." "I'm not gonna tell you where." "The man, out of conscience, cannot wait to get on that stand and testify." "Anyone can be gotten to." "What do you know ?" "Hm ?" "How much are we talking about here ?" "What do you wanna bleed me for ?" " Five, six, seven million ?" " Ten million." "Ooh, that's a... big number." "That's a big number." "With Rankin Fitch in the game, you can't win." "So if you just match his offer, I'm gonna swing it your way." "Good-bye." "Who hurt you ?" "Who made you this way ?" "Come on." "You know what you're messing with here ?" "You know how important this is ?" "We've been poring over those boxes of jury files." "We found this in the Cincinnati stack." "He used the name David Lancaster." "He was prospective juror number 54, but he didn't make it on." "Call Doyle." "Tell him to pack." "He's gonna be on the first flight out to Cincinnati." "Let's see if Mr. Lancaster has left any loose ends behind." "Everybody's got a dirty little secret." "Let's find out what his is." "Where the hell is he ?" " He was in his room an hour ago." " No, I know that." "I know that." "Now, where is he ?" "I thought you had someone baby-sitting him." " I'll keep trying the hotel." " Find him." "Get him here." "Mr. Rohr, is everything all right down there ?" "Go find him." "Everything's fine, Your Honor." "Well, you called Mr. Kriegler ten minutes ago." " Could we show him in, please ?" " Your Honor..." " Your Honor, may I approach ?" " You may." "Mr. Cable." "Your Honor, I'd like to request a brief adjournment at this time." " Where's your witness, Mr. Rohr ?" " We're looking... we're looking into that." "Your request for an adjournment is denied." "Your Honor, this is my key witness." "Well, then you should have kept a tighter leash on him." "Now, I told both of you," "I'm not gonna stand for any more foolishness during this trial." " We will proceed on schedule." " But, Your Honor..." "Now, Mr. Rohr... is there another request you'd like to make at this time ?" "Your Honor, it would be highly prejudicial to my client if we are not permitted to..." "I will take that as a motion for reconsideration." " Your Honor." " Denied." "Call your next witness." " Call your next witness, Mr. Rohr." " I have no next witness." "If so, Mr. Rohr, then plaintiff rests." "Thank you, gentlemen." "Wendall Rohr." "An overdue pleasure." "Rankin Fitch." "Nice suit." "Very, um, "of the people,"" "Yours is nicer." "What would you call it ?" ""Gun lobby protecting its own" ?" "Oh !" "Swank shoes." "Big tobacco ?" "Big alligator." "Wrestled it myself." "Excuse me, we're cleaning up in here." "Am I gonna get beat up now, Mr. Rohr ?" "What'd you do to my witness ?" "Threaten his family ?" "Write him a check ?" "Just curious about what your technique is, Mr. Fitch." "Maybe he, uh, decided against biting the hand that fed him these past few years." "You know exactly why he came to us." "Oh, please." "Don't tell me you hung your case on somebody's conscience." "I hung my case on my own conscience." "Oh." "I get it now." "You are a moral man living in a world of moral relativity." " It's just so quaint, so precious." " Hey !" "Don't do that." "This is about my witness, right ?" "This is about you messing with my client, my case and the rules of law that govern our country !" " Our country ?" " Yes !" "I didn't figure you for a patriot, Mr. Rohr, what with your blatant disregard for the people's right to bear arms." "You know, the Second Amendment ?" "Is that why you're doing this ?" "To protect the Constitution, is that it ?" "Of course not." "I'm in it to win." "Just like you are." " Because that's what I was hired to do." " Uh-huh." " Everything else is colored bubbles." " Colored bubbles ?" "Colored bubbles ?" "!" "A system that calls for 12 people to sit and listen to testimony of witnesses, fella !" "And that includes my witness, who you've disappeared !" "If you're relying on testimony to win this case, you've already lost it, fella !" "You think this jury cares anything about negligent distribution ?" " Product liability ?" " You bet your ass they do !" "Oh, most of 'em can't even say the words, let alone understand the meaning." "You think your average juror is King Solomon ?" "No !" "He's a roofer with a mortgage." "He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him." "And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way." " They're people, Fitch." " My point, exactly." "You don't have an idea of what I've been talking about, do you, sir ?" "What do you hope to achieve if you win ?" "What do you mean ?" "You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life ?" "No." "You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car." "And that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1200 shoe." "You get your name in the paper." "But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts." "You know what, Fitch ?" " You're gonna lose." " I doubt it." "Well, maybe not this case, maybe not the next, but someday, you know, someday." "I've seen it before with guys like you." " You wanna know why ?" " Why ?" "Because you cannot carry that much contempt without it becoming malignant, until you're gonna be all alone in a room full of shadows, and all you're gonna have is the memories of all those people's lives you have destroyed." "That's a good story, Wendall." "But it's just further proof of why you can't beat me." "Because you may be right... but the thing of it is, I don't give a shit." "What's more..." "I never have." "That suit." " Good evening, Wendall." " George." "Mason." "So... what's this about ?" "I'm going to need access to the firm's emergency reserve." " Emergency reserve ?" " Yeah." " In what amount ?" " Ten million." "Gentlemen, I've lost my footing in this trial." " Yeah ?" " I'm looking for a David Lancaster." "You a bill collector ?" "I work for Dodge and I track people down who have rebates that they forgot to apply for." "I don't know where he went." "No forwarding address." "Wish I did, though." "Got this letter for him." " Kept it right here." " Wow." "Can I... can I take a look at that ?" ""Jeff Kerr, care of David Lancaster."" " You know Jeff Kerr ?" " No." ""Professor Frank Phelan at Bloomington University."" "Mm-hm." "You know I could maybe split the rebate with you if you wanted to let me..." "Jeff Kerr." "Jeff Kerr." "David Lancaster." "Lots of aliases." "Jeffrey Kerr." "Hello there, Jeffrey." "So, as CEO of Vicksburg Firearms, you were unaware that your company's product was being sold illegally ?" " Yes, sir." "Absolutely, sir." " Mr. Jankle, are you a family man ?" "Yes, sir, I am." "I have a son and I have an eight-year-old grandson." "Anything else you'd like to add ?" "The Second Amendment permits every good citizen of this country to keep and bear arms." "Now, we at Vicksburg Firearms, we didn't write it." "But as long as it stands, we're gonna continue" " to operate under its protections." " Thank you, sir." "Nothing further." "Counselor." "Mr. Rohr, do you care to cross ?" " Yes, Your Honor." " Proceed." " Now, Mr. Jankle..." " Yes, sir." "The, uh, ad copy used to sell the Performa 990," " would you read it to the court, please ?" " It's right there, Counselor." "Oh, but I think that the jury would like to hear it from the head of the company here." "If you could say it, starting with, "Also available in..."" ""Also available in a print-resistant finish."" "I see." "Now, who in your mind, sir, might be eager to purchase a Performa 990 semiautomatic assault-type weapon in a fingerprint-resistant finish ?" " Anybody." " Anybody ?" "Fingerprints are 90% water." "Water corrodes metal." "Metal rusts." "Wouldn't it be more appropriate then to use the word "rustproof"" "than "fingerprint-resistant" when you're trying to sell this weapon" " to the general public ?" " Well, you know," "I didn't write the copy for that advertisement, sir." "I think you know that." " Did you see it ?" " Objection:" "Prejudicial." " Sustained." "Mr. Rohr." " My apologies, Your Honor." " Uh, now, Mr. Jankle ?" " Yes, sir." "Tell me, sir, how much of Vicksburg's profits come from assault-type weapons, would you say ?" "Oh, I have to apologize to you, Mr. Rohr, I do not know the answer." "I'm not familiar with that percentage." "But you are familiar with who buys a weapon of this sort, aren't you, sir ?" "Well, the gun's intended for recreational use." "Ah." "For who ?" "Farmers or weekend sportsmen ?" " Home protection." " Or disgruntled day-traders ?" " Objection, Your Honor." " Sustained." "We sell these guns legally." "Oh, come on, Mr. Jankle, you know that this gun is favored by criminals." "The statistics of your gun company show that fact !" " Sir, that is up to law enforcement." " I see." "So that's not your problem." " Why don't you just say it ?" " Objection, Your Honor." " Sustained." " It is the government's responsibility !" "Say it to the jury, sir, that it's not your problem." " Well, I..." " Say it to my client, Celeste Wood, who lost her husband, that it's not your problem." " Tell it to the whole court..." " You amaze me, Mr. Rohr." "...that this Performa 990 with the print-resistant finish is not your problem." "I stand on the Second Amendment, goddammit !" "Look, we've got damage-control strategies and your testimony before cross was more than strong." "Oh, you... you are the one that told me denial was the route to take here." " I was improperly prepped." " Now, look, Mr. Jankle..." "You get outta here." "Mr. Fitch, I looked into the faces of those jurors," "I didn't see any friends sitting there." "Now where the hell are we with securing my verdict ?" "It's a cat-and-mouse game." "We're about to change all that..." "You just be a little more cat, little less mouse." "Yes, sir." " Hello, Marlee." " Hello, Rankin." "I'm ready to make a deal." "I'll meet your terms." "I'll pay you the money." "I wanna meet Nick Easter." "Won't happen." "Wendall doesn't need to meet him." "And besides, you know he's sequestered." "Well, fine." "How about his pal Jeffrey Kerr ?" "Now we meet or there's no deal." "Nonnegotiable." "What's it gonna be ?" "I hope you don't mind." "I was waiting so long, I made a sandwich." "It's a fine piece, Nick." "Longines hunter case, circa 1908." "1910, actually." " You filming this ?" " No, no, no." "I couldn't use it." "Neither of us wants a mistrial." " No." " Can we walk ?" "Our bus is leaving at 8:00 am, so that gives us a little time together." "Marlee, please come out of the kitchen." "I'm not here to hurt you." "Please, sweetheart, sit down." "Relax." "So, what ?" "I'm supposed to convince you that I have them, right ?" "Oh, I-I think you've probably got them, or you will have." " I just wanna know why." " Money." "Safer ways for a sharp kid like you to make money." "What's the real reason ?" "Business, politics, sports - you tell me what isn't rigged." "I mean, is there even such a thing as an objective jury, Mr. Fitch ?" "Not if I can help it." "Then why should the lawyers and guys like you make all the profit ?" " You don't have much faith in the law." " I'm agnostic." "I knew there was something I liked about you." "And Marlee ?" "I'll leave it to her to tell you her reasons." " That's not what I'm talking about." " What are you talking about ?" "How well do you know her ?" "Did you really bring me out here to talk about her ?" "What's this about ?" "Well, tomorrow's the big day and we need a little insurance." "So..." "let's talk." "Come on out here, sit down, we'll talk." "I'll make you a sandwich." "I'm ready to pay the money." "I can have ten million wire-transferred to the Caymans," " subject to verification, of course." " Of course." "But tell me, who have you got ?" "Fernandez, Deshazo, Grimes and Dupree are in the bag." "Deets and Duke pretty much follow the others." " Herrera and Shaver are wild cards." " No..." "Shaver's taken care of." " Weese, too." " Oh." "Herrera..." "I wouldn't worry about him." " Are you gonna swing this my way ?" " If you pay, yes." "I will." "Good." "Good." "Tell Marlee I'm ready to conclude our business." "Done." " I must say I'm impressed, Mr. Kerr." "I..." " Easter." " Easter, correct." " Yeah." "I didn't see you coming." "Obviously, I underestimated you." "And as a rule, I don't do that." "Make damn sure you don't underestimate me." "I'm sure one of us will be in touch." "I have a feeling after tonight, we're gonna be fast friends." "Who is it ?" "Who is this ?" "Bet you didn't expect to hear from me so soon." "Is this a bad time ?" " No, not at all." " Oh, good." "Listen, I just wanted you to know your associate with the accent... he won't be coming home tonight." "At least he won't be walking home." "Aah !" "And the price just went up." "15 million." "Nonnegotiable." "Get some sleep, Rankin." "You're gonna need it." " Hey." " Hey." " What's wrong ?" " Nothing, I just, uh..." "I just wanted to hear your voice." " You sure ?" " Yeah, I'm sure." " I want you to get some sleep." " Yeah." "I miss you." "Good night." "Today, lawyers Wendall Rohr and Durwood Cable will have their last chances to strike the winning blow for their client in the case of Celeste Wood v. Vicksburg Firearms." "Closing arguments will begin shortly." "The jury has now heard all the evidence in this landmark case..." "It's been a very highly charged trial." "The jury has been sequestered for some time." " This is a nightmare, man." " This could be the day that they finally get this case and begin their deliberations a high-stake decision will soon be in the hands of the jury." "This decision could be a quick one, with the jury delivering a verdict perhaps by day's end." "All Jacob Wood and those ten other people did, all they did wrong... on that Monday morning, was to go to work." "And there's gonna be another shooting and another shooting and it's not gonna let up..." "until we demand a change." "You heard Mr. Garland Jankle, the chief CEO of Vicksburg Firearms, sit in that chair and say to you that what we do with his guns is not his problem, and he's right." "You can make it his problem with your verdict." "You may for the first time make gun violence... the gun industry's problem." "If you do, you are going to see fewer senseless deaths." "Like my client's husband, Jacob Wood." " Make a big wish." "Big wish !" " Big wish !" "Big wish !" "Yeah !" "That's my boy." "Jeff had a real passion for the law." "He spent the summer after his first year working on a trial and the reality of how a big firm actually practices law just knocked some of the idealistic wind right out of him." "The following spring, after Gabby got her undergraduate degree," " he dropped out and they left." " Um, I'm sorry." "Did you say Gabby ?" "Gabrielle Brandt." "She was Jeff's girl from back home in Gardner." " Gardner, Indiana ?" " Only one I know of." "Jacob Wood, a man in his prime, leaves behind a wife and little boy." "I mean, the sadness of that, the incomprehension, that gives way to anger." "We must even the score and not just those that are directly affected, but all of us." "We all experience these emotions." "Which is precisely why the law exists." "To do what is just." "Now these families grieve and we all grieve for them." "But that is all the law will allow us to do." "Doyle, where the hell are you ?" "Headed for exit 245." "Some backwater town in central Indiana." " But I think I got a good lead on the girl." " Well, move it along." "The judge is about to give this thing to the jury." "Shit." "Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard the evidence and the arguments of counsel." "I will now give you some instructions, after which we will hold recess for lunch, and then you will begin your deliberations." " Wendall Rohr." " Hello, Wendall." "Well, hello, Marlee." "Good to hear your voice." "Did you come up with the money ?" "You know, it's amazing how easy it is to procure $10 million." "It's an interesting exercise." "$10 million." "Like it was nothing." "But, as bad as I wanna win this case, and I do... after 35 years of doing this, you know..." "I think it's more important that I can rest my head on the pillow tonight." "What are you saying ?" "I will take my chances." "I'm not giving you a dime." "Not a dime." "Well, I am sorry about this 'cause you're giving it to Fitch." "I'm giving it to Fitch ?" "I'm gonna take my chances." "Hello." "Hello there." " I'm sorry to bother you." " Hi." "Um, I'm thinking of buying this house down here." "My wife and I have a three-year-old and another one on the way." "Do you think this is a good neighborhood for kids ?" "Oh, this is a great neighborhood for kids." "I raised my girls here." " Oh, really ?" " I sure did." "This man's life was taken from him, these other people were hurt and killed, and the big-ass gun company made it happen by flouting the law." "Come on, Loreen, where does it end, huh ?" "All these folks suing for profit." "What next ?" "Have a heart attack, sue McDonald's ?" "Sue my grocery store 'cause you went in there" " and bought some pork chops..." " Go on !" "...now you got clogged arteries ?" " Oh, brother, you've been smoking." "Guess what ?" "It is still our right to keep and bear arms." "Remember that." "Well, Mr. Fitch, are we concluding our business today or not ?" "Could you hold forjust one minute, please ?" "One minute." "Doyle, give me something." "Well, I can't really talk right now, sweetheart." "I met this nice lady and she's telling me all about the neighborhood." "The jury has the case." " There could be a verdict any second." " I hear you, sweetheart." "I tell you what." "I'll call you back as soon as I get on the road, OK ?" " Doyle." " I love you, too." "All right." "Bye." "Word just in." "Rohr's not paying." "It's yours." "Marlee ?" "Unhappy news, I hear." "Rohr has taken himself out of the game." "I thought maybe you might be inclined to make a reduction in your selling price." "Look, Rankin, in 30 seconds you're still gonna lose." "Understand ?" "Now, do we have a deal or don't we ?" "We have a deal." "I'm wiring the money." "Congratulations, Mr. Fitch." "You just bought yourself a verdict." "It's not our job to change the law." "It is our duty to serve it." "And the law says this guy Kevin Peltier was responsible." " Not the gun company." " Right." "Yes, we as a people, we are meant to serve the law, but the law is also meant to serve the people." " That's right." " I'm with you, Frank, all right ?" "Whoa, whoa." "Ladies and gentlemen, whoa." "I think a preliminary vote here would help us along if nobody has anything new to say." " Let's vote." " I'd like to say something." "Couldn't be easy." "Hey, Frank, let him speak." "Well, I hope you like lots of sugar in your iced tea." " Oh, yes, ma'am, I surely do." " Good." " Thank you." " You're welcome." " Are these your daughters ?" " Mm-hm." "Gabrielle and Margaret." "They were Irish twins." "You know, just one grade apart." "Mm-hm." "Forgive me." "It's still hard to talk about." "I'm sorry ?" "Well, it was bad enough losing Margaret, but it's been so long since I've spoken to Gabby," "I just feel like I've lost them both." "Well, um, what happened ?" "Uh, how did Margaret pass away ?" "You're not from around here." "You wouldn't know about the shooting." "I don't think this case is about guns." "I think this case is about the law, and like Frank says, it's about serving the law." "But guns are involved and I don't know anybody in the room or in the world" " who doesn't feel strongly about guns..." " Oh, please." " What's wrong, Frank ?" " I can guess which way you lean." " Yeah ?" " Yeah." "You've had an agenda the whole time you've been here." " You got that right." " You're the plaintiff's boy." "Hey, come on, Frank." "What are you saying ?" " It's the truth." " What are you saying ?" " Let him speak." " Well, what's the problem here ?" "They made a good product." "It worked." "Case closed." "It's a little more complicated than that, Frank." "A boy, James Pratt, showed up at the high school with some guns that he bought off the street in Indianapolis and he just started firing." "Yeah, I'm sorry the lady lost her husband." "I am, but that's life." "I mean, I know a lot of other people had bad times, but they never sued anybody." " Like who ?" " Like buddies of mine." "Lost their arms," " their legs." "Never got a thin dime." " And they deserved better." "You're right !" "You bet I'm right." "We're done here, Easter." " Could we vote, please ?" " That's not good enough." " Let's vote." " That's not good enough." "I wanna talk about the law." "I wanna talk about Celeste Wood." "I got a call from the school and they said that something had happened to Margaret." "That she had died." " She doesn't deserve that money." " Well, maybe she does, maybe she doesn't." "But she deserves a few hours of our time." " Can we vote, please ?" " Yeah." " Tell me why." "Tell me why." " I wanna vote." "Anybody else wanna vote ?" "Come on, I wanna vote." " Tell me why." " Well, I wanna vote." " Does anyone else here..." " Let's vote." " How does it work, Frank ?" " Pipe down, Easter." " Tell me why." " We all got problems here, don't we ?" " Amen." " All of us." "But we don't get paid for it." " She suffered !" " Hell, I suffered." "I worked my ass off 12 years of crummy jobs for shit pay !" "I have never asked anybody for a handout." " She's not asking for a handout." " That is bullshit and you know it." "She was with Jeff." "That's Gabby's boyfriend." "He told me that my girl, she froze." "She just stood there." "It took seconds." "Jeff just kept saying, "I couldn't reach her." "I couldn't pull her down."" "He always thought there was something that he could have done." "So what are we gonna tell Celeste Wood ?" "I don't know." "I don't know what we're gonna tell her." ""Life isn't fair" ?" "Write that on a postcard ?" "Is that the best we've got ?" "I'll tell you what else." "That lawyer can show me all the home movies he wants." "I deserve a hell of a lot more for what I've been through than that woman out there." "I mean, forget her !" " What about the law ?" " Fuck the law !" "I don't care if the gun company gave that guy an M-16 with his morning donut." "I'm not giving her a cent !" " That's bullshit, Frank." "Bullshit." " Who's with Frank ?" "Yes, I'd like to report a robbery in progress at Mardi Gras Costumes, 6510 Charter Street." "Maybe some of you are afraid or intimidated." "Maybe some of you are just out for yourselves." "Frank is right about me." "I'm the worst offender here." "I made up my mind about this case before I stepped through that door." "But this trial's not about me." "It's not about you." "Now we owe it to Celeste Wood to sit in this room and deliberate the facts of the case for as long as it takes." "Now if you don't mind, there's some testimony I'd like to review." "Mr. Fitch ?" "Yeah ?" " Don't wire the money." " What ?" "What's going on ?" " Where are you ?" "!" " I'm in Gardner." "Gardner, Indiana." " It's a setup." " Gardner." " Get it open !" " Oh, shit." "We got company." "Take the network down now." "OK, people, pack it up, tear it down." "Now." "This is not a test." "Clear your drives, wipe the screens." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Box all photos and files." "No monitors." "Leave the monitors." "Code four, people." " Mr. Fitch ?" " 30 seconds !" "Mr. Fitch, we really need to go, sir." "20 seconds !" "Lamb, what the hell happened in Gardner ?" "1989." "Gardner v. Blackwell Arms." "Town sued the gun manufacturer, town lost." "Town went bankrupt." "Fitch worked the case." "You got it ?" "Fitch worked the case." "...to hear the jury's decision." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict ?" "We have, Your Honor." "Would you hand it to the bailiff, please ?" "Thank you, Bailiff." "In the matter of Celeste Wood v. Vicksburg Firearms, the jury finds for the plaintiff Celeste Wood." "They award special damages in the amount of $1 million and general damages in the amount of $110 million." "This court is still in session." "Court is in session." "Order, please." "Order." " That's bullshit !" " That's enough." "Court's adjourned." "When Judge Harkin read this verdict, a spontaneous round of applause from the entire courtroom." "Obvious support for the teary-eyed widow who waged war on the entire gun industry..." "No matter what the anti-gun lobbyists say, or the NRA says, on this day, in this courtroom, the final word was given by the jury." "There have been other lawsuits filed against gun manufacturers in the past and juries have traditionally sided with the gun industry, until today." "The $ 110 million award, which the jury handed Celeste Wood today, could cripple the gun industry." "And to say it's been an uphill battle for Mr. Rohr is an understatement." "In fact, you might say it's been a David and Goliath battle." "But today, one gun industry giant has fallen." "Ten years, Fitch." "They're gonna appeal, the gun company." "You know that, right ?" "Of course." "But not with you." "You show up on another case, any case, even a contested parking ticket, this gets faxed to the IRS." "And the Justice Department, the Federal Board of Judicial Review." "You're out." "Retired as of today." "Gardner, Indiana." " School shooting." " He remembers." "Blackwell Arms." "The town really thought they had that one, didn't they ?" "We did have it." "Now what ?" "What on earth are you gonna do with all that money, huh ?" " $15 million, that changes people." " Yeah, well, that's what we're hoping." "See, back home, the victims' families could really use that money." " Good-bye, Fitch." " Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." "How did you swing 'em, huh ?" "How'd you swing 'em your way ?" "I hear you got ten votes." " How'd you do that ?" " I didn't swing anybody." "I just stopped you from stealing the thing." "We let 'em vote their hearts." "That means you lose." "Enjoy your drink." "What, do you think you can just walk away from this ?" "Huh ?" "And I'm betting that the two of you, you can't stop !" "Because if you did, what would you have ?" "!" "Nothing !" "Nothing !" "That's why we're gonna have lunch." "We're celebratin', that's why." " Do you know why we're celebrating ?" " Yeah." "We are very happy today." "Celeste, Henry, go on inside, get me an extra order of cornbread." "Get 'em that table, Milton." "Just gonna be one minute." " You got it." " Thank you." "I wanna go home." "OK." "Let's go."

"Sourced by:" "Deafdude" "Oh, come on, run, Pixie Pants." "Get off the rail." "Get off the rail." "Mama, my mornings were so much more relaxin' before you started betting' on the horses." "Mine, too." "Oh, come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Oh... hellfire." "I thought you said you had a system." "I do." "I bet on a horse, and I just hope to hell it wins." "Mom." "Mom, I've been thinking, and I'm super excited." "I've finally decided what I'm gonna do with my life." "But I need your help." "Sure, honey." "Anything I can do to help you." "I want to get an agent for my career." " You have a career?" " Yeah." "My singing career." "You keep telling me I'm a great singer." "I just thought, "why don't I go for it?"" "I don't wanna wait till I'm old like Taylor Swift." "Honey, what I said is, you have the potential to be a great singer." "Kind of like your grandmother has the potential to beat me at boggle." "I'd win if your mother wasn't such a Nazi with the dictionary." "Mom, there's no such word as "zarp."" "Oh, yes, there is." ""Mr. Jones has a yellow zarp."" "Just because you can use it in a sentence, that don't mean nothin'." "Okay, here's the thing..." "A lot of people try to get agents all the time." "It's hard." "But look, when you get serious about your singing, come let me know." "Fine." "Then how about we skip the agent, and you bring me down to the record label and introduce me to Mr. Bata?" "Okay." "So you can't get an agent, but you want to go have a meeting with the head of the record label?" "Yeah." "Then he can record my first single, and it'll be easy for me to get an agent." "Problem solved." "Honey, I've never even met Mr. Bata." "I've tried hundreds of times." "It's impossible to get a meeting with that man." "Have you tried making him cookies?" "Actually, I have." "Oh." "I was kidding." "Okay." "All right, look." "Here's the thing..." "If you're really serious about your singing, you have to do a lot more than just talk about it." "It's all about singing lessons and practicing, and it's a lot of hard work." "All right, fine." "I'll do the hard work." "But don't expect me to thank you at the Grammys." "Oh, but you could thank your Grammy at the Grammys." "It only makes sense!" "Good morning, ladies." "All right, Lilly Mae, you ready for our power walk?" "No, not yet." "One more race." "One more race, Kim." "I'm down 75 bucks, and I want to go out a winner." "Ooh." "Are you betting on horses?" "That's so cool." "I have always wanted to try that." "Well, it is really a rush." "And you can make money." "Oh, my God, I never make money." "But you're already rich." "No, but see, that's Leslie's money, and the credit card companies started calling." "See, the fraud department didn't think it was possible for one person to spend that much money in one single day." "But..." "let me tell you, Reba, not only is it possible, but it is a blast!" "Well, did Leslie cut you off?" "No, but he's just questioning everything I buy now like I'm some sort of child, and I'm just like..." "I don't like it." "Well, whose money you gonna use?" "Leslie's." "Good enough." "It's all zarp to me." "Still not a word." "Okay, now look here..." "Yeah." "The horses are in the paddock so that we can check 'em out before the race." "Oh, they are beautiful." "Funny, they don't look so big without those tiny men on top of them." "Hey." "What are you guys lookin' at?" "Oh. (Hums "first call" trumpet fanfare)" "All right, now cut that out." "I'm trying to concentrate." "I have a really good feeling about this horse, Whiskey Kitten." "Yeah, but... but, grandma, look at the sweat spots." "See there, by his kidneys?" "That horse either isn't feeling well, or it's already exerted too much of its energy." "Regardless, it's very likely that it now has an electrolyte imbalance, which... which could very well lead to premature muscle fatigue, reduce stamina, or muscle cramps during the race." "Well..." "Wow." "How do you know all that?" "Oh, I used to work with horses all the time back in Nashville." "Like, uh, you see that one right there?" "Number 8, Prince of Rides?" "See how he's just kinda, like, standin' there like a lump?" "Oh, yeah." "Not for me, no way." "Lame-o." "No, that's..." "That's the one you want." "See, he's savin' his energy for the race and lettin' the other ones jump around the paddock and use it all up." "Oh." "That's what I think, anyway." ""Prince of Rides"..." "It's interesting..." "What he says." "I'm game." "Let's do it." "Prince of Rides." "Ha ha." "Come on, buddy, break a leg!" "Oh!" "We're gonna have to work on your horse racing lingo." "Okay, sorry." "Sorry." "* Walkin' with my head high * * soaking' up the sunshine * * la-la-la-la-la, life is sweet *" "Come on, Queen's Bum." "Move your bloomin' arse!" "Okay." "He's got it." "He's got it." "He's got it!" "Yes!" "Yeah!" "Oh, Cash, you are a genius." "I mean, I have been making money all day." "I really feel like I should give you something." "You know what?" "Um..." "Here." "Take this." "Makeup?" "Yeah, well, there's a $100 bill under the mirror, and, uh... that's just a taste." "Hey, come on, Cash, let's go." "Who do you like in the fifth?" "Oh, right, right, right." "Well, normally, with a track this slow," "I would go with Gambit's Gal." "What's going on here?" "Oh..." "our boy Cash is employing his savant-like knowledge of equine physiology to rake in a crapload of dough." "Well, I'm not wild about my son blowing' off his homework to play the ponies." "Well..." "Would you be happier if we shut down our operation and stopped gambling completely?" "Yes." "Well, not everything is about your happiness." "Hey." "Hey mom, remember how you said" "I didn't have a singing career this morning?" "Yep." "Well, I got one." "Uh-huh." "And I'm the point guard for the Lakers." "Seriously." "I heard what you said about hard work and paying my dues, so I made a video." " Video of what?" " Of me, singing "Love Minus Two" by Deffy Dupraize." "Look..." "* Love minus two * * love minus two * * love minus two * * no me and no you * * because what we had is gone * * and I'm moo-moo-moving on * * boy, you cut me to the core *" "* and so I'm out-out-out the door * * what else can you do when it's love minus two?" "* * love minus two * * love minus two *" "* * love minus two, love minus two *" "*" "Yeah." "Wow." "Yeah." "There's a lot goin' on there." "Was that the cat from two doors down?" "Yeah." "And how cute is he in goggles?" "Yeah, that cat's wild." "But, honey, this one video doesn't make a career." "Oh." "Well, over 24,600 people disagree with you." "What do you mean?" "That's how many hits I got after I put it on YouTube." "So now can you get me in to see Mr. Bata?" "Honey, it's not that easy." "Ugh." "Oh, lord." "Look, you made one video and you uploaded it or downloaded it." "I know you loaded it in some direction, but..." "Honey, that's not paying your dues." "Yeah, but things are different now." "Yeah, but it still takes hard work." "Okay." "When I was young..." "Is this gonna be about how you churned your own butter and there were only three channels?" "No." "This is about me and your daddy, drivin' 600 miles in a rusty old van, playin' for 15 people in some smoky old beer joint, and barely gettin' paid." "That's stupid." "No, it's not stupid." "It's how we cut our teeth and honed our skill." "Even with all that work, when I had to take the time off to have you kids, it was still a struggle for me to... to get my career going again." "Huh." "Well, since you started telling that story" "I got 2,000 more views." "And I didn't have to drive anywhere." "Ahh." "Being famous is super easy these days." "Well, that may be true, but there's a difference between being famous and being great." "Well, thank you for your words of wisdom, but I just got a thousand more hits." "Come back here!" "I'm not done being wise!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Aw, he's got it." " Yes!" " Yes!" "Okay, victory shots for everyone." "Except you can't drink and you can't drink, so victory shots for me." "Taylor swift." "I'll Taylor Swift you in a minute." "Well, what built a nest in your bloomers?" "It's June." "She thinks she can just announce," ""oh, I'm gonna be a singer,"" "and Mr. Bata will just lay down at her feet." "Well, take her down to Mr. Bata then." "Oh, I don't wanna do that, 'cause I don't wanna hurt her." "Besides, he's not gonna see her." "Well, that's exactly the point." "She'll go down, realize how pointless and humiliating it is, and she'll learn a life lesson." " You think that'll work?" " Of course it will." "It's like teaching a kid not to smoke cigarettes by making 'em smoke a whole pack." "But I didn't want to smoke in the first place." "I-I didn't want to take any chances." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa." "Cash, where are you going?" "There's still betting' to be done." "Well, I've already been doing this for a couple of hours." "And you heard my mom." "I have to do my homework." "Listen up, mister..." "Here's how this is gonna go down, okay?" "I am gonna do your homework, and you are gonna make with the ponies." "Um, I... no, I don't think that's really honoring" " the spirit of what my mom..." " Come on." "I'm finally making my own money here, you know?" "I really wanna surprise Leslie with a brand-new pair of boots for me." "I'm sorry, Kim, but I've gotta do my homework." "I will do your homework just this once." "Look..." "Ooh!" "English." "How convenient." "Happens to be my first language." "Reba." "Where's our budding Internet star?" "Oh, she wants to document her "rise to stardom,"" "so she's out there taking a picture with the valet." "Aw." "That's so..." "That's either adorable or pathetic." "I can't decide." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Okay." "The only reason I agreed to come down here is because I want her to see the reality of this business, but I don't want to crush her dreams." "So do not be mean to her." "I'm so offended!" "How do you think I could be mean to June?" "Because you're always mean to me when I come down here." "Yeah, but you can handle it." "June still has hope." "Okay." "Look, we won't be here very long." "I figure that after Mr. Bata makes her sit out here for a couple of hours, she'll be sick of show business and ready to go get ice cream." " Did you see all the gold records on the wall?" " Yeah." "So cool." "Thanks for doing this, mom." "Ah, no problem." "Uh, you should go over and check in with Mr. Bata's assistant." "He can be a real butt." "Got it." "Hi, Geoffrey." "And you are?" "I'm June Gallagher." "I have a meeting with Mr. Bata at 4:00." "Okay." "Well Mr. Bata is, uh, a little busy right now, so just have a seat." "He'll be right with you." "You look so cute." "Oh, I wanna get a picture before my meeting." "You can get a painting done by the time you get your meeting." "June Gallagher is here for her 4:00." "June Gallagher." "Oh." "Oh, I see." "It's okay." "Okay, yeah." "I'll let her know." "Mr. Bata will see you now." "What... just... happened?" "Okay, look, when I called in there," "Mr. Bata said that his daughter told him all about June's video with that little cat, and he wanted to meet her." "But that's kind of a good thing, right?" "No!" "I've been tellin' her how brutal this business is, and she gets a meeting in 20 seconds!" "It takes you longer than that to lie to me about him being in!" "Things are finally looking up for your family now!" "And look, maybe June could put in a word for you." "I love this business!" "It is so much fun." "And easy, too." "Honey, you need to slow down a little." "It's great that you got in to see Mr. Bata." "But remember, that's just a tiny baby step." "I realize that." "So how big a tour bus do you think I'll get?" "Because it could get a little crowded with my hair guy and my wardrobe people and the whole band." "Ooh!" "And a bodyguard." "A bodyguard?" "Wow." "I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself." "Not really." "This stuff happens fast." "I'm gonna need a publicist, you know, to promote my own clothing line." "Honey, chill out." "I'm just planning ahead." "Mr. Bata said when I get started," "I'm gonna have to go on a promotional tour of all the radio stations around the country." "Well, how are you gonna plan on touring when you're gonna be in school?" "Oh, no." "I'm not gonna let school get in the way of this." "What?" "Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa." "You are not quitting school." "Of course not." "I'm not delusional." "Obviously, I'll have tutors when I'm on the road." "I mean, it's kind of the law." "So there's more proof why you need to stay in school..." "So you'll learn the meaning of "delusional."" "This is so typical." "It just feels like you've been against my career from the beginning." "From the beginning?" "Honey, it was yesterday." "Mom, I get it." "This is hard for you, but we're both in showbiz now." "Let's just be supportive of each other." "Remember, a rising tide lifts all boats." "I'll make you think "boat."" "Get your butt upstairs and get your homework." ""Lift my boat." I've been rowing boats for longer than you can remember." "Cash..." "Cash..." "Cash!" "Aah!" "Aw, come on." "It's just me, silly." "What are you doing here?" "It's... it's 2:00 in the morning." "Yeah." "Or as I like to call it, post time in Manila." "Okay." "Get up." "There's betting' to do." "What, Cash, is all this screaming?" "Are you watching "Wizard of Oz" again?" "Oh, I wish it was flyin' monkeys." "Aw." "Good morning, Lillie Mae." "Tell you what... why don't I get some coffee a-brewin'?" "And then we'll get to winning." "Okay." "She's got a problem." "So, uh, what do we do?" "Well, your system's gonna have to stop working." "Won't she know something's up?" "Quick question..." "How does one make coffee?" "Trust me." "She won't know." "I've been thinkin'." "You don't talk much about your mama, but didn't you say one time that she refused to buy a phone when they first came out?" "Yes, that's true." "She said if a message was worth sending, it was worth the buggy ride to the telegraph office." "Well, I've turned into grandma." "You shot a bartender?" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "Uh... huh?" "N-nothing." "What are you talking about?" "Oh, June's inside on the phone with Geoffrey." "I mean, all that stuff I told her about the music business..." "Was I wrong?" "Am I crushing her dreams just because she's not doing it the same way I did?" "No, you are giving her good advice that will help her have a long career." "She may resent you for it now, but trust me, she'll realize it one day." "Most likely long after you're dead, but she will realize it." "Oh, come on." "I was getting a tour bus!" "Oh, that didn't sound good." "Ugh!" "Fine!" "I hate show business." "It's filled with backstabbers." "Who stabbed you in the back?" "Milton." "Okay, honey, I'm lost." "Who's Milton?" "Is he a friend at school?" "No." "It's the cat from my video." "He's got a new one out." "It's him fighting a bunch of balloons with mouse faces drawn on them." "Oh, how original." "Okay, so Milton's gone solo." "Good riddance." "He was overrated, anyway." "You know what?" "You take those goggles off, he's just a cat." "Okay." "How did this affect you, anyway?" "His video's gone viral." "Over 30,000 hits in 6 hours, and... people have stopped watching mine." "Ohh." "Geoffrey called and said Mr. Bata thinks the only reason people were watching my video was because of the stupid cat." "And Geoffrey was all..." ""Do you have more videos with that cat?" "Do you, little mami?" "Do you?" "Do you?"" "That's a pretty good Geoffrey." "Well, this sucks." "Welcome to the entertainment business, honey." "But here's what I don't get..." "If it's so hard, why do people keep doing it?" "And why do you keep doing it?" "'Cause I have to." "Artists who do what they do, they do it because they love it, not for money or fame." "Did you know that Van Gogh never sold a painting during his lifetime?" "And Van Gogh killed himself." "Yeah." "But don't do that." "But still, everything I said is true." "Isn't there an easier way?" "Not that I know of." "But if you find one, send me a telegram and let me know." "Never mind." "Run, Chumley's Dream!" "Run, you stupid horse!" "Oh, no!" "Sixth place." "Damn it!" "We have lost five in a row, Cash." "What is going on?" "Uh, I don't..." "I don't know." "I, um..." "I must have lost my touch." "Well..." "It happens." "Nothing can be done." "This is awful." "I have lost everything." "Everything!" "Well, not everything." "I mean, you live in a mansion." "No." "This is a beach house." "Our mansion is in Aspen." "I guess the party's over." "I guess so." "It was a fun, crazy-wild ride while it lasted, huh?" "Oh, yes, it was." "But it's over." "Okay." " Now." " Right." " Definitely..." " Yeah." "No, I heard you." "That was rough, grandma." "Oh, but it had to be done." "When somebody is addicted to winning, the only cure is losing." "But picking the wrong horses..." "It almost killed me." "It was like asking Michael Phelps to sink." "You did a good thing." "And now you don't have to worry about it anymore." "You can go back to picking winners for your grandma." "Who do you like in the seventh?" "I don't like anybody in the seventh." "Kim isn't the only one with a problem." "Hey, come on." "I can quit anytime I want to." "Um, all right." "Well, how 'bout now?" "I don't want to." "Sorry, grandma." "I'm done." "I hope you dream of freakin' flyin' monkeys tonight." "* a, b, c, d *" "C!" "Great!" "Okay, now a little trick to remembering the notes of the treble clef..." "It's e, g, b, d, f..." ""Every good boy deserves fudge."" "Mm." "Now I'm bored, and I want fudge." "You're doing great." "All right." "You practice your scale for one hour, and I'll go make you some fudge." "That's my girl!" "Ah, yes." "Piano lessons." "Did she tell you the "fudge" business?" "Yeah." "It's a scam." "You're not gettin' any." "Wait." "You took lessons from mom?" "Yeah." "When I was 6." "It was the worst week of my life." "The only thing I ever learned was this..." "Mom taught you that?" "Yeah, never got fudge though."

"(SPEAKS SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(GROWLING)" "(PRAYING IN SPANISH)" "(SCREAMS)" "(GROWLING)" "No!" "No!" "(SCREAMING)" "No!" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "(GROANS)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "SHAUN SAN DENA:" "Juan!" "Juan!" "(SCREAMING)" "(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)" "MAN ON TAPE:" "Repeat the following phrases precisely as spoken." "There is no friction with the proper diction." "CHRISTINE:" "There is no friction with the proper diction." "MAN ON TAPE:" "Good sounds abound when the mouth is round." "Good sounds abound when the mouth is round." "Round." "Round." "I think we can make this work." "I'll call you this afternoon and let you know." "Thank you so much." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Have a great day." "Yeah, you, too." "Have a good day." "Okay." "Thank you." "Bye." "WOMAN:" "Here you go, Mr Jacks." "MR JACKS:" "Thank you." "Mr Jacks?" "I was wondering if you'd made any decision regarding the assistant manager's position." "Well, I'm still deciding, and right now, it's between Stu and yourself." "Stu Rubin, the new guy?" "Well, I know he's new, but he's also quite aggressive, and we like that." "You know, Stu's someone who's not afraid to crunch the numbers and make the tough decisions." "I'm perfectly capable of making the tough decisions." "I'll let you know as soon as I decide." "Okay?" "In the meantime, take him through our loan qualifying procedures, just in case, all right?" "Okay." "MR JACKS:" "And would you mind taking your lunch break now?" "Sure." "And maybe on your way back, you could pick me up a turkey club?" "Turkey club, excellent choice!" "You mind picking one up for me?" "Thanks." "And spicy mustard." "What have you got?" "Could I get your approval on this?" "This is the loan we talked about before." "The loan." "Exactly." "Good one, huh?" "One-point-five?" "Absolutely, and it'll be one of many." "Well, Professor, congratulations on making it through your first week." "Thank you very much." "Mmm." "I thought you'd have a full beard by now." "So did I. I'm a little disappointed." "Man, this thing." "That's it." "I'm done." "I'm out." "Chris, don't even bother." "I gotta get a new one." "I'm telling you, you're gonna drive yourself nuts." "It's completely broken." "Was broken." "You are cocky and sexy and unbelievable." "I almost forgot." "Found it at the bank." "What is this?" "No way!" "Wow." "It's a 1929 Standing Liberty, and it's almost fully struck." "You found this in regular circulation at the bank?" "I did." "I'm gonna add this to my nerdy coin collection." "Thank you, baby." "Okay." "Thanks for thinking of me." "All right." "Bye." "Bye." "See you later." "I'll see you later, okay?" "(PHONE RINGING)" "Dr Dalton." "WOMAN:" "Hello, dear." "Hi, Mom." "What are you doing?" "Christine just came over and brought some lunch," "and I'm correcting some papers." "Christine?" "The one from the farm?" "Yeah, Mom, the girl I've been dating for almost a year, the girl who's coming for dinner." "We're still on for dinner?" "I'm sure she's a very sweet girl." "She is." "I can't wait for you..." "But you know your father and I just have certain expectations for you." "I can't really do the expectations..." "I understand Amy Kulick is looking" "for someone to play tennis with." "Yeah, I..." "You know, she graduated from Yale Law with honours, and she's a very successful attorney now." "I know." "You told me." "Yeah, that's the kind of girl" "I would love to see you with." "Mother..." "She's the kind of woman who could really help you socially and, as a result, in your career." "And that's the kind of thing you should be thinking about now." "Mother, I don't wanna..." "You can't be playing around with little girls off the farm." "I think you're really gonna..." "I think you're really gonna like..." "It's time to really find a partner." "Christine, you messed up my order." "No, I didn't." "Yeah, I said no mayo." "You never said that." "You know what?" "Don't sweat it." "It's okay." "(CHUCKLES)" "STU:" "Mr Jacks, by the way, aren't you a Laker fan?" "MR JACKS:" "I am a Laker fan." "My mom is having this thing on Sunday." "I can't use these." "Are you serious?" "Yeah." "Absolutely." "You want them?" "These are great seats!" "They are great seats." "MR JACKS:" "This is where they bring the hot dogs right to you." "STU:" "Yes, it is." "You are gonna hobnob with celebs." "MR JACKS:" "You sure that's okay?" "STU:" "Absolutely, it's okay." "Yeah." "MR JACKS:" "Well, thank you, Stu." "STU:" "Take them." "Absolutely." "MR JACKS:" "Wow." "STU:" "Say hey to Kobe for me." "MR JACKS:" "Of course." "Will you help me?" "Of course." "What can I do for you?" "Your trucks are at my house." "The men are packing all my things, private things." "Please, make them stop." "(COUGHING)" "Mrs..." "Ganush." "(HAWKING)" "Mrs Ganush, the bank is informing you of their intent to repossess your property at 325 Brandon Street today." "But this is my home for 30 years." "And I make every payment until the sickness took my eye." "I hope to have more money soon." "I just need a little more time." "You..." "I don't think my manager's going to extend you any more credit." "Please." "Won't you try?" "Okay." "Bless you." "Bless you!" "CHRISTINE:" "We have an elderly woman asking for an extension on her mortgage payment." "She's on a fixed income, and she's had some medical problems." "There's gotta be something we can do to help her." "MR JACKS:" "Well, apparently, we've already granted her two extensions." "And, you know, on this type of foreclosure, we seize the trapped equity and the bank makes a sizable amount in fees." "We would have to throw her out of her house." "It's a tough decision." "Your call." "I'll take care of it." "Mrs Ganush." "I'm sorry, Mrs Ganush, but another extension on the loan is out of the question." "What?" "I would like to help, but it is in the bank's..." "No, please, this is my home." "Where will I live?" "You list your granddaughter as a reference." "Maybe you could stay with her." "I would not burden her." "And there are several fine assisted living facilities for the elderly..." "A nursing home?" "No, I would never live in one of those places." "I'm really sorry." "I am proud woman, Miss Brown, and never have I begged for anything." "But now, I beg for you." "I humble myself before you." "Mrs Ganush." "Mrs Ganush, please." "Please stand up." "I, Sylvia Ganush, beg." "On my mother's grave, I beg you!" "Please let go." "Let go!" "Security!" "Stop!" "(GRUNTS)" "WOMAN:" "Over here, Billy!" "Over here!" "GUARD:" "We're coming." "(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)" "You shame me." "I beg you, and you shame me." "GUARD 1:" "I think your business is finished here, ma'am." "Let's go." "Mrs Ganush... (SCREAMING)" "Get out of here!" "Come on, ma'am." "GUARD 2:" "Let's go." "I never saw anything quite like that before." "Are you okay?" "You handled that just right, you know." "GUARD:" "Good night." "See you tomorrow." "WOMAN:" "Okay." "You know, I just finished going over this McPherson loan." "This is very impressive work." "Thanks." "Would you mind taking this home tonight and finishing it up?" "Because I would like to show it to the regional veep in the morning." "I would love to." "Great." "Thank you." "And as far as that assistant manager's position goes, you're at the top of the list." "(VIOLENT COUGHING)" "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(SHRIEKS)" "(BREATHING DEEPLY)" "(GASPS)" "You shamed me." "(SCREAMING)" "(SYLVIA MUMBLING)" "(SCREAMING)" "(GROANS)" "(GROANING)" "(GROANING)" "(HIGH-PITCHED SCREECHING)" "(SCREAMS)" "(GROANING)" "(SCREAMING)" "(GASPS)" "(SCREAMING)" "(LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)" "I beat you, you old bitch!" "(PANTING)" "(CREAKING)" "(SCREECHING)" "No!" "(SCREAMING)" "(CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Lamia." "Soon it will be you who comes begging to me." "OFFICER:" "She's right over there." "CLAY:" "Thank you, thank you." "Hey!" "Once they send some officers over to have a talk with her, she's not gonna be bothering you any more, okay?" "So don't even think about her." "And I'm gonna call Mr Jacks and just make sure he can have somebody walk you to your car every night, okay?" "CHRISTINE:" "Okay." "I just thank God you're okay." "You are okay, right?" "I'm fine." "What?" "What's the matter?" "It's just that maybe I could have gotten her another extension on her loan." "Chris, no, don't do that." "You said the bank granted this woman two extensions already, right?" "I'm sorry, if you don't pay your mortgage, you lose your house." "What does this woman expect?" "It's not your fault." "You can't beat yourself up over it." "CLAY:" "I mean, what'd she expect?" "It's not your fault." "And regardless of what you may or may not have been able to do, that's still no justification for her..." "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "Did you hear that?" "What?" "Really?" "You didn't?" "No." "What?" "I know this is gonna sound weird, but I wanna get my fortune read." "(LAUGHS) Now?" "Are you kidding?" "Come on, Chris." "I'll read your fortune for you." "In the near future, we are gonna get in the car," "go home and relax." "Clay, I really want to do this." "Why?" "Because of what happened with that old woman?" "Chris, I really think we should just get you home now." "Can you do this for me?" "I pray to God none of my students see me here." "The only class I'll be able to teach is, like, Hypocrisy 101." "Yeah, there's so many things to choose from here." "Unfortunately, not what I'm looking for, which is a weird little dried monkey head." "Wait, no, never mind, he's got one." "I am Rham Jas, seer." "I'm Christine and this is Clay." "But you probably already knew that, right?" "Just kidding." "How can I help you?" "I would like to have my fortune read." "Can you do that?" "I have the ability to see certain energies." "Sometimes these energies are a foretoken of things to come." "$60, please." "Seriously?" "Yes." "Sixty..." "Doesn't that seem a little steep for this sort of thing?" "If you're not serious, please go." "All right." "Come on, Chris." "Wait, wait!" "I'll..." "I'll pay." "No, you know what?" "You know what?" "I got it." "I got it." "There you go." "Platinum card." "Very good." "CHRISTINE:" "Thank you." "Here, here, baby." "Thanks." "Sure." "Uh-uh." "Please." "Okay." "So, you wish to know something of your destiny." "Yes." "Very good." "Let's see what the fates have in store." "CLAY:" "You know, Freud said destiny was not an act of fate, but rather something created by our subconscious to control our conscious choices." "That's true." "But we cannot attempt to understand the world by intellect alone." "Carl Jung." "Yes." "From his treatise Psychological Types." "So..." "Jung, the New Agers' favourite psychologist." "Because he wasn't afraid to bring God into the equation." "Well, he wasn't afraid to bring God into..." "Clay, Clay, come on." "Let's do it." "I know." "Come on." "Let's start." "Shall we?" "I'm ready." "Very well." "Please, give me your hand." "Okay." "This way." "Okay." "You work with money." "That's right." "And you've recently lost something." "No, I don't think so." "No." "No, you haven't lost anything." "But something's been taken from you." "No." "RHAM JAS:" "A button." "Oh, my God." "Yes!" "Well, anyone can see she's missing a button!" "So what?" "But, Clay, it was really strange." "The old woman today, she took a button from my sleeve." "Why would she do that?" "If you would both please just be quiet!" "(GASPS)" "(SCREECHING)" "I think that's enough for tonight." "What's wrong?" "I'm tired, and I see it's become quite late." "I will, of course, refund your money." "Wait, wait, wait!" "Did you see something?" "A dark spirit has come upon you." "What do you mean?" "Well, he's..." "Did you blaspheme the dead while visiting a graveyard?" "No!" "Did you play with a Ouija board or consort with those who practise the black arts?" "All right, take it easy, man." "Come on." "Wait." "Clay, Clay, Clay." "No." "No, I didn't." "Perhaps someone has cursed you." "Then how did he know all that?" "Know what?" "That you lost a button?" "And by the way, he didn't really know that much." "He makes a couple of good guesses, then he..." "He stirs you up, and then he leaves you with all these questions and, conveniently, his business card." "Come on, Chris, he's a scam artist." "But he didn't want the money." "He tried to give it back, remember?" "Well, he sort of tried, but in the end, he took it, didn't he?" "I guess so." "CLAY:" "I gotta go meet the guy that's towing your car, so you gonna be okay?" "Yeah." "All right." "Kitty, take care of her." "I'll see you in about an hour." "Love you." "Okay." "Okay." "(OVEN BELL DINGS)" "(CREAKING)" "(DOOR RATTLES)" "(CREAKING)" "(CREAKING CONTINUES)" "(CREAKING)" "(CREAKING CONTINUES)" "(GASPS)" "(SHRIEKS)" "(MEOWING)" "(SCREAMING)" "Damn it." "(SCREAMS)" "(PANTING)" "Here." "Put that on your lip." "Thank you." "I can't believe she came to the house." "This is so nuts." "I'm calling the cops." "It wasn't her." "Who was it then?" "I don't know." "I couldn't see who it was." "Of course it was her." "It had to be her." "No, Clay, it wasn't anyone!" "It was somebody." "Chris, it had to be somebody." "The lights were out." "You just couldn't see who it was," "but I'm guessing it was..." "Clay, there wasn't anybody here." "Then who did this?" "Who hit you in the face?" "Huh?" "DOCTOR:" "I think it's just a reaction to her being attacked earlier in the day." "CLAY:" "Yeah." "Classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress." "DOCTOR:" "Yeah, she's showing signs of panic and paranoia." "So..." "CLAY:" "Do you want me to walk you out, man?" "DOCTOR:" "No, no, no, I'll be fine." "CLAY:" "All right." "(DOOR CLOSES)" "Hey, hey." "How you doing?" "Better." "Yeah?" "Especially after the doctor explained it to me." "He said that victims of violence," "they re-experience..." "Re-experience their trauma." "I misinterpreted it to be something more than it was." "Happens." "I just..." "I feel..." "What?" "Kind of embarrassed." "Are you kidding?" "No." "You never have to be embarrassed with me." "Okay?" "Hey, listen, I was thinking maybe we could take a little trip on Saturday," "get on the train and go to Santa Barbara." "Your folks' cabin." "Yeah, if you're up for it, the cabin." "Oh, my God, I would love to!" "Yeah?" "Good." "That'd be so exciting." "Baby, you're gonna love it." "You're gonna love it." "Okay, good." "I'm excited for you to see it." "There's trees and it's private." "That would be great." "It'll be great." "It'll be good." "I think we need to." "And we can just..." "We can just talk and stuff." "(COUGHS)" "(SCREAMS)" "(CHOKING)" "(GASPS)" "What?" "What's the matter?" "I couldn't..." "I couldn't wake up." "It's okay." "Okay." "Come here." "It was just a dream." "Baby, that's the rental car they dropped off this morning." "Okay?" "Sure." "Thanks." "Love you." "Love you, too." "Hey, baby, try not to piss off any old ladies today, okay?" "(FLY BUZZING)" "STU:" "Hey, Christine?" "What, are you just getting here?" "What are you, the hall monitor?" "Ha, ha." "Very funny, Christine." "What's this?" "What do you want?" "I need you to finish teaching me the loan procedures." "I've got a lot on my mind." "Can we do this tomorrow?" "Sure." "Okay." "I'll just tell Mr Jacks that you don't have the time right now." "Maybe he can tell me." "No, no!" "Okay, I'll do it." "Okay." "We were going over the asset-based lending guidelines." "Right." "Let's say your client is a company that can't get traditional bank financing." "And?" "And..." "STU:" "And?" "And..." "And get your filthy pig knuckle off my desk!" "(PHONE RINGS)" "Christine Blood..." "Brown." "Christine." "Your nose." "Sure, can you hold?" "Let me help you." "No, no, I've got it under control." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "God!" "Oh, my God!" "Stop it!" "WOMAN:" "Mr Jacks!" "Did I get any in my mouth?" "Oh, my God!" "MR JACKS:" "Did I get any in my mouth?" "Let me take you over here to get clean." "I'm so sorry!" "Oh, my God!" "MR JACKS:" "What was that about?" "WOMAN:" "It's just a nosebleed." "Did I get any in my mouth?" "We'll clean you up." "We have antiseptic." "(KNOCKS)" "(WIND CHIME TINKLING)" "What is it?" "Hi." "I came to see Sylvia Ganush." "Is she here?" "Who are you?" "I'm a friend of hers." "Someone..." "Wait." "I know who you are." "Grandma told me you would come." "You are the woman from the bank, the one who took her house." "Actually, it was the bank that took the house." "I mean, I just work there." "In fact, I tried to help your grandma get the house back, but my boss wouldn't let me." "Are you going to stand here on my porch and lie to my face?" "No." "You used to be a real fat girl, didn't you?" "Yeah." "I can tell." "You are not welcome here." "Wait!" "Wait." "I need to see her." "I need her to forgive me." "And I'll get her the house back." "And you are gonna make everything all right for her, is that it?" "Yes." "Come on." "(VIOLIN PLAYING)" "Where is she?" "(LAUGHING)" "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)" "(SHRIEKS)" "(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)" "Get her off me!" "Get her off me!" "Come!" "Don't look." "MAN 1:" "Grab her shoulder." "WOMAN:" "Be a man!" "Lift her up!" "MAN 2:" "Be careful." "MAN 3:" "Let's roll the dice!" "Still going to make everything all right for her?" "You deserve everything that is coming to you." "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" "MAN 4:" "One more time!" "I believe what plagues you is the Lamia." "Lamia, that's the word the old woman used." "The Black Goat, only summoned by gypsies for their darkest deeds." "For the first three days, the Lamia appears as a nasty spirit that torments its victim." "After that, it reveals itself to be a taker of souls, and it comes for the owner of the accursed object." "Accursed object." "What object?" "Something taken from the victim, cursed and given back." "This?" "What if I just burn it?" "I'm afraid no matter what condition the button is in, you would still be the owner." "The Lamia would still come to take you." "Take me where?" "Then how do I get rid of this?" "You could attempt to appease the spirit." "The simplest way would be a blood offering." "A small creature could be sacrificed, a chicken perhaps." "No way!" "Look, I'm a vegetarian." "I volunteer at the puppy shelter, for Christ's sake." "I don't go around killing animals." "You will be surprised what you'll be willing to do when the Lamia comes for you." "This will show you how." "(CAT MEOWS)" "Hi!" "(CREAKING)" "(BANGING)" "(SCREECHING)" "(DOOR OPENS)" "(DOOR SLAMS)" "(GROWLING)" "(PHONE RINGS)" "(STOMPING)" "(STOMPING CONTINUES)" "(GROWLING)" "(BEEPING)" "(ROARING)" "(SCREAMING)" "Here, kitty, kitty." "(PANTING)" "(CAT MEOWS)" "(SCREAMING)" "CLAY:" "Chris!" "Chris?" "Chris?" "Hey, there you are." "What are you doing out here?" "Baby, I called the bank." "They said you left early." "You're not answering my calls." "Is that blood?" "No." "Why would there be blood?" "Yeah, baby, there's..." "There's blood on your sleeve." "Are you bleeding?" "No." "It was just tomato juice." "I was cutting a tomato in the kitchen and it must have gotten on my sleeve." "Hey, Chris, why don't we do this dinner another time?" "You've had a rough couple of days." "I think it's better." "No, I want to go to the dinner." "I know, but are you sure you're feeling all right?" "Honestly, I haven't been." "But I think..." "I think that everything is gonna be okay now." "I really do." "What do you think?" "You look beautiful." "CHRISTINE:" "God, it's such a nice day!" "CLAY:" "It really is." "My God." "It's gonna be nice inside, too." "(DOORBELL RINGS)" "They're gonna love you." "Clayton." "Hello, Mother." "Good to see you." "This is Christine." "That's my mom, Trudy." "Hello, Christine." "Hello." "It's very nice to meet you." "Well." "Please, come in." "Come in." "Yes." "Hey, Dad, how are you?" "Hey, son." "Good to see you, sir." "This is Christine." "Christine, this is my dad, Leonard." "Nice to meet you." "Hi, Maria." "Thank you." "You have a beautiful home." "Well, thank you very much." "Can I get you a drink?" "Yeah, wine?" "Do you guys want?" "Sure." "Okay." "Come help me." "I'll be right back." "I'll take a Chardonnay!" "LEONARD:" "Yes, dear." "I hope you don't mind." "How thoughtful." "Homemade?" "Yes." "And what type of cake would you call that?" "It's called a harvest cake." "Is that something you would make on a farm?" "No." "I mean, not any more." "We used to when we had a gaggle of geese." "Geese?" "Well, right around the harvest time, that's when your goose eggs will make a real dense yolk." "It makes for a rich cake." "Well, just thank you." "Here we are." "Sorry to interrupt the bonding sesh." "Why don't you join us in the dining room?" "Good." "Yeah, let's go." "It's right in here." "Okay." "(HISSING)" "Jeez." "Hecuba." "I never did understand that damned animal." "I hate cats." "That is so strange." "Hecuba is usually very sweet." "That's okay." "I had a cat." "I understand." "You mean..." "You mean you have a cat." "What do you mean?" "Did something happen?" "Unless something happened to him." "Well, how am I supposed to know?" "I mean, you know how cats are." "They come and they go." "(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)" "That's true." "Well, should..." "Well..." "Yes." "Yes, please." "So, how's the coin collection, son?" "That's my dad's way of saying, "So, you're still a huge nerd?"" "It's good." "It's good." "In fact, Christine just got me a 1929 Standing Liberty quarter at her bank." "Really?" "Isn't that crazy?" "Yeah, it's rare." "I just think the job of a bank teller must be so difficult, with all that counting and repetition." "It must get very tedious." "Yes, you're right," "but I'm not a teller." "Oh?" "CLAY:" "Yeah, Mom, I told you." "Christine's a loan officer." "She handles all the loans for small businesses and homes for her bank." "And she's up for this big promotion, so..." "Right, Chris?" "If I could close this one account that I'm working on, it would really help." "That must be a very important loan." "It's the biggest that my branch has ever handled." "And how did that come to you?" "Well, I was reading the Wall Street Journal and came across this medical supply company that was looking to expand but didn't have the liquidity." "So I met with their CFO and presented a formula for restructuring some of their long-term debt." "Sounds like you've got a lot going for you, Christine." "Well, your mother must be very proud of you." "I suppose." "I don't see much of my mother." "Why is that?" "Wow, Mom, that's..." "It's kind of personal." "TRUDY:" "I'm speaking to Christine." "Well, ever since my dad died, she doesn't talk much." "She just stays on the farm and keeps to herself because..." "Because?" "Because her husband died, Mom, and she just wants to be by herself." "Why don't..." "Because my mother's an alcoholic." "Oh." "(STAMMERING) I'm sorry." "It's certainly nothing to be ashamed of." "I have to say, I find your honesty very refreshing." "My father had a drinking problem, and I was always too ashamed to admit it." "You've got backbone." "Unlike that last girl he brought by." "What was her name?" "Alice." "CLAY:" "We don't have to..." "Alicia!" "Alicia." "She was dreadful, Christine." "She was ill-mannered, no ambition at all." "CLAY:" "That's not really..." "They met on the Internet." "There you go." "CLAY:" "What is that," ""They met on the Internet"?" "CHRISTINE:" "Really?" "What does that mean?" "Am I being too hard on him?" "No, not at all." "There you go." "Thank you very much." "CLAY:" "Thanks a lot..." "You know, I think I will try some of that cake of yours." "CLAY: ...for tossing me under the bus." "LEONARD:" "Look at that." "It looks great." "(CREAKING)" "You're gonna like it." "TRUDY:" "It looks so interesting." "You only dislike it if you hate delicious things." "LEONARD:" "Well, that counts us out." "TRUDY:" "Not my problem." "TRUDY:" "Lovely." "LEONARD:" "Thank you, Christine." "This is wonderful." "CLAY:" "It also changed the subject nicely." "Thank you." "That looks good!" "LEONARD:" "Harvest cake, huh?" "CLAY:" "That's right." "LEONARD:" "We'll have to get this recipe." "TRUDY:" "It sounds so quaint, doesn't it?" "Did you hear something?" "No." "You okay?" "TRUDY:" "Tasty!" "I like it a lot." "I do like it." "CLAY:" "You know, Mom, when you say we met on the Internet, it's a little misleading." "(GASPS)" "TRUDY:" "Yes, well you need to do that to find a good mate." "CLAY:" "She has a Facebook..." "TRUDY:" "You can't even trust the things you hear or that people write about themselves." "Very nice." "Even the pictures are false half the time." "Isn't that true?" "CLAY:" "It's true." "It doesn't really count." "TRUDY:" "I don't think it's a misconception to think that people of good breeding and success should be able to meet potential life partners in a realistic situation." "CLAY:" "Well, you also have a thing about bars." "(LOUD CREAKING)" "Would you, Christine?" "No." "No, of course not." "CLAY:" "What?" "What..." "But we did." "We met at a bar, Chris." "What are you talking about?" "Oh, my God, that's right!" "CLAY:" "She..." "You two better get your stories straight." "CLAY:" "It's not a Klan rally, Mom." "It's a bar." "Yeah, we met..." "We met at a bar, and we set up the date on the Internet." "You okay?" "You okay?" "Some water?" "Baby, have some..." "Went down the wrong pipe." "Oh, my God!" "I'm sorry, I don't..." "There must be a window open." "(LOUD SCREECHING)" "Chris?" "(SHRIEKS)" "Okay, I hear you!" "LEONARD:" "What in the hell?" "Leave me alone." "Just leave me the hell alone!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Chris!" "Stop it!" "Baby!" "There's no one there." "CLAY:" "Okay." "I think I'd better go." "Yes, I think that would be best." "I know." "Wait, Chris..." "Don't follow her!" "She's a sick girl." "Mom, she needs my help." "Let her go." "RHAM JAS:" "Wait!" "What's the matter?" "Look, I did what you said!" "I killed that little kitty!" "You're so full of shit!" "These are elusive and powerful forces we are dealing with." "There are no guarantees." "We must speak directly to this dark spirit." "We must dissuade it from taking your soul, and soon." "I know someone who can help us." "And I'm supposed to trust you?" "Tomorrow is the third day." "After that, the Lamia will come for you." "We can't let that happen." "But you must understand, the woman who can help us must put herself at great risk." "She will not do that for free." "What do you need from me?" "$10,000 cash by tomorrow." "Mr Jacks." "Yeah?" "This is kind of awkward for me, and I know it's not official yet, but I was wondering if I could get an advance for the new position." "What, the assistant manager's position?" "Yes." "See, one of my family members is really sick." "They're not gonna die, but they could." "Christine." "Christine." "There's a problem." "The McPherson deal was cancelled last night." "What?" "Yeah." "Right after I informed the regional office that we had this big loan pending," "I find out that they just made their deal over at First National." "Now, I gotta call in to see what exactly happened, but right now, this does not look too good for you or for me." "So, this assistant manager promotion has been delayed." "In fact, you know, I think, with everything that's been happening," "I think I'm gonna have to give this job to Stu." "Stu." "I see." "I'm sorry." "Look, if you've got family problems, maybe you should take the day off, sort them out and..." "(SCREAMING)" "(SCREAMING)" "So, how much?" "$3,800 for everything." "Including my jewellery?" "Including." "But this stuff is worth so much more than that." "Please." "This is all I have." "I'm begging you." "Take it or leave it." "(CHRISTINE SOBBING)" "CLAY:" "Chris?" "Chris?" "Baby?" "I thought you were lactose intolerant." "I am." "But then I thought, "Screw it, I'm eating ice cream."" "I paid Rham Jas." "What?" "You're kidding me." "I paid him." "Why?" "I mean, I thought that you didn't believe." "I don't know what I believe in any more." "I really don't, but I know that you believe in this." "I know how important it is to you, and I know how much pain this is causing you." "And, I also remembered..." "I remembered a promise that I made the night I fell in love with you." "I told myself that I would..." "I would always look out for you." "I'd always take care of you." "So I paid him." "You remember the night that you fell in love with me?" "I remember the second I fell in love with you." "Oh, my God." "You sure you don't want me to go in with you?" "He said I should come alone." "Yeah, I know, I know he did." "He told me the same thing." "Christine, if you will permit me the pleasure of an introduction, Shaun San Dena." "Welcome." "How do you do?" "Shaun San Dena is an experienced medium." "Furthermore, she's personally been touched by the Lamia." "I first encountered this spirit many years ago in this very house." "And what happened?" "I lost a young boy's soul to the beast." "I have waited these long years for a chance at redeeming myself, a chance to destroy the foul thing." "And..." "MILOS:" "Tetièko, please." "Tonight, my chance will come." "But to summon it, I will need your help." "Can you be strong?" "I'll try." "My late husband, Sandor, was also medium." "He chose this site to build a house upon because he sensed certain forces at work here." "In this place, there is a particular... (SPEAKING SPANISH)" "A particular confluence of forces which allows a doorway to be opened through which we may pass... (SPEAKING SPANISH)" "...and through which others may pass into our world." "Please be seated." "(GOAT BLEATING)" "What's going on?" "Everything we're doing is for your own good." "Please." "Christine, please." "Thank you." "(PRAYING IN SPANISH)" "Once the spirit has entered me, put my hand upon the animal." "Do you understand?" "Yes." "I force the spirit of the Lamia into the goat." "Milos, that's when you strike." "(BOTH SPEAKING SPANISH)" "MILOS:" "I understand." "We all must be receptive." "(HUMMING)" "What am I supposed to do?" "You must allow the darkness in." "You must invite the dead to co-mingle with your spirit." "I'm scared." "Yes." "Now repeat these words, "I welcome the dead into my soul."" "I welcome the dead into my soul." "You must believe it!" "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "...into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead... (SHOUTING IN SPANISH)" "I welcome the dead into my soul." "I welcome the dead into..." "Something else is here with us." "Yes." "(TINKLING)" "(LAUGHING)" "This is not the Lamia." "It is the spirit of some unsettled soul from years ago." "Sometimes the unsettled ones linger by the door." "SHAUN SAN DENA:" "There are others here, as well." "Begone, foolish spirits!" "Begone!" "She is coming." "(DOOR RATTLING)" "(RATTLING)" "(LOUD SCREECHING)" "(SILENCE)" "(SCREECHING)" "(GROANING)" "(GROWLING)" "Who now inhabits the body of Shaun San Dena?" "Lamia!" "Lamia, what is it you desire?" "I desire the soul of Christine Brown!" "We will feast upon it as she festers in the grave!" "No!" "It was my manager, Jim Jacks!" "He was the one!" "He was..." "Silence!" "Lamia, surely you can be dissuaded from taking this insignificant woman." "Surely she is not worthy of your greatness." "(LAUGHING)" "No!" "I come for you, Christine." "You're mine!" "(SCREECHING)" "No!" "You tricked me!" "You black-hearted whore!" "Now, Milos, now!" "You bitch." "(SCREAMING)" "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Away, unclean spirit." "(LAUGHING)" "Lamia!" "As one who summoned you to this circle, I command you to leave this instant." "(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)" "Christine!" "I don't want your cat, you dirty pork queen!" "Shaun San Dena!" "You must banish the spirit!" "Yes!" "(SHAUN SAN DENA CHANTING)" "Milos!" "Oh, my God." "I'm okay." "Thank God!" "I'm okay." "Unbelievable!" "You did it!" "Thank God." "I tried." "Are you okay?" "Oh, my God." "Help me!" "Call an ambulance." "Is she breathing?" "No." "Oh, my gosh." "It's so sad." "Yes." "Strange how things work out." "She waited 40 years for another chance to overcome the Lamia, and finally, on the last night of her life, she did." "No, I'm afraid you misunderstand." "The Lamia cannot be banished by a medium." "This is our lesson tonight." "I'm sorry." "But I saw her get rid of the thing." "No." "You saw her drive it from a séance." "That is all." "It will be back." "The goat was never slaughtered." "When this night is through, the Lamia will come for the owner of the accursed object." "Unless, of course, you are no longer the owner." "Do you have the button?" "Make a gift of it and you've given the curse away." "Why didn't you tell me this before?" "Because the Lamia will tear the soul out of whoever you give that to." "They'll burn in hell for eternity." "And I would have sent them there." "And I would be your accomplice." "Whatever you decide, you have till morning." "Is it over?" "It's over." "Clay!" "You will burn in hell!" "You will burn in hell!" "You bitch, you'll burn in hell!" "Your turn's coming!" "You will burn in hell!" "You okay?" "Holy shit." "(EXHALES)" "Okay, you sure you're still okay about the Santa Barbara trip?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Yeah?" "And what time should I get you?" "It's better if I meet you at the station." "There's something I've gotta do on the way." "I can do it." "You want me to do it on my way to..." "No!" "No." "I've got it under control." "We'll meet at, like, 7:30 at the..." "Wait!" "Where's my envelope?" "What envelope?" "It was in my purse." "I just had it!" "It's just an envelope." "No, it's gotta be here!" "It's here, so we'll find it eventually." "Oh, my God." "Okay." "I thought I'd lost it." "Okay." "Bye. 7:30." "Don't be late." "BOY:" "Dad, can we go to the Angel game?" "What about the Dodgers?" "We're only gonna be in town for a few days." "I'm sure if I just tell him how much I care about you," "I mean, he's gotta understand." "WAITRESS:" "Are you sure you don't want anything else?" "No." "WAITRESS:" "So you're just gonna sit here drinking coffee all night long." "Yes." "Maybe!" "What's it to you?" "Honey, I make my money on tips." "Coffee drinkers don't tip." "Honey, just keep the coffee coming or I'll give you a tip you won't forget." "Oh, my gosh." "What a delightful surprise." "You're the sweetest person in the world." "Never mind what it's about, Stu." "Just get here in 10 minutes or I'm gonna tell Mr Jacks something you don't want me to tell him." "STU:" "Oh, yeah?" "Like what?" "Well, for starters, that you stole the McPherson loan file off my desk and gave it to First National." "Now you got nine minutes!" "Give me another." "Seriously?" "Oh, God, Christine, please don't tell on me." "I mean, if my dad ever finds out..." "Just tell me what you want." "I need to give something to you." "A little gift." "A gift?" "But I don't understand." "I thought you called me down here because I gave that loan to First National..." "Look, you don't need to understand." "Just shut up!" "Now, this gift that I'm giving you, it'll become your property." "You'll be the owner, all right?" "Okay." "(SNIFFS)" "Okay." "What?" "Forget it." "But I thought you wanted to give it to me 'cause of the loan stuff." "Just leave." "Okay." "Thank you so much, Christine." "But you're not gonna tell my dad, right?" "Go!" "Okay." "Who does deserve this?" "Well?" "Is it possible?" "There are gypsy blessings bestowed upon the dead." "They give gifts to their departed to curry favour with the deceased's soul, for, truly, the soul never dies." "Yes." "I do believe you can give the curse to someone who has passed on, but you must make a formal gift of the accursed object to the deceased." "I'll do better than that." "I'll shove it down her goddamn throat!" "I'm gonna get some..." "(GRUNTS)" "(SCREAMS)" "(GRUNTS)" "I'm giving it back to you!" "You're gonna take this thing." "Are you gonna take this thing?" "Take it!" "That's the last of my hair you're getting!" "I, Christine Brown, do hereby make a formal gift of this button to you, Sylvia Ganush!" "Choke on it, bitch!" "Goodbye." "(SHRIEKS)" "(GASPING)" "(PHONE RINGING)" "CHRISTINE ON MACHINE:" "Hi, It's Christine." "Leave a message and I'll call you back." "MR JACKS:" "Christine, it's Jim Jim Jacks." "I'm sorry I'm calling so early, but last night, I found some troubling information about our friend Stu Rubin." "Apparently, he stole your file on the McPherson loan and then tried to broker his own deal at First National." "I guess he thought we wouldn't find out." "And we wouldn't have either, except that an hour ago, he came by my house and tried to pin the whole thing on you." "After I confronted him about a few inconsistencies in his story, he broke down crying and, well, we won't be seeing him around any more." "So I just wanted you to know that, come Monday morning, that assistant manager's position will be waiting for you." "WOMAN ON PA:" "Passenger Benson, please meet your party at the concourse ticket counter." "MAN ON PA:" "Welcome to Union Station." "Cookie, miss?" "No, thanks." "We appreciate you choosing train travel as your mode of transportation, and we wish you a pleasant journey." "Hi." "Good morning." "I'm sorry, we're not open." "I just..." "I just want this coat." "We're not open yet." "My boyfriend and I are taking this really special trip this morning." "Please?" "WOMAN ON PA:" "Northbound Surfliner, service to Van Nuys," "Simi Valley, Oxnard, Santa Barbara," "San Luis Obispo..." "Clay?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Oh, man!" "Hi." "God, I'm so glad you're here." "So many things I wanna tell you." "Wait, there's something I wanna say" "while I have it straight in my head." "Okay." "Go ahead." "You never stopped believing in me." "Thank you for that." "And there's something else, something that I couldn't admit to before." "I could have given Mrs Ganush another extension on her loan, but I didn't." "It was my decision, and it was wrong of me." "You have such a good heart." "You're so beautiful right now." "Do you like my new coat?" "I do." "I really do." "What happened to the old one, though?" "I threw it out." "And I never want to see it again." "Oh, no." "That's too bad, because I..." "Look what I found." "I found this in the car." "I thought..." "And I thought maybe you could..." "I thought maybe you could sew it back on." "And I think you might have my Standing Liberty quarter, 'cause the envelopes kind of look the same." "Chris, what's wrong?" "Oh, my God!" "Hey!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "Oh, God." "Hey, hey." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Stop!" "Chris!" "Oh, God!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, hey, no!" "Hey!" "Oh, God, no!" "(GASPS)" "Hey, no!" "(SCREAMING)" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "Help me, please!"

"Full English subtitle set merged from Norsk-only and English-only subtitles by Tronar" "Despite correcting a lot of problems, the result is still sub-standard." "Plenty of room for further improvement." "What the fuck?" "Now you've wrecked the whole flower arrangement!" "Flower arrangement?" "Christ!" "I thought it was litter." "Don't you see what's going on here?" " Are you gonna propose?" " Yes and your mother's coming any minute!" "Shit." "Just relax!" "I'll just lay them out like they were." "Good as new, sort of." " Where's the fuckin' ring now?" " Don't panic." "Where did you see it last?" "I don't know where I saw it last." "Oh my." "Hi Mom!" "Stanley?" "Oh God, what..." "No, but what..." "What's this?" "Oh God..." "Hell, Stanley!" "Come on." "Going somewhere, Tommy-boy?" "Come on." "Ok, let's just eh... stop fooling around ok?" "As you know your new friends, they stole something that belonged to me." "And they forgot to leave their new address" "Johnny, you shouldn't mess with these guys." "Let's just say that they don't work for the Parks Department." "Last chance: new address?" "I'm just the middleman." " Really?" " Yes." "Ok, cocksucker." "Always the hard way with this guy." " Go!" " Too chicken to jump from the ten or what?" "Go on!" " There's no water in the pool." " Go, then!" "Relax now." "Take it easy." "I'll..." "I'll talk now!" "I don't know why you have to make things so damn difficult all the time." "I feel a little dizzy." "Torgeir!" "Get away from the edge!" "Quit fucking around!" "Holy fuck!" "Holy fuck!" "Is he dead?" "Fucking jerk, I dunno." "How many points do I get for style?" "Oh, thank god!" "Alright, so like you were saying...?" "They are hiding at Ramton Camping." "My stuff?" "Teddy has built an outhouse." "All his stuff is in there." "And your stuff, too." "Good." "Now Tommy." "This is our second encounter." "You know the American expression "three strikes in a row"." "Understood?" "Understood." " You dragged us out of bed for this?" " Yes, and memorize it.." "We're only going to visit some guys from Lillehammer." "This isn't a major heist." "Either we do this right or we don't do it at all." "Tagliano..." "Henriksen is no hick." "What do we really have on this Henriksen guy?" "The information that I have, I'd rather keep to myself." "It sounded like it was American-Italian, the name you mentioned." "Was it Tagliano?" "Do you think Henriksen pay if we gossip like a bunch of bitches?" "Leave it until we get the money." "Got it?" "Mmm." "I got it." "Well, I hear congratulations is in order." "Torgeir told me the big news." "Thank you." "We are so happy." "Well, is there is anything I can do let me know." "Special occasion like this requires a special celebration, right?" "Actually, there is one thing." "You have been fantastic with me and Wenche and the boys." "So I wondered if you could do me the honor of being my best man." "Me?" "I'd be honored." "No thanks." "I'm sure he'll be here soon." "Oh, not now!" "You got a crush on me or what?" "You wish." "Get out of the car please." "You have a defective taillight." "This is Bullshit." "We had the car serviced last week." "See there?" "You want to share whatever you have been smoking?" "Take a close look." "Ah... hold this." "Oh that's cute." "Now you sound a little threatening." "Hands on the car where I can see 'em." "Like this." "Come on, spread your legs!" "So." "Now, quietly tell me what you've been up to in Oslo." "What's in it for me if I tell you?" "Listen..." "I'm gonna keep bothering you until you talk." "Ok?" "Pardon me?" "Guys pay big bucks for this kind of action." "So... here..." "So fix your taillight and we'll talk again." "We're open all night, baby." "Sorry I'm late." " Nice to see you again." " Same here." " This is Tiril, our new special ed teacher." " Special ed?" "Bjørn, he is a very sweet ..." "very cute little boy." "But he's struggling a bit with psychomotor skills." "So we'd like to try BUP." "We want to evaluate whether he should enter a program for children with special needs." "Well, that ain't going to happen." "It is natural for parents to be upset." "Listen eh, Charlie is it?" "Tiril." "Yeah, whatever." "We had that special needs bullshit where I grew up, too." "They had their own school bus." "Mothers used to use it as a threat." "Do good at school or we'll put you on the retard bus." "Mr. Henrikson... eh..." "It was very scary." "Even as a kid we knew that that bus was going nowhere." "Not my kid, baby." "Our kids are going places." "So fuck your special needs!" "Ok." "I do not know what kind of educational methods were used where you grew up, but here in Norway we take children with special needs very seriously." "And we never use such words as what you said." "We'll send a notice in the mail." " Oh god..." " Fuck that." "They're the ones with the special needs." "Come on, let's get the fuck outta here!" " They are new kids." " Ah." " Arne's nephew." " Cult!" "Talk to me." "I can't hear a fucking word, hold on." "Hello!" " Hey!" " Hey!" "Hello!" "Cool that Johnny will be your best man at the wedding." "Yes, it's really cool." "I'd like to help too." "Maybe I could be toastmaster?" "No." "I have a toastmaster." " Have you hired a pro?" " No." " Roar." " Roar?" "Yes!" "Torgeir!" "Torgeir!" "Come on, the cabin" "Teddy?" "There's only a hole in the ground where the shitter used to be." "Come again?" "Somebody swiped the shitter." "Look." "It's not there." "Boss, we got company." "It's alright." "You're a little early." "Aren't we supposed to be meeting tomorrow, on the island?" "I got no patience." "You know, I respect the balls of this robbery." "Just getting back what's mine." "Don't forget I read a few interesting things about you in the file." "Listen you stupid fuck." "You forgot to burn the masks." "One word about the file, the cops got your DNA." "Don't push your luck." "Come on." "Put the shitter back." "What are you doing?" "We are moving." " Don't you get it?" " What?" "The shelter is closed." "I thought Johnny sent a message to let you know to leave us alone." "All of us at UDI read the message from Randi, so that ship has sailed." "Randi has serious drug problems, I have full control here." "Randi told us about the peephole you made in the girls' shower." " Peephole?" " Peephole, yes." "Peephole?" "!" "I drilled a vent in the wall so that fungus couldn't grow." "Stay here!" "We can have pizza and movie night." "Fuck UDI, stay here with me." " We'll be better off in Oslo." " Better in Oslo?" "Yes." "Fucking ungrateful darkies!" "Go back to whatever piece of shit country you came from!" "Go to hell!" "Hassan!" "I'm sorry, I did not mean it, Hassan!" "Hassan!" " Stanley Olsson?" " Yes." "Why?" "Laila Lyse from Customs." "This is my colleague, Officer Mork." " You have to come downtown with us." " For what?" "Illegal smuggling of alcohol into Norway." "Wait." "Just a minute." "I want a lawyer, now." "Jesus!" "I don't have time for this!" "Shit... they got you guys too?" "Yes, it's not looking good." "Bachelor Party!" "Stop it!" "Come on, girls!" "Yeehaw!" "Come on!" " Don't you want a drink or something?" " What's to celebrate?" "What's with you?" "Come on!" "Let's party!" "He's pretty out there." "Don't think my mom would be thrilled." "Come on, it's okay to read the menu as long as you eat dinner at home." "It appears that he is chewing the whole buffet here." "Come on." "You got to have fun at your own bachelor party." "Ok, maybe not that much fun." "Hey man!" "Let the lady have a good time." "Try and keep it together understand what I'm saying?" "It's just I was part of a cult for 10 years and it's good to have some fun again." "Just take it easy alright?" "I have to say I was a bit surprised when you called." "What you take me for?" "One of those cunts who don't call after a first date?" "Thought I could help you out a little bit." "Will it get you get you off my back?" "It is not unthinkable." "Good." "Take a look at this." "A friend of mine, let's call him a concerned citizen dropped these off the other day." "Check it out." "The Bieber heist." "Impressed?" "Surprised." "Yeah, well." "I heard that most people were upset that their safety deposit boxes got emptied." "Here it all is." "Do you have any idea who is behind this?" "No." "But let's not get greedy." "You return this." "You're the hero of the day." "You are full of surprises you." "However, you must still pay the fine for the taillight." "So..." "Anything wrong?" "No." "Why would you ask me that?" "Well..." "Just that eh..." "Your usually not this mellow around half naked women" "I'm a little overworked, I guess." "A lot of fuss with the asylum seekers." "But you're on top of it right?" "You know me, always on top!" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah, good." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come back!" "Oh, what now?" "What's going on?" "Tell you what right." "Take the rest of the night off." "And take a taxi home alright?" "Keep this unfortunate incident to ourselves right." "Ok." "Come here, girls!" "I think it's time to escort your new father figure out." "Get your hands off me you fucking sons of a whore!" "I don't want to go home." "Calm down will ya?" "Scumbag!" "Fucker!" "He spit at me!" " What a surprise." " Hi!" "What's the occasion?" "I've been thinking so much about Bjørn's test." "You know how much I want to hear about that." "We don't have any choice he has the appointment." "You know it's that charlie girl don't you." "It's her job to find these kids" "I've been thinking..." "Maybe he's a little under stimulated, because he doesn't have a role model." "So..." "So what?" "Well, so I was thinking maybe you could spend some days with him before the test?" "You know I wouldn't mind but eh..." "Wanna be with dad for a while?" "Okay." "Good luck, then." " Bye-Bye." " Bye-bye." "Now we'll go home." "Bye now" "Barney, get over here!" "We'll make sure people do not steal?" "Get up!" "What the fuck are you doing?" "We must help the neighbor, his farm was attacked last night." "Get up." "Now!" "My poor little girl." "What happened?" "It's worse than we thought." "Were any animals killed?" "No, not just killed, but..." "One of the sheep has been the victim of an assault... of a sexual nature." "He did." "He broke his nose, I think." "Look it's red!" "What are you doing?" "You're supposed to be stimulating him up here." "There are lots of stimuli here." "Lots of color and light." "Barney, you don't understand." "This kid's taking a major aptitude test in two days." "You're going to go out and eh... get him something that stimulates his brain" "one of them toys with the square things in the square holes and the circles in the circles and the things in the things." " Barney!" " Yeah, yeah I'm going." "Hello boss, we need to discuss a delicate matter with you." "It's Stanley." "What's he done now?" "The thing with Stanley... he has..." "What?" "He's crossed a line..." "What?" "What?" "What?" "There was some vandalism at the neighbor's farm... and Stanley..." "Come on, it can't be worse than yesterday." "The district veterinarian has concluded that Stanley..." " He raped a sheep." " Raped a sheep" "we found this as well in the barn." "The vet examined the sheep's arse and they found some semen in the sheep's arse." " Human semen." " Ok." "Ok, ok!" "It's worse than yesterday." "We know that Stanley is good for the business and like that, but just the thought of him and the sheep and my mom and..." "Jesus Christ!" "Listen to me disappear this lowlife." "You got it boss." "We didn't have these problems in Brooklyn." "Hello!" "What are you doing?" " No, I can't take any more partying." " Shut up!" "What is it now?" "What's this?" "Hello!" "Stop it, now!" "Wait!" "Calm down, guys." "You have to think of that I am no longer young." "Who are you, then?" "Don't tell me you're my stripper today." "I own the farm next door." "Apparently you went there last night." "I got the sheep for my 50th birthday!" "This is absolutely crazy, I went straight home and went to bed." "Did you forget this?" "Look." "I was wasted." "It is not always so easy to be me." "I just lost my God!" "No." "No." "No." "Get off me!" "No, but get..." "How do you spell bye in Swedish, with an "I" or a "Y"?" " I." " Again." "I." "You just sent a farewell message to Mom." "Why?" "You just canceled the wedding." "Careful." "What the fuck?" "Didn't expect to see you here." "I've brought you a little peace offering." "I've seen better gifts." "Well, this is the guy who inherited the booze business." "Looks like maybe the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence." "Are you a smartarse philosopher, or are you going to listen?" "Ok" "I'm listening." "You're going to get your business back." "There's been a little contradiction." "Drop this scumbag in Sweden." "And make sure he never comes back to Norway again" "I'll make sure he understands." "Good." "In that case." "Your back." "Wait!" "Sweden?" "Fuck that sounds nice." "There's not much bacon left in my freezer." "The stars will fall from heaven and the powers will shake." "And then I shall be seen in the sky." "Fuck." "He will return to Jesus, he said." "He will not be here with me anymore." "I just don't get it." "Well, Stanley is a complicated guy." "Just try and get over him." "Yes, but what is it with me and men?" "I'm like flypaper to these psychopaths." "How's it going boys?" "We're making progress." "Attaboy, keep it up." "Cut it out Bjørn." "I told you earlier." "Put it in here like that, see.." "In Bjørn, in!" "It's not working." "It's fucked up!" "No wonder you're having a hard time, the thing's all messed up." "If it doesn't work, we'll do it like this." "Alright, I'll take it from here." "Well." "Did he show you how to work this thing or what?" "You know, triangles go in here, square goes in the square, right." "This goes over here" "I know you're stressed boss but I went to one of those schools, and look how I turned out." "You here that?" "Uncle Barney had special education." "Come on!" "Use your elbow!" "Yes!" "Pass this test, do you hear me?" "We're running out of time." "I gotta think of something." "I'm so so nervous." "That's ok." "You got him here on time?" "Yeah, everything's good." "And Bjørn is inside?" "Yeah." "Don't worry about a thing." "He'll be fine." "I'm so nervous." "So?" "The good news is that the test went really well." " Far above average." " Thank God." "The bad news is that..." "You brought the wrong twin." "It's the wrong twin." "It's the wrong twin?" "What do you mean?" "It was when we had to change a diaper, that we saw there was no doubt." "Oh, dear Bjørg." "I must have eh... accidentally switched the clothes." "Accidentally?" "I'm so sorry." "We are really sorry." "But this is eh... serious." "Bjørn must show signs of social interaction or he will be transferred." "Yeah well..." "We appreciate your concern, and eh..." "Tidi." "Yeah, whatever" "I hope you didn't do this on purpose!" "Shit happens" "Jesus Christ." "Now don't look at me like that." "What was I supposed to do?" "You don't exactly make it easy you know." "I know I shouldn't leave you with my stupid fucking employees every day, but I got no choice." "Fucking Roar, fucking Torgeir, I got to spend my fucking time clearing up their fucking mess." "Cabish?" "What?" "Did you say something." "Will you do that again?" "He did it!" "You spoke!" "I knew it!" "I knew you were normal!" "God damn!" "Two syllables." "You're a fucking genius, that's what you are!" "I knew it" "Drinks on the house." "My kid has said his first words!" "What did he say?" "He used a four letter word, of course." "Did he say Daddy?" "Yeah, he said Daddy, let's have a drink." "Set em up baby" "I knew he had it in him." "Let's drink huh!" "To eh... to Daddy!" "My God, you scared me!" "Where have you been?" "I've looked for you all week." "I've been somewhere that people like me can get help." "Oh." "Remember this?" " We had a lot of fun with it." " I don't feel like reminiscing." "You and I, we are the king and queen of the entire immigration circus." " Call UDI, and say that it was a misunderstanding." " No." "You were just overworked." "Randi." " No chance." " Come on." "I have gotten help for my problems, and I think that you should get some too." " Call UDI!" " Get off me!" " I said call!" " No." "Let me go!" "Call..." "Randi?" "A wise old Owl, lived in an Oak and the more he saw, the less he spoke the less he spoke the more he heard" "not for nothing said the Owl" "I'm not a rat" "I'm a bird." "What is so fucking important?" "We have some problems at the shelter." "What?" "Are you afraid of delegating responsibility?" "Yes." "But I think..." "That's what I do with you." "I delegate responsibility to you." "Yes, we delegated a lot at city hall." "Now I'm trying to put my kid to sleep." "Oh, I see." "Then I won't bother you Johnny." "I'm sorry, I'll fix things myself." "Thank you." "Yes." "Goodbye." "Cheers." "The latest on the Bieber robbery, the stolen goods have been recovered." "Thomas Hatlestad, NCIS boss, what can you say about developments in the case?" "We are very pleased." "Bank customers have gotten justice, so we are very happy." "There is strong criticism of NCIS, which were getting nowhere in their investigation, and then a sheriff from Lillehammer made a breakthrough." "She recovered the stolen property." "What can you say about the criticism?" "Criticism we are used to, so I have no comment." "Mette Hansen, you have been highly praised for finding the valuables." "Tell us what happened." "I'm just happy to be able to help." "I'm just doing my job." "And if Thomas needs any help, he has my number." "So Hatlestad, will you consider using this number more often in the future?" "Here's looking at you kid." "It was just a little accident, Randi." "An accident." "It turns out that our little friend is a mafia snitch." "This means that someone over there would pay a lot of money for his address." "Shall we go to New York and search the phone book for Don fucking Corleone?" "Exactly."

"I was wrong." "I don't think patty had pete killed." "Why not?" "She seems genuinely thrown by his death." "She believes that he arranged it himself to protect her." "Well, if it wasn't patty, then who did it?" "I don't know, but she blames you guys." "This is like a call to war for her." "Meaning what?" "Meaning you're not just targeting her now." "She's targeting you." "The firm is being investigated by the fbi?" "I'm afraid so." "How do you know?" "They came to me." "They asked me to inform on patty." "I turned 'em down." "Then they went to pete." "Is that why he..." "He didn't want to give up anything that could hurt us." "Jesus." "So now we have to circle the wagons." "Has anyone approached you?" "Of course not." "No unusual overtures?" "I would have told you." "When were you going to tell me?" "I'm telling you now." "******" "I'm sorry, mr." "Shayes." "I have to see patty." "You're not allowed in here." "Well, it's, it's urgent." "I have strict orders from ms." "Hewes." "Believe me, she's going to want to hear what i have to say." "Sir, you're not allowed in the building anymore." "Let's do this the easy way." "Well, uh, tell patty that I tried to warn her." "And let her know that I'm filing a suit against her for, for wrongful termination!" "Hope you know what you're doing." "I do." "Ellen, don'T." "It's not who you are." "Energy secretary has a heart attack at his own wedding." "Pathetic." "It was going to be his third marriage." "He knew what he was doing." "Where are they on replacing him at the department of energy?" "I'm on the president's search committee." "We're just beginning to look." "In this climate, we're likely to get some regulation crusader who thinks he's another goddamn eliot ness." "Use your pull." "Install an ally." "I plan to." "In the meantime, I want to step up the frequency of our transactions." "There's only so many times we're going to be able to pull this off before someone notices." "You're not getting cold feet, are you, walt?" "No, dave." "Good." "Then get the information to my trader." "We're being investigated by the fbi, and you didn't tell me?" " Tom..." " You had no right to withhold that." "This isn't just about you, patty." "I'm a partner here." "I'm vulnerable, too." "Yes, you are, so just calm down, and we'll figure out what we're going to do about this." "Who can you talk to that has an in at the bureau?" "No one." "I can't risk exposing myself." "Then I'll make a call because we need information." "What's up?" "Last time I saw that face, you were 18 and thought you got your prom date pregnant." "it's about patty, isn't it?" "I think the firm's under investigation." "Under investigation by who?" " The fbi." " For what?" "I have no idea." "I told you you should have cut and run after the frobisher case." "Look, I-I know your feelings about patty and her legal ethics." "So let me guess." "You want me to use my contacts to get you information about the investigation." "I need to know what they have on patty." "I am an assistant U.S.Attorney." "What you're asking is totally inappropriate." "Please." "It's my, it's my career." "I can't believe you're putting me in this position." "Look, I don't know what to say." "You're my sister." "I need your help." "Fine." "I'll see what I can find out." "Mr. Garrety, thank you for coming." "You got a real nice club here." "Thank you, have a seat." "There's a new itinerary." "We going on another trip?" "Same car?" "You'll be contacted with new codes." "We're going to try another location." "They have something salty around here?" "Maybe some nuts?" "I'm sure we can accommodate you." "Better yet, maybe some of the chinese mix with the wasabi peas." "Certainly." "First, though, how are your meetings going?" "My meetings?" "Oh, you mean for the... going great." "I totally kicked the stuff." "And the girl?" "She's history, too." "These are smart moves, mr." "Garrety, because if you want me to ensure your continued fiscal success, you won't ever make another mess for me again." "If you know another trader who can do what I do, mr." "Pell, use him." "Otherwise, stay out of my face." "Forget about the nuts." "Better not miss." "She should be so lucky." "You miss this and i run the table." "We'll see about that." "You are a terrible pool player." "Maybe that's just what I want you to think." "the hustle began hours ago." "You just didn't notice it." "Is that so?" "First I invite myself to girls' night out." "I throw a game or two, and before you know it, the gouging starts and you lose your shirts." "I can't wait." "Or maybe I am just a terrible pool player." "Here." "I'm gonna get a club soda." "You want anything?" "No, I'm good." "Laying off the sauce." "Smart." "You want to stay sharp while i mount my comeback." "Yeah, good luck with that." "Sorry I'm a third wheel." "I hope you don't mind." "No." "No, it's fine." "How you doing?" "I'm fine." "Look, about this dinner party we're hosting..." "What about it?" "My instinct is to cancel, but it might be nice for you to have some friends around." "That's fine." "Do they know how uncle pete died?" "The hospital is still investigating." "But you think he killed himself." "Or had someone help him." "Pete was trying to protect me." "Look at me." " What?" " Drop the unr case." "I can't do that." "You've confirmed the fbi is targeting you." "Yes, and as far as I'm concerned, they killed uncle pete." "They're trying to intimidate me." "They want me to back down." "This is about power protecting itself." "I threaten them, and they hate me for it." "Who's they?" "The fbi, the government, walter kendrick and unr-- they're all the same." "You're being paranoid." "They're closing in on me, phil." "They approached ellen, they approached pete." "And look what happened." "Patty, stop." "Please stop." "No." "I'm not going to let them get away with it." " So, you, uh, wanted to see me?" " Yeah." "I'm concerned about what's going on between you and wes." "What's going on?" "I can see in group that the two of you are getting... close?" "I think maybe you should come to different sessions from now on." "I've also spoken to wes." "And what did he say?" "He agreed." "It's not healthy, ellen." "You think it's too soon after david?" "I think you and wes may be filling a need for each other that's based on grief." "What's wrong with that?" "It can be emotionally dangerous." "So can loneliness." "But jumping into a relationship just to fill the loneliness won't help." "You want my advice?" "Absolutely." "You know I value your opinion." "Energy is not my field." "I'm not sure I know anyone who's even qualified." "Since when has that been necessary for a government appointment?" "Right." "This is a cabinet position." "I don't need an expert." "I need someone who's going to support the industry." "Well, that's a tall order." "I mean, given the mood in washington, there's no way the senate's going to confirm anyone who's not pro-regulation." "True." "But if I know you, that's not what you want." "You're looking for someone who reads interventionist, but who has a free market heart." "See?" "That's why I came to you." "Have you thought about sam arsenault?" "Ah, word is, he's a bit unpredictable." "Started as an independent, then tried to get the republicans to back him for governor." "Trust me, sam arsenault's only real loyalty is to the capitalist party." "We're going to have a little dinner party on friday night." "If I can get arsenault to be there, do you want to meet him?" "You're tense." "Relax." "Relax." "Breathe." "That's it." "It's firm, not tight." "It feels like i won't be able to control it." "You try to control it too much, you get stiff and lose accuracy." "Keep breathing." " How's that?" " Feels good." "Let her rip." "I see it, but I don't believe it." " Believe it, cowboy." " Hang it in your office." "I think you'll find people will treat you a little nicer." "That is a very good idea." "Better to be feared than respected." "Thanks for helping me." "Ellen, I owe you an apology." "For what?" "A couple weeks ago, i shouldn't have asked you out." "Oh, don't worry about that." "No." "I pushed you." "It was wrong." "I'm a big girl." "I can handle it." "I think we both know that you and I shouldn't get involved." "The way we met, therapy." " You agree, right?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Good." "Me, too, because I was, um... this is awkward." "I was wondering if I could ask out your friend." " Katie?" " If it's okay." " Yeah." " Yeah, we had fun the other night, and..." "Yeah, of course." "I'll give you her number." "I haven't met with katie connor alone yet." "I got nothing to report." "I got something else for you." "What am I supposed to do with these?" "Deliver them to jersey." "The address is in the glove compartment." "No." "No, no." "Did you just say no?" "I agreed to do this thing with ellen parsons, but i am done with this other shit." "No." "you're done when I say you are." "Make sure the tank's full when you bring it back." " Thanks, baby." " Your dealer is a creep." "Yeah, but his shit's good." "You want?" "No." "I'm getting clean for my kid." "That's very sweet." "but what's going on with that lawyer who was asking about me?" "Nothing." "He keeps calling, and I keep blowing him off." "Good girl." "This ever traces back to me, I will be disbarred." "So will I. Mutually assured destruction." "I requisitioned the fbi file on hewes associates." "What do they have on patty?" "Tom, there was no file." "What do you mean?" "It means, there's no official file on patty hewes or her firm." " Was it classified?" " No." "Even if it were, there would still be a file." "It would be off-limits, but there would be a record the investigation existed." " Was there anything on pete mckee?" " No." "Nothing on anybody involved with hewes associates, including you." "I don't get it." "The fbi approached one of our associates." "Uncle pete killed himself so the government couldn't use him against patty." "I don't know what to tell you." "There's no investigation." "No file?" "That doesn't make any sense." "The guys who approached you-- you sure they were legit?" "Yeah." "They were fbi." " You're sure?" " Absolutely." "Are you sure you can trust your sister?" "She wouldn't have told me unless she were 100%." "What the hell is going on?" "What is really going on with this investigation?" "What do you mean?" "The fbi has no file on patty hewes, tom shayes, or on me." "Who told you that?" "I have my sources." "You need to tell us where you heard that." "Why the hell is there no record of this investigation?" "Do we tell her?" "I think it's time she knew the truth." "We don't work for the fbi, ellen." "Who do you work for?" " The ipf." " The what?" "Inter-planetary federation?" "You never saw men in black?" "Oh, you guys are jackasses." "Ellen, listen." "We know patty has contacts at the justice department." "We had to pull the file." "We couldn't risk letting anyone tip her off." "You understand?" "You'd better be telling me the truth." "Well, she's resourceful." "Yeah, I get that, but I don't like her." "Question is, can we trust her intel?" "Can we?" "Coming." "Ugh, relax, will ya?" "New clients are always impatient." "Who are you?" "My name's patty." "The attorney you've been talking to is a partner in my firm." "You stopped returning his calls." "What do you want?" "I'd like an explanation of what happened the night you and finn garrety were arrested." " Who are you calling?" " My agency." "You have to leave." "Well, in that case, I'll just call finn." "Let him know you see other clients." " Go ahead." "He won't care." " No?" "He doesn't think you're exclusive?" "We're on the same side here." "All I want to do is talk." "You gonna pay for the hour?" "I've looked into you." "I know you're trying to put yourself through school." "You also have a failed marriage, two stints in rehab, a kid you never see, and you're in one hell of a custody battle." "Now, if you come in and talk to us, I will pay for your tuition in night school." "I will give you protection, and I'll put in a good word with your family court judge." "And if I don't talk to you?" "Family courts don't take kindly to mothers who are prostitutes." "It would be a shame if they found out." "Dave, great to see you." " Glad you could make it." " Thank you." "It doesn't really matter if the economy tanks, as long as people need doctors, medical malpractice attorneys will have work." "Doesn't say much for the state of health care." "You shouldn't be telling him this." "I'm going in for a simple hernia surgery next week." "Oh, yeah, they're all simple until they're not." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." " Hey, sport." " Hey, mr." "Arsenault." "How's lily doing?" "Oh, it's been pretty tough since the arrest." "But yale's considering taking her back." " That's great." "Tell her I said hi." " Sure will." "Sam... sam arsenault." "Say hello to dave pell." " I've heard a lot about you, dave." " Sam." " What's your poison?" " Gimlet, gin." " Coming up, you okay?" " I'm fine, thanks, phil." "I hear I'm being vetted." "Rumors travel halfway around the world before truth can tie its shoes." "So, are we traveling or lacing up?" "Depends." "Are you interested?" "Bill richardson." "Now, there's a man who did it right." "Serves one term as energy secretary under clinton, then heads home and becomes governor." "I've always wanted to be governor." "That's an admirable goal." "Ask around." "I'm a pragmatist." "You're prepared to faithfully represent the interests of your country?" "well, we're all businessmen here, are we?" "Phil, what's going on out there?" "Is it safe for me to jump back into the market?" "That depends how strong your stomach is." "Come on, phil, give us a little something." "Well, there are ample opportunities out there." "Like mr." "Buffet says, "when everybody else is fearful, it's time to be greedy."" "Look, the point is, these things are cyclical." "The market is a force of nature, and the economy is going to correct itself." "With a little oversight." "My wife and I are of the same mind on a great number of things." "This is the one area where we differ." "Phil makes the mistake of believing that man is inherently good." "No, I believe that man is inherently self-interested, and the only way to keep self-interest in check is through free market competition." "Sam, you'll back me up on that." "What?" "What was the question?" "Sam, whose side are you on anyway?" "Whoever refills this first." "So, did wes call you?" "Yes." "Kind of out of the blue, actually." "He asked me for your number." "I hope you don't mind." "No." "I don't even know if this is a weird question to ask." "Would you mind if I went out with him?" "Jesus." "You need to ask my permission, as well?" "He asked the same thing?" "Yes." "And no, I don't mind." "God, why would I mind?" "I don't know, i thought maybe you two might have something." "We're just friends." "I'm not ready for that." "So, how much have you told him?" "I mean, about david and frobisher." "We've talked about it." "Um, you know, things come up in group." "'Cause I don't want to say something that i shouldn'T." "Well, then, don'T." "Right." "Ellen, seriously, if you don't want me to go..." "No, katie, it's fine." "I promise." "Oh, no, no, no, you're not going to go shy on us." "Oh, look, that was a one-time thing." "That's bullshit." "You do it at the drop of a hat." "All right, so drop a hat." "Just one." "Michael!" "Bring down the keyboard." " Ah, I'll go get him." " That's my man." "Okay, dave, this one's for you." "What's it going to be?" ""Danny boy."" "Are you serious?" "It's a family favorite." "Oh, I used to do it at brown with the jabberwocks." "Uh, try to imagine me in gray flannels and white bucks." "You ready, michael?" "* Oh, danny boy the pipes, the pipes are calling * * from glen to glen and down the mountainside...*" "And to think his company has a $4 billion market capitalization." "All these guys." "To the manner born." "What about you?" "My dad smelted steel for 37 years." "Cheers." "Thanks." "You and sam arsenault still partnering in your, uh, charity foundation?" "Yes." "What do you think of him?" "I think he's a terrific guy, but you have to watch out." "Why is that?" "Because, when you peel away all his glad-handing, honey-voiced charm, what's left is an entitled brat who considers himself above the rules." "He'll tell you exactly what you want to hear, and then turn around and stab you in the back." "Good to know." "* The place where I am lying * * and kneel and say an ave there for me.*" "You boys seem all worked up." "Where is the fire?" "Why is there no record of all the reports we've submitted?" "Excuse me?" "We want to know why we don't have clearance to the case file for this investigation." "You mean this case file?" " The investigation is strictly need-to-know." " Since when?" "Since the deputy director said it was." "Why?" "The bureau has made this case a top priority, which means it can make or break a career-- my career-- so stop whining and go out and get me something on patty hewes." "You like idaho?" "I think it's our best bet." "Is the plant manager willing to play ball?" "Definitely." "I spoke to my meteorologist." "He's predicting a foot of snow." "Should be a big demand for home heating." "Once we shut down supply, there should be a pretty healthy spike in price." "Unless the storm shifts north." "Yeah, there's always that risk, but I still think that's the way to go." "You usually give me more options." "You usually give me more time." "Fine." "Idaho." "Let me know when they plan to go off-line." "Will do." "Before finn and i were arrested that night, he made a stop." "He got out of our car and went into an suv." "Was he meeting someone?" "No." "There was no one else there." "Finn had his own set of keys." "What was he doing?" "I don't know." "He sat in the suv for a couple we drove off." "Did you see what kind of suv it was?" "A cadillac, I think." "You know, the big one." "What was mr." "Garrety's state of mind at the time?" "Did he seem anxious?" "When he's coked up, it's a little hard to tell." "Is there anything else you can remember?" "That's all I saw." "Okay, lonnie." "Thank you for coming in." "Yeah, sure." "I had a nice chat with your family court judge." "I think you'll find he's sympathetic to joint custody." "Thank you, ms." "Hewes." "What's your verdict on sam arsenault?" "He's got pipes." "Hell of a singer." "And for the position?" "I want to thank you for making the introduction, but, uh, truth be told, we're leaning in a different direction now." "More conservative?" "More you." "You're a brilliant manager." "I don't know, dave." "Phil, you and I grew up in finance, and we both made a mint." "But I didn't get to where I am now until I went to washington." " And where is that?" " Connected." "I don't see myself in government." "Then do what I did." "Stay for a year or two and jump back into the private sector." "I hate politics." "You know that." "Yeah, but a decision like this isn't about politics." "It's about power." "Influence." "You're rich, phil, but what's next?" "Will you kick it around?" "I'll consider it, but I'm not making any promises." "Understood, understood." "It's a pleasure to meet you, ms." "Hewes." "Have a seat." "No, thank you." "I'm here to tell you that I hold the fbi responsible for the death of pete mckee." "I'm sorry, but i don't know what you're referring to." "Bullshit." "And you can tell who's ever calling the shots in washington that I'm on to them." "The bureau may be watching me, but I'm also watching you." "Ma'am, I understand you're upset, but right about now, you're going to want to check your tone." "This investigation is corrupt, and when I prove it, your career will be over." "You don't want to threaten me." "I don't make threats, mr." "Mcgraff." "This is war." "Patty hewes came to see me." "What do you want me to do?" "Forgive my place." "Still putting it together." "Sort of in-between gigs right now." "Oh, me, too." "I totally get it." "Thanks." "So, you were saying..." "You were asking about grief counseling." "Yeah, I was wondering why you never went." "I'm not really into group therapy." " I see my own therapist." " Makes sense." "Can I ask you something?" "This sounds ominous." "You know, it's none of my business." "What?" "It's not appropriate." "What?" "I know ellen thinks that arthur frobisher had something to do with your brother's death." " Do you think that?" " I know he did." "Why not go to the police?" "Because frobisher has got the police in his pocket." "So, you believe ellen's whole conspiracy theory." "Oh, it's not just a theory." "When patty hewes took on frobisher's case, she got all of his financial records." " From the shareholder thing." " Yeah." "Frobisher uses this private security firm which employs off-duty officers." "You think one of them did it?" "You know what, I'd really rather not talk about this." " I'm sorry." "I shouldn't even brought it up." " It's fine." "It's just that ellen thinks about it all the time, and I worry about her." "I understand." " So, chinese, italian?" " Wes." "There's a very good, um, brazilian place like a block from here." " Wes, why did you call me?" " What do you mean?" "It's obvious that you're not actually into me." "What are you talking about?" "You want to be with ellen." "Is everything okay?" "Yeah." "Everything's fine." "Katie said she called off your date." "Yeah." " You talk to katie connor?" " Yeah." "Ellen parsons knows about the security firm." "She tell you that?" "Patty hewes connected frobisher to calder protective services when he was her plaintiff." "They also think a cop murdered david connor." "They suspect anyone in particular?" "Not that I know of." "look, what are we doing?" "Ellen parsons is getting closer." "Ellen doesn't even know you exist." " Take her out." " What?" "Make it look like an accident." "Do it, and you're done."

"Previously on Gotham..." "How I ever let him lay a hand on me... (grunting)" "I'm glad he's out of your life." "ALFRED:" "Keep that guard up..." "jab, jab." "Lead... jab, jab, right." " What you doing?" " Alfred's teaching me to fight." "I need you to take me to the Pike brothers." "The firebugs from the Narrows?" "I used to hang with their sister, Bridgit." "GILZEAN:" "Hey, boys." "We need the best and you guys are the best." "JOE:" "Bridgy, you just got a promotion." " GCPD!" " Run!" " I got her!" "Drop it!" "Drop it!" " (Bridgit screams)" "(Garrett screaming)" "THEO:" "One moment, Mr. Penguin." "OSWALD:" "Mother." "GERTRUD:" "I don't know nothing." "You are going to go to Galavan." "Once you're inside his organization, you will find my mother and rescue her." "He'll buy it if we sell it right." "(screams)" "And then Penguin just went crazy." "I mean, like..." "crazier than I've ever seen him." "He said it was me that set up the count house raid, said I was a traitor and a rat." "(rope creaking)" "Then he..." "he came at me with a cleaver." "I tried to protect myself and he did this." "(low grunting) Sick bastard." "Hmm." "How'd you get away?" "GILZEAN:" "There was a lot of blood." "A lot." "And he..." "he tried to take another swing and he slipped and fell and so I just ran." "I ran and I ran and then... the next thing I knew, I woke up in the hospital." "Huh." "Give me a shot, Mr. Galavan." "Let me show you what I can do." "Well, I'd like to help you out," "Butch, but I already have several capable, two-handed thugs in my employ." "They don't know Gotham like I do." "I got brains, you ask anyone." "What do you think, ladies?" "I think he's cute." "Like a sad bear." "I suppose he's telling the truth." "The little man was cracking up last time I saw him." "He was very mean to me once." "Held me hostage in my own apartment." "Said some nasty things." "Isn't that right, stumpy?" "That's right, ma'am." "And I'm sorry for it." "Business is business, you know?" "Please." "Let me work for you, Mr. Galavan." "I got nobody else to turn to." "(gasps) Oh, yes!" "We can put cool things on his stump, like knives and mallets and stuff." "Ooh!" "How about a little tiny chain saw?" " Yes." " Huh." "Well, that settles it." " Welcome aboard, Butch." " Thank you, sir." " (cries out)" " THEO:" "Oh!" "(laughs) Oh." "Bravo, Congressman." "Well saved." "You really are quite spry for a big man." "Have you reconsidered your position?" "Can I count on your support this election?" "Yes, you have my full support." "Thank you so much." "(grunting, panting)" "(panting)" "(grunting)" "Freeze!" "Man, I didn't do nothing!" "Why you chasing me?" "A police officer died last night, killed by a firebug crew on a spree." "You're a firebug, aren't you?" "No, man!" "I been out of the game a long time!" "(grunts)" " Don't lie to me, Nino!" " I swear!" "Sir, that's a violation of officer conduct regs." "Luke Garrett burned to death in front of me 12 hours ago." "I'll conduct myself as I see fit." "This crew's working with a kid." "A girl." "Wears a homemade fire suit." "Hey, for real!" "Never heard of a female firebug before." "It's mad rare, like a..." "like a unicorn or something." "(grunts)" "(Nino groaning)" "Sir?" "Captain Barnes says we must report any infractions." " Even by superior officers." " You do that." "What are you doing?" "Can't sleep." "I don't know what to do with myself." "(sighs loudly)" "That's the point of being free." "You get to do whatever the hell you want." "What am I gonna do?" "I killed someone last night." "I can't go home." "I can't go to the police..." " You gotta get out of town." " How?" "I got no money." "No problem." "We'll get some." "You mean, like, crime?" "(laughs) Man, you are square." "(sighs)" "I guess I got no choice." "Why are you helping me?" "Maybe you remind me of me." "If I was a doofus." "(laughs)" "This crime... what exactly you got in mind?" "♪ I'll fight for... ♪" "AUCTIONEER:" "Ladies and gentlemen!" "Or should I say, pimps, hoes and thieves!" "Do I have some product for you today!" " Do you like what you see?" " (customers cheer)" "Come on, now let me hear you!" "Do you like what you see?" "!" "(cheering)" "All right." "Oh, check it out, check it out!" "Yeah, it's nice and it's dirty!" "I want her!" "Bidding will start at $800." "Apiece." "Have we got $800?" "Come on!" "$850!" "(voices and music muffled)" "Those girls are for sale?" "Told you this place was freaky." "We need to help them." "We're here to help you." "'Cause you killed a cop, remember?" "We get the money, we go." " But..." " Listen!" "Listen." "You go down the stairs." "The lock on the back door is busted." "I know, 'cause I busted it." "You go in, wait for me to make my move." "How will I know when?" "Pay attention." "Sold for $2,500 to the gentleman in the burgundy hat!" "Come on, ladies." "Found you a nice new home!" "Oh, you'll be very satisfied." "Very, very satisfied." "Next up!" "Check her out as she walks down the stage;" "see how graceful she is." "Look at this one!" "Whoo!" "I'm going to start the bidding here at $900!" " Can I get $900?" "!" " (grunts)" "SELINA:" "Hey, pervs!" "This is a robbery!" "Milo!" "Kill that punk." "She's with me." "Now, each of you put all your cash in the bag." "Or what?" "I ain't scared of you." "Yeah." "All right." "Anybody else got a problem?" "Yeah, didn't think so." "(women shouting)" "And for the record?" "All y'all suck." "Help!" "Come on, come on!" "Get me out of here!" "MAN:" "Hey, stop!" "(screams)" "(laughing):" "Oh, my God." "I know, right?" "Let's go." "A note in my file?" "Are you serious?" "Do I look like I'm joking?" "We do not beat suspects!" "Ever!" "(garbled radio transmission)" "I get it." "Luke was a good kid." "We took him out of the academy, told him he was ready." "Now he's dead." "You lose people in war." "You know that." "Make no mistake, this is war." "But that doesn't give you or me the license to break the law." "There's a line." "I learned that the hard way." "Respectfully, sir, this is Gotham." "There are gray areas." "I've learned that the hard way, too." "And did you even get a lead while you were out avenging Luke?" " No, sir." " No, sir?" "Well, you got one now." "Bodega owner called this in." "His security camera caught it." "She's our firefly." "We don't know who the other one is." "(squealing)" "I do." "Damn it." "(Bruce grunting)" "Focus." "Focus!" "Head down!" "Head down!" "Distractions will be the death of you, Master Bruce." "Now, get on your toes." "On your toes." "Move!" "Well, don't... dance around like a bloody showgirl." " Come on." " (grunts)" "That's better." "Better." "Now, big left, big left." "Go on!" "I got you." "Now, your enemies." "Are gonna fight a lot dirtier than that." "Ow." "Ow!" "(panting) Bloody hell." "(chuckles)" "Very good, Master Bruce." "Eh?" "Have you spoken to Mr. Fox about the computer?" "That I have, yeah." "How much longer until it's fixed?" "I'll tell you when it's done, won't I?" "Patience." "I'm tired of patience, Alfred." "I'm ready to begin." "I'll tell you when you're ready, Master Bruce." "I'm ready now." "I know I am." "Oh, by the way, by the way," "Miss Silver called." "She wants you to go for dinner this evening." " Silver called?" " Yeah." "(shouts)" "Told ya." "Not ready." "Let's go." "KRINGLE:" "Well, he just up and moved out of town." "It was rude and inconsiderate and perfectly in character for Tom Dougherty." "Do you ever wonder where he went?" "He could be dead in a ditch for all I care." " Kristen." " And I mean it, too." "He, um... he wasn't very nice to me." "That's awful." " I'm so sorry." " Thank you." "But..." "it all worked out for the best." "THOMPKINS:" "I know." "You and Ed seem to be getting along." "(Kringle chuckles)" "He is so gentle and kind." "Almost too gentle." "I-I think a man needs to have a little... a little fire, a little danger in him, don't you think?" "Oh, I don't know about that." "(chuckles)" "And sometimes I-I feel like he's holding something back from me." "THOMPKINS:" "Like a secret?" "I don't know." "I just..." "I guess I just wish he would open up a little more." "Good morning." "Miss Kringle, Miss Thompkins." "Hi." "What do you call a three-legged cow?" " I am terrible..." " Lean beef." "Or supper." "At my place." "Oh..." "Ed." " Aw." " (both chuckle)" "Ginger to ginger, we both know you know where Selina Kyle's at, so why don't you tell me now and save us the hassle." "Who's Selina Kyle?" " Cat." " Cat?" "Look, Ivy, want me to call the children's home and have 'em come get you now?" "Or should I get a candy bar and forget to have someone watch you?" "Candy bar." "I struck out." "None of the street kids I talked to have seen Selina." "Relax." "Your Uncle Harvey has you covered." "She's in a squat off Jenkins." "Condemned SRO." "I know it." "Hey." "Last time we saw this chick, she had a shotgun pointed at us." "Maybe you should take the Fascist Youth, huh?" "Nah." "With Selina, it's best to go quietly." "When you get to the bus station, take the first bus south." "Stay on till the end of the line." "Well, what do I do then?" "You got plenty of money." "You can do what you like." "Thank you." "For everything." "You've been a really good friend." "I got my cut." "(chuckles) No biggie." "(vehicle approaching)" "(tires screeching)" "Bridgit, you need to run." "Bridgit, run!" "Run!" "Run!" "No..." "Selina!" "No!" "Selina!" "No!" "No!" "(Bridgit shouting)" "(grunting)" "BRIDGIT:" "Help me!" "(Bridgit shouting indistinctly)" "Hey!" "(panting)" "Hands in the air!" " Drop the gun." " Like hell I will." " Where's your girlfriend?" " Who?" "We got both of you on tape." "Don't know what you're talking about, Gordon." "She's burnt down half a dozen buildings." "Killed a cop." "You're running with a bad partner, kid." "You don't understand." "She was forced to do all of that." "Okay." "Let me help her." "Who is she?" "Who's forcing her to do this?" "Look, there's a lot of angry cops out there." "She's gonna get shot on sight, unless I get to her first." "Her name is Bridgit Pike." "Her brothers took her back." "Joe and Cale Pike." "They, like... kidnapped her." "They're the ones who made her start burning stuff in the first place." "It's their fault the cop died." "The Pike brothers?" "Why'd they burn down Wayne Enterprises' buildings?" " Who paid them?" " Why the hell should I know why the Pikes do anything?" "They're freakin' nuts." "They treated Bridgit like a slave, chained her to the wall." "And you're angry about it." "Is that why you're armed?" "You're gonna go after the Pikes?" "Rescue your friend?" " No." " That's a yes." "Look, you're gonna get your friend and yourself killed." " Let me handle the Pikes." " No offense, Jim, but I like my chances better than yours." "Why get involved?" "Why risk your neck?" "Who is this girl to you?" "No one." "Just... a girl in the neighborhood." "I give you my word." "I will do everything I can to keep her safe." "But you have to stay out of it." "Tell me where she is." "(grunts)" "Damn." "She's got six grand here." "Little Bridgy put on her big girl pants." "You can take all of it." "I don't care." "Oh, I'm taking it." "That's not the issue." "The issue is you thinking it's cool to just ditch your brothers, hmm?" "CALE:" "Oh, snap." " Bridgit's gonna get it." " Joe, please." "Did you even think about us, hmm?" "Did you even think how we would feel?" " (bang)" " No, don't!" "Joe, I didn't mean anything by it!" "I'm a sensitive guy, and you hurt my feelings." " (gasping) - (bang)" "You know, without family, what do you got?" "You-you got nothin', right?" "You want to be part of the family again?" " (bang) - (gasps, panting)" "I said... do you feel like being part of this family again?" "(Bridgit whimpers)" "Yes!" " (screams)" " Damn!" "(laughs)" "Damn, that hurts." " Bridgit's back." " (whimpering)" "(chains rattling)" "If you try anything like that again, I'll kill you, and I'll skin that little cat bitch, too." "You hear me?" "You're never leaving." " Yes." " Good." "Go make our supper." "All right, let's pack it up." "(Oswald sputters)" "Dear me." "A mallet." "That's, um... useful." "Don't even start." "Tell me you bring good news." "I'm in." " I'm in good." " And?" "And?" "!" "I'm asking questions." "But it's dangerous." "If I push too hard, Galavan'll be onto me." "I told you, he's a smart guy." "Look at me, Butch." "Are you my servant?" "(sniffs)" "Yes." "Do you obey me in all things?" "Yes." "Then why do you bring me excuses?" "Go find my mother." "Before I chop off your other hand." " (slurping)" " Yes, boss." "Come on." "Harder." "(laughs)" "(gasping, laughing)" "Come on, Joe." "What are you gonna do, kill us?" "Yep." "(screaming)" " Oh, God!" " (screaming)" "(sizzling)" "I'll check the other room." "(door opens)" "(groans, sniffing)" " Clear!" " (groans)" " She's not here." " Damn." "I hate how it smells like good barbecue." " (gasps) - (screams)" "Bitch." "(grunting)" "Bullock, hey!" "What?" "!" "Scared the hell out of me!" "(gasping, exhales)" "And now he's dead." " Nice work, Bullock." " Oh, yeah." "My kicks did it?" "Maybe it's because he's fried like a taquito!" " It's not on me." " Uh-huh." "Looks like Selina was telling the truth." "Look, I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but these asshats had it coming." "These asshats were professional arsonists." "Somebody hired them." " Why Wayne Enterprises?" " Who cares, all right?" "There's a freaky firefly chick on the loose with a flamethrower." "Let's start there." "(groans)" "(whimpering)" "Hallelujah." "Hello, Butch." "Sorry to keep you waiting." "I just wanted to check in, see how things were going." "Any complaints?" "No." "No, sir." "I'm fine like a bottle of wine." " (chuckles)" " Good." "You have a real future here." "You are a hard worker, and you're loyal to a fault." "Thank you, boss." "If only you were loyal to me." "I, uh..." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Come on, Butch." "Have some dignity." "I know what you were doing." "You were looking for Penguin's mother, weren't you?" "The hand was a nice touch." "Almost fooled me." "How on earth did Penguin get you to do that?" "I'm his servant." "I have to obey him in all things." "Penguin's done a number on you, huh?" "Tinkered with your wiring." "Perhaps we can help." "Tabby?" "Tabby, could you come here, please?" "Penguin has brainwashed this poor soul." " Can we help?" " Be my pleasure." "All right, let-let's... let's talk about this." "Can we talk about this?" "Take it easy." "What are you doing?" "Relax." "We just want to help." "(grunts)" "(panting)" "(shouts, pants)" "(grunting)" "(grunts, shouts)" "THEO:" "I'll leave you two to it." "Uh, remember, dinner's in an hour." "(gasps, gags)" "(Tabitha sighs)" "We've set up a perimeter." "She can't have gotten far." "And we're sitting on Selina Kyle's place." "Keep me posted." "Bridgit Pike was abused her whole life, forced to set those fires." "I promised my informant I would keep her safe." "Uh, weren't you the one saying that Luke Garrett was just a kid?" "That we owe him justice?" " I know that's what I said." " And you were right." "And now she killed him." "Now she has two more dead bodies on her." "So I don't care about the hows and the whys and the boo-hoos." "You don't make promises you can't keep." "You find her and you take her down." " Clear?" " Yes, sir." "(pigeons cooing)" "We must've spent years up here, watching these birds." "Remember when Mickey Slattery called us orphan bastards and we tried to throw him off the roof?" "The cops are outside my place." " You need to get out of town." " I'm not scared of them." "Bridgit, I know what you did to your brothers." "Not that they didn't deserve it, but..." " Whoa." " I was surprised." "Cale flamed up good, but it was Joe who burned the brightest." " You don't sound like yourself." " I'm not myself anymore." "I'm free." "Just like you told me I was." "So what are you gonna do?" "I'm gonna go after the rest of them." " The rest of who?" " The pervs and the bullies." "The ones who hurt people like us." "No one's ever gone after me or hurt me." "Yeah, right." "Rule number one:" "look after number one." "That's you." "Don't be crazy, or you'll get yourself killed." "Don't worry about me, Selina." " This is what I was meant to do." " Bridgit, please, don't do this." "It's nice to have someone who cares about me." "Thank you." "I don't care." "I just think you're being dumb." "But..." "Hey..." "Good luck." "I'll see you around." "A toast." "TABITHA:" "I'm so sorry." "Something came up last minute." "(clears throat)" "As I was saying:" "To family." "In the end, it's all that matters." "Family." "I hope, in time, you'll come to think of us as family, Bruce." "Thank you." "It's-it's been some time since I had a..." " a meal like this." " You mean with girls?" "You should come over more often." "We can, like, hang out or whatever." "I'd like that." "Look how cute they are." "Don't you just want to eat them?" "Tabitha, leave the young people alone." "Well, they are cute." "And they know it." "(Peggy Lee's "Sugar" playing)" "KRINGLE:" "These were the best mashed potatoes I have ever had." "I swear, I'm gonna get plump." "I like that you have an appetite." "Stop it, you're spoiling me." "I won't stop it." "I want nothing more than to spoil you." "Oh." "Ed." "So forceful." "There's something else I want to tell you." "I just..." "I don't want to scare you away." "Please, tell me anything." "Do not hold back." "♪ That sugar baby of mine... ♪" "(instrumental interlude)" "Kristen..." "I like you very much." "I..." "I feel the same way about you." " And, um..." " And..." "Shh." " (thunder rumbling) - ♪ ...trips to his lips ♪" "♪ If I was a bee ♪" "♪ Because he's sweeter than ♪" "♪ Sugar candy to me ♪" "♪ He's confectionary sugar... ♪" "Mr. Nygma, is that your bedroom over there?" "♪ I'm too sweet on my sugar ♪" "♪ That sugar baby of mine... ♪" "Why, yes, it is." "♪ That sugar baby of mine!" "♪" "(thunder rumbles)" "(song ends with a flourish)" "Gordon, phone call for you." " This is Gordon." " Do you remember your promise?" "Yes." "I think I know where she's going." "(man screaming)" "(gasping, shouting)" "BRIDGIT:" "Go, go, go!" "Go, go, go!" "Go, go!" "Go!" "(shouting)" "Come on!" "(officers shouting indistinctly)" "(siren wailing)" "All right, no one gets hurt tonight." "We follow protocols and stay safe." "UNIT ALPHA:" "Yes, sir." "Freeze!" "Hands in the air!" "Hold your fire!" "Bridgit Pike!" "Stay away!" "My name's Jim Gordon." "I know what your brothers did to you." "(gasping)" "I know you didn't mean for any of this to happen." "You don't know anything!" "You put your weapon down and come with me," "I can help you." "There are places you can go." "I'm not going to jail!" "You're a juvenile." "We can work something out." " Wait, wait!" " I said hold your fire!" "Bridgit!" "Stop!" "Take cover!" "Bridgit!" "Wait!" "(screaming)" "I'm glad we have a moment alone." "There is something I need to discuss." "Oh." "An executive at Wayne Enterprises has been reported missing:" "Sid Bunderslaw." "Do you know him?" "Yes." "We've met several times." " What happened?" " No one knows." "But it doesn't look good." "How did you hear?" "Let's just say I have friends in high places, and I've been following the goings-on at Wayne Enterprises very closely." "What have you learned?" "That your father was a good man." "A great man, even." "But in spite of that, bad things happened at his company." "Unfortunately, I think you're right." "I can tell you're very mature for your age." "Ready to tackle the problems of your company head-on." "But you'll need help." "Once I'm mayor," "I would very much like to be that person." "Thank you..." "Mr. Galavan." "I-I appreciate it." "(clicks tongue)" "Butch." " What has happened?" " I found your mother." " Where?" " In a warehouse down by the port." "But they caught me looking." "You half-wit!" "If they kill my mother...!" "Look, they don't know I'm here." "The tigerlady, she wanted to take her time with me, so she chained me up and I got out." "We gotta go now." "(laughing)" "Yes." "Yes, yes." "Good, Butch." "You've done well." "Your loyalty will be rewarded handsomely." " I swear it." " Yes, boss." "Rest here for a minute, and I'll go gather the troops." "THOMPKINS:" "How old are you?" "Old enough to shoot you, if that's what you're thinking." "No, that's not what I was thinking." "You don't have to point the gun at me." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "Damn right you're not." " My name is Lee." " I know what your name is." "What's your name?" "You're cute." "For a doctor." "Thanks." "You're cute." "For a gangster." "Hi, Selina." "Sorry about this, Lee." "Oh, hey, no problem." "(sighs heavily)" "So... is Bridgit okay?" "I'm sorry." "She's not gonna make it." "You said that you'd help her." "I tried, Selina." "I tried." "But she didn't want to go quietly." "I think she wanted it to end this way." "Look..." " Selina..." " Don't touch me." "Don't touch me." "I know you were telling the truth about Bridgit." "That her brothers put her up to this." "I need to know who hired them." "I already told you I don't know." " And I still don't believe you." " What do you care?" "You don't care about people like us." "It's not like you're really gonna go after your little friend." "My friend?" "Do you mean Penguin?" "Why would he set those fires?" " That doesn't make any sense." " Ask him yourself." "I'm done talking to you." "I should have never trusted a cop." "I tried to help her, it just went a different way." "Is that what you call it when someone dies?" "Is that what you tell yourself?" "I'm sorry." "(scoffs)" "Whatever." "You're so sweet." "Kristen, what's the matter?" "Um..." "I'm scared." " Of what?" " Of Tom Dougherty." "He used to tell me... if he ever saw me with another man, he would kill me." "I'm terrified of what will happen when he comes back." "You don't need to worry about that." "No... you don't know him." "He is... (exhales) a monster." "Listen to me." "You do not need to worry about Tom Dougherty." "You are sweet." "But... you're not a fighter." "You couldn't possibly take him on." "Trust me, it's been taken care of." "What does that mean?" "Um..." "Some time ago, he and I had an altercation." "I asked him to treat you with more respect." "Oh, my God." "And he said he would treat you any way he liked and he assaulted me." " Oh, my God!" " So, anyhow, long story short..." "I killed him." "(laughing):" "Oh, Ed, that's..." "You had me going for a minute, there." "It was outside of your apartment under the elevated train." "I stabbed him and he died." " Ed, that's not funny." " I'm not being funny." ""T. Dougherty."" "Do you believe me now?" "Oh, my God." " What's wrong?" " Uh..." "How could you?" "Where are you going?" " No, please, sit down." " Don't touch me!" " Would you please let me explain?" " There is nothing to explain." "I don't even know who you are." " No, that's wrong." " You are a murderer." "He was a monster!" "You said so!" "He was abusing you." "I can't believe I even fell for you, you sicko." "I'm not sick." "I love you." "I did it for you." "Everything I ever thought about you, I was right." " I should have my head examined." " Don't say that." "Wait, what were you doing outside my house?" "I was worried for you." "You were stalking me." "You are a psychopath." "That is not true!" "That's not who I am." " Don't say that about me." " You are going to prison where they will do horrible things to you." " Things that you deserve." " Don't say that to me." " No, let go." "Don't touch me!" " (grunts)" " Let go of me, you freak." " Please don't call me that." "Oh!" "Help!" "Listen to me." "I am not the man that you think I am." "I would never do anything to hurt you." "I had to kill him because he hit you." "Do you understand that?" "I did it for you." "I promise I will never do anything to hurt you ever again." "I love you." "I've loved you since the first moment that I saw you." "Kristen?" "Kristen?" "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..." "no, no." "Oh, no, plea..." "Oh, no." "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." "Please." "(sobs):" "Please, no." "No." "No." "(screams):" "No!" "No!" "(dogs barking in distance)" "MAN:" "Damn, this girl looks rough." "They tell people she dead." "But that's a lie." "I heard the suit she was wearing melted to her." " Say she's fireproof." " Come on." "Yeah, man... fireproof." "That's why they sent her down here, with the rest of the monsters." "For testing." "(quiet, muffled groan)" "(quiet clicking)" "(screaming)"

"Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite." "Yale has rescinded your acceptance and given the spot to Nelly." "Doesn't hurt as bad as waking up in Santorini and finding you jumped on a boat." "That night wasn't exactly what I signed up for either." "When your father escaped, he could only get enough money to get set up." " We don't have money." " Vanderbilts do." "My grandparents pay us to live with him?" " They can't even help us out here." " Isn't it breathtaking?" "Your art consultant has exquisite taste." "You've got a good heart." "Give it to somebody who cares." " Miss Blair is out, Mr. Chuck." " I'll wait." "Carter, what are you doing here?" "Buying you a drink." "Where has she been?" "And who am I?" "That's one secret I'll never tell." "You know you love me." "X O X O Gossip Girl." "Springtime on the Upper East Side where the winter chill is supposed to be so last season." "But when mittens and scarves are still all the rage the best thing you can do is just button up and hope for warmer days." "Budapest, Bucharest, Dubrovnik." "Oh, there's nothing like summer in the Eastern Bloc." "Just a Eurail Pass and a backpack full of failed socialist policies." "And Nate." "The Vienna State Opera one day, pierogies in Poland the next." "No map, no reservations." "Total freedom." "Nate is super excited too." "Not as excited as he is about our day of college basketball." "I know your mom's out of town." "If you came" "Hey, guys." "Hey, this is my cousin, Tripp." " Hey." " My girlfriend, Vanessa." " Hi." " This is Dan." " Hi." " Nice to meet you." "Trying to convince Nate to appear at the family hoodoo this weekend." "Lunch today, cocktail party tomorrow." "Hey, Maureen will be there." "We're engaged now." "I didn't know that." "That's fantastic." "Yeah, well, you missed a lot." "Hey, why don't you drop by?" "Grandfather would love to see you too." "No, look, I appreciate it, Tripp." "I do." "There's just a lot of stuff going on." "I can take a hint." "Call me if you change your mind,." "I will." "I will." "Congratulations." " Thanks, man." " Yeah." " Nice to meet you." " Bye." "Nice meeting you, Tripp." "You're gonna skip out on your family reunion?" " I appreciate commitment to the game" " No." "I'm not gonna pretend to bond with the people who shut me and my mom out when Dad got busted." "Let's go inside." "The game's starting." "Hello, sweetheart." "I've been looking for my phone all morning." "I was checking to see if Blair had changed her number." "If she's not calling back, take the hint." "I went to see her last week." "She never came home." "It's not like our girl to be out all night." "Look, I know something's going on." "This is more than her having her dirty laundry out on Gossip Girl." "She, um..." "She got rejected by Yale." "The only thing she wanted more than me." " That would be painful." " Chuck, she's embarrassed." "We need to give her time to lick her wounds." "Maybe I can lick them for her." "Blair, hey, it's me." "Now, here's an extraordinary new piece I can get from a private collector." "I thought perhaps for the bedroom." "Oh, I agree." "It's perfect." "Oh, excuse me one moment." "Hello, Rufus." "Oh, I wish I could talk, my darling, but I'm right in the middle of something." "Okay, bye." "Lily, I just want to thank you for handling this so gracefully." "The whole Rufus thing." "The whole Rufus-and-I-used-to-date thing?" "Oh, God." "Please tell me that I'm not putting an enormous foot in my mouth." " He told you, right?" " Well, of course he did." "It's fine." "So you were thinking above the bed." "I think it'll look fantastic there." "I figured out the split screen." "All right, now we can watch all four games at once." "What were you guys talking about?" "You don't wanna go to your family reunion?" "We know they weren't cool to you and your mom." "But your cousin is trying to make up for it." "Unless he's armed with an engraved apology from Grandfather I do not care." " Nate, they're making an effort." "Yeah, sure, they're making an effort now." "Where were they when we needed them?" "You told me about your summers with your cousins." "Your grandfather teaching you to sail, how you looked forward to Christmas." "You loved them." "Now, if you really don't want to go, fine." "But don't pretend you don't care." "She wasn't my girlfriend." "We just went out a few times." "You might have mentioned that, considering that she works for me." "It was humiliating." "Well, I've been meaning to tell you." "You know, it's a shame we never see each other." "Any other exes I should know about?" "My trainer, my accountant?" "Sorry, but I've never asked you to list everyone you've dated." "I'd be happy to make one." " Sure." " Think I wouldn't?" "I don't think about it." "We should drop it." " Let's make lists." " Lily" "You clearly have some idea about my past that I'd prefer to dispel." "This way, I won't be blindsided again." "Unless, of course, there's something that you don't want known." "All right." "Okay, tonight, then, at dinner." "Be ready." "This has disaster written all over it." " There's Tripp." " Hey, guys." "Hey." "What?" "Man, you said it was a mansion, not a country club." "Nate." "Changed your mind." "Six times, actually." " Hey, good to see you." " Hi." "Hi, Tripp." "Flying low." "There must be a hospital nearby." "It's not a medevac." "It's Grandfather's ride." "He'll be so surprised to see you." "Wait, I thought this was his idea." "Not exactly." "So I came to give him a chance and he didn't even want one?" " No, no, no." " Nate, wait." "You've come this far." "Come on." "Nathaniel." "I'm so delighted you're here." "My boy." "We missed you." "Looks like V is leading a lost lamb back to the flock." "And C is coming to B, sheepishly bearing gifts." "Would've been here sooner." "Stopped to pick up a little something." "How thoughtful." "Serena thinks you're in some kind of trouble." "But it seems to me your only problem is having a party all by your lonesome." "Except she's not alone." "What are you doing with this insect?" "Having the time of my life, thank you very much." "Well, as much as I enjoy bursting your bubble he's just using you to get at me." "Ask him about his role as a kidnapper for a certain secret gentlemen's club." "I should know." "I had him expelled." "Please." "All I did is bring that girl to a waiting pile of cash." "Which, I understand, she gladly took before leaving town without you." "Blair, this guy" "What?" "Dishonest?" "Bad news?" "He can't be any worse than you." " I'm the one trying to help you." " Help me?" "That's what you were doing at your little gentlemen's club while my life was going up in flames?" "I'd rather take Carter's help." "We hear Carter Baizen's dealt Chuck another losing hand." "But rest assured, Upper East Siders." "Chuck always has a card up his sleeve." "Secretary of State Simon Vanderbilt." "Governor Hamilton Vanderbilt." "A family history of distinguished public service." "And it all began with Johannes Vanderbilt." "He came to America 250 years ago." "Found coal in Pennsylvania." "You can understand why we're proud to be celebrating our family's anniversary this weekend." "We started with almost nothing." "Finally, something I can relate to." "And now, all this." "Or not." "Nathaniel, let's show your friends the Presidential Medals of Freedom." "Finally." "So tell me, Nathaniel, what are your plans next year?" "Well, I'm waiting to hear back from colleges." "The only thing is when everything went down with my father it was around the time applications were due." "So I didn't exactly knock the essays out of the park." "Another unfortunate byproduct of that regrettable situation." "Which, I might add, you handled admirably." "Admirably?" "I thought you were ashamed of me." "On the contrary." "I've never been more proud." "You stood by your mother, got your father to do right." "I used to worry that you got her looks and his brains but you proved me wrong on that." "You're a part of this legacy, too, Nathaniel." "So?" "Who's up for some touch football?" "Come on." "Do you know how exhausting it's been being Blair Waldorf for the past 18 years?" "All the work, the planning." " You mean plotting?" " Yes, exactly." "I'm glad it all blew up in my face." "It was a wakeup call." "I was such an overachiever, I was headed for a quarter-life crisis at 18." "Well, B, you've had a couple of setbacks but there must still be a way to get into a great college and if anyone can do it, it's you." " No, S." "I've learned the hard way." "I can't control everything, plan everything." "Now, with Carter's help, I'm trying something different." "In fact, if I'm somewhere and I can say, "Blair Waldorf would never do that" guess what." "I'll do it." "B. B, you have to pay for those." "So call Security." "Hey, we have a problem." "Let me guess." "Carter Baizen?" "As usual, you're a step behind." " He's encouraging the worst in her." " True." "Unfortunately, my PI has yet to dig up an unpaid creditor or a jealous husband that would clear Baizen out." "Tell him you want to see him." "Why?" "What do you have?" "Just do it." "Did you and Blair find anything you like at BBH?" "Well, Blair certainly did." " Are you reorganizing?" " Oh, no, just reminiscing." "Why is Bart's name next to Trent Reznor and the...?" " Oh, my God." "Mom, what is that?" " It's" "No, please, don't answer." "It's a long story between me and Rufus." "You're not showing Rufus that, are you?" "Well, we agreed to be upfront with each other." "Upfront, okay." "But, Mom it's gonna take him 20 minutes to get through the'90s alone." "I know, I know." "We got into this tiff because he hadn't told me he dated Bex." "And then the next thing I know, I was saying yes to lists." "And how am I gonna back out now?" "Besides, I'm not ashamed of my past." "Most of it, anyway." "Do you think he'll judge?" "I think you should just sneak a peek at his little black book before you drop the Yellow Pages on him." "Just make sure your numbers are on par." "Okay." "Slash?" "Seriously?" "What, there's no penalty?" "You want me to call that?" "Thought this was touch, not rugby." "I forgot how the Vanderbilts like to play football." " B.S., man, you can quit." " No, no." "Let's play." "I remember my first time here." "Intimidating." "I'm Maureen, Tripp's fiancée." "Vanessa, nice to meet you." "And yes on the intimidating front." "Feel like a Republican at the Kennedy compound." "Don't fret." "Everyone loves you." "They're probably already designing the campaign posters." " What do you mean?" " You saw the hall o' governors?" "Politics is a Vanderbilt birthright." "And with Nate's charm and your background" " Excuse me?" " Nate mentioned you're an activist in your community, a documentary filmmaker." "Oh, yeah." "Well, I think you've been misinformed." "The only thing Nate's ever voted for is American Idol." "Tripp was the same way." "He wanted to be an archaeologist in college, like Indiana Jones." "Now he's Law Review at Yale and about to clerk for the Supreme Court." "Grandfather can be very persuasive." "Welcome to the next 30 years." "I'm surprised you waved the white flag so soon." "Goes down almost as easy as you did." " So it was all just a game?" " Initially, yes." "Though I have to admit, Blair surprised me." "That girl certainly knows how to let loose." "Victory never tasted so sweet." "Speaking of which, do you mind if I take this?" "Blair's meeting me at a party." "It's not a place she'd be left alone." "Actually, I don't think you're gonna be making that." "What's this?" "Good cop, Bass cop?" "Blair needs to regroup, so you need to bid adieu." "Dubai again." "Nice try, but I'm having too much fun." "Nothing's gonna get me to leave town." "What about Santorini?" "You think Blair will want to hear about that?" "The Greek guy, Spiros?" "The Greek police?" "I still have all their phone numbers from when they questioned me." "You wouldn't." "I would." "But I won't if you leave town now alone." "There are a few things I could hold over your head from that trip." "But consider us even." "If the two of you think that getting rid of me is gonna change back your friend, think again." "I'm just a symptom of the disease, not the cause." "What happened in Santorini?" "Let's find Blair." "I want to make sure she's okay." "B taking one small step for new Blair one giant step towards a strange townhouse." "Enter at your own risk, B." "Hello." "We've touched on the weather." "I think we've made a clean sweep of all possible small talk." "Well, I think we should just get it over with before the kids come home." "I will go first." "Is it all right?" "Yes, of course." "And this is the whole thing?" "That's it." "Okay, well, then that's just" "Okay, I'll just get mine." "Yeah." "Oh?" "Oh, here I am." "I'm sorry." "It's just" " Well, I'm relieved." " Don't take that the wrong way." " Oh, no." "Just you've dated more people than I have and I wasn't sure that we'd be in the same ballpark." " Well, I'm glad that that is behind us." " Me too." "I'll get dessert." "What happened to you?" "It's called getting to know the Vanderbilts." "Turned out to be less Gatsby, more Fight Club." "Ooh, ooh, ooh." "Don't worry, I'm okay." "I'm fine." "Well, you'd better recover by tomorrow." "Nate told his grandfather we'd come to the country house." "Reception at the country house." "Very blazer-and-chinos." "Overnight you a ribbed tie from Bluefly?" "Thanks, no." "Could you get me something for my ankle?" "Sure." "So spill it." "Spill what?" "The minute we dropped Nate off, you clammed up and got that look." " I don't have a look." " He's right, you definitely have the look." " Here." " You have a look." "Thank you." "When I encouraged Nate to reconnect with his family I had no idea it came with such expectations." "Sounds like Nate's grandfather lays out your life for you." "They're the Vanderbilts, not the Corleones." "This may sound silly." "I don't want Nate to get pushed into the family sausage grinder and come out his cousin." " Tell him that." "He just got his grandfather back in his life." "He seems happy." "The last thing I'd want is to say something that kept them apart." "Nate's understanding when he's not maiming people on the field." "So if you're worried, just tell him." "What?" "She's not here?" "She went to that party alone?" "Look, you have to tell us where she is." "Sorry, but Miss Blair very specific." "No tell Miss Serena, no tell Mr. Chuck." "If Mr. Chuck come, tell him Mr. Carter is more attentive to a woman's" "Enough." "I'm not going to play Where's Waldorf?" "All night." " How much is it gonna cost?" " How much?" "Dorota, Dorota, please." " Can't you see that Blair has changed?" " Yes." "It is old Miss Blair, new Miss Blair." "Like it was old Miss Serena, new Miss Serena." " Very hard to keep track." " Okay." "Blair is at a party right now alone with some very bad people." "We just want to help her, please." "I know Grandfather's pretty strong-willed." "If you're worried I'm gonna be pushed into anything, don't be." "Because I am really happy that you reconnected with your family." " Just" " Hey, hey, hey." "Nothing's gonna change." "Oh, hold on just one second." "Hey, Tripp, what's going on?" "Wait, where, in the city?" "I'd love to, but I'm on a date right now." "Yeah." "All right, just tell Grandfather I said I'm sorry." "All right, thanks, man." "Bye." "You should go meet them." "But we're eating pierogies." "We'll do the real thing this summer in Warsaw." "And Moscow and Budapest." "Summer pierogi tour'09." "I can't wait." "Okay." "Don't forget we have the party tomorrow." " Okay?" "Bye." " Okay." "Have fun." " May I help you?" " Great." "Looks like Polanski's in town." "Please, don't do this." "Blair." "Chuck?" "What are you doing here?" "Miss Waldorf, as I was saying I met with you as a favor to your headmistress." "But Sarah Lawrence cannot accept someone who has hazed a teacher." "But Dean Wheeler, that was a one-time mistake, an aberration." " Dean Wheeler?" " We may have made an error." "Colleges stopped accepting applications months ago." "Please?" "I don't have any other options." "I'm sorry, but you have my answer." "B. B, why didn't you tell us?" "What?" "That I was coming to debase myself by begging to be accepted at Sarah Lawrence?" "Gee, you're right." "Why didn't I update my Facebook page?" " Old Blair's still in there." " I knew you wouldn't give up." "You're wrong, I just did." "Don't follow me." "Poor B. Couldn't spin this one in her favor." "Looks like now, she's spinning out." "Why are we crashing Nate's family reunion?" "Why would Blair be here?" "Well, Dorota tipped me off." "She's coming." "Maybe she's ready to re-launch herself into blue-blood society." "Blair." "Hey." "You look great." " I feel great." " Why?" "Because I realize that while we can't tear out a single page of our life we can throw the whole book in the fire." "George Sand, she understands me." "What better place to go up in smoke than in front of the crème de la crème of New York society?" " Blair Waldorf." "How are you, dear?" "I heard you rejected the Colony Club." "Too stuffy for my taste as well." "That's because your taste includes sleeping with your driver and popping prescription meds." " Okay, not good." " Not good." "Like Dan-having-sex-with-Rachel-Carr in-the-costume-closet- during-the-school-play not good." "By the end of tonight, the old Blair will be dead and buried with no chance of resurrection." "Hey, you, garçon with the bubble butt arrêt." " Wow, that was" " Yeah." "Go find Dan." "I'll make sure this social eulogy doesn't get out of hand." "Thanks, Chuck." "Security check?" "I can't even fit my lipstick in here what could I possibly be trying to sneak in?" "I don't know, a liberal agenda?" "Universal healthcare?" "Education reform?" "Increasing estate tax?" "Well, I see you got my delivery." "Yes, I did." "Thank you." "Fits perfectly." "Of course it does." "Glad you could join us again." "I hope we weren't too hard on you." "I've always wanted a football injury to impress the ladies." "Touch-football injury?" "Would you mind if I borrowed him?" "No, you two go and talk and we'II, um, catch up with you later." " Drink?" " Drinks." "Hm." "Think the Humphreys have a crest?" "Something Jenny could stitch on to my cardigans?" "And don't forget the egg rolls." "Very important." "All right, thanks." "Lil?" "You have cash for a tip?" "Rufus, did you need something?" "How about the truth?" " Vanessa." "Hey, hey." " Tripp." "You look like you're having fun." "Top shelf all the way." "So you excited for Nate's big adventure this summer?" "He told you about our backpacking trip?" "I was talking about the internship at the mayor's office." "It's why William wanted Nate to meet him last night." "You didn't know." "There must be a misunderstanding." "Nate and I are traveling this summer." "Yeah." "I guess there must be." "Hey." "Anything you wanna say to me?" "Who told you?" "Tripp." "Here's where you tell me you told your grandfather we already made plans for the summer." "Look, I haven't made any decisions yet." "No, you haven't." "Your grandfather made this decision." " It's not like that." " Tell me what it's like." "Two days ago, you were excited to get away." " Just the two of us." " I know." "And I still am, okay?" "But it is an amazing opportunity." "For what?" "To turn into Tripp?" "Is that who you wanna be in five years?" "I don't know who I wanna become in the next five years." "That's the point." "If this is something I thought you wanted I'd be happy for you." "Can you tell me this isn't about what William wants?" "As opposed to what you want me to do." "I didn't mean that." "It's just my grandfather believes in me." "So, what are we talking about?" "It's good to see you." "Is your mother here?" "No." "It's a shame, though, she should be here to see this." "You must have her call me." "Gerald and I just got engaged and I need an Eleanor Waldorf design." "Sure, though I think she discontinued her third-trip-down-the-aisle only-took-the-plunge-for-money line." "I think you've had too much to drink." "Oh, you would know." "Three DUI's now, is it?" "Not that I blame you." "Her way to escape the whispers that you made your money in adult-entertainment sites." " I'm sorry, everyone." " Bye." "Big fan of your sites." " You about done?" " No." "What are you doing?" "Trying to destroy the old you?" "Burn every bridge?" "It won't help." "Believe me, I've tried." "I should head up to the roof, make it more dramatic." " This isn't you." " How do you know?" "I know you better than I know myself." "Oh, right." "You can see right through me." "Can't you, Chuck?" "Into my core." "Do you remember the first time you saw the real me?" "Why the dance for you that night at Victrola?" "The Blair with none of the hang-ups, none of the frustrations." "That's the Blair right here." "Take me now." "Why?" "To prove that nothing matters." "No." "This isn't you." "It's not the Blair I want." "That's right." "And I never will be again." "The danger with calling someone's bluff is that even if you win..." "Goodbye, Chuck." "...you risk them walking away from the table for good." "And who wants to play with themselves?" "Hey." " What are you doing out here?" " I don't know." "Well, here, take that." "Do you remember the first time you brought me here?" "When we first started dating?" " We were like" " Twelve or 13." "We used to talk about our future." "How perfect everything would be, remember?" "Yeah." "What happened?" "When did everything get so screwed up?" "This isn't how it's supposed to be." "I don't know who I am anymore." "What I'm supposed to do." " I feel so" " Lost." "Do you remember when you used to make us watch your favorite movies over and over again?" "Like Tiffany's and Holiday." "It used to drive me nuts." "This is a pep talk?" "Well, I finally asked you why you like watching movies you've already seen." "And do you remember what you said?" "I like knowing how things are gonna turn out." "Exactly." "Well, growing up, I never knew who I was supposed to be." "So I'd spend all my time apologizing for the privilege and the wealth and the opportunities I felt other people deserved more than I did." "And you know what I'm finally learning?" "You can't fight against who you are." "You are Blair Waldorf." "What happened to the Nate Archibald who just wanted to get high and play "Halo"?" "I don't know." "Well, I better..." "I better head inside." "Nate." "Don't forget your jacket." "Thank you." "Serena, hey, how are--?" "Whoa." "Whoa, what was that for?" "I don't know, Newland Archer." "Try to rack your brain a little." "Blair told you about me and Rachel." "In the costume closet, yes." " You and I were broken up." " That makes it okay to have sex with a teacher?" " Wasn't mine." "No, she was mine." "And you slept with her at school during a play, with me probably 20 feet away." "Okay, right." "Yeah." "When you put it like that." " What?" "Why are you smiling?" " I don't know." "I am mad, but that was invigorating." "Well, that's" " That's good to know that you enjoy hitting people." "Oh, and look, that's wonderful." "I'll be sure to check that out..." "Let's go get you ice." "This looks great." "And you remembered the egg rolls." "Make sure I only eat a few, I'm gonna feel guilty." "Not likely." "Okay, enough." "What's going on with you?" "I'm sorry, I was going to tell you" "Pretend this never happened." "What you wanted." " Not fair." " No kidding." "Which is why I didn't show you a condensed list." "A dozen, how much more condensed could it have been?" "Thirteen." "I'm not embarrassed about my past." "No, you're just embarrassed about mine." "When you saw the condensed version, you told me you were relieved." "So I think we found out everything we needed to know about each other." " Hey." " Hey." "I've been looking for you." "About before what I forgot to tell you is I believe in you too." "Just a different you." "Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?" "As we celebrate our family's past this weekend we also look to its future." "Our grandson Nathaniel is graduating from St. Jude's this year." "And I'm proud to announce, has been offered an internship in the mayor's office." " Nathaniel." " I'm sorry." "Well, our family has many traditions." "Some, like touch football, come at a steeper price than others." "What they all have in common is commitment to bringing out the best in yourself." "The potential, even if you're not sure what that is." "I hope to find out this summer in the mayor's office." "Yes, that's what I wanted to hear." "How about that?" "Call your travel agent, kiddies." "Looks like Nate Archibald traded in a summer of love for a one-way ticket to his legacy." "Hey, you left early." "What happened with Blair?" "Chuck?" "Okay, fine." "Have fun drinking by yourself." " I'm losing her." " Well, then, fight for her." " She did for you." " I tried." "I failed." "Well, then, try again." "She's scared, Chuck." "Her plan hasn't worked out for her and she doesn't know what's gonna happen next." "If you wanna be back in her life, make her feel safe." "You know what to say." " I can't believe you guys broke up." " We didn't exactly break up." "Or maybe we did, I don't know." "I just left." "It was bad, whatever it was." "Welcome to the world of Upper East Side grandparents." "I've gone up against them myself, they're tougher than they look." "So, what do I do?" "Well, just give him some space, you know?" "I mean, he needs time to work through everything." " Okay." " Space is key." "I mean, you guys belong together." "God, I'm hungry." "Why do rich people insist on tiny food?" "That's how they stay rich." "Only buy small food." "Okay, music." "Hey, listen." "It's gonna be okay." "I thought you'd left." "I did." "Well, why don't you try it again?" "Maybe this time it will take." "I made a new list." "It's not what you think." ""Murphy's Two for One Fridays"?" ""Romance novels." "Sonoma Cabernets." "Christmas-tree ornaments."" "That's the only list I need to know." "Things that make you happy." "Or sad or crazy." "Though that last one would be kind of hard to condense." " Just know that I'm sorry." " Why?" "This whole thing was my fault." "I'm the one that wanted to open the door to the past." "Well, consider it closed." "I don't get it." "I mean, I know you were married for 18 years but you were the lead singer of a not entirely unpopular band and I remember beautiful girls throwing themselves at you every night." "It's true but the majority of that time, I was pining for a certain blond photojournalist." "Springtime, a season for rebirth and new beginnings." "For some, it's a chance to turn over a new leaf." "I told doorman, no visitors." "Mr. Chuck, it's late." "I just need a moment of her time." "Miss Blair asleep." "I'm sorry." "Can you tell her that I stopped by and I have something I need to tell her?" "I will." "In morning." "Thank you for making sure I got home okay." "You're welcome." "I just wanted to make sure you were fine." "Which you are, so I should go." "Wait." "For others, it's the surprise of seeing something bloom." "Stay." "But for yours truly, it's a reminder that on the Upper East Side everything old can be new again." "X O X O, Gossip Girl."

" Mr. Moore." " Hey, good morning." "Congratulations." "Thank you very much." "Get back to work, all right?" "Sean Moore... a man on the eve of attaining a level of wealth... that most of us can only dream about." "But the choices Sean made to get to this point... are about to come back to haunt him... courtesy of the Twilight Zone." "Contract lawyers at 11:00... lunch with the presentation team..." "Oh, and it's your mother's birthday tomorrow." "You want me to send the usual flower arrangement?" " Yeah, bingo to that." " Remind you to call her?" "That's very funny." "That's the last thing she'd want." "OK, first step, you've got an interview... with Elizabeth Carter from High Finance magazine." "What's she after?" "My guess is word's spreading fast... on the Monarch Foods buyout." "No, blow her off." "She's been waiting almost an hour, Sean." "This is not the time for bad press." "Sean Moore, self-made man... left Evanston senior year of high school... traveled to Venice, California... opened up your first cappuccino stand... before your 18th birthday." "Two weeks shy." "Sixteen years later, you're C.E.O. Of one... of America's leading coffee franchises... and yet you're trying to sell a company... that you built from scratch." "Why?" "What can I say?" "I grew up in the Eighties." "Some kids grew up watching "Star Wars."" "I grew up watching "Wall Street."" ""Greed is good." Remember?" "Yes." "I remember." "In my research..." "I found a little story about you." "Really." "Only one." "About a certain baseball signed by the 1927 Yankees... a family heirloom... that you sold to start your business." "It was my grandfather's ball." "He gave it to my dad... my dad gave it to me when I turned 17." "And you got, what, 8,000 for it?" "Something like that." "And you father didn't mind you selling it?" "No, of course he didn't." "Even if it meant you leaving home?" "You know, I answered your question." "You think maybe we could change the subject?" "Excuse me, Sean... but I've got that call you were expecting." "Right." "I'm sorry." "Gonna have to cut the interview short." "I see." "Why do I get the feeling that didn't go so well?" "Don't let that sweet face fool you." "She's up to no good." " I need an aspirin." " Bottom drawer." ""Ruth, Gehrig, Huggins."" "This is the 1927 Yankees." "That must be worth something." "How the hell did it get here?" "This is the ball that I sold 16 years ago." "This was my dad's baseball." "You are traveling to another dimension." "A dimension not only of sight and sound... but of mind." "A journey into a wondrous land... whose boundaries are only that of the imagination." "You're entering..." "She was never out of my sight." "Then how'd she get this in here?" "Sean, I'm lost." "The baseball." "Somehow, she planted it." "This is just too whacked." "Maybe somebody got it for you as a gift." "It's the exact same ball." "I sold it 16 years ago." "I'll check with the staff... see if anybody knows how it got here." "Meantime, the editors are waiting for your final notes... on the corporate presentation film." "Message one." "Sean, Kate." "Good news." "Ulrich's flying in from Geneva... just for the presentation, so it looks like our friends... at Monarch Foods are in a buying mood... and, oh, by the way, I asked around the office." "No one seems to know about that baseball." "Message Two." "Hi." "Elizabeth Carter from High Finance." "I really think we need to talk some more about your past." "It's Alicia." "I'll be by your place at 9:00." "I can't wait to see you." "It's only been a week, and it feels like forever." "I miss you like crazy." "Bye." "Just when I thought it couldn't get any better." "I hope the neighbors didn't hear." "What's the matter, baby?" "You having second thoughts about the sale?" "No." "I'm just a little distracted, that's all." "Was it something I did?" "No, no, no." "Past stuff." "I guess some things never go away." "I love you, Sean." "I would be so lost without you." "What's the matter?" "You want me to leave?" "Yeah." "OK." "You still have to pay me for the entire night." "Listen, next time... go easy on the hearts and flowers, OK?" "You still want me to say "I love you," right?" "Yeah, that's what I pay you for." "Just don't..." "be so pushy, all right?" "What the hell?" "What's wrong?" "Did she put you up to this?" "Who?" "The reporter, Elizabeth Carter." "Did she pay you to put this here?" "Sean, I don't know what you're talking about." "You don't, huh?" "It's just an old school jacket." "No, this is my old school jacket." "I got rid of this thing years ago." "I burned it." "OK, well, then, it's not the same one." "It's the same jacket." "Look, it's got my name on it." "It's got my school letters." "What now?" "Sean?" "It's the letter." "It's Bess' letter." "Bess?" "Bess Wicker." "She was my first girlfriend." "You know what they say." ""First love's hardest to forget."" "See you next week, Sean." ""Sean, I'm sending you back your jacket." ""I've decided I can't come to California." ""I wish I could forget what you did, but I can't."" ""I love you, Sean." "I always will..." ""but I just can't forgive you." "Bess."" "Mr. Moore." "All right, let's have it." "What the hell do you want from me?" "I thought we could finish up our interview." "Oh, screw the interview." "I want to know how you're pulling it off." "Pulling it off?" "The baseball, the school jacket." "You really are afraid to look at your past, aren't you?" "You know what, lady?" "I don't need to look back." "My company is in play for more money... than I ever thought existed in the world." "You live alone." "You have no friends... no one you care about, and no one who cares for you." "How do you know all this about me?" "!" "Who the hell are you?" "!" "I thought you would have figured it out by now." "I know you, Sean." "Bess?" "Bess Wicker?" "Sorry I'm late." "Got caught in traffic." "I've got Kurt Bruckman on line three." "He's managing editor at High Finance." " Bruckman." "Sean Moore." " Hello." "What can I do for you, Mr. Moore?" "I'm tracking down a writer that works at your magazine." "It's the woman doing the feature story." "Feature story?" "Yeah, the feature story." "The one about me." "To be perfectly frank, I know nothing about... a feature article being done about you." "OK, what are you people trying to pull?" "Her name's Elizabeth Wicker." "She works for High Finance." "There must be some mistake here." "No, there's no mistake." "OK?" "Now, if you're tellin' me... that you don't have an Elizabeth Wicker... that works at your magazine..." "Well, we did, but Elizabeth Wicker... was killed in a car crash three days ago." "Elizabeth Ann Wicker..." "Evanston, Illinois, April 7, 1972." "It's got to be some kind of a hoax." "No." "No, it was Bess." "Don't ask me to explain it, but she was... she was sitting right there." "You saw her yourself." "I saw someone named Elizabeth Carter." "Uh-huh." "It was her." "She's all grown up from the kid I used to know." "So what are you saying?" "It was Elizabeth Wicker's ghost... who sat in that chair?" "The baseball, the jacket..." "All these things I'd thrown away." "Why does she want me to have them?" "We need to focus." "Tomorrow's sales pitch to Monarch Foods... everything you've worked for is riding on this." "You won't get a second chance." "A second chance." "Maybe that's what she's giving me." "Mom." "Mom." "Hello, Sean." "It's been a while." "Happy, uh... happy birthday." "Tell your secretary I said thank you for the flowers." "She's got good taste, doesn't she?" "So, you come all this way to wish me happy birthday?" "Do you remember Bess Wicker?" "Bess Wicker?" "Of course." "That was a sweet girl." "You lost a jewel when you let that one get away." "Yeah." "I saw her recently... and she gave me something for you." "I think she really wanted you to have it." "You recognize it?" "It's Dad's baseball." "But how did Bess get hold of it?" "L..." "I don't know." "Does it really matter?" "Here." "Take it." "It broke your father's heart, losing' that ball." "Till the day he died, he always hoped that..." "I know what he hoped... and I'm finally bringing it back." "And that's supposed to make everything right?" "You stole that ball from your father... knowing how much it meant to him... how much you meant to him." "Mom, try to understand." "It was the Eighties." "There was all this money around." "I just wanted my share." "Well, you got what you wanted." "I hope it made you happy." "Just take the ball." "It's too late." "Now, having built Moore Java from the ground floor up..." "I can safely say that I wouldn't entrust its future... to just any multi-national conglomerate... so we've put together this film... for you at Monarch Foods... to show you why your time and interest... in Moore Java is fully justified." "Play." "Play." "Here we go." "I'm not seeing anything." "Hey, Spielberg, you've got the lens cover on." "So, how's it feel to be the first family on the block... to own a video camera?" " I feel like a star." " This can't be." "Want to tape me fixing the garbage disposal?" "Hey, get the love birds." "Here we go!" "Hey, slick!" "Give us a big smile over here." "Ha ha!" "Ahh, way to go, Sean!" "Just like your old man!" "Here, give me that." " Oh, no!" " Come on!" "Come on!" " Stop!" " Ha ha ha ha!" "Come on, Dad, do it, already!" "You watch and learn, son." " Oh, yeah?" " Mmm!" "Mom, don't embarrass me in front of Bess." "I love you." "Aww." "That is so romantic." "Hello, Sean." "So, how'd you know I'd be here?" "I didn't." "I just hoped." "You know, I remember all the plans we had." "We were gonna buy this house... when my parents moved to the country." "Fix it up." "Make it look like new." "Bess, I wish I could change the past... and make everything right." "It's too late." "Is it?" "That's why you came back, isn't it?" "Give me a second chance?" "I can't give you anything." "You have to be willing to take it." "So, how's it feel to be the first family... on the block to own a video camera?" "I know you, Sean." "It broke your father's heart losing that ball." "Yes..." "I remember." "Sean." "I told you I was gonna do it on Thursday." " Yeah, last Thursday." " Ohhh!" "Hey, save your strength, slick." " Watch your language." " What'd I say?" "I didn't think you'd be here." "Of course I'm here." "We have plans, remember?" "Mom, Dad?" "Bess and I are gonna grab something' to eat... maybe catch "Roger Rabbit" at the duplex." "Hey, Sean, you need a few bucks?" "It's OK, Dad." "I got all I need." "I love you, Sean." "They say you can't go home again... but tell that to Sean Moore... who traded his fortune for the most precious gift of all... a chance to wipe the slate clean... and start life anew."

"Good morning, miss macdaid." "Good morning." "Good morning, Rama." "Good morning." "What's this, Target practice?" "If I didn't, they wouldn't Leave me any flowers." "What about stopping for a drink Or perhaps a cup of tea?" "Oh, it's a temptation, Mr. Ransome," "But they're expecting me Back at the hospital." "In other words, One of my patients has simply Made up his mind to die..." "If miss macdaid isn't there Every hour she can spare..." "Out of the 24 She already works." "Very well, but next time I won't take no For an answer." "I'll hold you to that." "Try and persuade major Safti To take some rest." "There goes a great And good woman." "Yes, there's no one Quite like her." "Now, there's one Of the mysteries of India..." "I'll never be able To understand." "What's that?" "That stringless quartet Over there." "They never Seem to listen Or to say anything." "But I know perfectly well That by Tomorrow morning..." "My innermost secrets Will be the common talk Of Ranchipur." "But of course, You have nothing To hide." "Brandy and soda?" "Yes, thanks." "No, I don't think I'd better." "I may have to operate This afternoon." "Oh, just a drop." "Steadies the hand, see?" "Well, kind of." "Hmm." "Then there's a conference With the maharajah At the palace." "In this heat?" "Major, your energy appalls me." "Why, it isn't hot." "It's only 109 in the shade." "Aren't you ever Going to finish it?" "Is there any hurry?" "But you haven't Done a stroke since The last time I was here." "Oh, stop." "You're making me perspire." "If the rains Would only come." "They were praying at the temple As I drove by this morning." "I had half a mind to join them." "In prayer?" "I didn't know You had faith In anything, Tom." "Oh, that's where you're wrong." "I've got faith In a lot of things." "For instance, uh-- For instance?" "Well, for instance, Queen victoria." "That old statue?" "Oh, to you She's only a statue," "But to me she's an old friend" "A living reminder of the fine, Brave days before the world Went to seed." "When london bridge did Its falling to a dance step," "Not to the threat Of Tomorrow's bombs." "When every american Was a millionaire-- Or about to be one" "And people sang in vienna." "There she stands In her cast-iron petticoat," "Unconcerned about wars, Dictators and appeasement," "As serene as ever." "God bless her." "The world is not as bad As you think, Tom." "No?" "Only trying To commit suicide As fast as it knows how." "I don't agree with you." "Here in Ranchipur, We're trying to make it A little better." "The whole world?" "Our world-- India in general, Ranchipur in particular." "I rather like the old place Just as it is." "You see it as an artist." "I see it as an Indian." "My people are crying for help, After centuries of disease..." "And poverty and superstition." "The american girl And her mother From the mission." "They're not stopping here, Are they?" "Mother, please don't." "I'll die if you do." "Oh, don't be silly." "If he wanted to know us, He'd have called before this." "Hold the reins." "Is the honorable Mr. Ransome in?" "I'll find out, memsahib." "Please." "Oh!" "Mr. Ransome." "Do forgive me For intruding." "I'm so anxious to have you come To a little garden party..." "I'm giving this afternoon For lily hoggett-egburry..." "And some of the nicer English people." "Well, the major and I Had planned some tennis For this afternoon, and" "Well, I'm sure that major Safti Won't mind giving up his tennis Just this once." "Well, I'm afraid That's for Mr. Ransome To decide." "There, you see?" "It's all settled." "5:00 for tea." "We'll be looking For you." "Now, why did I say I'd go?" "You didn't." "She did." "So nice to see you, lily." "Thank you, my dear." "Oh, you know major craddock And mrs." "Palmer, of course." "How do you do?" "Mrs. Hoggett-egburry." "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "Lily, Tom Ransome Is dropping in later." "Tom Ransome!" "Oh, my dear!" "What a catch for you." "I mean, my dear, A realpukka sahib," "And one of the very best County families In all england." "But, being an american, Of course that means Nothing to me." "No, of course not." "Oh!" "How do you do?" "Why, how are you?" "I'm so glad to see you." "This is a surprise." " and how do you do?" "How nice seeing you." " fine, thank you." "Phew!" "I wish you'd do something About that dreadful Smiley woman." "Yes, dear." "Look at her." "She just does it to annoy me." "Does what, dear?" "Sits there And looks so" "Oh, so middle west In front of my guests." "I wish you'd do Something about it." "What can I do, dear?" "Well, you're head Of this mission, aren't you?" "Yes, but it's her verandah, My dear." "Here comes Mr. Ransome." "Hello, Tom!" "Oh, hello, aunt phoebe." "How do you keep so cool In this infernal heat?" "No hotter than iowa In good corn weather." "Mmm!" "All dressed up, Fit to kill." "Where you going?" "Across the way." "Are you going over?" "No, sirree." "We've got A gentleman's agreement." "She keeps her nose Out of the mission school," "And I don't have to go To her parties." "You might call it An armed truce." "How are you, homer?" "Hello, Tom." "Hello, darling." "Hello." "What do you think you are, A two-year-old?" "Working after hours In this heat." "My husband's a fool." "Now, now, ma." "You know what It says in scripture About calling people fools." "I had to keep One of my pupils After school." "He'd been throwing Spitballs." "You'll be staying To tea, of course?" "Oh, he can't." "He's going to the party." "Oho." "Better hurry up, Tom." "Mrs. Simon will be Climbing that hedge After you." "Here I go." "So glad you could come." "It's my last tea this season." "We'll be leaving for simla Before the rains." "You'll be going too, Of course?" "Naturally." "No one stays in Ranchipur During the monsoon." "No?" "Only about Five million people." "Oh, you know what I mean." "Proper people-- The kind of people one knows." "It's so seldom out here One meets anyone..." "From one of the real County families." "Of course, you've heard The Eskeths have just arrived?" "The Eskeths?" "Lord Esketh." "Thelord Esketh." "Oh, fern!" "Fern!" "I'm coming." "Oh, there you are." "Fern, Mr. Ransome's here." "Put some powder On your nose." "It keeps melting off." "If you think he'd marry me, You're on the wrong track." "Why, how dare you Insinuate that I-- All right, all right." "Let's not argue." "Okeydoke." "I'm ready." ""okeydoke." I don't know where you pick up All this american slang." "Mr. Ransome." "Mr. Ransome, this is Our little girl." "Our little daughter, Fern." "How do you do?" "I've wanted so much For you two to know Each other." "May I get you a drink?" "Oh, you're very kind." "I'll send one of the boys." "You know what mother Means by a drink, Don't you?" "I beg your pardon?" "Lemonade." "Oh." "Wouldn't you like something, Uh, a little stronger?" "I see that my reputation Has preceded me." "Father keeps a little brandy In case of snake bites And things." "Mmm." "The snakes Have been a bit trying This afternoon." "I'll get some for you." "You think your mother Would mind very much If we" "Mother?" "She wouldn't mind." "Thanks." "A little water, please." "Thank you." "Oh, I hope I'm not Keeping you from your guests." "Oh, they're not my guests." "That's mother's idea Of high society." "They're all excited Because you're here." "Really?" "Should I be flattered?" "They say dreadful things About you." "What sort of things?" "That you're a drunkard And a bounder And a remittance man." "They'll hang around you Just the same..." "Because your father Was an earl." "I suppose I shouldn't Be talking like this." "Why not?" "I don't mind." "I don't care What they say about you," "Because I know What you're really like." "I've watched you from my window Every time you've come To the smileys'." "Sometimes I think You're the only person In Ranchipur I don't hate." "You see, Mr. Ransome," "I've wanted to know you For a long time," "But not this way." "Not with mother throwing me At your head." "Oh, my dear child-- Oh, I'm not a child." "I'm over 18." "I'm a woman." "I-- I need your help." "I'm" " I'm in trouble." "Trouble?" "Yes, I" "Oh, it's so hard To tell you." "Well, it needn't be." "I understand." "That's why I had to come to you." "You see, I-- Perhaps I can help you." " is there a man mixed up in it?" " no." "Except you." "Oh, Mr. Ransome, I've got to get away From here." "I can't stand it Any longer." "What's the matter?" "Well, they want to run My life for me." "They want me to go on Living this phony life They think is so wonderful." "And mother pretending We're not just missionaries." "You will help me, won't you?" "Well, what could I do?" "Well, you know All about the world..." "And women And things like that." "Oh, well, if it's advice You want" "Oh, no, I-- I need more than advice." "I-- I haven't any money." "Well, I couldn't do that." "Well, I only need A little" "Just enough to get me To where I want to go." "I'll pay you back, Honestly, every cent." "Oh, it isn't the money, My child." "I told you, I'm not a child." "Look here, I can't be Directly responsible For what might happen to you." "Don't you realize The awkward position You might put me in?" "I didn't think you cared About respectability." "Well, I don't." "Neither do I. I just Want everything there is To be had out of life." "That's all very well, But it's not that easy." "I'm not looking For things to be easy." "I just can't Stand it here any longer." "I've got to get away." " where would you go?" " on the stage." " on the stage?" " well, why not?" "I'm not bad-looking." "And I have Very nice legs." "Oh, yes." "Very nice." "Uh, miss Simon and I, We were just, uh, talking About the theater." "Oh, yes, of course." "I'm sorry to disturb you, But there's a messenger here From the palace." "Oh, yes?" "From her highness To Ransome sahib." "I'm afraid I'll have to Leave your delightful party If I'm going to be on time." "Oh, my dear boy, That's quite all right." "I understand perfectly." "When the palace calls, We must drop everything And obey." "Oh, well, You're very kind." "Charming, isn't he?" "I think it was a mistake Inviting him." "Everyone knows His reputation with..." "Women..." "And rum." "Don't be provincial." "Do you ever get us Invited to the palace?" "Do you?" "Huh!" "Good evening, Your highness." "Good evening." "Good evening, Ransome." "I am glad you could come." "To see you again is one Of the few thrills left In life, your highness." "You said that As if you meant it." "I do mean it." "Come along." "I'll introduce to you Our guests of honor." "Lady Esketh." " hello, Edwina." " why, Tom." "We heard of a person Named Ransome Living in Ranchipur," "But I never dreamed it was you." "How nice That you know each other." "Oh, yes." "We're old friends." "Albert?" "Yes?" "This is Tom Ransome." "You've heard me speak of him." "My husband." "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "Ransome, of course." "How do you do?" "Your highness, I've just Been telling Mr. "bannager"-- Bannerjee." "Yes, yes." "When I first visited India, I was amazed to find..." "That you people had so many Of the modern conveniences." "Really?" "Yes, and the blessings Of civilization." "Oh, thank you." "We flatter ourselves To be jolly well abreast Of the times." "Your highness, Dinner is served." "Shall we go?" "Now that you've met One of your own kind," "I suppose you'll be Grand for days." "Why do you always make a point Of criticizing men Like Tom Ransome?" "Because he happens To be a gentleman?" "If he's a gentleman, Why is he living here In India?" "He's got plenty Of money." "I don't imagine Tom's Ever thought of money," "One way or another, In all his life." "Oh, one of those Radicals, eh?" "How do you like the maharani?" "Tough egg, isn't she?" "I call her the "last queen."" "You know, nowadays when queens Do everything in their power To look like housewives," "She still dresses the queen And acts it." "Here goes one of The most expensive figures In the british empire." "General, for years I have been telling you..." "Never to draw To an inside straight." "Your highness, would you mind If I showed lady Esketh The palace?" "Of course not." "Need a guide?" "No, thanks." "I know my way about." "Good luck." "Your highness, My apologies For being late." "You received my message?" "Was it cholera?" "No, just old-fashioned Colic." "Good." "Get in the game." "I need some competition." "Now, look here, Your highness." "Your highness, I'm willing To pay £5,000-£10,000" "For that chestnut stallion And two mares." "It is a generous offer, But asoka is not for sale." "Oh, come now." "Anything's for sale If the offer's high enough." "I am afraid You don't understand." "Your highness Drives a hard bargain." "I mean to have that stallion." "Name your price And I'll meet it, Whatever it is." "It is not a question Of price, lord Esketh." "You have seen other Horses in my stables Almost as perfect as asoka." "Now, please let me make you A gift of a stallion And two mares." "A gift?" "Well, if your highness Really means it, you're" "You're very kind." "You understand, of course, I cannot ship them During the heat." "Of course." "Thank you." "That's a rembrandt." "And that's a buddhist Prayer wheel." "And that, I suspect, Was bought..." "From a street peddler In naples." "And this" "This was bagged By the old lady herself, And on foot, too," "If that means anything To you." "Frankly, it doesn't." "No." "I'd like some air." "Well, it's beginning To look like rain At last." "You haven't told me What you're doing here." "I came out here seven years ago To paint the maharajah's Portrait." "Been here ever since." "Not a very exciting life, Is it?" "No." "Is yours?" "Now and then." "Hmm." "What brought you All the way up here To Ranchipur?" "The maharajah's horses." "Albert's very fond of horses." "The only thing he is fond of, Except money." " have you become fond Of money too?" " passionately." "It used to be Just excitement." "You can't live On excitement alone." "We found that out, Didn't we?" "I didn't mind." "I did." "I minded washing My own stockings," "Going without breakfast And only being able to afford The hairdresser once a week." "Well, perhaps I was selfish." "There was a time, mind you-- And I hope you won't blush" "When I seriously thought Of marrying you." "Why, Tom, how touching." "I never suspected." "Well, we've come A long way since then." " a long way apart." " what do you mean?" "You'd know if you'd Lived here a while." "In Ranchipur, The important things in life Are the elemental things," "Such as crops, Starvation and weather." "In europe, When someone says, "it looks like rain,"" "In all probability He's trying to make Polite conversation." "But here, where people die As easily as they're born," "They're speaking in terms Of life and death." "You'll see what I mean If you're still here When the rains come." "You'll see them overnight..." "Turn the fields, the gardens And the jungles..." "From a parched And burning desert Into a mass of green..." "That seems to live, To writhe..." "And to devour the walls, The trees and the houses." "Well, I hope I'm not Keeping you up." "Tom, you've changed." "You didn't used to be Such a windbag." "You haven't changed." "Haven't I?" "No." "You're still a lovely creature." "Am I?" "It's exciting seeing you again." "May I have a cigarette?" "So you've forgotten." "Sorry." "Well, I was right." "Here it comes." "Has your highness any idea Where they've gone?" "I'm afraid It's a big palace," "That they might Be anywhere." "Excuse me." "Your husband's been looking For you, lady Esketh." "I think he wants To go home." "Thank you, your highness." "Brandy?" "No, thank you." "Who's the pale-copper Apollo?" "Major Safti." "Not bad." "Not bad at all." "Well, don't waste your time." "He's a surgeon And a scientist." "Any interest he might have In romance is purely biological." "You make him sound Even more exciting." "There you are." "I've been looking For you everywhere." "Are you ready to go?" "Whenever you are." "I'm ready now." "I think I'm going To be ill." "It's this confounded Climate." "I'm sorry, albert." "Mr. Ransome tells me There's a doctor In Ranchipur..." "Who's not at all bad." "If you're no better In the morning, We'll send for him." "Oh, that's very Kind of you." "Hello." "Well." "What are you doing here?" "I've run away from home." "I'm never going back." "Uh-huh." "You can't do that." "Why not?" "Because I told you-- I can't take The responsibility." "I know, But since we talked This afternoon," "I figured out Another way That you can help me." "Yes?" "What way?" " well?" " I want you to let me Stay here tonight." "Have you any idea What you're saying?" "Of course I have." "Don't you see?" "Then everyone Would think that" "Well, anyway, there'd be Such a scandal, I'd have To leave Ranchipur." "They'd send me away." "That's all very well, But why, in the name Of the million gods of India," "Do you have to choose me?" "Well, it shouldn't Matter a bit to you." "Your reputation Is already so-- So tarnished." "Please." "Don't you dare laugh at me." "Oh, listen to me, child." "What's this?" "You're soaking wet." "What of it?" "And I'm not a child." "Well, anyway, You're going straight home." "I'm not going home." "I'm never going home again." " you want me to put you out By force?" " you won't." "I'd make a scene," "And you're the kind of a man Who hates scenes." "Well, at least I can get you Some dry clothes." "Come with me." "Don't be afraid." "Oh" "I'm not afraid." "I'm just cold." "Uh-huh." "Now, change into these." "You'll find plenty of towels In the bathroom." "Give yourself A good rubdown." "Oh, I'll be In the other room." "That's very becoming." "I don't believe My old school tie ever Appeared to better advantage." "Well" " I'm so sorry." "It looked so old and frayed, And I couldn't find a belt." "That's quite all right." "It would be easier If I could call you Tom." "There's nothing I'd like better, fern." "Don't you feel anything At all about me?" "I'd be a fool if I didn't." "You're lovely, fern" "Not nearly so much Of a child as I thought." "There's somebody there, Behind the blind." "John!" "John!" "I suppose you heard Everything that went on." "If you breathe one word of this, I'll feed you To the crocodiles." "Yes, sahib." "As long as you're up, You can drive miss Simon home." "Get the car." "Yes, sahib." "Yes, sahib." "Who was it?" "Have they gone?" "He's gone, all right, And you're going too." "All right, I'll go now-- Peacefully." "Yes." "May I come and see you Once in a while?" "Why, of course." "You see, that's important, Because" "Because I guess I love you." "If I didn't, I wouldn't be going home now." "Has the doctor come yet?" "He's with his lordship now, Milady." "I want to see him Before he goes." "Yes, milady." "Don't take that." "Bring another cup." "Yes, milady." "Good morning." "Oh." "Good morning." "I'm Edwina Esketh." "Oh." "I hope I did right Asking especially for you." "Maybe I'm imposing on you." "On the contrary, Lady Esketh." "It's my duty." "There's nothing seriously Wrong with your husband, Just a bad congestion." "But his blood pressure Is much too high." "No unpleasant asiatic microbes?" "No, just simple European overindulgence." "I prescribed Some tablets for him," "And he should Be kept very quiet." "Won't you stay for some tea?" "I'll have to get this filled At the hospital." "Bates can take it." "Do sit down, major." "You're very kind." "Frankly, it's rather A treat for me to have Someone to talk to." "I expect it will be Deadly dull..." "Now that albert's Going to be ill." "I think this tea is cold." "I'll send for some more." "No, don't bother." "I like it that way." "Sugar?" "No, thank you." "What would you prescribe For a patient about to die Of galloping boredom?" "I imagine the maharani Will see to it that you're Properly entertained." " how?" " well, the usual routine With guests, I believe," "Is to, uh, show them first The waterworks," "Then, in order, The narrow-gauge railway," "The hospital, the zoo And the asylum for the insane." " how exciting." " yes, isn't it?" "And the maharajah Has promised me My choice of horses." "I wonder if he'd mind If I also chose my escort." "Ranchipur is famous For its horsemen." "I'm sure you'll have no trouble In finding a suitable escort." "Do you ride, major?" "Whenever I have the time, Which isn't very often." "Don't you ever take a day off?" "I'm willing to make An exception." "That's very gallant Of you, major." "If you don't mind..." "Waiting until After working hours." "Besides, it's cooler then." "I wouldn't dream of Interfering with your work." "What's this?" "The insane asylum?" "No." "No, this is The maharani's music school." "Oh." "Major sahib, memsahib." "How are you, I hope?" "Would you care To look around?" "I'd love to." "Lady Esketh would like To see the school." "Oh, yes." "Yes." "This way." "Mr. Das, the director Of the school." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Do you like music?" "Oh, I have a box At covent garden As a matter of course." "Frankly, I like This sort better." "Mr. Das, is jemnaz singh Here today?" "Oh, yes." "Yes." "This way, please." "Good." "Jemnaz singh, The rajput singer." "What kind of song Is it?" "Oh, a love song." "Oh, yes." "Do you know the song?" "Yes." "The words Are traditional," "But the music Is improvised-- Free variations." "How do the words go?" "Well, it's in The ancient language-- The ceremonial language." "I'm afraid I don't know it As well as I should." "Try." "Well, it's a bit florid." ""that my lyre..." ""were of purest jade," ""with strings..." ""of fine spun gold." ""that I..." ""might sing..." ""with merit..." ""of your beauty." ""your hands..." ""hold my life," ""my being." ""drop it," ""and I perish." ""but in your heart," ""my love..." ""has found a home." ""and it..." "Can never die."" ""but in your heart," ""my love has found a home," "And it can never die."" "It is a lot Of sentimental nonsense, Isn't it?" " hello, miss macdaid." " oh, hello." "Where's Rama?" "He's busy." "Ahh!" "Didn't turn up yesterday." "What sort of a woman Is lady Esketh?" "Lady Esketh?" "Why?" "The major brought Her here yesterday To show her the hospital." "He's out with her Again today." "Well, you met her." "What did you think Of her?" "I know her type." "Many like her in europe These days." "Too many for its own good." "Oh." "Well, I would say She's the one woman In Ranchipur..." "That Rama shouldn't know." "Is lady Esketh Dining out tonight?" "Yes, milord." "Her ladyship is dining At the Bannerjees'." "Mr. Ransome Is calling for her." "Oh." "Why should I care Who's calling for her?" "Go on, answer it." "Yes, milord." "What's this?" "Major Safti's orders." "I hope that blasted native Knows what he's doing." "Major Safti is the head Of the state medical department." "Filth." "Her ladyship Will be ready directly." "May I offer you A drink, sir?" "Yes." "Brandy and soda-- And make it strong." "Yes, sir." "How's the patient This evening?" "Much better, sir, thank you." "Thanks." "Hello, Tom." "Oh, hello." "Good of you to come for me." "Are we late?" "Oh, no, no." "There's-- There's plenty of time." "No, Mr. Bannerjee's Dinners always begin..." "At the fashionable Half-past 8:00." "Hear you've been Having adventures." "I am a victim Of circumstances." "If you didn't drink so much, You wouldn't always be Getting into trouble." "Well, at least my weakness Is wine." " what do you mean by that?" " you know what I mean." "Listen to who's moralizing." "I suppose that comes From philandering Around missions." "I never philander Around missions," "And I don't philander Around hospitals either." "Don't be catty, Tom." "I do believe you're jealous." "You know perfectly well I'm not jealous." "If there ever was Anything between us," "We both know it's finished now-- Dead and gone." "Then why do you come here And act drunk And dictatorial?" "Because I see Something happening I don't like." "Stop talking Like a copy book." "It's not becoming." "When are you leaving?" "We planned to go Tomorrow, But with albert ill" "Is he too ill to travel?" "No." "Then why don't you go?" "You are a beast, aren't you?" "Tom, we've double-crossed Almost everyone in the world." "Let's not start On each other." "I don't want To interfere really." "But Rama's my friend, And I don't like it." "If you only knew How wrong you are." "He's the one man I've ever met I haven't been able to make An impression on." "Are you sober enough To take me To the party?" "Almost." "Bates." "Bates!" "Have they gone yet?" "Yes, milord." "They've just left." "Well, get me My dispatch case." "Yes, milord." "Go on, get it." "Don't just stand there." "And the pen." "Why are you standing there Looking like a fool?" "Your lordship Didn't dismiss me." "Dismiss you?" "You're lucky I didn't Dismiss you ages ago." "I've put up with your Infernal impertinence For 15 years." "Don't stand there looking at me." "If I want you again, I'll ring." "Now, get out." "Yes, milord." "Come here." "Close those." "I suppose you'd like me To die of malaria." "No, milord." "Well, get out!" "Yes, milord." "Just stand still." "They won't attack If they're not provoked." "Welcome, lady Esketh." "Good evening, Mr. Ransome." "Please." "Some night, you're going To fall flat on your face," "And people will begin To suspect that you drink." "Good evening." "It's awfully kind of you To come, lady Esketh." "Of course, we are terribly Upset about lord Esketh" "That he can't Be with us tonight." "Hello, Ransome." "I believe you know almost Everyone from the palace." "You know raschid ali khan." "Of course." "Yes." "And may I present miss macdaid?" "Lady Esketh." " yes, we've met." " yes, indeed." "I hope you're enjoying Your stay, lady Esketh." " very much." " how soon do you expect To be leaving?" "Oh." "I'm in no particular hurry." "I find it very pleasant Here in Ranchipur." "There's major Safti." "Excuse me." "Good evening, major." "Good evening." "You know Major remmington?" "Lady Esketh." "Could I have A word with you?" "Certainly." "Forgive us." "Poor lady Esketh." "She's so frightfully upset About her husband." "Better have this cocktail." "It isn't as bad as it looks." "Do you know that your friends Have been warning me To leave town?" "Leave town?" "Why?" "Why do you think?" "They feel I'm a bad influence on you." "That's ridiculous." "Isn't it?" "You're not afraid of me, Are you, major?" "Why, of course not." "You wouldn't feel relieved If I left?" "No." "As a matter of fact, I'd miss you." "I've enjoyed your company Very much." " I was afraid You'd take that attitude." " what attitude?" "Lying to me." "But I-- I just told you that-- Don't bother to explain." "You know perfectly well What I'm thinking," "And I know What you're thinking." "I've done everything But fall at your feet," "And you haven't even blinked." "So I think I will Leave Tomorrow morning." "Please don't leave On my account." "Not because of what might Happen to you if I stayed," "But because Of what might happen to me." "Earthquake!" "It's an earthquake!" "Well, it's all over." "Nothing to worry about, Not a thing." "Just a slight tremor." "Where is his highness?" "He was in there." "What's the matter with you, Standing there like dummies?" "Clear this away." "Get through to that room!" "Wire's down, of course." "I'm going to the palace For orders." "Major-- Come along with us, Miss macdaid." "They'll need us At the hospital." "Bates!" "Fifteen years, it's been "yes, milord." "No, milord." "Yes, milord."" "Well, it's too late now." "We're both for it." "You're afraid." "Come on with me." "Good morning, Edwina." "Good morning." "Water's still rising." "Look at queen victoria." "What's that frightful row?" "Bannerjee." "He says I'm an impious Barbarian." "But not in english, You'll notice." "That's India for you." "They've been praying For the rains all spring." "Now that they're here, They're praying for them To go away." "Might be just as well If we joined in." "Look." "It's a boat." "Well, I'm glad someone Besides ourselves is alive." "Hello!" "What on earth?" "Why, it's the little Simon girl." "Your juvenile light of love?" "Come to snatch you From a watery grave-- How sweet." "Come on." "Give me a hand." "Easy now." "Thank heaven you're safe." "I didn't close my eyes All night." "I was afraid You'd be drowned." "Edwina, this is miss Simon." "Lady Esketh." "How do you do?" "We are glad to see you." "If you hadn't come, We might have died Of starvation." "Or boredom." "Where did you find Thequeen mary?" "Down the road while we were Looking for my-- my father." "I'm sorry, fern." "I thought, if you were All right, I'd take you Back to the mission." "It's safer there." "Yes." "It ought to hold About two" "One to paddle And one to bail." "You two think You can manage it?" "There's time For several trips." "I'll take you first." "I'm" " I'm all right." "No more paddling For you, young lady, Until you've had some rest." "Now, come on." "I don't need Any rest." "Now." "You come over here now And lie down." "Now, we'll fix this For you." "There." "Now, don't you worry About a thing." "I'm gonna take lady Esketh, And then I'm coming back For you." "In the meantime, You be a good girl." "I'm not in your way Being here, am I?" "You're not going to apologize For saving our lives, are you?" "Well, that's only one Of the reasons I came." "I wanted you to know That you were in no danger." "Well, that's reassuring." "I mean from me." "I didn't mean to put you On the spot," "But when they found out I'd been to your house, They wouldn't believe the truth." "Well, don't you Worry about that." "Mother pretended to be sore, But I don't think She was really sore." "Because, you see, If we got married," "She could spend the rest Of her life hobnobbing With high society in england." "Yes." "Well, anyway, I thought You'd like to know that..." "You won't have to marry me." "Unless you decide To change your mind." "That's a bit of luck." "The rain's stopping." "Hey, Bannerjee." "Don't get impatient." "I'll come back for you later." "Bannerjee." "Says he'd rather die On this roof..." "Than suffer My unclean presence In the same boat." "Ready?" "I suppose so." "I'd like to go by the city." "You mean by way Of the hospital." "Don't you care enough To find out what's become Of your friends?" "Don't be a fool." "I'm sick of being british And pretending I'm not Frightened and worried." "But we haven't time." "I've got to bring The boat back for fern." "I think it's Absolutely nauseating the way You're leading that girl on." "I've never seen such An obvious case of calf-love In all my life." "Her face Lights up like fireworks Every time she looks at you." "That's what you like, Isn't it?" "That's why We didn't get on." "Get in." "You always want the woman To treat you like a god." "I treated you as if you Were just as bad as myself." "Oh, so it's you." "Well, where's fern?" "At the Bannerjees'." "I'm going right back For her." "The lady with the artillery Is aunt phoebe." "How do you do?" "Mrs. Smiley, Lady Esketh." "Pleased to meet ya." "Why don't you go Right on up the house." "Thank you." "Yes." "Have you seen homer?" "No." "We couldn't get through To the city." "Oh." "I suppose you'll be Wantin' something to eat." "No, thanks." "I've gotta Get back for fern." "Don't be a fool." "Ain't she safe where she is?" "Not if that water rises again." "Don't worry." "I'll be all right." "Good-bye." "Come on in." "I'll get you Some coffee." "Thank you." "Steady, old girl." "You've come back." "I'm sorry." "I lost your boat." "I've done all I can." "Rama?" "I know I can count on you..." "To help your queen..." "Rebuild..." "Our state." "Close the door." "My good and loyal friends," "Ranchipur has been struck A cruel blow." "The weakness in our National character has been..." "That we are inclined to blame Catastrophe on the gods..." "And fail in our duty." "I don't propose To let that happen here." "We must call up All our strength," "All our resolution, All our courage..." "If we are to bring Our people to safety." "Each of you Must do his part." "I have chosen you because I know you will not fail me." "I proclaim A state of emergency..." "To exist in Ranchipur." "Raschid." "Your police will work With t" "What is it, major?" "It has come sooner Than I expected." "Several cases of the plague In the sweepers' quarters." "On top of that, half The water in Ranchipur Must be polluted." "Do what you can to keep The plague from spreading." "Burn down the whole quarter If you must." "The rest of you Know your duty." "Ransome." "I want you to stay." "Give me a cigarette." "Thank you." "I said I could depend On this little group." "I meant you too." "I don't know why, Your highness." "Because you are one of us." "I need a personal Aide-de-camp" "Someone I can depend on To carry out my orders..." "And use his own head Whenever necessary." "Do you think you can do it?" "If you think I can." "Would you mind Sitting down..." "Or..." "Doing anything But just standing there?" "I'm sorry." "Don't mind me." "It's just my foul disposition." "Come on and play me A hand of russian bank." "I don't know how." "What's the matter?" "Nothing really." "It's because I'm so glad." "Last night, He came back for me." "Not because he had to, But-- but because He wanted to." "His face was so tired And so kind." "He was glad too." "I could tell." "And he tried to smile, But he was too worn out." "He just fell asleep in my arms Like a little boy." "I felt he belonged to me." "I never wanted The night to end." "You have got it badly, Haven't you?" "I suppose so." "What's that?" "They're dynamiting Part of the city." "You know what you've picked out For yourself, don't you?" "Yes." "Then there's no use Warning you." "No." "Look here." "You don't Expect him to marry you?" "Well, not unless He wants to." "Of course, if he would" "But I'll do Whatever he wants." "Tom's been a selfish brute All his life." "What would you do If you were in my place?" "I wouldn't be in your place." "I'd never let any man Mean that much to me." "Look here." "You're a nice child." "I'll do anything I can To help you." "If I only had a black eight." "Hello!" "Hey!" "Come on there." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Come on there." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Well, what's this" "Barnum bailey's Come to town?" "Well!" "Oh, my!" "You're all right, eh?" "What's this, an invasion?" "I'm afraid we'll have To turn our place Into a barracks." "So many of the children Were left homeless." "Well, there's always room For a few more." "Come on in, kids." "Come on." "Come on, children." "Right this way." "Come on in." "Hurry up now." "My goodness." "Come in, come in." "Well, say" "You'll have to do Some foraging' for me." "I didn't expect to have To feed an army." "Miss Simon, take 'em out And show 'em where To clean up." "Out." "Out." "Hurry up now." "Go on out there." "Well." "That's it." "I bet you got Your feet wet." "Ma, don't worry." "I'm all right." "Let me see." "Just as I thought." "You sit Right down in that chair And change your socks." "Eh, all right." "Oh." "Wait a minute." "I have a message for fern." "There." "You're to come back With me, eh?" "I'll get my coat." "Worst mess I've ever heard of." "Are you ready?" "Every bed In the hospital's filled..." "And not half enough Doctors and nurses To go around." "Ah." "The maharani's Sent out a call For volunteers." "Good-bye, Edwina." "Good-bye, fern." "Did you ever Ride an elephant?" "Next, please." "Your name?" "Sibabhai." "Experience?" "High school training In hospital work." "Report to miss ghose, Second floor." "Next, please." "Your name?" "Edwina Esketh." "Oh." "Experience?" "No experience." "Assigned to probational duty." "Wait over there, please." "Next, please." "Your name?" "Tarabai." "Experience?" "Yes." "All right." "Take him away." "Thank you, captain." "Yes." "What is she doing here?" "She volunteered." "Why is she doing That kind of work?" "She's had no experience." "Lady Esketh is a very Intelligent woman." "She's not stupid." "It might be worth your time To give her some Quick training." "She ought to be capable Of ward duty." "Yes, major." "Wait." "I'll do that for you." "Thank you." "It is heavy." "Get your tray, And we'll make the rounds." "Laying a hand on their head Doesn't really help much," "Except that It gives them courage." "You see, they know I'm of high caste." "For centuries, they've been Made to step aside..." "So their shadows Won't fall on us And pollute us." "Call the porters." "They look at you so," "As if they trusted you." "They have no one else To trust." "You've done a wonderful thing Coming here like this." "And it isn't easy, Especially if you've Never done it before." "It's funny how you Get used to things." "I don't even Get sick anymore..." "As I did 20 times The first day." "And yet you stayed." "Yes." "I stayed." "Why?" "You don't have to answer." "Just remember that you're In constant danger." "Don't forget to use Plenty of disinfectant." "We mustn't let anything Happen to you." "You're too valuable." "Mr. Durga." "We've had a call from The hospital for more linen And 250 pairs of sheets." "This will give you authority To take what you want from The rajputana textile company." "If Mr. Motilal, the manager, Objects, send him to me." "Yes, sahib." "And I shall introduce him To my pet lions, who will Feed on his liver." " yes, sahib." "I bring the brandy, sahib." "Aha." "The brandy." "No, no." "Take it over To the hospital." "All of it?" "Yes, all of it." "Yes, sahib." "But don't think I'm reforming." "When this is over, I'm going On the biggest, longest," "Most magnificent bat In the history of civilization." "Make a note of that." "Yes, Mr. Ransome." "It's good to see you, General." "I came as soon as the weather Was clear enough for flying." "Your highness, the viceroy Has asked me to convey to you His deepest sympathy," "Not only in his official Capacity, but as an old And sorrowing friend." "May I add my own." "I am grateful To the viceroy." "But more than sympathy, I need cooperation." "His excellency also asked me To assure you..." "That the british government Stands ready to help In any way it can." "Thank you, general." "I knew I could count On the viceroy And yourself." "I take off in the morning To make a personal report To his excellency." "Oh, by the way, I have room For one passenger," "If there's anyone You care to send." "Yes, I think there is." "Ransome, I'd like To speak to you." "Yes, your highness." "Thank you, general." "I'll let you know." "Thank you." "What is lady Esketh Doing at the hospital?" "Every conceivable filthy And drudging task." "Yes." "I suppose miss macdaid Would have seen to that." "But why is she there?" "She told me She wanted to help." "But that isn't The real reason." "No." "The english Are an odd people." "I admire them, But I don't pretend To understand them." "The english Are a sentimental people And very much ashamed of it." "We had plans For major Safti, He and I." "I won't be here long." "I have no children, Though I always wanted them." "Before he died, He named his successor" "A man whose blood, Sympathies and training..." "Fitted him For the responsibility..." "Of guiding the state Of Ranchipur." "Did you know that?" "No." "No alien influence Must enter his life." "He must remain dedicated To his cause." "Would it hurt him so much To give her up?" "For a while, yes." "But he's young." "He'll get over it, I'm sure." "I want to do The right thing." "I'd trample her Without mercy." "But then, of course, I was brought up In the hills..." "Where charity Is a sign of weakness." "I only learned tolerance And humanity..." "After I married." "I want to do As he would have done." "She is a bad woman, Isn't she?" "Mm, not so much bad As unhappy." "Once, long ago, Edwina Took a wrong path." "Ever since, she's either Been too proud..." "Or too stubborn To turn back." " in many respects, She's like your highness." " what do you mean by that?" "Well, that she's outspoken, Intelligent," "Has no particular use For any other women" "Uh, unless they're over 70." "But your highness Is the younger of the two." "Her kind of civilization Is on its way out." "That's exactly What makes it impossible." "Tell her I'm sending her On the plane Tomorrow." "How long since you've Been to bed?" "Oh, perhaps a day or two." "I don't remember." "After you've seen lady Esketh, Get some sleep." "You've been a real help." "Believe me." "Come in." "Hello, Tom." "Hello." "Ever try to curl your hair Without a curling iron?" "No." "Alcohol's a precious Commodity these days," "Not to be used For purposes Of mere vanity." "Sit down-- On sataya's bed." "She's my roommate-- A nautch dancer." "I've been hearing Dreadful things about you." "It seems you've become A shockingly useful Citizen." "Can't help myself." "It's a conspiracy." "Why so glum?" "Why so cheerful?" "Mm, I'm young again." "That's why." "Mm." "I feel exactly as I did The day of my first Real dancing party," "When I was 12." "I remember I had A pink taffeta dress." "Hideous thing really, But I thought It was a love." "And that little beast Of a joe cumberland" "The one that's in The cabinet now" "Mm-hmm." "Spilled strawberry jam On it." "I tried To scratch his eyes out." "The authorities Intervened." "Edwina?" "I'm afraid I've come to spill jam On your party dress." "What do you mean?" "The maharani is sending you Away in the morning." "No." "I won't go." "You'd better." "She means it." "No, Tom." "I've thought it all out, And this time I know I'm right." "I must be right." "Believe me, Tom." "I'm in love for the first Time in my life" "Completely, Honestly in love." "I believe you." "So you can tell The maharani I won't go." "Yeah." "She'll probably Have you shot." "She can, you know." "I'll risk it." "And will you risk Destroying him?" "I won't destroy him." "He loves me." "I'm sure of it." "That's why you must go." "Let's try to look At this thing realistically." "The maharani's Giving Rama his choice." "He can have Ranchipur or you." "He can't have both." "You're asking me to give up The only real chance For happiness I've ever had." "Don't get me started." "I hate scenes." "Ah. 6:00." "I'm on duty." "Cheerio, Tom." "You've done your duty Like a good little soldier." "Coolie." "Coolie." "The glass." "Good morning." "I couldn't sleep." "I had to come And talk to you." "Listen." "Ah, that's a good sign." "It means that life Is going on again." "It means we're going to win." "Last night, for the first time, There were fewer new cases Instead of more." "You look tired." "I'm not really." "This is the only chance we have To talk to each other." "It wasn't true what I said About not being able to sleep." "I set the alarm clock." "You shouldn't." "You get little enough rest." "There are all kinds of rest." "This is better than sleeping." "Tom tells me That you're leaving today." "Yes." "By request." "It's probably just as well." "I go through torture Every moment..." "Because you're in danger here." "Nothing must happen To you now." "Rama." "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "It just makes me so happy To hear you say that." "I never thought, When I first met you" "It seems so long ago" "That you'd ever say Anything like that to me." "I wouldn't have Said it then," "Not to the woman I knew then." "But now I" "I think You're someone different." "Please don't think that I'm just Being mystical and Indian, But..." "I can't connect you With her" "That woman I met At the summer palace," "So shiny and glossy And so crafty For what she wanted." "Oh, yes, I-- I knew what you wanted." "And I was tempted." "That's why I stayed for a cup Of lukewarm tea, which I hate." "And you were trying so hard To make me believe..." "You were respectable And inexperienced." "Wait." "I" " I don't think Much of respectability." "I think a great deal more Of truth." "Maybe that's why I hesitated then." "And later, when I pretended I didn't find you exciting." "Something held me back." "I must have seen The other woman within you" "The one that came here, Scrubbed floors And emptied slop pails..." "And fought nausea And weariness and fear" "The real woman." "You see, it would have been Like taking a counterfeit..." "Instead of waiting For the real coin." "I wanted you to know What I felt because I" "I think so much of you That I can risk making A fool of myself." "Maybe, in your heart, You're laughing at me." "No." "No." "Well, now you know my secret." "We'll let the maharani Send you away." "Then when the worst Is over here, No matter where you are," "I'll come after you." "You'd leave Ranchipur?" "Yes." "Yes." "We'll go to some other city Where I can set up a practice" "Calcutta, madras Or the malay states" "Where we can live Our own lives together." "You'd leave all this, Knowing what it's meant To you?" "Knowing what you do of me?" "No." "Just hold me A little while." "Edwina." "You're not well." "You" "You have a fever." "No." "No." "I" " I'm just tired." "Take over in the ward." "How is she?" "Rama's with her now." "She sent word She wanted to see me." "Yes, I know." "I want to give her Another injection In about half an hour." "Yes, major." "Miss Simon, You may go in now." "I don't know what to do, Tom." "I don't know what to do." "She won't fight." "She hasn't any will to live." "I don't know what to do." "Steady." "I'm supposed To be a doctor." "I'm supposed to help people To fight for life." "And I want her to live More than I want To live myself." "I tried to tell her That she must fight." "I" " I couldn't." "I couldn't speak." "I'm all gone inside." "Stay with me, Tom." "I need you." "Rama, this won't do." "You've got to get A hold of yourself." "It's no use." "I" " I can't." "We're different-- Deep down where it matters." "I'm an Indian." "I" " I can't be Calm and unemotional." "I want to tear my clothes And wail like a" "Like Bannerjee." "You're not Bannerjee." "You're a man." "You're a doctor." "No." "No." "I've failed." "I can't save her." "Rama." "Rama." "Rama!" "Listen to me." "If you lose your way now, You'll never find it again." "Think of the maharani And your duty," "Of the maharajah And all he planned for you." "Think of the people Who worship and respect you." "To them, you're a symbol-- Something clean and courageous," "That's been born in the darkness And filth that was India." "You are India-- The new India." "Don't betray all of us Who have faith in you." "I'm sorry, Tom." "I'm all right now." "It won't happen again." "Thank you." "But I can't take them." "Don't be an idiot." "If you and Tom Have children," "Your son might be The earl of nolham." "He'd have a wife," "And she could wear them To boring dinner parties," "Tell how they'd been Left to her by..." "A shameless wench Called lady Esketh..." "Who died in Ranchipur During the great disaster Of 1938." "We're such snobs at home." "We like stories like that." "I suppose this is the way It feels to repent And get religion" "Giving away My worldly goods." "Anyway," "It's a nice feeling." "Hello, Tom." "Don't look so unhappy." "I'm not." "Rama says if you'd only fight." "What's there to fight about?" "Has anything changed since The last time we talked?" "Would you mind, my dear?" "Have you got a ring For fern?" "Does she like sapphires?" "There's a condition Attached." "You'll have to marry her." "You said You'd do anything." "Yes, but I'd be No good for her." "Oh." "Stop bragging." "She's mad about you." "She thinks you're a god." "That's what You've always wanted." "We have had such foul luck, You and I." "But..." "You've picked a winner At last." "Ask him to come in." "As soon as you're well, We'll get away from all this." "Of course." "I've thought it all out." "We won't be running away From anything," "Because there won't be Anybody else in the world But ourselves." "We'll have each other." "Yes." "Just you and I." "Up to kashmir, Down the ganges to bengal." "And then perhaps In a little boat From calcutta..." "Through all the islands Of the east." "The spice islands, The coral islands..." "And all those places with names Like magic spells." "Just you and I." "Nothing else will matter, Will it?" "Will it?" "Edwina." "Edwina." "Edwina." "This time, it has been Built to stand" "As long as you live..." "And your children..." "And your children's children." "The time is here, Rama." "Your people are waiting." "What is it, Rama?" "What do you hear?" "Nothing, your highness." "Only a song." "They're waiting, Rama."

"Sync:" "FRS@ID:komaxiong" "ƬÃû:dark blue" "?" "sorry about the delay." "The 405." "The back's clear." "As soon as howard makes the buy,we take him." "When I was a defense attorney, the one thing I had to do was check out prospective clients..." "Look into their history,make sure they're not with holding vital information which could come back at you." "It's a funny thing -- When we looked into you..." "Some things just don't add up." "well..." "I'm not a prospective client,and you're not a defense attorney." "What you are is late." "Now, your boy here he said you're looking for a new supplier, and that's why I'm here." "So, you got the money or not?" "I see you worked with vince halpin." "The guy was a lunatic." "Yeah, he was, and that's why he got himself killed." "Yeah, funny thing is..." "All the guys you worked with were dead." "That makes it very hard to get a reference." "Now, either you're the worst luck charm in the world, or it's by design." "You think I'm a cop." "I don't know what you are." "Ty, get in position." "This may go sideways." "I'm on the move." "Why don't we just take him now?" "If there's no money in the briefcase, then it's technically not a buy,and we have no case." "We have to see the money first." "yeah, well, if I'm a cop,then how come you're not facedown on the floor right now?" "cause if you're a cop, you know you can't make an arrest without intent to buy, and if there's no money in here, then there's no intent." "So I guess you came all the way down here for a glass of sake." "Carter, I'm there." "All right, don't move until I say so." "look, I don't know what you heard or who you talked to, but I'm no cop." "Bryant, will you please tell him this?" "I asked around, andre He checked out." "What?" "You think I'm wearing a wire, too, right?" "Right?" "Think I'm wearing a wire guys?" "Come on." "I'm here to make a deal with you, Mr. Howard.That's it." "Come -- come on." "Carter." "Carter, I need an answer." "Are we really gonna let howard walk?" "Hey, look.You're being a little paranoid here." "That's funny." "I used to tell my clients that." "Carter." "back off." "This is the second time you didn't vet someone properly." "You going to stand there all night?" "We should've taken him." " With what?" " No money, no arrest." "Well, it took five weeks undercover, carter,just to get that meeting." "Yeah, it might be my last shot." "Maybe not.Your cover's not blown yet.Your contacts " "Bryant?" "He's not gonna want to set up another deal after that." "Apologize, grovel,pay him off." "Do whatever you need to do to get back inside." "It's not exactly low-hanging fruit, carter." "It's all we got." "Hey." "How long you been up, superfly?" "You were working?" "I'm still the new kid." "Yeah, well, I know that you can't talk about it, so I'm not even gonna ask." "Man, I have lost more socks in this place." "I got to get going, too." "Now, that is hot." "What do you say you bring that back to bed with us, huh?" "You're gonna make us both late...again." "Well that wouldn't be an issue if we lived together." "Are you serious?" "What do you think?" "I don't " " I don't know." " It's been three months." " Four." "Actually, for the record, it's been four,but... you think about it." "I am gonna be late for my pretrial with the judge." "Have a good day." "Hey, bryant!" "It's dean!" "Bryant?" "Bryant?" "Been calling you,like 10 times, man." "Got to talk about last night." "you sure it was howard?" "howard was not happy that bryant set him up with me." "We have to find another way back in." "Security.Maybe we go in as howard's muscle." "No, he never takes on new guys." "I know how we get back in." "Rubin pike." "Okay, thanks." "We know him." "He's howard's tester." "I pulled his file." "He was a pharmaceutical engineer up until two years ago and then got busted on two charges of possession." "This guy isn't a hard-core criminal " "At least not like the others." "I think he's doable." "Doable for what?" "He doesn't know anything." "We use him." "Trade him up for somebody bigger in howard's organization." "Could be something there." "Check it out." "Hold on." "I found this lead.It's mine." "You've never run point before." "And you won't get him the same way you got bryant." "This is not the prom,sweetheart, okay?" "You can't get a dance by just shaking your ass." "Jaimie, we use the two things that make america great " " Greed, pride.That's it." " He's not looking to impress howard or move up.Look at him." "He doesn't want to be there.He's damaged goods.He's trapped.He's doable." "Considering your history, you can understand why I'm not wild about putting you inside a drug case." "So I'm gonna ask you just once." "Can you handle this?" "I know how to do this guy, carter." "We're gonna follow jaimie's lead." "She's on point." "biggest mistake you can make is getting tripped up in your own lies, so you want to take parts of your own life and use them." "Then you can react on instinct.This guy rubin asks you where you're from,you don't have to think about it, you know?" "Hey.Hey, you listening to me?" "cause I'm trying to keep you alive here." "Yeah, I got it." "You sure about this approach, jaimie?" "100%." " Not how I would have gone after him." " It's a smart way in." "Yeah, if she gets him." "It wasn't just the drugs." "I mean, yeah,being an addict didn't help,but it was more the lies." "Being sober is like you've stepped out of this..." "Bad suit you've been wearing,and you get to take a long look at yourself." "I guess I'm just trying to stay out of that suit." "Thanks." "We've got a few more minutes." "Anyone else?" "Great." "My name is jaimie." "I just moved here two weeks ago, and this is my first meeting in l.a." "What rubin was saying about wearing the bad suit " "Sounds like we had the same tailor." "thanks for helping me clean up." "thanks for listening." "I must be boring the hell out of you." "No, I want to hear.Uh, when did you say you ran away?" "I was 16, I think." "It's hard to rember." "I was really screwed up." "How did you live?" "Lie, cheat, steal." "You were just a kid." "I once was so high, I drove my boyfriend's car through the window of a pet store." "You really found her on patrol?" "What happened?" "Valley division." "The judge took pity and put me in a state detox..." " Nobody learns that on patrol." "?" " That must have been tough." " Nobody said she did." "That was pretty much my bottom." "I can beat that." "Hit my bottom when my wife caught me smoking crack in the bathroom at her nephew's christening." "That's rough." "How did you explain it?" "I didn't." "She left me." "I lost my job,lost my house." "I even fell into debt with my dealer." "Do you still talk to her?" "Your ex-wife." "I try, but..." "Thing is, she didn't really leave because of the drugs.She left because of the lies..." "You know." "I just couldn't be honest." "But...getting sober, getting out of debt, i'm really just trying to... get her back." "You're a good guy." "You'll get her back." "Uh..." "I have to catch my bus anyway.I know " "I'm the only person in l.a. Without a car." "You want a ride?" "No, I kind of like it." "Maybe to the next meeting." " It's a deal." " Okay." "I keep it simple enough for you?" "Don't pop the cryssie just yet." "You didn't get us any closer to howard." "I got a number,a ride to the next meeting." "I got rubin on the hook." "Damn." "Maynard." "Keep working rubin." "Good job, jaimie." "Thank you, jaimie." "You're welcome, carter." "You're barking up the wrong tree, honey." "And how much of that story you told was true?" "None of it." "come on" "The...pet store,the detox center?" "I heard it all in a hype I busted last year." "I told the chief what you told me -- That we would have howard by now." "What happened?" "We didn't go deep enough with dean's cover." "Howard's way too connected from his defense-attorney days." "He probably has contacts with the courts,parole board,former clients..." "Maybe even the department." "He also has friends." "Howard makes huge political contributions " "Helped make guardado the city controller." "People upstairs are already nervous that he's in play." "The fact that howard wears a suit and golfs at the mayor's country club doesn't make him untouchable." "You missed.You're not the first with howard." "Move on." "Really?" "Give me two days." "Plenty of criminals out there.You can't get them all." "Two days." "And for the record I want howard, too." "we've been tailing this guy all morning." "So far, he's bought a coffee and picked up some dry cleaning." "Carter called three times last night.He wants something we can use." "You know, maybe he'll buy a dirty magazine." "We could roll up on him -- Scare the crap out of him." "What the hell is this?" "Must be the ex-wife." "This guy seems pretty needy, huh?" "You know what needy people like?" "Other needy people." "jaimie?" "The meeting starts in five minutes." "We're gonna be..." "I'm sorry, rubin.I" " I was gonna call you to cancel." "?" "Were you robbed?" "No, it wasn't " "Take it slow." "Sit down." "I don't want to involve you." "It's all right.Tell me." "It's humiliating." "You're talking to the guy who got high in a church bathroom." "It's okay." "I want to help." "It's my ex-boyfriend." "He's a dealer in denver." "Nothing big --Pot,some meth..." "I stole money from him to move out here." "I didn't know he was gonna come looking for me." " You should call the police." " No." "You -- you don't know him.He's crazy." "If he knew I called the cops " "Then what are you gonna do?" "I have to pay him back." "How much do you need?" "$12,000." "That's a lot." "I have an idea." "I know this guy." "I used to work for him setting up buys." " What do you mean?" " Supply and demand." "Maybe we could do this together?" "Every time I set up a deal for him, I got a finder's fee." " Whoa." " I thought maybe we could introduce him to the dealer you said you knew." "I once made $16,000 from this guy, rubin." " We could split it 50/50." " Wait." "Hold on." "I'm trying to get away from all that." "You said you need money, too." "You could get out of debt.You -- you could show your ex-wife that you're doing better." "I'd have to meet with him first." " Really?" " And howard doesn't mess around with small quantities.It'd have to be a big enough deal to interest him." "I'll ask what he can get." "You need a place to stay?" "no.Uh, I got a motel room." "I'll call you after I talk to my friend." " Rubin." " huh?" "Thanks." "Nice." "Prison records,arrest report." "This is the most we've done for a cover." "It better be.We didn't go deep enough last time with dean.Howard is gonna look at it all." "I'll get it all into l.a.p.d. Database.Federal." "There's still something missing." "We need that one thing he's not expecting." "What kind of quantity is he talking about?" "Rubin says 10 keys minimum." "Yeah, but we still have those 10 keys I tried to sell howard,so..." "Good.All right, get with jaimie and this rubin guy." "Was that her idea or yours?" "it was her idea." "But you know what,carter?" "I'm starting to feel a little bit like your snitch." "So if you don't trust her,just dump her." "Find somebody else." "She's got something." "Stay with her." "What the hell's this thing?" "It's a chromatograph." "It measures the break down of chemical components in a substance." "It measures purity." "Oh, so you like quality control." "You could say that." "What's wrong?" "This is only 41% pure." "But it's real." "Howard serves an elite clientele.He's not gonna buy something this low grade." "I can't take this to him." "Look here, buddy." "You...set to make a lot of money -- 10% of this." " You're looking to clear 20, 25 grand." " I can tell you right now he'll never go for it." "Trey, no." "You run my product through your little magic machine and then tell me it's no good?" "You trying to play me, rubin?" "Is this some kind of bargaing tool, rubie?" "!" "no." "Punk!" " Are you okay?" " Guys like that are exactly the reason i'm trying to get out of this!" " I know." "I'm sorry." " Look, I like you.I want to help you." "But not this way." "I need to get my life back on track." "This isn't helping." "You can't threaten someone like rubin." "He's not gonna respond to that." "Look, jaimie.I was trying to save it, okay?" "Because right now we got nothing." "Okay, so,what's plan "b"?" "Carter, my cover's still good Rubin still trusts me." "But he won't help us make a deal with howard." "Then I'll try something else!" " I'm not seeing it." " I can still use him!" "Then show me!" "You got a day." "And then you are off." "He's playing you,you know." " What are you talking about?" " you knows you want his approval." "I'm guessing you have some daddy issues, huh?" "Boy, you read me like an open book, dean." "Why'd he pick you for this?" "I'm a good liar." " We're all good liars." " No, you're okay." "You get by on your smile,bad-boy charm." "You couldn't do what I do." "You gonna help me with this or not?" "i'm sorry." "I shouldn't have put you in that position." "Truce?" "It's all right." "What are you gonna do about the money?" "Uh..." "My grandmother gave me this stuff." "It might be worth something." "Can you give me a ride?" "A lot of work for 60 bucks." "That's where I hocked my wedding ring." " Was it still there?" " no." " What does your ex-wife do?" " She's in fashion." "She works downtown." "Wait.I know you." "Police.Up against the car." "Both of you --Up against the car." " Up against the car." " What the hell?" "What do you got on you?" "Okay, what do you got in the trunk?" "Let's see it." "Open it." " Open -- why?" " Open the trunk!" "Just do it, rubin." " Wait!" " Get on your knees." "Get down on your knees." "Do not move." " Stay on your knees, hands against your head. - okay." "You are under arrest, sir, for concealing a dangerous weapon." "you?" "I'm a cop, rubin." "Let's go." "You have two prior possessions." "This makes strike three." "That's federal, rubin. 25 years minimum or you play ball with us." " how?" " Set up a buy with howard." "This is entrapment!" "You - you planted those drugs in my trunk." "Where -- where are you taking me?" "It's the word of a twice-convicted drug addict against two police officers." "That really the strongest way to go?" "Howard could blow apart your case without even stepping in a court." "Then call him." "I'll dial for you." "Ask him how well that worked out with bryant." "Yeah, you know, howard killed bryant just for meeting with me." "How do you think he'd feel about you talking to a couple cops?" "I'm just asking you to do what you already agreed to do." "I thought I was helping you then." "This is your chance to help yourself." "You said you wanted out from under howard." "This is the way to go." "And if I want to take my chances?" "Maybe you'll walk and maybe howard won't put a bullet in the back of your head." "Either way, we do a perp walk with your ex-wife." "What do you think the chances of getting her back are then?" "I can't believe you." "Or you get to tell her you helped put away a major drug dealer." "what do you mean you found drugs in his trunk?" "I was trying to find a way back in." "I asked him for a ride -- When he popped the trunk," "I figured it was the strongest way to go." "So you arrested him?" "I i.d.'d myself as a cop." "This would have been three strikes -- 25 mandatory." "We got him to play ball." "And it was a clean bust?" "Yeah." "but what about our purity issue?" "Our drug's still only 40% pure, carter." "That's all you'll need." "When you meet with howard, rubin will test the drugs like he always does." "We'll get him to lie, say the drugs are better than they are." "Howard makes the buy, then we got him." "Now, we have to make your cover bulletproof." " This guy does not play." " Got it." "Howard's client." "Got the perfect guy we can use." "Good, good, good." "Make this happen." "He went for it." "Well, you sold it pretty hard." "With rubin, too." "They call you t-wall." "Kid brother's doing 5 to 7 in lompoc because he tried to rob a bank with a bb gun." "Young and dumb..." "Which has been keeping his nights and showers busy." "I hear...he hasn't been able to sit straight for weeks." "Who the hell are you?" "Social services." "I...reunite families." "You want your brother here, under your protection, you'll do as I say." "You know him?" "Sure you do." "Can you rig that to make the coke look more pure?" "It'll take some time." "When's the meeting with howard?" "He hasn't called me back yet." "I can't force him to meet you." "One more thing." "I want to see my ex-wife before we do this." "You can see her after." "What if something goes wrong?" "How do I know you're not gonna bust me, too?" "I told you what's going to happen." "Sorry if I don't just take your word for it." "This will be the best thing for you." "Five minutes, and you get a second lease on life." "Stop!" "You're insulting my intelligence." "You don't care about me." "You used me." "You took everything I care about, and you turned it against me." "Who does that?" "I didn't tell you to become an addict." "I didn't tell you to lie to your wife." "You blew that all on your own." "Yeah, I might be a degenerate liar, but at least i'm ashamed of it." "Make that work." "Hey." "Hey. hey." "Look, that is just part of the deal, okay?" "Do not let him get to you." "I'm fine." "Call me if anything happens." "so, he keeps asking me if I filed it " "Like I would lie about something like that." "What happened to your picture?" "hmm?" "I must have dropped it." "These look like the pictures that come with the frames." "What do you mean?" "Well, I was just..." "Noticing you don't have any pictures of your, uh, family..." "Or anyone, for that matter." "When I moved to l.a., the shipping company lost my stuff." "It was all in one box." "So you couldn't call anyone from your family to ask for replacements, or...?" "What's with all the questions?" "I'm just making conversation." "Really?" "'cause it feels like you're interrogating me." " Who's interrogating?" " You are." "Is this about moving in?" "Are you mad because I didn't just say yes right away?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "That's -- that's not what I'm talking about." "Hello?" "I'm gonna need some time to get everything together." "I'll call you back." "I got to go." " now?" " It's work." "We'll talk later." "Uh, you know what?" "Let's not." "You just do..." "Whatever it is you're doing." "I thought you said he was gonna set a meet with ty?" "Howard wants to meet me first -- Some kind of audition." "He wants my name." "Carter, we didn't work on a cover story." "If he looks into me the same way he did dean " " And you didn't see this coming?" " I wasn't supposed to meet with howard." "It's rubin again." "Howard's waiting." "What do I do?" "Use your name." "He'll know I'm a cop." "no." "Your real name." "Everything's in place to get howard." "We won't get another chance." "Jaimie, I know I've been hard on you, but you have to make this work." "Give him your name." "It'll hold up." "What the hell was that?" "rubin." "This is the first time I've seen you with a girl." "I actually need a second to readjust my mental image of you." "Jaimie, right?" "Andre." "I'm glad to see you expanding your social horizons." "I was worried about you being so hung up on your ex." "We're just friends." "That's too bad." "Um, jaimie knows someone you might be interested in meeting." "He has high-quality product." "You've seen it?" "And tested it, andre." "It's 77%." "It's the purest stuff I've seen in a long time." "And what do you get for this?" "Finder's fee?" "10%?" "Something like that?" "I'm not in it for a favor." "Yeah, now, what's your friend's name?" "Trey norton." "Trey norton." "Right." "All right, rubin." "You can go." "We came in her car." "Faris will drive you home." "Rubin, leave." "So..." "Your friend trey." "You meet him back in your wild days in, uh, detroit?" "Maybe pittsburgh?" "You've done your homework." "Yeah, that's what I do, jaimie." "Jaimie, I've got rubin leaving with howard's boy." "I'm gonna stay with him." "I don't know if they're gonna kill him or what here, so..." "Call me back." "You have a very interesting record." "Possession, state detox..." "Breaking and entering." "It sounds like you had a hard life since the projects in detroit, huh?" "I learned to get by." "Oh, I can see that." "How did you not end up in jail?" "It's a very nasty, nasty crowd you were running with." "And who was that guy?" "In phoenix?" "Now, was he a boyfriend, or some poor bastard you were using?" "You want to meet my friend or not?" "I don't know yet." "No, thank you." "Why not?" "It would be like a cup of coffee for a girl like you." "It's not my thing anymore." "Well, why don't you do it just for nostalgia's sake?" " I don't need this." " Really?" "Because if you're as desperate as rubin is -- And I think you are " "You definitely need this." "So let me put it this way." "You want me to meet your friend?" "Relax." "Hang out." "Stay a while." "Yeah, where the hell you been, jaimie?" "I've been waiting for you all night." "Jaimie!" "How much are we talking about here?" "It's hard to tell without a blood test, but I'm guessing she's no amateur." "Give her one or two when she wakes up." "It helps soften the landing." "nick,?" "I can always count on you." "Who was that?" "Hospitals file reports." "They need i.d." "It's not good for us." "Valium." "Take one." "You have any idea what carter would do if he knew about this?" "It was the only way howard would make the meet with ty." "He's meeting him today at 5:00." "There's never just one way." "It's the only way i knew." "So, all that stuff you told rubin at the n.a. Meeting " "The addiction to crime, your " "Your little backstory -- That was all the truth, huh?" "I was just trying to cut in to him." "And carter asking you to use your real name " "So, like, what was that?" "I mean, the only time you ever told the truth was when you were lying to rubin, right?" "Right?" "So..." "Who the hell are you?" "My name's not jaimie allen." "It's jaimie anderson." "I changed it before I joined the force." "You changed your name." "No, not just my name -- Everything." "I dentification, social security." "I changed who I was." "You just became somebody else." "If you had been through what I had, you would have done the same." "Who knows?" " Your boyfriend?" " no." "He's a good guy." "He comes from a good family, good schools, good job." "Why would he want to be with someone like that?" "This is insane." "You can't tell carter about what happened at howard's." "Everything you've done up till now taints this case." "It's better he knows now." "He said he would kick me off the force if I ever lied to him." "I just don't know what the truth is with you, jaimie." "I like being a cop." "I need to be a cop." "It's all I have." "I still have to tell carter." "I'm sorry." "Where the hell have you been?" "Where's jaimie?" "Did you know how screwed up she was when you brought her into the unit?" "What are you talking about?" "You asked her to use her real name." "You knew that if howard looked into it, he'd find the history of a criminal." " yes." " But you never told us who she really was." "I was trying to protect her." "Oh, by putting ty and me in danger." "Thanks, carter." "Thank you." "I mean, how are we supposed to trust anything she does?" "She has talent." "Mnh-mnh." "You didn't bring her in because she's talented." "You knew that somebody that bent and that -- that desperate would do anything for you." "When did you get so fragile?" "It's all about catching that bad guy." "Yeah." "It is." "hey." "Tell him the good news." "Howard agreed to meet ty at 5:00 today." "She bagged him." "All by the book, carter." "Get rubin ready." "Good job." "Thank you for that." "Why the change of heart?" "I don't know, rubin." "I guess you grew on me." " How'd it go?" " Not so good." "I came clean about everything." "At least I got that off my chest." " I need to talk to you." " Go ahead." "We didn't flip rubin clean." "I planted drug in the car and blackmailed him into cooperating." "It was entrapment." "I put everything in place." "Ty is supposed to meet with howard in two hours, and you're telling me this now?" "you lied to me." "That's what i'm trying to fix." "Are you telling me this because rubin's getting cold feet, or this is your conscience talking?" "No, it's me." "Rubin still wants to go through with it." "Then that's what we're doing." " Does he have a lawyer?" " I'm sure he does." " Where is he now?" " In the car." "Take him to see his lawyer." "I want him on tape stating that his involvement in this case is purely voluntary." "go." "You want anything to drink Coffee, anything?" "No, I'm good." "I took a look into your records." "Yeah, how'd you manage that?" "It was impressive." "You've been around." "Chasing that almighty dollar." "You had a few years in chino." "D- block, right?" "Well, I had a client in d-block about the same time you were in." "He was an esse guy -- Tattoos all over his neck." "Name's tony wala?" "Guys called him t-wall?" "Rings a distant bell." "Well, I called him..." "You know, see what he said about you." "and?" "Well, he said that, uh..." "You were stand-up con..." "That you never went punk, you never backed down from the hacks." "He got it right." "He still looks like a bird crapped in his right eye." "We gonna do this all day?" " What do you mean?" " We both know it was his left eye." "Come on, now." "We gonna do business or what?" "I believe we are." "As soon as my quality-control guy gets here, okay?" "Okay." "Did you get it?" "Rubin's attorney got him on tape saying he was acting voluntarily as an informant for us." "He says it will hold up in any court." " Good." " Okay, say something." "Um, hello." "This is simple, rubin." "You go in, test the drugs like you always do." "don't deviate from your routine." "Machine's rigged?" "It'll give a higher positive reading." "Good." "As soon as howard makes a buy, you say, "can I go now?"" "that's our signal to make the bust." "And, rubin..." "You have to make sure that the money is there." "Otherwise, we don't have a case." "Understood?" "Let's go." "hmm. 77%." "Rubin's machine never lies." "Held up my end." "Yes, you did." "Faris will be back in a minute." "Dean, get ready." "Oh, excuse me." "I'm right there." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Yeah." "Right." "Yeah." "Something's wrong." "Thank you." "Rubin?" "That was your lawyer." "Cover's blown." "go!" "Go, go!" "He told me about your little, uh, confessional in his office today." "Maybe you forgot that I'm the one who recommended you to him during your first possession arrest." "You punk!" "He's setting us up!" "Kill him!" "Down!" "On the ground!" "L.a.p.d.!" "ty?" "I'm good." "I could have stopped it." "Maybe I should have, but..." "I wanted howard." "What happened here today wasn't your fault, jaimie." "You know that, right?" "What do you need me for?" "I need you because of who you are." "Not who you were..." "And not who you pretend to be." "You did good." "Tomorrow you'll do better." "this is scott mueller." "Leave a message, and I'll call you back." "I thought you might have some trouble winding down." "I find this helps." "Rubin, you know..." "This stuff happens." "You just got to shake that off." "What..." "Just try and forget about it?" "no." "No, no, no." "no, can't do that." "That's yours." "Put it in a box, you know, file it away 'cause you got plenty of time to look at it later." "And, look, carter " "He's just rigid." "He'd probably go crazy if he knew I came over here tonight." "So we won't tell him."

" This document obliges us to transfer the negotiated price of the bonds to a bank of your choice anywhere in the world." "And this is called a transfer-and-release agreement." "Simply, it says you've agreed to release your bonds and transfer them to Union Global Capital's name." "And that's it." " Someone else has contacted me with an interest in buying my bonds." " And what is this someone willing to pay, if you don't mind me asking?" " Thirty cents on the dollar." " That's a good deal, Mr. Lupez." "That's certainly a lot more than I'm offering." "You knew what my number was before I came here today." "Why didn't you take his deal?" " Why the price so low, Mr. Campbell?" "I grew up on that land." "These should be worth more." " They've all been logged." " Did you know that after today's work... we now own more than 25% of Peru's agrarian debt?" "It's remarkable." "When we get back from New York, there's something I want you to look into for me." "It's not something that you're used to, but it's nothing you can't handle." " Alright." " I want you to watch Caravedo." " What for?" "Caravedo has already declined our offer." " And now it's time to make him reconsider." "You know what his bonds are worth." "Let's get him already." " I don't know anything about this kind of stuff." " What's there to know?" " Why don't you just hire somebody?" " I can't have a paper trail on this one." " This is not my job." "I know it's not, but I'm asking you for your help." "If we lock Caravedo..." "we're done." "We didn't do it!" "My brother Rafael and I went to school on the Upper West Side." "At the time, he spoke very little English." "And myself, uh..." "Honestly, it was a very scary time for me." "Nevertheless, every day, when that final bell rang," "I knew Rafael would be outside waiting for me." "And one day, like always, Rafael was there to meet me." "Only, this time, with a new friend." "This guy" "And for the first time ever, Rafa spoke to me in English." "He saki," ""Hey, could you do me a favour?" "I spoke to Mom, she's on her way to pick you up, but she won't be here for a bit, so could you wait inside, 'cause Oliver and I have to be somewhere."" "At that moment, I believed that I was no longer" "Rafael's best friend, but I was wrong, of course." "Because my brother's new friend happened to be one in a million." "He said, "Hey, Rafa, that's your hermano." "We stay right here with him."" "Oliver has been... a major part of my life ever since, and never once let me down." "Not once." "And when my brother passed... when Rafa passed on... there wasn't anybody stronger to pick me up." "Oliver Scott Campbell, the big 40." "I love you dearly." "Happy birthday." "Happy birthday!" "Shhh." "Shhh." " Well, you're just gonna have to restructure the whole thing." "Yeah, the whole damn package, top to bottom." "Yeah, and send it to me when it's done." "OK." "Yep." "OK." "Oh, boy, some people just don't get it." "And how is the birthday boy?" " I was hoping not to be reminded." " Well, you can only say that when you're past 50." "I got a nice card from Kate thanking me for Ethan's XBOX." "Coffee?" "Anything?" " No, I'm good." " But something tells me that she didn't really mean it." " That's 'cause he's on it all the time." "You could've gotten him a book." " Boys don't want books." "They want to blow things up." "They want to destroy things... take 'em apart, see what's inside." " Well, he'll be forever indebted to you." " Well, that's why they call it godfather." " Mm-hmm." " Have a seat." "Ollie, I have to tell you something that you are not gonna want to hear." "I need you to draw up an immediate exit plan for Peru." " What?" " We took a heavy hit on a client's deal in South Africa." "Now the banks are calling" " Why me?" "Why this deal?" "You got 10 others you can cash in on that don't have half the upside this one does." " I wish you were right about that." "But it's gonna be alright." "We've got Peru cornered and they're going to pay fast." " I didn't spend the last two years of my life, working day and night, learning Spanish, to break even, Nathan." " You'll get another chance." " I don't want another chance." "No, this is my chance and I deserve to finish this!" " Yes, you do." "You structured the thing exactly the way it should've been, but this isn't about you, Ollie." "I need the cash." "And I need it yesterday." " This is insane." "I just had my hands on a stack of bonds... this fucking thick, Nathan." "And now we're making moves on Caravedo." "And just like that, you're gonna pull the plug and throw away the chance at another 60 million-plus?" "Don't do this." "OK." "Please, just listen to me." "Caravedo is a shark." "You know the kind better than anyone." "It doesn't make any sense that he hasn't sold us his bonds already." "Unless he's got something else up his sleeve." "Now, he knows we're the only game in town." "He knows he's running out of time." "We are on him, Nathan." " Alright, I'll have a look at Caravedo myself." " Great." " I could probably get legal to hold the banks off fora week, tops." "But..." " It's not enough time, though." " In the meantime," "I want the exit plan on my desk tomorrow," "I want you to follow up with the finance minister and I want a closing date no later than next Wednesday." "Oliver." "One week." " Happy birthday, Daddy!" " Thank you." " Happy birthday...!" " I know, I know." " Don't jump on the bed, sweetie." "Come on." "When are you leaving?" " Uh... early tomorrow morning." " What time?" " First flight out." " You know, every time Phoebe sees an airplane, she thinks you're on it." " I'm not in the mood today, Kate." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean that." "It's just..." "I'm up against it right now." "All these flights back and forth, it's not like it's around the corner." "I'm..." "I'm tired." " Have you seen Nathan seen you've been home?" "Have you?" " Nathan's shutting us down, Kate." "Got a week to finish this, so the last two years have been for nothing." " Just... come home." " Hi." " Ah..." " Hi." "What have you got here?" "Mm... that's good." " I don?" "understand this." "We have already made major adjustments just to be able to meet for negotiations on your original price." " Then why haven't you come back to us with any kind of offer, Manuel?" "What did you expect?" "That Union Global wouldn't continue sourcing bonds?" "That we would just stop?" " You know we don't have this kind of money at our disposal." " Peru's got 20 billion in cash reserves, Manuel." " Those are emergency funds, Ricardo." "Do you have any idea of what you are asking me to do?" " Manuel, there is a free-trade agreement between our countries, which the IMF and the World Bank will recognize if Peru chooses not to fulfill its obligation to us." "That means you pay." " Oliver..." " The agrarian reform is not some debt that can be settled between two parties, Mr. Campbell." "It is our history." "That you have chosen to be involved in." "You could at least show the slightest bit of compassion." " Don't talk to me about compassion, Manuel." "You know as well as anyone how this works." "As the Minister of Finance, it would be a mistake for you to not have what you owe us ready for Wednesday's closing." " Oliver." "Oliver." "Oliver, just..." "I didn't mean..." " Get in." "Look." "I have always been respectful of your Peruvian heritage." "And I have been more than patient with your bleeding-heart politics." "But what just went on in there cannot happen." "Do you understand me?" "I'm getting enough weight from Nathan's side." "The last thing I need is you working against me too." "Look at me, man." "Are you hearing me?" " Did you hear what he said?" " No." "What I heard was his desperation, which you let get to you." " The thing is, he's right." "People will suffer from this." " That's such bullshit, Ricardo!" "Nobody is going to suffer from anything." "What Peru owes us, it's pittance." "It's insignificant in the grand scheme of things." "And with regard to that history nonsense that he said up there, if Peru had been responsible to its own people 40 years ago, then they wouldn't have found themselves in this predicament in the first place." "This is how it works, Ricardo." "This is how it's always worked." "Debts need to be paid." "It's what makes the world go round." " You told me we'd be helping Peruvians." " Oh, Jesus Christ, give me a break, man!" "You want three Peruvians that we're helping?" "You, Angela and your unborn child." "How about that?" "Ricky!" "C'mon..." "Ricardo!" "Don't do this." "You know how much money you're leaving on the table if you walk away now?" "You got a family!" " Come in." " You can't talk to people that way." "Especially me." "Not after everything we've done here together." "I want to be here for you, but at some point, you've gotta recognize that lam the one that's seen it all from both sides." "And I tell you, not everything is as black and white as you make it out to be." "There is a village in the highlands of Ancash called Pampacancha." "Caravedo is trying to do some large-scale agriculture project." "He wants that land badly." "Badly enough that he's paid a lot of people off to keep it quiet." " How'd you find out about it?" " I paid one to be unquiet." "I'll go up there to poke around, see what else I can find." "Maybe we can get some real leverage on him." " Great." "I'll go with you." " No." "You'll stick out like a sore thumb in those parts, Oliver." " Nathan's breathing down my neck, Ricardo." "I don't have time." " There is just one condition." "Caravedo has got a reputation for a reason." "So if I find out that he's going to turn that village upside-down, you've got to promise me we're not going to help him do it." "I can't be a pan of that." " I promise." " I need to rent a car." "If I'm going to get there by morning," "I should leave now." " OK." "And I'll reach out to Caravedo on my end, as well." "See what his side of the story is, yeah?" " Oliver." "You gave me your word." " Good work, Ricky." " So your bonds in exchange for free-trade pressure." " Mm-hmm." " Why didn't you come to us sooner?" "And say what?" "I'm trying to buy a piece of land that would need permission for me to build on?" "And your free-trade agreement can guarantee me that permission?" "Let's be honest, Oliver." "Had there been a conversation," "I believe you would've have done everything in your means to stop me from getting that land." "But the fact that you came to me now instead of doing just that..." "tells me one thing." "Your clock is ticking." "And there's something else - and forgive me for putting it this way - but you fail to understand, Oliver." " What's that?" " My father's land was taken from him for a stack of paper." "Sixty-thousand hectares." "His life's work, my heritage." "I watched him grow old and bitter until the day he died." "And now you're here to profit off of that, offering me pennies on the dollar." "I don't think so, Oliver." "I don't need your money." "This project means much more than a personal fortune." "It means jobs, infrastructure." "It means export, expansion." "It is growth." "It is vision." " What about the people that are still living there?" " They are the backbone of the project." "It doesn't work without them." "I need them." "That's why I'm offering them everything I have." "Peru was once great because of its agriculture." "My father was the living proof of that." "And I do believe that agriculture can make Peru great once again." "You want my father's bonds?" "You're going to have to earn them." "Get me that land." "Get me that land and they are yours for free." " Who's the farmer holding out on you?" "Caravedo's story checks out." " I need more time." " Not going to happen, Ollie." " Jesus, what's it gonna take?" "Our 60 million just doubled..." " I'm with you on this, alright?" "I know what the numbers are, but my hands are tied." "Look, Oliver, there's nothing more to discuss here." "We can either break even on this deal, or you help Caravedo get that land." " Alright." " Be good." " Where are you, Ricky?" " Hi, this is Ricardo." "Please leave your message and I will be sure to get back to you." " Ah!" " Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!" "Ah!" " I don't have a lot of time here." "Are you gonna take me to him, or do I need to find someone else who will?" " What did Señor Caravedo tell you exactly?" " He said you'd help me." "You do know him, don't you?" " He's not going to sell." " There is no service up here." "Take these." " What about you?" " I grew up here." "Hey, Jorge." "Can you think of anything that we can do to change Florentino's mind?" " No." " Why not?" " Because he thinks he's protecting his family by keeping them there." " How do you know that?" " He's my brother." " Ha!" "Ha!" " Come." " Come on." "Hey!" "Hey!" " Mr. Campbell?" " Hey, Jose." " This is Detective Orihuela." "He has come here to see you." " God." "Why don't you tell me again what your plans are ' in Pampacancha, Ruben?" "What the hell did you have to lie to me for?" "I'm talking about this, Ruben." " What did you expect him to do, Oliver?" "Tell the whole world that those people were sitting on a mountain of gold?" " What are you doing here?" " What happened to your face?" " What are you doing here?" " I'm here to close your deal." "That's what I'm doing here." " You knew about this?" "How long?" " He told me the same story he told you." " How long, Nathan?" " Since I learned that Ruben was on the market for high-end equipment." "High-end mining equipment." "This is an incredible deal for all of us." " You lied to me." " No, I did not lie to you." "I told you what you needed to hear." "And it gave you focus." " Ricardo's dead." " I know, I know." "I just learned myself." "I'm sorry." "But we are going to take care of Angela, you have my word." "So you have the farmer's contract?" " Wow." "It's really that easy for you, is it?" "If I find out... that you had anything to do with Ricardo's death..." " Oliver..." " | swear to God" "I will make it my life..." " Oliver, you do not want to go there." " It's alright, Nathan." "I can understand how Oliver might jump to this conclusion, but he's wrong." "I may be shrewd, but I never take people's lives." "Never." "CNST, Montreal"

"Previously on Heroes." "Sync:" "Jimmy PTM" "Five strangers accross the globe began to discover they have extraordinary abilities." "From the cheerleader who realized she's invincible." "I have busted every bone in my body." "And I don't have a scratch on me!" "To the office worker who can bend space and time." "These strangers are discovering they're meant for something more." "Do you ever get the feeling like you were meant to do something extraordinary?" "And as a son seeks the truth by finishing his father's work..." "I spoke to him 2 days ago." "He was this close to finding the 1st of them." "He's forced to run from a man surrounded in mystery." "He left everything behind but his computer." "A man who's more conencted than anyone imagine." " Hi, daddy." " Hey, baby." "And now Heroes continues." "Chapter Two Don't Look Back." "We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate." "But have we truly any choice in when we rise?" "Or when we fall?" "Or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction?" "Is it evolution that takes us by the hand?" "Does science point our way?" "Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe?" " Whoa, whoa, easy, buddy." " Where am I?" "You're in a hospital." "What happened?" " You don't remember?" " No." "You jumped, Pete." " Jumped?" " Yeah." "Off the roof of a 15-story building." "You tried to kill yourself." "You were a little wound up yesterday." "But I thought you were just being you." "What are you talking about?" "I didn't..." "I didn't try to kill myself." "You were in the alley below." "I jumped, and... then you..." " You flew." " I what?" "You flew up and you caught me." "You jumped..." "Peter." "25 feet to a fire escape." "I climbed up and carried you down." "That's what happened." "The rest is just crazy talk." "You understand?" "Dad... you mind if I talk to you about something?" " You pregnant?" " What?" "No." " You doing drugs?" " Dad!" "Actually..." "I already know what it's about." "You do?" "It's about wanting to know who you really are." "Your mother told me that you've been asking about your birth parents." "Well, I think it's time that I knew." "Well, I have a few questions first." "Not the least of which is why now?" "I'm just wondering, that's all." "You know, what they're like, what they can do." " What they can do?" " Yeah, like hobbies and... skills." "You know, I don't..." "mean this to be condescending." "Even though you're gonna say I'm being condescending." "But I really do believe that this is an adult decision." "You're right." "That is condescending." "Claire, there are gonna be issues." "You're going to have issues." "They're going to have issues." "It's very complex, emotionally." " Yeah, well, so am I." " Well, exactly." "Look, here's my advice, if you'll indulge me." "Just... keep things light and fun as long as you can." "Like cheerleading." "Being a cheerleader is hard work." "Hard, treacherous work." " Of course it is, sweetheart." " I don't wanna be late." "Hey..." "I just don't want you to be in such a hurry to grow up, okay?" "Trust me." "I actually know a few things." "Who are you?" "!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Sorry, sorry!" "Easy, easy." "Your super let us in." "We're doing the whole building today." "I just got done with the lady with the dog and the cough." "Almost done here." "Uh, listen, it looks like some cockroaches might have infested your, uh, floorboards." "Who are you?" "!" "What did you do to my father?" "Let's take a little breather, huh, professor?" "I suppose the cockroaches are the least of my problems." "Yeah, no argument there." "Did you kill my father?" "I think we're done here, don't you?" "So I'll tell you what." "Have a really great day." "Hey, look, I'm just the exterminator." "This guy came in and pulled a gun on me." " He is not an exterminator." " He's paranoid." "I was just in there spraying bugs in his apartment." "He came in and freaked out." "If you're the exterminator, why do you have a gun holster?" " Thanks for coming to my rescue." " You're welcome." "Mohinder Suresh." "The professor's son." "Yatai!" "Hello, New York!" "Hello." "Nice to meet you." "I love New York!" "Hello!" "Whassup?" "Britney Spears." "Go, Yankees!" "Hey!" "Pal!" "This isn't a library." "No pay, no read." "Hey, get back here!" "Subtitle By:" "Jimmy PTM Sync:" "Jimmy Hero !" " Simone" " Shh, you had a hard night." "I saw it." "There was a... bright light." "Like an explosion." "It wiped out the whole city." "Like Hiroshima" "Shh, shh, shh, it's okay." "It was all a dream." " No..." "I don't think so." "Yes." "I shot up last night." "I had to." "Yes." "I painted what I saw." "Is it there?" "Do you see it?" "Yes, I see it!" "But you need to rest." " We have to warn them." " Uh!" "Warn who?" "F.B.I., Homeland Security." "We need to tell someone." "Isaac, you can't paint the future." "No one will believe you." " I'd hoped you would." " None of it is real." "What is real is, you got a drug problem." "You overdosed on heroin last night." "You're lucky to be alive." "You know, I'm watching my father die." "And I can't watch you die too." "So you need to make a choice." "Me or this." "It's not about having big hands." "Most guy's hands are too rough to pick out the details." "Mine are sensitive." "Feel how soft they are." "Wow." "But you've got dainty hands." "My mom says my hands are very dainty." "Maybe I should try out for the football team." "Claire, may I borrow your ears just for a minute?" " Why?" " Hey, Zach!" "Is it true you got an erection in the boys' locker room?" " It's really urgent" " Not now." "Not now." "Claire, Jackie." "The sheriff and some firemen would like to have a word with you two." "Okay." "Hi, this is Niki." "Leave me a message." "Mom...are you there?" "When are you coming to get me?" "I hate it here." "You said you'd be back soon." "Just come pick me up, okay?" "Honey, I'm so sorry." "I'm on my way." "Baby, I'm only five minutes away, okay?" "You know I love you." "Come on." "Yeah." "That's the way I like it." "Go ahead." "Come on." "What's the problem, baby?" "Things just started getting good here." "I said what's the problem?" "Screw you." "Hello?" "Mom... where have you been?" "I called you, like, four hours ago." " What?" "Four hours?" " Yeah." "I'll be right there, baby." "What is the matter with you, making him wait like that?" "I'm sorry." "Hon, two seconds." "Okay." "What the hell is going on, Niki?" "Something terrible has happened." "What?" "What is it?" "Those guys that you said that Linderman would send to get his money back..." " Yeah?" " Well, he did." "And now they're dead." "On the floor of my garage." "What?" "How?" "That's just it." "I don't know." "What do you mean you don't know?" "I mean I don't know." "I just-- I woke up, and they were dead and..." "I think that I might..." "Sometimes I look in the mirror... and I'm not sure it's me that I'm seeing." "Maybe it was DL, you know?" "He's trying to protect you because he still loves you and Micah." "DL wouldn't risk coming back." "The cops are after him." "And once Linderman finds out they're dead, it's not gonna matter who killed them." "He's gonna come after me." "Then you need to listen to me." "Niki, you have to call the police." "No, I gotta cover my tracks." "And then I gotta run." "I gotta go." "Why would anybody wanna tap Papa Saresh's phone?" "Papa Saresh?" "Yeah, he told me to call him that after I butchered his name a couple times." "I don't know why someone would want to tap his phone." "Back in Madras, I found a man in his apartment stealing his research, and now this." "Why don't you just ask your dad?" "He must have some idea who it is." "My father died four days ago." "What?" "I'm sorry, I..." "You didn't know?" "He was murdered in his cab." "Oh, my God." "How awful." "You were close?" "Yeah..." "I mean, I hate cooking for one." "So I used to make extra and bring it over, and we would... eat together, and he'd tell me about his theories and the map." "We were friends." "Well... then you were closer to him than I was." "I'm happy to hear he had someone to talk to." "I'll get you some water." "I had no idea anything was wrong." "I..." "I knocked on the door a couple of times." "I just..." "I thought he was out, and we were missing each other." "I had this book I wanted to show him." "What book?" "Darwin's Origin of Species." "Thank you." "It's a true first edition." "I work at this antique book store, and I found a copy, and I just... thought he'd get a kick out of reading it." "Well, he most definitely would have gotten a kick out of it." "That's very thoughtful." "You know, he told me he was being watched." "I thought that he was just eccentric." "I like that you didn't use the word "paranoid."" "Do you think that they're watching you now?" "They could have killed me, if that's what they wanted." "For the time being, it seems I'm more important to them alive." "You said that he talked to you about his theories and the map." "I need you to tell me everything he said to you." "Everything you remember." "Everything." "Girls!" "This isn't a... criminal investigation." "Nobody here is in any kind of trouble." "Quite the contrary." "There just happens to be a very grateful man lying in the hospital who'd like to thank one of you for... saving his life yesterday." "I've never seen anyone so reluctant to be called a hero." "You're sure it was one of our cheerleaders?" "The uniform said Union Wells High." "I'd have to say it was... her on the end." "That's Claire Bennett." "Claire... where'd you go yesterday after cheerleading practice?" "I, uh..." "It wasn't her." "It was me." "I was taking a shortcut home from school, and..." "I saw the wreckage of the train..." "wreck." "And..." "I just had to help." "Why didn't you say something?" "I guess I didn't want all the attention, you know?" "That's not why I did it." "Well, on behalf of the Odessa Fire Department," "I'd like to congratulate you as an honorary firefighter." " How is he?" " Who?" "The man Jackie pulled out of the train." "He's got some pretty bad burns." "Smoke damage to his lungs, but..." "he's alive." "Happy to be so." "Thanks to Jackie." "Claire!" "I'm glad I finally got you alone." "Look, we have to talk." "Did you hear they asked Jackie to be the Grand Marshall of the Pioneer Day Parade?" "They're gonna put her on the top of the fire truck." "They should put her under the fire truck." "It's about the videotape." " What?" " The videotape!" "The tape where you're, like, killing yourself like 20 times." "Oh, yeah, that." "Can we just keep it under wraps?" "That's what I'm trying to tell you." "It was in my backpack, and now it's not." " What?" " It's gone." "What do you mean, it's gone?" "Oh, my God!" "Claire!" "I'm so sorry." "Are you all right?" "Yeah." "I'm okay." "I'm all right." "Yeah." "You just caught me off guard." "I thought I heard something snap." "Nope." "I'm okay!" "I'm fine!" "I'm okay." "Yeah, not a scratch on me." "Guess you're not so dainty after all." "I'm dainty enough." "We have got to find that tape." "Whoo!" "What if I don't want to go on vacation?" "You don't have a choice." "You have to." "Why are we doing this, Mom?" "Why won't you just tell me what's going on?" "I wish that I could, baby." "But you are just gonna have to trust me, okay?" "Now go in and pack up your stuff." "I have to take care of something in the garage." "Mom..." "What happened to our house?" "Mikey, you're just gonna have to trust me, okay?" "Now go in and grab some stuff." "Go." "In the trunk." "Follow the map." "Help me understand what you were doing on that roof." "I can't." "Not yet." "But I will." "You just have to trust me." "There's something you need to know about your father's death." "He committed suicide." "What?" "He committed suicide." "I found him on the floor of the bathroom." " You said he had a heart attack." " I lied." "For his reputation, his heart was fine." "But he'd had two others before that." "Well, I lied about those too." "Suicide attempts, both of them." "He finally got what he wanted." "When he was 23, he was diagnosed with major depressive disorder." "He couldn't help it." "It was just who he was." "Why didn't I know about any of this before?" "Your father and I decided not to tell you since the disorder can have a genetic link, and you were always so sensitive." "We didn't want you to worry about it." "But you're telling me now." "It can start with delusions of grandeur." "Thinking you're invincible or indestructible." "They are irrational thoughts that then turn suicidal." "It's time you took a hard look at your life." "And if there are changes to be made, I want to be here to help you." "Because there's something else I never told you." "Come here." "You were always my favorite." "I cannot lose you." "Mr. Isaac Mendez?" "Hello?" "Mr. Isaac?" "Mr. Isaac?" "Mr. Isaac?" "Freeze!" "Drop your weapon." "Get your damn hands up." "Serial killer strikes in the middle of L.A., abducts a little girl and here I am." "100 feet away." "Might as well be in Siberia." "That's all right." "They don't pay us enough to be where the action is." "What are you gonna do, anyway?" "What do you mean?" "I just wanna help." "You wanna help?" "Help me get more tape." "What do you think-- C.I.A. or F.B.I.?" "Nah, she's dressed too nice for F.B.I." "I saw the test scores got posted this morning." "Don't worry about it, man." "Not everybody's a test taker." "Please don't hurt me." "You know, we don't have any idea what happened in here." " I've got a theory." " You always do." "This is Barstow all over again." " It's Sylar." " There isn't a Sylar." "Last words of a dying victim." "It didn't mean anything." "And look at her." "Must have taken three guys to lift her up that high." " What about the daughter?" " No sign." "We checked the house and surrounding, issued an Amber Alert." "You've seen what happened to the father." "Frozen solid, skull sawed off." "We need to find out how." "The little girl's the priority." "You are not supposed to be in here." "It's okay." "It's okay." "You're safe now." "Look, I'm a cop." "I'm one of the good guys, okay?" "He hurt my mom and dad." "Please don't hurt me." "I'm not gonna let anybody hurt you." "No, no, no." "Come on, take my hand." "It's okay, come on." "It's okay." "Come on." "For years, he'd been working on a mathematical theorem using human genomes and DNA migration patterns." "He thought he could find a way to identify these people, the ones who were special." "I never believed it was possible." "We fought about it constantly." "It's the reason we grew apart." "You've reached Chandra Saresh." "Please leave a message." "He's got messages." "Chandra, this is Emi." "You forgot to turn in your trip sheet for last week." "Where is your head, man?" " Oh, my God, Mohinder." " Yes?" "No... the other Mohinder." "The lizard." "He's gotta be around here somewhere." "Hi, I'm Nathan Petrelli." "It would be an honor to represent New York's 14th district." "When the time comes, vote Petrelli." "Hello, Chandra." "Why won't you talk to me?" "You can't leave me like this." "Hello, Mr. Sylar." "I asked you not to call here anymore." "The hunger, it's-- I can't control it." "I don't want to." "You made me this way." "I made you a murderer?" "You helped me to discover my potential." "You wanted to see what I could do as much as I did." "And now you want it to stop." "It's over." "Goodbye." "I found a tape of a conversation my father had with a man named Sylar." "A man he believed was Patient Zero." "Come here, you." "Mohinder, this is Mohinder." "You wanna give him a kiss?" "What is it?" "It's a portable hard drive." "My God, he did it." "He actually came up with a way to find them." "You wondered why someone would want to kill my father." "The reason for his death." "It's this!" "I'm going to finish what he started." "Hey, Parkman." "How the hell did you know that little girl was in there?" "I don't know." "I don't know, I just-- I heard her whispering, and, um..." "House full of cops, but you're outside, and you just heard her whisper?" "I can't explain it." "It was..." "I thought everybody could hear her." "You guys couldn't hear her?" "You got someplace better to be?" "It's my wife." "I'm, uh..." "I'm meeting her at a... a therapy session." "Couples counseling." "We're having some problems at home." "This guy's worthless." "Worthless..." "Cut him loose." "He got lucky." "Not yet, Parkman." "Your captain says you've taken the exam to advance to detective 3 times?" "Right." "You really think you're detective material?" "Yes, ma'am, I do." "So how does it make you feel?" "Flunking out so many times." "I don't know." "Embarrassed, I guess." "A little angry." " A little angry?" " Yeah." "Angry enough to do something about it?" "Maybe set yourself up to look like a hero?" "Wait, what, you think I killed these people?" "I didn't kill these people." "Sylar did." "How did you know that name?" "How did you know that name?" "Six people assigned to this case know the name of Sylar." "How the hell did you know that?" "I heard it." "From you." "Like you heard the girl whisper." "Yeah." "Then hear this one." "You're under arrest." "What?" "Ow!" " Claire Bear!" " Hi, Dad." "Hey." "How was school?" "Very school-like." "How was work?" "Very work-like." "Listen, I, um..." "I made a couple of calls today." "I spoke to a very nice woman at the adoption agency." "And she said they were going to try to get in touch... with your birth parents." "And, uh... and request a meeting." "I thought that was an adult decision." "You seemed pretty adult this morning when you told me you wanted to do it." "Thanks." "She said it was a lengthy process." "And it could take weeks." "I'm hoping... years." "That way, you'll be my little girl for a while longer." "I'm not done protecting you from the world." "You're my dad." "You'll never not be my dad." "I promise I'll... be your little girl for as long as I can." "But you can't protect me forever." "I know." "And it breaks my heart." "I love you, Dad." "I love you too, sweetheart." "Go get ready for dinner." "This is Claire Bennett." "And that was attempt number six." "It really does break my heart." "I've been looking all over for you." "Did you know about Dad's depression?" "Yeah." "Why didn't you ever tell me?" "Because everyone's entitled to their secrets, Peter." "I was so sure when it happened." "Now it turns out I'm just... going crazy." "Look, hey..." "We've been through this before." "We've played this game, okay?" "Let's just..." "let's just go." "Tell me what happened, Nathan." "When I jumped." "Tell me you flew." "I wanna hear you say that you flew." "Tell me, or I'll jump again." "Hey, good luck on your campaign... when I'm splattered all over the ground below." "All right." "You want the truth?" "Yeah." "We both flew." "Pete..." "I caught you, and I lost control." "You're too heavy." "We both started falling to the ground." "And just before we" "Just before we hit, you flew." "You." "Are you lying to me?" "You are." "You're trying to tell me what you think I wanna hear." "You're lying to me again!" "Did you see that?" "Did you see that?" "I flew?" "Yeah, I know." "You're one sick son of a bitch, you know that?" "Very sorry." "I not speak much English." "What I wanna know is what did you do with the man's brain?" "You flush it down the toilet, you eat it, what?" "We got a live one here." "No English, no passport, no American money, no I.D." "Except for this here." ""An honorary member of the Merry Marvel Marching Society."" "Let's start by asking him how he got to New York." "He says he teleported himself here." "Teleported?" "What the hell is that?" "Like Star Trek." "He says he can bend the space-time continuum." "Funny, I've seen all the Star Treks." "I don't remember you from the show." "How long ago did he do this?" " Yesterday." " Yesterday." "If you let me make a pone call my English speaking friend will clear everything up." "Hiro?" "New York!" "Teleport" "Your friend says he was with you yesterday." " Yesterday?" " That's not correct?" "I have not seen Hiro Nakamura in five weeks." "We look for him everywhere." "His buddy hasn't seen him for five weeks." "Your friend says he hasn't seen you in five weeks." " October 2?" " October 2?" "No, pal." "Today." "November 8th." "November?" "No..." "October." "For all his bluster, it is the sad province of Man that he cannot choose his triumph." "He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes." "Hoping that he'll have the courage to answer."

"Jim, line one, please." "Jim, line one." "All right, load him up." "Load him up." "Come on, he's not the only flyer in town today." "Get him up." "Transport him." " A lot of paperwork." " Careful." "I got him." "Ready?" "Up." "Right there." "I'm going in." "Easy." "Easy." "Okay." "I got it." "Okay, gentlemen, what do we got?" "This man jumped out of a building and landed on a car." " Did you get his blood pressure?" " Eighty over something." "Jumped out of a building." "Why?" "What do you mean, it was another suicide?" "I need another" "Boy, look at the X-rays on that kid." "He is so messed up." "How did it happen?" "Does anyone know?" "Jumped out of a ten-story window." "Ten-story window?" "You're kidding." " Was he on drugs?" " I don't think he was light at all." " Toxic screen was negative?" " I heard it was attempted suicide." "Take a deep breath, Roary." "Okay, Roary." "That's it." "Looks like a nice, clean wound." "He's been here eight months or more." "I've been here before." " I've been here" " Can you hear me, Roary?" "Sure." "I can hear you." "My mom's maiden name." "I don't know." "Remember Peggy..." "Peggy..." "What was her name?" "She was the first one to have a bike." "I loved her for her bike." "All the neighbors wanted a bulldog..." "Collision Corner." "475 North Columbus." "M-l-C-K-E-Y..." "Why?" "Why?" " That's silly." " But it's true." "Only to drive Chevys." "Excuse me." "You know where I can get a beer around here?" "Yeah, around the corner." "Max's." "You go out here to the right." "A lot of guys from the hospital go there." "Hey." "Hey, want some company?" " It's just $25." "That's all." " No." "No." "No." "$20?" "You look like you could use it." "I'll have a draft." "Right here." "Put the money up." "First one's on the house." " First time in here, right?" " Yeah." "My name's Jerry." "Roary." "Hey, Jerry, give me another beer, will you please?" "Yeah, that's a 3." "Trust me." "It's 3." "Benny, you got a queen, you got a 1 0, you got two 4s." " 7, 6..." " 6..." " 4..." " 4..." " And a 2." " Possible straight." " But that's good for me, man." " Queens." " You got caught" " Oh, no!" "No!" "God damn." "No." " Burt is at it." " Hey, listen, I can't-- ...out of the state, but that he will be on SFO as soon as he gets back to California." "We just hope we're still on the air in 1 983..." " Hey!" " when he gets back to California." "Don't touch the set, man." "People ask me what SFO is, you know?" "What the show is all about..." " Sorry." " and what we're trying to do." "Let me say, ladies and gentlemen, what we're trying to do is not get canceled." "And you can help with those postcards and letters." "I think part of our problem is that we're going to be covering a lot of different territory." "In broadcasting terminology," "I would say that in that vast waste" "Shoot!" "Here." "To me." "All right." "Hey, hey, hey." "You're the jerk." "Who's the jerk?" "Bullshit." "Go, go, go!" "That was beautiful!" "Get busy with this game." " Take this." " Hey!" "Hey!" "Yeah!" "Man, that white boy can shoot good." "Come on." "Goddamn it." " Wings?" " Yeah, yeah." "Wings, did you see the Dillinger movie last night?" " No." "No." " It was really good." "It was one of them art films with a whole lot of slow motion." "They probably didn't have the real ending, though, did they?" "What real ending?" "The man dies in the alley." "Dillinger's pecker's in a jar at the Smithsonian." "His schlong." "It's in a jar." "What is it doing in a jar?" "Well, it's 16 inches long, for Christ sake." "It's in there with the Spirit of St. Louis and everything." "It's like a national treasure." "What kind of jar did they use?" "'Cause if they use a mayonnaise jar, something like that, they'd have to bend it in order to get it in there." "Can they do that?" "Look, Blue, if they put a man's pecker in a museum, they're going to take the time to find the right size jar." "Of course they're going to get the right size jar." "Yeah." "I heard that story." "When I was a kid, I was down there." "At the Smithsonian?" "Did you see it?" "The guard said it wasn't there." " See?" " It's probably on tour." "You know, like the King Tut stuff." "They do that." "You know, if they put that thing on tour, it'll do a hell of a lot more business than the King Tut thing, huh?" "Good morning, Blue, fellas." " Come in." " Play cards." "Right, Blue." "Right." "They ain't putting my pecker in no jar." "I'll tell you that much, Stinky." "And in no Smithsonian Institute, either." "I'm gonna take mine with me, 'cause there are a lot of things I want to do with it." " We're ready to go." " Morning, fellas." "Hey, Books." "How are you?" " Play some cards." " Wings." "That's right." "Hey, who the hell left this chair over here?" "Hey, Jerry, how'd the game go?" "Good." "Hey, what do you say, Max?" "All right, he's okay." "Stinky's okay." "He's doing all right." " Hey, how you doing?" " Come on, guys." "Get over here." "Roary, right?" "Jerry, right?" "Good to see you back." "Did you meet Max yet?" "Max, that's Roary." "Looks like another one on the cuff, huh?" "Here's your enchiladas." "How you doing, Roary?" "Glad to have you." " What'll you have?" " Enchiladas!" "I have some free time." "I just thought I'd get a beer." " Draft?" " Draft." "Jerry, Burt, how about some beer over here?" " We're thirsty." " All right." "They're coming." "Hey, I got them, Jer." "What's wrong with your leg?" "What's wrong with yours?" "Hey, you play cards?" "I played a lot in the hospital." "Hey, can you use another hand over there?" "Another hand?" "Yeah." "I can use two of them." "What's this..." "Goddamn, that's funny." "Every time I hear it, it's still funny." "Grab your beer." "I'll introduce you to the guys." "Here we go." "Wet and cold." "I will have one of those wet and colds, buddy." "Hey, Roary." "Okay, everybody, I'd like you to meet Roary." "Roary, this is Stinky, that's Wings, and this is Blue Lewis." "What's wrong with him?" "He walks funny, and his head sort of tilts to one side." "Which side?" "The right side." "Then put him over here." "I don't want him looking at my cards." "Watch out for him." "He cheats." "So you're a friend of Jerry's, huh?" "Yeah." " He's a hell of a guy." " The best." "Well, he's not that good." "What's your name?" " Roary." "R-O-A-R-Y." " Stinky, let's deal the cards out and get the game going, huh?" " Okay, just a second." " Okay." "Everybody ready?" "Look at" " Oh, wow." " I'm all in with 3 of clubs." "Hey, man!" " Hey, kid, you're all right." " Hey, you're okay, kid." "I'll drink to you." "Hey." "Look at that ass." "Come here." "Let me see it." " That's not" " Yeah." "Fifty-five." "$55?" "You told him $50." "Goes up, man." " Goes up since from here to there?" " lnflation." "Don't look away for a second." "Know what I mean?" "Bad sneeze, eyes closed and" "But anyway, I'm going to bet a dime." "A dime more." "You better take a look at your hold cards." "I think you read them wrong." "No, no, no." "I know what I got." "Let's go." "Say, so what happened to you?" "I've been in the hospital for a while." "So?" "I jumped off a building and tried to commit suicide." "You asshole." "You got it all backwards." "First you get crippled, then you try to commit suicide." "Roary, I'm sorry I called you an asshole." " It's all right." " Yeah." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard." "Hey." "Okay, let's play some cards." "A little distributing company." "Max, you're two weeks behind on this one." "Not while I'm eating, okay?" "Well, let's try this one." "Hey, Jerry, you got a friend down there." "Hey, Mouse!" "Let me see." "That's an 8 of hearts." "What are you doing up with the sunshine?" "Phone rang this morning." "It was the wrong number." "Got another Coke?" "Okay, so, then bet." " I did already." " You gonna raise?" "Well, I may do that, too." "Is this a deuce-- this card?" " Yeah." " Hey, that's Jerry's girl." "I'm gonna take yours." "Poor kid's a junkie, and, you know, she whores it so she can buy junk." "Promise?" "On my ass." "Does Jerry know that?" "Yeah, he knows it, but he thinks he loves her." "Hey, here's the last card." "Down and dirty." " Cover me, Burt?" " You got it, Jerry." " Come on." " Where are we going?" "Outside." "I don't want to talk in here, Mouse." "Where the hell's the money?" "The money's right there" " Where the hell is it?" " Right there." "Don't get excited." "Right there in front of you." "Max, this is ridiculous." "You got to stop buying these things." "Jeez, Max." "Here's one for electric." "Eight hundred bucks!" " lmpossible." " Possible!" "So what the hell you want me to do, Burt, raise prices?" "Everybody in the damn neighborhood is on a fixed income." "You keep it up, you're going to be the one who's on a fixed income." " Gil." " Yeah?" " You want to go to the game tonight?" " Nah." " Come on." "This will be a great game." " Jerry, you go too early." "Look, I got an extra ticket." "Hey, I'm sorry, man." "I can't make it." "Roary, how you doing?" "Good." "Listen, I got an extra ticket to the Warriors game tonight." "My lady's out of town." "You want to go?" "Yeah." "Good." "Game starts at 8:00." "I like to be there about an hour early, so I'll meet you here at 6:30." "Okay with you?" "Good." "How's your beer doing?" "Give me that." "I'm going to buy you one." "Hey, Clifford!" "If you can catch the ball, maybe you can pull up a lay-up." "They're looking at you, Jerry..." "Don't worry about it." "They never come up in the stands." "Hey, hey." "There he is." "That's Alvin Martin." "Which one is Martin?" "The one that says "Martin" on his back." "Right." "Hey, Alvin!" "Work on the 3-pointers!" "You look good!" "Hey, shut up, Mouth!" "Hey!" "They love it." "Hey, those two girls next to you-- do they come to all the games?" "I don't know." "Why don't you ask her?" "He wants to ask you something." "What?" "He's just shy." "Can we get a beer?" "Stop the ball!" "Get on Westphal, get on Westphal." "Come on, Jo Jo!" "Stay on that man!" "Let's go." "Get back there!" "Get back!" "Get on Westphal!" " Run the play!" " Yeah!" "Run the play!" "Get the rebound!" " No, you bum!" " Get up!" " Abernathy, pass off!" " Pass it off!" "Come on!" "Screen him!" "Yes!" "All right!" "All right!" "Let's go!" "All right!" "Come on!" "Get out of here." " Yes, yes!" " Yeah!" "Yeah!" "All right!" "Move it!" "Get down there!" "Get down there!" "The key, Roary-- The key is Alvin Martin." "Shoot it!" "Martin, shoot the ball!" "Shoot it!" "Shoot it!" "Alvin" "Two points." "Shit!" "He choked!" "Martin" " Come on, Roary." "Final score" "Phoenix Suns: 94, Golden State Warriors: 93." "Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and be sure to drive home safely." "Al, you got a couple of seconds?" "I just got two questions that I want to ask you." "Real short, okay?" "Tough luck, huh?" "Look, tight shot just on his face, all right?" "Are you rolling on this thing?" "We're ready?" "Okay, good." "Al, a great ball game for you individually tonight, but what about the last two seconds?" "Well, I came off the pick, and I got the pass from Abernathy." "I had the shot, but I saw him cutting down" " That's a lie, man!" "You panicked!" " Shut it down, okay?" " We can't use this thing." " Who let that guy in here?" "I'll talk to you later, Al." "Let's see if we can talk to him." " It's The Mouth, sideline know-it-all." " He's not worth it, man!" "You didn't play so hard either, Clifford." "Al, you gotta remember that panic is dumb." "You made that shot thousands of times." "Just relax, man." "Alvin, why don't you take care of that jerk once and for all?" "Why don't you get out of here, man?" "You don't know what the hell you're talking about!" "I don't?" "I can beat you any day of the week." "Why don't you be cool?" "You're making a fool out of yourself." "Why not?" "Why don't we go one-on-one?" " We'll see just how big a fool I am." " Let's go." "Wait a minute." "Okay, man." "Okay." "We'll do it." "I got practice tomorrow at 1 1 :00." "You meet me at the arena at 1 0:30." " And be on time." " I'll be there." " We'll do it." " All right." "Okay, guys." "Come on." "If you got the balls, you'll be there." "What?" "Get out of there." " I was talking to him." " Okay." "Take off." "That way." " Yeah, we'll see." " That way." "Here you are." "You hurt yourself?" " No, I didn't." " No." "What's the matter with your leg?" "Nothing." "Nothing that's going to bother you." "What's wrong with your hand?" "Hey, look, man, I don't want to play you if you got something wrong." " There's nothing wrong with my leg." " Nothing wrong with his leg." "Let's just play." "That's exactly why I'm here, man." "I'm going to shut you up once and for all." "I mean, we love you when we're winning." "We love you out there yelling and screaming when we're hot." "But, man, you come down on us so hard when we get behind." "Why don't you give us a break?" "Let's play." "Wait a minute." "Last chance." "I got nothing to prove." "You want to forget it?" "You want to take it out?" "You take it out." "Don't you want to warm up first?" "No need." "That's one." "Come on." "Put it up." "Put it up." "Damn it!" "What is this?" "That's two." "That's two." "Not bad, Maxwell." "Three." "That's three, Jerry." "Not bad." "Damn it!" "Damn it!" "That's four, Jerry." "Stay with it." "Come on!" "That's five!" "That's five!" "That's a foul." "You hurt yourself." "Time, time, time." " Take it easy." " That was a foul." "5-1." "You got one, Alvin." "You got one." "Come on, Jerry." "5-2. 5-2." "Look out!" "Oh, repeat after me." ""That was a nice block, Alvin."" "Foul-mouth." "Get off." " Watch him now, Jerry." " Get off." " Watch the feet." "Stay with him." " Look out!" "Attaboy!" "All right." " 7-7." " Sweet!" "7 -7, Jerry." "All right!" "9-7." "It's 9-7, Jerry." "You only got one to beat him." " One to beat him!" " Look out, look out!" "Stay with him, Jerry!" " Aw, Jerry!" " How are you?" "What happened?" "9-8." "That was a foul!" "That was a foul!" "One to beat him, Jerry." "One to beat him." " Block!" " Roll in!" " Got him!" " All the way!" "Damn!" "Swish!" "1 0-9." " 1 0-9." "Game." " No, man." "You gotta win by two." "Two." "Hey..." "That'll shut you up, Mouth." "No, man." "I wasn't ready." " Bullshit!" " Hey!" "Come on, Alvin!" "Look, man, I don't play that hard against cripples, you know?" "I could've beat you with his hands." "You're a half-court showboat, Charlie." " That's all you'll ever be." " No, he's not." "He's great, and you know it." "No, come on." "Shut up, Roary." "Hey, man, look, get out of my gym, and take that other freak with you." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Un-fucking-believable!" "Unbelievable!" "Two points!" "It was so close!" "You're fantastic!" "All right!" "You're unbelievable!" "I was there." "I'm your witness." " All right." "I'm good." " I saw it." " I'm good, aren't I?" " "Good," Jerry?" " You're fantastic!" " And it's not a dream, is it?" " A dream?" "No." " All right, Roary!" " 9-1 1 -- - 9-1 0." "He cheated on the last one." " I'm going to buy you a beer." " All right!" "You don't want any cookies or anything?" " No, I don't want cookies." " All right." "Let me get this." " Listen, Roary..." " You keep that." "don't tell the guys what happened." " What do you mean don't tell the guys?" " They won't believe it." "Jerry, you almost beat the guy." "I surprised him." "Hey, Roary, nobody is ready for me the first time." " Besides, he had a bad hand." " Hi, Jerry." " Hi, Georgie." "How you feeling?" " Fine." "But you almost beat him." "Oh, Jer." "Look, about your leg" "I know it's none of my business, but you're sure there's nothing could be done?" "Roary, I had an operation on my bread and butter." " Bread and butter?" " When I was 1 6." "I went through the physical therapy." "I went through everything." "Nothing happened, nothing changed." "But they know a lot more now." "I know, Roary." "I've been to the doctors." "Listen, I bet they could do something for you." "It'll cost a million bucks." "Who's going to pay for it?" "You?" "I thought you said we were taking a shortcut." "This is a shortcut." "That's a shortcut-- those steps?" "I'll race you." "Sheesh." "What does that mean-- that, uh, "bread and butter"?" "It means good luck." "You want to come up for another beer?" "Sure." "Is it all right?" "Anne's gone to Richmond for a while." "Come on." "Aw, sh" "Hey." "That's Anne." "Not so rough!" "You're hurting me!" "Roary, go around the back." "You said you wanted it, man!" " You wanted it, right?" " Take it easy!" "Okay, that's how you're going to get it." "Oh, shit!" "Get out of here, Jerry." " Hey, beat it, huh?" " This is my house." "And that's my girl you're fooling with." "Whatever you paid her, I'll see you get it back." "Now, please, get out." "Christ!" "Look, she came on to us." "Anne?" "Yes, honey?" "Where's the money?" "They didn't give me any money." "Listen, man, she took 25 bucks, and I want to see it." " Or what?" " Or this." "Mistake." "I'll give you five seconds to get out, or me and my friend there are going to hurt you." "I'm not even going to count." "You figure it out." "Starting right now." "Okay." "Relax." "Relax." "Okay." "What's 25 bucks among friends, huh?" "Oh, Jerry." "Oh, Jerry." "Anne, what happened?" "I met this guy." "Jerry, he had such incredible stuff." "Jerry, it was heaven." "Listen to me, Anne." "I can't handle this anymore." "Do you understand?" "I can't take care of you anymore." "I can't do it." "Hey, come on, honey." "When I get back here..." "I want you gone." "Hey, baby, I'm pretty screwed up right now." "What are you talking about?" "Just leave, Anne." "Jerry, I'm sorry." "It's okay." "It just didn't work out." "Don't leave, Jerry." ""Her huge melons glistened in the moonlight." ""She smiled, taunting him," ""then slowly, ever so slowly, she began to undu-- undu--"" " "Undulate"?" " "Undulate"!" " Undulate what?" "Her hips?" " Yes, yes, her hips." " Go ahead, go ahead." " "As her breasts moved toward him," ""bubbling in the night air, he couldn't help but notice" ""how she had grown from that small child from whom he had once babysat."" ""He reached out..."" "Go ahead, go ahead." ""and gently touched her large, brown aur--"" "A-U-R-E-O-L-E-S." ""Aureoles"?" "You're killing the story." ""Her large, brown aureoles"?" "What?" "He touched her cookies?" "Hey, guys, let's go to lunch, huh?" " I'm hungry." " Okay, good." "Here's your hat." "Here's his coat." " Oh, good." " Blue, block that in the book, will you?" " Yeah." " You guys still reading that dirty book?" "No, no, no." "We don't read dirty books." "Hey, Max, I'm going out to eat." "You don't read those dirty books anymore?" " Roary, come on to lunch with us." " I'm coming." "Roary, don't bring me those chili burritos, okay?" "What's the matter?" "I got heartburn or something." "Get me a couple bologna sandwiches instead." "With?" " Mayonnaise" " Mayonnaise on white?" " White bread and" " No pickles." " No pickles." " How about a Bromo?" "Hey, Benny." "How you doing, Benny?" " All right." " How's it going, huh?" " Coming along." " Hey, Blue!" "Blue, when you coming to see me again?" "No, no." "Move, brother Stinky." "Hey, Roary, when you see Jerry, tell him his old lady took up with a pimp in San Francisco." "I'm not going to tell him anything." "There's no need to tell him that." "Don't tell him." "Right." "We don't have to tell him anything, okay?" " Right, right." " Come on." "Let's go." " I dropped the book." " What?" "Wait a minute." "I dropped the book." "Pull me back." "Don't lose the place." "Blue, don't lose the place." "We're going to lose more than that if we don't get out of the way!" " Get out of the street!" " Oh, my God!" "Folks, keep clear." "This man's a big one here." "Let them through, please." " Let's get him up." " Okay, let's go." "All right, there." "You'll be all right, man." "Roary." "Jer, how's Max?" " He had a heart attack." " I know." "How is he?" "He's resting." "He hasn't been looking right, you know?" "I know." "He's worried about the bar." "He just got a foreclosure notice." "He hasn't closed the bar for one night since he opened it, and he owes $1 1,000." "Eleven thousand." "Jesus." "Let's get something to eat." " So what's going to happen?" " Happen to what?" "What are you going to do about the bar?" "I don't know." "What can I do?" "Someone comes through with $1 1,000, or we find another bar." "We could buy it, Jerry." "Come on" " Roary, we could buy it?" "No, listen." "I was going to tell you." "I got some money put away." "My mother, when she died-- they put it in a trust fund." "I was going to loan it to you for your operation." "How much?" "Bread and butter." "$1 0,000." "That'd be enough to get a half interest from Max." "$1 0,000?" "I did it for" " I did it for you." "But with that money, we could buy half interest in Max's." "Are you kidding?" "$1 0,000, Roary?" "You have ten" "You've got $1 0,000?" "Roary, with my-- I've got money saved." "I can get my operation!" " But Max's." " No." "Come on!" " Jerry" " Max's?" "No." "Roary, that's a bad investment." "Look, places like Max's, they go under all the time." "No." "Jerry, you and me." "We can make it work." "No, Roary." "Please?" "I want that operation." "You'll get it." "I guarantee you." "Roary!" "It is just a bar!" "I'm talking about my life!" "It's not just a bar." "Jerry, it's family." "You're right." "There you go." "Here you go." " Jerry" " You're right." "You mean you believe me?" "Jerry?" "You freak show, I told you you're right." " We'll get rich." " Yeah, you and me, rich." "What a sight." "If it doesn't work out, Jerry, I'll do it myself." " I'll fix your leg." "Hold still." " No, no." "I'm gonna fix his leg." "I'm a doctor, really." " He's a lunatic." " Come on." " What, again?" " Cottage cheese." " Hi, Max." " It's good for you." "Hi." "Where are my four beers?" "Jerry's working on 'em." "How you doing?" "Here you go, Louise." "Excuse me." "Thank you so much." " How's your tips?" " Oh, great." " Just run a tab on them." " Okay." "Now, is there anything else I can get for you guys here?" "Hey, chef." "Ordering a tuna fish with Swiss cheese and a roast beef on rye." "Tuna fish, cheese, roast beef, rye." "It's a good idea, the sandwiches, Roary." "We're doing a hell of a business back there." "Yeah." "I've been having trouble with the ordering, though." "Some days I don't get enough cheese, some days I get too much bread, and today I forgot" "I forgot..." "I'll wait till somebody orders it." " Then I'll remember." " You're doing beautiful, baby." "Don't forget these." "Hey, Jerry." " You want a sandwich?" " Nope." "Hey, Jerry, you read today's sports page?" "It named Alvin Martin Rookie of the Year." "Jerry, he's been getting 3 million a year." "Hey, what's this?" "That's Scotch." "I want two bourbons." "You get it, Burt, okay?" "Hey, Burt, do you think he deserves this kind of money?" "Hey, Burt." " I'll be right back." " All right." " Louise." " Yeah." "Come here." "See, I got" "I got two cheeseburgers going there." "Just make sure they're rare." "Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah." "I'm just tired." "Your leg giving you pain?" "A little." "It's nothing new." "Yeah." "It won't be long before your operation." "It'll be forever." "Sh" "Hey, Jerry." "I threw it away." "I threw away thousands!" "Thousands of dollars on that bitch, and she's off in some stinkhole in San Francisco." "You'll make it back." "I wasted it!" "I'm breaking my back." "I'm working two jobs." "I'm no better off than when I first met her." "And she's worse." "I don't know what the hell I'm doing." "Hey, Jer." "You know how you're always talking about how we have to forget our past." "Oh, bullshit!" "Shit, Roary, I don't know shit." "Everything I touch turns to shit." "I didn't turn to shit." "Well, that's because you're already shit, Roary." "I didn't have to do a thing." "Hey, what's going on?" "I'm alone behind the bar." "Louise is screwing up" "I'm sorry." "I forgot." "Come on, get out there and help her." "Hey, Jerry." "Hi, Roary." "How are you?" "Hi, Anne." "When did you get back?" " I got back" " She got back this morning." "I called her." "I wanted her back." "You want a hamburger?" "Thanks." "I have to go back to the bar." "Hey, Jerry tells me that you're doing great business there." "Yeah, we're doing good." "I just wanted to ask you if maybe you could leave your other job a little earlier." "Burt's going to see his cousin Joan in Marin, and" "Sure, I can come any time he wants." "Good." "You don't" "You don't have to leave too early." "I mean, a half hour would be good." "No, it's okay." "I'm gonna quit that job, anyways." "You're gonna quit?" "Why?" "You need the money." "No, I need more time with Anne." "Okay." "I'll see you down there." "All right." "You want a beer?" " I'll go get it." " No." "Thanks." "You sure you want to quit your other job?" "Yeah, I'm sure." "Okay." "Have a good one." "All right." "And oil thyself, squeaky." "Hey, Roary." "I'll see you in a while." "Yeah, Jerry." "Yeah, I'll see you later, Jerry." "See you later." "Please and thank you very much." "I appreciate it." "I think we got trouble." "What do you mean?" "It's up your alley." "No." "A family-- No, I wouldn't enjoy that." "Go with the man." " What is it?" " Stinky, shut up." "Benny, who's that?" "Lucius Porter." "How do you do?" "Mr. Maxwell." "I'm Lucius Porter, a friend of Anne's from the city." "Anne has a ring of mine, one that I place a great value on." "Now, if you would be kind enough to tell me where she is," "I would be deeply appreciative." "I didn't know that ring was real." "It is of infinite worth, and I want it back." "Well, then, I'll get it for you." "I think she's probably already hawked it." "But if she hasn't, I'll get it for you." "If you don't, I will kill you." "I wish you hadn't said that." "I mean, that kind of thing-- that's not allowed in Max's." "I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." "I mean, I'm sorry, but you can understand that." "You are a fool." "Get out of here." "It's been a pleasure meeting you." "Perhaps we'll get together again, sometime in the not-too-distant future." "What's with the suitcase?" "Look, I'm not staying here anymore." "It was a mistake." "What are you talking about?" "Look, Jerry, I don't think you should be here right now." "I don't understand." "Lucius is gonna be here any minute." "I'm going back with him." "That's crazy, Anne." "We're doing all right this time." "I've got money." "Yeah, but not enough." "I'm not hustling for Lucius." "He's just taken real good care of me." "I love you." "I am in trouble." "Right?" "Damn it!" " You look a little thin." " Please, no." "Have you lost some weight?" " Look, just" " I think you just need a little rest, hmm?" "Wait" "God, Lucius, don't hurt him anymore." "Honey, he's gonna be all right." " All right." "All right." " Why don't you go on down to the car?" "We're through here." "It's" "It's" " It's enough, okay?" "Please, please." "It's" " I've had enough." "Where the hell is Jerry?" "Never been late before." "He should have been here over an hour ago." "It's just not like him." "I wish he had a phone." "He gets his calls from somewhere." "I don't know, maybe-- maybe you ought to go over there." "I think somebody should." "You want me to go?" " Hey, Max!" " One minute." "No." "I'll go." "Louise, can you get down by that green table?" "I got to go." "Here's a guy doing figure eights." "Hey, hold it right there, pal." "I'm Roary, the chef from Max's bar." "Oh, yeah, that kid." "See ya, Roary." "See you later." "Jerry." "Jerry." "Why don't you get a telephone, Jerry?" "Hey, what did you leave the door open for?" "Hey, Jerry." "Jerry." "Jerry, sit up." "Jerry." "Jerry." "Jerry, I'll go get some help." "I'll go get some help." "Oh, Christ, Jerry." "Roary." "Your face." "Jerry, you're hurt bad." "Jerry, I'm gonna get a doctor." "No." " Jerry" " No." " I'll call an ambulance." " No." "No ambulances." "Why can't I call an ambulance?" "No doctor." "Nobody." "Roary." "Oh, shit." "No, don't take any off the top, Louise." "I like it just the way it is on the top." "Just take a little off the side, okay?" " Okay, just keep your hands down." " Okay." "Hey, leave her alone." "She knows what she's doing." "What do you mean?" " Oh, hi, there." " Hi." "How's he doing today?" "Same as always, sleeping." "That's what he needs." "Yeah, but two weeks?" "Does he talk about what happened?" "He doesn't talk about anything." "Well, you know, you would think Jerry would want to get better so he can bust those guys up." "He doesn't get angry, he doesn't do anything." "The other day I'm giving him a bath, you know, massaging his leg like the doctor says, and I dunk him." "Roary, you don't do that." "It was just a joke." "He didn't fight back." "He would have let me drown him." "Okey-dokey, Blue, I think you are done." "You're gonna leave him like that?" " What do you mean, leave him like that?" " This is for you." " For me, Louise?" " Yes." "A red lollipop." "Yes, you were a very good little boy." "Oh, wow." " You look great, Lewis." " Thanks, Roary." "Why don't you let me cut your hair, hmm?" "No, I've got bad hair." "It doesn't cut" "Oh, no, you don't." "You have nice hair." " Whoa-ho, there's gonna be sex." " I can tell." "Maybe some other time, Louise." " Some other time." " Some other time." "I meant my hair." "Yeah, we know what you mean." "Okay, if you're all done up here," "I'll go set up the sandwich stuff, okay?" " Yeah, I've got to do some reordering." " Reordering!" "We know where you're going." "We know where you're going" " Hey, Louise." " We know where you're going" " We hear you!" " Shame, shame, double shame" "It might not be a bad idea someday to take a little bit off." " Everybody knows your name" " Whatever." "You are the worst." "Hey, Jerry." "How's the water?" "Still hot?" "It's fine." "I forgot to show you something." "Wait till you see this." "This is terrific." "Let me see." "Where the hell is it?" "I hate that, when you know where something is, and you don't-- you don't know" "Look at this." "Look at this." "Alvin Martin, $3 million." "$3 million." "Makes you about 2.7 or 2.6." "Give me your leg." "Come on." "Lift." "That thing getting a boner?" "Whoops, sorry." "Didn't mean to make you smile." "You gotta start feeling better soon." "You gonna try to get back at that guy Lucius?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "Think about it." "I don't know." "Stop being such a basket case, man." " Where's your balls?" " I got no balls, Roary." "What are you gonna do, give up on your operation, too?" "That's right." "Why don't you make some bubbles?" "You'll feel better, you'll see." "You'll see." "Hey, Roary, you sure you ain't bullshitting us just to get me to take you guys for a ride?" "Hey, Roary don't bullshit." "If he said Jerry played Alvin Martin one on one and almost beat him, I believe him." "We had bets down." "We had major bets." "Lewis, where's the book?" "I didn't bring the book." "What, are you crazy?" "You never know when you're gonna bet." "If you had your book, I'd lay odds that we don't find Alvin Martin's house." "Yeah, well, you'd lose." "There it is, right on the other side of this shrub here." " It's the white house." " Hey, let's see the magazine." " Stop." "Stop, Benny." " There it is." "There it is." "No, no, that's not the house, man, 'cause Alvin Martin's house has got-- well, you know all them white houses look alike to me." " Okay, let's go, let's go." " You're right, anyway." "His number's 1 4458." "That's it." "Right." "Yeah, okay." "This is fantastic." "I almost moved into a neighborhood like this." " Benny." " Baloney." " Let me have that magazine, Roary." " Here you go." "This is a tough neighborhood." "Hey, this is the house right up here." "Right up here." "Hold it, hold it." "That's it." "That's it." "Look, that's the house." " What's the number?" " Look at that house, man." " 1 4458, that's it." " Boy, look at that house." "I don't believe it." "Are you kidding?" "So what's it gonna be?" "You gonna ask Alvin Martin for the money for Jerry's operation?" " I didn't say" " Yeah, what are you gonna say to Martin?" " Excuse me, Mr. Martin" " Excuse me, Mr. Martin." "Perfect, go ahead." " Give me the magazine." " Oh, okay." " All right." " Great." "Looking good." "What's the place look like?" "Stinky, it's beautiful." "It's all in white, and it's modern." "And Alvin Martin has got two Japanese gardeners working on the lawn." " Japanese?" " Yeah." "I thought Martin was a spade." "Don't use that word when there's another spade in the car." "What?" "There's a Negro in this car?" "There are several Negroes in this car." "Have you looked in the mirror lately?" "You know, I never thought about it before, but it must be tough being a bigot if you're blind." "I know." "I had to give it up." "Yeah." "Excuse me." "Mr. Martin?" "Well, I guess Roary was wrong." "You don't want to die, do you?" "I'm going to loan you the money for your operation." "Now, it's not charity, it's just a loan." "I don't want your money." "Wait a minute." "Look, you little bastard." "I'm not finished." "I'll be honest with you." "If you hadn't almost kicked my ass that day we played," "I wouldn't be here now." "I mean, your whole story is sad and all that, but I know stories that make yours sound like a picnic." "I don't want your charity." "I told you, man." "No charity." "Are you listening to me?" "No charity." "Call it curiosity." "Curiosity?" "Listen, Jerry," "I know you're good enough to play semi-pro ball." "Can you understand that?" "I mean, a hot shot little white boy like you?" "Man, if you can pass like you can shoot, you might just go all the way." "Hey, look, I know it sounds unreal, but that's what makes it so good." "That's exactly what makes it so good." "What do you say?" "Hey, look." "I'll send a car for you tomorrow." "Bitch." "Fetch, fetch." "Alvin's got you in the best hospital, at Stanford Hospital." "The doctor for the Warriors is going to be taking care of you." " He's not bad, huh?" " Yeah." "He lives right nearby, so he'll be conditioning with you or working on your thing while you're there, and" "I guess you'll be there three, four months or something." "I wonder how they can do that with their mouths open" " without taking a lot of water in." " I don't know." "You'd think they'd get sick, or get a headache or something." " Come on!" "Here, boy!" " Looks like they're choking." " I'm going to need you." " What for?" "For the operation." "You don't need me." "You got the best people in the world around you." "I'd just like you to be there." "I've been working so hard at the place and taking care of you, I'm wiped out." " I need a rest." " Please?" "Sure." "I'll ride up with you." "No." "I think it's better if you come by and you're on your own." "Kind of make it look like it's a surprise." "Wait a minute." "What, are you ashamed to let people know that l-- that you need me?" " What the hell does that mean?" " I just thought it'd be better this way." "Nothing." "I'll be there." "So long, Jerry." "Hey, so long, you guys." "I'll see you sooner than you think." "Hey, you guys take care of Max." "Jerry, good luck to you." "All right, Roary." "He's your responsibility." "It's all on your shoulders." "Sprint!" " Bye, Jerry." " Good luck, Jerry." "All right, fellas, drinks are on Max." " What?" " Hey!" "Three cheers!" "Hey, let's go!" "Bread and butter." "Hey, Louise, "apparently"" "L-Y or L-E-Y?" "L-Y." "That's what I got." "Hey, Roary." "I think we have to increase our order on draft beer, maybe two, three kegs a week." " That okay?" " Good." "Make it three." "Hey, Herrada!" "Yo!" "Here are your two ham sandwiches with chips." " No?" " I got better things to do with my money." "Hey, I got a new one for you guys." "Okay, go ahead." " This ain't no Polish joke, is it?" " No, no, Mr. Wilkowski, never." "No Polish jokes." "Roary, who are you writing to?" "What?" " You writing to Jerry?" " Jerry." "We haven't heard from him in months." "Why don't you call him?" "Call him?" "I don't want to be pushy," "I just want to bug him a little bit." "Listen to this." "Tell me how it sounds." "Okay." ""Dear Jerry..."" "Yeah?" "I just wanted to get your impression" " about the opening there." " Okay." ""ln case you've forgotten, my name is Roary." ""How are you?" "I used to be your best friend, so you said--"" "Now that's not too angry, is it?" " No, no." "That's fine." " All right." "Go ahead." ""I'm sure you're working very hard, and apparently, you're very busy," ""but I would appreciate hearing from you, hearing about your recuperation," ""and how life is treating you." ""Stinky says hello." "So does Wings." ""So does Blue Lewis." ""And Stinky has a girlfriend named Claire." ""She looks like Shirley Temple, but older." ""l think mainly she and Stinky have a good thing going, sexually, but" ""Blue Lewis doesn't have to read him porno anymore, she does." "Louise is..."" "What?" "What'd you say?" "The rest of this stuff is just guy talk." " Is that more titty talk, there?" " No." "Let me see that." "I tell him that you're doing a good job and how pretty you are." "Thank you." "No problem." "Okay. "Burt and I went to Tijuana," ""saw a lousy bull fight." ""They had this old cow that could hardly walk." ""A guy comes out, stabs it." ""Blah, blah, blah." "Big deal." "So why don't you come by?" "Love, Roary."" "I just wanted to write a friendly letter." "It's beautiful." "Do you really think he'll come back?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, he'll come back." "I know what he's doing now." "This is a dream come true for him." "And he has to spend some time with his dream." "Yeah." "But what's your dream?" "I don't know." "Well, why don't you spend a little time finding out?" "Yeah." "Why don't you go wash the dishes?" " Oh, no." "Must I?" " No." "I'm only kidding." "Come on, we'll do it together." "All right, I'll be right over." "I'll wash, you dry." "No, you wash and dry." "Yo, Benny, the girls are all alone." "Dance with them." "One, two, go dance." "Hey, Roary, take this to the back table." "Down there, to the right." "Thanks." " Bread and butter." " Merry Christmas." "Hey, Roary!" "Where the hell is Jerry, huh?" "He'll be here." "Hey, if he isn't here at Christmas, when is he coming, huh?" "He's coming, he's coming." "Come on, baby." "Let's go!" "Come on, honey." "It's still pouring out." "Oh, boy." "Hey, dance with Roary." "Jingle your bell." "Hey, Roary." "Come on, Roary." "Let's go." "Come on, baby." "Let's dance." "Okay." "Yeah, yeah." "Oh, yeah." " A couple beers." " What's going on over there?" "Roary and Louise are dancing together." "What?" "To that music?" "Where the hell is that jukebox?" "Here." "Here, Stinky." "Watch the stick." "Stinky!" "Where are you going, Stinky?" "Where are you going?" "Hey, come on." "That's my favorite song." "What?" "Hey, you cut my song, Stinky!" "Hey, hey, Stink!" "I'm playing the piano." "What the hell do you think I'm doing?" "Hey, Roary!" "Roary!" "What is this, a woman with a beard?" "Where's Louise." "Louise!" " Where are you?" " I'm right here." "Here, here." "Dance to some real music." "That's it." "Okay." "Hey, where's Claire?" "Here I am, Stinky." " Hey." " Hey, man." "Merry Christmas." "Ain't no drug dog, is it?" "Merry Christmas." "Hey, Louisie!" "Oh, no." " Oh, boy." " Merry Christmas." "Burt's kissed her." "Hey, Roary." "Mistletoe, come on-- Hey, not me, the lady!" "Jesus." "Come on." "Come on." "Kiss her." "Mistletoe!" "Mistletoe!" "Burt's making" "Burt's making Roary kiss her." "Louise, come on." "With your lips, your lips!" "Come on, now." "On the lips." "Roary, on the lips." "On the lips." "On the lips." "Come on, on the lips." "What are you waiting for?" "On the lips!" "Come on!" "Lay it on her!" "Go ahead, Roary!" "He's kissing her!" "He's kissing her." "All right, Louise." "Hey, all right!" "Hey, Max, we need a bunch of water!" "Look at that!" "Hey, Roary, come up for some air." "Come on, hey." "Oh, what fun it is to ride" "In a one-horse open sleigh, hey" "Jingle bells, jingle bells" "Jingle all the way" "Oh, what fun it is to ride" "In a one-horse open sleigh" "We're going home." "The party's over." "Party's over, huh?" "Did Jerry come?" "Didn't show, he didn't show." "Let's go home." "Can we wait" "We're going home." "Blue, it's late." "But we should wait for ten minutes for him, at least." "I'm wondering what happened to him, too." " I'm sorry." " Well, it's Christmas." "You can't expect everybody with the traffic..." "Let's go home and have our own party." "To hell with Jerry." "Santy Claus sees this mess, he ain't gonna bring you guys no presents." " Hey, Burt." " Yeah." "Thank you again for the cheap tie." "I didn't buy it." "I stole it." "Goodnight, Max." "Those guys were really disappointed, weren't they?" "Yeah, well, they love Jerry." "He's like family." "Maybe that's the problem." " No more." " What?" "Let's forget all this and take care of it tomorrow morning." " Are you sure?" " Positive." "What do you mean by that?" "What?" "It's a problem?" "Oh, he's well." "Well, I don't know." "Maybe he just doesn't really want to come back anymore." "You mean, like, he feels he doesn't fit in anymore." " Yeah, maybe." " Here." "I don't know." "Just" " I don't know." "Can I pull your collar up?" "Oh, thanks." "I had a great time." " You were terrific." " It was so much fun." "And I also want to thank you for the present." " Present?" " My kiss." "You'd better get home." " I'll tell you what you can do." " What?" "You can sleep late tomorrow." "Oh, may I?" "You get some rest, too." " Yeah, have a merry Christmas." " You do, too." " Goodnight, Louise." " Merry Christmas." "Bye." "Shit." ""Don't worry, Roary." "I'll get it."" "Yeah, it's Max's, it's Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "It's very late." "Do you believe Christmas Eve, you drive for five hours, only get three dollars in tips in this rain?" "Some Christmas spirit, huh?" "Have a good time, pal." "All right." "Here you go, pal." "Keep the change." "Hey, Merry Christmas." "Hey, Jerry!" "Hey, Roary!" "No, stay there, Roary." "I want to show you something." "Yeah." "Look at this knee." "Just look at it." " Beautiful." " Oh, it's good to see you." " You look terrific." " You look terrific." "Well, let's get out of the rain." "All right." "Them boys really missed you tonight, man." "Well, I got hung up, you know?" " You could've called." " I did call." "I called you." "Oh, yeah." "Oh, yeah." "Hey, I got a present for you." "These are for the guys." " Terrific." " Let's get a beer." "My doctor says the leg is pretty strong." "Should be okay if I don't push too hard." "You know, kind of pace myself." "I've really gone along pretty fast." "Alvin works out with me every day." "Ah, that's great." "No." "This is great." "I tried out for a semi-pro team in San Jose last week." "And?" "And they want me." "Jer, that's terrific." "This is Christmas." "So... when do you start?" "Thursday night." "Sorry, guys." "Last call." " Want another beer?" " Yeah." " Two?" " Two." " Okay." " Thanks." "San Jose Thursday night." "Can you make it?" "Can I make it?" "Are you kidding?" "I'll be there on Wednesday." "I'll bring the guys." "My fault." "My fault, I'm sorry." "I almost had a heart attack." "No." "Hold off on the guys for a little bit." "I don't know how I'm going to do." "I think I'd be too nervous." "Yeah." "Good." "Can I bring Louise?" "Louise?" " The waitress?" " Waitress." "It's a shame you didn't get a chance to know her." "She's really doing good." "She's" " She's something." "The guys love her." "Gee, I hardly remember her." "She's kind of pretty, isn't she?" "Jerry, she's beautiful." "You really like her." "No, I mean, we're just friends." "She's a good waitress." "Sure, bring her." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "He didn't even call or nothing." "His first game, he didn't even invite us." "Who does he think we are, people he used to know?" "Hey, I happen to know you guys are wrong." "He wants to see you bad." "It is his first game, you know?" "I mean, he's tense." "He's under a lot of pressure." "He did send you gifts." "Roary, you and Louise are going to the game, and we knew Jerry before you did." "Shut up, Blue." "If the man doesn't care, he just doesn't care." "He does care." "It's just that you got to give him some time." "Look, if you don't want me to go, I won't go." "Well, the point is, somebody's got to go." " Go ahead." " Hey, Roary, you ready?" "It's getting a little late." " Go." "I'll see you." " Go on, it's all right." "See you when I get back." "Yeah, we'll be here." "All right." "You got the camera?" "Yeah, I got the camera, got the bulbs, got supper" "I'm not hungry." "Hell, I'm going to eat." "What's on my plate, Wings?" "You got a potato at 6:00, you got succotash at 9:00, and you got a steak at high-noon." "I don't like succotash at 9:00." " All right!" " Move, move!" "Come on, man, me!" "Coming down!" "I thought The Mouth would be out there hot dogging his way to overnight star." "What does that mean, "hot dogging"?" "Hot dogging, that's like" "When a white player tries to play like a black player." "Yeah." "Jerry, shoot it!" "Oh, God." "Now that's a foul." "That's a foul." "You okay?" "Oh, no." "Walk it off." "Walk it off." "Come on, Jerry." "Easy, easy." "All right!" "Okay, gentlemen, line up." "We got two shots." "Two shots." "That scared me." "Get it down." "Hey, that's my boy!" "Hey, you know what?" "Kind of reminds me of what it must be like to watch me." "I'm serious." "Hey." "Thanks, Alvin." "Hey, man." "It's all right." "Skin that!" "All right!" "Yeah!" "Wasn't he terrific?" "Yes, he was." " lncredible." " Let's see, where are my keys?" "Here we go." "You got your keys, Louise?" "Louise has got her keys." "Yes, I have them." "Look at that fire." "It's incredible." "You know, I think I like basketball now." "I really liked those guys in those little shorts." "Alvin says Jerry could go all the way if he wants." "You know, I think he could, too." "Yoo-hoo, anybody in here?" "You know, he looks different." "Yes, he did look different." "He looked very good." " He looks like a gazelle" " He did look rather gazelle-like." " You little spider monkey, you." " He looked like a gazelle." "Oh, no." "Hey, watch the oranges." " This is the greatest night of my life." " It was really fun." "I think I had a pretty good time, too, you know?" "Thank you." "It was great." "I had a great time." "Excellent." "Louise?" "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Could you just go away?" "I'm going." "Louise..." "Come on, we've got to talk." "There's nothing to talk about." "Bullshit." "I know what it is." "It's because I am the way I am." "That's it, isn't it?" " Roary, please don't." " It's all right." "I'm not going to mope around wounded for the rest of my life." "I love you as a friend." "I got carried away." "So we won't be lovers." "Big deal." "I'm sorry." "When I kissed you, it's because, you know, I'm" "I'm happy about Jerry, and all he's doing, and the kissing, the rest of it was stupid." "It's not like I lie awake, horny for you." "I don't." "It was just a moment." "A big moment." "No big deal." "Are we still going to have a cup of coffee?" "But, of course." "Come on in." "Pick up the oranges." "Yeah." "All right." "All of them." "I want them up..." " I got them." " and in the kitchen." "I'll clean everything up." "I got it all." "I'll clean it all up." "Oh, boy." "Wow." "All these oranges." "Do you know how many oranges we bought here?" "I love you." "What?" "I said, "l love you."" "Oh, good." "I love you, too." "Let's be friends and forget all that other crap." "All that other stuff." "Wait." "I don't think you really understand." "See, I do... want to be your lover." "And there's nothing that I would like better, do you know, than to be your lover." "It's..." "You're afraid." "I think so." "Yeah." "Of what it would be like with a cripple." "Yeah." "Yeah." "And..." "I'm" " I know it's all inside my head." "Do you know?" "And it doesn't make any sense to me." "And I hate that part of me." "But if we did try, do you know, and it-- and, I mean, let's say that it didn't work out" "I couldn't forgive myself." "I couldn't." "And I couldn't hurt you that way." "You're right." "It would hurt." "So let's not push for anything." "Let's just be friends, okay?" "Thank you." "Thanks so much." "Now, Jerry scored 426 points in 1 5 games." "1 5 in the 426th gives me 28.4 points average per game." " Please." " Huh?" "Huh?" "Does that sound right to you?" "Sounds right to me." "That's absolutely right." "Does what sound right to me?" "28.4." "No, it doesn't sound right to me." "What do you mean?" "I got it right here, Stink, in black and white." "In black and white?" "Black and white." "Yes, I got it right here in black and white." "The National Hockey League has announced it plans to crack down on the violence that's been plaguing the game." "Hey, I thought that Jerry's going to be on the Gil Stratton show." "Relax, relax, Blue." "If Jerry told Roary he's going to be on, he's going to be on." "That the right station, Max?" "That's Gil Stratton." "That's what they said." "Hey, Max, make it a little clearer, will you?" "Damn you, Stinky." "In the NBA, the Warriors announced the signing of Jerry Maxwell to the club today." "Hey." "Jerry looks good in that." "where during his short but dazzling career, he was averaging 26 points a game." "28 points, you dodo!" "Listen to Blue Lewis." "28 points." "Hey, Max, drinks on the house." "In addition to everything else, there was a lot of damaged cartilage in my knee, which had to be removed, which means they had to replace it." "I don't think I've heard of that." "Well, it's a pretty new operation." "Anyways, there was this guy there who had to get a nose job, you know, get it reduced." "Well, they took the cartilage from his nose..." " From his nose." " and it ended up in my knee." "In his knee." "There's even nose donors." "That's right." "People who want to make extra money." "Make bucks on the side." "That's great." "She got it right away." "Oh, no." "I got to admit, he had me going." "I'm thinking, "Hell, that's a great idea."" "Oh, boy." "Roary, you are beautiful." "Can I help you with that?" " No, thanks." " Is there anything else?" "Louise?" "No, thanks." " Roary?" " I'm all right." " Well, I hope you've had a nice dinner." " Roary." "No, Roary." "Wine in my water?" "She's cute." "She is cute." "I can't get over how beautiful Louise is." "Well, thank you." "Told you, didn't I?" "Yeah." "Why don't you come by Max's and see the guys?" "I mean, you know, they love you." "It hurts them." "You're never around," " you never come by" " I will, Roary." "Just not now." " Just come by Max's." " I said I will." " To Max's." " To Max's." "All right, to Max's." "And to your nose." "Okay." "Strong fingers." " Get a good head massage." " I love it." "Boy, I'm cold." "Okay." "Wait." "There." "Thanks." "Well, you're welcome." "It's cold." "Why don't you go dry your hair on the porch?" " Okay." " So it'll bring out all the little golden highlights in your hair." "Come on out." "Yeah, I'll be out in just a minute." "I wish I was a fish" "I wish" " Floating in your bathtub" " Oh, wow." "It's great out here." "Yes, you are getting blonder as we speak." "Swimming 'round your drain" "I've been meaning to tell you, you look very good." " You have been looking very good lately." " Yeah?" "Oh, my God." "Roary, you shaved your beard off." "You finally shaved it off." " No handle." " God, look at you." "God, you have a mouth now." "Does it look okay?" "It's beautiful." "I feel good, too." "I think my moves are getting better." "Watch this." "I'm going to make a sharp turn." "You tell me if it's precise enough, all right?" "Okay." "Dashing figure." "See that?" "It's very good." "Wow." "Is there a need for that particular move?" " Maybe." " Yeah?" "I might have to defend you someday." "By turning left." "Yeah." "You want to go to a movie this afternoon?" "Well, I can't." "I got other plans later." "Okay." "Roary..." "I have been seeing Jerry." "Since when?" "A couple of weeks." "Since the night at the restaurant." "Wasn't I supposed to know?" "Jerry thought it would be better, you know, for the time being if we just didn't say anything." "Jerry said that?" "I got to go." "I got to go." "Thank you." "Shampoo and everything." "Roary." "Hey, come on." "It's not like there's some wild love affair going on." "Roary, please." " See you guys later." " You got some speed there." "Hey." "Jerry." "Hey." "Roary." "Hey." "Great news." "Tomorrow night's the night." "I play pro-ball." "Yeah." "Well, I don't think tomorrow night's a good night for me, Jerry." "I don't think I can get a mascot uniform in time." "What?" "A mascot uniform." "You know, for your dog." "I'm your best friend, aren't I, Jerry?" "Isn't a man's best friend his dog?" "Isn't that what I am?" "Hey." "What's going on?" "I'm your dog, Jer." "You know, your little companion, trails along, follows you wherever you go." "Your dog?" "Is this a joke?" "Come on, Roary, what the hell are you talking about?" "I'm talking about friendship, Jerry." "Of course, you're not too good at that, are you?" "Only when it's good for you." "But you know what you are?" "You know what you are, Jer?" "You're a thankless shithead." "And I had it over my head, and I'm choking on all the shit you dumped on me." "And no more." "No more." "Look, Roary, if you're talking about Louise" "I'm not talking about Louise." "Don't mention her name." "You don't talk." "You" " I'm feeling good." "I'm mad." "You know?" "I think I maybe should be grateful for all the shit you dumped on me because all my life, I felt like I was dumped on." "This is the first time I feel like I'm fighting back." "The first time I feel like I'm doing something right, Jer." "Thank you, Jerry Maxwell!" "Thank you!" "You want to hear something funny?" "I couldn't even kill myself." "What a joke." "I jump off the tenth floor of a building, and I can't even die." "A joke suicide, like a cartoon." "I fell on a fucking Pontiac, for Christ's sake." "Roary, please, I never knew" "No, you stay where you are." "You stay where you are." "You know, you never even asked me why I tried to kill myself, Jer." "Nobody." "Nobody asked me why." "Well, I'm going to tell you." "Nothing like... the girl I loved being stolen by my best friend." "Nothing that romantic." "Nothing that dramatic, Jerry." "It was just because of nothing." "I just felt like nothing." "You wouldn't understand that, would you, Jer?" "You've always had people like me to tell you you were something." "But I'm not nothing, Jerry." "I'm something." "I'm big, Jer." "I'm big." "Bigger than you." "But that's not hard to be." "That's not hard to be." "That's not hard to be, Jer." "Hey, about the guys, you don't have to come by Max's anymore, Jerry." "We don't need your kind of cripple there." "Have a good game, Jer." "Have a good game." "My heiny!" "It's open." "Hi." "Hello." "Well... it kind of looks like we both done it." "What?" "I saw Jerry tonight." "So?" "I didn't know you'd seen him this afternoon." "I didn't figure you had to know." "I wish I had known." "I told him I wasn't going to see him anymore." " You did?" " Yeah." "I don't think he had too good of a day." "So?" "And I told him I was in love with you." " You said that?" " Yes." "I told him that you and I were lovers." "We're gonna be, aren't we?" "Roary!" "Roary." "I mean, I went over there and I told Jerry that l" "Have you heard anything that I've been saying?" "It was something that was..." "Roary!" "Roary, listen!" "I want you." "Roary, hold me." "Well, you gonna play or what?" "I want to tell you guys why I never came back here." "I didn't come back here... because I was afraid something was gonna rub off on me." "Come on, Jerry." "Wings, I was afraid... that I would be... a cripple again or something." "But Roary, he told me I'm still a cripple." "He's right." "In fact, I am the only real cripple in this room." "Did you know that Alvin was looking for you?" "That's too bad." "I really feel badly about that." "But I'm not playing tonight." "You wanna know why?" "Because I forgot something very important." "I can't do anything alone." "I'm afraid to be alone." "That's a good one, huh?" "The great Jerry Maxwell." "I was so into what I wanted that I lost everyone I loved along the way." "Blue, let's break out your book." "I'm giving 3 to 1 odds that Maxwell plays tonight." "You lose, Stinky." "Hey, you got any tickets for tonight's game?" "Why?" "Because you're not gonna fuck around with our dream." "Your dream?" "Yeah." "You've taken an awful lot from everyone here, Jerry." "Don't take any more." "This is our dream, too." "Jerry, if you blow this, we've all been robbed." "Don't blow it." "Don't blow it, Jerry." "Yeah." "Blue's got 38 points on you." "He's gonna lose his shirt." "Hey." "Jerry!" "Hey!" "Jerry!" "Look at you." "You shaved." "Hey, guess what?" "Jerry's on!" "This afternoon, before Warrior practice, we caught up with the newest member of the ball club," " rookie Jerry Maxwell." " Yay, Jerry!" "Can I say something before you ask me anything?" "Sure, go ahead." "I would like to say "Hi" to all the guys at Max's." " Especially Roary." " Roary." "This is a basketball, you got that?" "Hey, Alvin, lighten up." "Listen, seriously, look over here." " I bet he's nervous." " Yeah, he is." "How does it feel to come out of semi-pros right to the NBA?" "I feel super." "I dreamt about this all my life." "Dreams!" "Dreams!" " Hey, Roary!" "Roary!" " Yo." "Tell Jerry when he comes back to bring the rest of the team with him." "Drinks on the house." "Is that all right with you?" "Hey, I think that's terrific." "You have a good time." "Tell Jerry we love him, huh?" " Hey, Max?" "Max?" " What?" "Can I go to the game?" "Come on." "I ain't paying you to go to no damn basketball game." "Aw, come on." "Have a heart." "My buddy Burt'll cover for me, won't you, Burt?" ""My buddy, Burt'll--" I wanna go to the game, too!" "I want to go to the game, too." "What do you want me to do?" "Lock up?" " Yeah!" " I ain't been closed in 25 years and I ain't closing to go to no damn basketball game." "Hold the bus!" "Hold the bus!" "Max's is closed for the first time in 25 years." "Burt didn't want to go, but I talked him into it." "I said Jerry needed us." "Jerry'll be surprised." "We're partners in the bar, not my girl." "Did you lock up?" "I don't know." "Did you?" "I thought you did." "I'll do it." "It's all right." "Stay here." "Don't anybody leave without me." "Got a light?" "Hey." "Hey, want some company?" "Anne." "Do you remember me?" "I'm Roary, from Max's." "Roary." "Roary!" "Shit." "I know you." "I didn't recognize you." "You look great." "What did you do?" "You did something." "What's different?" "You lost weight or something like that?" "You look great." "All right, well, I could do something for you." "No." "What?" "You gay or something like that?" "No." "I've got a girlfriend." "Okay, then." "Roary!" "You do me a favor?" "You lend me 50 bucks?" "For junk?" "For old times' sake." "25, Roary?" "Please?" "For old times' sake?" "Don't you want to know about Jerry?" "You think I don't know about Jerry?" "I don't know." "Do you?" "Well, of course I do." "That" " That gimp!" "He's gonna limp around that fucking freak house for the rest of his life 'cause he's nothing." "And you're a sucker." "And I'm a whore." "That's the way it is." "Oh, God!" "My behind has gotten" "Come on, boy!" "Hey, don't let him leave without me!" "Hey, hey, Roary, come on!" "Sir, could you wait just one second, please?" " Come on!" " I'm comin'." "I'm comin'." "Will you move your bun, boy?" "Get over here!" "What are you-- What are you doin'?" " Roary, move your ass!" " All right!" "Move 'em out!" "Move 'em out!" "Ladies and gentlemen, the Golden State Warriors!" "And introducing the newest Warrior," "Jerry Maxwell!" "There he is!" "Jerry!" "Holy shit!" "What happened?" "Three guys fell down the stairs." " Sir, are you okay?" " You all right?" "Sir?" "Sir, you okay?" "I broke my arm." " It's Lucius." " Lucius!" "Who?" "Who?" "Roary!" "What did you do?" " You got him!" " Way to go!" "Roary, I love you, baby, but I'm movin' to L.A." "Sir, you all right?" "Lucius." "Hey!" "Jerry!" "Hey!" "Roary!" "Subtitled By J. R. Media Services, lnc." "Burbank, CA"

"I'm Uhtred, son of Uhtred." "I was born a Saxon Lord, but raised as a Dane until the Eve of my sister's wedding when my family were murdered." "Oh!" "I am a warrior." "But when the Danes attacked" "Alfred's stronghold of Winchester, all a man could do was run." "Some faster than others, including my enemy, young Odda." "And so Guthrum took Winchester." "Aethelwold pledged his allegiance to the Danes, though Guthrum still feared Alfred's God," "I could only hope my now distant wife and child would be safe." "We had no choice but to hide and pray for a miracle." "Iseult, my virgin queen, saved the King's son, but at a cost only she could see." "She gave Alfred strength." "With the King alive and well, there is hope for Wessex." "Destiny is all." "Agree we have fired a good number of ships." "Fleet." "A fleet." "But in the meantime, we have left hundreds of Danes stranded in Wessex with no means of leaving." "Wulfhere, I did not believe their intention was to ever leave." "And in a few months, there'll be more ships, more men." " Now is the time to fight." " To fight with what?" "We're without an army, and the Danes will number thousands." "Men are out there, Wulfhere, and they're waiting." "What they need is the call." "Indeed, but..." "Lord... what if I suggest we escort you to Francia..." "That will not happen." "I will not hide." "Not here, nor in Francia." " But my Lord..." " I have prayed daily for guidance." "The only way I see to save Wessex is with what we have begun." "One defining battle." "We shall be leaving the marshes." "Courage and faith." " Amen." " Amen." "Amen." "Father Beocca?" "Father..." "I'm not saying I know everything... but the King must continue to trust me." "The arrival of Asser may change him." "The arrival of brother Asser has given him strength." "Brother's not a warrior." "Now is the time for warriors." "Though I never thought I'd say it, we need Odda the younger." "He commands the largest feared." "He's the beginning of our army." "That is where we're headed." "Uhtred, I will do everything I can to help." "I will be at your side." " I'll be a flea in Alfred's ear." " Thank you." "Your father would be a proud man." "As am I." "I shall ready my man, and by tomorrow, have horses waiting." "Uhtred." "You believe the Danes can be defeated?" "I'll see you across the water, ealdorman Wulfhere." "You will." " Why'd you take it?" "!" " _" "Aethelgard, Aethelgard, my friend." "A man who be King of Wessex." "Thank you." "Thank you for coming to see me." "Lord, it is Aethelwold." "Yes, please, sit down, sit down." "So..." "I want you to tell me everything you know about Alfred." "I've told you, Lord, he thinks with his dick." "And he can barely keep his britches on." "Hear the question, boy." "Not everybody enjoys a fool." "Alfred... though he may be afflicted by pain, he's as strong a man as you will find." "He's also as clever a man as you will find." "Yeah, I was ready to have him as my advisor until he stole my crown." "His strength, Lord," "I believe, comes from his faith." "From God." "Do you believe... in this God?" "I believe in myself." "Why did Alfred steal the crown?" "For silver, or to be a stronger King to the people?" "No." "Um, uh... yes, yes, in part." " Which is it?" " Unfairly," "I was not seen as a man to follow, by some." "I was not a man to fight Danes, it was said." "And which is true, because I know the Danes will win." "Yes." "Yeah, whereas Alfred, Alfred believes that he can win." " Even now?" " Yes." "Yeah, he's wrong, of course, but... but his faith, you know, that God will not desert him, make him believe that he will win." "Then you have to kill him." " I must kill him?" " Who else?" "Then King Aethelgard can walk in to Alfred's camp... and be welcomed..." "As a friend." "Wulfhere and his men." "God... stay!" "Stay away!" " I have skills!" " Put that piece of tin away, boy." "Oh, thank Christ you're English." "I thought you were one of them... what with the hair." " Where's the ealdorman Wulfhere?" " Gone, Lord." "I am Halig." "I take care of the horses." "Gone where?" "Now, I'm thinking on it, Lord, he did not say." "I thought you would know." " Wulfhere, where is he?" " He's gone, Lord." "Lord!" " He has gone where?" " He didn't say." " He has left your horses, Lord." " We keep moving." "Without Wulfhere?" "Our plan doesn't change." "We make our way to Odda's estate." "We cannot use the Roman roads." "We can make our way to my farmstead." "And from there, across covered ground to Odda's." " And that is the safest pass, Leofric?" " It is, Lord." "Let's return to the others." "There is pain here for you, my love." " Do you know them?" " Tenants." "No." "No!" "No!" "We shall bury the dead." " Pray for their souls." " When you are ready..." "I would like to say a prayer for Uhtred, son of Uhtred." "I must search for Mildrith." " She may be dead and unburied." " You shouldn't, no." "No." "She has buried your son with care, and she has left this place." "It was no longer home for her anymore." "Believe me." "Your tears on the earth will show him that you loved him." " Lord, may I ask what you're writing?" " The first of many letters." "Each will say the same." "The men of Wessex and beyond shall gather at Egbert's stone, and together, we will fight." "When you send out your messengers, Lord, might I suggest that you hand them the letters personally." "Perhaps place a hand on their shoulder?" " It will embolden them, I'm sure." " Thank you, Beocca." "I will do that." "You know I did this to you when I saved the King's son." "You did not." "I knew an innocent would die." "I'm tired of being like this." "I've seen too much and know too much." "I want to see no more." "Mildrith?" "_" " _" " Mildrith?" "!" "_" "Mildrith?" "!" "Lord, you should be resting." "We should all be resting." "I'm tired of resting." "I've spent too many days doing nothing." "Then at least sit before you become unsteady." " Where's my wife?" " She's resting, Lord." " My son?" " He's away, Lord." "Still?" "Important business demands time." "It is not a betrayal." "No, 'tis not, Lord." "You are Earl Skorpa." "You are here to surrender and not waste my time." "I'm here to negotiate." "Surrender, and you will live." "Talk too much, and I will kill you." "Of all the ealdorman of Wessex," "I am the man who can assemble the greatest feared, the greatest army." "I now have to make a choice... whether to side with Guthrum or with Skorpa." "One Dane looks much like the other to me." "I am occupying your land." " Why should I not simply crush you?" " Accept my invitation." "Eat with myself and with my father, and I will tell you all about my land." "The range of my influence." "I am sure an agreement can be reached." "Neither of us need lose any men." "Neither of us need be weakened." "Eat and drink at my hall." "I assure you this is no trap." "I will arrive at your hall after the new moon." "I shall expect you." "Then we have peace..." " at least for a time?" " Oh, we do." "You have lost much." "Fathers, mothers." "A son." "Lovers." "I have you." "I have a brother." "Ragnar." "Yes." "Your sister, Thyra." "Yes." "She is alive?" "No, she's dead." "In a fire." "Uhtred, she lives and is being held in the north." "Skorpa told me." "I thought at first it could be a lie to torment you." "But now I know that it is true." "She lives." " You've seen it?" " Yes." "I've seen her." "But I will see her no more." "The gift is fading." "When this battle is done, Uhtred, your path leads north." "It will be time to face your past." "And you'll be with me." "Always." "Lord... if God's help is required, how could he look favorably upon Uhtred, a non-believer?" "God is good." "Death could be waiting over the very next hill, and it will be Uhtred who stands in its way." "There's no doubt... a Dane will always protect his plunder." "The King is of value." "He is here to protect the King, something neither you or I could do." "He is a man without a soul." "Then I will be his soul, Lord." "I will pray for him." "I will ride beside him always and into battle." "I will be his conduit to God." " And if you fall in battle?" " With the help of your prayers, brother," "I shall become invincible, I'm sure." "Brother Asser..." "I should like you to be the first of my messengers." "Morning." " Sleep well?" " He means, did you hump well?" "I know what he means." "Sleep well, lady?" "If I may speak... to you all." "Though we are yet to complete the first segment of our journey to Odda's estate, it is important we begin the second." "Word of our army's gathering point must be dispatched to the further reaches of our land." "Brother Asser here will be my first messenger." " Halig." " Yes, Lord?" "You..." " will also be my voice." " I will, Lord." "And me, Lord." " Hild?" " Lord..." " she's a woman." " I'm as good a horseman as anyone here." "If it means more Danes will die, then I'll do it." "Yes, Hild." "You will." " Your horses... belong to whom?" " The Lord Odda." "You will let us pass." " You selling or buying?" " Selling." "To the Danes." "There is a peace." "Did you not know?" " Odda has made a peace?" " No, I did not." "Odda is loyal." "We shall see for ourselves what is true." "Lord... you should remain out of sight until we can be sure of your safety." "Odda is not a danger." "But who sits with Odda?" "Very well." "I must see this with my own eyes." "Lord, that is not..." "I've made up my mind." "If there is treachery, it is something I must witness." "Then I will go with you." "I do not require a nursemaid." "I'm a priest." "And I a King." "You'll wait here with Iseult." "I am aware of the care I need to take." "Nuns should not be so pretty, nor have lips that demand to be kissed." "I see you agree." " When is it you're leaving?" " When I'm rested, Lord." "Lord." " What is it?" " Have the Danes arrived?" "Leofric." "He's outside." "Then bring him inside." "He's our man." "He's with Uhtred." "Bring them both to me." "Leofric!" "Uhtred, my prayers have been answered!" "God is good." "Lords... it is good to see you both safe and well." "Leofric, you are home." " Where in God's name have you been?" " Hiding, Lord, and killing Danes." "Hopefully not on my land." "We've been sent by the King." "We bring orders from the King." "What King is that?" " King Alfred?" " Who else, Lord?" "Wessex, it seems, is full of kings." "There is Guthrum, who is King of East Anglia, who now sits in Winchester." "There is Aethelwold here who will tell anyone who cares to listen that he is King." " Where will it end?" " I have Alfred's written order." "It means nothing." " You are to raise the feared." " It is over for Alfred!" "Alfred gave up in Wessex." "He decided to save himself!" "No man has been more loyal to Alfred than my father and I!" "But he has failed us!" "Danes surround us, and he is hiding." "Alfred is King of the Eels... slippery and elusive." "I see it's true." "You have sided with the Danes." "What has Skorpa promised you?" "Are you to be King, Odda?" " Leofric, are you stay..." " Am I right?" " I asked you a question, Leofric." " I am still your man, Lord." "Then you will finish the business you have with this Dane and kill him." " You have my order... kill him." " Lord, I cannot do that." " I stand here as Alfred's messenger..." " I will not tell you again, Leofric." "If any man tried to kill me, then that man is a traitor to the King." "Leofric, you will kill him." " Alfred is no longer my King!" " I will not do it, Lord." " My son." " Father, you will not interfere." "May your mother forgive me, and may you be forgiven for your treason." "Lord." "Forgive him." "Let him die noble." "Odda... you will do as I command." "You will raise the somerset feared." "Lord, forgive my son!" " Please!" " I will not forgive what I have seen." "You will raise the feared." "Yes, Lord." "I will need 20 horsemen... to take word to all men able to carry sword, hook, or spear." " The word is that Alfred is King!" " King Alfred!" "And will fight alongside the swords of Wessex" " to his dying breath!" " Come on!" "May we speak?" "About our son." "You know?" "Then there is nothing left to say." "I'm sorry that his death was something that you had to face alone." "I was not alone." "Being without a husband does not mean that I am alone." "And I am sorry for the life that I have given you." "I've found peace." "I hope you can do the same." "Was there sickness?" "I would like to understand." "Children are frail." "And you'll have other sons, I'm sure... with your queen." " Is she here?" " Yes." "I would like you to leave me alone." "Never speak to me again." "We have nothing that binds us, nothing." "Avoid me, please." "Uhtred Ragnarson." " Should I be pleased to see you?" " Skorpa of the white horse." "I am expected." "By the Lord Odda." "The Lord Odda's in the ground, buried as a traitor." "So what now?" "Do I speak with you?" " Does the truce stand?" " For today, it stands." "Tomorrow, we'll kill you." "You will kill me?" "With what?" "I have almost 1,000 men to call upon." "Your ships have been burned, Skorpa... by Alfred." "He's gathering a great Saxon army." "I am aware my ships are gone." "And I will have my revenge." "You should return to Guthrum and prepare to die." "Did your queen tell you... that your sister is being humped in the ass" " each and every night by one-eyed Sven?" " Did your mother tell you that she should have kept her legs closed?" "I will look for you first" " across the battlefield!" " I will be there!" "And I will not be difficult to find!" " He will go to Guthrum?" " I believe he will, Lord." "Then the battle is one step nearer." "Beocca..." " you should wash out your mouth." " Yes, Lord, I will." "With ale." " How many men?" " 400." "No more." " And this is a great Saxon army?" " Their numbers will grow." "We need to march." "There needs to be a story of a slaughter." "Only days ago, Ragnar was asking if the war was over." "Oh, Skorpa is right." "There must be a slaughter." "We must take the fight to Alfred and his God." "And you are ready to kill your brother?" "If it comes to that, yes." "Then we should face one great honor with another." "Once the armies are assembled, I shall speak to them as one." "Each man should know... this war is not only about land." "Should the heathens win, then Christ is defeated." "When you speak to the men, Lord, you cannot make it a sermon." "And what do you suggest I say?" "Tell them that you'll die for them." "That's good." "Tell them that we'll make the Danes pay in blood, and that they'll be rewarded in plunder." " I am to talk of revenge and greed?" " They're men, Lord, not angels." "We shall stop for a moment." "Halt!" "We hold!" "It is Egbert's stone." "Within these next few yards, we will know if we have an army... of angels or otherwise." "I will go alone." "If no one is there, what then?" "I see." "Not a single one." "Not a single man has answered my call." "Then we wait." "We must wait, Lord." "A fine knife." "A dane's knife." "This thing?" "Yes, I took it from a Dane." "A Dane I killed." " Where?" " Winchester." "This is before you groveled on your ass to Guthrum?" "Before I presented myself to him, yes." "I was not, however, treated in a kingly manner and decided to escape." "The King under the Danes is not King." "Uhtred, I do like you, but I rather tire of your preaching." " You ever thought of becoming a priest?" " Ever since I was a boy." "That's a lie." "I baptized him twice." "He's still not a Christian." "For luck." "Now I'll need a lock from you." " Where's Alfred?" " Watching." "Waiting for his army." "I think I shall go and sit with him a while." "You are fond of him now?" "For luck." "Lord." "I thought you would like company." "What do you see?" "What do you hear?" " I hear nothing, Lord." " No, no." "There is a change in the shadows and the air." "They are out there." "I see nothing but grass, Lord." " And beyond the grass, trees." " There, there!" "It's men." "And more men there." "They have answered the call." "They have answered the call." "The swords of England are coming." "It's the swords of Wessex." "The swords of England." "Today is a day for warriors... a day to kill your enemies." "A day we make the pagans wish they had never heard of Wessex." "Today, we fight for Wessex!" "And not only for Wessex." "We have men here from Northumbria, from Mercia, from East Anglia." "And why are the pagans here?" "They want your wives for their pleasure." "They want your children as their slaves!" "They want your homes as their own!" "But they do not know us!" "Yeah!" "They do not know our swords!" "They do not know our axes, our Spears." "They do not know our courage." "And today... we kill them!" "We shall make the ground red with their blood!" "We shall strip them of what they have plundered!" "We shall make them cry out for mercy, and there will be none!" " No mercy!" " No mercy, no mercy!" "Should I fall, you and... are to take my horse and ride clear of here." "You will not fall." "I forbid this." "Every I have is packed in my bags, it's yours." "You will not fail." "I fight for you." " Kill them all!" " No mercy!" "No mercy!" "No mercy!" "Then no mercy it must be." "Should you meet Uhtred in battle, there can be no doubt." " No mercy." " None." "We should not be holding back, Lord." "We should attack with every man." "I will decide how we fight." "You will follow my orders." "Yes, Lord." "No mercy." "Form our lines." "Form our lines!" "Shields up!" " Advance!" " Come on!" "Forward." "Hold the line!" "We work as one!" " We do not break!" " Shields lock!" "Hold the line!" " Halt!" " Halt!" "Wulfhere!" "I will have your guts, you traitorous bastard!" "This is our land!" "Second!" "Third!" "First in line, as you wished." "Hmm." "Here they come." "Hold." "Hold!" "Keep the wall tight!" "Have that, Wulfhere, ya bastard!" "Hold!" "Leofric!" " Leofric?" "!" " Leave him!" "Leave him!" "Narrow the gap!" "Keep the wall tight!" "Advance!" "Three, two, one!" "No mercy!" "No more ground should be lost!" "Follow me!" "God have mercy!" "We fall back as one!" "Release!" "Release!" "Hold!" "We hold here!" "We go no further!" "Hold!" "Edge backwards with me with my level!" "And..." "Uhtred Ragnarson!" " Can you hear me?" " I hear you, Skorpa!" " Do you wish to surrender?" " I have a gift for you." "Your queen!" "No mercy!" "You will be struck down with my spear!" "And you will spend eternity in the fires of hell!" "Uhtred!" "Take the horse." "Lord!" "What are your orders?" " Lord?" "!" " Did you see that?" "He came, as the priest said." " What, Lord?" " Their God is with them." "So what are your orders?" "No, Lord." "No!" "No mercy!" "No mercy!" "His grave is to be marked like that of an ealdorman." "I shall see to it." "Uhtred." "Iseult is whole." "She has been wrapped and made ready for burial." "I want her to have a pyre." "Then she shall have it." "Uhtred... for all that you have done... all that you've shown me, thank you." "You have given everything." "You are the man I always hoped you would become." "In the year 878 at Ethandun," "King Alfred defeated Guthrum of the Danes and drove them from Wessex." "I am indebted, Uhtred of Bebbanburg." "Wessex is indebted." "There can be no negotiation, Lord." "Only surrender." " That is your advice?" " It is." " I hear you." " Lord." "Peace was secured with hostages, including my friend Brida and my brother, young Ragnar." "Peace was further secured by Earl Guthrum's baptism and acceptance of the Christian God." "Do you renounce the devil and all his work?" "I do." "Let this water cleanse you and make you worthy of God's blessing." " Guthrum, you are now a child of God." " Amen." "As for Uhtred the godless... my journey continues..." "My path's leads north... to blood fields." "To revenge... and to Bebbanburg." "Destiny is all."

"Be still!" "Princess Pink." "Princess Pink." "Such a good little boy..." "That's right..." "That's a good boy, Bubby..." "Good boy..." "Good little boy..." "Toilet...?" "Don't move!" "Jesus can see everything." "He tells me you moved, by Christ, I'll beat you brainless!" "Be still!" "Bubby naughty..." "Oh, Christ!" "What you done?" "!" "You... filthy little cunt!" "You dirty little shit!" "I'll send you to hell, just you see, you'll go to hell, and your eyes will fall out, and your prick will fall off, you dirty little SLIME!" "You're such a good little boy..." "Mummy does love her little Bubby..." "You like'em, don't you, Bub..." "Beautiful, ain't they?" "Good little boy..." "Be still!" "Be still!" "BE STILL, YOU LITTLE CUNT!" "By Christ, I'll beat you brainless!" "Can't come outside, 'cause no gas-mask!" "And Bubby DIE!" "Now be still!" "Poison!" "Poison!" "If the poison don't get you?" " Then God will." " Don't you bloody forget it." "Don't you bloody forget it!" "Where Kat from?" "Outside." "How come he ain't no gas-mask?" "Don't need it." "Don't breathe." "How don't breathe?" "That... ain't breathing'." "Eat!" "I know you're in there, Florence!" "I'll be back!" "What?" "Want to go out, do you?" "Want to go out to see what it's like, do you?" "!" "Want to go outside?" "!" "Cough, choke?" "!" "DIE?" "!" "I know, you're in there, Florence!" "I'll be back!" "Bubby a good little boy." "Mummy's little boy." "Shut up!" "Don't be disgusting!" "Anybody there?" "Come on!" "I know you're in there!" "Go away!" "Florence?" "Open up or I'll bust the door down!" "I know it's you!" "I've seen you come and go!" "That's funny..." "That's funny...!" "All these years and I didn't know I had a son!" "Not so funny." "Christ, Florence!" "You've got to see the funny side of things!" "I've been waiting for you 35 years here to come back." "Yes... well..." "I meant to come back sooner, didn't I?" "Just..." "Well, just I didn't get round to it before." "I'm here now, ain't I?" "Yes..." "Yes, you are..." "You're here now." "God..." "Thirty-five years..." "Gone quick!" "You still look good, Flo." "You always were a good-looking broad!" "You always were the charmer..." "Yep." "Charmed a few girls in my time." "And yet I never knowed I had a son!" "Good, healthy-looking specimen, too." "You done well, Flo." "Hey, son!" "You can call me Pop!" "I'm your Pop!" "Pop." "Pop." "He's gettin' the idea." "Pop." "Pop-pop-pop..." "Pop." " Pop-pop-pop-pop..." " Yeah, yeah..." "Alright, don't go making a big thing of it." "Listen, Flo." "I know I should have been back sooner and I'm sorry and all that." "But do you reckon, you know..." "You and me..." "You know..." "Will you still have me, Flo?" "I don't know." "You bein' a man of God now..." "Oh, that..." "Did a bit of preaching part-time, nothing in it." "How about it, then?" "Make an honest women of you!" "Don't know if I can trust you, Harold." "Hey, what's up, son?" "You got a mental condition or something?" "If you and me are gonna learn to live together we gotta have some respect!" "Comprendez?" "I think he comprends." "How about some refreshment, love?" "Sorry, Harold." "Hey, son!" "Me and your mother would like to have a bit of a talk." "How about going outside?" "Bubby ain't used to going outside." "By himself..." "Son, you ain't a poofter, are you?" "I don't want any son of mine growing up to be a... homosexual." "I'd disown him first." "You got to try to understand..." "Me and Bubby..." "We been here... hm..." "by ourselves a long time." "But he ain't like other kids." "He was such a difficult birth." "All alone in here, no one to help you..." "I didn't think I'd pull through." "So you gotta try to understand." "As long as he ain't a poofter." "Oh, no." "No, he ain't." "Dry old conversation, Flo!" "Pardon?" "Dry old conversation!" "Oh, sorry!" "We don't get very many visitors!" "Hm, would a sherry do?" "Any port in the storm...!" "Any port in the storm..." "I can see right down your dress, Flo." "God, you've got great tits!" "They were big before, but now they're great big whoppers of things!" "You're just being nice!" "No, seriously, Flo." "They're the sort of tits a man can really lose himself in." "Bury his face and forget about the troubles of" "What troubles, Harold?" "What troubles can a man forget?" "Let go, Bubby, let go!" "Jesus...!" "He's mad!" "The fucking bastard!" "Harold!" "Harold, it's..." " He was trying to kill me!" " He was not!" " You mad, you bastard!" "He didn't mean you any harm, he was just trying to see whether you breathed or not." "What?" "!" "It's not his fault, he's got some strange ideas." "You can't blame the kid." "He can't help it." "He never had a father." "Nearly killed the only one he's got." "Christ, kid!" "You're a weirdo!" "Weirdo." "Christ, kid." "You're a weirdo." "Christ, kid." "You're a weirdo!" "You've got lovely skin, Flo." "Soft, and sexy." "You're a sexy woman." "You make it hard for a red-blooded man to keep his hands off you." "You have lovely hands, Harold." "Be a pity not to be using them." "What's that you've found, then?" "Don't know." "Don't know what this could be." "It's me dress that's what you've found." "Yeah..." "But what's this, under the dress?" "You have already had your look at it." "Is it...?" "Is it?" "You'll have to wait and see!" "Gates of Paradise..." "One of the seven wonders of the world!" "Do you really think so?" "Yes." "It's not too big?" "It's perfection, Flo." "Oh, that's lovely..." "Hey, you see...?" "Oh yeah, do that again..." "Oh, that's nice..." "HEY!" "Get the fuck out of here!" "You pervert!" "Give your mother some privacy!" "Go back to bed, Bubby!" "Why the hell you call him Bubby?" "Bubby's a stupid name!" "I was waiting for you to get back." "But it suits him." "Yeah, a stupid name for a stupid kid!" "You're a sexy woman, Flo." "What the fuck...?" "The kid's completely crackers!" "You're a weirdo!" "Oh, Jesus Christ..." "You're a sexy woman, Flo." "Am I?" "Thank you." "God, you've got great tits!" "Great, big whoppers of things!" "One of the seven wonders of the world, Flo!" "It's perfection." "Oh, Bubby..." "My little boy." "Gates of Paradise..." "He's attacking me, Harold!" "Jesus Christ!" "Fuck me!" "Get the fuck out of here!" "YOU MAD BASTARD!" "You mad bastard!" "You fucking cunt!" "You get the bastard out of here!" " You got lovely skin, Flo." " YOU SEXUAL PERVERT!" " You're a weirdo!" " GET THAT CUNT OUT OF HERE!" "GET OUT...!" "Leave Bubby alone!" "YOU DIRTY FUCKING SHIT!" "GET OUT!" "Get the fuck out of here!" "Oh, doormat." "Excuse me." "The fucking kid's trying to be me again!" "SHUT THE FUCK UP, KID!" "You useless shit, you perverted bastard...!" "You're good for nothing!" "Nothing... except messing things up... isn't he, Flo?" "!" "Messed the place up good and proper, didn't you, you little cunt!" "You useless cunt!" " Why don't you piss off?" "!" " Leave Bubby alone!" "Leave Bubby alone!" "Leave Bubby alone!" "You stupid useless kid, you should've been left to die!" "What did you say?" "!" "He should've been, the kid should've been left to die!" "Oh, you bastard, I kept him alive for you!" "Wasn't worth the trouble you fat cow!" "You be still..." "You be still..." "YOU BE STILL!" "You be still..." "Now... you be still, Pop." "Mum..." "You be still, too." "You're a sexy woman, Flo." "Get off the road, you fucking greenie bastard!" "Get a look at the bastard, will you!" "You fucking poofter bastard!" "Nooo...!" "No...!" "Put money in it, bastard!" "He snatched my bloody handbag!" "Bloody bastard!" "Bloody bastard!" "Yeah..." "Yeah..." "See you." "See you." "Bloody bastard..." "Bloody bastard..." "We'll sit in the back!" "We sit in the back!" "Is it the usual?" " Shall we have the usual?" " Yeah." "Okay, hm, two specials, no pineapple!" "Alright, beautiful, thanks very much." "Alright." "Lick!" "Your tongue!" "Yeah!" "Now lick me here!" "Here, dummy!" "Oh, Christ, that prickles!" "Do you like singing?" "Do you like that?" "When I want to feel close to my special friend, Jesus..." "I sing him a very special song..." "Do you want to hear it?" "It's my good friend Jesus's favourite song." "Did you like it?" "You're a dag!" "Christ, kid!" "You're a weirdo!" "Yeah, that's what you are!" "A weird kid!" "Nothing but a big..." "weird... kid..." "Hey!" "Piss off out the way, mate, I gotta cut this tree down!" "Hey!" "You fucking deaf?" "You're a queer looking rooster, aren't you?" "What're you, fucking one of them greenies?" "Hey!" "Come on, fuck off, or I'll cut your prick off!" "You fucking idiot!" "Go on, get out of it..." "Come on!" "Little...!" "Come on, let's just get out of here." "You'll just come with me, sir!" "You don't want any trouble now, do you?" "Come on!" "This way!" "Yes, mate!" "Can I help you?" "Err, printshop..." "Get, get, get...!" "You try that again, mate, and I'll call the cops!" "Two of those wonderfully fattening chocolate eclairs, please, Sam!" "Here we are!" "Thanks." " Thank you, sweetie!" " Yes!" "Two of those wonderfully fattening chocolate eclairs, please, Sam!" "Two dollars!" "Thanks!" "Thank you, sweetie!" "Er, no, that'll be two dollars, thanks, buddy!" "Two of those wonderfully fattening chocolate eclairs, please, Sam!" "Thank you, sweetie!" "I think we'd better find out where you belong." "To take you back there." "Come on!" "Yes." "I still look alright, don't I?" "Get off the fucking road, you fucking greenie bastard!" "Get off the fucking road, you fucking greenie bastard!" "I don't like fucking smart cunts!" "I saw what that fucking pig did to you..." "Beer?" "There's some down here." "I've gotta stop drinking." "I've gotta get my life in order." "Who wants it?" "Bubby wants it!" "Bubby!" "Rip the scab off that one, mate!" "We need more beer!" "We need more beer!" "Let's give him a taste of what's to come!" "Sure, a bit of rock'n'roll!" "One!" "Two!" "One-two-three!" "If you see Kay!" "Can you tell her I'm leaving?" "Can you tell her I'm losing my mind?" "If you see Kay!" "Can you tell her I'm leaving If you'd say until she says okay" "I've got to hear you say okay" "I've got to make her take away" "I can't figure it out any other way!" "F. U. C. K!" "Can you tell her I'll leave her?" "Can you tell her I'm losing my mind?" "How's it, roadie?" "I would never drive, mate!" "Hey, Bubby!" "Can you give us a hand, mate?" "Bubby is the apprentice roadie." "That's good, Bubby." "Bubby is the apprentice roadie." "Yeah, just don't drop the fucking speaker, okay?" "Just don't drop the fucking speaker, okay?" "Oh, fuck!" "Jesus!" "Alright?" "Is this where the band supposed to be?" "Yeah." "Alright..." "Hm..." "What time are you starting?" "About an hour and half ago, but nobody's turned up yet." "Want to come in?" "We'll play!" "I... don't think so." "I was hoping there'd be some girls." "No girls, mate, only music." "Thanks anyway!" "Who was that?" "I don't know." "A neighbour complaining about all the racket we were making." "Ah, very fucking funny, mate." " He was a customer." " Where did he go?" "How the fuck would I know?" "Down the road to see another band!" "And you just let him walk out!" "What the fuck was I supposed to do?" "Force him?" "How the fuck we're going to pay for the hall, if you let all the people walk out without paying!" "Jesus fucking Christ!" "Is that the lot?" " I've nothing." " I've nothing." "What about you, hold-out?" "Is that it?" "Try the other pocket, mate, we saw you tried that one before." "Nothing!" "Never anything." "How about you?" "Got any money?" "Sure..." " Search him." " Money!" "Do you have any money?" "You greedy little cunt!" "I ain't got enough money to keep buying you milk!" "So take that, mate!" "Shut up!" "Well, if that's all there is we're stuffed." "Yeah!" "We're stuffed." " Christ!" " Hilarious..." "No money, no girls..." "It's enough to make you puke!" "And where's that fucking smell coming from?" "!" "Your fucking feet!" "Fuck that fucking smell!" "What about the fucking money?" "Hurry up, Bubby!" "We're in the middle of a crisis!" " Settle!" " It's okay, mate." "CLINGWRAP KILLER" " That be Mum!" " What?" "That be Pop!" "Them be Mum and Pop!" "What?" "Is that your mother?" "Bubby Mum!" "And your father?" " What do you reckon..." " Oh, Jesus Christ!" "Ah, wouldn't be him!" "Big shit!" "It wouldn't!" " I don't know..." " It says there's a reward!" "Fifty thousand bucks!" "Take a look at this!" " What is this..." " Aah, shit!" " Christ!" " Fuck!" "That be Kat!" "No, it was a cat." "Jesus..." " Eer..." " It is him!" " It has to be!" " Fifty grand!" "Oh, fuck..." "Alright, he's harmless!" " Tell that to the cat." " He can stay in your bed tonight." "Jesus, Bubby, take that cat outside, will you?" "Just take it outside for a while." "Don't go too far, okay?" "Okay." "Bring us back some money or something!" "Okay!" "Five, six, seven, eight, nine..." "Jesus fucking Christ!" "Get that fucking thing out of here, you mad bastard!" "What...?" "I don't like fucking smart cunts!" "Well..." "If that's all there is we're stuffed." "Ah, fucking racket!" "Yeah, they're probably after him." "Oh, shit." " What're we gonna do now?" " We're gonna go to jail!" "I can feel it!" "We're going to go to jail!" " Bullshit!" " Shut up!" "Look!" "Look...!" "Let's just put these on." "More trouble that he's worth." "You just take care of that money." "It's alright, Bubby." "Tell you a story that's sad but true" "Tell you a story about you know who" "A boy called Bubby sitting right over there" "Bad Boy Bubby with the wild, crazy hair..." "Bad Boy Bubby..." "Oh, yeah!" "Bad boy..." "Bad Boy Bubby Bad Boy Bubby Blues" "Got them?" "Bad Boy Bubby Bad Boy Bubby Blues..." "Bad Boy Bubby Blues from my head right to my shoes..." "Well, we met him when we were touring in '53" "Well, that's not true but it rhymes with Bubby" "Bad Boy Bubby" "Bad Boy Bubby Blues..." "He's a classic, isn't he?" "You don't own a cat, do you, Dan?" "We're going to leave you with Dan, Bubby." "Okay?" "See you, Bubby!" "And don't be a bad boy!" "Bad Boy Bubby..." "Bad Boy Bubby Blues..." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Why don't you go and talk to her, if she's so interesting?" "You're a sexy woman, Flo." "God, you've got great tits." "Great, big whoppers of things." "You're a very cruel person, do you know that?" "Just because you're rich, and you're handsome, you you think it's okay to make fun of people like me?" "Well, it's not funny!" "It's just hurtful!" "Bubby naughty bad boy," " dirty little cunt!" " Oh, leave me alone!" "Leave me alone!" "Just please, leave me..." "Go away from me!" "SOMEONE HELP ME!" "Why don't you bastards do something!" "Watch the language, lady, or I cool you off for a couple of days!" "Hey, we're not the bloody criminals!" "Those arseholes stole our purses!" "We can't help if you go walk about at night by yourselves!" "Who'd want to steal from a boong?" "Oh, for Christ's sake!" "We were on our way home from work!" "Work?" "!" "Huh!" "That'd be the day!" "Something illegal, no doubt!" "Youse are really fucked!" "Now, I warned you about the language!" "Now you can piss off out of here!" "And consider yourselves lucky I didn't lock up the pair of you!" "Fuck, let's go!" "I'd have that head wound seen to!" "Get fucked!" "Psst!" "Whatcha doin'?" "What ya doin'?" "What're you doin'?" "Why don't you talk to me more?" "What, cat got your tongue?" "I got feelings too, you know." "But..." "Not fun being on night shift, is it?" "Get lonely, you know." "Why don't you talk to me?" "Get fucked!" "Leave me alone!" "Please leave me alone!" "Someone help me!" "You want out?" "!" "It's the Animal for you, you fucking nutter!" "Me be Bubby." "The Clingwrap Killer." "You have been rehabilitated." "Here's ten dollars to see you on your way." "You can go." "Don't let me see you back here." "Well..." "If that's all there is we're stuffed!" "Jesus can see everything I do and he's going to beat me brainless!" "Come!" "You see..." "No one's going to help you, Bubby." "Because there isn't anybody out there to do it." "No one." "We're all just complicated arrangements of atoms and subatomic particles, we don't live." "But our atoms do move about in such a way as to give us identity and consciousness." "We don't die;" "our atoms just rearrange themselves." "There is no God." "There can be no God, it's ridiculous to think in terms of a superior being." "An inferior being, maybe, because we, we who don't even exist, we arrange our lives with more order and harmony than God ever arranged the earth." "We measure..." "Plot..." "We create wonderful music." "We are the architects of our own existence." "What a lunatic concept to bow down before a God who slaughters millions of innocent children..." "Who slowly and agonisingly starves them to death... beats them, tortures them..." "Rejects them." "What folly to even think that we should not insult such a God..." "Damn him!" "Think him out of existence." "It is our duty to think God out of existence." "It is our duty to insult Him." "Fuck you, God!" "Strike me down if you dare, you tyrant!" "You non-existent fraud!" "It is the duty of all human beings to think God out of existence." "Then we have a future." "Because then, and only then, do we take full responsibility for who we are." "And that's what you must do, Bubby!" "Think God out of existence." "Take responsibility for who you are!" "Fuck you, God!" "Strike me down, if you dare!" "Fuck you, God." "Fuck you, God!" "Strike me down, if you dare!" "Hello!" " Hello!" " Hello!" " Hello!" " Hello." " What're you doing?" "!" " Bubby good boy." "Let's get him!" " You pervert!" " Son of a bitch!" "You be's right..." "You be right, Mum..." "Bubby no fit no more out there." "Tell you a story" "Sad but true" "Tell you a story about you know who" "Bad Boy Bubby" "Bad Boy Bubby Blues" "Tell you a story about you know who" "A boy called Bubby sitting right over there..." "Bad Boy Bubby with the wild, crazy hair..." "Yeah, wherever you want." "Anything to drink...?" "...father?" "Pizza." "Got any money?" "Money..." "That's all there is." "Then you just want pizza?" "Pizza." "Well, what sort of pizza?" "Pizza!" "Alright!" "No trouble, okay?" "Pop no trouble be." "Alright, Pop." "Keep your money." "Cat!" "Good cat." "Good cat." "Don't move, you little cunt!" "I'll beat you brainless, by..." "Christ..." "Good cat." "Don't go, cat." "Stay!" "Bubby get pizza for Cat!" "Pizza!" "Don't go!" "Stay!" "Good cat!" "Stay!" "Don't go!" "Pizza!" "Can you spare a buck, mate?" "Fifty cents then?" "Alright, then twenty?" "You got any money at all?" "That's all there is!" "That all?" "Oh..." "Let me buy youse a drink!" "Paul!" "That be Paul!" "Ungrateful bastard!" "A place where nothing ever ends" "Where feelings never fall asleep" "Just like in a miracle" "You'll find her, you'll see her" "There, between the silence and the sleep" "Want her Be hers" "There, between the fallen and the dream" "Get him!" "Get him!" "Jesus Christ!" "Get that fucking thing out of here, you mad bastard!" "Get off the fucking road, you greenie bastard!" "Look at the silly bastard, would you?" "You poofter bastard!" "Hey, son!" "You can call me Pop!" "I'm your Pop!" "Hey, Pop!" " Hello, son." " Hello, Pop!" "Yeah, yeah, that'll do!" "Don't go making a big thing of it!" "What's the matter with you, son?" "You got a bit of a mental condition or something?" "Fucking kid's trying to be me again." "Shut the fuck up, kid!" "You useless cunt!" "Why don't you piss off?" "!" "Leave Bubby alone..." "Leave Bubby alone!" "Fucking useless shit, should've been left to die!" "You'll find her You'll see her" "There, between the silence and the sleep" "Want her Be hers" "There, between the fallen and the dream" "Stocking up there, Bubby?" "Not Bubby." "Me Pop now." "What's the pizza for, Pop?" "Pizza for Cat." "You still got that bloody cat?" "Don't worry about it, Bubby." "We'll get you more pizza tomorrow." "Pop get pizza for Cat now!" "Hey, you can't go anywhere!" "We need you tomorrow night." "You're part of the band now!" "Cat hungry!" "Wait a minute, Bubby." "Look, Pop." "Just wait." "Tonight, you were good." "They loved you out there." "And you loved it out there." "We want you to do it every night." "Tomorrow night, and the next." "Okay?" "It's a regular gig here." "Stay with us, we'll look after you." "For sure!" "Pop give pizza to Cat." "We'll take you wherever the bloody cat is!" "No!" "No." "Pop go to Cat!" "Pop sleep with Cat." "Come on, we can't just let him go." "We'll never see him again." "We can't force him to stay." "Bubby, please!" "Bubby been left to die." "Me Pop now!" "And don't lose it!" "Remember: when it gets dark, give the note to someone, they'll bring you back here, we'll pay!" "What's going on?" "Go back to your woman." "I hope he makes it back." "Gonna be a dull gig tomorrow, if he doesn't." "See you!" "Fucking bit me!" "Kill the fucking thing!" "Break its fucking neck!" "Fucking cat made me bleed!" "Leave Cat alone!" "Cat!" "Pop got pizza!" "Come on, Cat." "Pizza!" "Don't be still, Cat!" "She say Cat be dead." "Is Cat dead?" "Yes." "Cat's dead." "What did she say?" "She say you name be Angel." "Oh, my God!" "You understand them!" "You understand what she said!" "You must have more names than just Pop!" "Pop!" "Me be Pop!" "You can call me Pop!" "Pop, we just want to find out where you come from." "Where do you live?" "Pop don't know." "Bubby don't know." "Do you think he might be schizo?" "I don't think he's anything..." "He's just a... kid!" "Bubby a big weird kid!" "Christ, kid!" "You're a weirdo!" "Pop not a kid!" "If we take him anywhere, they're going to lock him up!" "And I feel he shouldn't be locked up!" "What is it, Rachael?" "She think me should stay!" "Is that what you think, Rachael?" "What about the others?" "What do you think?" "Do you want Pop to stay?" "Yes." "Yes!" "Well, I'm sure you've got some stories to tell!" "Like who's Bubby, for instance?" "You're Bubby, aren't you?" "Bubby been left to die!" "Me Pop now!" "Oh..." "Pop want to see Angel's tits!" "No." "But I'll show Bubby!" "Bubby want to see Angel's tits!" "I don't hear Bubby!" "Bubby no fit no more out here!" "Me Bubby." "Them be beautiful." "Like Mum." "Don't you think they're too big?" "Them be perfection!" "Okay..." "It's enough for now..." "You go back to being Pop." "And Bubby's our secret." "Okay?" "It's a garden, and it's filled with roses..." "All different colours..." "And it smells so beatiful in the garden." "It is a very special garden." "No one knows about this garden..." "No one is allowed to come in." "Only people who love you." "Only people who care about you." "And only people you want to let in." "There's a very high picket fence around the garden..." "Hidden in the high grass..." "And no one can see it." "Imagine yourself being in that garden... lying on the grass... feeling very comfortable." "It's a beautiful day." "The sun is shining... and it's warm." "And the wind gently touches your cheeks..." "Hi." "I'm off duty now, so I'm going to show you where you'll be sleeping." "Rachael think Pop stay in her room." "Are you saying what I think you're saying?" "Sorry, Rachael, but Pop will stay in Pandy's room." "Okay?" "Here's your bed and there's your suitcase and I put your cat in the freezer, we can bury that tomorrow, okay?" "A band?" "Cat got your tongue?" "It's the Animal for you!" "Psst!" "Pop!" "Come here!" "We've got a surprise for you!" "We've got some people who'd really like to get to know you!" "Come on, come on!" "Go, get'em, Pop!" "Is that you, Pop?" "Me be Pop!" "I'm Shannon!" "I'm Sharon!" "Won't you join us?" "What do you think?" "Do you like us?" "I've never had a virgin before!" "Don't be scared!" "We'll show you what to do!" "Tiny tits..." "Tiny?" "!" "These aren't tiny, they're perfect 36's!" "Where did you come from?" "Them not Angel tits." "Who's Angel?" "I don't know..." "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust." "Good-bye, Cat." "There..." "She's happy with God now!" "It is the duty of all human beings to think God out of existence." "Full of surprises, aren't we..." "Be still, Kat!" "I'll beat you brainless, by Christ!" "Poison don't get you..." "God will...!" "Them not tiny tits!" "Them great big whoppers of things!" "Pop love them tits!" "Pop love them tits!" "No." "No!" "That not be." "Not be..." "What's the matter, Bubby?" "Bubby crying with sadness for Rachael... because Rachael have no Bubby." "Rachael... be loving Bubby." "Oh, my poor Rachael..." "And Bubby be loving Angel..." "Oh, Bubby..." "I only really visit when I have to." "It always ends in a fight." "And then I don't go for a while..." "And then they forgive me, then we fight all over again." "A bit of a mess but dad's a collector." "Used to be his business." "Princess Pink!" "This is going to be fun..." "How do you like your dinner, Mr Pop?" "Pizza be better than this." "Our daughter has a healthy appetite, don't you think?" "Mother, don't start." "Be quiet!" "Let your mother speak uninterrupted!" "Thank you, dear!" "We tried to bring her up as best as we could but she's been rather a disappointment to us." "Be the first time you didn't finish your dinner!" "I find fat people so... so gross!" "So unfortunate, of course but so... ugly..." "And what do you think, Mr Pop?" "Me think Angel be beautiful." "She's a fat slut!" "Be careful what you say, dear!" "Better he'd know that she's a fat slut!" "If God had wanted us to be fat he'd have made us all the same weight, wouldn't he?" "But he didn't!" "God doesn't like fat people!" "Fat people are an abomination in his eyes!" "Fuck you, God!" "Strike me down, if you dare!" "Angel be beautiful!" "God be a useless cunt!" "NO!" "Why you be bad to Angel?" "You can go now, Mr Pop!" "We shall pray for you!" "Get out of here!" "Angel come too?" "My parents were just waiting to die anyway, Bubby." "They were both riddled with poisons and cancers..." "Asbestos from the break linings..." "Lead from the car exhaust." "PCP's from the car seats." "Dioxins, parathidions, dieldrin..." "Mercury." "Radioactivity." "Whoever did it, just put them out of their misery." "Ashes to ashes... dust to dust." "That be nice." "That be poisoning us!" "That be poisoning the air that we breathe!" "If the poison don't get you... then God will!" "Beautiful, isn't it?" "Fantastic." "And yet..." "This is mob have been trying for centuries to clingwrap this mob." "Even though they share the same god." "Mind you, this mob have been getting pretty good at clingwrapping lately." "And this mob's got the same god as well." "But they've had a fair go of clingwrapping that first mob..." "They've been trying to clingwrap that second mob for a good couple of thousand years." "And they pretty well succeeded in clingwrapping just about all of this mob." "They never did much clingwrapping... to anyone... but themselves." "Then there's this lot." "A different god altogether." "You'd think that would help." "But it doesn't." "See, this mob clingwrapped about half a million of that first mob." "Fourty or fifty years ago." "And they've been at it ever since." "They've all done their fair share of killing or being killed." "And it's all pointless." "The thing, Bubby, is:" "don't be like them." "No matter how mad you get at someone... don't kill them." "Ever." "Bubby done clingwrap them." "Me Pop now!" "Talking like you'll be running the country soon enough..." "No more excuses!" "No more clingwrapping." "Okay?" "Bubby?" "Okay." "And... don't mention it to anyone." "We look like all being... rich and famous soon enough, so... let's not spoil it." "Okay." "Collars!" "Yes, mate?" "How much that be?" "That be five dollar!" "Where be Pop?" "Where be Pop?" "When be them come on stage?" "Them be there soon!" "Them be there real soon!" "Where be Pop!" "You be a sexy woman, Flo!" "You be a sexy woman, Flo!" "Me see right down your dress!" "You got great big whoppers, Flo!" "Me want to see them tits!"

"It's been two weeks but..." "Still hasn't...really, um hit me." "(splash)" "Been psyching myself up for the day." "You know it's a Big Day" "This is probably one of the biggest days of my life so far." "My Grandpa's always told the story, you know." "He showed up at Haines in Jone's point and he'll leave there, at Jone's point, so, um." "That day's come." "The search for gold has always meant everything to me." "This season's gonna be different." "I lost my Grandpa, the man who taught me how to mine and honestly." "I don't know what it's gonna be like without him." "This year I'm taking the biggest gamble of my life." "I'm asking my team to walk away from the guarantee of millions of dollars in the Klondike." "In the hopes that we can do even better in Oregon." "And it's all on me." "These guys have been with me for years." "The trust they've put in me is a privilege and let me tell you." "It's also a burden." "Any miner who tells you they know for sure what's in the ground." "Is either a liar, or a fool." "Now." "It's up to me to deliver to my guys." "To repay their loyalty." "And, get them gold." "Good afternoon everybody, and," "Our family, um, sincerely thanks you all for coming." "I can look at my dad and, pull the good things out of him." "And pulling those good things made me look at just the great things he brought to me." "I think my dad had a lot of, a long list of great things." "He showed compassion, a lot more love." "He was a true christian." "He really was." "It's a lot bigger than a funeral or..." "May be the 2 weeks he's been dead, or" "Anyhow, it's a lot bigger than that." "April2nd,2016" "The Schnabel family gathers to bid farewell to John Schnabel, Parker's grandpa and mentor." "April2nd,2016" "The Schnabel family gathers to bid farewell to John Schnabel, Parker's grandpa and mentor." "(Pow, Pow)" "I'm proud of you." "You had a dream and you stayed with it 'till you won." "What more could I ask for?" "Nothing." "I love you." "I love" "I love you Parker." "Guess I don't know what that's gonna mean for the next few months but." "It's not gonna be fun." "I'm gonna miss you grandpa." "Thank you for everything you've done." "He's gonna have to deal with, Grandpa not coming up." "Not planning to see Grandpa." "That will be hard for him." "And, you know I think he's, this" "This event today is the preparation you need." "Tough day." "Tough day." "Yeah." "How's that buddy?" "You look good." "So do you." "Thanks." "Uh, I mean, at the end of the day it's just not gonna be the same this year, you know with John not being around, but.." "You know, It's been a rough year for all of us, and, and for all of us to come here and get together, and you know." "To celebrate John's life you know." "Hopefully it gets us closer as a crew you know." "Hopefully we can" "You know, put it all aside and do what we do this summer." "And, and uh have another killer season." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew has quit the Klondike." "Last year was his most successful season ever, but Todd has decided to start from scratch in his home state of Oregon." "Hey guys." "We're coming up the hill." "Last mile." "I love that we're in Oregon." "This is where the whole dream started for my dad and myself." "Hey dad." "Whaddya think." "You know Todd." "This is like a dream come true." "It's really gonna be a blessing for everybody." "Last year we mined the Klondike." "We got over 3 million dollars worth of gold." "I get it." "Todd wants to come home." "But there's no guarantees." "It's still a crap shoot." "Narrator:" "Todd is transporting his entire operation to the High Bar Mine, near Baker City, Oregon." "Gold was first discovered in the area in 1861, and fortunes were made from the plentiful supply of massive nuggets." "But nobody's ever managed to set up a full commercial operation at the High Bar.." "Over 4000 feet up in the Blue Mountains, the claim is dry." "And no water means no wash plant." "But recently, the claim owners discovered water further down the mountain, and are now piping it up." "Which means High Bar Mine is open for business." "Last year when the Hoffman crew scouted the newly accessible claim." "We got something to show you guys." "You..have got to be kidding me." "Big gold." "Look at that one." "That's one of the best nuggets I ever seen." "That's jewelry grade gold." "Todd is betting the farm on High Bar nuggets." "Hey guys." "This is gonna be our promise land." "I'll tell you what, um." "It sure feels good." "You guys know that I made a deal on the claim." "All this, this whole mountain top." "Okay." "What I didn't tell you is I leased that million dollar wash plant right there." "And if we can get that running we can have gold one week from now." "And it's just setup?" "We're ready to roll?" "We got the claim, and we got the plant, but" "We gotta get this plant running." "I want gold in the box in one week." "We need to figure out what this thing does." "How many yards it runs." "Well, this plant has definitely got some different things." "I've never seen one with this many conveyors." "It's quite the setup." "Hey Freddy." "Monster Red has twice as many runs as this and they're bigger runs." "Why is, why is this sluice box so small?" "We're gonna have to see what the deposit does cause we got a nugget trap sluice up here for these bigger gold." "Remember that gold we showed you from the tests up here Logan?" "Most of it's bigger." "This is the most important sluice box on this plant." "Freddy." "What is that up there?" "Got a rock scrubber." "Blade mill up here Todd." "That means one thing." "Clay." "Must be some gummy stuff." "That's not good." "What's clay do to gold?" "It steals it." "Clay's a gold thief." "Hey guys." "Everybody come over here." "I got something to tell you." "Whadda ya think?" "How we looking?" "I thought Monster Red was a handful last year." "A lot to watch and maintain." "This is three times the size." "We had nine conveyors, there's a lot of things can go wrong." "But you know what?" "There's a lot of things that can go right." "I think we're just set up the best this year." "And I feel better about this year, probably more than any year before." "You know what I like about this property Todd?" "Is, I've seen great big nuggets that come out of here." "I don't see why we're not gonna get em." "We're on a mountain that's got nuggets, okay." "We've never ever seen nuggets like these.." "These are, these are awesome." "If you read some of the history on this place they took out nuggets that were 100 ounce in size." "You know they're huge." "And you know what?" "I got a good feelin' about this and I'm gonna throw out a number." "Cause I think it's possible." "I want 5000 ounces." "Five thousand?" "5000 ounces." "We did 3000 ounces." "I'm thinking five thousand is within reach." "There's no overburden guys." "Think about it." "And this is unproven ground." "It's unproven to us." "We climbed the mountain." "Let's climb all the way to the peak." "Right?" "And I want to see a miracle on this mountain." "I think there's a chance Todd." "But you're on a treasure hunt here." "Boy." "Here's to 5000 ounces, guys." "Dad, say a prayer man." "Bring it in." "Heavenly Father, We thank you for the opportunity that you've given us here." "Lord, We ask that you bring those uh, nuggets to the surface." "Help us to run 'em through our plant." "We pray this in your name." "Amen." "Amen." "Yeah." "Mining in Oregon boys." "Still to come this season on "Gold Rush"" "I think a lot of us are in shock." "We are at Ground Zero." "I need you guys to go the next two weeks without pay." "You tell Mindy I'm not getting paid." "I didn't come here to work for free." "Found pay dirt." "This is my own little pile of shit." "Fuckin' needed everywhere." "Don't fuckin' do that again." "Let's get some fuckin' dirt in it!" "Get the pile in the fuckin' plant." "Shut it down." "I swear that I'm fuckin' gonna wring Doumitt's neck." "Hey Chickie." "How's it going?" "Narrator:" "The Beets family has arrived in the Klondike for the start of their mining season." "Good." "There you go." "Nice to see you." "Yeah mom." "Thanks." "That's all eh?" "Fine." "Not too bad." "What do we have planned this summer?" "Narrator:" "Tony's first dredge is working so well, this season he's taking on a massive new challenge." "Bring a second dredge back to life." "He needs his family to keep getting gold while he works on dredge two." "Tony's kids need to step up like never before." "Do I at least get to pick my own crew?" "It's gonna be all girls then." "Yeah." "You know what?" "It'd probably be easier on the equipment." "Probably a hell of a lot easier on the eyes." "What?" "See, when they're in a good mood yeah, they are 'cause they're mellow." "But once they get in a mad mood, and that happens quite easily." "Holy hell, are they rough." "like twice as fuckin' bad." "Kevin:" "You want us to run this, let us fuckin' run it." "Don't fly in all huffy and change shit." "Just let us fuckin' run it." "Monica:" "Let us do it." "Take a step back." "Oh, we know." "We know." "Yeah, there was never any concern about you not letting us know." "It's gonna be a family effort." "Get on with it." "Deal with shit." "And let's just make it happen." "I mean, that's all you can do, right?" "Give it your 110%." "As a family, we can do it." "So let's do it." "And with that said, go to work." "Get out." "Get going." "Wake up, shit." "Call it a night." "Yep." "Hi-ho, hi-ho." "I have faith in those kids." "So." "Not our own, yeah." "Narrator:" "Tony's got his work cut out if he's going to get the second dredge catching gold this season." "But even getting to it is a challenge." "Parker." "How you doing, son?" "I've had better." "I lost a dad, and you lost a grandpa, all at the same time." "It's a good life we've had, and the number of years we've had it." "Yeah." "You know?" "Yeah." "Death finally hits you." "It's sort of a new thing for me." "I'm not too used to this, but." "We both knew Parker." "It was gonna have to come down sometime." "That's life, you know." "And I just hope that you're okay with it." "Hopefully, if you'll be strong, and we'll all be strong together as a family." "I'm alright." "Ha." "I'll check in with you tomorrow." "I'll see you okay fella." "I'm glad you are." "Narrator:" "The day after his grandpa's funeral, Parker takes the opportunity to update Chris and Rick on his plans for the coming season." "Here we are." "What's up, buddy?" "Good, How are you?" "I'm good man." "Good to see ya." "How you doing, buddy?" "Good." "Narrator:" "And there's someone they need to meet." "It appears you had a pretty nice winter." "(Rick chuckles)" "Yeah, it was all right." "[laughter]" "I don't know..." "I don't know what the terms are." "An item, is that what they..." "are you guys an item now?" "From Australia." "You came from Australia to Haines?" "Yes, well, so we met in Australia, and I think we just instantly had this connection." "And we got along really, really well." "And we spent some time together back in Australia." "And then he left and came home." "He asked me to come over." "Parker:" "Yeah" "I didn't..." "I didn't want to stop." "So I just really wanted to be here to support you." "And be here for you and your family." "Yeah." "No, I'm glad you made it." "We'll be in Dawson on Monday." "And, we're gonna have a pretty slow start." "So we'll just get a couple of the dozers fired up and" "Get some mud cleared off and...." "And just get things opened up And get camp opened up and..." "Been designing a new wash plant." "Yeah, I've been busy." "Is it a screen Or trommel you're getting?" "Ah, it's a screen deck." "Narrator:" "Over the winter, Parker has been hard at work designing what he believes is the ultimate wash plant." "Parker:" "So I, I'm having them put..." "Narrator:" "Although it's smaller than Monster Red," "Parker and the design team have been working hard to make it leaner and more efficient, so it will need less manpower." "Parker:" "You can just unhook it from the tray, hook it up to the hydraulic riffles and hit the winch, and it'll lift that hydraulic riffle up out of the way." "Falling asleep yet." "Really?" "Ha ha ha." "Parker:" "Thanks for coming, guys." "My pleasure." "I appreciate it." "Parker:" "Like, Ashley and I met traveling this winter, and..." "It's really good to have, um, Ashley and Rick and Chris here, you know." "It was great." "It was great." "They're uh, three of my favorite people in the world." "Narrator:" "It's 150 tons heavier than his first dredge." "But Tony plans to tear this monster apart." "Barge it nearly 100 miles down the Yukon River, then transport it 50 miles by road." "To have the two dredging side-by-side at Eureka Creek." "His aggressive goal:" "Have it up and running by the end of the season." "Kevin:" "Watch out!" "Narrator:" "But back at Eureka Creek, Tony's son Kevin and dredge Number One are deep in trouble." "Two days after Tony Beets put his son Kevin in charge of the dredge, disaster strikes." "Two hours south, Tony's dredge is sinking." "Watch out!" "Kevin and his crew are desperately trying to save it before Tony finds out." "The dredge floats on empty tanks called pontoons." "A leak has filled half of them with water." "And one side of the dredge now sits on the bottom of the pond, threatening permanent damage to the dredge's generator and electrics." "Water is pouring into the pontoons faster than the crew can pump it out." "Oh, fuckin' shit." "The dredge is about to be totally submerged." "If it sinks, the damage will be so catastrophic it could cost Tony millions of dollars." "This has been an ongoing battle here for the last 20 hours or so." "Kevin went through a 12 hour shift last night fighting with it." "We came on today and it still wasn't floating so." "I'm gonna start pumping the pond out." "My plan is to drain the pond as much as we can." "Narrator:" "Kevin's only hope, open the water outlet to drain the pond before the dredge sinks." "But it's not working." "I don't fuckin' get it." "The pond should be going down." "Monica arrives with more bad news." "Kevin!" "Hi." "You look angry." "Tony's supposed to be coming out in the next little bit." "Fuck." "I opened up the outlet culvert and, fuck, it's not going down." "It's almost getting fuckin' deeper." "You've got to be kidding." "If the inlet pipe is open, there's no way the pond will drain." "Because I had no conception that that was the thing." "Think you could go close that?" "This had better work." "For fuck's sake, Kevin." "Narrator:" "To lower the water level, Kevin has already opened the drainage culvert." "What he didn't know is that an inlet pipe is still open, that's continually filling up the pond." "Though about how the water was coming in." "There it was, wide open." "So...that's so awesome." "Now they should be able to drop the water enough to get." "All the water out of the pontoons." "Somebody's got to save the day and that was me today." "Narrator:" "Within an hour, Monica's fix starts to work." "The water is low enough for the pumps to empty the pontoons and re-float the dredge." "We're just finishing up." "We can actually see the edge of the pontoons now." "The dredge is safely out of the water." "Uh." "And Kevin can finally go home and get some rest." "It should be good to go, at this point, I mean" "I'd just be sitting around waiting anyway, so, I might as well take a nap." "That's a lot of hours." "Fun." "Oh, (yawns)" "It's been a hell of a couple of one or two hours here." "Which one?" "Kevin's sleeping." "He was here till 11." "Well, we knew it was coming from somewhere." "If the generator got wet, starting it up could create some fireworks." "I honestly don't know what's going to happen when I turn this thing on." "So maybe don't be standing in here in case I do blow some boxes off the wall." "(engine cranks, no start)" "(engine fires up)" "Sure is good to have it up and running." "Actually I didn't think it was going to fire up." "Narrator:" "On Kevin's first week as Dredge Master, his failure to check the pontoons has cost Tony 20 hours of running, over $20,000 worth of lost gold." "Narrator:" "At the High Bar Mine, eastern Oregon, the Hoffman crew is ready to run nugget rich pay dirt on their new claim." "It's looking good." "Everything feels right." "We're early in the season and we're going to get a jump on Parker, and we're gonna get a jump on the Klondike." "This plant's got a million different parts." "Hopefully we can fire it up and start firing up each piece of this plant." "You got your radio, Dave?" "Yeah, I'm ready here." "Okay, Dave's in place, and uh, we're ready to go, if you want to try this, this far conveyor." "Here we go, it's time to go." "Hey, Todd." "Yeah." "We got locks on here." "I can't fire it up." "What do you mean?" "William and Jerrod's Wirth's, their locks are still on here." "Why the hell is there a lock on there." "Rick's going under." "Still to come this season on "Gold Rush"" "Gonna be the hardest thing we ever done." "You're losing thousands of dollars a day." "We're not mining." "We're just wasting time." "Unless I see something really screwed up." "Whoo." "Rick's the boss." "You're kidding me." "It's just not gonna thaw." "We're supposed to be mining gold." "If you don't like it, too fuckin' bad." "Everybody has a breaking point." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew is ready to start the season, but the claim owners have locked them out of the wash plant." "Hey Todd." "William, Jerrod." "So we're locked out." "What's the scoop?" "You know, William and I are representing the Wirth family in the High Bar Mine, and this was a humongous investment." "And because of that, we have to work with you guys side by side to protect that." "Are you guys just gonna watch us, or you gonna work with us." "We'd like to work with you." "Um," "My brother and I have been running this place since 2014." "One of the things we bring to the table is the knowledge of this place." "We don't bring in employees just willy nilly." "Okay." "We're basically a family and we take it really damn serious." "You know what we believe in, okay." "You see, you see our flags." "You know about our faith." "If you believe in those same things I'm open to it." "If you can live by our rules, you know, we could sure use your help." "Yeah, you bet." "You know, we'll start pulling paves, Start running stuff." "And" "We'll prove ourselves to you, that we're ready to go." "You got your keys to those locks?" "We do." "Yup." "Okay." "Unlock that." "And welcome to 316 mining." "Alrighty." "Let's start to work with you guys." "Let's go." "Let's get started." "Narrator:" "Over 4000 feet up in the Blue Mountains, the geology of High Bar is different to anything the Hoffmans have mined before." "The gold was formed in quartz veins." "Rivers eroded the ground, exposing and breaking off chunks of gold." "And carrying them downstream to where the ground flattened out." "Because the river soon slowed, the gold settled quickly, leaving large nuggets that have never been worn down by further movement or friction." "You want to know how I feel." "I feel unbelievable." "Let me tell you something." "This is the very first load of pay from Oregon." "Generator coming on." "Everybody clear." "Ready." "Going hot." "Cross conveyor going hot." "Looks good." "Hey Dave." "You want to try the sandscrew?" "Yeah." "Sandscrew next." "Fire it up." "Yeah." "Screen going hot." "Come on, baby, come on, baby." "Come on, baby, yeah!" "Whooo!" "Yeah!" "We got a screen." "William." "Both valves are open." "We're ready for water when you are." "We got water, Todd." "Kevin, drop the first bucket." "Let's do this." "10-4." "There we go!" "I think we're ready to kick some ass." "So this is our place." "This is all your place?" "So this is all what you did last season?" "Yeah, and all that up there." "Wow." "That's impressive." "Yeah, it's good to be back." "Parker is returning to Scribner Creek with his new girlfriend, Ashley Youle." "Look at this rowdy bunch." "Hey." "How you been, buddy?" "How you doing man?" "Good, how are you?" "How's she going?" "This is Ashley." "Hey Ashley." "How are you?" "You met Tyson." "Nice to meet you." "Hey, how are you." "You find your gear?" "Richard?" "Ashley." "It's nice to meet you." "So, Parker, who's this?" "She's my sister." "[ laughter ]" "Oh, we met in Australia." "Oh, fancy." "Nice." "Narrator:" "This year to keep his costs to a minimum, Parker has cut his crew in half." "Yeah, this season, this is it." "Right here." "There's...nine of us?" "I mean, you know." "Guys can have as big a crew as they want, and find as much gold as they want." "That's not how much they take home." "Right." "We've got a handful of guys here." "Lean and mean." "What we're gonna to do will be impressive for the group of people we have." "So." "What's the game plan?" "So this season, basically the goal is the same as it was last year." "3,000 ounces." "(ominous music)" "That's the goal for this season?" "Yeah." "I was honestly coming back thinking we're shooting for 5,000 at least." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I didn't drive 2500 miles to get 3,000 ounces." "I came up here to make some money." "I, I always wanted to go for more too." "I do." "But the royalties." "Like, I started doing the math on the last couple hundred ounces we did." "At that point we're paying 25% royalty." "Narrator:" "Claim owner Tony Beets has Parker locked into a tough royalty deal." "If he mines over 3000 ounces, Tony's cut increases to 25%." "So this season, I don't see us going for more than that." "More than 3000?" "No." "But honestly it'll be more of a fuckin' fight this season doing 3000 ounces than it was last season because we got half the crew." "And I didn't think that I'd get this kickback from you guys." "I certainly get where you're coming from." "Economically it's a smart move." "But, just not what I expected to hear." "All we've ever done is go bigger." "Well we proved ourselves last season." "The last thing I want is an issue with you guys." "But, I can't say that we're gonna try to do 5000 ounces because at 5000 ounces we're giving Tony Beets like 1.5 million dollars." "And I cannot afford to do that." "Narrator:" "Parker's mining plan this season:" "Expand the creek diversion cut another 450 feet, while also extending last season's gold rich boundary cut." "Eventually these will meet, creating one giant cut covering 70 acres." "The equivalent of around 50 football fields." "But he's determined to keep his costs to a minimum and pay Tony as little royalty as possible." "Oh, I think the guys are pretty surprised by the target this year, you know. 3000 ounces is less, is less than what we did last year, you know." "All we've ever done is" "Get better, get bigger." "And it's a, to have Parker throw out a pretty uninspiring goal for the season is...pretty surprising." "I think a lot of people are wondering how.." "Our mine, and our methods, and me will be affected by my grandpa dying." "You know, he died at 96 with a great head on his shoulders." "I'm trying not to be too sad about it, you know." "I'm sure more years would have been good, but.." "(dozer starts to slide)" "What the fuck?" "Shit." "Well now." "Rick, you got a copy." "Within hours of starting to mine, Parker Schnabel has his 85 ton dozer stranded at a 40 degree angle." "Yes sir." "Go for Rick." "Yeah, I'm stuck pretty bad." "I'll need, I'll need you to come up here and bring the 460." "All right, I'll head back." "Oh, boy." "There's a whole lot of weight teetering there." "You think I'm pulling that out with this?" "I was thinking we just dig this out right here." "Once you get this dug out, I should be able to back down." "Alright." "If I tried to get it out, I would have tipped it over." "Alright." "There's no hope of getting out forward." "So Rick's just gonna... dig out.." "underneath this track on the high side and" "Try to get us a spot where it'll level out and I can back up out of there." "Yeah, I'm trying to get all the dirt out from underneath it that I can, so he's got a straight shot back." "If this is gonna work or not, but we're gonna get it in the best possible position." "Good job, Rick, that looks good." "That's about the best I can do." "You want to give 'er hell?" "Seat belt?" "Oh yeah." "Perfect." "Come on, come on." "Come down, come down." "Fuck." "Hooo!" "Ho ho ho ho ho." "Thanks!" "Ha ha ha.." "You're welcome, man." "You should have seen it from back here." "You were so high up, that track must have been eight feet in the air." "Ha ha ha." "Fuckin close." "Wooo." "Hoo. hoo hoo." "Parker can return to opening new ground while Rick digs a test hole in the old boundary cut." "Bingo." "There it is." "That's it right there." "What do you got." "So I dug a hole right on the edge here." "Yeah?" "There's some big pieces in there." "Oh, yeah." "We couldn't ask for a better situation, you know." "Thawed." "Really good pay." "If we're only going for 3,000 ounces, fuck, we'll be here a month and be gone." "Perfect scenario man to just go for it." "Go big, right." "I know Parker's got a lot of things on his mind, all this stuff happened over the winter, but." "I think his grandpa would say, uh, go for it." "If there's that much gold in that pan, think about what's in that cut out there." "3,000 ounces, that's, that's like a warm up lap." "We're all ready to go get it." "This is the season we go big and set some records." "We just gotta convince Parker." "Things are going good." "Truck's running, equipment's running, dirt's coming out of the ground, so." "Hopefully there's gold in it." "Narrator:" "Less than a week after arriving, the Hoffman crew Is already running pay dirt." "Todd is gambling everything on the search for the legendary High Bar nuggets." "You can't succeed if you're afraid of failure." "You have to risk to have a big reward." "Sometimes you got to shoot for the moon." "Narrator:" "To help him achieve his massive 5,000 ounce goal, Todd has leased this million dollar wash plant." "Specifically designed to cope with the difficult mining conditions at High Bar." "The ground contains heavy clay, so the pay dirt passes first through a blade mill." "Paddles on a shaft agitate the material to help the water wash the clay off the rocks." "The gold-rich gravel can then pass into a sluice box which traps the nuggets." "The remaining material goes on through a shaker deck and into the lower sluices that catch all the remaining fine gold." "What do you think overall?" "So far it looks like it's running good." "Tell you what, let's do a shut down." "You want the bypass valves open?" "Narrator:" "Todd has put his reputation on the line." "At the end of their first full day's work, he stops to see if they're on track for 5,000 ounces." "There's nothing up here." "What do you think?" "I mean there's definitely gold in there." "Everything up here is going to have gold in it no matter what you run, good, bad or indifferent." "On a good day, though, top to bottom, it'll be nothing but yellow," "I see some down here." "Yeah, there's gold in there and it's, it's sunk down in there." "But I don't see a whole lot of it." "Maybe it'll add up." "Guys, pull the mat." "Let's see what we got." "Into a tub, and we wash the whole thing out." "The mats go down to the gold shack for the first cleanup of the season." "Time to fire it up, Jack." "Here we go." "You know, it's uh, high hopes and it's called the High Bar." "So, uh" "Todd lifted the bar pretty high." "Let's see if we can reach it." "Narrator:" "Last year..." "That's the biggest nugget I think I've ever seen." "Narrator:" "Last year..." "That's the biggest nugget I think I've ever seen." "Narrator:" "The Hoffmans ran a 100-yard test at High Bar." "Holy mackerel." "Narrator:" "The Hoffmans ran a 100-yard test at High Bar." "Holy mackerel." "Listen." "Ha ha." "I love the sound of that." "That is awesome." "Narrator:" "With impressive results." "1.7 ounces." "Per 100 yards." "Yeah." "Oh man." "Whoo." "That is great, look at that." "That's pretty damned good, Todd." "Narrator:" "Now they're cleaning up 2,000 yards of dirt." "The total should be around 35 ounces." "Nicole is back here." "She's picking up the big nuggets." "They're corn flakes sized nuggets." "They move real easy, cause they're so big," "But not that much weight to them so." "We want to catch all of it," "And uh, she's grabbing it before it takes off." "All right, let's see it." "I want to see the first nugget." "You ready?" "Shake." "3.55 ounces." "That's it." "That's it." "Where's the rest of it?" "I wish there was more." "Well, listen, it's our first cleanup, nobody panic." "It's not what I was expecting, Todd." "That's uh, that's not good." "We know that." "You know, we got 1.7 ounces on our test last year." "Got to be gold there somewhere." "3.55 ounces is frickin' horrible." "That should have been full of nuggets." "Should have been 30 to 40 ounces, so." "I don't know what's going on." "This might be a harder treasure hunt than we thought." "Right now the crew's in the boundary cut." "You know, we had really good gold in there last year." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek, Parker starts his second week of mining." "At the same time we want to get this creek cut sorted out because it's got good gold in it too." "Got the pond drained out." "Got a good thaw going." "And it's a nice, warm early spring." "Oh." "Looks like Tony's here." "Looks like we're heading for our first battle with Tony, uh." "I don't know." "I hope he's reasonable, but we've seen him both ways, right." "He can be... very accommodating or... completely unrealistic." "Mister Beets." "Good." "How are you?" "Good to see ya." "Thanks." "What more can you ask for." "He had a lot of good years." "And I got to see him in, at his birthday there a month before he died and it was a ton of fun." "We had a great time." "Yeah, trying to." "This cut's thawing out nicely so, get 'er." "Get 'er thawing and get things opened up here and." "Ah, right now we're just shooting for 3000." "Just cause of the royalty rates and just the fighting for it and not really making any off of it." "Narrator:" "Tony's royalty increases to 25% as soon as Parker hits 3,000 ounces." "And with his massive overheads, there's little left for profit." "You work six hours a day for Tony Beets at that point." "We've had this conversation a lot of times before and I'd love to do more... ounces, I'd love to push harder but with the royalties the way they are." "I can't." "Lower your royalty rates a little you could probably get a little more money in." "There's mountains of ground to be mined here, so." "Something's gonna have to happen." "Well, we've got our problems." "I don't like having clipped wings but." "The more we make the more we work for Tony Beets." "Just ain't cool." "I want to be working for Parker Fucking Schnabel." "And off we go." "Narrator:" "Down at Eureka Creek, Kevin is back on the dredge, determined to redeem himself." "If I'm gonna step up, let's.." "make this fucker work." "My girls are gonna kick ass this summer." "Narrator:" "Monica has brought in her all girl rock truck crew to help strip the overburden ahead of the bucket line." "All of us here, We all grew up in the Yukon." "We're all around the same age." "These girls are doing really good." "I'm really happy." "And I think we can really show everybody that.." "Us women can do the job just as well as any man can." "What the fuck." "Narrator:" "Up on the dredge, Kevin has struck a problem." "Can you see what's in those buckets?" "Because I can't see fuck all." "The bucket line is bouncing and the buckets are coming up empty." "I don't like this." "This really isn't good." "What the fuck." "Shut 'er off." "Stop!" "Fuckin bullshit." "Narrator:" "The dredge usually mines fractured bedrock, but it's hit a solid ridge of unfractured material that he bucket line can't break through." "Preventing it from reaching the gold rich paydirt beyond." "Kevin takes a chance." "He'll try and smash his way through the obstruction." "Got to be kidding me." "Well, better radio Monica." "Yeah." "Okay." "The dredge is having a hard time chewing through it." "It's all solid, so." "Monica's going to take the Volvo hoe and dig out a chunk of bedrock we got there." "She's gonna hopefully pull that out for me." "Right now Monica's just scraping where we been dredging." "Trying to break up all that bedrock shit hidden there." "At least make into manageable chunks." "Hopefully I can rip it up." "Make it more of a smooth ride for the boys." "Holy shit." "No way." "What do you think?" "Um." "I can't really work through it." "It's fuckin' bedrock." "Pretty much." "I'm not going to try and chew through it any more." "Just not fuckin' easy so." "Kevin's new plan:" "Flood the pond." "The higher water level should allow the dredge to float right over the obstruction." "Inlet valve." "In comes the water." "That'll raise the dredge up and we can get over that bedrock." "Narrator:" "But as the water level rises, it causes a serious problem for Monica's crew." "You." "Get the fuck out of here." "Get." "Go, go, go, go." "I'm not happy about the water, because the water needs to be like, 4 feet lower than it is." "The trucks are getting stuck in it." "And that makes the whole stripping situation a shitty job." "Narrator:" "At Eureka Creek, Kevin is flooding the pond to float the dredge over a bedrock obstruction." "You!" "Out of the fuckin' way!" "Arrgh." "Fuck, go." "Go for a loop." "Go." "Tell her to fuckin' go." "The ground is too soft." "Fuck." "All the water is kind of seeping down like if we dug down three more feet, it would all just flood out." "So it's just too soft for the trucks." "All the water is kind of seeping down like if we dug down three more feet, it would all just flood out." "So it's just too soft for the trucks." "Narrator:" "Mechanic Mike Beaudry brings in the 360 excavator to rescue the rock truck." "It's like jello in there." "The fully loaded rock truck weighs 75 tons." "There you go, back in action." "The water level in the pond is finally high enough for the dredge to get over the bedrock ridge." "There we go." "We're back in business." "That should be good." "Alright." "Wow." "What?" "Eh?" "Well, if we don't have this much water, we're digging out six plus feet of bedrock." "Okay." "Uh no." "But we'll do it anyways." "Tony's reacting like he usually is." "And now he's going to go out in a big old huff and have a big old union meeting." "Blah blah blah blah blah." "And then we're gonna keep on doing what we're doing." "Because he doesn't got a clue." "Not a great start for him letting us run our own fuckin' thing, is it?" "At the High Bar Mine, the Hoffman crew is working at full throttle." "Washing rocks, that means we're getting gold." "Narrator:" "And despite a poor cleanup on their first day of mining, hopes are high for the new ground." "Up in the Klondike, you start stripping ground in April." "You've got to go down 20 feet of mud, of frozen mud." "And then in about June, you start running pay dirt." "One really awesome part about mining at the High Bar here in Oregon is that..." "This gold is very coarse." "With McKinnon Creek it was just powder." "We were chasing dust." "Here we're actually on a treasure hunt." "Narrator:" "The crew has run for two days since the disappointing gold weigh." "Shut it down." "And they're anxious to spot check the sluices for signs of nuggets and fine gold." "I'm not seeing much for gold down here, which is telling me..." "There's not much gold in the material we're running right now." "Definitely not a good start." "I'll tell you what, right now, I'm not gonna get five hundred ounces." "Let alone five thousand." "Yeah, we're not doing good." "Yeah, we know." "And now I'm starting to wonder if I made a big huge mistake." "My advice would be stay in this cut, you know, don't panic." "Stay up here." "The problem with High Bar is that you have deposits all over the place." "So yeah." "You're gonna have your crappy days." "You're going to have days where you look in the nugget trap and there's nothing," "Or you're gonna have really hot days where you look in the nugget trap and you're gonna pull 80 ounces." "I wouldn't panic." "I would just try and hold out for at least a few more days." "Right here in this cut." "See how it goes." "Narrator:" "The patchy deposits of gold nuggets result from a unique combination of events." "Millions of years ago a series of small streams carried gold rich gravel down the mountain side." "Tectonic uplift started pushing the area up until it cut off the water supply, and with it the gold." "Leaving only isolated pockets of nuggets." "Out of this cut that we're standing in right here, this is some of the stuff that we've pulled." "God, it's so pretty." "It's chunky." "You know, you hit these really rich deposits every now and then, but you're going to hit quite a few of them." "I don't want to lose heart, but I tell you what." "You know, we're not used to not seeing something in the box, you know?" "You got it?" "I got it." "I say we've only given this cut three days." "I say we keep on pushing for at least a week." "And after a week we'll analyze it and then decide whether we should move or not." "What I don't want is my guys to lose heart." "I can handle just about anything." "But when I look in my guys' eyes and they stop believing that's when we got troubles." "They're not there yet but." "But I want to make sure that we can..." "We gotta hit gold pretty quick, you know." "We're gonna hit big gold." "So I think you just keep hope." "We'll keep pushing along, and uh." "You know we're gonna have a day where everything's gonna change." "Let's get on our knees and say a little prayer too, you know what I mean.?" "Yeah, you bet." "A lot of it's faith." "Still to come this season on "Gold Rush"" "This wind's getting worse and worse." "Right now we're standing on a big ass sail." "I don't think it should be this heavy." "I am not moving at all." "It looks overwhelming." "Your problem, so to speak." "Fuck off and go to hell." "I'm a real underachieving 21 year old." "That's for sure Todd." "What do you think." "You've, you've achieved everything." "Once you get a little gold in your pocket." "Just got finished burying my grandpa." "You don't need to tell me shit like that." "Narrator:" "Six months after Parker first commissioned his brand-new wash plant, finally it arrives at the claim." "Built to his own spec and costing $600,000, Parker's gambling his whole season on an untested design." "There she is." "Oh ho, yeah." "Doesn't that just look sexy?" "Fuck, yeah." "She's beautiful." "I love the color scheme." "It looks bad ass." "Man, I like it." "Yeah, it's sweet." "Ha ha." "It's bitchin'." "It's nice and compact." "Yeah." "I like that it's nice and new." "That's the best part." "It's like our first new car." "Yeah." "It's gonna be a shame to run dirt through it." "I think we might just set it up and just keep it." "Look at it every day." "Party next to it." "Yeah, ha ha." "We'll just party next to it." "Yeah, I mean this is a big day for us." "This is probably the biggest day that we've ever had in the Yukon," "You know." "First brand-new plant we've had." "We've never had anything like this." "All we've had is a bunch of hand me downs and uh." "This is our chance right here of having the best season yet." "Yeah." "I kind of wish my grandpa was here to see this, you know." "It's a pretty impressive big plant." "Yeah we've been waiting for something like this for a few years now." "A lot of the money that we've made has gone into this plant, almost all of it." "And uh, now it's time for it to make it back." "It's gonna find us a lot of fuckin' gold." "Narrator:" "Now the crew has to unload the 90,000-pound wash plant." "Easy Tyson, slow up a little bit." "Yeah, that's good." "And haul it into position, close to the new pay piles." "For some reason, I'm incredibly nervous today." "Yeah?" "Just super uneasy." "Well, I guess this is it, huh?" "Ohh." "Think that thing's gonna pull that thing?" "One machine all the way." "This 700." "It's a lot of faith, Rick." "Yup." "Narrator:" "Rick has to drag the 70-foot wash plant along a narrow path on to the elevated pad, which has a sheer drop on either side." "Then, rotate the massive machine 90 degrees, leaving the sluices hanging over a 40-foot drop." "Let's do it." "Don't drop it!" "No, problem!" "Ha ha ha ha ha ha" "Wheelie time." "Wooo!" "Rick." "That is not okay!" "That conveyor's moving like five feet back and forth." "Narrator:" "The most vulnerable part of the wash plant is the 53-foot tailings conveyor that sticks out unprotected at the back." "Easy Rick." "Rick!" "Holy fuck." "What?" "It's waving all over the place." "Oh, gotcha, sorry." "Rick's a little aggressive there, you know." "And this is our first time moving the thing, you'd think he would take it a little easy." "You start trying to rush stuff like that, that's when you make mistakes." "Narrator:" "Next, the most difficult part." "Spin the plant 90 degrees so the sluice's and tailings conveyor hang over the void." "You ready?" "If Rick gets this wrong, Parker's $600,000 wash plant could be destroyed." "Easy, easy, easy, easy." "Hold." "That's probably pretty close, Maybe start swinging it back this way." "Whoa." "Rick." "What's going on now?" "It's slopping pretty good." "This is so screwed." "The ground is slipping out from under it." "Rick is forced to stop." "Well, that's just a fuckin' sheer drop right there." "I was thinking that I could just drag it with the hoe." "Parker comes up with a solution." "Narrator:" "We're just going to try to move this thing straight forward about six feet." "He positions himself right in the firing line beneath the plant to inch it into place." "You should have a lot of leverage sitting like that." "You should be able to pull it forward no problem." "You think so?" "Let's give it a try." "I don't want to stand by that fuckin' chain." "Yup yup." "She's a moving." "Oh fuck." "Yeah, I thought that chain was gonna go." "There it goes." "(Snap, twang) There it goes." "There it goes." "Fuck, so close." "2-3 feet." "We need one more fuckin' shackle." "Why do we have three shackles on this whole fuckin' site." "Narrator:" "Rick replaces the shackle." "And it's round two." "How far off are we?" "One more little bit." "Go another six inches?" "Yeah." "Narrator:" "After six hours, Parker's wash plant is finally in position." "It is show time." "Hopefully this thing runs as good as it looks." "Here's the moment of truth." "Fire it up." "Yo." "Oh, that's nice and smooth man." "You guys ready for some dirt?" "Yup." "Line her up with some dirt Tyson." "Yes, sir." "We got the first dirt of the season heading into our brand-new wash plant." "Wooo." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "Taking the first ride." "Here looks good." "Good job, man!" "Hey!" "Our season starts now!" "Yo!" "Time to make some money." "You got to be kidding me." "Narrator:" "At Scribner Creek, Parker's shorthanded crew is struggling to keep up the pace." "Mechanic Mitch is attempting to fix a leaking radiator." "We got a coolant leak on one of our 40's here." "What I did was went down to the kitchen grabbed just some pepper right off the dinner table and uh, I'm gonna throw that in the radiator." "Something Gene taught me a long time ago." "We're gonna give it a try." "I mean out here if you can keep things running, that's the difference of having a good season or not." "So as you see I mean, just as the pepper gets wet," "You already see it's all sticking together on my fingers." "Well, that's kind of what it does in the cooling system." "Hopefully it works good enough to keep this truck running." "Go ahead and run it for a while." "Just keep an eye on it." "Hopefully that'll slow down the leak." "At Eureka Creek, it's two weeks since Kevin took charge of the dredge." "Up to a hundred." "Narrator:" "Now, Tony has arrived for the first cleanup of the season." "It's a major test of Kevin's role as Dredge Master." "That looks okay to me." "Kevin, How's it going?" "Eh, It's going like usual...slow." "But at the end of the day, it's been encouraging, considering it's only 100 hours on these mats." "Narrator:" "The moment of truth." "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait?" "When "you" did the cleanups?" "(laughter)" "Uh, we need 163 more ounces to pay for the dredge so." "For last year." "1. 2, 80, 90, 100, 10, 20," "160, 161, 162, 160..." "Stop!" "The dredge is paid off right there." "And that is mine because you can't spend it." "Nah, nah, nah." "Uh uh." "Narrator:" "From now on, all the gold caught by the million dollar dredge is profit." "Do it." "190, 200, 254," "55, 56, 57 258.5" "That's amazing." "Narrator:" "Even with all the setbacks, in two weeks, Kevin's captured $310,000 worth of gold." "On a par with the dredge's best cleanup last year." "See!" "I told you so." "Just leave us be and let us get fuckin' to it." "I think he's whining." "Monica:" "I think he needs some cheese." "You?" "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "I won't give up on Todd." "We're all gonna give this 150% effort." "We knew that the challenges would be different." "But there's not gold here." "I... think we're up shit creek without a paddle." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew has run pay dirt for five straight days in their quest for High Bar's elusive nuggets." "Spinks:" "We're all pretty excited about coming back to Oregon." "The problem is is there's no rhyme nor reason to where the gold is." "After producing only 3.55 ounces of gold on the first day..." "Shut it down." "Narrator:" "The Hoffman crew is about to find out if High Bar can deliver on its promise." "Todd:" "We want all these mats out of here all the way down because I'll tell you what." "We need something good." "One, two, three." "[ engine starts ]" "Narrator:" "They've managed to run more than 10,000 yards of High Bar pay dirt." "Thurber: so far, it's slow but steady." "So, uh, showing signs of gold." "Hey." "How we doing?" "I, I just got it...spread out." "Hang on." "Alright." "Let's see how much we got." "Alright." "To hit his 5,000-ounce season goal, Todd needs around 250 ounces every week." "Yeah, sure doesn't look like a whole lot, dad." "No it, for what we been running, it isn't." "35 on the money right there." "Narrator:" "35 ounces is less than 15% of what they're hoping for." "It doesn't even cover running costs." "It is what it is. it's 35, and that's just not enough." "This is not working." "Well, that's what we used to get in a day." "No, Todd." "We got almost twice that in a day." "I don't want to panic, but I'm pissed." "You know?" "I was expecting a whole lot more." "Why don't we, uh, go up there and have a talk with the guys?" "I'll come with you." "Okay." "Alright." "What do you think?" "That cleanup didn't look very good." "Didn't look good at all." "Todd:" "So we got 35 ounces..." "out of all we ran." "What's been coming down to the gold room..." "It's not enough, You know?" "It's not working out." "Something's wrong." "This stuff is the right material." "It just doesn't have any gold in it." "And it's what they been telling us that we gotta send to the plant." "There's no sense in going in the hole." "At some point if it doesn't improve." "I mean, we're with you but." "It's costing a lot of money." "We were looking for a miracle on a mountain." "Now we really need one, man." "We need a miracle." "Yup." "I don't know." "I just don't think that this is why we're here I think..." "I think there's something better's gonna happen, I hope." "You know what, we've had our backs against the wall before." "We didn't do very good in the jungle and we might get our ass kicked again this year." "But I'll tell you what, We're not gonna go down without a fight." "Dad." "Heavenly father, We ask that you would, uh.." "give us a miracle right now." "Uh, right now, we're asking for what we think is impossible." "But with you, it's possible." "So, that's what we pray for." "We pray for a lot of gold." "And, lord, we ask that you do it in a..." "Subs by JackT most, uh, rapid way." "We pray this in your name, Amen." "Subs by JackT" "Amen." "Subs by JackT" "Amen." "Love you, guys." "Don't fuckin' do that again." "Ness:" "Shut it down!" "On the all-new season of "Gold Rush"" "Watch out!" "Damn it." "Narrator:" "Gold mining legend Tony Beets." "Is relying on his family." "Fuck!" "No one can push your buttons like family can." "To expand his Viking fleet." "Minnie:" "It looks like a piece of shit." "There's a lot more can go wrong on the water." "And double down on the gold." "If it's in the ground, I can get it out of there." "Parker Schnabel confronts a world of changes." "Parker:" "Oh fuck." "Todd:" "Think you've achieved everything?" "Just got finished burying my grandpa." "You don't need to tell me shit like that." "But the 21-year-old mine boss..." "Great start, huh?" "Narrator : ..." "Has a new woman in his life." "I'm loving it." "She's just such a good rock truck driver." "Got to put a ring on that." "...A brand-new wash plant..." "Sluicifer!" "Now that we're running dirt, we're not gonna stop for the next 3 months.." "...And he's expanding his empire." "We're starting a second operation." "Got my own operation, and, uh, I couldn't be more excited." "Narrator:" "Todd Hoffman is risking everything..." "Todd:" "My future isn't in the Klondike." "...For a mountain of gold." "Todd:" "It's one of the best nuggets I've ever seen." "But this season..." "Oh, no!" "Hunter, you okay?" "..Goes from bad..." "Todd:" "Hey, hey, hey!" "..Goes from bad to worse." "Turin:" "I love you like a brother." "I'm done." "Enough is enough." "I'm finished." "Todd:" "I've lost several hundred thousand dollars." "And my friends." "We gotta shut down."

"English (HI) Subtitles." "[MP4] Modern Family S06E15 (720p) Fight or Flight" " HDTV [KoTuWa]" "Okay." "Found you." "Oh!" "I do have an open seat in first class, if one of you would like a free upgrade." "No, thank you." "I think we'll sit together." "After the amazing weekend we just had..." "I'll take it." "Claire:" "I deserved that seat." "Three days in the woods with Phil's ex-cheerleader buddies..." "The old stories, the spontaneous human pyramids, constantly updating their tumbler Tumblr..." "I smiled through the whole thing." "Problem is I was so convincing," "Phil thought I was having a great time." "What do I want?" "Some credit." "When do I want it?" "Now." "Hi." "Hey." "[ Sighs ]" "I'm sorry if I smell like a campfire." "I've been in the woods for three days." "I hate camping." "If I'm ever in the woods for three days, it means I've been dead for two of them." "[ Laughs ]" "Wow." "It feels good to laugh for real." " [ Chuckles ] - [ Sighs ]" "You look like you need a drink." "Hon?" "Two Chardonnays and a hot towel for my friend." "Right away." "I love you, beautiful stranger." "[ Baby crying ]" "Phil:" "I have to admit, I was a little miffed that Claire grabbed the good seat, especially after I gave her such a magical weekend, but I was determined to stay positive." "And then it hit me." "Everybody, Sal's here." " Okay." "All right." "Man:" " Oh, oh." "Is this straight?" "You're throwing a baby shower with a dozen men in tailored pants sipping Bellinis." "Nothing about this is..." "Ugh, I can't even finish." "Really?" "The last word was too much?" "So, we decided to get the gang together to throw our friend Sal a belated baby shower." "She's been a little hard to pin down lately, but we knew she'd never miss the chance to shower with a bunch of men." "You love that joke, don't you?" "Well, because it's two different kinds of showers." " Mmhmm." " [ Laughs ]" "This is Little Sammy." "[ Men awwing ]" "This is as long as you've ever been in our house without a cocktail." "No, thank you." "Just a water, please." "[ All gasp ]" "Okay, everybody, drop your pearls." "I'm still breastfeeding." "All the books say, "Do it at least a year."" " Jotham, drink this." " I can't." "I'm leaving early to go to a hockey game." "Kings versus Blackhawks." "Wow." "They can call a team that?" "Black hawks." "Oh." "I've got to put this in the kitchen." "I make all my own baby food." "It's all-natural, no chemicals." "Uh, who is this woman?" "She's not drinking, she's making her own baby food." "Does Lily have any other plates?" "I don't let Sammy eat off this plastic." "Uh, yeah, the far cabinet." " Mm-hmm." " Oh, thanks." "Okay." "None of this makes sense." "I know." "How does she breastfeed him if she doesn't let him near plastic?" "Mom, do I have a fever?" "Ay, let me check." "You know, we have a thermometer." "Do you have to be so white all the time?" "Oh, baby, go lay down." "You're such a brave, little boy!" "He's faking it." "He's pretending to be sick so he doesn't have to go to his cooking class." "He has to go." "Today's lasagna." "I've been starving myself all day for that." "He doesn't want to go because there's a boy there that is picking on him." "Cooking class?" "You know, we're running out of places to send him where he can be cool." "I know." "Enough is enough." "You have to teach him how to fight." "Yeah." "That'll work." "You're doing this." "And don't tell him that this is coming from me." "It's bad for a boy to know that his mother thinks he's weak." "That's a lifetime of paying women to spank him until he cries." "The kid is just not a fighter." "He gets squeamish pounding veal." "Just do it!" "Fine, but I'm only doing it for the lasagna and the extra food he's been bringing home on Sundays." "Makes mondays easier, you know?" "Oh, my God, you're the Garfield." "Hey." "One of you pretty ladies want to take me to meet a girl later?" "You think calling us pretty is gonna get you a ride?" "I'll take it." "Let me know when you want to leave." "Besides, I like Rose." "I think she's good for you." "This is a new girl..." "Sarah." "I'm done with rose." "She crazy." "Easy, Macklemore." "What do you mean, "crazy"?" "Alex:" "I'll tell you what he means." "Any time a woman challenges a man in any way, suddenly, she's crazy." "So, what did she do that was so crazy, Luke..." "Give you her opinion?" "Yeah, or what, did she dare to talk about her feelings?" "The words sound like you get it, but your tone is throwing me." "Just tell me you said something nice when you broke up with her." "[ Scoffs ] I haven't broken up with her." " What?" "!" " What?" "!" "It just seems weird to call someone up and give them bad news." "She'll find out somehow." "Ugh, when did you become a guy?" "It's gross." "You need to stand up and face her." "In person?" "What are we, 30?" "Send her a text." "You need to break it to her gently." "First, tell her she's awesome." "And pretty." "If she was awesome and pretty, I wouldn't be dumping her." "Just do it, you pig." " [ Scoffs ] - [ Scoffs ]" "We all know I'm not gonna do it, so if you want it done, here." "Oh, and don't go looking around on there." "It's not gonna make you like me more." "Ugh." "[ Snoring ]" "[ Cellphone clatters ]" "'S-scuse me." "I think you're in my seat." "Sir, we think you're in her seat." "No, I'm definitely 16C." "This is 19C." "Oh, darn it, that's three rows up." "Sorry about that." "That's all right." "Hi." "Welcome." "Um, could you hang back a second?" "I-I dropped my phone." "I may have, uh, what you're looking for..." " Right there." " Wait." "What?" "[ Chuckles ] Hi." "I'm a professional magician." "Holy sword-box, you're Edward Legrand." "Yeah, I am." "I am." "I-I'm Phil Dunphy, p-professional realtor, amateur magician." " Well, nice to meet you." " Hi." "I'm Jillian." "I've been told I have magic hands." "[ Both laugh ]" " I'm a masseuse." " Oh." "Why do you keep rubbing your forearm like that?" " Oh, I-I had a suitcase land on me." " Oh, let me see." " Hey, Phil..." " Ohh." "I've got a great new trick I want to show you." " Oh!" " Ooh, I can do tricks, too." "This spot's connected to your tongue." "Oh." "Ohh!" "[ Chuckles ]" "Can I stow your bag for you?" " Mm." " No, we'll be needing this." "Trashy magazines." "Oh, you're the best." "Ooh." "Caramel truffles." "I even brought an extra fluffy neck pillow." "Oh!" "Oh, this must be what a mother's hug feels like." " [ Cellphone rings ] - [ Moans ]" "Hello?" "Well, it looks like she's taking good care of you." "Well, she is my best friend." " [ Chuckles ]" " Listen to me, Julio." "I want the gutters cleaned today, not mañana." "If everyone thought my people were lazy," "I would do whatever it took to not seem lazy." "Comprende?" "Actually, we're gonna take off soon, so we're gonna need you to turn off your phone." "I'm actually not done talking, and two more." "Well, if I were you," "I'd put down the burrito and get up that ladder." "[ Cellphone beeps ]" "[ Sighs ]" "What are you doing standing there and not getting drinks for me and my good friend, Claire?" "Actually, we just met." "Oh, guys, guys," "I can't let you do the cleanup all by yourselves." "Ronaldo will help you." "Of course!" "Uh, where is Sal?" "I need her keys to start loading the gifts in her car." "I think she's changing Sammy in our room." "I hope she's also changing those drapes." "I don't want to sound like a sentimental softy, but does anyone miss the drunken whore she used to be?" "Oh, I like the new Sal." "Turns out, all she needed to bring out her maternal instinct was a little baby." "I don't buy it." "No, something's up." "You do remember her suggesting we chuck Lily into the ocean." "Oh, Mitchell, calm down." "Babies change people." "Like you used to be a judgmental cynic, and then Lily..." "Oh, wait." "You guys, Sal's not back there." " Sal?" " The drapes still are." "Well, that's weird." "Her car's gone." "What?" "!" "Let's not jump to conclusions." "In this neighborhood, her car could have been stolen." "Well, you know, she did seem frazzled." "May... maybe she forgot to say goodbye." "Oh, and forgot all of her presents." " [ Baby crying ] - [ Gasps ]" "And forgot her baby." "You don't think that there's any way that she would..." "N-no." "I-I can't even say it." "I can." "That gin-soaked tart abandoned the little bastard." "Oh, st..." "What?" "He's fatherless." "Am I wrong?" "Okay, I've called Sal five times, and she still hasn't picked up." "I knew this whole "Earth Mother" thing was an act." "[ Singsong voice ] Oh, maybe we should use our happy voices when we're accusing a mommy of abandoning her little baby boy." " Ugh." "This is a true disaster." " Isn't it?" "Someone put a Spanish roof on what is clearly a mid-century ranch." "Oh, no." "Someone just went numero two." "Pepper:" " Oh!" " [ Normal voice ] Yeah." "And the aftershocks are still rolling in." "Here's her diaper bag." "And... what's..." "Oh, no." "This..." "Uh, h-here's a note." ""I'm sorry to leave this way."" "I'm not proud of it, but I just can't do this anymore." ""Goodbye." "Sal."" "[ Singsong voice ] It's getting harder and harder to keep a positive spin on this." "[ Slurring ] Here." "Have some cheese." "Oh, no." "Thank you." "I'm..." "I'm good." "Oh, my." "That is [Clears throat] strong." "Oh, my goodness." "Hey." "What are you staring at?" "It's French cheese." "Costs more than you make in a week." "Okay, you might want to keep your voice down." " Claire." " Yeah?" "That guy over there is checking you out!" "I don't think he is." "My friend Claire would like to meet you in the bathroom." "No." "I-I did not say that." "Claire, why do you do that to yourself?" "You are so pretty." "Hey, Phil, what time is it?" "What's wrong?" "My watch is go..." "Edward, what did you do?" "Jillian, what's your, uh, middle initial?" ""C," for Catherine." "And, Phil, uh, what age were you when you first kissed a girl?" "12 cousin, 14 non-cousin." "Let's stick with non-cousin." "I think if you go to 14C, seat right over there, you'll wind up with what you're looking for." "[ Laughing ] It works on battery, but, oh, my God, I'm excited!" "Excuse me." " Phil." "It's me." " Oh, hey." " What are you doing back here?" " I need a break from the woman I'm sitting next to up there." " She is the worst person on Earth." " I'm sorry." "I was hoping she might be a little less aggressive with you." "Do you mind switching with me for a little while?" "Oh, honey, you don't want to." "It's hell back here, too." "I'm squished between this fat lady who keeps digging into my elbow and this huge, sweaty dude who won't stop blabbing on about his job." "Oh." "Well, could I get a hug?" "I could really use one." "Sure thing." "Oops." "They want us back in our seats." " [ Grunts ]" " I didn't hear the little ding." "Your ears must be plugged." "Whoa!" "Did you feel that?" "No, I-I-I didn't feel anything." "This is scary." "You should go back." "Amazing." "Thank you." "Sorcerer!" " [ Grunts ]" " Not bad." "I felt that one." "So good, Manny." "All right, really let one go this time." "Thinks about how mad this guy makes you." " What's his name?" " Gideon." "Oh, geez." "All right, think about what he did to you." "I'd rather not talk about it." "I don't know why you're smiling." "Your fennel's burnt." "Whereas I made a perfect butternut squash." "That's just butter." "Oh, yeah, I-I totally forgot the nut squash!" " [ Laughing ] Oh!" " [ Groans ]" "Snap it." "Snap it." "Good." " More." "Good." " I'm done." "I'm not fighting anymore." "It's not worth it." "But you're doing so good." "You just have to turn your shoulder first so that you can throw your weight behind your punch." "If you want." "I already think that you're very tough." "This is all Jay's idea." "All right." "Come on, kid." "Show 'em who's boss." "No." "I'm more of a lover than a fighter." "Well, that's the goal, anyway." "Ay, okay, papi, whatever you decide." " Don't let him leave this room!" " Ow, ow, ow!" "Maybe you should teach him how to hit." "Oh, my God." "Check it out." "Rose got your breakup text and wrote back." "She mad." "What?" "Give me that." ""Thanks for the dumbest breakup text ever."" "Don't call a girl awesome, then break up with her." "If I'm so great, why'd you dump me?" "Get over yourself, you insensitive troll"?" "What is her problem?" "She can't talk to you like that." "[ Chuckles ] She's not." "She's talking to you." "I can't believe I ever liked this girl." "Our text was compassionate and respectful." "There was nothing dumb about it." "A million percent." " What are you doing?" " [ Chuckling ] Oh." "This crazy bitch just messed with the wrong crazy bitch." "Whoo, whoo, whoo, dee, doo!" "[ Scoffs ] This is unreal." "We always knew Sal was unstable, but how could she do this?" "We don't know that she's done anything." "Okay, let's just suppose for a second that she's on a plane to Cabo." "What then?" "Maybe this is part of a bigger plan." "You know, maybe the reason we didn't adopt another baby after Lily was because God wanted us available for Sammy." "Who is this God that denies us a baby, then gets a party girl pregnant, only to have her desert the baby so that we can finally get one?" "The same God that impregnated a virgin, sent Moses down the river in a basket, and commanded Abraham to stab his own son." "God only does weird baby stuff." "Okay, yes, I'll admit, there is part of me that would love to keep this little guy and raise him the way Sal was pretending to." "Exactly." "Lily could have a baby brother." "But there are systems in place here." "You can't just keep him like a bunny you found in the yard." " That's crazy." " Aww." "Listen, we discussed it, and we think we should take the kid." "Ee!" "What should we call him?" "Not sure, but definitely not Sammy." "Sammy Saltzman sounds so silly." "[ Both laugh ]" "We can overhand shuffle, and we can riffle shuffle..." "[ Dramatically ] But, you know, there is no escape from the angry..." " queen." " What?" "Phil." "What are you doing?" "Making the best of a bad situation?" "Why is that woman rubbing your shoulders?" "Oh, uh, Jillian is a masseuse, and this, of course, is Edward Legrand." "Pleasure to meet you." "Now, if you could just give me my ace of spades back..." "It's in your pocket." "This is why you had to race back to your hellish seat..." "For back rubs and card tricks?" "Do you have any idea what I'm going through up there?" "She clipped her toenails because her "Oriental girl" didn't do it right." "Claire, I'm sorry." "But I need you to check your pocket." "[ Inhales deeply ]" "Insanity!" " Thank you very much." " [ Chuckles ]" "Don't be mad at me." "You're the one who grabbed that seat." "That was a pretty selfish move." "Yeah, I did grab that seat, because I spent the entire weekend being selfless, and you didn't even thank me once." "Why would I thank you for giving you an awesome weekend?" "Awesome?" "You spent the whole weekend rehashing stories about itchy, rusty, and loveboat." "How is that fun for me?" "!" "They were always getting into stuff!" "I came back here for some compassion, and all you did was lie to me and blow me off so you could keep having your fun while I suffer up there in first class!" "Oh, my heart goes out to you." "Oh, stick it, Kreskin." "I'm sitting next to a cheese-eating racist." "I'm sorry about your card." "Yeah, uh... don't be." "Son of a..." "All right." "I'll be back..." "Pick you up at 6:00." "Now, remember, what did I teach you?" "Violence solves everything, and don't wind my fist up like Popeye." "It's not violence." "It's self-defense." "You cannot let this kid keep pushing you around." "Now, you walk in there like a badass, and you make the best damn lasagna anybody's ever seen." "I appreciate the speech, Jay, but I'll handle things my way." "Kid, one more thing." "Don't forget the garlic bread." " Because without that..." " I-I get it." "[ Car door closes ]" "Hey, Delgado." "Manny, I'm talking to you." "You want a piece of this?" "Ow!" "What was that for?" "Looks like I gave you a piece of this." "What the hell?" "I was just offering you some apple crumble!" "What?" "You were not." "Yes, I was!" "I felt bad about teasing you." "My therapist said" "I was acting out because of my parents' divorce, so I was trying to be nice." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't know!" "Good shot, kid!" "That'll teach you who to pick on, you punk..." "Not my boy!" "He learned how to punch from the best." "His parents are getting divorced, and he made me that dessert as an apology." "This whole thing was your mother's idea." "Ronaldo, you grab the roller thingy, and, uh..." "Oh!" "I'll grab that big mesh cage." "All right." "Everybody, stop." "You can't just keep a baby like it's some rabbit you found in the yard." " There are systems in place." " Wow." "He has to stay somewhere tonight, no?" "Yeah, how about right here, because we know how to raise a child?" "Oh, please." "We'll dress him and feed him, and Conchetta can handle the poopy stuff." "I gave her Obamacare." "It's the least she can do." "We all want what's best for the baby." "Y-you're very nice people, but we've done this before." "So?" "It's our turn." "[ Sighs ]" "I wanted a child for some time now." "My biological clock is ticking." "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard." " Is it?" "I'm 44." " Or that is." "You are one mean lady." "We're not leaving without Felipe." "Well, then, you're not leaving." "[ Scoffs ] Fine!" "Did we settle on "Felipe"?" "[ Sighs ]" "Phil." "Honey, what are you doing?" "[ Slurring ] One second." "So, I have 20 fur coats in my closet, but I'm the only one of my friends who even wears them anymore, so you tell me who's endangered." "Jillian's waiting for you in my seat to give you a little back rub." "You don't have to do this." "You didn't have to be so great this weekend." "But you were, so thank you." "And I should have said that earlier." "Mwah!" "Go enjoy the rest of your flight." "I'll deal with this." ""Deal with this"?" "I'm a state senator's mistress." "You're my hero." "[ Door opens ]" "Gloria:" "Wipe your feet before you come in!" "Listen to that." "First thing out of her mouth, she's telling us what to do." "Well, that stops today." "We go in strong." "We hold our ground." "We let her know she's done pushing us around." "Manny, why are you home so early?" "Did you let him skip school?" "No, mom." "I was kicked out for punching a really misunderstood kid, thanks to you." "Thanks to me?" "What, did..." "I told him everything." "And you know what we realized?" "There is a bully in our life, and it's you." "You make the rules, you boss us around," " and we're not gonna take it anymore." " Mm." "Yeah." "Ah, look at you two, standing up to the big, scary bully that loves you and protects you and wants you to be safe in this world." "You're just tiny, little men to me right now, and you need to leave this house and come back with more respect!" "And a pizza." "[ Gasps ] Oh, what?" "You need to go first and check on your mascara?" " We do need to eat." " Yeah." "I wouldn't mind some pizza." "We're not getting any pineapple." "You are getting pineapple!" "We're taking it off our slices." "Don't waste any food, Jay!" " I think we made our point." " Totally." "We'll get our own pizza..." "Eat it in the car." "[ Door closes ]" "Give me one reason why Sammy should stay here tonight instead of with us." "Because we're experienced parents." "We have a crib!" "We have a pediatrician." "Our house is babyproofed." "Our house was in Architectural Digest." "Ronaldo, please, you're not helping." "They don't know what that is." "How can you even fit another child in this shoe box?" "You're poor!" "We have a beautiful house with a big yard where he could throw the ball with the gardener." "Okay, look." "If anybody's gonna adopt Sammy, it's gonna be us." "Oh!" "Whoa!" "Do I have any say in this?" "Sal!" "Oh, well, you're back." "What the hell are you four doing?" "You walked out of here and left your baby without saying a word, so maybe we'll be asking the questions." "I told John John where I was going." "The drunkest guy at the party." "Excuse me for not wanting to interrupt your fierce debate..." ""Who's hotter, Mr. Clean or The Brawny Paper Towel man?"" " Mr. Clean." " Brawny Paper Towel guy." "We're not going back there." "That still doesn't explain why you would leave in the middle of your own baby shower." "I got freaked out when jotham mentioned the Blackhawks." "Every time." "I hear it every time." "Sammy's dad is on the team, okay?" "And he didn't know Sammy existed..." "At least not until I just went down there and I told him." "Oh, gosh." "What happened?" "How did he take it?" "It turns out he's married." "Yeah, I could have googled that." "So he's out." "And you thought I deserted my own baby?" "You did leave." "And then what..." "What's up with this note, huh?" "Look..." ""I'm sorry to leave this way." "I'm not proud of it, but I just can't do this."" "This diaper bag is just a recycled purse from my single days!" "I got a lot of these notes lying around for quick getaways." " You guys don't think that I can do this, do you?" " No!" " We always thought you could do it." " I certainly don't." " We don't think you can't do it." " Shut up!" "I don't think I can do it, either!" "Oh, Sal." "I mean, it's just..." "[Breathes deeply]" "So hard." "I feel so guilty that he doesn't have a dad in the picture." "I don't know." "I'm trying to do everything perfectly." "It's exhausting." "And I haven't had sex in like a year." "[ All gasp ]" "[ Sammy coos ]" " Oh!" "Cameron:" " Oh." "[ Sammy coos ]" "This little dude..." "He's the one thing in my life that I cannot mess up." "[ Sighs ]" "I just wish I could give him a dad." "Well... what about us?" " We could be Sammy's dad." " All of us." "Yeah, Sal, we love you, and we're always here for you..." "Whatever you need." "Except we'll be in Capri all of July." "Seriously, Sal, you and Sammy will never be alone." "You guys are so sweet." "[ Chuckles ]" "Wait." "June's no good, either." "I'm getting my neck done." "[ Inhales sharply ]" "Oh, my God!" "What did you do?" "We stuck up for you!" "Yeah, Rose had it coming." "She can't talk to you the way we do." "But Rose has forwarded your text to Sarah, and now Sarah doesn't wanna go out." "Give me that phone." "What did the skank Sarah say to you?" "Uh." "Yeah, um... ouch." "Good opening." "[ Laughs ]" "That's so funny." "We totally deserve that." "Totally!" "Good sense of humor!" "Oh, my God." "I love her." "Me too." "Don't worry, Luke." "We're gonna win her back." "We just got..." "Luke?" "You think maybe we need dates of our own?" "So bad."

"Good sleep?" "Not bad." "So where are we?" "Where you from?" "San Diego." "Left yesterday." "So you came Honolulu-Guam-Pago-here?" "Long trip." "What do you do?" "I'm a psychologist." "Hey, a shrink." "They've called in everything else." "How do you mean?" "We've ferried people out of Guam for the last 2 days." "Physicists, biologists, mathematicians, you name it." "Everybody being flown to the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean." "What's going on?" "They're not telling us anything, sir." "What did they tell you?" "There was a plane crash." "Do you get called in on crashes?" "I'm on a list of psychologists the FAA brings in when a plane goes down." "So where exactly are we now?" "That's where we're headed." "Over there." "Here." "Take a look." "What is that?" "All that for a plane crash?" "I never mentioned a plane crash." "Any other gear?" "Watch your step." "l'd like to call my family." "We'll get you settled in quarters first." "Remain there till we send for you." "l'd like to get started." "We'll send for you." "lt's critical I see them" "Who?" "The survivors. lf l don't get to them in the first 24 hours" "What survivors?" "The survivors of the plane crash." "Plane crash?" "I deal in post-traumatic stress and survival guilt." "Maybe I should talk to someone who knows what's going on here." "Talk to the ship's psychiatrist." "l'm a psychologist." "That's why I was sent here." "I told you people I need a phone." "Discuss that with Mr. Barnes." "That's fine." "Give me a phone, I'll call him." "Why are you here?" "Take your hands off me, please." "Do you have any idea who I am?" "Tell him the name of the book you wrote." "Astrophysics You Can Use. lt was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection." "Never heard of it." "You really thought he read your book." "You haven't changed." "It was written for the layman." "He's not impressed." "is there a phone in here?" "l've been trying to call my wife." "Would you stop touching me?" "Wait a minute." "Beth?" "Flight quarters." "All units make your flight quarters condition one stations for landing." "Stay clear of the fantail" "Goodman, you been here long?" "l've been here 3 hours." "Welcome aboard." "This thing scares the hell out of me." "It's already too late." "You might as well helicopter me back..." "... becausethedamageisdone to the survivors already." "Hold on." "We'll get to that." "l don't even know who you are." "I know who you are." "Who are you?" "Navy?" "Military?" "What are you?" "You ever hear of the OSSA?" "They don't know who I am." "That should reassure you." "You haven't talked to anyone about this?" "l talked to the helicopter pilot." "What'd you tell him?" "I told him I was here to see the plane crash." "That's my job." "Plane crash." "Good." "There was no plane crash." "Spacecraft." "A spacecraft." "I guess that explains a lot." "NASA?" "That doesn't surprise you?" "At least it explains the secrecy." "The secrecy's critical, Norman." "You made that explicit in your report." "What report?" "ULF." "I wrote that for the Bush administration." "And that's our bible here." "But that was a report about a possible encounter with an alien being." "You want to come with me?" "Oh, boy." "About 3 weeks ago..." "... ashiplayingfiber-opticcable between Honolulu and Sydney..." "... hitanobstruction 1 ,000 feet underwater." "Cut this cable here clean as a shears." "The Navy got interested, sent out a search ship." "It turned out that what did it..." "... wasthis." "We took this with side-looking sonar." "This is an aerodynamic fin longer than a football field..." "... biggerthananyknownwingspan." "This is the fuselage." "This is ultrahigh-res SLS bottom scan." "Came in a week ago." "There it is, buried under about 8 yards of coral." "Something's wrong with that measurement." "Pacific coral grows an inch a year." "You can set your watch by it." "That's right." "So you're saying this spacecraft crashed in the year... ." "1709." "So you're saying this spacecraft crashed 300 years ago?" "288." "That's impossible." "It's not impossible if this spacecraft came from an alien civilization." "Wait a minute." "You think this is an alien spacecraft?" "It's not impossible." "It's ridiculous." "We think there's an Unknown Life Form on the spacecraft." "That's why you're here." "You are the contact team that was recommended in the Goodman Report." "We have a biochemist..." "... toassessthephysiology of the Unknown Life Form." "A mathematician, because that'll probably be our common language." "And we have an astrophysicist to locate its place in the cosmos." "Led by a psychologist." "Right." "Nowadays, the little green men say, ' ' Take me to your therapist' ' ?" "Listen up." "' ' Contact teams meeting an Unknown Life Form or ULF..." "... mustbeprepared for severe psychological impact." "Stress reaction of confronting such life has not been sufficiently studied..." "... andcannotbe entirely predicted in advance." "But the most likely consequence of contact is..." "... absoluteterror.''" "That's from Norman's report." "I'm sorry, are these parameters correct?" "You're saying that you have a spacecraft over a half a mile long..." "... thatcrashedintothe ocean300years ago and it's completely intact?" "That's right." "And the kicker is, our sonar is picking up a low-level hum." "Something's still running inside." "There's no way this coral could've grown faster than an inch a year?" "That's what we're going there to see." "What?" "Who says?" "Harry, that's a joke, right?" "This is the greatest scientific discovery since Copernicus." "Bigger!" "The idea that we're not alone, it'll change everything." "Evidence of extraterrestrial life." "You don't want to see that?" "I got to say that I resent this briefing very much." "And how's that?" "If Norman's report calls for a biologist, a mathematician..." "... anastrophysicist and a psychologist..." "... whyareyouhere?" "Physical protocols start in a half an hour." "You always wear glasses?" "I just started wearing these." "Are the glasses a problem?" "I don't actually need them." "They're just for reading." "And they're more of a crutch." "I see fine without them." "But they didn't anticipate I'd be going 1 ,000 feet under the water." "Do you take prescription medication?" "No." "None at all?" "Once in a while sometimes I might take like a..." "... apieceof Xanax or something if I'm nervous." "Something like that." "But not..." "... much." "Knee surgery." "Complete reconstruction of ACL, right knee." "Still have steel pin here, steel pin here, little medial collateral damage." "I see that you have a scar on your neck." "Car accident." "Were you drinking?" "Yeah." "But I wasn't driving." "Wait, I just want to apologize for putting your name on the list." "Why?" "When I made the report a few years ago, I picked names of people I knew." "And?" "I know Ted because of his father." "Yeah, so what?" "Beth was a patient." "It's a bogus report." "What?" "Did you tell Barnes?" "You can't do that." "That's fraud." "They came to me, new administration, right?" "Political agenda." "They said, in case of an alien invasion, do's and don'ts." "Why didn't you just say no?" "$35,000." "It paid the down payment on my house." "New administration wanted to prove they're doing something new." "How'd you come up with this team..." "... ofa biologist,an astrophysicist and a mathematician?" "Right." "How?" "l don't know." "It sounded good, right?" "Made them come to me." "I forgive you, Norman." "I forgive you!" "But I don't forgive you for Ted." "He's a pain in the ass." "I'll talk to him." "We'll be there 2 hours." "You don't have to be around him." "He idolizes you anyways, but I'll talk to him. I'll buy you dinner." "l'm sorry." "Your secret's safe with me." "Come on." "I can't believe this thing could... ." "Like a dream." "Have you called your wife?" "Why not?" "This'll be a saturation dive." "You'll be going to a habitat in 1 ,000 feet of water." "A sub will take you to the Habitat and you'll transfer aboard." "At 1 ,000 feet, your body will be pressurized for that depth." "You could actually take a quick dip." "The pressure wouldn't bother you." "Although I wouldn't recommend it because the water's so cold..." "... you'dfreezeto death in less than 2 minutes." "That's the reason for the diving suits." "Your helmet has a rebreather for your air supply." "Following this briefing, I'll take you to an onboard dive tank." "For the next 8 hours..." "... you'lltrainin deep-saturationdive techniques and emergency procedures." "Once you've gone down 1 ,000 feet..." "... ifyousurface,you 'llhavetocommit to several days of decompression." "There is no real quick return." "However, there is a mini-sub..." "... thatmaybe usedasanemergency escape vehicle." "But there must be a ship at the surface to mate to for decompression." "Without decompression, your body would literally burst." "Under these circumstances, you're very well-controlled." "The dive has been planned well and professionally monitored." "The descent will take about 13 minutes, descending at 80 feet a minute." "It's going to get chilly." "Try to relax." "Next time, just tell us when you're going to push the button." "Mozart..." "...Horn Concerto in E-flat K-447." "How you holding up, Captain Nautical?" "l'm loose." "You're loose?" "I'm loose. I'm loose." "I'm uptight." "We okay?" "We're in the river now." "What river?" "It's a temperature/salinity differential." "It flows like a river inside the ocean." "Under the ocean and there's a river." "That's right." "You okay?" "Right now, I'm not okay." "Would you please not touch me?" "We're both nervous." "Yes?" "Would you cut that out, please?" "You're having a stress reaction." "That's Harry's stress reaction." "Those noises we're hearing, that's normal?" "Those noises are the water pressure attacking the sub's integrity." "You know a little something about that, don't you, Norman?" "How the pressure can attack your integrity." "Come on, you be nice this trip." "Were you nice last time?" "You two want to sit together?" "My God!" "Norman, look at this, look at this." "Jesus!" "That's just the fin." "That's the Habitat." "The Navy moved it in sections and set it up as a base as soon as the spaceship was discovered." "It's manned by 2 naval personnel." "It will be your home-away-from-home while we investigate the spacecraft." "It ain't the Motel 6." "Approaching docking bay from R-4." "All personnel, descent sub one engaging lock area." "You are now depressurized." "We're going to pressurize you now." "It's hot in there, but you're going to feel coolness." "That's the helium." "Helium?" "Was I the only one paying attention?" "Oxygen is a corrosive gas, in the same family as fluorine and chlorine..." "... hydrochloricacid, hydrofluoric acid." "That's why we're breathing helium." "Because oxygen at any level higher than 2.3 becomes toxic." "Can you run that by me again, Ted?" "I don't speak balloon." "What?" "That's my voice." "The helium resonates differently with my vocal chords." "' ' Follow the yellow brick road. ' '" "Kiddies, cut it out." "The voice regulators are behind you." "Put them on." "The Navy dive team is setting up a hydraulic robot..." "... intheairlock outside the spacecraft." "We'll use that to open its door." "is that the door?" "Yeah, we used sonar imaging to pinpoint it before the divers went down." "How tall is that robot?" "Five feet." "And it's roughly the same size as an airplane door, isn't it?" "Excuse me, Ted." "l think that's worth taking note of." "Excuse me." "Tell them our team is in place and ready, okay?" "This is Habitat to Navy dive." "Has it occurred to anyone maybe we shouldn't open that door?" "Why do you say that?" "We assume they'll be green..." "... orinsect-like, but basically human." "But what if they inhale air and exhale cyanide gas?" "It's plausible." "Or live forever, like a virus or a yeast." "But why would you assume that a ULF would want to kill us?" "An immortal creature wouldn't think killing was right or wrong." "It'd have no concept of it." "Instant eradication. lt's what all the serious scientific stuff talks about." "What little there is on the subject." "You did put that in your report?" "It's in there." "Get us the ETD for team's departure to surface." "Tell them we're in ready and thank them." "Habitat to Navy Dive." "Our team's ready to take over." "Descent sub ready for your return to surface." "Thanks for all your help." "We'll let you know what we find." "I'm not too thrilled at the prospect of this." "What if you have to go to the bathroom?" "Just go down your leg, Ted." "Really?" "You can urinate in these?" "You can." "The question is, do you want to?" "Where's the switch?" "Okay, let's go." "All right, Fletcher..." "... we'reat1, 022feet." "The ambient temperature, 34 degrees." "Heading out north-northwest 330." "It's a firm bottom." "Intermittent coral." "This is great, you guys." "Look at the size of that thing!" "My God!" "You see that tunnel?" "That's where we're going." "into the heart of darkness." "We're in the coral pipe now, Fletcher, approaching the air lock." "I'm feeling pressure in my ears." "is that normal?" "Just use your equalizer." "A little better." "The most toxic creatures on Earth live down here." "The venom of the land animal is nothing by comparison." "Even the weakest sea snake is invariably lethal." "is that supposed to make me feel good, Beth?" "This is our air lock." "It'll take us from a wet to a dry environment." "We're assuming the inside of the ship is sealed." "This thing is enormous." "That's not budging, is it?" "Turn it at 45 degrees." "What's happening here?" "Is that piston broken?" "Can you get the suction cup flat to the plane of the door?" "Maybe it's the hydraulics." "The pressure messes everything up at this depth." "Time for a demonstration in basic physics, gentlemen." "What is it, Harry?" "Take a look." "It's chipped." "All right, it's chipped." "So what?" "I thought you said this thing wasn't damaged when it crashed..." "... thatthistitaniumalloywas so super-strong, you can't hurt it." "I did." "So why does it chip when this scientist just bangs it with a hammer?" "is there heat coming off this thing?" "You're right." "Get out of there." "Back up." "Just a minute." "I mean, get back now!" "Get back." "Jesus." "Anybody else wonder who the hell opened that door?" "How did that happen?" "I'm not sure about the atmosphere." "Helmets stay on." "All right." "We come in peace." "Always wanted to say that." "Fletcher, inform the Navy we've gained access..." "... to the spacecraft." "There's a hell of a lot of radiation shielding in here." "Huge grids of catwalks and plumbing..." "... anda lotof steam." "It's endless." "We'll stay in touch here." "Somebody's been here." "There's footsteps and they ain't ours." "So what do you say, Norman?" "Time to turn back?" "I'm a little curious." "Break up into 2 squads." "We'll never cover the territory otherwise." "Split up?" "He's got a point." "We've only got about a half-hour of breathing time left." "Ted and Harry, you come with me." "Beth, Norman, stick together." "Come on." "I think the people who built this place would call that ' ' divide and conquer. ' '" "Whoever built this thing wanted us dead, we'd be dead already." "These guys offer a federal grant to study the effects of an alien invasion." "I told all this to Harry." "You made up the report?" "No, not all of it. I mean, I did research on half of it." "Who did the other half?" "I borrowed from, you know, good writers." "Isaac Asimov, Rod Serling... ." "Rod Serling?" "Who would've thought anyone even reads those government reports." "You know?" "I show up here, half the Pacific fleet is here." "I just didn't know what to do." "I wanted to tell you, that's all." "is this in the same category as, ' ' Beth, I thought you knew I was married' ' ?" "I don't think we have enough oxygen" "Oh, my God." "Did you push something?" "No. lt did it on its own." "That must be the cockpit." "Hold on." "Look at this." "Cross-stress bracing on the outer hulls." "All axes supported." "Look at this stuff." "This is interesting." "Soft and strong at the same time." "It's, like, better than rubber, better than steel." "You know a lot about this stuff." "I studied aeronautical engineering at M.l.T." "Isn't that where you got your Ph.D.?" "It's where l got mine." "All 3 of them." "I hated M.l.T." "Envy?" "Puberty." "How old?" "First Ph.D., 18." "Damn." "One year, Harry." "You beat me by one year." "Let's push on." "Let's go." "Man, they didn't tell you how heavy these things were out of the water." "Look at this." "Come here." "' ' Trash. ' '" ""Basura. "" "Trash?" "Oh, God." "Jesus!" "It's human." "You mean humanoid." "No, Norman, I mean human." "Blunt force trauma." "You can see by the direction that the fracture runs..." "... thathewashit in the back of the head." "What's in his hand?" "I don't know." "What is it?" "' ' Smokehouse Almonds' ' ?" "My God, it's an American spaceship." "It can't be an American spaceship." "It's 300 years old." "There weren't even Americans, let alone spaceships." "It can't be, but it is." "Let's see if there's some kind of flight recorder or data computer..." "... wherewecanringup some kind..." "... ofa flighthistory." "I mean... ." "Look at this. lt's in English." "Come here." "Okay, good." "Right there." "And there." "Look at the dates!" "Can't be." "Could be." "It could be 2043 or 1643." "I don't know which one is weirder." "' ' Unknown Entry Event. ' ' Press it." "You sure?" "This is Barnes, Norman." "Yeah, I can hear you." "I can't explain it, but I think we're inside an American spaceship." "It gets better." "What the hell is it?" "Whatever it is, it seems to be what this bird was designed to do." "Go out into space and gather things like this up and bring it back." "Yeah, but back from where?" "Don't get too excited, Ted." "Turn this thing over, it'll probably say ' ' Made in Korea. ' '" "Somehow I doubt that." "No doors." "No hinges of any kind." "I'll bet if you put a laser micrometer on this, it'd be a perfect sphere." "Perfect to a thousandth of an inch." "That's a message in and of itself." "Really?" "What do you mean?" "When Pope Benedict asked Giotto to prove his worth as an artist..." "... Giottodrewaperfectcircle..." "... freehand." "Perfection." "It's a powerful message." "l know what the Zen masters would say." "What's that?" "' ' This ball wants to be caught. ' '" "Nobody built this thing looking into their third eye." "They went to a lot of trouble and they didn't do it for nothing." "Something put this thing out there to get picked up and brought back here." "Have you forgotten the Trojan horse?" "It could be a trap." "Don't you think that's a little paranoid?" "No, I'm going to put a video camera on this thing and keep an eye on it." "Can I ask you something about this reflective surface?" "Yeah, it appears to be mercury, doesn't it?" "Except mercury's liquid at this temperature." "That's not what I'm talking about." "What worries me is that it's reflecting everything but us." "I hate to be the one non-scientist that picks this up, guys." "You know what I mean?" "What do you think it is?" "I don't know." "Whatever it is..." "... it'salien." "Okay, an American spacecraft, materials, technology..." "... moreadvancedthanwhatweknow, crashes into the ocean." "Why wasn't it damaged?" "The materials are obviously super-strong." "If that's true, why did it chip when you hit it?" "Better:" "It didn't crash." "It arrived..." "... 300yearsago." "From where?" "Not ' ' where. ' ' When." "So you're saying this thing took a wrong turn?" "That's right." "I mean, what if the craft..." "... inadvertentlyflew into a black hole?" "It arrived in our past from its present." "The dates in the flight record-- 43, 47." "That has to be 2043, 2047." "The image you saw, what you described..." "... soundslikeablackhole , a tear in the space" "We know what a black hole is." "I don't know." "It's a collapsed star with so much gravity it's like a vacuum cleaner..." "... suckingeverythingintoit, light, interstellar dust, time" "Time?" "lt's possible, but not plausible." "It's more than probable." "It's rudimentary astrophysics." "We just haven't been able to fly into one and prove it." "I just got off the horn topside." "They're expecting a bad blow up there." "And they're pulling us out." "Pulling us out?" "Wait a minute!" "What do you mean?" "What part of ' ' pull out' ' don't you understand?" "Extraction." "We're leaving." "That's ridiculous." "We haven't even begun to scratch the surface here." "If you've ever seen a Pacific cyclone, what we call a tornado is a little fart." "So I suggest you go back to the dormitory and take a nap." "You need to lower your metabolism before we start the decompression." "You're leaving a time-traveling spacecraft at the bottom of the ocean?" "I'm just following my orders." "We're the aliens' Welcome Wagons." "But, no aliens." "lt was made in America." "What's your point?" "My point is, I'm a biochemist and there's no life down here." "What is wrong with you?" "!" "That doesn't mean there's nothing to learn, to explore!" "She's right." "You guys are the human contact team for an Unknown Life Form." "There is no Unknown Life Form, so we pull out at 0900." "Please say something to him." "What?" "I don't know." "Do you not have an opinion about this?" "I'm delighted we're going back up top." "You know what I mean?" "This may look like a roadside diner, but in the meantime..." "... myearswon'tpop and ifI pull this thing away from my neck..." "... Isoundlikesomeone'ssqueezing my testicles." "Let's go home." "Barnes is wrong, you know." "You mean, wrong about the storm?" "No, about the Sphere." "What about the Sphere?" "It's alive." "Why do you say that?" "There's something inside it." "How can there be anything inside it?" "There's no door, no seams." "The Sphere chooses what it will and won't reflect." "Doesn't that seem like the actions of a conscious being to you?" "Pop psychology. I think, for whatever it's worth, you're angry..." "... towardsourfriendTed inthere..." "... becausehefiguredthisout before you did." "You really think so?" "I don't know." "This is my first underwater session." "You're right." "Ted did figure it out first, didn't he?" "Good shrinkage." "We're all going to die down here, you know." "What?" "What?" "You see, it's curious." "Ted did figure it out." "Time travel." "And when we get back, we're going to tell everyone..." "... howit'spossible,how it'sdone , what the dangers are." "But why 50 years in the future, when the spacecraft encounters a black hole..." "... doesthecomputercallit an ' ' Unknown Entry Event' ' ?" "Why don't they know?" "If they don't know..." "... itmeanswe nevertoldanyone." "And if we never told anyone..." "... itmeanswe nevermadeitback." "Hence..." "... wediedownhere." "Just as a matter of deductive logic, Norman." "Damn, I wish I could get inside that Sphere." "What's wrong?" "Talk to Mr. Barnes." "Where is he?" "Video feed room." "Where is that?" "I don't know where the hell anything is." "Where am I?" "Where?" "What's going on?" "I don't know." "You tell me." "What the hell is he doing?" "l don't know." "Do you know what he's doing?" "l need to know what you know." "Nothing." "He wanted to go inside." "We are inside." "You mean outside?" "He said, ' ' inside. ' '" "What?" "Inside the spacecraft?" "I think inside the Sphere." "Holy shit!" "My God." "Did he go inside?" "l don't think so." "What the hell's going on?" "He didn't just disappear." "I think it's a glitch in the video." "Give me playback on that." "You'll have it in a minute." "You knew he was doing this and you said nothing." "You didn't think!" "l didn't think it possible." "Where are Beth and Ted?" "I don't know. I woke up, I heard bells ringing and I started running" "I'm not getting an image on the sub." "Impossible!" "I got a cable in my quarters!" "They'll be here in 25 minutes or less!" "The only logical explanation is that the sub is still at the surface." "is it also logically possible your sonar is messed up?" "!" "Let's just calm down, all right?" "He didn't just disappear." "We are not going to leave him." "You got that right. I am not going to lose a civilian on my watch." "You have just screwed up our trip to the surface." "We are not going up to the surface." "Harry!" "We are not going up!" "Harry!" "Can you hear me?" "Harry, can you hear me?" "Norman, this is not a triage situation." "Go find me Ted and Beth." "Norman, stop." "Still no reading on the sub." "Forget the goddamn sonar, Teeny." "When Beth and Ted get here, make sure they don 't go anywhere." "All right?" "What the hell?" "Can you hear me?" "is he alive?" "We have a problem." "Harry's out cold." "His pulse is normal." "All his vitals are normal butI don'tgetit." "Hello." "Hello!" "Norman, can you hear me?" "We lost video here." "Can you hear me?" "That tears it." "What, sir?" "We're on internal power." "I don 't follow you." "They cut us loose, Teeny." "For some reason the sub turned back." "Break out your 5-day deodorant pads." "We're here for the duration." "Everything's normal." "What's going on?" "is he all right?" "is it true?" "Did he go inside?" "What did he say?" "He didn't say." "He's aphasic." "He's asleep, Ted." "I can't believe he went inside." "He didn't say anything?" "There's no door, no entry." "How did he get in?" "Can I have your attention, please?" "We've lost contact with the surface." "The Habitat is now operating solely under internal power." "We have plenty of food, oxygen and fresh water to sustain us until the storm is over and we reestablish contact with the surface." "But until that time, this mission is subject toemergencyauthority under my command." "I'm taking this out to the mini-sub." "Are you up on the duty roster?" "Yes, sir." "Where's she going?" "It's procedures." "Everything in the Habitat is videoed." "Every 1 2 hours we take the videos to the mini-sub and press the reset button." "The idea is, if something happens to us and we don't reset it..." "... thesubgoestothesurface automatically." "If we're all dead, they at least have a partial record of what went wrong." "Cheerful thought, huh?" "Mind the store a minute." "I'm going to the head." "What the hell's that?" "It's so beautiful down here." "It's so tranquil." "This is beautiful." "It's hard to believe we have a typhoon 1 ,000 feet above our heads." "Hey, it's snowing down here." "You see them?" "There's got to be a million jellyfishdownhere." "Man, this is really beautiful." "These jellyfish are getting a little friendly." "Having a hard time seeing." "Hey, guys, you getting this?" "It's getting thick down here." "Hello, hello." "I can 't see what I'm doing." "They're sticking to my faceplate." "Fletcher, this is Dr. Fielding." "Just swim through them." "They're harmless." "Guys, these jellyfish are everywhere." "Fletcher, get out of there." "What are jellyfish doing at 1 ,000 feet?" "I think they feel the heat from my body." "I can't get them off me!" "They're stinging through my suit!" "Get back to the Habitat on the double." "I can't move my legs!" "Come back to the Habitat." "They're inside my suit!" "Keep moving!" "Just keep moving!" "Help me!" "Jesus, Barnes, she's dead!" "There's no bubbles." "Edmunds." "Yes, sir?" "Come on down here." "Something happened to Fletcher." "God!" "When I was 5 years old I went out on a boat with my father." "He told me not to jump in the water, so of course I did and... ." "Oh, my!" "I jumped right into a school of these guys." "Not this big, though." "I think every one had a shot at me." "I don't know what this lady felt..." "... but,man,it wentbeyondpain ." "I've been..." "... afraidofthemsince." "Would you feel any better if I told you this wasn't exactly a jellyfish?" "You mean... ?" "I mean, jellyfish like this are unheard of." "I don't know what this is, but it isn't God's creation." "Here I am Your special island" "Come to me" "Bali Ha 'i" "You can come in." "Have a seat." "You want some coffee?" "No, thanks." "How well do you know Dr. Halperin?" "I used to teach at UC San Diego years ago." "She came for her master's." "Don't take it personally, but I assume she wasn't a romantic interest." "Don't take what personally?" "She's a tall, vibrant, younger woman." "What's your point?" "You knew her as a patient." "I'm not at liberty to discuss that." "You understand." "I understand an exotic-gas environment 1 ,000 feet under water..." "... withnolifelinetothesurface..." "... isaboutthemostdangerous environment on the planet." "If there's a problem, I got to know about it." "Beth is fine." "' ' Beth is fine. ' '" "Beth's fine." "She's very fine." "Would you like to read this and tell me what it says?" "Are these my actual notes?" "What does it say?" "How in the world did you get" "Does it say ' ' suicide attempt' ' ?" "' ' Electroshock therapy' ' ?" "Isn't that what it says?" "What's your point?" "Didn't it seem important enough to tell somebody?" "You were willing to jeopardize these people's lives..." "... tohavesomeonehere who could be mentally unstable?" "Are you aware of the term, ' ' overreact' ' ?" "We're 160 fathoms down." "And we've got a nutbag down here who can flip out and crack up." "You selected the team." "Why didn't you tell me?" "When I wrote this, I didn't know the team would be 1 ,000-- 1 ,000 or 10, it makes no difference!" "Why didn't you tell me about Beth?" "It wasn't pertinent." "That was not your call to make!" "Yes, it was and it still is." "It was a passive attempt." "A passive attempt?" "!" "Those who really want to kill themselves shoot themselves or go over a bridge." "They don't call their boyfriend and say, ' ' l just took 20 Nebutol." "Help me. ' '" "She took 20 yellows, and you're telling me she's perfect." "What is it?" "Come in." "It's Harry." "What?" "He's awake?" "He's really awake." "Man, oh, man!" "You're going to have a problem with me." "If my good buddy Norman keeps cooking like this, I ain't going nowhere." "This toast is good." "Bacon?" "Better." "But these eggs!" "These eggs are fantastic!" "Norman, what did you put in these eggs?" "No, no, wait." "Don't tell me." "Parsley." "Chives." "Tarragon and... ." "What is that?" "Chervil?" "is that chervil?" "Yes, it is." "I'm glad you like it, Harry." "I love eggs!" "They sure seem to cheer you up." "Do you remember what happened?" "Yeah. I went inside." "How did you get inside?" "There are no doors." "There are doors all over this place and we can't get out." "We're still here." "Yes, we are." "You didn't answer my question." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "Harry, are you saying we shouldn't still be here?" "Where's Teeny?" "I thought she did all the cooking." "She had an unfortunate accident, Harry." "She was killed." "Killed?" "How?" "Jellyfish." "Jellyfish?" "That's strange." "Yes, it is strange, isn't it?" "Here you go, Harry." "Little onion rings." "Look at that." "lt's not onion rings." "Good, though." "Guess what it is." "Calamari!" "You all right?" "Cough, cough, cough." "No, you're doing it wrong." "l know what I'm doing." "Bring it up." "Come on, bring it up." "He's trying to say something." "He's trying to talk." "You don't listen." "He wants to say something!" "l'm not choking, you asshole!" "See?" "I hate squid." "I hate squid." "I'm sorry." "I was trying to help." "You okay?" "Harry, let me ask you something." "Before you went in the Sphere, you were convinced we would die here." "Yeah, I remember that." "You still believe it?" "You afraid of dying, Norman?" "Bullshit!" "He's hiding something and you know it." "He went inside the Sphere and whatever it is he saw, he won't tell us." "He said he doesn't remember anything." "You bought that?" "The whole food thing was all a diversion." "The guy's willing to put all of our lives on the line..." "... becausehedoesn'twant to share information." "I can see it." "He's making notes for a book." "He wants to win the Nobel Prize." "And you don't?" "Norman, you've known me since I was 17 years old." "I would love to be the guy who gets" "Do you know how respected-- l'm not!" "I've written one ' ' Fun With Dick and Jane' ' book on physics." "I mean, Niels Bohr..." "... hepublished'' The QuantumTheory of Atomic Structure' ' at 28." "Einstein, relativity, 26." "Newton, gravity, 23." "In physics, if you haven't done it by 35, chances are you never will." "This doesn't have anything to do with your competitiveness with Harry?" "19." "Wunderkind!" "I rest my case." "Mr. Barnes would like to see you." "Why?" "Something's wrong with the computer system." "Try purging it." "l tried. lt just keeps coming back." "Discharge from the buffer memory?" "I ruled that out." "The helium is getting to the chips." "It's probably a saturation effect." "lf that's true, what are our options?" "You have to change all the chips." "Forget it." "Run this place on manual?" "It's going to be a long 4 days." "Hey, boss." "Figured that out yet?" "lt's a saturation effect." "I don't think so. lf it's a saturation effect, it would be random." "What do you mean?" "This has a pattern." "See?" "It's like a code." "A code from where?" "How'd you do that?" "How'd you see that?" "Try binary." "See?" "Letter breaks." "You think this is coming from the Sphere?" "Don't know." "This mission is ultra top-secret." "What you translate is for my eyes only." "If you were it, how would you know our alphabet?" "Same way it's configured on a keyboard." "But reflected in an orb, spherically." "A keyboard, but spherical." "Take a keyboard..." "... wrapitaroundasphere..." "... thenstartingat thecenterkey, G, number the letters..." "... spiralingout." "You the man!" "l still got it." "I still got the juice." "Keyboard." "They let you keep those?" "Here, you want them?" "All we got to do now is plug in the numbers." "Friends..." "... inthe8,000years of recorded history, this is a first." "You're now on-line with an alien intelligence." "You got to be kidding." "You must've messed up the translation." "I don't think so." "If this is right, this alien sounds like an idiot." "That's something to consider." "A stupid alien." "They must have them." "I will admit the message is childlike, but actually it's quite perfect." "It's short, to the point, non-threatening..." "... kindoftheway you talk to a small child or a dog." "Look at this." "He's making a speech." "Ask him for his last name." "What?" "I want a full name for my report." "I'm not putting in my report I lost a crew member on a deepsat expedition..." "... tofindan aliennamedJerry." "Please!" "' ' Jerry' ' ?" "We ought to tell him that we're enjoying it too." "Ask him where he's from." "Where are you from?" "' ' l make a journey." "You make a journey." "We make a journey together. ' ' l think Jerry's channeling Deepak Chopra." "A journey from where?" "He's happy." "He's crafty." "What happened?" "Damn, I think we lost him." "We're not alone." "We are definitely..." "... notalone." "It's trying to make contact with us." "Whatever it is, it was inside that Sphere." "Now it's out, free to act." "What do you mean by that?" "Free to take over our computers..." "... calluson thephone, come knock on the door if it wants to." "A physical presence." "What are you thinking about?" "That last part where he said, ' ' l am happy. ' '" "Don't you want Jerry to be happy?" "Honestly?" "What's on your mind?" "I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever." "Because the thing of it is, here's Jerry..." "... anemotionalbeing,coopedup for 300 years with no one to talk to..." "... noneofthesocialization, the emotional growth..." "... thatcomesfromcontact with other emotional beings... ." "So?" "What happens if Jerry gets mad?" "What is that sound?" "Did you hear it?" "You hear that thump?" "What is that sound?" "Can you hear me?" "Did you hear that thump?" "You are a hell of a woman." "I wish I knew you in the old days." "Norman told me you were" "Norman told you what?" "Let's put it this way, that if Jerry could read your mind..." "... he'dbeboredwithours ." "What is that sound?" "Can you hear me?" "This is Norman." "I get no answer from Edmunds and there's strange noises." "Something's going on." "It looks like Edmunds is up on the side of the Habitat." "I'm not getting anything on sonar, but watch yourselves out there." "Would you hit your callback buttons, please?" "What'd you tell Barnes?" "About what?" "About me." "You told him I took 20 Nebutol and tried to kill myself." "Didn't you?" "He had my notes." "What do you want me to do?" "Did you tell him who I called?" "Oh, God." "Come in." "Did you guys find that thumping yet?" "I don't get it." "What could've done this to her?" "My God!" "She's like a rag doll." "Her body's been completely pulverized." "My God." "' ' --tentacles 27 feet long." "That would make a formidable monster. ' '" "Let's go." "Come on." "What?" "What is that?" "What does this mean?" "Talk to me." "What does this mean, Beth?" "There's something up there!" "Guys, I'm getting a reading on the sonar." "You're not alone out there." "What the hell makes eggs this size?" "!" "Come on!" "Jesus, let's go!" "All right!" "Norman, let's go." "Come on." "Let's go!" "What the hell is going on?" "It's 80 yards and closing." "Get out of there." "What the hell?" "What the hell is it?" "!" "Come on, Norman!" "Come on, let's go!" "60 yards." "How close are you?" "What is it?" "What the hell is it?" "!" "40 yards." "Move, move!" "Come on. lt's something big!" "Let's go!" "Where is it?" "What is it?" "20 yards!" "Move!" "I need a report." "I don't know what's going on out there." "There are eggs everywhere." "You should've brought one back." "I wasn't up for an Easter egg hunt." "Maybe that's what Edmunds was doing." "I want to talk to Jerry." "If we're going to talk to this thing, we got to have a game plan." "Specific." "We have to have an objective." "We have to know what we're addressing." "Jesus." "Can you hear me?" "You've heard everything we've talked about." "That's great." "This is Ted here." "I'm the guy who decoded the keyboard thing that you" "Shut up!" "Tell him we need to discuss this alone." "Use your words." "He's mad." "Use your words." "Let's just pull the plug." "It may not be that simple." "It's that easy." "We leave him alone, he leaves us alone." "Maybe he doesn't want to be left alone." "He's been down here in isolation for 300 years." "Maybe Jerry's lonely." "What's that?" "It's our sonar picking up something outside." "Jerry, we all think that you're a fascinating..." "... andwonderfulentity..." "... andwishto talktoyouforhours." "You know that, don't you?" "In your great understanding and wisdom..." "... youmustknowthat entities such as ourselves..." "... needtobe private." "We have to talk alone sometime." "You know what it is?" "Where'd he go?" "Shit!" "Something's clogging everything up out there." "It's back." "Positive thermals on the in-line perimeter." "What's that?" "Something is hitting the sensor grid." "Do we have any defenses?" "We can run a high-voltage current on the skin of the Habitat." "But every time we try it, we start an electrical fire." "Peripheral sensor's activated. I'll try to image it on the fast-acting sonar." "Building an image." "80 yards, closing fast." "Jesus Christ, it's 40 feet long." "50 yards." "Re-imaging." "That's the same image I saw when you were looking for Edmunds." "It looks like a giant squid." "A squid the size of the entire Habitat?" "There's no such animal." "That may be, but that doesn't mean it isn't here." "Re-imaging. 30 yards." "What the hell is going on?" "Jerry, if you can hear me, it's Norman." "If we've made you angry... ." "We got a pressure drop." "Go to the control room and wait for me!" "Just go, please!" "Go!" "I'll tell you!" "What's that sound?" "What is that?" "It sounds like it's right above us." "I know where it is, but what is it?" "I'm in the control shaft!" "We got a leak in here!" "Hello?" "!" "Holy shit!" "Do you hear me?" "You got to increase the positive air pressure and drive the water out." "lncrease the pressure?" "Won't that use up our air supply?" "If the Habitat is full of water, you'll be dead." "Open the red gate valve." "The pressure is dropping!" "We'll be crushed like a tin can!" "Find the red knob!" "It's the only one in the room!" "Got it!" "Good." "We're getting positive pressure." "Not too much." "Start to ease it back." "Turn it back!" "The pressure is too high!" "We'll explode!" "Can you hear me?" "Turn it back!" "We're here!" "Jesus!" "Can you hear me?" "I got him!" "Turn the red gate valve." "Which way?" "Clockwise." "Close it." "Done!" "We're still leaking!" "It's not the shell." "It's the internal pipes." "We're okay." "What the hell is out there?" "!" "Listen to me." "Whatever it is, it's not letting go." "Pull the green lever marked ' ' high-voltage defense system. ' '" "He said it would start a fire!" "Don't do it!" "You said it would start a fire!" "We're going to die down here." "Pull it." "Barnes, do you hear her?" "Don't listen to her." "She's crazy." "Pull the green lever." "Pull the lever!" "He's trying to pull something!" "Don't do it!" "Do you hear her?" "!" "Don't listen to her." "Pull the goddamn lever!" "Don't do it." "If we start a fire..." "... it'lleatup allofouroxygen!" "Don't do it!" "We've got failures all over the place!" "We're taking on water!" "It'll set a fire!" "There's no way out!" "Shut up!" "What am I going to do?" "!" "You're going to be squid food!" "Pull it!" "What am I going to do?" "We're falling apart!" "We're okay." "You don't have to be right all the time." "Anybody got some Advil?" "We got a fire in the comm room." "Get up there. I'll meet you with gas masks, in case we need them." "Extinguishers?" "!" "There's one there." "I got it!" "How do you work it?" "Pull the pin." "Are there any more?" "In the dorm." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors secured." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Wake up!" "What are you doing?" "Harry, wake up!" "Shit!" "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Alert, alert." "Emergency doors now activated." "Doors secured." "It's coming through the ceiling panels." "Try to get it through the cafeteria!" "Okay, I'm going up." "Get back!" "Don't, Jerry!" "Don't." "You okay?" "Hang on!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "This is Norman, Jerry." "Can you hear me?" "It's Norman." "is that you, Jerry?" "Who put out the fire?" "Who put the fire out?" "He's dead." "Barnes is dead." "He got cut in half by the door." "Beth and I put him in a body bag." "I know." "Something happened to Ted, Jerry." "I can't." "It's not in my power." "There was a fire and... ." "And I froze." "I didn't help him." "I wanted to, but I didn't help him." "I knew him since he was 17 years old, and I let him go." "But I'd like to just deal with this at a later time." "You made that, Jerry?" "No, that's all right." "Very important." "Nothing more right now." "Please." "You have to stop." "Listen to me." "This is critical." "Your manifestations injure our entities." "And pretty soon there'll be no more entities left to play with..." "... andyou'llbe allaloneagain..." "... becauseyoucan'tcontrolyourself." "Because with all your power, you don't have the power to stop, do you?" "What name do you want?" "What name do you want?" "Hi, Harry." "How you doing?" "Can you believe what happened?" "What?" "You know, the attack on the Habitat." "You know there was an attack on this place?" "I must've slept through it." "You slept through it." "l was dead tired." "Smoke didn't bother you?" "All the leaking?" "You ever read this book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ?" "I found it in the john." "Someone's misguided attempt at levity." "I always loved this book." "Could never get past page 87 though." "Too scary." "You seem strangely detached, given our predicament." "I don't know, Norman." "With all your running around, what have you accomplished?" "You knew I was running around?" "Have you seen Beth?" "No." "Thought she's with the others." "What others?" "Barnes and Ted are dead, Harry." "There's nobody left down here that knows how to run the place." "Right?" "The fire screwed up the electronics." "We've used up..." "... mostofourreservegas." "You're reading your book." "Somebody has to go reset the mini-sub." "If you don't reset it every 12 hours, it'll float to the surface." "I'll go." "l'll go." "You sure?" "If the storm clears..." "... itmightbe ouronlywayout." "Can I talk to you for a second?" "I don't want Harry anywhere near that mini-sub." "Think he'll leave without us?" "I think he already left without us." "Harry's in a whole other place." "He slept through the attack." "You don't find that a little strange?" "I guess it's just you and me, babe." "You and me?" "I'll keep my eye on you from the control room." "Reset." "Reset, where are you?" "There you are." "Are there supposed to be bubbles..." "... outofheretoo ?" "I think I have bubbles coming out of my hose or something." "Can you tell me what to do?" "It's fogging me all up here." "There's something wrong here!" "I got to get out of here!" "Tell me what to do!" "What do I push?" "Where the hell are you?" "Help me." "I don 't think I'll ever get back!" "Tell me what to do!" "I can't breathe!" "Watch out for that rock." "It's me, Harry." "Come around the rock." "Go to the right of the stanchion." "Tell me what to do." "I'm hurting." "Come around which way?" "I can't breathe!" "Yes, you can breathe." "It's just a faulty valve." "It won't kill you." "You got plenty of gas." "I can 't tell which way I'm going!" "See the air lock?" "Right in front of you." "I can 't bear the feeling in my ears!" "And I can't breathe." "Where is she?" "Slow your breathing." "You'll hyperventilate." "She said she'd keep an eye out for me." "I looked all over the Habitat for her." "I thought she was with you." "Where is she?" "Did she tell you she was going out?" "I can 't hear you." "If she can't hear, why'd she answer?" "What are you doing?" "I went looking for food." "We're out of food." "I was just up there." "Stuff all over, but there's plenty of food." "You went to look for food in the spacecraft." "That seems a little odd." "No." "What seems odd about it?" "Even if there was food, wouldn't it be at least 300 years old?" "I was hoping for a cryogenic freezer, you know?" "Maybe a bottle of Bordeaux." "She's lying." "She's lying about everything." "is Harry up there with you?" "Why don't we talk when you get back." "Meet me in the galley." "I'll buy you a cup of coffee." "There's still coffee, isn't there?" "Very funny." "I'll take mine black, like my mood." "All right." "See you soon." "We got 2 ingredients here:" "Beth and this underwater environment." "Put them together, you got one big-ass bomb." "How did it go in the mini-sub?" "It was a little disconcerting out there, actually." "Weren't you supposed to be watching out for me from the control room?" "Yeah, but..." "... Harrysaidhe 'dtakeoverforme." "You sat down at the monitors." "What happened?" "I was in trouble." "Where were you?" "What's going on?" "' ' What's going on?" "' '" "Going out to look for 300-year-old food in that spaceship..." "... whenthere'splentyoffood here isn't exactly normal." "' ' Plenty of food' ' ?" "There isn't any... ." "A veritable horn of plenty." "He must have hidden it." "You think I hid all that food?" "I don't know what's going on." "I was standing right here." "And there was no food in the cupboards." "And there was no food in the fridge." "Why?" "Why would Harry do that?" "Why would he set you up?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "I'm telling you..." "... Iwasstandinghere..." "... andthisfoodwas not here!" "Calling Dr. Halperin." "Dr. Beth Halperin." "Please return to reality." "Shut up." "You can see what he's doing to me." "You said you'd watch me." "You didn't." "You think Harry said something he didn't..." "... thatcupboardsareempty when they're full." "Clinically, we would call that evidence of a psychotic break." "I am not crazy, Norman!" "You going to write me a prescription?" "And just get rid of me again?" "It's not that convenient down here!" "I am not psychotic!" "How about a mini-psychotic break?" "That's not fair." "What?" "!" "I'm down there. I can't breathe." "I'm hyperventilating." "The man saved me." "Wait a minute!" "You want me to believe that he set you up!" "Why?" "This isn't Alice In Wonderland !" "Remember, ' ' just you and me, babe' ' ?" "is it unrealistic to think that at this point..." "... youareadangertoyourself, to all of us..." "... becauseofyourangertowardme, which happened 10 or 15 years ago..." "... whichisso distorted in your head!" "I was out there." "You almost got me killed!" "The man tried to save my life!" "You now want me to disbelieve Harry?" "!" "Yes, I want you to disbelieve Harry!" "I want you..." "... tolookat me and believe for one time." "Look at me." "Am I telling you the truth?" "You weren't there." "You want to believe Harry, then that's fine." "Because he's done everything but part the sea for you since we've been here." "But I'm telling you..." "... thatheis not..." "... tellingyouthetruth." "This is not about Harry." "is it?" "Who's this about?" "He didn't tell you what's inside the Sphere, did he?" "You didn't tell him what's inside the Sphere." "And how would you know that?" "Did you go inside?" "Answer me." "Did you go inside the Sphere?" "Why won't you answer me?" "It's a question." "You don't want to talk to me." "Remember?" "Answer a question." "What do you think?" "You think she went in the Sphere?" "Here." "You dropped your book." "What isn't Harry telling me?" "I know you're there." "You're always there." "What's inside the Sphere?" "Harry is reading this book..." "... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." "What makes me nervous is that after page..." "... 87..." "... it'sallblankpages." "Why?" "Why did he go into the Sphere..." "... andcomeoutlikethis ?" "Why?" "Why?" "Why, Jerry?" "Why is this book half a book, Jerry?" "Why?" "Why?" "What's going on?" "He's got G equals one." "That's right." "He's got B equals two." "He's got..." "... Hequalsthree." "That's not right." "Harry's got the code wrong." "H doesn't equal three." "Harry not only makes it real for himself, Beth." "He makes it real for you." "He makes it real for me." "He has made it real for everybody." "It's really frightening because you don't know whether it's really real..." "... orwhetherhe 'smadeitreal for us to believe it's real." "And it's because of the Sphere." "Our Harry is Jerry?" "Come on, I'm just as tired as you are." "I know you can get this." "Okay?" "Harry said he couldn't get past page 87 because he said it was too scary." "There's nothing on the pages." "Where's the rest?" "Read what's on page 87." "' ' According to calculations of some naturalists..." "... oneoftheseanimals,only 6feet long, would have tentacles 27 feet long." "That would make a formidable monster. ' '" "What does Harry hate?" "Squid." "And when he read that, it scared him." "Getting the picture?" "Remember all those..." "... jellyfishthatattacked?" "What was Harry doing then?" "Sleeping." "He was dreaming." "And this is the really wild part:" "What he dreamed... ." "Happened?" "It happened." "You're telling me that..." "... becauseHarrywentinsidetheSphere, he now has the power to manifest..." "... hisdreams,hisfantasies...." "Manifest." "He manifested it." "He made it happen." "We better not piss him off." "It's not that different from a child, right?" "A child imagines that what it's imagining happens." "But it doesn't." "But with Harry, it does." "In fact, it's so real, it's not only real to Harry, it's real to all of us." "And what I can't understand is that ever since he went in the Sphere..." "... theSpherehasapower..." "... thatprojectseverysubconscious thought Harry has onto the computer." "It prints it out and we interact with it." "We thought it was Jerry." "It's not Jerry. lt's Harry." "Harry's Jerry." "Does Harry know this?" "But you went in the Sphere and nothing happened." "Obviously, I didn't go in the Sphere." "You never went inside the Sphere?" "You didn't go in there?" "I was so angry at you." "I wanted you to be scared." "Maybe you had a right to be." "Thanks." "You sure you didn't go in there?" "I don't know about you, but I don't feel like dying down here." "What we're going to do is find something to put Harry under." "We can put him in some kind of deep unconscious sleep." "Dreamless sleep, I hope." "A dreamless sleep, yes." "How do we do that?" "I got a bunch of drugs up there." "Fancy that." "' ' Diphenylpyraline. ' '" "Burns." "' ' Ephedrine hydrochloride. ' '" "Motion sickness." "' ' Valdomet' ' ?" "Ulcers." "You might want to keep that." "' ' Sintag. ' '" "Sintag is a synthetic opiate." "It's a painkiller." "I might want to keep that." "What about ' ' parasolutrine' ' ?" "Really?" "I got paracin trichloride." "That's an anesthetic." "Do you combine it?" "You give about 20 cc's of this one, 6 of this one." "You're in business." "Here's some more paracin trichloride." "Good." "We'll knock him out for about 3 to 6 hours." "I'm going to hold him." "What's going on?" "Go back to sleep." "I didn't know it would be that fast-acting." "We didn't kill him, did we?" "I don't think so." "Okay." "Come on, come on." "Here we go." "It's a code." "How the hell are we supposed-- lt's decoding itself." "' ' Weather normal." "Surface support vessels return. ' ' 6 hours and counting, we're out of here." "It's over." "If you trust it." "You know me, I believe everything." "Get out!" "Get off!" "They're Belcher sea snakes, Norman." "The most poisonous snakes in the world." "But they're nocturnal." "They're only dangerous at night." "Norman, can you meet me at the lab, please?" "I have something I need to show you." "What are you doing?" "I'm here." "What are you doing?" "Why are you locking me in?" "You manifested the snakes." "Norman, up here." "You're the only one who could be manifesting these snakes." "Turn around." "Turn around and look on the table." "See the hypodermic needle?" "Yeah." "I want you to inject yourself." "It's the same thing..." "... thatweusedtoinjectHarry ." "We gave Harry this stuff because he was manifesting and we wanted to" "You're manifesting your fears..." "... thejellyfish..." "... nowthesnakes." "The squid thing was Harry, but he's asleep." "He's in a dreamless sleep. lt couldn't be him." "You are the only one left." "What would the snakes have to do with me?" "I didn't go in the Sphere." "See the jars?" "I put the snakes in there and they disappeared in front of my eyes." "Who's manifesting them, Norman?" "You are." "I don 't have anything to do with snakes." "If you don't use the hypodermic needle, I'm going to have to defend myself." "I'd remember if I went in the Sphere!" "Don't make me do this." "I don't want to do this." "I didn 't manifest anything." "I didn 't manifest the squid." "I didn 't manifest the...." "I shouldn 't be talking to you like this." "Why are you taking the gas out of the room?" "That's my air." "What's with this water?" "!" "Think it through." "Whose childhood fears were the jellyfish?" "Jellyfish?" "Remember, Norman?" "I'm not the only one who's afraid of jellyfish." "This wasn't exactly a jellyfish." "Jellyfish like this are unheard of." "Anybody can be..." "... afraidofjellyfish." "A lot of people are afraid of them." "Isn't it possible that you went inside the Sphere..." "... andyoujustdon 'tremember?" "I didn't go inside the Sphere!" "You would've seen it on the video!" "I didn't go inside the Sphere." "Yes, you did." "Is he alive?" "You went inside the Sphere and you just don 't remember." "That's the problem." "It's not me!" "I'm not going to use it!" "Inject yourself with the hypodermic needle." "It's your snakes." "See?" "It's all a fear." "It's just a fear." "You can make it go away." "Just use the hypodermic needle." "And the ships will come and we'll get out of here." "What are you doing?" "!" "You're going to kill me!" "You can stop it." "Try to pull yourself together." "Your fears are going to kill all of us." "Please, don't open the hatch." "You'll freeze to death in the water." "You'll kill yourself!" "Don't open the hatch!" "I know enough not to get killed down here." "Are you the most qualified in your field?" "What exactly are your qualifications?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Why are you here?" "Are you the most qualified?" "You almost got me killed." "You're a danger to all of us." "Come back to reality." "What are you doing?" "Are you real?" "As real as the water that almost drowned me." "You tried to kill me." "What are you doing there?" "Beth, you went into the Sphere." "Didn't you?" "Answer me." "I don't know what to think." "I feel like I can't breathe." "I'm losing it, you know?" "I'm trying to keep it together, but... ." "What's going on?" "Why'd you put me out?" "What are you guys up to?" "You went in the Sphere, Harry." "So did Beth." "So did I." "I think." "And if so, what?" "Everything that we feel or think..." "... just..." "... happens." "That's what happened to the astronauts." "The astronaut in the chair, what did you say about his head?" "He had..." "... bluntforcetrauma." "He got hit in the head." "They went into the Sphere one by one..." "... becameafraidof eachother, till they killed each other off." "And we're doing the same thing." "I don't want to kill you." "Your attention, please." "All construction personnel must exit the blast area immediately." "Panther explosives are now activated." "Mark 1 3 minutes and counting." "Want to tell me who that voice is?" "They had explosives down here to blow up the coral." "So when I went out before, I set up a defense perimeter around the spaceship." "Something must have triggered it." "Something from inside the Sphere." "Nothing in the Sphere." "You know that." "Then what?" "I don't know." "Then who?" "It's me." "Oh, God." "I was just thinking about the explosives." "It just flashed inside my mind." "It must've triggered them." "I was thinking about wanting to die." "You put explosives near the spacecraft?" "Yeah, I did." "But they're about 100 yards away." "There's a lot of liquid hydrogen left on that spacecraft." "If it explodes, it'll disintegrate everything." "Mini-sub, now!" "Let's go!" "I hope there's a ship up there." "Your attention, please." "All construction personnel must exit the blast area immediately." "Panther explosives are now activated." "Mark 1 0 minutes and counting." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on, come on!" "Come on, move!" "Keep moving." "We're not going to make it!" "There's not enough time." "Just keep moving." "We're not out of time." "We're not going to die here." "Keep moving." "Let's go, Norman." "It's not like I drive subs, okay?" "You're driving one now." "Oh, my God!" "What's going on?" "I don't know." "Why are we inside the spaceship?" "I don't know." "Let's go!" "Now alert, alert." "5 minutes and counting." "We're not moving." "Anybody hit the button?" "What the hell?" "Wait a minute, this was an elevator before, right?" "Which one of us is doing this?" "Oh, God." "Alert, alert." "Panther explosives armed." "Wait, wait." "We were here already!" "How much time we got?" "!" "Come on!" "It's a dead end." "Where are we?" "An illusion." "Doesn't look like it." "Beth, which way?" "Harry, where do we go?" "Where?" "Where's where, Norman?" "Around that corner?" "And what's there?" "Just another blind alley in the maze of our minds. illusion." "Maybe he's right." "We believe that, we're dead." "Just go on." "Leave me." "You're not going to die down here." "I'm not going to let you die." "Come on." "I'm not going to die." "You have to push the button." "I can't see a button." "I can't see the button." "I can't see the button." "It's no use." "We die down here." "We're running out of time." "They all look the same." "I don't know where we are or what we're stuck in." "Where we are is stuck in the illusion that we can change the future." "It's a dead end." "Just like I said all along:" "We die down here." "Maybe he's right." "Maybe he's right." "I'm not going to die." "Beth's not going to die." "And you're not going to die." "Look, just leave me." "We're not in the spacecraft!" "We're in the mini-sub!" "This isn't real!" "This is your manifestation!" "Let it go!" "It's a dead end." "We're not going to die here." "It's not our time." "Thank God, we're out of here." "Don't start celebrating yet." "Why not?" "I don't think we're going fast enough." "For what?" "An underwater blast creates a suction." "It'll suck us into it." "That is, if the shock wave doesn't kill us first." "Alert, alert." "Mark 20 seconds and counting." "Panther explosives are now activated." "640 feet." "630." "620." "610." "You a religious man, Norman?" "Atheist." "But I'm flexible." "Pull up, Norman!" "Pull up!" "Come on, pull up!" "This is Escort 7." "We have sighted OSSA mini-sub, bearing 105." "Repeat." "Bearing 1 05." "Preparing to make contact for decompression procedure." "What's going on?" "More of nothing." "I want to thank you for saving my life." "Interesting life to save." "You get some sleep." "I have no idea what to tell them when they debrief us." "My back is killing me." "Next time I have to remember to stretch before I jettison from a mini-sub." "We've been trapped in here for about 3 days." "They want an explanation." "We ought to figure out what we want to tell them." "Killer jellyfish, squid, sea snakes..." "... andanalienbeingintheform of a giant totemic golden ball?" "Please." "We destroyed $ 100 million worth of equipment down there and people died." "They want answers." "What do you guys want to tell them?" "Why aren't we dead?" "What?" "You said..." "' ' The future can't be changed. ' ' lt can't." "But in the spaceship they called it an Unknown Entry Event." "Like we never got here alive to tell them about it." "You said we wouldn't survive. lf you can't change the future, we'd be dead." "We're alive." "We're not dead." "And in 2 minutes we'll be in a room full of military guys." "They know about the Sphere." "We know Barnes got ahold of them before we lost contact to the surface." "What do you want to tell them?" "Why bother?" "The Sphere's destroyed." "But we still have the power, am I right?" "I don't know if I trust them with it." "I don't know if I trust you." "I don't want to not be able to sleep, afraid I'll wake up..." "... havingmanifested some nightmare..." "... andthere'sallkinds of weird things in my apartment." "That's a frightening thought." "No kidding." "So..." "... ifwestillhavethepower ..." "... whatdoyouwanttodo withit?" "God knows what they'll do with it." "Are you worried what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands?" "Yeah." "Frankly, I don't know what the wrong hands are." "Or what's worse:" "the wrong hands or our hands." "We are the wrong hands." "We proved it." "You know, the 3 of us are enlightened people, we're intelligent..." "... weevenrecycle our cans and bottles." "But when we got our shot, we manifested every mean..." "... distorting,vengeful, paranoid thought you could think of." "We did." "Right?" "You believe we still have the power." "Of course we still have it." "And that's the answer to the equation." "We can't change the future." "We're not dead." "But they don't know." "Why?" "I'm not following you." "Because we have the power..." "... toforget." "To forget." "You want us to agree to forget?" "Wait a minute, are we sure that we want to do this?" "Yes." "This is the greatest discovery in the history of mankind." "We're just going to white it out like it's a typing error?" "I'm sure." "What about you, Beth?" "What's the matter, Norman?" "It's a little hard to let go of." "Something that could've been..." "... thisgift?" "The power to make your dreams come true." "We're given the greatest gift in the history of mankind." "We're given this magic ball." "And it says..." ""Imagine what you will and you can have it. "" "That's an extraordinary gift, but we're so primitive we... ." "We manifested the worst in us, because what we have inside us..." "... iswhatwe haveinsideofus ,instead of the best of us." "What does that say?" "We weren't ready, Norman." "We have what's called an imagination." "I mean, look what we're capable of." "We can... ." "We're not ready." "A long time ago..." "... Ididsomethingvery..." "... veryinappropriatewithyou , and I'm sorry." "Okay?" "Okay." "I don't have any answers, Norman, but these guys are coming so let's... ." "Okay, we're going to agree to forget..." "... theSphere..." "... thepower..." "... allthateverwas ." "I don't know how to get this going." "You're the mathematician." "How about we just count to 3?" "I couldn't have come up with that." "I'll start." "One." "Two." "Three." "Can somebody tell me what the hell that's supposed to be?" "Why are you holding my hand?" "No, you were holding my hand." "Subtitled by:" "GELULA CO., Inc."

"Previously on "Transformers Prime"..." "Well, aren't you the clever one?" "[ grunting ]" "You shall serve as a constant reminder to those who dare fail me." "What?" "!" "Three keys are accounted for." "It would seem I have the run of the place." "Ah, there you are." "The fate of Cybertron now rests in Starscream's hands... whatever his intention." "Please pardon my unannounced visit, Lord Megatron." "But I have come bearing a peace offering." "2x24" " Patch" "Few things of value come without a price." "So, tell me, Starscream, what is it that you wish in return?" "Only to be a Decepticon once again." "Dreadwing is my first lieutenant now." "And I accept that much has changed during my absence." "I only wish to serve you, my one true master, in any way that you deem fit." "I am deeply impressed by your accomplishment, Starscream." "And know that I will put your offerings to good use, whatever the outcome." "Uh, outcome?" "[ chuckles nervously ] Of what?" "See to it that Knockout is extracted from the wall." "[ grunting ]" "Ah, it's good to be back." "Now, what will we be fishing for today, my liege?" "Starscream's true motives." "[ grunting ]" "[ explosions ]" "Decepticons, it is with deep sorrow that I note for the log," "Megatron's spark has been extinguished." "All hail Starscream." "All hail Starscream!" "Well, well." "You certainly didn't waste any time." "[ gasps ] What?" "!" "I just watched you perish!" "I did not perish then, and I'm very much with you now ... the present you as well as the past." "All hail Starscream!" "[ singsong voice ] I can't hear you!" "All hail Starscream!" "One more time!" "All hail Starscream!" "All hail Starscream!" "This is going to be juicy." "All hail Starscream!" "[ huckles ]" " You're inside my head, aren't you?" " The cortical psychic patch." "You see, there are no secrets in here... only your memories." "You cannot manipulate their content or modify their outcome." "What we see is how it happened." "If you want to be a true leader, Starscream, then stray from Megatron's path and lead the Decepticons toward peace." "I would be willing to consider a truce... if you would be willing to bow before me, Optimus Prime." "You have defied my orders yet again!" "My mistake, Commander Starscream." "It is Lord!" "[ growls ]" "Haven't you heard?" "I lead the Decepticons now." "Now, where did we leave off?" "Oh, yes, "all hail Starscream"?" "A rather obvious motif, Starscream." "You deem yourself more able to lead the Decepticons than myself?" "!" "No, not anymore." "I have learned from my many failures, master." "Esteemed members of my armada... you now stand upon the very precipice of glory ... to meet the destiny which I have so tenaciously worked toward." "Dynamic leadership of the Decepticons." "That clone said it, not me!" "It seems you would stop at nothing to disrupt my rule, including assassination." "It was their idea, not mine!" "With this creature under your control and at our disposal, we might employ it to terminate Megatron, allowing us to rule the Decepticons." "I see no clones here." "Was this their idea, too?" "[ sighs ] I don't remember any of this." "[ chuckles nervously ]" "I must have been half-crazed at the time, a victim of Energon deficiency." "Tell me why I should welcome back someone whose every waking impulse has been to thwart me, undercut me, overthrow me?" "!" "Not true." "I have always put your well-being before my own." "How does this revolting chapter constitute attending to my well-being?" "I was simply trying to help by ridding you of the dark matter polluting your body." "Seems I possess the only thing that would allow you to rise off that slab and walk again, my dearest Megatron." "I even risked being buried alive for you." "[ gasps ] [ groaning ]" "I did not abandon you, master." "I returned to save you!" "[ whimpering ]" "Look into my spark, Lord Megatron." "My intentions were true." "Were they, Starscream?" "Were they ever?" "!" "Well, now who has hit rock bottom?" "What's that?" "I'm sorry." "I can't hear you beneath all that rubble." "[ laughs ]" "Farewell, Lord Megatron." "May you rust in peace!" "But you have survived far worse." "If you managed to free yourself, you would blame me for your setback." "And there is nowhere that I could possible escape from your wrath." "Or, worse yet, your mindless followers will come looking for you and take credit for your rescue ..." "credit that could rightfully be mine!" "[ screams ] [ echoing ] Megatron!" "[ sighs ]" "A word of advice?" "Stop thinking aloud." "I don't want to play this game anymore." "Take the keys." "We'll pretend I was never here." "No, Starscream." "There are only two possible outcomes based upon what I find here in your twisted, little mind." "If I do not deem that you are worthy of rejoining the Decepticons, you will perish on this very day." "[ whimpers ]" "Isn't termination rather extreme?" "I mean, a really good trouncing usually straightens me out, doesn't it?" "[ grunts ] [ groans ]" "[ whimpering ]" "No, master." "Nooo!" "Why wouldn't you wish to harness my talents for the Decepticon cause?" "You and I have so much deviousness to offer." "Consider it a "welcome home" present." " See how generous I can be, my liege?" " When it suits you... [ screams ]" "Master, that's your plan?" "!" "Bring Autobots back from the dead to attack us?" "!" "At other times, you could be quite insulant." "Apologies." "It's just that I'd gone to so much trouble to terminate the Autobot in the first place." "Trouble would have been facing him as a gladiator." "I've always considered my wits to be my sharpest weapon." "Wait." "You two are up to something." "[ beep ] [ beeping ]" "[ screaming ]" "You never learn, Starscream." "Your arrogance will trump your wits every time." "You cannot harm me while Dark Energon flows through my veins!" "I am invincible!" "Aah!" "You're a big one." "This could take a while." "[ grunts ]" "What?" "She's taking credit for scraping him now, too?" "That was my doing!" "Oh, no!" "No!" "No!" "Any last words, Smokescreen?" "My T-Cog." "A, uh ... a temporary setback." "Other Autobots, other T-Cogs." "We shall find a replacement soon enough." "Not "soon enough." Now." "[ weapons cock ]" "Aaaaaah!" "[ groans ] [ gasps ]" "Huh?" "What?" "[ grunts ]" "Autobots!" "[ weak whirring ] [ gasps ]" "My T-Cog!" "You no longer possess the ability to take flight?" "!" "Uh, yes, I-I was going to bring that up." "And, as you might imagine, my predicament pains me to no end." "Fortunately, the Harbingers' tracking systems have remained synched with Megatron's warship." "Of course, we shall require a means of reaching the ... [ gasps ]" "You can transform?" "!" "Uh, of course you can. [ chukles ]" "How else would you fly to the ship?" "That was a test in which you all... passed." "I hope that you might see fit to express your gratitude for the" "Omega keys by restoring my jet mode." "After all, would I not be more valuable to you with wings?" "Ooh, I do transform with an exceptional sense of style." "I said that aloud, didn't I?" "Megatron tried to extinguish my spark in cold blood, then all but replaced me with that traitorous wretch, Airachnid." "She abandoned me, left me for scrap!" "So why not rat them out?" "No one asked you to leave the Decepticon fold." "But I wasn't exactly made to feel welcome at the time." "[ gasps ]" "Master, please, give me one more chance!" "I beg of you!" "Despite the fact that I had seen the error of my ways and dedicated my spark to you." "I have gained a clear understanding of my place in this universe... of who I am... of who I was always meant to be." "Starscream, second in command, humble servant to Lord Megatron." "Until the next opportunity arises to subvert me." "And how is the patient doing today?" "Same old." "An inglorious fate that he should remain in this vegetative state." "On the contrary." "Megatron's body may be scrap metal, but his mind is still percolating." "Keep that to yourself." "That blasted Soundwave sees and hears everything." "The eyes and ears of the Decepticons." "Well, as long as their master remains in limbo, so does their cause." "The Decepticons deserve a strong, alert leader." "One who would require a loyal second in command." "[ laughs ]" "A candidate would need to earn that post by making a strong case to said eyes and ears." "A case for showing mercy, Lord Starscream?" "Uh-oh." "Does this thing have a fast-forward button or, better yet, erase?" "[ beeping ]" "Knockout, if you would be so kind as to provide your expert medical opinion to Soundwave for the historical record." "Simply put, unaid, Megatron could remain in this deathless slumber forever." "Our master would not have wanted to be seen this way, to stand idly by while he remains captive in his own body... is not just." "Brain-Wave activity ... not evidence of consciousness, but merely of an endless dream from which Megatron may never wake." "Soundwave, we must face reality." "Megatron is lost to us." "The only honorable option would be to show him mercy." "A simple throw of the switch." "When Megatron comes out of it, he'll do more than just stick me back in that wall." "He'll have Starscream's head and mine!" "But... if I disconnect before a proper power-down, the link is severed and... the big guy will never emerge from Starscream's head." "[ thunder rumbles ]" "[ gasps ]" "Everything okay here?" "Just checking cable integrity." "Is it any wonder that I've come to value loyalty above all else?" "[ laughs ]" "Well, you know, we are Decepticons." "I'm sure that even your beloved Dreadwing isn't perfect." "No one is perfect, Starscream, but like his departed twin, Dreadwing understands honor." "Awaken, warrior." "Rise and serve your new master!" " Skyquake serves only one master." " Excellent." "Your loyalty and devotion will set a fine example for the troops." "No need to be timid, Skyquake." "You may bow." "You fail to grasp my meaning." "I am here on a mission assigned to me by my one master ..." "Megatron." "Yes ... him." "Sadly, Megatron is..." "no longer with us." "Impossible." "Why is this so difficult for everyone to accept?" "[ screams ]" "Ah, the grave site of the mighty Skyquake." "So quick to reject my authority while you lived." "But, as the first of my reanimated warriors, you shall bow to my command." "[ sighs ]" "Yes!" "Power of Dark Energon, be mine!" "[ grunting ]" "Symbiosis." "[ laughs evilly ]" "I can feel it!" "I understand he perished that day." "Well, Skyquake is neither living nor dead and no doubt continues to wander through some dimensional neverealm in search of his missing limb." "[ chuckles nervously ]" "It would be wise to keep that to yourself around the warship." "Awkward." "B-But, does this mean ..." "Yes." "I will allow you to return to our ranks if only because you are more valuable beside me than against me." "Oh!" "Thank the Allspark!" "Infighting has nearly destroyed the Decepticons during your absence." "We must operate as a united front if we are to revive and conquer Cybertron." "That means each and every one of us, Knockout." "[ shivers ]" "Megatron sure knows how to patch things up, eh, Dreadwing?" "Dreadwing?" "[ groans ]"

"[laughter]" " Can I offer you more coffee?" " No, thanks." "Rod, we better go" " before we outstay our welcome." " Too late." "We certainly enjoyed having you." " Yeah, right." " Welcome to the neighborhood." "Bye." "Good night already." "Ma, I cannot believe you, rushing them out of the house!" "Rushing?" "They took forever." "Two hours to eat pasta and salad?" "Your father could eat dinner, read the paper, make love and have a pedicure in an hour." "And without getting up from the kitchen table." " I think they were delightful." " I did too." "So did I." "I just love to welcome people to the neighborhood." "In fact, back home, I used to run our town's Välkomm Wagon." "Oh, boy, was that fun!" "Whenever a new family would move in to St. Olaf, we'd hop on the tractor and go to the neighbors' farm," "30 or 40 of us carrying vats of smoked fish and big pitchers of freshly-squeezed potato juice." "While Cousin Dat played "Getting To Know You"" "through the hole in his windpipe." "Tell me, did you ever accompany him through the hole in your head?" "[doorbell]" "Sophia, would you mind getting that, please?" "No problem." "I'll drag my bad leg over to the door." "Ma'am, you shouldn't open the door" " without asking who it is." " Fine." " Who is it?" " Detective Mullins, Miami PD." "Please, come in." "Please excuse my mother." "She's a little upset." "She just found out she has the same hairdresser as Whoopi Goldberg." "This is my associate, Bobby Hopkins." "Detective Mullins, I am Blanche Devereaux." "These are my roommates, Dorothy and Rose." "They're innocent." "I am not." "No, Bobby, you don't have to write that last part." "That was just a come-on." "I'm sorry to take up your time at this hour, but I'd like to ask some questions." "I am single, I'm free Saturday night." "And I can arch my back until my head touches my heels." "If you don't mind, I'll write that down." "Won't you sit down?" "I'd like to ask you about your neighbors, the McDowells." " They're not who you think." " You mean we invited the wrong people to dinner?" "In a manner of speaking." "You see, your next-door neighbors are dealers in stolen gems." " Those sweet people?" " I'm afraid so." "We think they'll be making a major move in the next 72 hours, so we'd like to set up shop here." "Well, of course." "You can both stay in my room." "Now, wait just a minute." "All right, you can have the boy." "They can't just move in here." "Let them do their work from a van, like real police on TV." "We'd like your cooperation, but you have every right to say no." "No." "Um, girls, I think we need to discuss this." "Gentlemen, if you'll just excuse us for a moment." "Ladies, I think we must do this." "It's our duty as Americans." "I don't know." "Two policemen living in our house?" "What's there to be afraid of?" "Once you strip away the gruff exterior, badge, gun and uniform..." "You've got a naked policeman." "Exactly." "Blanche, this is serious." "If we can assist the police, we should." "Their job is hard enough." "I know." "My father was a policeman." "Wasn't your father a farmer?" "On the weekdays." "Saturday and Sunday, he and the other farmers became volunteer policemen." "Of course, the only crime in St. Olaf was that more people didn't practice better oral hygiene." "Mostly they sat around the jailhouse and took pictures of each other behind the bars in goofy poses." " I vote no." " Well, I agree with Ma." "Why should we get involved in something that might be dangerous?" "If it was dangerous, they wouldn't let us get involved." "Blanche has a point." "And if anything happens, we've got the police right here with us." " Maybe you're right." " OK, then, it's all settled." "They can stay." "Detective Mullins, we decided you all can stay, so welcome to our home." "Thank you." "We appreciate this very much." "We'll be back tomorrow to set up." "You won't have to change your lifestyles." "We just need a bedroom and bathroom." "We'll use the kitchen as base." "Fine." "We'll just cook in the fireplace and pee in the broom closet." "Al?" "Al!" " Yeah?" " How do you like the pasta?" "It's OK." "I'm not that crazy about Italian food." "Lucky for you you carry a gun." "Excuse me?" "The last three days with you have really been fun." "Hi, Sophia." "Hi, Al." "You hear anything on the wiretap yet?" "Save your breath." "He can't hear a word." "Really?" "Yeah." "I've been entertaining myself all afternoon." "Watch." "Hey, you dumb Bacciagaloop." "Your face looks like the rear end of a donkey." "This kills me." "You try it." "No, I will not!" "I don't think you should talk to him like that either." "He's practically your daughter's boyfriend." "What?" "They hate each other." "They fight all the time." "Very passionate fights." "It has all the signs of a classic lovelhate relationship." "From the sparks of that conflict rise the flames of desire." "Flames that ignite in an uncontrollable frenzy of lust, passion and ecstasy." "I'm sorry." "Where was I?" "Oh, I don't believe this." " Hey, Dick Tracy..." " What's your problem now?" "I said move this someplace else where it would not be in the way." "I said I'd try." "I tried." "Would you also try to remember to put down the toilet seat after you use it?" "Sorry, that was me." "I was experimenting with something but it didn't work out." "Dorothy, he's only trying to do his job." "It can't be very pleasant for him either." "As far as stakeouts go, it's nice." "I thought you couldn't hear with those on." "I do that for Sophia." "She likes calling me names, so I let her." "She's really a sweet lady." "She just doesn't like to show it." " Is that a family trait?" " [door opens]" "You won't believe what happened to me at the store." "I saw the McDowells." "Luckily, they didn't see me, so I followed them through the store and I wrote down everything they bought." "Why?" "For evidence, silly!" "Rose, they steal jewels, not Geno's pizza rolls." "Ladies, listen to me now." "I know it seems like we're in this together, but they're dangerous." "Leave the police work to us." "Ready for a break, Al?" "Thanks." "I'll get some fresh air." "Won't the neighbors see you?" "A gentleman visitor." "But it'd look better with one of you." "Come on, Dotty." ""Come on"?" "If you want me to do you a favor, ask me." "OK, don't bite my head off!" " You're a real charmer!" " Who are you?" "Lady Di?" "Do me a favor and join the bomb squad." "Oh, God, I am crazy nuts about this guy!" "[doorbell]" "Hi, Rose." "[squeaks]" "It's Martha McDowell, your new neighbor." "[squeaks]" "I was here for dinner, and yesterday you followed me" " around the supermarket." " [squeaks]" "Oh, my God!" "Why, Dorothy, look, it's, uh... it's Mrs. McDowell." " Why is everyone staring at me?" " Your handbag and shoes clash." "We're a very fashion-conscious neighborhood." "It's short notice, but would you like to come to dinner tomorrow?" "[squeaks]" "Oh, hello." "We haven't met." "I'm Martha McDowell from next door." "Hi, Martha." "You've met my son Alfonso and my grandson Bobby." "They're here from New York on a fishing trip." "All they've caught is a cold." "[sneezes]" "Nice touch, but I work alone." "Listen, I've got to run." "You let me know about dinner tomorrow night." "Bye." "Well, thank you, Sophia." "That was quick thinking." "No big deal." "I mistake a lot of people for my grandson." " She invited you to dinner?" " Yes." " Al..." " Forget it." "It's too dangerous." " We can break the case open." " What are you talking about?" "We need a bug in their house." " Bobby, it's not their job." " We've got zip on the phone." "They're too smart." "To get a warrant, we need a bug." " I'll do it." "I'll be the plant." " You are a plant." "Rose, honey, you don't do too well under pressure." "Remember the time in the coffee shop when you didn't have enough money?" "You ran into the ladies' and tried to climb out through the skylight." "That doesn't happen anymore, since I switched to decaf." "I would volunteer, but I'd be too conspicuous." "It's a dinner party and I plan to show cleavage." "If anybody does it, it should be me." " Why you?" " I am the best under pressure." "And she bears a striking resemblance to Barnaby Jones." "You've been tossing and turning all night." " What's bothering you?" " Nothing, nothing." "Don't you break a commandment." "What commandment?" "Thou shalt not toss and turn?" " No, thou shalt not lie." " That's not a commandment." "Really?" "That doesn't make any sense." "There's, "thou shalt not commit adultery,"" ""thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife."" "Two refer to hitting the sheets, and they couldn't fit in lying?" "Does anybody think before they write this down?" "You're not making sense." "I can't talk to you when you're half asleep." "Excuse me, it's 4am." "Why don't you get a hose and whack me around until I'm razor-sharp?" "Ma, I have a problem." "I'm worried about tomorrow." "I don't know whether or not I should go on that mission." "Dorothy, for 50 years you've told me your problems." "Who should I take to the prom?" "Should I marry Stan?" "These were things I could help you with." ""Should I go on this mission?" is not my area of expertise." "Who am I, Oliver North?" "You're not making this any easier." "All right, if you think it'll help land this Al character, do it." "Al?" "Who said anything about landing Al?" "Do you think I'd risk my life for Al?" "I'm doing this because I think it's right." "Because I'm a concerned citizen." "And I'd give my right arm to land Al!" "I'm scared." "I don't know." "Your problem isn't unique." "People do crazy things for love all the time." "Let me tell you a story." "Picture this:" "Sicily, August 1908." "No, that's not it." "But if you ever need a story about jealousy, this is a pip." " Ma, just go to sleep." " No, I remember." "Havana, 1957." "No, I was never in Havana." " Ma!" " I meant Brooklyn, 1958." "No, that's not it." "I don't believe it." "I'm dry!" "I got nothing!" " It's OK, Ma." " No, it's not." "Tommy Lasorda should be standing by the bed, waving to the bullpen." "Ma, don't let it bother you." "I just can't leave you hanging." "Would you settle for a very wise observation?" "Yes." "Al's a good guy, and he makes you happy." "If you're doing it for that alone, it's worth it." "You're also doing it because you feel it's the right thing." "Thanks, Ma." "That means a lot to me." "Good." "Now, get some rest, pussycat." "Tomorrow could be your last day." "It's a shame we have to go to the McDowells' tonight." " There's a great movie on TV." " What?" "In Cold Blood." "It's about..." "This innocent family is brutally murdered..." " May I see that, Rose?" " Sure." "Thank you." "Rose, we're nervous enough about going over." "Do you have to make it worse?" "Well, it's nothing to be nervous about." "Bobby and Al are watching through the window the whole time." "If we get in trouble, we just signal them." "How are we doing, ladies?" "To be honest, we're a little nervous." "All right." "Let's go over the plan once more." "Check." "At 1800 hours, we enter the suspects' domicile." "At 1830 hours, we sit down to dinner." "After wine is poured at approximately 1840 hours," "I begin telling the story about Uncle Hertis and the skunks," " which should last about..." " 1900 hours." "Dorothy, here's the transmitter." "Keep it in your hand." "Then, with one quick movement, stick it under the table." "That's it." "All right, so, any other questions?" "Well, I guess that's it." "Good luck." " Let's go." " Ma, you're not going." "I am." "If anything goes wrong," " you need someone experienced." " In what?" "Life." "You're looking at a woman who lived through two wars, 15 vendettas, four operations and two Darrins on Bewitched." "I don't think those are very good reasons to go." "No?" "How about this one?" "I'm hungry." "Let's roll, Danno." "Al..." "All right, that's the front door closing." "Yeah, the ladies are out of the house." "The transmitter's working perfectly." "Clear as a bell." "They did it." "I can't believe it." "I had doubts about this one." "[commotion]" " Congratulations." "Great job." " Thank you." " It's really working?" " Give her the phones." "I hate to say this, but it was almost fun." "Fun?" "My pulse was racing, my heart was pounding!" "I could barely get my breath!" "That's the most fun I've ever had standing up!" "No, I take it back." "There was that one time on that 74... 7." "They keep talking about the noodle-head in the red dress." "Could that be code?" "Only to the noodle-head in the red dress." "OK, what happens next?" "We should get enough to get warrants and be out of your lives by tomorrow." " I'm beat." "I'm going to bed." " Me too." "Boy, I'm too excited to sleep!" " You're not." "You're beat too." " Oh, yeah." "I'm beat too." "I'm so beat, I won't be able to hear a thing that goes on." "But I'd like to hear about it tomorrow." "Give me the earphones." "Get some rest." "OK, Al." "Hey, Dorothy, I just wanna say you did a nice job." " Thanks, Al." "And Dorothy..." "I also wanted to say it took guts." " Thanks, Al." "You see, Dorothy, I just wanted to ask you..." "I wanted to ask you..." "[Sophia] For God's sakes, he wants to ask you to go out with him!" "You got your listening equipment, I got mine." "[Sophia] Good night." " [knock at door]" " Come in." "Bobby, here's those extra towels you asked for, honey." " Thanks, Blanche." " You're welcome." "Blanche, thank you for everything you've done the past few days." "You don't have to thank me for anything." "Actually, I kind of enjoyed doing it." "You remind me a lot of my son, Matthew, except he doesn't carry a gun." "Bobby, does your momma know you carry that gun?" "Blanche, I'm a grown man." "I don't need her permission." "Although, to be honest, she's not thrilled about it." "That's because she loves you." "I'd be a nervous wreck if Matthew were a police officer." "I worry about him enough, and he's a CPA." "I guess that's just a mother's nature." "Well, I'll see you in the morning." "Hey, Blanche, listen, uh..." "My mom's in Oregon." "I don't get a home-cooked meal too often." "OK if I stop by sometime?" "I think that would be great." "I don't care how old you think you are - it's light's out." " Yes, ma'am." " OK." " Good night." " Good night." "Bobby, let's go!" "The exchange is going down!" "Move it!" " What's going on?" " It's the McDowells." "Get on the floor and stay there!" "Now!" "[Rose gasps]" " I'm scared!" " I'm scared too!" "I'm scared for Al and Bobby." " Shh!" "What was that noise?" " That was me." "Thanks for calling it to everyone's attention." "Oh..." "What's happening out there?" " Shut up." "I hear something." " I don't." " [gunshot]" " Gunshots!" "Oh, sweet Jesus!" "That could have been Al!" "We have to do something." "We have to wait till he comes back." "What if he can't come back?" " [Dorothy] Thank God you're OK!" " Is everything OK?" "Just stay down." "It's Mullins." "I need an ambulance at the stakeout." "My partner's shot." "[all] Oh!" "Yeah, at first I was really scared, but then I realized it was a shoulder wound and calmed down." "Actually, I passed out." "But I did it calmly." " Bobby, you're so brave." " You're so stupid!" "You're supposed to duck a bullet." "In Sicily, you don't pass kindergarten till you learn that." "Really?" "In St. Olaf, we just had to promise not to eat paste." "All right, ladies, let's not baby him." " Al, how are you doing?" " Great." "The DA will put away the McDowells for a long time." "Gee, who's going to look after their lawn?" "Rose, while we're here, maybe you should have a CAT scan." "Come on, Bobby, out of bed." "You've got to go out to the sun deck." " Who wants to drive?" " I'll do it." "It's nice not to be a passenger for a change." "I want you to tell me the whole story from the beginning." "From the time that you left..." "Dorothy..." "I want to ask you something." "How about you and I go out sometime, huh?" "Dorothy, I want to see you again." " I want to see you again too." " Great." " But I can't." " Why not?" "Because I could get serious about you." " I don't get it." " Al, until the other night," "I thought this whole thing was a game, but... after what happened, I realized it isn't." "You don't want to become involved with someone who could get hurt." "I'm sorry, Al." "It's not the first time I've heard it." "I understand." "Thanks." "You take good care of yourself, you hear?" "Yeah." " So, are you two an item?" " No." "No, we decided it was best" " if we didn't see each other." " Are you sure, Dorothy?" " In your heart, are you sure?" " Yes, Ma." "Fine, then I want you to meet someone." "Dr. Tansy..." "This is my daughter." "And this guy is nobody." "Beat it, Al."

"THE ILUSSIONIST" "It's her!" "I know it's her!" "She wants to tell us something!" "We must do something!" "Please." "In the name of his Imperial Majesty and the city of Vienna" "I hereby arrest" "Edward Abramowitz, also known a Eisenheim the Illusionist, on charges of disturbing public order charlatanism, and threats against the Empire." "Leave him alone!" "They're arresting him!" "They're arresting Eisenheim!" "Chief Inspector Uhl." "You're late." "My apologies, your Highness." "I was attending to the loose ends of the case." "Are there still loose ends?" "Very few." "Did he do it again?" "How does he do it?" "I'm afraid I still don't know." "Did you ask him?" "He's not talking at this point." "Well, I'm sure you have methods for that kind of thing." "I want you to put an end to it." "Surely you have something on him." "Something from his past?" "Yes." "Yes, I think I do." "In fact we know all about his life." "We've spoken to almost everyone who ever knew him." "As a boy, I'm told he had a chance encounter with a traveling magician." "Boy." "One version of the story was that the man himself then vanished." "Along with the tree." "Who knows what actually happened?" "People began to think he had some kind of special power." "Or at least that he was a bit different." "And then he met her." "Don't drop it." "Careful, you're going to trip." "Drop it, you muck-snipe." "Watch out for that hole, alley rat!" "Drop it!" "Pick a card." "Put it back in the deck." "Now, watch." "Duchess Von Teschen, you can't be in a place like this." "They're peasants." "Remember who you are." "She was brought back to the castle and they were forbidden to see each other." "But soon they were doing just that." "Over the next few years they could always find a way to be together." "Quick, come on." "In China there's a magician that could make anything disappear." "A house, a wagon, anything." "We'll go visit him." "They can't stop us if we want to be together." "They'll never find us." "Do you promise you'll take me with you?" "One day I will." "One day we'll run away together." "We'll disappear." "There's a secret way to open it." "I wanted a picture." "Sophie, are you there?" "We must hurry!" "They're coming!" "Duchess von Teschen!" "Make us disappear." "Make us disappear." "Stop." "Stop." "Don't do this!" "Let me go!" "No!" "Please, let go!" "No!" "Let her go, please!" "Let go!" "Stop it!" " Sophie!" " Edward!" "Sophie." "Stay away from her or next time we'll arrest you and your family." "What happened next remains a mystery." "We do know that he traveled the world." "That he began to perform his magic in public." "That he changed his name to Eisenheim." "And then almost fifteen years later he appeared in Vienna." "Life and death." "Space and time." "Fate and chance." "These are the forces of the universe." "Tonight, ladies and gentleman" "I present to you a man who has unlocked these mysteries." "From the furthest corners of the world where the dark arts still hold sway, he returns to us to demonstrate how nature's laws may be bent." "I give you Eisenheim." "Might I borrow a handkerchief from someone?" "You, Madam." "Thank you." "Ah, be patient." "Now, if you please," "I would like to continue with an examination of time." "From the moment we enter this life we are in the flow of it." "We measure it and we mark it but we cannot defy it." "We cannot even speed it up or slow it down." "Or can we?" "Have we not each experienced a sensation that a beautiful moment seemed to pass too quickly?" "And wished that we could make it linger?" "Or felt time slow on a dull day and wished that we could speed things up a bit?" "I assure you, they're quite real." "And you, Madam, where is your handkerchief?" "Bravo!" "Very good." "Give us something." "Please." "Please, give us something." " Please." " What's all this?" "We're poor." "Do you think you're poor?" "Yes." "I want to show you something." "You're not poor." "You have everything that you need right here." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "And that's yours." "And this too." " Good morning." " Good morning." " Coffee?" " No." "Strudel?" "I have two." "Nothing, thank you." "You look very pleased with yourself." " How are the receipts?" " Not bad." "A three-quarter house." " Well done." " But we're going to do better." "Listen." ""There is no argument that his uncanny displays separate him from the ranks of garden variety stage wizards." "Some of his effects transcend mere illusion and approach the realm of art." "He is very young to be so masterful"." "You see?" "We'll pack the house with this review." "We are going to make more money than you ever dreamed of." "But if it was mechanical, maybe he had it wrapped in some kind of bark." "Oh, yeah, of course I thought of that." "It's the butterflies I'm trying to work out." "Oh, for Pete's sake, invisible wire." "Too obvious." "How many men have you detailed for tonight?" "We have eight men inside, another eight out front." "Perhaps you'll get another look at your butterflies." "Check the last ten rows there." "You!" "Don't touch that!" " Put that down!" " Ah, Herr Eisenheim." "Who are you and what do you think you're doing?" "I'm Chief Inspector Walter Uhl and I'm inspecting your theatre." "I've seen you perform." "Very impressive." "Very impressive." "How can we help you, Inspector?" "You will be honored to know that the Crown Prince plans to attend your performance tonight." "The Crown Prince?" "Yes!" "So, obviously we have to inspect the theatre." "I think that one's a bit small for an assassin, don't you?" "Yes, the orange tree." "You know, I have seen things like this before but never one like that." "Extraordinary." "Thank you." "I have been puzzling over how it works especially how the butterflies fly." "I assure you your secret is safe with me." "I'm an officer of the law after all and a bit of an amateur conjourer." " Are you really?" " Yes." "Well, card tricks, coins, uh, slight of hand, yes." "But nothing fancy." "Perhaps you'll give me a tip?" "Yes, all right." "I'll show you one I'm very fond of." "Are you a gambling man?" "On occasion, yes." "I will bet you the secret of the orange tree that I can guess which hand you place this in every time." "Excellent." "Put it in your fist, raise your hand against your forehead." "Concentrate on it, form a mental picture." " Yes." " Have you got it?" " Yes." " Put your hands in front of you." "It's in your left." "Well..." "A lucky guess, perhaps." "You have a confederate who signals you." "No." "It's more primitive than that." "When you raise your hand to your head, the blood drains from it." "It will be paler every time." "Oh, oh, I like that very much." "Please take it with my compliments." "Why, thank you." "Eh, the blood drains." "Now, Inspector, if you don't mind" "I've got to prepare for tonight's performance." "Please stand for his Imperial Highness, Crown Prince Leopold." "I thought we might end this evening with a discussion of the soul." "All of the greatest religions speak of the soul's endurance beyond the end of life." "So, what then does it mean to die?" "I need a volunteer from the audience." "Someone not afraid of death." "Please." "Someone?" "I assure you no tragedy will befall you." "It's an honor, Duchess Von Teschen." "Do you know me?" "No." "You're quite certain that we've never met before?" "Yes, of course." "Now please gaze directly into my eyes." "Look nowhere else." "Wave to yourself." "Turn in a circle." "Now, bow to yourself." "Away." "They must have liked you." "They've waited for you nearly five minutes." "Your Highness, may I introduce Eisenheim the Illusionist?" "Well done." "I hope you enjoyed it." "Oh, we more than enjoyed it." "Stimulated great debate amongst us, hasn't it?" "Except of course for your assistant, Duchess Von Teschen." "You seemed to have struck her quite speechless." "A feat in itself." "Did you hypnotize her?" " In a fashion." " I'd like to learn that trick." "Rainier here thinks you have supernatural powers." "Do you claim supernatural powers?" "I've never said anything of that kind." "Then you won't mind a question or two." "Now let's not ruin it." "You needn't divulge anything I can't guess." "As you wish." "Your assistants are behind a mirror somewhere in robes obviously." "Lights in the frame perhaps to illuminate them." "Or angled mirrors?" "That would be one way to do it." "I think I understand it all except the ghost." "That was very, very good." "Another viewing perhaps?" "You must come to the Hofburg next time." "We'll make an evening of it." "That will be my pleasure." "So be it." "Sophie?" "And we'll gather our best minds next time." "You'll really have a challenge then." "Then I'll prepare something special." "Perhaps I'll make you disappear." "Oh, my God, when he volunteered her" "I heard the crashing sound of money falling on me in piles." "Every lady of means in Vienna will want to get up there with you now." "What a showoff." "His father would have died if he had seen such a display." "She didn't seem too happy about it either." "Well, she'd better get used to it." " How's that?" " Word is she'll marry him soon." "Really?" "Taking her chances if you ask me." "Why?" "He likes to give his lady friends a good thrashing now and again." "People say he pushed one of them off a balcony just to cover the beating he had given her." "For Herr Eisenheim." "Hello, Sophie." "When I was on the stage, you knew me right away." "It took me a moment but, ." "Yes, I knew" " You could have said something." " I thought you'd figure it out." "Yes, I would have come another night volunteered, walked right on stage and said hello." "And then you'd really have had to move quickly." "I suspect you would have." "I don't understand why." "Perhaps for the same reasons you decided to meet in a carriage." "It's just a game I have to play with them." "I'm followed everywhere." "It's supposed to be for my protection." "Yes." "So, I hear congratulations are in order." "What for?" "They say you'll be the princess." "It's not decided at all." "It makes a certain sense, I suppose." "We've known each other for years and of course our families." "He's very intelligent." "A little too intelligent for his own good." "You're lucky, you know." "To have broken free as you did." "I often wish that I had" "Wished what?" "I wished that I would see you again." "And now you have." "Yes, now I have." "I look forward to seeing you again at the Hofburg." "Until then." "Here's the report on Duchess Von Teschen." "Anything interesting?" "See for yourself." "The magician?" "They drove around for half an hour, then he got out near the theatre." "What do you want us to do?" "Join us for a drink?" "Please." "You like something to eat, something to drink?" "No, thank you." "Herr Eisenheim," "I'm going to ask you a question that may not seem friendly." "But I assure you, in fact, is." "What is your relationship with the Duchess Von Teschen?" "You're right, that doesn't seem friendly." "Oh, but that is precisely my point." "For, you see, where others might judge a discreet carriage ride for what it seemed to be" "I am willing to find out what it actually was." "All right." "We were childhood acquaintances." "Acquaintances?" "Childhood friends." "My father was a cabinetmaker." "He made the furniture for her family's house." "I see." "The cabinet maker's son friends with a..." "Has there been a complaint?" "Oh, no, no." "If there'd been a complaint" "Well, we'd be having a very different sort of conversation." "Yes." "He relies on you for that sort of thing, does he?" "I'm a simple public servant, Herr Eisenheim." "That's not what I hear." "I hear you'll be the Chief of Police very soon." "Maybe Mayor of Vienna?" "Party Secretary?" "All subject to his whim." "You better hope he doesn't dissolve the Parliament before you get there." "Now, the Prince has some progressive ideas but he will make a fine Emperor." "Well, they say you're very close to him," " so I'm sure you'll be fine." " Look..." "Yes, indeed, they say that I'm very close to the Prince." "But the simple truth of the matter is, Herr Eisenheim" "I'm the son of a butcher." "He's the heir to the Empire." "How close could we be to such as him?" "Do you see my point?" "Don't fool yourself that you can play in their game." "I've served on the edge of it for many, many years and I can tell you there's no trick they haven't seen." "It's not worth it." "My guest tonight is not a showman at all," "but rather a wizard who has sold his soul to the devil in return for unholy powers." "Or so at least some of our friends here would have us believe." "But fear not, everything can and will be explained." "All mysteries penetrated." "Well said." "Well said." " Is that the emperor?" " Ah, yes, your father." "I didn't think he was invited." "A fair likeness of the old man." "Too modern a style for him, of course." "I'm afraid I'm not much of a painter." "It's true." "There are no brush strokes in this painting." "So to achieve the color some sort of chemical must be interacting, presumably." "Some sort of sprayer up your sleeve?" "May I?" "If you feel you must." "I do." "Oh, let the man do his show." "You want me to just sit there when it's so obvious?" "I do." "He tries to trick you." "I try to enlighten you." "Which is the more noble pursuit?" "May we have the lights please, so his Highness can better see?" "See here, Leopold, let's have a show." "Here, here." "Come on, Leopold, get on with it." "Very well, I propose a challenge." "Why don't you astonish us, if you can, without all" "the gadgetry?" "As you wish." "Your sword is very beautiful." "Might I see it?" "Certainly." "May I?" "Where does power flow from?" "Skill or destiny, or divine right?" "We all know the story of a sword called Excalibur." "Excalibur's blade was fixed in stone," "and there it stayed." "Many worthy knights tried to pull the sword from the stone." "Only Arthur succeeded proving his right to rule." "Who can take this sword?" "You sir, can you take the sword?" "No surprise there." "Perhaps you, sir." "Not so eager, cousin." "You shall live a long life." "Thank you for your indulgence." "Come now, if you can't pull it out you'll never be Emperor." "Your father will live to be a hundred." "The sword to its rightful owner!" "That's enough light entertainment for this evening." "For more serious discussion, please join me for a drink." "Shut him down." "Well, he's very popular, your Highness." "I'm sure you'll find a way." "What did you do to him?" "I gave him what he asked for." "What would possess you to do something so foolish?" "Duchess Von Teschen, you must come along, my dear." "We don't want to keep the Prince waiting." "Did you enjoy the show?" " It was wonderful, wasn't it?" " It was amusing." "Who told you where to find me?" "Your manager." "I told him if he wants to stay, you need my help." "So I'm to be driven from the city, is that it?" "Good, I shall relish it." "Stop it!" "I came here to try to help you." "Why!" "Why should you possibly care what happens to me now?" "You were my friend." "I am your friend." "We knew each other very briefly a long time ago." "You don't know me at all." "Then why did you speak to me?" "Why did you even bother talking..." "And you kept it all this time." "I used to stare at your picture trying to imagine where you were." "At night I'd have dreams I had gone with you, and then I'd wake up and realize where I was." "But in my dreams you had shorter hair and no beard." "Where did you go when you left?" "To my uncle's farm near Prague." "How exotic." "I went to Russia, then Asia Minor, and then the Orient for many years." "So long." "I always meant to return." "I just..." "I kept thinking I'd find it around the next corner." "What?" "A real mystery." "I saw remarkable things." "But the only mystery I never solved was why my heart couldn't let go of you." "He wants me to go to Budapest with him next week to announce our engagement." "He wants the Hungarians behind him." "They're going to crown him King." "I'm sure his father will have something to say about that." "He plans to overthrow his father." "That could go very badly for him and for you." "You shouldn't be involved." "I am part of his plan." "He only gets Hungary by aligning himself with my family." "Leave him." "It's not that easy." "Call it off and come away with me." "Or don't say anything and we'll just go." "As long as we are alive he'll hunt us." "And when he finds us he'll kill us." "Look at me." "Do you truly want to leave with me?" "Yes." "Yes, I do." "There you are." "As I predicted they shut us down." "Are you happy now?" "You made your point." "It doesn't matter that we were sold out for the whole run." "No, look." "You got it off your chest." " Do we have money?" " What?" "Do we have any money saved?" "Yes, but we could have had much more." "It will have to do." "And the second account, all of it." "Of course, Herr Eisenheim." "Thank you." "And you have no doubt it was Duchess Von Teschen?" "I'd stake my life on it." "What was in the suitcase?" "I don't know." "He's by the first car." "The map will show you where to meet." "When it's done, you'll travel ahead with her and I shall follow." "And she understands everything this entails?" "Completely." "There's not a lot of time." "As you know, we sometimes follow" "Duchess Von Teschen for her protection." "Yesterday she was seen in the company of another man." "What man?" "Eisenheim, the Illusionist." "What were they doing?" " Well, they were meeting and, uh..." " Touching?" "Kissing?" "Were they fucking?" "Not that we observed, no." "But I have reason to believe that they may be planning something." "It's possible they may be leaving." "I'm not certain of anything yet, your Highness." "Thank you, Inspector." "We can of course acquire more information..." "He spent the afternoon in Vienna with his father." "He's expected shortly." "What a surprise." "I thought you didn't like it here." "I suppose you think you're very clever and very democratic in your friendships, aren't you?" "What are you talking about?" "Your magician friend." "I know you've been with him." "It's true." " We've been friends since childhood." " You sleep with your childhood friends?" "I will not be spoken to this way." "You'll be spoken to as I wish to speak to you." "You're drunk." "You're getting quite old, aren't you?" "My mother was sixteen years old when she married my father." "And you?" "Can you even bear children?" "Are you trying to embarrass me?" "It has nothing to do with you." "It has everything to do with me!" "You will not share my bed if you've slept with him!" "You don't understand." "I'm not going to share your bed at all." "I'm not going to Budapest with you." "I don't want to be part of what you're planning." "And I will not marry you." "I assume you haven't been so stupid as to tell him anything." "'Cause if you disrupt my plans I will have no further use for you." "Now, you will travel to Budapest tomorrow." "I recommend that you are here early packed and ready to go." "Do nothing more to embarrass me." "Goodbye." "What do you mean "goodbye"?" "Come back here." "Come back here!" "Don't disobey me again." "Whore!" "Out of my way." "Please, don't..." "No, leave that." "Leave all the lanterns." "Duchess Von Teschen!" "Duchess Von Teschen!" "Over here!" "I thought you saw her get on the train with him!" "No, sir, we were waiting in Vienna for them." "But they left from Baden." "We assumed she was him." "Should I wire" " the Crown Prince in Budapest?" " It's been done!" "Who are you?" "I'm the family's doctor." "Are you the Chief Inspector?" "Yes, I am." "You understand this is a police matter now?" "Of course I understand." "Good, good." "You have determined the cause of death?" "She bled to death." "There's a wound on her throat just above the left collarbone." "Uh, some knife or sword." "May I take a look?" "Inspector, I will not stand for it." "The Crown Prince will not stand for it." "This is not some circus sideshow." "My apologies, of course." "Thank you, doctor." "Probably robbed." "Gypsies maybe?" "Saw all those diamonds." "Chief Inspector, there's one thing you should know." "Yes, what is that?" "In the folds of her dress I found this small gemstone." "Seen last Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Riding without an escort toward the Imperial Hunting Lodge." "Groomsman said she arrived about 8:30." "What was she doing riding alone?" "He did this." "You know he did." " I know who did what?" " The Crown Prince!" "He killed her." "He's done it before and you know it!" "No, I don't know that." "In fact, I'm sure he didn't." "He's in Budapest." "He killed her before he left." "I'm afraid the facts don't support your theory." "She was leaving him." " For who?" "You?" " Yes." "Don't be absurd." "He killed her because he couldn't let her go." "She knew his secret." "What secret?" " Ask your Inspector." " Stop this right now!" "Are you completely corrupt?" "No, not completely, no, which is why I'll advise you not to accuse anyone especially his Imperial Highness" "or you'll end up in jail yourself." "Where's the guard who let her out of the gate?" "Gone with the Crown Prince." " Did any of the servants see her leave?" " All asleep." "What about him?" "He uh, he put her horse in the first stall when she arrived." "This one?" "We don't have jurisdiction on imperial property." "Thank you." "I know." "So, what are you doing?" "Investigating." "Listening to that magician, are you?" "For all we know, he did it." "No, I think not." "The Crown Prince..." "He's back." "Chief Inspector, we should go." "Now." "And what have you found out?" "She was last seen riding here alone." "Yes, and based on your information I then threw her out." "Did she commit suicide?" "No, it was surely murder." "Do you have a suspect?" "We will soon, your Highness." "Later that week, we arrested a man and charged him with murder." "But I knew that that wouldn't satisfy Eisenheim." "I had my men continue to watch him." "He finally emerged from his grief and bought a rundown theatre." "It's perfect." "He fired his manager and began preparing for a new kind of show." "Who is he?" "My name is Frankel." "Where did you come from?" "I come from Brunn." "My father is a lens grinder there." "How did you come to be here tonight?" "I don't know." "Are you alive?" "What can you tell us about the other side?" "What's it like?" "Yes, tell us." "You must know things, secret things." "They don't seem to think it's a trick." "Eisenheim's audience had always been enthusiastic." "But now he was attracting a more impassioned following." "Madame, please." "With these spirits, these manifestations," "Eisenheim has given us hard proof of the soul's immortality." "A spirit has been reaffirmed in the face of modern scientific materialism." "The work of spiritualism will arouse humanity to a new moral earnestness." "It is a revolutionary movement and we will turn the empire into a spiritual republic." "Do you think Eisenheim's behind all this?" "Why must I be bothered with a magician?" "He has proven to be more than a magician, your Highness." "He is a charlatan." "He's a faker." "If he pretends to have supernatural powers." "Put him on trial for fraud." "First we have to show it as fraud." "Find out how the trick is done and then arrest him." "This is just a rough demonstration, Inspector." "But you can see how it could work." "Yes, I see." "Not bad." "We need a spy in Eisenheim's troop." "Those Orientals, they won't give us anything." "I already tried." "Then try something else." "What has happened here?" "One of those ghosts from the theatre, down the street." "Where!" "Right there, and it's a boy." "Sick." "Where is this thing?" "Over there." "Did you see it?" "It was right over there." "Where are you taking him?" "I want to know how it's done." "First the orange tree, now this." "Do I have to share all my professional secrets with the police?" "Well, in this case, yes." "Or I'll be forced to arrest you." "On what charge?" "Mmm, well, we'll start with fraud." " Excuse me, Chief Inspector." " What!" "I think you should look outside the window." "Who are they?" "They are here for him." "Ah, my goodness, you have a devoted following." "What is it they expect of you?" "I have no idea." "What do your spies tell you?" "That you plan to separate the monarchy perhaps?" "Why?" "Just because the Crown Prince is a murderer?" "He's not a murderer." "We have the real murderer in prison." "He pleaded guilty." "You've got the wrong man." " You don't know that." " No, but you do." "Herr Eisenheim, you will also go to prison if you don't explain to me what it is you are doing." "The sentence will be greater if that mob attacks the building." "Well?" "What are you doing?" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Listen to me, please." "You must listen to me, please." "Thank you all for coming." "I've been speaking with the Chief Inspector, and I think there's been a serious misunderstanding." "I want you all to know that everything that you have seen in my theatre is an illusion." "It's a trick." "It's not real." "I can't bring loved ones back from the grave." "I can't receive messages from the other side." "I apologize if I've given you any false hope." "My intention has only been to entertain." "Nothing more." "Now I appreciate your support." "But you must go home." "Please, you must go." "There, now I've explained it." "So it can't be fraud." "May I go?" "Has he tricked you?" "Is that it?" "No, your Highness." "Then why are you failing me?" "I thought I could trust you." "I thought you were a man I could bring with me when I took the throne." "Am I wrong about you?" "No." "You're not wrong, your Highness." "I need men who can complete the tasks assigned to them!" "Instead I'm surrounded by fools." "In the end I must do everything myself." "I can see this case will be no different." "How do I look?" "Ordinary, your Highness, very ordinary." "I think I'm going to enjoy this." "They don't recognize you." "Good." "Now keep your distance." "I don't want to be seen with a policeman." "It's her!" "Who are you?" "Are you Duchess Von Teschen?" "Yes." "What's happened to you?" "She was murdered." "Were you murdered?" "By who?" " Did they arrest the right man?" " Tell us, please." "Who murdered you?" "Someone here." "Tell us." "Point him out." "Was it the Crown Prince?" "He's killed a woman before!" "The Crown Prince isn't even here." " The Crown Prince killed her!" " Something must be done!" "Chief Inspector, are you sure you have the right man?" " Quite sure." "Excuse me." " Did you investigate the Crown Prince?" "He cannot continue if this is true." "He must be brought to justice." "It's not true." "The magic trick is not evidence." "What is your name?" "I don't see how that matters." "I advise you to watch what you say, sir." "That actress didn't even look like Sophie." "But the audience is stupid and he knows it." "He manipulates them." "He himself said nothing." "His actress said nothing inflammatory." "He left it to the audience to make their accusations." "All taunts paid for by him, of course." "I don't suppose you made a note of those people?" "I'm afraid we didn't have enough men tonight." "At the next performance I want them all arrested, every one of them, Eisenheim and the whole troupe." "I want to have an example made of him in front of all his followers." "That was very foolish last night." "You can't destroy him, you know." "You can't bring down the monarchy." "Oh, I know I can't." "Then don't raise her again!" "Don't provoke those questions." "Herr Eisenheim, I don't want to arrest you." "I'm a cynical man, God knows." "But if your manifestations are somehow real... and even I'm willing to admit you're a very special person, and if it's a trick then it's equally impressive..." "Either way you have a gift, so don't make me put you in jail." "Promise me you won't do it again." "I promise you you'll enjoy this next show." "What do you want?" "Nothing." "Then why bring her back?" "Just to be with her." "To be with her." " Everything is ready?" " Yes, sir." "We're trying to assess how he might escape." "He will not escape!" "I want guards at every door and window!" "Sir." "I want to apologize to you for my behavior of late." "But I want to make it up to you if you'll listen to a proposition." " Well, I don't know." " I'll make it worth your while, Josef." "I'm very busy right now." "I haven't just been sitting around waiting for you." "No, no, of course." "I want you to assume control of all my finances and my assets." "Everything." " Everything?" " Yes." "Including this theatre and all the receipts from tonight's performance." "Which I offer with my sincere thanks." "What do you say?" "All right, I'll do it." "Good." "Good." "Would you like me to introduce you tonight?" "No." "Tonight just enjoy the show." "Excuse me, Chief Inspector, I'm Josef Fischer, Eisenheim's manager." "Yes, I remember." "What's going on?" "Why all the police?" "Precautions, Herr Fischer." "Are you planning to arrest Eisenheim?" "That's entirely up to him." "It's Duchess Von Teschen." "Why were you murdered?" "I was leaving him." "Leaving who?" " The Crown Prince?" " Of course it was the Crown Prince." "We won't stand for it!" "I tried to get away." "I was wearing my locket when I died, but now it's gone." "It's lost." "Tell us, please, who murdered you?" "Was it the Crown Prince?" "We must do something!" "Get up!" "In the name of his Imperial Majesty and the city of Vienna" "I hereby arrest Eduard Abramovitz, also known as Eisenheim the Illusionist, on charges of disturbing public order, charlatanism and threats against the empire!" "Find him!" " Where is he?" " He was right there." " How is his trick done?" " No trick." " How is it done!" " I don't know." "Nobody knows." "Dammit!" "I had my driver take the sword to police headquarters." "My men will examine it and see if it matches the gemstone found on Duchess Von Teschen's body." "I have no doubt that it will." "And after that, I came in here and you asked me why I was late." "You've stolen Imperial property." "That seems trivial compared with murder." "Even if that were true, you have no jurisdiction here." "That's right." "You may do as you wish here without consequence." "Nobody can punish you, except one man." "Who's that?" "The Emperor." "I don't suppose he'll leave his crown to a murderer." "N Do you?" "He'll never believe you." "Maybe not." "But I wrote a letter to his general staff telling them everything." "Including your plan to overthrow the Emperor." "I know they'll listen to that." "You'll not take the throne." "Not with my help." "You no longer want to be Chief of Police?" "Mayor of Vienna?" "You don't want to be a baron, an aristocrat?" "I'm afraid that's out of the question at this point." "You fool, he's tricking you." "He's manipulating you." "He had the sword at a command performance." "He could have pried the stones loose then and planted them here." "You were drunk..." "It's all a trick." "It's an illusion." "Perhaps there's truth in this illusion." "You need to wire your driver and have the sword returned." "Or what?" "I'll shoot you." "Perhaps I'll shoot you anyway." "And then you'll have killed a Police Inspector and a Duchess." "Or perhaps you'll kill yourself." "You committed suicide, distraught at having failed your leader." "Some officers of the general staff, I'd guess." "They must've received my letter." "What do you want?" "I don't want anything." "Fine." "Fine." "You shall have nothing." "Gentlemen." "The situation is so obvious." "Everyone's completely incompetent." "My father runs the Empire into the ground and no one notices." "No one does anything about it." "I propose to cleanup the mess and you thank me by betraying me." "Well, you're all becoming irrelevant." "You'll all be replaced." "The country will be run by mongrels." "A thousand different voices screaming to be heard and nothing will be done!" "Nothing!" "I've done everything I can!" "Too much!" "Far too much." "Your Highness, are you in there?" "Your Highness, open door." "?" "Please, open the door." "By your father's authority I insist you open the door." "You must open the door!" "You're all fools" " Please, your Highness." " And I can't stand it." "I won't stand it." "Break down the door." "Break it down!" "What happened?" "The Crown Prince just shot himself." "Are you Chief Inspector Uhl?" "I used to be." "You!" "Who gave you this?" " Who gave you this?" " Herr Eisenheim!" "When?" "All aboard!" "Tickets and papers." "All aboard!" "When it's done you'll travel ahead with her and I shall follow." "And she understands everything this entails?" "Completely." "Do you think Eisenheim's behind all this?" "So, what does it mean to die?" "What do you want?" "To be with her." "Chief Inspector, there's one thing you should know." "Your sword is very beautiful." "Might I see it?" "You're drunk." "You were drunk." "He's a charlatan and he's a faker." "He's plotted everything." "Everything you have seen is an illusion." "It's a trick." "Subtitled by HP RECORDS"

" Laura, what's seven times nine?" " Sixty-three." "Thanks." "Laura, what's eight times nine?" "Seventy-two." " Laura, what's nine..." " Eighty-one." "Hello, ladies." "I thought we'd all do our homework together." " Uh-oh." "Dad's paying bills." "I'm out of here." " Me too." "I wouldn't go in there, Grandma." "Dad's paying bills." "I can take my medication at any time." "It's time to put some food in that little belly of yours." "Thanks, Rachel, but I just had a couple of doughnuts." "I was talking to little Richie." "Carl, could you hold the baby for me for a second?" " What...?" "Is he dry?" " Yeah." "Hello." "How about a big smile for your Uncle Carl?" "Come on." "Oh, there it is." "Oh, he's crazy about me, Rachel." "[CARL BABBLING]" "Oh, excuse me, but are you, by any chance, paying bills?" "Yes." "Why?" "Come on, Richie." "We're out of here." "Just the man I wanted to see." "Dad, I got this really big problem and you're the only one that can help me." "I gotta have new high-tops." "Edward, the ones that you are wearing are practically new." "I can't wear these anymore." "See?" "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar." " So?" " So it's embarrassing." "The guy's retired." "I think I'd look great in a pair of Michael Jordans." "I think you'd look great in a military academy." "Dad, I'm serious." "I gotta have new high-tops." "Besides, they're only 70 bucks." "Edward, I would not pay $70 for a pair of shoes if Lola Falana was in them." "You are not getting new high-tops." "Thanks a lot." "Freshmen year is shot." "Hi, honey." "How was your day?" "CARL:" "Harriette, our food bills are getting higher every month." "Do we have any kids you haven't told me about?" "I guess this is not a good time to tell you that the car needs a tune-up." "[SIGHS]" "Well, I guess I'll dump in some more of that tune-up-in-the-can stuff." "I tried that." "The car spit it back at me." "Carl, we must have the money." "The police department just got a pay increase." " When does it kick in?" " It already kicked in." "That's funny." "I didn't feel a thing." "Harriette, why don't you ask for a raise?" "If anyone deserves one, it's you." "You are the best elevator operator at the Chronicle." "Carl, I'm the only elevator operator at the Chronicle." "What I mean to say is everybody likes you down there and, well, honey, we sure could use the money." "Well, you got that right." "I'll go see Mr. Seeger tomorrow after work and ask for a raise." "That's my girl." " You almost finished paying bills?" " I just started." "I'm out of here." " Dad, is Mom home yet?" " No." "And why?" "Well, because I figured maybe she could take me to the mall." "[CHUCKLING]" "Edward, you are not getting those new high-tops." "Dad, I'm just going to look at them." "Son, there is an old saying:" "Once I was sad because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." "Did I meet him?" "You are not getting those new high-tops, son." "HARRIETTE:" "Hi, honey." " Hi, baby." "How'd it go at work today?" "Well, I walked into Mr. Seeger's office and asked for a raise." "And what happened?" "He gave me this." "Wha..." "HARRIETTE:" "Hello, Mother Winslow." " Hi, honey." " Hi, Mom." " Harriette please tell me that I'm looking at a bonus." "No, Carl." "You're looking at severance pay." "As of tomorrow, the Chronicle will have a new self-service elevator." "That's great, Mom." "It'll make your job a lot easier." "Edward, your mother was just fired." " From her job?" " No, from a cannon." "Harriette, that's terrible." "I thought they liked you." "They do." "That's why they didn't go self-service years ago." "They didn't have the heart to fire me." "What changed their minds?" "Well, I could be wrong, but I think it was when I took Carl's advice and marched in there like a fool and asked for a raise." "Way to go, Carl." "[LAUGHING]" "What happened?" " You people look like you're at a funeral." " We are." "Mom's job just dropped dead." " What?" " I was fired today, Rachel." "Don't worry, Harriette." "Everything is gonna be fine." "If we need extra money, I'll get some part-time work." "But if we need some quick cash, we can sell Judy's toys." "Mom." " Fold." " Stuff." "Seal." " Fold." " Stuff." " Seal." " Fold." " Stuff." " Seal." "So this is the kind of job that's gonna save the family?" "Hey, don't break our rhythm." "We're a well-oiled machine." "Fold." " Stuff." " Seal." " Aunt Rachel?" " Yes, honey." "What are these?" "That's the other half of what we're supposed to be stuffing." "Unseal." "Unstuff." "Unfold." "Harriette, you are going to get a job today." "I can feel it." "That's what you said all week, but I still don't have a job." "Well, today is your day, honey." "I just know it." "Nobody's hiring elevator operators." "Well, then forget about being an elevator operator." "Honey, there must be a thousand jobs out there you'd be perfect for." "All you have to do is find one of them." "But, come on, where's that Harriette Winslow, l-can-do-anything smile?" "There it is." "Now, see?" "Who can resist that smile?" "Thanks, I feel better already, and today is the day." "When I walk back through that door, I'm gonna have me a job." "Go get them, tiger." "Well, we finished the first batch and we are really rolling now." "Who's we?" "I made the girls assistant encasement interlay specialists." " They're what?" " Envelope stuffers." "It's fun except for the gross taste it leaves in your mouth." " You're supposed to use a sponge." " I did." "But I still didn't get all that glue off my tongue." "Come on, girls." "We have to get down to correspondence-delivery headquarters." "That means post office." "Carl, would you listen for the baby?" " All right." "No problem." " Okay." "Dad, I've been thinking." "No, Edward, you're not getting those high-tops." "How'd you know that's what I was thinking?" "Because, son, I know that you have a one-track mind and right now it is on shoes." "If you want high-tops, you're gonna have to use your money." "Use my own money?" "For shoes?" "By the time I save enough for those high-tops, I'll be dead." "Well, now, don't worry about that." "We'll bury you with feet sticking out so people can see them." "Harriette, back so soon?" "What's wrong?" "The car broke down at the end of the block." " You left the car in the middle of the street?" " No, it left me in the middle of the street." "Come on, son, let's go push the car back home." "Oh, don't worry, honey." "Things aren't that bad." "Did I mention that the car was on fire?" " Hi, everybody." " Hi, honey." "Any luck finding a job today?" "Nothing." "Not a nibble." "But tomorrow's another day." "Well, now, listen." "You just sit down and relax." "I already made dinner." " Great, I'm starved." " Everybody to the table." "EDWARD:" "Oh, that corn bread looks good." "JUDY:" "I like the red Jell-O." "Harriette, you know if you don't find a job soon you can always help us stuff envelopes." "Thanks." "Carl, I'd like to say grace tonight." "Do you mind?" "Oh, go right ahead, Mama." "Dear Lord, we thank you for this food we have before us." "And we ask you to watch over us and to give Harriette the strength she needs to go out every day looking for work." "Please bless her with patience and understanding as she is turned away from job after job after job after job..." "Amen, Mama." "Mama, amen." "Amen." "Thanks for cooking tonight, Mother Winslow." "Well, I'm only trying to help." "You know this entire meal only cost $4.60." "[CARL CHUCKLES]" "If it's one thing my mother knows, it's how to feed a large family on a small budget." "Well, I lived through the Depression." "What's a depression?" "Oh, it was a long time ago, honey." "The banks had failed." "People lost their jobs and had to live on practically nothing." "Pass this to your father." "What is that?" "That's mashed turnips and bacon." "I don't see no bacon." "I only used the drippings." "I can get another meal out of that meat." "That's why they call it the Depression Dinner." "Well, I'm depressed." "Carl, there could be rough times ahead." "Mother, this is only temporary." "That's what they said about the Depression, and it lasted 10 years." "Ten long years." "And then the war started." "I'm sorry, Mother Winslow." "I'm not hungry anymore." " Me neither." " Uh, sit down and eat your turnips." "I just don't know why everybody is complaining." "I always loved turnips." "Maybe it was parsnips." "Excuse me." "Do you mind if I join you?" "Go ahead." "But I'm not gonna be good company." "Well, now, I don't know about that." "Honey, I know how frustrating it is for you going out there every day for a job and coming back empty-handed." "But you just can't give up hope, you know?" "Carl, your mother's right." "It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better." "Let's face it." "All I've ever done is run an elevator." "Oh, now, Harriette, you know that's not true." "You worked for the police department." "But that was years ago." "And then it was only for a few months before I got pregnant with Eddie." "Boy, do I remember that." "That was some wicked morning sickness." "Yeah, but after the doctor prescribed those pills, you were fine." "Well, we got through that together and we can get through this together." "I don't know, Carl." "You know, I thought I'd be able to find a job making as much as I did on the old one." "I see I'm gonna have to take whatever I can get." "No." "Now, no." "Now, I don't want you doing that." "Carl, we need the money, and I'm not gonna let this family down." "Have you heard about any jobs that you might find exciting?" "Well, there was one, but they're not gonna give it to me." "Well, what was it?" "Well, the other day when Mr. Seeger was firing me I noticed a posting for a security job at the Chronicle." "Now, there you go." "Honey, you can do that." "Harriette, you graduated from the police academy." "You know the Chronicle building." "You'd be perfect." "The job requires management experience." "They're gonna tell me no." "Honey, it's not what they tell you." "It's what you tell them." "All you have to do is show them who you really are and you know they're gonna want you real bad." "You think so?" "I did." "You're the best thing ever happened to me." "Carl, you should've gone into sales." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "Well, when you've got a great product, it sells itself." "Thanks, honey." "[KNOCKING]" "Come on in." "Hello, Mr. Seeger." "Harriette." "What a surprise." "It's nice to see you back at the Chronicle." " I like the new self-service elevator." " It's a beaut, isn't it?" "We should've put one in years ago." "Oh, I didn't mean that the way it sounded." "Well, then I didn't hear it the way it sounded." "I'd love to sit and chat but I'm interviewing people for assistant director of Security." "I know." "I'm your next interview." "Harriette, that's a management position." "Oh, I read the description and I think I can handle the job." "Okay, do you have a résumé?" "Oh, yeah." "I typed it myself." "That's nice." "Let me see." "Two jobs." "The one here at the Chronicle." " I see you worked at the police department." " Yes." "Oh, but it was a clerical job." "But I did graduate the police academy." "Harriette, I like you, you know that." "But this job isn't right for you." "When something comes along that is right, I'll give you a call." "I know how tough it is out there." "Would you mind asking Miss Olson to send the next applicant in?" "Mr. Seeger, I really believe I can do that security job." "Harriette, I'm trying to be nice." "But the fact is this job requires management experience." "You'd have people working under you." "You'd have to be a leader, an organizer, a mediator." "Quite frankly, this job is way out of your league." "Oh, really, Mr. Seeger?" "For your information, I have management experience coming out of my ears." " That's not on your résumé." " Yes, it is." "Right there, see?" "It says, Mrs. Harriette Winslow." "I worked here full-time, and I was a full-time mother." "You wanna talk management?" "I managed a home, a household budget and a family." "And, Mr. Seeger, I'm talking about a job you can't call in sick for you never get a raise or overtime." "And you can't take vacation." "Every day I'm a leader, an organizer, and a mediator." "Those are my qualifications." "You want references?" "Call Eddie, Laura and Judy Winslow and ask them about my work." "You know the number." "I'm home." "Harriette, you've been gone five hours." "What happened?" "Well, I went to see Mr. Seeger." "I stared him straight in the eye, and I told him I could do the job that I deserved the job and that he'd be a fool not to give me the job." "And then he gave you the job." "No, he told me I was unqualified, so I told him off." " And that took five hours?" " No, it only took about a minute." "But it felt so good I treated myself to a double feature." "Well, good for you, honey." " Oh, hi, Mom." " Hi, baby." "Dad, guess what." "Your son has saved $70 from working overtime at the market." "Well, I'm proud of you, son." "So I guess the next time we see you, you'll be wearing a new pair of high-tops." "Not really, Dad." "I finally figured out the thing about the guy with no feet." "Here." "I thought you could use this to pay some bills." "Harriette, we should feed this boy turnips five times a day." "Thank you, son." "Oh, Harriette." "Honey, congratulations." "I am so happy for you." "You didn't get your first paycheck for a while." "So I took my envelope money, and bought this family a celebration dinner." "I got steak, I got potatoes, I got salad, I got the works." "Are you excited?" "I know you must be." "Honey, you must feel fantastic." "I know I do." "In fact, I'm so happy, I could slap myself." "Girls, you can put those turnips away." "Tonight, this family is eating steak." "What happened?" "You hit a cow on the highway?" "No." "Your mother got a new job at the Chronicle." "[LAURA JUDY SHRIEK AND GIGGLE]" "Hey, hey, hey, hold on, hold on." "Now, Rachel, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I didn't get the job." " You didn't?" " No." "Well, back to the turnips." "I can't believe Mr. Seeger didn't give you that job." "Well, I did my best." "It just didn't work out." "But how could he change his mind like that?" "Especially after all the nice things he said about you today." "Wait, wait, wait a minute." "Hold on." "You talked to Mr. Seeger today?" "Yeah, he phoned about an hour ago." "H..." "Hold it now." "What did he say?" "He mentioned that he was very impressed by some speech you made." "And that he hoped that you could start on Monday." "I'll call Mr. Seeger." "How did the job interview go?" "We don't know, Mama." "She either got the job or she didn't." "Those would be the choices." "Hello, Mr. Seeger?" "This is Harriette Winslow." "Did you call my house earlier today?" "We got a little mix-up in the message." "Uh-huh." "Uh-huh." "Fine." "Thank you." "Goodbye." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "[ALL CHATTERING AND LAUGHING]" "Now, wait." "Listen, listen, listen." "I just wanna say thank you, and to say how proud I am of everybody." "These last few weeks weren't easy." "But we pitched in there, we got through it." "Why don't you pitch in and help me with this dinner?" "ESTELLE:" "Okay." " You, set the table." "You, peel a potato." "You, get the bread." "ESTELLE:" "Honey, get me a knife." " I'll get you a knife." "You ain't said nothing but a word." "What was that for?" "That was for being you." "Thanks for believing in me, sweetheart." "[CARL CHUCKLES]" "I was just returning the favor." "You believed in me when I was afraid to take the sergeant's exam." "You told me I could do it." "I not only did it, I aced that sucker." "And I was so proud of you." "And it only took me five tries." "[ENGLISH SDH]"

"Hey!" "What's the matter with you?" "Johnny, you got a call on line two." "You're in early." "I like the beard, but the mustache isn't working for me." "Want me to do it?" " I nailed him cold." " All right." "A stolen-car ring was smashed during..." "Come on, you guys." "It was nothing, really." "I still can't believe they thought you were a boy." "The mustache helped." "And thanks for teaching me how to boost a car." "To Lois Lane." "Still going where no reporter has gone before." "Hey!" "Turn that thing off." "Jimmy, don't encourage her." "She's got a head as big as the Metrodome as it is." "It's nice to know I'm appreciated around here, Chief." "What do you expect?" " Garlands thrown at your feet?" " No." "But I would like a raise." "I'd like 145-foot, triple-masted schooner with a teak interior... but, Lois, times are tough." "What's everybody standing around for?" "This is a newspaper... not happy hour at Buckingham Palace." "Chief, I got an angle on the mini-mall murders." "I figure there was blood on the burritos because... check this out, they were eating, and the perpetrators..." "Did you finish those obituary updates?" "Jimmy, never underestimate... the need for a good obituary." "I can think of one right now." "I guess you finally hit the big time." "This time, Lex Luthor's personal assistant returned your call." "Give it up, Lois." "Luthor never gives one-on-one interviews." "He's never met Lois Lane before, either." "Watch the doors." "Hey, that's my stop!" "He stopped it!" "He..." "Lois Lane?" " It's going to explode!" " He's got a bomb." " No, it's not a bomb." " It's my credentials." " I'm sorry, sir." "He ran right past reception." " You don't understand!" "Ms. Lane, the Messenger is going to explode." "Please, Ms. Lane, you must tell my story." " We've had trouble with him before." " Wait a minute." "Don't!" " He's a buck short of a variety pack." " Please, believe me." "The space program is doomed!" "Please!" "The transport vehicle Messenger, piloted by Cdr." "Jack Laderman... and carrying the final propulsion module for Space Station Prometheus... is scheduled for lift-off Friday at 9:00 a.m." "Dr. Toni Baines reminds us that timing is crucial." "Unless all the modules are in place within the next few weeks..." "Space Station Prometheus will lose its orbit... and fall back into the Earth's atmosphere." "That kind of an occurrence... will surely spell the end to any future projects... and the space program as a whole." "A series of delays and launch failures have already put EPRAD's back to the wall." "Morning, Lois." "On your hands and knees again, I see." "Isn't it a little early for you to be in, Cat?" "I thought ladies like you only worked nights." " Part of my job as society columnist..." " Mudslinging rumor-monger." "...is to maintain an active social life." "You remember what that's like." "Or do you?" "What do men see in her, anyway?" "Don't they know she's just looking for another notch on her garter belt?" "Pathetic." "Have you actually... seen this garter belt?" " So, you are Mister..." " Kent." "Clark Kent." "Yes, Kent." "Prof. Carlton called me about you." "Boy, I haven't seen him in I don't know..." "Let's see here." " Editor, Smallville Press." "Where is that?" " Kansas." "Just a minute." "Yeah?" "Tell him to keep his pants on." "If Carlini's can't deliver on time, just find a place who can." "You believe I had to buy a blood-pressure monitor last week?" "Paava leaves." "I beg your pardon?" "The Yolngu tribe in New Guinea eat paava leaves to relieve stress." "It puts them in a meditative state." "Maybe you should try it." "I see you've done some traveling." "This is my first trip to Metropolis." " I have some samples of my work." " Good." "Let's take a look." "The Borneo Gazette." ""Mating rituals of the knob-tailed gecko."" "Kent, I'm sure that these are fascinating stories... but you see, son, this is The Daily Planet." "We're the greatest newspaper in the whole world." "Now, our people are dedicated servants of the fourth estate... who routinely handle matters of international significance." " Chief, I fixed the horn on your golf cart." " Not now, Jimmy." " The tone's still off..." " Jimmy!" "Not now!" "Now, as I was saying, you just can't walk in here with those kind of..." "I think there's a story here." "We should have this guy checked out." "The crazy one from this morning?" "He was an engineer at EPRAD..." "Lois, can't you see I'm in the middle of something here?" " Lois Lane." "Clark Kent." " Nice to meet you." "Anyway, he worked on the Messenger..." "Wait a minute." "What happened to that mood piece I gave you... about the razing of that old theater on 42nd Street?" " I wasn't in the mood." " You weren't in the mood." "You can't come in here and tell me you're not..." "I've gotta go." "I'll catch you later." "I tell you... if that woman wasn't the best damn investigative reporter I've ever seen..." "Look, Kent, I'm sure that you're an intelligent guy... but you just can't walk in here with this kind of resume... and expect to get a job." "Mr. White, I know I lack experience, but I'm a good writer and a hard worker." "I just don't have anything for you, son." "Thank you, sir." "I appreciate your taking the time to see me." "Yeah." "Thank you." " You want me to wire you some cash?" " No, I'm fine." "How did the interview go?" "Not so good." "But something will turn up." "I'm sure." " I think I better wire you some cash." " I'm fine, Dad." " Still gonna make it home on Friday?" " I'd miss your home cooking?" "What home cooking?" "I haven't had a home-cooked meal in..." "Clark, you're being careful, aren't you?" "Sure." "Other than the bus incident this morning, but..." " Bus incident?" " Metropolis isn't the outback." "People in the city are always looking to make a quick buck." "If they find out about you, they'll put you in a laboratory..." ""And dissect you like a frog." I know, Dad." "Believe me, I'm trying my best to be like everybody else here." "I'll get that cash out to you tonight." "I'll pay you back." "I promise." " Okay." "I'll talk to you guys soon." " Bye, honey." "Lucy?" " Are you home?" " Hi, sis." " I thought you were going out tonight." " I've got to work." "I can't." "Don't start." "Did you find an escort to Lex Luthor's White Orchid Ball yet?" " No, I did not." " Lois, it's tomorrow night." "What about Mitchell?" "I thought you liked him?" "Mitchell is a hypochondriac." "They can't all be bad, Lois." "They can't all be boring or stupid." " What're you waiting for?" " Fine." "I'll ask Mitchell to take me." "I'm not just talking about the ball." "You've got to get out more." "Will you stop?" "Jesus, you sound like Dad." " I'm only 26." " Twenty-six today, 36 tomorrow." "And I know why that dentist, Alan, never called you back." "Dragging him to that Women in Journalism seminar?" ""Weak Men, and the Wise Women who Love Them"?" "You've gotta stop scaring them off." "You've gotta stop being so smart all the time, so intense." "Look, I'm just being myself." "If they're not man enough to handle it... then I guess I'll just wait for someone who is." " I just hate to see you sitting at home." " I get out plenty." "I have dates." "You have interviews." "It's not the same thing." "I just want you to meet a super guy." "Gwendolyn, have you made your decision?" "All right." "You win." "I'll keep my promise." "Tonight, my body is yours... but my heart... my heart beats only for one man." "Keep the theater on the spot." "We don't need a parking lot." "What is this?" "Bea?" "Come on." ""After the dark death of autumn, and the cold barren winter..." ""how I wish this rock might be taken from my heart."" "Okay, Bill." "Start her up." "...destroying the neighborhood!" ""For the days of my childhood..." ""back when my soul was pure." ""I slept right here in this nursery..." ""looking out at the orchard from this very room." ""And every morning I awoke with such joy in my heart." ""My orchard is just the same as it was then, nothing different." ""All of it, all of it dressed in white." ""My lovely orchard."" " Who's there?" " Just a fan." "I'm not leaving." "Not until I finish." "All right." "Mind if I watch?" "I always loved this play." " You know it?" " The Cherry Orchard." "Anton Chekhov." " His finest, don't you think?" " Definitely." "They don't understand." "Theater is more than bricks and mortar." "It's drama, and passion... and mystery, and comedy, and life." "Don't make me go." "I'm not ready." "We have some time." "You understand." "I just want to say goodbye." ""All of it dressed in white." ""My lovely orchard."" "Beatrice was 18 when she made her debut." "Warren G. Harding was President... the Unknown Soldier was interred at Arlington... and Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees." "She came to say goodbye, as we all must, to the past..." ""...and to a life and a place that soon would exist..." " "only in a bittersweet memory."" " Smooth." "Yeah." "If you like that sort of thing." "There's only one attribute I value more than experience... and that's initiative." "Clark Kent, welcome to The Daily Planet." "Oh, no, the space shuttle's on fire!" " It's on the TV now!" " Quick, turn it up!" " Let's take a look." " Lois, get over here." "Fast-breaking story." "We have a reporter on the scene... and we're trying to establish contact with a Carmen Alvarado." "Can you hear me?" "She's on the launching pad right now." "Carmen?" "You've just seen what we've seen here." "A terrible tragedy is unfolding." "There seems to be..." "I knew there was something to Platt's story." "Lois, just because one madman's prediction came true... doesn't mean that there's a conspiracy to sabotage the entire space program." "With more than a hundred colonists going up in the next launch... are you willing to take that chance?" "I'll need a task force." "I can't cover this story alone." "You can have Jimmy." " We're talking about the space program." " Okay." "Take Kent." " Kent?" " Kent." " What about Myerson?" " He's busy." " Burns?" " Budapest." "Forget Kent." "He's a good man." "Kent is a hack from Smallville." "I couldn't make that name up." "Kent or nobody." "Fine." "Don't ever say that I am not a team player." "Let's hit it." "Just get on it, will you?" " Mind if I ask where we're going?" " To interview Samuel Platt." "He's convinced the Messenger was sabotaged." "I'll brief you." "And get something straight." "I didn't work my buns off... to become an investigative reporter for The Daily Planet... just to baby-sit some hack from Nowheresville." "And one other thing." "You are not working with me." "You're working for me." "I call the shots." "I ask the questions." "You are low man." "I am top banana." "And that's the way I like it." " Comprende?" " You like to be on top." "Got it." "Don't push me, Kent." "You are way out of your league." "Dr. Platt?" "Dr. Platt, it's Lois Lane." "And they said that I was crazy." "But wouldn't you be, after the drugs?" "You know they drugged me after I submitted my report to Dr. Baines." "Dr. Platt, how could the Messenger have been sabotaged?" "In order to bypass security..." "Unless the orders came from high up." "Under extreme temperature conditions... the particle isolators were in danger of shutting down." "So, in order to prevent this, we installed heating devices." "But, when I broke into one of the off-limit labs..." "I discovered that the heating devices had been replaced by coolant systems." " To freeze the ion particles?" " Of course." "Then it'd fuse... and the Messenger would blow up." "It's all in my report." " What report?" " The report that I gave to Dr. Baines." "Do you have a copy of this report?" "What kind of a scientist would I be if I didn't keep reports?" "Dr. Platt, perhaps you could gather your report together some other time." "I'll have somebody come by and pick it up." "My wife." "We planned to live together on Prometheus." " Where's your family now?" " Gone." "They left me..." "It's all for the best." "Dr. Platt, who would want to sabotage Space Station Prometheus?" "I don't know." "See, the microgravity laboratory on the Prometheus... could be the key for curing hundreds of diseases here on Earth." "In a zero-gravity environment... we can actually separate the proteins that form viruses." "So many children with crippling diseases..." "My daughter." "We could cure them." "I think you and I should pay Dr. Baines a visit." "...to report to room 135." "Naturally, we're all still in a state of shock." "I don't suppose I have to tell you what a catastrophe this explosion was." "Capt. Laderman was one of our best." "His three kids, his wife, Anna..." "Dr. Baines, what's being done to investigate the cause of the explosion?" "We won't know anything until we've examined the burnt wreckage." "We're in the process of moving it to a hangar for inspection." "Can we take a look at it?" "Sorry, no press allowed." "No exceptions?" " I'll see what I can do." " Great." "On the subject of Dr. Samuel Platt..." "I have his file right here." "A real waste of talent." "Seems building the space station and his divorce finally got to him." "Started drinking, taking drugs." "He went from bad to worse." "We kept him on as long as we could... but when he set fire to one of the laboratories... we had to let him go." "Dr. Platt said he submitted a report to you." "Something about coolant devices installed to..." "Coolants?" "No, I don't recall any report." " I could check my records." " Could you..." " and give us a call?" " Certainly." "Be glad to help." "Let me know if I can be of any further assistance." "Thank you." " She seemed cooperative." " I don't trust her." "Very attractive." " Young for a woman in her position..." " Typical." " What?" " That's a typical male response." "Trust me on this, I am not a typical male." "No?" " Just because she's okay-looking..." " Very okay-looking." "...you automatically assume she's telling the truth." "And you assume she's not?" "Does everyone have an angle?" "No honest people left in the whole world?" " That's pretty cynical, Lois." " It's realistic, Clark." "At least, I don't go through life disappointed." "We have different sections, just like the paper does." "Society, Sports, Entertainment." "Come here." "Who's the new tight end?" "Why don't you throw your usual forward pass and find out?" " Excuse me, I..." " Catherine Grant." "Cat's Corner?" "Oh, yeah, I've read your column." "Then my reputation precedes me." "Among other things." "I know what it's like to be new in town." "Lonely." "I'd be happy to show you around." "That's very nice of you, Ms. Grant." "Cat." "Cat." "Maybe when I get settled in." "It's a date." "Cat." "No, Mitchell, I'm not mad." "If you've got the sniffles, then you've got the sniffles." "Yeah, that could lead to complications." "No, don't call me." "I'll call you." "I don't suppose that you own a tuxedo?" "I could get one." "Why?" "The man that I was going to Lex Luthor's ball with has the flu." "Yes?" "Well, I was just wondering if you wanted to..." "Do you want to take his place or not?" "Thanks anyway, Lois." "But I thought I'd go to bed early tonight." "Are you crazy?" "This is the social event of the season." "Everyone who is anyone is gonna be there." "And you want to go to bed early?" " So, is this a date?" " Date?" "You mean like in Kansas, where you meet my parents... and then you try to give me a hickey in the vacant lot behind the Dairy Freeze." "No, this is not a date." "This is business." "I am going to land the first one-on-one Lex Luthor interview, if it kills me." "Okay." "Good." "I'll see you there." "9:00." "Okay." "Buddy, you got a buck?" "You must be some kind of angel, brother." "Some kind of angel." "Dinner was great, Mom." "Thanks." "Thanks, honey." "More than I get these days." "You're mother is now an artiste." "I call it Too Much, Too Soon, Tortured Heart, Waning Moon." "What do you think?" "Too cerebral?" "No, it's... very imaginative." "So, now, tell me more about this woman you're going to Lex Luthor's ball with." "Lois is..." "Well, she's complicated." "Domineering, uncompromising, pigheaded... brilliant." "And we're not really going out." "It's business." " Thanks for sewing my jacket, Mom." " You're welcome, honey." "That electrical storm over Cleveland was brutal." "Maybe you should take another route." "See you next week, honey." "I love you." "Take care." "I forget how beautiful it is here." "The only stars you see in Metropolis are riding around in limos." "You're the one who wanted the rat race." "I couldn't live there." "Not for a minute." "There's something about the city." "The pace." "Everyone going somewhere." "Impatient." "Like you." "I guess you finally found your niche... and stopped living out of that old suitcase." "I hope so, Dad." "Being in Metropolis, working at the Planet... it's a dream come true, but..." "But you still feel like you don't fit in." "Because I don't." "I don't fit in." "I have to control myself all the time." "Never use my powers." "Because I don't want to jeopardize my chance to lead a normal life." "Whatever that means." "Just being human, like you and Mom." "Living, working, meeting someone." "Having a family." "We don't know if that's possible." "You can't risk anyone finding out about you." "If they knew you came from another planet..." "But I can't hide forever, Dad." "There has to be a way that I can be Clark Kent... and still use what I've been given to do some good." "You'll find a way, boy." "You'll find a way." "Have you ever met him?" "Lex Luthor?" "No, but I read all five of his unauthorized autobiographies." "Rags to riches." "Wrong side of the tracks." "Self-made billionaire." "Owns dozens of companies, employs thousands of people." "Man of the Year, every year." "Has his finger in every pie." "But rarely appears in public." "He won't give personal interviews." "There he is!" "Good evening." "Nice to see you." "Hi." "Good evening." " Good evening." " How are you?" "You're on my phone list, Margaret." "Harry, congratulations on the bio." "I liked that editorial on the ozone." "Sen. Washington." "Hi, how are you?" "Nice to come." "Gentlemen, Sen. Morales." "Lex Luthor." "Why haven't you returned my calls?" "Gentlemen." "Lois Lane, Daily Planet." "I assure you that I'll never make that mistake again." "She's something, isn't she?" "Clark?" "Yeah." "She is something." "I hope you'll forgive me for being so bold." "But boldness is a trait I find very attractive in a woman, Ms. Lane." "Thank you." " Anyway, Mr. Luthor, I..." " Lex." "I know that you're hesitant to give interviews." "You can understand a man in my position." "I wouldn't want to be... misinterpreted." "And I have had one or two bad experiences with the media." "But not with me." "So, why don't we make it... tonight?" "Yeah, mind if I cut in?" "Lex, this is Clark Kent." "Clark works at the Planet." "A pleasure." "Later." "Clark, you idiot!" "It's taken me a year to get this close." "What, this close?" "I would have thought square dancing was more your style." "Actually, I learned from a Nigerian princess... who studied ballroom dancing in England." " Really?" "How fascinating." " Where are you going?" "Lois, what are you doing?" "Being a reporter." "You should try it sometime." "Lois." "You can't come in." "It's..." "Just look around." "Macedonian." "Belonged to Alexander the Great." "A brilliant tactician." "Alexander's strategy was simple." "Always seize the high ground." "It was with this sword that he defeated Darius..." "Darius III, and was proclaimed King of Asia." "You surprise me, Mr. Kent." "I'm not often surprised." "I hope you don't mind us looking around." "You have a beautiful home, Lex." "Have you seen the view from here?" "The tallest building in Metropolis." "I must confess that I love the fact... that everyone in the city has to look up in order to see me." "Let's get back to the party." "I think you'll find my announcement will interest you." "After you." "Ladies and gentlemen, honored guests... my friends." "We've come here tonight for a good cause." "Thanks to your generosity, the Luthor House for Homeless Children... will soon be a reality." "Thank you." "As you know, I've dedicated myself... to improving the quality of the lives of the citizens of Metropolis." "Tonight, I'd like to go further." "Now, it is my sad understanding... that the Congress of Nations intends to cancel the Space Station Prometheus." "Profit aside, the potential benefits... that a zero-gravity laboratory could bring... most importantly, pharmaceuticals... that could end many crippling diseases here on Earth... must not be lost to the citizens of this planet." "So, therefore, I have decided to commit my total financial support... toward the building of a privately-owned space laboratory." "I've submitted my proposal to the Congress of Nations... and I'm awaiting their outcome." "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Space Station Luthor." "Now, step right up." "Don't be shy." "Feast your eyes on an engineering marvel." "A signpost to a new age of scientific advancement." "A flagship, cruising into the new century." "My gift to the future of mankind... the children of Earth." "Will that be all for this evening, sir?" "Yes, Asabi, thank you." "That will be all." "Pleasure, sir." "Good morning, Lois." "Maybe for you." "I've been at it for hours." "I went back to EPRAD." "I followed the truck with the wreckage of the Messenger inside." "They brought it into this hangar." "I tried to get in, but your friend Dr. Baines threw me out." "There's a man down there!" "Call the fire department!" "We need help!" "Back off, all right?" "Call the fire department!" "People, get back." "There's a man down here." "Ten-five." "There's a man down, here." "Back off." "Get these people back." "Okay." "I got you." "You're all right." "You okay?" "That man saved me!" "He pulled me out." " He's delirious." " Obviously." "Look at you." "You're a mess." "From now on, do what I do." "Bring a change of clothes to work." "Hey, C.K." " Hold that elevator." " Where are you off to?" "Lois sent me to pick up that report from Platt." "He called this morning, said he hoped we can read it." "She also told me to take a copy over to my friends at STAR Labs to analyze." " What happened to your suit?" " Don't ask." "See you later." "Morning, handsome." "Hi, Cat." "If you'll excuse me, I..." "No, I don't think I will excuse you." "I've asked you to have dinner with me two times." "That's two times more than I've ever had to ask any man to do... anything." "I'm sorry, I've been really swamped." "Lois and I..." "Poor Lois." "All work and no personality." "Well, if I can take a rain check on that dinner..." "Sure." "But don't wait too long." "Okay." "I love it when they play hard to get." "Catnapping?" "Anything?" "I must have called 50 ex-employees... that worked at EPRAD the same time Platt did." "None of them are talking." "I don't know." "Maybe there's nothing to talk about." "So, what do we do now?" "First, we piece together Platt's report." "If that's possible." "Then we try and figure out a way to prove that Dr. Baines got a copy of it." "If there's any written evidence... that Platt found coolant devices and Baines ignored it..." "I hope you didn't make dinner plans." "I am all yours." "It's done." "The Messenger is at the hangar." "I knew that I could leave everything in your capable hands." "What's he doing here?" "I have an errand for him to run." "Platt has to be silenced... and those reporters, Clark Kent and Lois Lane... are also becoming a problem." "Lois Lane was there this morning." "Followed the truck to the hangar." "All right, do what you want with Platt." "You leave the reporters to me." "Tell me, Lex, do you have some special interest in those reporters?" " Clark Kent, for example?" " Kent's nothing." "He's a giblet." "And Lois Lane?" "She's a very talented young woman." "I may have use for her." "Unfortunately, she may not be so easily seduced." "As me?" "Have I seduced you?" "I thought it was you who seduced me." "I'm warning you." "Stay away from her." "Antoinette, you know me." "Perhaps a little too well." "You know I don't like threats." "I don't care." "Everything we've worked for, we are so close... and I will not let her interfere." "You do know what I'm capable of." "Yes, I do." "And that is part of the appeal." "This is impossible." "Nothing matches." "No dates." "We're never going to get through this." "I'm starving!" "I wish I knew some good Chinese takeout." "I know a place." "I'll be right back." " Don't you want to know what I want?" " I'll bring an assortment." "That was quick." "I took a shortcut." "It's still hot." "This is out of this world." "It's in Chinese." "Don't tell me that you read..." ""A good horse is like a member of the family."" "I hate that." "That is not a fortune." "You are a strange one, Clark Kent." " Am I?" " Yeah." "But I think I got you figured out." "Really?" "It didn't take you very long." "It's my business, looking beyond the external." "Don't fall for me, farm boy." "I don't have time for it." "Come on, let's go find Platt." "Maybe he can help us decipher this." "Lois, let me look first." "Don't be silly." "I've seen it all." "War, crime, famine." "Dr. Platt?" "Wait." "The water." " Suicide?" "That's ridiculous." " He's tried it before." "No sign of forced entry." "No sign of struggle." "Nobody saw anybody come in or out." "But we were on the verge of proving his theory..." "That something he was working on was right." "There's no way..." "If the man's gonna barbecue himself, he ought to use sauce." "The man's name was Samuel Platt." "He was brilliant." "A scientist, and someone who cared about others." "Under the circumstances, I don't believe that kind of humor is appropriate." "Sorry, buddy." "Really, I'm sorry." " Are you okay?" " We should have known." " We should have protected him." " How?" "I don't know, but we should've done something." "Look, Clark, all we can do now is try and prove him right." "We have a lot of work to do." "It's only 5:30." "Why don't we try and get a few hours sleep... and I'll come by for you about 9:00, okay?" "I can't help it, Mom, I feel responsible." "If you could have helped him, you would have." "Clark, what's this about a worker caught in an explosion down a manhole?" "Your mother told me he recognized you." "Dad, the workman was really out of it." "I mean, nobody believed him when he pointed to me." "One of these days, you'll pull one of your stunts..." " and a nut with a video camera..." " What did you want him to do?" "Did you just want him to let the man die?" " How are your clothes holding out?" " Don't change the damn subject." "I have been thinking about this." "Maybe it's a crazy idea, but, Mom, how's your sewing machine?" " Is it still working?" " I think so." "I have a favor to ask." "I think I need some kind of outfit." "Outfit?" "Like a disguise I could wear, when things like that explosion happen." "I could..." "Mom, I gotta go." "Lois is here." "Lois again, huh?" "Bye." "I said 9:00." "I thought you'd be naked." "Ready." "I was on the phone." "I'll be out in a jiff." "We'd better be going." "Explain something to me." "You eat like an eight-year-old, and you look like Mr. Hardbody." "What's your secret?" "And can I have it?" "But, Henderson, if there were contusions on Dr. Platt's head..." " then he could've..." " Inconclusive." "He could have gotten them last week." "I'm sorry, but the autopsy result is gonna read: "suicide."" "This isn't over." "I'll call you back." "Who's that?" "That's Mrs. Platt, and her daughter, Amy." "Mom, I was supposed to be at Susan's by now." "Okay, honey." "Take my coat, and just wait over there by the elevator for me, okay?" " Bye." " Excuse me." "I haven't told her yet." "You see, everything we worked for was for Amy." "The space lab Prometheus was the only hope, and now..." "Mrs. Platt, when you and Amy left your husband..." "No, we never left him." "He made us leave." "He was sure that they were going to come after him." "He was afraid that Amy and I would get hurt... so he sent us away." "Do you have any idea who might have..." "All I know is..." "Samuel knew that Prometheus was being sabotaged... and that knowledge got him killed." "Please, help me." "Don't let his daughter grow up believing her father committed suicide." "We'll try." "We promise." "Thank you." "We interrupt our regularly scheduled program... to bring you this special report from the Congress of Nations." "I am pleased to announce that we have unanimously decided... that the Space Station Prometheus will proceed." "What about Lex Luthor's proposal?" "This body would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Mr. Lex Luthor... for his generous offer... but it is our firm belief... that the space station should go forward as originally planned." "A project dedicated to global cooperation... for the advancement of the sciences." "The colonist launch, scheduled for next week... will proceed as planned." "The rocket will also carry an auxiliary propulsion module." "Should any serious problems arise... we shall be forced to cancel the mission." "We don't anticipate that happening, we anticipate success." "So, I gave STAR Labs Dr. Platt's report." "They recreated the launch in a hologram." "It was really smooth." "Anyway, they concluded that Platt's theory was right on." "There was deliberate sabotage... and the transport explosion was no accident." "Congrats." "He was right." "Platt was right." " Now we can write the story." " I can write it." " With my help." " With your help." "And if we can convince people there was sabotage..." " and who was behind it..." " We can stop him." "Why don't we have dinner?" " I don't know." " We should celebrate." "Okay." "Dinner." "Great." "Wait a second, what am I talking about?" "I can't." "I have plans tonight." "Luthor?" "Yeah." "Tell me something." "How far are you willing to go to get this interview?" "Not that it's any of you concern, but as I told you before, this is business." "What is your problem, anyway?" "You've had a chip on your shoulder since the day I met you." " You resented the fact..." " Perry foisted an inexperienced..." " Snob." " What?" "You are a snob, Lois." "Coming from Mr. Green Jeans, that's really..." "I live by three rules." "I never get involved with my stories, I never let anyone else get there first... and I never sleep with anyone I work with." "This is business." "Your mother and father both died when you were 14, correct?" "Why don't I just have my office send you a biography?" "Because I don't want the standard line." "I wanna know the real Lex Luthor." "What makes you tick, what you strive for... what you want." "Pleasure." "The pursuit of pleasure." " Does that surprise you?" " I would have guessed you'd say power." "Power is a means, not an end." "You took over your first big company when you were 21." "There were rumors that that buyout was coerced." "Is it true that the board of directors were..." " Now, was the food not to your liking?" " It was delicious." " It's just that when I work, I..." " All work and no play." "Is that your credo, Lois Lane?" "I think that we should..." "Why don't we just enjoy the evening... enjoy each other... let down your hair, loosen the tie." "I'm not wearing a tie." "But you're so tense." "Why don't you just let your defenses down?" "I think you've gotten the wrong idea about this dinner, Lex." "I hope you don't think that we're here... merely because you're a beautiful young woman." "That wouldn't speak very well, for either of us." "Look, you want an interview, right?" "A scoop." "I understand that." "Quid quo pro." "Let me tell you what I want." "My talent in life is not making money." "It's not juggling companies." "It's character assessment." "And I sense things about you." "Possibilities, potentials." "You have the intelligence, the spirit, and the vision... to transcend the mundane." "And, just so there are no misunderstandings... you are beautiful." "Lex, I have a story to write tonight." "I should get going." "No dessert?" "No." "I never have dessert." "Really?" "You don't know what you're missing." "Good night." "Well?" "I blew it." "I didn't get the interview." "No, did he ask you out again?" "I don't know." "I guess so." "You guess so?" "I hope you said yes." "Lex Luthor is the world's most eligible bachelor." "Mr. Right could be right out there." "Come back to Earth, Lucy." "This is reality we're talking about." "All right, let me see if I've got this straight." "You want me to publish a story... that says that the Prometheus project is being sabotaged... that the space transport Messenger exploded... and that the transport carrying the habitation module... to Space Station Prometheus... scheduled to be launched in less than three days... is probably also going to blow up." "And all of this information... you got from interviewing Samuel Platt... a man who was banned from the scientific community... underwent psychiatric treatment, and committed suicide... although he was "probably" murdered." "Now, does that about sum it up?" " Chief..." " Hard facts." "That's the name of this game." "Now go out there and get me some." " What we need is physical evidence." " I'll call Dr. Baines... and try to get permission to set up an independent examination." "Baines will not let you do that." "She could be involved." "Besides, we don't have time to play by the rules." "The colonist transport goes up in two days." "I'm calling." "Maybe someone else at EPRAD will authorize it." "You do that." "Where are you going?" " Nowhere." " I'm coming, too." "I guess I don't need to point this out to you, Lois... but this is dangerous." "Fine, you go back to writing obituaries..." "I'll grab the scoop of the century all by myself." "How do we get inside?" " We don't have to." " What?" "I watched them load the Messenger wreckage onto the truck." "The whole left side of the shuttle was bashed in." "That one isn't." "They're working on a phony shell." "Dr. Langley, contact the main gate." "Dr. Langley, main gate, please." "You're amazing." "Where'd you learn to do that?" "Reform school." "It was a bum rap." "Your friend Lois Lane is here." " Lois, this is so cool." " I think it's time we eliminated her." "Kill off The Daily Planet's star reporter?" "I'm surprised at the suggestion, Antoinette." "She suspects me, Lex." "You said I would never be implicated." "She lacks evidence." "Evidence is sometimes all that separates the criminal... from the successful businessman." "Or woman." "I told you I'd take care of her." "I did this for you, Lex." "And you've been paid very well." "In fact, your final installment is waiting in the helicopter." "Proceed as planned." "I promise, there will be no loose ends." "Lois, what do you expect to find here?" "Do you know what particle isolators even look like?" "Wow, smooth." "Take pictures of every inch of this wreck." "We'll have them analyzed later." "Then we'll have to break into Dr. Baines' office." "I am positive she's lying about that report." "I never trusted that woman, not from the very first time I met her." "The way she looked at Clark, very unprofessional." "Jimmy?" "Jimmy, get up." "Very impressive, Lois." "These days, a woman has to know self defense." "Okay, sorry about the late hour, folks." "Just doesn't seem to be enough time in a day." "Where are Lois and Jimmy?" "Clark?" "I assumed they'd be here." "All right, we're going to just start without them." "Okay, now... the piece on the recent sex-change operation in the royal family." "I kind of have mixed feelings about this." "L..." "Kent, the meeting's not over." "It's not like Lois or Jimmy to miss a staff meeting, sir." "I thought I'd go call around, if that's okay." "Hell of a way to run a railroad." "All right, let's see, where was I?" "Yeah, okay." "Kent?" " Kent, there you are." " Yes, sir." "They told me you were in here." "Yes, sir." "Did you make your call?" "I was just about to, sir." "Are you looking for something?" "No, sir." "Not really." "I guess I'd better be getting back." "Yes, sir." "When are you coming?" "Out of the closet..." "Soon, sir." "Very soon." "You'll never get away with this." "Everyone at the Planet knows where I am." "Let her go." "Put down those guns or I'll..." "Or you'll what?" "Nothing." "I told Perry I needed a task force." "A task force!" "What do I get?" "Amateurs." "I still can't believe you came barreling in here like some 500-pound gorilla." "If you thought we were in trouble, why didn't you bring the police?" " Look..." " Don't tell me, I already know." "Because you're like every other man in Metropolis." "You've got this testosterone surplus that says, "I can do it myself."" "Baines has got to kill us now." "I don't know why she hasn't done it already." " Lois, I've somehow managed to..." " Mess everything up?" "No kidding!" "Now hold on a second." "I'm not the one who snuck in here..." "What are you saying?" "Are you saying that this is my fault?" "At least I have the guts to come in here and..." "What am I saying?" "This probably is my fault." "Oh, God." "I sometimes do things." "You know, like jump into the pool without checking the water level first." "But, Clark, it's the only way I know how to do it." "How to get the job done, to get the respect that I want... that I deserve." "Do you remember when I told you about my three rules?" "I've broken every one of them." "I somehow manage to always get involved with my stories." "You slept with someone at work?" "Yeah." "It wasn't Jimmy, was it?" "Don't be ridiculous." "It was a long time ago, when I first started at The Daily Planet." "Claude." "He was French." "I must have been in love with him, or thought I was, anyway." "One night I told him about my story... and the next morning when I woke up, he was gone." "So was my story." "He won an award for that." "Didn't even thank me for my input." "I guess when you're in love with somebody... it doesn't matter how smart you are or how many rules you set for yourself... you're still vulnerable." "We're only human." "And what difference does it make now, anyway?" "We're just gonna die." "You know what you said about respect?" "I just want you to know that everybody on the Planet... everyone, thinks you're just about the best reporter they've every met." "Perry told me that the day I interviewed." " He did?" " Yeah." "And not that it really means anything coming from a hack from Nowheresville... but I think you're pretty terrific, too." "I'm sorry... about everything." "I know it's too late for apologies, but I never meant..." "I hope you'll forgive the accommodations." "But then again, I never was much of a hostess." "Answer one question." " Why?" " It's simple, Lois." "Profit." "Outer space is no different than any other new frontier." "It'll belong to those who get there first and seize the high ground." "Sorry you won't be around to enjoy the rest of the evening... but accidents do happen." " Accidents?" " Yes." "You see, while dismantling the orbital maneuvering system... the monomethylhydrazine leaked... and mixed with the nitrogen hydroxide." "Unfortunately, the blast killed three nosey reporters... who didn't bother to read the sign." " Clark, how did you..." " A missing link." "Come on." "What happened?" "I don't know." "I guess the force from the explosion must have carried us here." "Look." "Good night, Antoinette." "Sweet dreams." " Were you scared, Jimmy?" " Scared?" "No!" "No, ladies, not at all." "I was more concerned with the larger issue... unless we got out of there alive, the colonist launch could blow up as well." "I just spoke to ground control over at EPRAD." "They went back over the colonist launch vehicle... with a fine-tooth comb." "Found the same coolant problem in the protective bands, and fixed it." "Launch is all set for tomorrow morning." "It's a no-go for you, Lois." "No reporters allowed." "Imagine The Daily Planet getting an exclusive personal account... of being on the colonist transport." "No can do, Lois." "All right." "Another time, maybe." "Clark, you're gonna be pleased to know... that Platt's widow and his daughter are back on board." "Thank you very much, sir." "I appreciate that." "Clark, I just..." "I wanted to thank you for all your help getting us out of there." "I'm glad it all worked out." "And one other thing." "If you ever breathe a word of anything I told you in there..." " I will deny it and I will..." " You can trust me, Lois." "Right." "Heard that one before." "Hey, Lois, good luck!" "Mobile logical monitoring devices should be self-activated." "I'm still showing a red light in Sector 7." "We will advise." "Attention, all ground personnel." "All service vehicles depart the gantry area." "I don't know about this costume thing, Clark." "It'll work." "It has to." "If I have an effective disguise..." "I won't have to worry about people finding out about me." "Come on, let's get started." " What about that one?" " I don't know." "What do you think?" "One thing's for sure, nobody's gonna be looking at your face." "Mom!" "They don't call them tights for nothing." "I don't know." "There's something missing." "Something..." "What's that?" "The baby blanket we found you in, so long ago." "And this." "Your folks would be proud of you." "We sure are." "Thanks, Mom." "I'm not so sure about the cape, though." "Really?" "I love it." "It'll be great when you're flying." "Hey, you two, come on in here." "Launch vehicle's about ready to go up." "...preparation for the upcoming launch." "All have undergone a series of examinations..." "The colonists are just about all on board." "...to function in an off-Earth environment." "This will be the first time that a group this large... drawn from the general population, will..." "Historic occasion." "Remember when you were a kid, Clark, and we watched the first moon landing?" "On a more personal note, head columnist..." "What do you think?" "That's my boy." "That's right." "What if somebody recognizes you?" "I don't think they will, Mom, because it won't be me." "Yeah." "Attention, all personnel, we have reached and cleared..." "Booster, set on my mark." "Prepare to synchronize all information processing... and data retrieval systems at this time." "Main computer panel control transfer to redundant computer sequence." ""T"minus three minutes." "All technical personnel should deplane at this time." "Mission Control advises ground crew that the system check is on." "Panel is now green in all sectors." "All bio-monitoring systems are go." "The umbilical cord attached to the liquid-fuel booster... has been disengaged." "One minute and counting." "Almost ready to go." "Section 8, please double-check your indicators." " Roger." " Confirmed, no problems." "Forty-five seconds and counting." "Go back to BOCS again." "Pick up 255.66..." "Cabin temperature is 60 degrees, cabin heat exchange is 48 degrees." "Oh, my God, it's a bomb." "Baines." "It's a bomb!" "Someone, help!" "There's a bomb!" "Help!" "Perfect ignition." "There she blows." "Thirty seconds and counting." "Circuit failure in the main panel." "Due to a mechanical failure... we are suspending the countdown at 29 seconds." "We will advise." "I don't believe it." "Something's gone wrong." "...there has been a launch termination." " Clark." "Seemingly, the computers have sensed some sort of a problem..." "What the hell is that?" " Is that a bird?" " Is it a plane?" "Nope." "Just a guy in a pair of tights and a cape." "Are we scrubbing the mission?" "Get away from that!" "What kind of a lunatic are you?" "That's a bomb, and you're..." "Excuse me." "What the hell are you?" "Yes, sir, due to equipment problems and an unexplained occurrence..." "There was a bomb." "He... ate it." " Hi." " Hi, I like your costume." "Thank you." "My mother made it for me." " What's your name?" " Amy." "Amy Platt." " Who are you?" " I'm a friend." " Can you teach me how to fly?" " Not fly." "But once this lab is operational, walk." "That's very possible." "Attention, colonists." "The mission has been scrubbed." "Prepare to disembark." "That's it, then." "It's all over." "Why?" "Once the thrusters have been fired, they have to be replaced." " We lose our launch window." " Yes." "We just have to forget about Space Station Prometheus." "No, you don't." "There's nothing wrong with this transport vehicle, or the station." "You only need to get there." "How are they supposed to do that?" "Easy." "I'll give them a boost." "I want security tech teams over every inch of that transport." " Lift-off." " What?" "That's impossible!" "Lift-off." "All Prometheus personnel, prepare for docking." " I still don't believe it." "A man who flies." " It's all over the TV." "Jimmy, don't believe everything you see on TV." "I'll tell you one thing, though." "Whoever pulled off a hoax like this is..." "Great shades of Elvis!" "I see it, but I don't believe it." "What, a man who flies?" "No, Lois Lane finally, literally, swept off her feet." "Too bad he's an alien." "I think, considering the fact that I saw you first... you owe me an exclusive." "Is that the rule?" "Well, no, but I'd appreciate it very much." "Wait a minute!" " How do I find you?" " I'll be around." "Real smooth." "Did you find out what the "S" stands for?" "Super..." "Superman." "Let's get back to work." "We've got a newspaper to run." "An astonishing debut, Superman." "Haven't you heard?" "That's what they're calling you." "It's international news." "So, to what do I owe this honor?" "I came to tell you that I know who you are." "Who you really are." "I suppose, on its face, it was a good plan." "Destroy Prometheus, so that you could put your own space station in its place." "Then, not only would you make billions... from the patents of the vaccines developed... but you would also be the supposed savior of the space program." "Well, it's an interesting theory, Superman, but I'm afraid that's all it is." "You were also responsible for the deaths of at least three people." "Cdr." "Laderman, Samuel Platt, Dr. Baines." "Those probably aren't the only skeletons in your closet." "So you've become both my judge and executioner?" "Like any other citizen of the planet, I must obey the law." "I am not above it." "You, it seems, believe you are." " I hold a certain position in this city." " Yes." "And there is nothing that would please me more than to see you dethroned... and behind bars like any common criminal." " That day will come." " Well, I trust not." "But, as they say, let the games begin." "One more thing." "If you ever need to find me... all you have to do is look up." "Morning, Lois." " Clark, where have you been?" " Around." "Not that it's anywhere near as exciting... as the stories you covered on The Smallville Press... but Superman was in the newsroom, and I just about nailed down the exclusive." "Well, congratulations." "Clark, you should have seen him." "Up close, he is the most magnificent figure of a man that I have ever..." "Sounds like he made quite an impression on you." "He did." "Why, are you jealous?" " Of Superman?" "Should I be?" " Please." " Where are we going?" " Terrorist shootout on Sixth." "And, Kent, I'll ask the questions." "English"

"previously on "big shots"." "the arresting officer found a little black book with the names of all of her johns." "Including me?" "When I went to the evidence room this morning to look for that book,it was gone." "Stay away from her." "Her?" "Lisbeth." "I have no intention of pursuing her." "You will screw it up." "Two weeks ago,I was a happily married man." "I'm not so sure I'm comfortable being the "single guy." "" There are some good ones still out there." "What kind of man would lie to the woman he's cheating on his wife with?" "What are you doing here?" "Well,I came here to tell her." "And you know what?" "We kind of hit it off." "With my wife?" "That's impressive." "Thank you." "What are you doing differently?" "New grip?" "He's not doing anything differently." "He's not doing anything at all." "Your game improves when you stop having sex." "One time,I didn't notice janelle's new haircut." "She got so mad,I almost qualified for the masters." "Seriously,you haven't slept with anyone since you and stacey broke up?" "How long has it been,a month?" "37 days,8 hours,and. 42 minutes exactly." "But who's counting?" "I once went a month without sex." "Brutal." "Ank god puberty kicked in." "Hey,I'm a busy guy." "I'm the head of a major corporation." "I see my kids almost every weekend." "Who has time to date?" "Who said anything about dating?" "Relationships come in all forms." "Some last 15 years and end very badly." "Others last 15 minutes and end very,very happily." "Speaking of happy endings,have we heard anything about dontrelle's black book?" "I told you ." "let me worry about it." "He worries about the problems,so his client doesn't have to." "Well,keep me close,crisis manager." "My career is at stake here,not to mention my relationship with lisbeth." "I don't like to be kept in the dark." "Right,unless there's a tranny hooker in there with you." "Look,I believe in relationships,too,but,I mean,you've been almost single for a month." "A little casual sex wouldn't kill you." "It might relieve some stress." "What?" "I can't say that because I'm a woman?" "No,you can't say that 'cause I think that constitutes sexual harassment." "You want to relieve some stress,tell me again why we need to hire these consultants." "Because when the brash new C.E.O. Wants to undertake a major restructure, you need an independent firm in your corner to convince the board." "Or else I may be the former brash new C.E.O." "Trust me.You're gonna love these guys." "I used them last year on the cisco dea" "ted hunter,right?" "Mm hmm." "Hi." "I'm rebecca parks." "Where's ted?" "Kauai ." "sandy beach,mai tai,the whole bit." "He retired." "I guess you could say I'm the new ted." "With . with much softer hands." "Hi,hon." "What's all this?" "I hope you don't mind,but marla's going to be staying with us for a while." ""A while"?" "Could you be more specific?" "Her apartment went condo,and she has nowhere to go." "But why us?" "Doesn't she have any relatives?" "A hotel?" "A woman's shelter?" "Don't be silly." "She's my best friend." "Plus,she went through that awful breakup with kyle,karl." "She needs emotional support." "What about us?" "You know what dr.Filner said." "That's just it,honey." "We're so lucky." "We have each other." "Marla has no one." "Unless you count her multiple personalities." "Hey,you're still here." "Something smells good." "Pancakes." "I didn't mean the pancakes." "Well,in that case ." "oh,I think we should skip breakfast and crawl back in bed." "Who needs a bed?" "Well?" "Duncan,it's me." "I just finished ." "mom?" "You slept here?" "Yes,cameron." "I finished the press list for the runway party tomorrow night." "Oh,great." "Any problems?" "Yeah,I caught one mistake." "Apparently,you invited several women over the age of 21." "Aw,just like old times." "You making me breakfast." "Cam giving' me lip." "And speaking of old times,sleepover's a big step for you two." "What are you,monogamous now?" "That's right,cam." "Your father and i are monogamous." "Oh,what's wrong,duncan?" "Do you need to consult your lawyer before answering?" "You don't quit,do you?" "Yeah,we're monogamous,cam." "That what you want to hear?" "So." "do you want to stay for pancakes?" "Sure." "Just as long as I don't have to watch duncan lick the syrup off of your stomach." "Well,you were right." "I like her." "Seems like a team player." "And besides,she knows the board inside and out." "I'm not sold." "I think her take on the cable division was off." "Why don't I make a few calls,set up a few meetings?" "Don't bother." "I mean,if ted trusted her with his company,that's good enough for me." "I think I'm gonna go with my gut on this one." "Your gut . that's the organ leading you here?" "Have you lost your mind?" "Fix maa up on a date?" "Why?" "Come on,karl." "Look at her." "You can see what a mess she's been since her breakup." "What makes you think she wasn't like this before the breakup?" "What about james?" "He's single now." "Ooh,or duncan." "No,duncan's seeing lisbeth again,and james isn'T." "insane." "Then what about one of those nice research chemists you work with?" "I just don't think it's a very good idea." "Don't you like her,karl?" "Like her"?" "I mean,don't you find her attractive?" ""Attractive"?" "Yes,I guess i find her mildly attractive." "And she's fun,right?" "Yes,she's sexy and fun." "I didn't say "sexy." "You didn't?" "My mistake." "So,what I don't understand is,if this is how you feel,why won't you set her up?" "All right,I'll set her up." "Great." "Now,pick someone who will appreciate her." "Someone like you." "Only maybe a little taller." "and who works out." "Yeah." "It's not bad enough my ex mistress is living in my house,but now I'm running a dating service." "Karl,would you stop complaining?" "You've slept with more women in the last two weeks than I have in the last 20 years." "What do you care?" "You're not sleeping with maria anymore." "You guys don't get it." "You've always had luck with women." "But for me,marla was the best sex of my life." "Is it so hard to understand why I wouldn't want to set her up?" "Look,it's simple." "Just fix her up with someone she'll hate,someone totally wrong for her." "Then you get huge points from wendy,and it's over." "Gentlemen." "Terrence." "Surprised to see you here,duncan." "Yeah?" "Why's that?" "It's fashion week." "Hundreds of supermodels prowling manhattan,but you're probably too busy with lisbeth to care about any of that." "Send her my best,will you?" "Yeah,I'll get right on that." "Great." "So,if that black book doesn't destroy my relationship with lisbeth,I got a city full of models to do it for me." "Hey,you know what?" "What if there's another name in dontrelle's book,a heavy hitter who wants that book even more than you do?" "And got his hands on it first." "What are you saying?" "I'm saying,as your crisis manager,maybe this crisis isn't even about you." "So,how do we find out?" "Just let me do my job ." "fr of charge,of course." "I think if you consolidate marketing and communications,it frees you up." "Look at the numbers." "Oh,wow,that could work." "It's just a hunch,but I'd like to work something up,see where we land." "What?" "Do I have ink on my face?" "Oh,no." "I'm sorry." "Ah,you must be referring to the incriminating photos." "Or maybe the mba from harvard had something to do with it." "That's your alma mater,right?" "James walker ." "38 years old,raised in lake forest,illinois,undergrad at madison,graduate work at harvard,enjoys golf and skiing,father of two,divorce pending." "I'm a very good researcher." "Or a really bad stalker." "So." "looks like it's about quitting time." "You know,it's been a while since I've been in new york." "I was thinking maybe you could point me in the direction of a giant cocktail." "Um,yes." "There's the peninsula." "If you go back to your hotel,you head south on madison ." "james." "I'm hitting on you." "Oh,right." "I knew that." "Yoknow,I I didn't want to be presumptuous." "Well,why don't I take you?" "The king cole bar." "They have martinis the size of big gulps." "Great." "Then I'll only have two." "Allow me." "Thank you." "Duncan collinsworth." "Wanda!" "What are you doing here?" "I just got back into town." "It's fashion week." "Thank you for throwing the party for us." "Oh,you know me . any time I can mix business with pleasure." "or pleasure with pleasure." "You look good,duncan." "God,I've missed those eyes." "Well,they've been right here in my head the whole time." "It's not the only thing I missed." "Hi." "Hey,lizzy,come on in." "Sorry if I'm early." "This is wanda." "She works for luca luca." "Lisbeth collinsworth." "Collinsworth?" "Your sister?" "I hope." "Uh,ex wife." "And dinner date." "Well,I'll let you go." "I just wanted to drop by in person and rsvp." "I'll see you at the party." "And it's nice to have met you,lisbeth." "You know what?" "I'm not even gonna ask." "All in the past." "Hey,you know that thing cam brought up this morning?" "You can say it,duncan." "Monogamy." "Yeah." "I want you to know that you don't have to worry." "I want to make this work." "I'm glad." "Now,could you please feed me so I don't end up looking like one of your models?" "Too late." "So." "you want to come in?" "Well,unless that's a trick question,the answer's "yes." "" Hey,you know what?" "Before we do this ." "I knew it." "Here comes the kinky." "No." "It's just I don't want to be presumptuous." "For a guy who doesn't want to be presumptuous,you spend a lot of time being presumptuous." "No,it's just what we're about to do here,um,I haven't done in a while." "At least,not with someone who wasn't my wife,I mean." "How long exactly?" "Oh,20 years,give or take a semester." "So,if it's too intense ." "it's fine." "Intense is good." "I like intense." "20 years,huh?" "Come on." "This should be fun." "***" "I mean,with the exception of yours truly,of course." "Oh,no." "He was my first C.E.O. You always remember your first." "That's touching." "I appreciate the time,dontrelle." "For you,brody,anytime." "And make sure you tell that nice friend of yours I said "hello." "" Yeah,I will." "Duncan will be thrilled." "No,silly." "Not duncan." ""The other one"?" "You know,the nice man from the club,the one who got me out of jail ." "terrence,I think his name is." "Terrence bailed you out?" "Yeah." "And he didn't even ask me to pay him back." "All he wanted me to do was answer a few questions." "Like." "like if I had any idea where my black book might be." "Well played,terrence." "Thanks." "Big Shots Season 1 Episode 4" "That sucked." "Almost like i hit it." "You know what this means,right?" "He did it." "Our litt james had sex." "Everything go all right,buddy?" "You remember the fundamentals?" "I managed." "So,how was it?" "It was great." "Okay." "That was a little vague." "First sex as a single man in 20 years." "Some of us would like some details." "It was sex between two consenting adults." "What else can I say?" "More!" "You can say more." "All right." "It was casual." "And to be honest with you,that's all I'm capable of right nowow." "I'm not up for complications." "Sex without complications?" "Oh,man,you've been out of the game too long." "Sex is always complicated." "I mean,look at me." "For the first time in my life,I'm committed to being faithful." "I mean,I want it." "I really want it." "And yet,you chose fashion week to test yourself." "Hey,how about we come along to your fashion show?" "You know,just to keep you out of trouble." "You'd do that for me?" "A party full of stunning models and free drinks?" "Sure." "What are friends for?" "Where the hell you been?" "Getting bad news." "Terrence bailed dontrelle out of jail." "Even money says by now he's got the book." "Damn,I could kill that guy." "Good." "A murder rap to go along with the solicitation charge." "Look,I got this,all right?" "Hey,nothing makes my job harder than a homicidal client." "or a horny one." "And you,my friend,are both." "phil." "phil!" "Oh,Mr. Mixworthy." "Wh,goodness." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't even ." "I didn't hear you." "Let me get this." "Whew,sorry." "No problem." "Uh,how's it going down here?" "Oh,wonderfully,wonderfully." "When I sent out that memo,I didn't dream that the C.E.O. Himself would be coming down to,uh" ",observe the results." "Well,I'm glad everything's going so well,but,actually,there's something of a slightly more personal nature I came to discuss." "Oh,really?" "You see,my wife has this friend." "which is why I think you should seriously consider pitching an increase in the rate of acquisitions." "Interesting." "Given the banking division's success in the private equity markets,I think it's the right move." "Increasing acquisitions is a mistake." "I'm sorry?" "James and i put that department together." "We considered your ideas in the initial research,but with the regulatory commission getting pressure from congress ." "I read your report." "It's premature." "Look,even if you decide it's not the right move to make ." "it's not." "November '08 rolls around,we have no idea where private equity will land." "It doesn't matter where it lands." "That's not the issue." "It's crucial to go to the board with big,sexy ideas." "Or we could go with "smart" ones." "That might be an approach." "Um,katie,can I talk to you for a second in private?" "Excuse me." "What are you doing?" "Giving my opinion." "That's what you pay me for." "I know your opinion." "Now I want to hear rebecca'S." "What is going on here?" "Two days ago,you were the guy that didn't even want to bring a consultant in." "Now she opens her mouth,and you're ready to hand over your firstborn." "Oh." "I get it." "You like her." "No." "Wait." "What does that have to do with acquisitions?" "You're right." "It probably falls more in the category of "withdrawals." "" Katie,when we put our department together,I wasn't the C.E.O. Of this company." "I have to look at things differently now." "Like her ass,you mean?" "Oh,come on." "Listen,I've got a plan here,okay?" "And I need rebecca's help." "Trust me on this." "Can you do that?" "You're the boss." "Honestly,if christine ebersole had not wothe tony for "grey gardens," I do not know what I would have done." "There was no one on this planet who could have portrayed little edie with such poignancy." ""Grey gardens" sounds fascinating." "And the way you discuss theater,phil . you're so eloquent." "Well,thank you,marla." "Aren't you sweet?" "I love musicals." "Unfortunately,my last boyfriend was completely disinterested in anything cultural." "He was a real downer. in every way." "You know,marla,I hope you don't think this too forward of me, but I would consider it an honor if you'd allow me to take you to see a broadway musical." "I would love that,phil." "Come on,hon." "Let's go get the dessert." "We're going to let you two get to know each other." "They really seem to be hitting it off." "Nice work,hon." "Really need to work on my gaydar." "Cam,what are you doing here?" "Uh,marketing wanted me to drop off the latest field research." "Where have you been?" "Why?" "Was I out past curfew?" "I was having dinner." "with your mother." "What's that mean . "hmm"?" "I mean,I was fine when this thing between you and mom was casual,but e's getting invested here." "I can tell." "I just don't want to see her get hurt." "I have no intention of hurting anyone." "You never do,duncan." "But it's like she's lost all long term memory." "I mean,how many times have you done this before?" "Dated her and cheated?" "Look,I'm only gonna say this once,so listen carefully." "I'm with your mother now." "Like it or not,I care about her." "I'm committed." "Okay,but if you ask me,she's the one who needs to be committed." "Oh,phil!" "Yes!" "Oh,phil!" "All this "noise" giving you any ideas?" "A few." "Terrence." "Duncan's sent his muscle." "You're a difficult man to track down." "Not difficult enough,apparently." "So,I'm guessing you have the book by now." "What do you want for it?" "Unfortunately,brody,nothing you have would be of much value to me." "But among my holdings is a tabloid newspaper with a dwindling circulation." "What better way to drive up readership than to publish the sordid exploits of an errant C.E.O. In the form a little black book?" "Terrence,we're all aware of what a tycoon you are." "But you haven't run the story yet,which must mean you don't have the book,do you?" "Tell you what,brody ." "your friend duncan ." "he enjoys making deals." "He made one with me." "So,why don't i make you one,hmm?" "You find that little black book first,you destroy it." "If I find it first." "I'll publish it." "Okay,so,we don't know where the book is,but neither does he." "So,what now?" "Now we find it before he does." "And how do we do that?" "One crisis at a time,okay?" "Look,I got my guys on the street." "I got my contacts at the precinct." "Don't worry,man.Something's gonna break soon." "Yeah,my spirit." "Hey,now cheer up,karl." "It's fashion week.Things could be worse." "How?" "How could things be worse than listening to my ex mistress have sex with a guy I thought was gay?" "You should be happy he hit it off with her." "Maybe this will get her out of your hair." "He's right.You just want her out of your house." "This guy could be the answer to all your prayers." "Maybe I have been a bit shortsighted." "If this works out,I'll have my house back and my wife." "Or maybe wendy will invite him to move in, and you can all live happily ever after." "Ladies and gentlemen,luca luca!" "Hey,james." "Guys,I'd like you to meet rebecca parks." "Uh,rebecca,this is brody johns and karl mixworthy." "tall,dark,and "drinky" headed your way." "Hey,sweetie.Hi." "Ooh,I haven't seen you in months." "This must be duncan." "Why don't,uh,we get you a drink?" "What happened,duncan?" "I mean,you always call me during fashion week." "Uh,he .he got sidetracked." "With his girlfriend." "Who used to be his wife." "Oh,wow,that sounds complicated." "It alwayis." "Hey,how would you like me to introduce you to a saudi prince?" "Oh.Bye." "So,I'm glad you showed up." "Thanks for inviting me.Fashion week ." "I always wanted to see what all the fuss was about, even if I am surrounded by supermodels." "What,there are other women in the room?" "So,has katie calmed down yet?" "Listen." "we came up together .katie and I.And me getting this new job ." "it's a new ball game." "It's a big adjustment for both of us." "Maybe there's more to it than just the job." "Like what?" "Like her feelings for you." "She has them,james." "Romantic ones.Plain and simple." "I think you're reading into it." "We are friends and colleagues." "Listen,james,a woman can tell what's going on with another woman." "And what happened back at the office today had nothing to do with amerimart or the restructure." "And you don't know katie." "When she has strong feelings about something,watch out." "Speaking of strong feelings, how about you and i go someplace where I'm not the shortest woman in the room?" "Okay,shorty.Let's go." "Thank you." "We got a live one at 2:00." "Oh,no.What's the intel on this one?" "That's wanda." "Spent a weekend with her in paris last year." "The year before that,five days in the french quarter." "Unbelievable.I'm living with two of the three women" "I've slept with in my entire life, and I'm not having sex with either one." "Hey,hey,hey,focus." "You are almost home free." "Isn't thera rule about monogamy ." "if you sleep with one person and wait 12 hours, it's safe to sleep with someone else?" "That's a half hour." "Yeah,and that's swimming,not sex." "Right." "Duncan." "Weren't you gonna say hello?" "Of course." "Why don't we blow this party and go back to my hotel?" "This should help you get in." "Excuse me." "Cam,wait." "It's not what you think." "Yeah,I'm guessing that's not the key to her heart." "I was gonna explain that.I left the key ." "just save it,duncan.I'm leaving." "The booze is flowing,the swag is waiting,and my job is done." "Just do me a favor." "Don't make a fool out of my mother." "You okay?" "You know what,guys?" "I'm just gonna call it a night." " Hi." " Hi." "We don't have to leave,do we?" "Your wife was crazy to let you go,you know?" "Yeah,I'm sure you say that to all the "recently cheated on, soon to be divorced" guys." "Yes,nosy." "That's my report for the board meeting." "Wouldn't mind a sneak peek." "You just saw the whole show." "I meant the report." "I know what you meant." "So,in your report,any surprises?" "Um,no." "Everything we talked about." "Just,uh,one change." "What's that?" "I'm,uh,recommending some additional downsizing." "Which departments?" "Well,uh." "katie'S." "Hey,lizzy,it's me." "I'm just calling to say hi." "Hope you and the girls had a fun night." "Um.call me later.Bye." "Wanda." "Hey." "Can I come in?" "Probably not a great idea." "Please." "I need to tell you something." "You and I .we've always had a great deal." "Lot of laughs,no strings,and then back to reality." "Yeah,we had some good times." "Listen,I don't know what the deal is with your ex." "That's your business." "How about this?" "We have a lot of fun,and I'll be gone in a few hours, and nobo will ever know." "How does that sound?" "My compliments to your trainer." "That's quite an offer." "And a few weeks ago,I probably would have taken you up on that." "I can't believe I'm about to say this." " You got to go." " You're kidding." "I don't think I am,no." "Um,look,you're a great girl." "Really." "really great." "But,um,I'm trying to make this thing work with my ex, and I'm probably a lost cause." "But I can't go down without a fight." "Damn.All the good ones are taken." "Hey,mom." "Cam?" "I I thought that you were at the party." "Oh,I'm sorry to scare you." "Duncan and I got in this thing,and it'S." "hello,cameron." "Mom,w what are you doing?" "Well,uh.we just ." "terrence and i were having dinner." ""Dinner"?" "You were out on a date?" "I'm outta here." "Cameron,wait." "We need to talk." "I really do want to explain." "Go ahead.Explain." "Your father and I have a very complicated relationship." "That's not an explanation." "It's an excuse." "It doesn't really matter what I say to you,does it?" "You'd just rather be angry all the time." "At me,at your father,at the world." "You're making this about me?" " No,cam.I'm trying ." " you know what I think?" "I think duncan really wants the two of you to work." "And even if he sucks at it,which he does, and even if he's completely incapable,his heart's in the right place." " I know it is." " And as messed up as he is." "he trusts you." "And I don't even know who that makes you right now, but as far as I'm concerned, you're worse than he is." "You went out with phil again last night?" "Uh huh,and I'm telling you,the man is perfect in every way." "And I mean every way." "I am so happy for you,marla." "You deserve this." "And to think,in my last relationship,I had to fake my,um,enthusiasm." "Really?" "But that's all over now,thanks to karl." "No problem." "Glad i could be of help." "Morning." "Well,uh,I will see you at the office." "Oh,no,what's the rush?" "Phil,sit." "Have a cup of coffee." "All right.Thank you." "So,do i hear wedding bells or,perhaps,a moving van?" "Karl,they just met." "He's such a romantic." "Yep." "What the hell is this?" " It's the recommendation to the ." " I know what it is." "Communications and marketing are merging, and I'm being transferred to seattle?" "I tried to reach you this morning." "Seattle?" "You ask me to trust you,and this is what I get?" "Kate,we're late.They're waiting for us.I'll explain in there." "Is that before or after they book my flight?" "Shut up for a second,will you?" "Listen,I told you you're gonna need to trust me." "Trust you?" "While I'm in seattle,you mean?" "You chose your girlfriend over me,and now you want me gone." "Well,tell her,guess what,it's over.She wins." "This has nothing to do with her." "Katie,you are one of my best friends." "Just walk in there with me and let this play out,okay?" " I promise." " Promise?" "I don't know how to break this to you, but right now,nothing means less to me than your promises." "As you can see,the extensive research provided by hunter and parks consulting reinforces the restructure of amerimart industries that I presented." "My hope is that you will move for an immediate vote in the matter." "Having said that,a slight addendum to the hunter recommendationsis in order." "The merger of communications and marketing is crucial and will, in fact,take place,which frees up katie graham, an invaluable part of our new york team,to stay here with us,and as of today," "take her post as new president of business development for all of amerimart industries." "Thank you for your time and support." "Phil?" "My assistant saidyou came up to see me." "Yes,uh,Mr. Mixworthy." "Uh,as you know,marla and I have been spending a lot of time gether, and she's decided that we should take our relationship to the next level,that we move in together." "Move in together where?" "Into my house." "Oh,that's fantastic,phil." "Congratulations." "Wait till I tell wendy." "No,no,you don't understand,Mr. Mixworthy." "I can't move in with maria." "Uh,I just met marla." "Plus,she calls me constantly,drops by with my lunch and dinner." "She's thinking of commissioning an oil painting of my mother." "She is a stage 4 clinger,Mr. Mixworthy." "You're being hasty,phil." "Everyone knows there's a fine line between love and.stalkinG." "I'm telling you,Mr. Mixworthy,she's nuts." "So,at are you saying?" "You're gonna break up with her?" "Oh,no,no." "I wasn't gonna break up with her." "You are." "Come again?" "You need to end it for me,sir." "Frankly,she frightens me." "You got me into this." "You need to get me out." "No,I I can't do it,phil." "I it's just not possible." "I'll leave town." "I'll change my address,my identity." "You'll be left without your best research chemist." "That went well." " Congratulations." " Thanks." "A few surprises,though." "Hmm,couldn't get on board sending katie to seattle." "I don't know.felt a little personal to me." ""Personal"?" "James,I'm a 35 year old woman who spends three days a week on an airplane and the other four in hotel rooms." "My work is personal." "And if you think I care where katie works for any other reason besides how it affects your bottom line,you're wrong." "And what i'm wondering is if you can say the same thing." "I'll be back in new york in january,but,uh, call me if you need help with the board." "or you get a free weekend without your kids." " Okay." " Okay." "I'm sorry.I don't know what else to say." "except I was scared." "How long have you been seeing him?" "A while." "I mean,at first,I was doing it to protect myself." "And now I don't know." "I like him." "He's good to me." "On paper,he's everything I should want." "Only one thing he isn'T." "you." "I'm sorry." " What are you sorry for?" " I did this." "All those years we were together." "I made a lot of mistakes,lizzy." "Maybe if I were better to you,you wouldn't have done this." "You would have been able to trust me." "Now what?" "I don't know." "I think you need to give me a little time." "I guess." "I'll give you whatever you need." "Marla,a word?" "Make it quick,karl." "Phil's picking me up any minute." "Right.About that." "uh,he won't be coming." "What?" "Is he okay?" "He's fine." "But unfortunately,his mother isn'T." "Mother fryman?" "What's wrong?" "The doctors don't know." "Phil's decided to take a leave of absence." "He called on the way to the airport." "Well,when is he coming back?" "He didn't say,but he's cleaned out his office." "Why did he fight me on the oil painting?" "She could have lived on forever." "Look,marla,you're a catch." "You're attractive." "You're." "what,karl?" "Feisty." "Lots of guys would love to meet you." "But you're not gonna meet them inside this house." "You got to get out there,show them how great you are." "You know what?" "Karl,you're right." "I can't hide myself away here." "Yes,exactly." "Wendy!" "What's all the commotion?" "Karl suggested we go out,and it's ladies night at sir taco." "Half priced margaritas." "No,actually,I I was ." "karl,that is so thoughtful." "But what about phil?" "Mother issues." "I wonder what phil's doing tonight." "Come in." " Hey." " Hey." "I,um.I wanted to thank you.and apologize." "Look,james,I didn't mean to make it sound like you needed to make a choice between rebecca and me." "It wasn't personal." "It was just work." "That's what i sa." "Rebecca thought it was personal." " Did she?" " Yeah." "She said she thought that we had feelings for each other." ""Feelings"?" "That's crazy." "I know.I know.T that's what I told her." "Yeah,well,set the record straight." "I mean,I told her you and I have been working together forever." "I mean,you sat in the hospital when my kids were born,for god's sakes." "Yeah,18 hours apiece." "What took them so long,anyway?" "Oh,god,this is all new for me." "This dating thing,you know?" "Yeah,it's new for me,too." "Watching you go through it." "Tell you what ." "why don't you and i go get a drink together to celebrate your promotion?" "I can'T.I have a date." "I I didn't realize you were seeing anyone." "Just a friend of a friend." "You know,dinner,small talk,and me spending 20 minutes trying to figure out how I'm gonna get out of there." "Well,uh,go.Have fun." "I'll see you tomorrow." "Thanks again.boss." "I told you.Sex complicates everything." "Look at you." "You sleep with one woman,and your "work wife" has a meltdown." "Karl cheats on his wife,and now he's pimping for his mistress." "Uld ve thought?" "I'm being cheated on." "We should just give it up.Scrap the whole sex thing." "You first." "I'll be back." "Nice to see that you're a man of your word." "We had a deal." "You got jailbait,and I got lisbet yeah,deal fell through.Jailbait was a dud." "But you knew that when you let me have her,didn't you?" "Had a hunch." "It goes without saying ." "our deal is off." "So,revenge,huh?" "That why you're so determined to get your hands on that little black book?" "Among other reasons." "You mean lisbeth." "That what you want?" "You want to fight for her?" "A word of warning ." "I never lose." "First time for everything." "Big Shots Season 1 Episode 4" "I've got something you want."

"Mom?" "Knock, knock." "It is too early for "Knock, knock." Come on, eat up." "We're running late." "Chris, give me a break!" "Must it be World War II this morning?" "World War III." "Cute, kid." "8:30, Cal!" " Why didn't you tell me it was so late?" " I just did." " Dad?" " What?" " Knock, knock." " Who's there?" " Dwayne." " Dwayne who?" "Dwayne the bathtub, I'm dwowning!" "That's terrible!" "That's not my lunch, is it?" "Not now, it isn't." " When did your friends leave this morning?" " I thought they were your friends." "They left about 3:00." "You used to be able to go all night." "I know, but I can't do it anymore." "What can't you do anymore?" "Eat your breakfast." "Do you think I should have served the last drink in my pajamas?" "Shoes and socks on." "Let's go." "Oh, shit." "Great." " Terrific, Cal." " I got it." "Not the socks!" " Hit the showers." " Right." "Mom?" "What?" "Coffee machine." "Perfect!" "Mom." "What is it?" "Jesus!" "Lisa, no!" "Oh, my God, no!" "Chris, don't touch her!" "Jesus Christ!" "My God!" "Christ!" "Por favor, don't break nothing!" "And be careful from the walls." "Mrs. Halliday just painted them." "Follow me, okay?" "You did what anyone would have done." "It happened so fast." "I just reacted." "He was trying to help." "Christ, the man's got four kids!" "You'll be more effective when you do go back out there, if you begin to forgive yourself." "That's what this is all about, Frank." "That's how I can help you, if you'll let me." "I want to." "I do." "It's..." "Good." "I'd say we made a pretty good beginning, wouldn't you?" "I'll set you up for next week, then." "What have you got there, little guy?" "Chief Black Cloud." "Are you sick?" "I'm sorry." " You can call me anytime." " Right." "See you next Thursday." "Hopefully we'll be a little better settled in by then." " Thank you, Doctor." " You're welcome." "Are you all right, Bean?" "Not so fast, my friend." "From now on, I don't think you should play in here while I'm working." "Is it a deal?" "Okay." "What do we got here?" "Flowers." "Mrs. Ruiz and I are gonna plant some for Mom." "Like these?" "Mom wants me to." "Do you believe me?" "I believe she would want you to." "Sure." "Take it easy, you guys." "I just finished painting this place." "No!" "My beautiful wall!" "I did this wall with my own hands and now it looks like my first apartment." " It's just a little gouge." " It's a giant crater!" "I'm gonna have to start from scratch!" "Fill it, sand it!" "What's the problem?" "This. 10 years ago, I wouldn't have cared." "Now I want a wall to look like a wall." "Let me take a look at it." " You don't have to do that." " It's okay." "I'm taking care of it." "Thank you very much." "That's great." "Who says chivalry is dead?" "Alive and well in New York." "Amazing." "How does it feel to have your whole life stuffed in little boxes?" "A little cramped." "Here's the electrician's number." "He's expecting your call." "Painter's coming on Sunday." "I'll get to the kitchen faucet soon." "You'll fix it yourself?" "Sure." "I'm the landlady." "Hey, listen, I lost an earring maybe in your apartment." "It's pretty hard to miss." "Then, it might be in my bag." "If you see it, will you let me know?" "I'll keep an eye out." " Great." "How Is Carmen working out?" " Fine." "She's terrific with Chris." "Shit!" "These cops are going to do wonders for my parking ticket situation." "I'll put in a word for you downtown." "If there's anything else you need, I'm across the street." "Officer?" "Have you started writing that thing out yet?" "Look out!" " The ball is in the clear." "He scores!" " Wait for me!" "Marty Wertheimer, please." " Who's calling?" " It's Cal Jamison." " Can you hold?" " Yes, I'll hold." "I told you never to call me here." "What do you want?" "I'm a busy man." "Hi, buddy, how are you?" "Great." "Is that a great apartment that I found for you all by myself?" "And how about the landlady?" "Not bad, huh?" "Do you know what I had to do to get that?" "By the way, where's my commission?" "Shut up already." "You done great." "It's wonderful." "No complaints." "Where are you?" "You're late." "I'm in the park." " The park?" "You're supposed to be here." " I'm on my way." "I've got Chris with me." "Great." " It's okay if I bring him?" " Yeah, please." "Okay." "See you soon." "Chris!" "This is unusual for Central Park." "What are you doing down here?" "What do you mean?" "I run here everyday." " Did you see anyone else here?" " No." "Just me." " Is this all you saw?" " That's all I saw!" "Calm down, miss." "What are you doing here?" "I run here every day with my friend!" "Today, she had to go to the dentist." " I'll need some information." " Information?" "What kind of information?" " Like your name first, please." " My name?" "My name is Muriel Greenburg." "Do you spell Greenburg:" "G-r-e-e-n-b-e-r-g?" "No." "B-u-r-g." "Greenburg." "I may need more information later on." "What's your address?" "Sorry." "Come on." "Folks, the show is over!" "I'm sure you can find something better to do than look at this garbage." "Come on, start moving." "Get out of here, let's go." "Keep moving." "Brujería." "Keep going." "Brujería." "All right, just keep going away." "Dad, do you believe in God?" "I believe in a god." "What you got there?" "May I?" " Where'd you get this?" " Found it." " Where?" " In the park." "Where in the park?" "Somewhere." "It's a wishing shell." "How do you know that?" "I just do." "Where is he?" "There he is." " Hi, Marty." " Chris, how are you doing?" "I've been waiting all morning for you." " How are you?" " Who's this bum?" "You have to watch these guys who hang out in the park." " What's this?" " What?" "Bubble-gum?" "Don't you know where to park your gum?" " Where?" " On the bedpost, for crying out loud." "You got any questions about important stuff like this, you come ask your lawyer." " Okay." " Okay." "I ever show you this one?" "Twice." "Okay, wise guy, you get them apart." "I'll bring him right back." "Promise." " Coffee?" " No." "One." "Regular." "Thanks." "Wait a minute." "We agree, so what's the problem?" "I don't have a problem with the idea of a lawsuit." "I don't want Chris to have to relive it all." "Neither do I." "But that coffee machine was fuckin' defective and we gotta nail them so no one else is killed." "So long as Chris doesn't have to testify." "I mean it." " I feel very strongly about this." " You and me both." "This will not go to trial." "I promise you." "They'd be crazy." "They'll settle." "Do you smoke?" "No, thanks, I quit." "Yeah, me too." "I quit at least twice this week already." "Thanks." "I love Chris, you know that." "He's a great kid." "Tell you the truth, he's not the one I'm worried about." " I'm all right." " That's it? "I'm all right"?" "You spend your time listening to cops' problems you can't talk about your own?" "It's lonely." "Yeah?" "I'm trying to pick up the pieces." "It really feels strange being back." "The city's changed a lot." "Some days I'm not so sure it was a good idea to bring Chris here." "But in a funny way, it's brought us closer together." "You need anything at all, I'm there before you hang up the phone." "I know." " I feel better." "You?" " I feel better." "Sit down." "Linda?" "You want to send in Mr. Jamison, Esquire, please?" "What is this?" "My 11:00 number." "Come on in, kid." "Sit down." "Get a load o' this." "I win." "Cheater." "Hi, Carmen." "Any calls?" "No calls." "But this come for you." "From where?" "It's a housewarming present from Mrs. Halliday." " She make it herself, for you." " Wasn't that nice?" "It's very beautiful, si?" "Si." "Stunning." " Are there any more of these perishables?" " This is only dry stuff and spices." " And did you buy this radio here?" " In London." "I'll have to take this apart." "I'll put it back." "Arriving passengers who have cleared customs place your luggage on the conveyor belt..." "Could I see that?" "Open this, please." "Just personal items." "No need to look in there." "All right." "Remember this bowl?" "That little Indian boy made it." " We have one just like it." " You do?" "I love the things he made." "Vino?" "Where's the vino?" " And cilantro." " How's it going?" "Ambrosia." " Ambrosia!" " Taste." "Well?" "What do you think?" "Don't be bashful." " I'm inured to criticism." " Hot." "Nonsense." "Good for you." "Therapeutic, anti-depressant." " News to me." " I stand before you, living proof." "You put the NYPD on gumbo twice a week, and you're out of business." "Why don't you give that a good stir and then we'll bring in the rice." "Useless knife." "I'll have to get another." "It's lovely." "Who gave it to you?" "I found it." "Really?" "Here." "Show it to Dennis." " What's this?" " My shell." " It's your shell, is it?" " Yep." "You seem pretty sure about that." "It's a beautiful piece of work." "Have you seen this?" "Yes." "You still got that thing, Chris?" "That's his wishing shell." "What do you suppose you could make out of this?" "I don't know." "What about a necklace?" "That's the day we went to Osage." "The reservation." "Remember that?" " Remember that?" " And the day I got Chief Black Cloud." "That's right." "And Dennis bought me the arrowheads." "God." "Got a memory like an elephant." "There's Mom." "She looked so pretty." "That was a very happy day, wasn't it?" "My prize pupil." "In anthropology?" "I always thought one day, she'd be teaching me." "Look at that face." "That was the day we went to visit the Ojibwa." "Remember?" "About 40 degrees below zero." "They had fires inside the tent." "It must have been 70 degrees below, with the wind chill." "It was quite a day, wasn't it?" "I'm sorry." "I remember taking those pictures." "That was the last time we were all together." "Oh, my." "How does Chris seem to you?" "Does he seem all right?" " He's a remarkable little boy." " I think he's doing all right, actually." "Thanks." "The kitchen all fixed up, Dr. Jamison." "Thank you, Carmen." " Hasta mañana." " Hasta mañana." " Buenas noches." " Buenas noches." "We've got to stay back here." "Sorry, you can't get through here." " Where is he?" " He's inside." " Lopez call this in?" " He did." " Where is he?" " Behind the screen." "We can't get near him." "Keeps asking for you." " What do you got?" " We got a dead kid." "I want you to understand that!" "Brujería." "How old is he?" "He looks to be about 9 years old." "He's only a kid." "There's so much blood." "Look at the ashes." "They're right around where the body was." "Jesus Christ almighty." "Just get McTaggert here, that's all." "Don't you come any closer, all right?" "Don't do it." "Quit fucking around with me!" "Nobody's fucking around with you." "Did you call this in?" " Yes, Lieutenant." " What's the problem?" "Jesus Christ, did you see what they did to that kid?" "I saw." "What do you know about it?" " They took my badge." " Who took your badge?" "Who took it, Tom?" "You don't know what they could do to me." "You did a good job, now we're here." "Let us have it." "We'll go to the station and make a report." "No!" "You can't stop them." "You can't do anything." "You don't understand anything." "It doesn't work!" "I'll be safe." "Get the gun!" "Get him the hell out of here, fast!" "Why did you stop me?" "We can't do anything!" "Brujería." "McTaggert." "Get it straight!" "They know who I am!" "Let go!" "I'm a cop, too!" "Goddamn you!" "I'm here, Chris!" "It's all right." "It's all right, sweetheart." "It's just a bad dream." "It's all right, baby." " Hello?" " Is this Dr. Jamison?" "Speaking." "Good." "This is Lt. McTaggert, 27th Precinct." "What can I do for you, Lieutenant?" "I'm sorry, but I got your number from Psych Services." "I'm at Bellevue." "I've got an officer in a lot of trouble here." "You want me to come down now?" "I'd appreciate that." "It's McTaggert." "I'll be waiting for you at Psychiatric Emergency." "All right, give me about 20 minutes." "I understand you were working undercover on the disappearance of some kids in Spanish Harlem." "Is that right, Tom?" "May I call you Tom?" "Are you Catholic?" "Yes, I am." "I'm not a practicing Catholic." "They know who I am!" "Who are "they"?" "No." "How do I know about you?" "I understand." "You have no reason to trust me, but why distrust me?" "The spirits help them." "They walk through walls." " Don't forget that." " I won't." "They can see us in here now, is that it?" "What is it?" "Easy." "They knew that I was on to them." "I walked in and they were waiting for me." " Can you identify them?" " No." "When I came to, I found the body." "They got my shield." "Don't you get it?" "They're going to kill me." "I can feel it's started already." "Nobody can harm you in here." "I promise you that." "God can't save you." "The church can't save you." "They get right inside your body!" "You can't stop them." "Seven powers." "You think that you can stop them?" "You think science can stop them?" "It's all right." "The eyes." "I saw his eyes!" "Whose eyes?" "They can get to anyone." "They can kill anybody!" "You want them to know who you are?" "Do you?" " Do you think he'll come out of it?" " I need more time with him." " He was one of my best guys." " Maybe I should see the victim." " You sure about that?" " Yeah." "It's the kid's parents." "Jesus." "What kind of a monster does that?" "Been down to the freezer again?" "You're a real comedian." "Don't be a stranger." "Hit me again." "No, thank you." "Just coffee, please." "Did we treat cops for alcohol abuse back in Milwaukee?" "Minneapolis." "Hello, Minneapolis." "What the hell brought you to New York?" "You don't mind my asking?" "I went to graduate school at Columbia." "Nice school, shitty neighborhood." "You got a family?" "I have a son." "Thank you." "I lost my wife recently." "I'm sorry to hear that." "What did Lopez have on this?" "Nada." "Nothing." "Can I see his reports?" "No." "Why not?" " They're not available." " Hope you're off duty, Lieutenant." "Fuck off." "Is Lopez Catholic?" "Sure." "The family is Cuban." "They practice a thing called Santería." "Ever hear of it?" "No." "It's a Latin thing." "A lot of them are into it." "They cut up chickens, magic, shit like that." " And Lopez is into this?" " He kept it quiet." "He found the body on an altar with a lot of religious paraphernalia, right?" "There's at least 200 places that sell that shit." "Wait a second." "I'm evaluating a patient." "That's a pretty strong lead." "A citizen's got a right to his own religious preference." "If he performs a human sacrifice, I'd say he forfeits that right." "A psycho kills a kid, he makes it look like a religious ritual." "That kid was cut up with the precision of a surgeon, not a psychopath." "What are you afraid of, that Lopez is a suspect?" "That it's one of your own?" "It's not this religion?" "I don't call cutting up chickens a religion!" "If you knew the barrio the way I do, you wouldn't ask such dumb questions." "That's bullshit." "Just one last question." "Is this all the assistance I'll get trying to help that officer?" "Think about it." "Thanks for the coffee." "Oh, no!" "My clothes!" ""Santería is 1,000 years older than Christianity..." ""...brought by slaves to the Caribbean." ""Their African gods are hidden in Catholic saints." ""Chango." ""Santa Barbara." ""Elegua is Saint Anthony."" "Come on, get this cleaned up." "God." "Hi." "Hi." "You forgot your watch." "Did I?" "You must have left it when you were painting." "You forgot these, too." "They're a little soggy." "Thanks." "Still can't find the earring." "Want to come in?" "Thank you." "I have no idea what I would I have done without the watch." "You suppose my leaving it was some hidden expression of desire?" "I don't know that, but my returning it certainly was." "How long has it been?" "About nine months." "Would she approve?" "I approve." "I went a whole year after my divorce." "When was that?" "About a year ago." "But who's counting?" "Didn't you used to live in New York?" "Back when I was young and foolish." "What does that make you now?" "I should probably get back." "Hurry up or we'll miss the show!" "There's time for at least another half a glass." "As you wish, madam." "And you, madam." "How about you, Carmen?" "No, gracias." "Come on, you're no stranger to the grape." "Sounds like fun." "I haven't been to the Planetarium since I was a girl." "Why don't you join us?" "As we begin our journey to the beginning of time..." "What are you looking for?" " Where's my shell?" " I don't know." "Where is it?" "Did she take it?" "Just a minute, young man!" "Come back here!" "What are you doing?" " It was an accident!" " It was not!" "It was!" " I'll go." " Don't worry about it." " It's no big deal." " He's tired." " I'll get it, Carmen." " It's no problem." "Just a minute, what is that?" "That's one of my hankies." "May I?" " What did she say?" " She said that she did it." "It's not bad." "She says she's a kind of matchmaker." "A yenta." "Do you know what that is?" "What's that got to do with this?" "That's my earring." "She said she cast a love spell on us." " That's ridiculous." " I'm sorry you feel that way." "This is nothing bad." "You're such a nice couple." "Don't look at me." "I like a guy, maybe I'll change my perfume, but I've got my pride." "This is Lt. Mc Taggert." "What can I do for you?" " Has Tom Lopez called you?" " No, why?" "He took a hike from Bellevue last night." "You better get over here." "What is it?" "We got another kid like the one from the movie house." "Pier 11." "Look over there." "What is that?" "Lieutenant." "The body is down here." "Worse than the one before." "How old is he?" "8. 10." "No I.D. He's a black kid." "Watch your step." "It's a tough climb." "They didn't tell me this was part of the job." "They don't tell you a lot of things." "It's just like the kid in the theatre." "He's been here a couple of days." "You got the red and black candles, and the circle of ashes." "And a bottle of gasoline." " Look at the way he's cut up." " So much blood." "Jesus Christ!" "How do you ever get used to it?" "You don't." "Now maybe you know why a lot of cops hit the bottle." "Listen, Doc." "Newspapers find out some psycho cop is doing this, my job gets shittier than it is." "Do me a favor." "No details to anybody, huh?" "Psycho cop?" "Do you think a few hours on the couch and Lopez will get himself together?" "You don't know that he did it." "I don't know that he didn't." "Lopez hasn't called you, has he?" "No." "Weird fucking city you moved into, Doc." "Lopez." "Excuse me." "Could I talk to you for a second, please?" "What do you want?" "I'm looking for the man that wrote this." "Oscar Sezine." "Is he here?" "We're closed." "I just need a minute of his time." "Believe me, it's very important." " There is no one here." " Wait a second." "Sir!" "I'm with Psych Services NYPD!" "Thanks a lot!" "Carmen." "What is all this stuff?" "What are these things?" "You put them in Chris's room, didn't you?" " Si." " I want to know why." "To bless him." "I'm trying to help him." "I'm trying to help him, too." "Sometimes these are used in rituals, aren't they?" "Si." "Sometimes those rituals involve animal sacrifice, don't they?" "Sometimes." "What is the circle of ashes for?" "Circle of ashes?" "I don't know nothing about that." " That's not a part of Santería?" " No." "If I find this kind of stuff around here again, I'll have to let you go, is that clear?" "This is for protección." "I don't care what it's for." "It's a lot of superstitious nonsense." "And I don't want any more of it in the house." "Do you want any of these, 'cause I'm going to throw them away." "Which one of these guys do you want?" "How about that guy?" "He looks pretty neat." "It's your birthday, you can have any one you want." "Come on, Bean, you've gotta make up your mind." " I'll take that." " This one?" "Happy birthday, sir." "What do you say to Jessica?" "Thanks." "Why are you so sad today?" "Three ices, please." "Hurry up, you guys." "Lemon." " What flavor do you want?" " I don't want any." "Come on, sure you do." "No, I don't!" "I'm sorry." " This is really..." " No!" " Goddamn it!" " No!" " Don't you ever..." " I don't want toys or anything from her!" "She's not my mom!" "I want my mom!" "Shut up and listen!" "Do you know you almost killed yourself!" "I want my mom!" "Come back here!" "Happy birthday, Chris!" "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry if I hurt you." "Listen to me." "You know I loved your mother very much, and I'll always love her." "But she's gone now." " You don't care that she went away!" " That's not true." "You wouldn't care if I went away!" " You know that's not true." " You hit me!" "I'm sorry I hit you." "I promise I'll never hit you again." "I'll never do anything to hurt you." "You mean more to me than anyone else in the world." "Don't you know that?" "I love you so much." "Please forgive me." "I just wanted him to have a really nice birthday." " He still can." " It's not over yet." " I didn't mean any harm." " Of course you didn't." "You know how children are with new people." "Dr. Jamison." "I'll take it up here!" "Hello." " It's Lopez." " Where are you?" "There's a diner on 126th and Lexington." "Come alone, okay?" "Just you." "What do you mean?" "You're in danger." "You and your son." "Hurry." "Are you okay?" "Si." "Agua, por favor." "Caliente." "Qué pasa?" "It's all right." "Let him through." " What are you doing here?" " Lopez called me and told me to come." "Why didn't you call me?" "We're supposed to work together." "Please, ma'am, stand back." " Did you know him?" " No." "I don't." " He was never here before?" " I've never seen him." "What did he tell you when he called?" "Nothing." "He just told me to meet him." "Did you understand anything he was saying?" "Yes." "He kept saying, "Culebras!"" "Who the hell is Culebras?" "Nobody, sir." "That means "snakes."" "Snakes?" "Did he do anything else before he started screaming?" "He was writing, and then he took the knife and stabbed himself." " Where did he get the knife?" " From behind the counter." "I was using it." "Does that mean anything to you?" "I'm talking to you in English, you're talking to her in Spanish." "What is this, a three-ring circus?" "Are you giving me a hard time?" " I'm not giving you a hard time." " Are these all the files?" "Oscar Sezine?" "Why wouldn't you talk to me before?" "Did you bring the police here?" " Hey, you, Sezine." " Yes?" "Get in here." "I want to talk to you." "Who is this guy?" "A friend of yours?" "What the hell is this place, anyway?" "This is a licensed drug rehab center?" "Our doors are open to troubled children." "We offer them help." "Even your own kid OD'd." "Yes." "Is that why you're here?" "Hey, wise guy." "I'm here to talk to you about Tom Lopez." "Did you know he was a cop?" "Yes." "He's also a volunteer on staff." "He teaches boxing." " Coaches our Golden Gloves." " Not anymore." "He killed himself an hour ago." " I'm shocked." " I bet you are." "Is this kid here, Louis Montana, part of your drug rehabilitation program?" "He was." "He ran away last week." " Did you see him after he ran away?" " No." " Did Lopez know him?" " He coached him." "You saw them together?" "Yes, why?" "We found Louis Montana's body on a Hudson River barge yesterday." " Would you know anything about that?" " Certainly not." "You have a right to remain silent." "Anything you say can be used against you." "You have the right to an attorney." "If you can't afford one, we'll provide one." "Is that clear?" "You!" "Get out of here!" "Fuck off." "You know what I'd like to do?" "I'd like to put this monkey on a grill and fry his ass until I get some answers about this Santería bullshit from you people." "That's my number at the precinct." "Call me tomorrow." "Don't forget." "He hasn't slept for two days." "If you're not a cop, what are you?" "I'm a therapist." "Tom Lopez is one of my patients." "I'm really very sorry about all this." "Do you really think we are savages?" "That we are capable of killing children?" "You said in your book that human sacrifice was practiced at one time." "Name one religion where atrocities have not been committed in the name of a god." "Santería is a force for good." "It is not a blood-cult trading on innocent lives!" " What are you people so afraid of?" " Of your ignorance." "Of your prejudice, because you use it as a weapon against us." "Tom Lopez was a good and decent man." "He was devoted to these children." "I don't believe he committed suicide or had anything to do with that outrage!" "Neither do I." "Robert Calder is the chairman of your board?" "Yes." "He's our major contributor." " He's not into Santería?" " No." "Did Lopez know him?" "We all do." "He organizes our fundraisers." "This says there's a fundraiser this week." "Could you arrange for me to go?" "Yes." " Dad, can we stop by the church?" " Why?" "I want to light a candle for Mom." "This is chekete." "I'd prefer a vodka tonic." "I'm afraid this is all we are serving." "It's traditional." "It is also traditional to sip it slowly." "I can see that." "Our host." "Excuse me." "Robert Calder." "Quite a guy." " What do you know about him?" " Not much." "Self-made man." "He turned one midtown-building share into a fortune." "Now he's into everything." "Money markets, energy, the whole bit." "The person I spoke to you about would like to meet you." "May I introduce Dr. Cal Jamison?" "How do you do, sir." " My friend, Jessica Halliday." " Hello." "Pleased to meet you." "I'm Jennifer, Mr. Calder's assistant." "Oscar's told me of your interest." "A friend told me about your organization." "I'm very impressed." " You are the sort of man we want." " Really?" "I believe you knew my friend." "Officer Tom Lopez." "Terrible tragedy." "Did you know him well?" "Not as well as I wanted to." "I suppose none of us did." "We always wish we'd known someone better when they die unexpectedly." "I lost my only son five years ago." "Drug overdose." "I live with that every day." "It tests one's faith, doesn't it?" "It can also help you find it." "Are you a religious man?" "Yes and no." "Sign of the times." "The representative from the mayor's office is here." "I hope we can work together." "It was a pleasure." "Pleasure meeting you, Mr. Calder." " Bob." " Bob." "Goodbye." "Would you like a cigar?" "No, thanks." "I'm trying to cut down." " Smoke attracts the gods." " It makes them want to join the party." "How about that?" "I'm gonna go pee." "I'll be right back." " Did they show you a warrant?" " They did." "How could anybody think that anybody in our organization could do something so monstrous?" "Clearly they made a mistake." " Let the lawyers handle it." " I tell you if all the good work we've done is destroyed by this..." "That's not gonna happen, you have my word on that." "What is the detective's name?" "McTaggert." "Lt. McTaggert." "I don't want you to worry about this." "We are proud to present the chairman of our board, Mr. Robert Calder." "Thank you." "On behalf of the A.C.H.E. Program I'm especially proud to say that thanks to your generous contributions during our sixth year A.C.H.E. Program offices will be opening in Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C." "I have a check here for $50,000." "Now, this is a personal check." "Don't worry, I'm good for it." "My challenge to you tonight is that collectively we top the contributions that were made last year." "Our helpers will be moving amongst you." "The next hand you feel in your pocket may not be your own." "We'd like to collect $425,111 from this room!" "Now I know you're up to it." "I have faith!" "And remember, it's still tax deductible." "Thank you." "What should we do?" "Don't touch him!" "He's not one of us!" "Go!" "What the hell are you doing?" "Stop it!" "Get away from him!" "Get out!" "Stay with him!" "I warned you about this." "You're fired!" "Get out!" "You don't understand!" "You don't understand!" "You're fired!" "He's in danger!" "I'm trying to protect him!" "The kid is hysterical!" "Get out!" "I don't want to hear!" "Let me finish doing this!" "You are finished!" "Go!" " You don't know what you're doing!" " I know exactly what I'm doing!" "My God, you're killing me!" "If I see you around here again, I'll call the police." "Is that clear enough?" " What's the matter with you guys?" " It won't happen again." "It happens all the time!" "Do me a favor." "Keep the greens on the desk, not in the box!" "You always say, "I'm sorry"!" "Get your act together!" "Cal." " How are you doing?" " Lieutenant?" "Is this a bad time?" "It's always a bad time around here." "Let's go." " What's up?" " What's in here." "Sezine's story on his son checks out." "Autopsy confirms the kid OD'd." "That's what I expected." "What about the Calder boy?" "Same thing." "Overdose five years ago." "Five years ago, this boy was 8 years old." "8-year-olds don't usually OD." " Where's the autopsy report?" " I can't find it." "Are you serious?" "Nobody knows where it is." "Are you saying you lost it, or somebody doesn't want it found?" "Listen." "We're dropping this investigation." "We're laying the murders on Lopez." "Lopez didn't kill anybody but himself." "Where is this coming from?" "Lopez is dead." "We got him tied to the kids." "He took his life out of his own guilt." "We got enough to close now!" "Who the hell do you think you're kidding?" "You want me to show you?" "Come here." "You didn't see this." "Culebras." " Sorry we're late." " No problem." "We're all set." "All right." "All aboard." "Plenty of good seats still available." "Tickets please." "I have my ticket." "Now listen, be a good boy." "I'll be out in a couple of days and we'll go to Santa Fe to see your grandparents." " I'm going to go sailing." " Sailing?" "I fully expect you to be captain of the ship, Mr. Christopher." "I'll call tomorrow and you'll tell me all about it." "I love you, Dad." "I love you, too." "Have a great time, kiddo." " All ashore that's going ashore." " Come along, matey, here we go!" "Watch your feet." " Don't worry about anything." " Thanks." "See you both Friday." "I have a glorious dinner planned." " See you." " Bye, Dad." "Why would my housekeeper take it from my son?" "Is it Santería?" "No, this is not Santería." "It is black magic." "Brujería." "This symbol belongs to a god of destruction and pestilence El engañador, the trickster." "What does it have to do with my son?" "There was a ritual when a tribe was threatened by drought, flood or destruction by its enemies." "Three children were offered to the god." "Sacrificed?" "Elder sons sacrificed by their fathers." " The last child, at summer solstice." " Why?" "To gain power, to destroy their enemies." "I've seen the bodies of two children." "This ritual is being performed now." "Was Carmen involved?" "No, I believe she tried to cast a spell of protection." "She was not strong enough." "It was turned against her." "Protection from what?" "You both felt the power of the man who killed Tom Lopez and those two children." "I'm sure of it." "You looked into his eyes." "Did Calder bring that man here?" "I believe that's what Lopez was trying to tell you." "What can I do?" "Please, tell me." "The summer solstice is on June 21st." "Four days away." "You must seek protection for your son and for yourself." "I'd need a priest, a Santero." "I am a Santero." "You must trust me and do as I say." " We shouldn't be doing this." " You don't have to stay." " I think we should both leave, right now." " No." "This doesn't feel right." " Cal, please!" " I don't know what else to do." "Please kneel." "Water to purify." "May your enemies never see what we are doing here." "Stand up." "Offer the blood for your son's life." " Here's one." " Another one?" "This kid runs home from school with a brown package under his arm." "He says, "Mom, look what I found..."" "Hold on a second." "Detective Connolly. 2-7 squad." "This is Dr. Jamison." "Lt. Mc Taggert, please." "Sorry, Doctor." "He's out sick." "The flu's making its rounds." "I'll call his home." "Thanks." "Why don't you come with us?" "I am." "I mean to Santa Fe, too." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "This could get serious, you know?" "I hope so." " Hello?" " It's Cal." " Darling, how are you?" " I'm fine." "How are you?" " Just great." " How's the weather?" "It's fabulous, and the forecast is even better." "Great." "Is Chris behaving himself?" "He's a delight." "I'd forgotten about 8-year-olds." "He's run me half ragged." "I know." "I guess I'm used to it." "Can I talk to him?" "He's out in the boat with Dennis right now." " I'll give him a big hug." " Please do that for me." " Will we see you here this evening?" " Of course." "That's wonderful." "We have the whole weekend planned." " We're looking forward to it." " All right." "See you later, dear." " See you later." " Drive carefully." " We will." " Kisses." " Bye-bye." " Bye." "You all right?" "I'm okay, just really tired." "You don't sound okay." "I'm coming over." "No." "Really." "I just think I need some more sleep." "I can call Kate and Dennis and say we'll be out in the morning." " No, go ahead." " You sure?" "Yes." "Call me when you get there." "Give Chris my love." "Okay, I will." "Take care." " Bye." " Bye." "Cal?" "Shit." "No one's here right now, but if you leave your name and..." "Hello." " Who is this?" " It's Mc Taggert." " Lieutenant." " My apartment." "Got to see you." " What's wrong?" " Just get over here!" "Do it!" "Wait a second." "McTaggert?" "Who is it?" "It's me, Cal." "Shut the door." "Step into the light." "I want to see your face." "What's going on?" "You don't need the gun." "Like hell I don't." "I saw them." "They're out there." "There's nobody out there." "You goddamn liar!" "No, Sean, I swear to you." "I came alone." "I'm here to help you." "Open that." "What is it?" "Calder's son." "It wasn't an overdose." "He killed his own fucking son." "Where did you get this?" "Buried files." "They didn't think I knew where to find them, but I did." "They're out there now, watching." "Go on." "You answer it." "Hello." "See?" "You believe me now?" "Why haven't they done anything to you?" "What have they done to you?" "I can't move." ""My God, I am heartily sorry..." ""...for having offended Thee." ""And I detest..." ""...all my sins..." ""...because of Thy just punishments." ""But most of all because they offend Thee, my God..." ""...who art all good, and worthy of all my love." ""I firmly resolve..."" "Everything's going to be all right now." "Take the gun." "Kill him." "The police won't help you." "He'll get to anybody." "Do it yourself, please, I'm begging you." "Go." "Okay." "Destroy Calder." "God help you." ""I firmly resolve..." ""...with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more."" "Yeah, hello." "Marty, I've got something important I want you to keep for me." "Sure." "You okay?" "Jessica!" "I'll call you right back!" " Vital signs?" " BP: 80 over 60." "Pulse: 140." "Respiration: 30 and shallow." "Wait outside, please." "There's no one here to take your call." "But if you leave your name and number, I'll get back to you." "Please speak after the beep." "It's Kate." "If you hear this, do not call me." "Change of plans." "Please, God, what have I done?" "Cal, I'm bringing Chris." "Will explain all when I see you." "Meet me, Flanders Inn..." "Hello?" "Marty, make sure they take care of her till I get back." "I will!" "She's covered." "I told everyone at the hospital I'm a lawyer." "They're not idiots." "Relax." "Get some sleep." " Can you find your way back?" " No problem." "Keep this for me." "Thanks for everything." "I'll see you." "The prodigal son returns!" " Hey, guys, I'm sorry." " Not a word of it." "Come in." "Kate's gone to her all-night market." "She never thinks we have enough food." " Last door on the end." " Okay." " Thank you, Dennis." " Not at all." " Hell of a week for you." " A hell of a year." "That's true." "It is hell, isn't it?" "There's no point in denying it." "The kind of loss you suffered, the grief, it's dreadful." "But what can you do?" "Be a man about it." "That's what you've done." "You just go on!" "And then one day you wake up and it's just the slightest bit better." "That's the way it changes, little by little small increments." "That's the way it was with us." "We thought we'd never get over it." "But you do." "When was that?" "Kate's fieldwork." "Post-graduate." "Summer of '46." "The Sudan. 11 months in the bush." "Haven't I ever told you this story?" "No." "Worst drought in 50 years." "Then cholera." "We saw half the tribe decimated." "Daniel was only 4 years old." "I'd argued against bringing him, but Kate insisted." "She couldn't bear to leave him that long." "Then, when Daniel took sick the elders of the tribe came to see us." "We'd developed a trust with them by then." "A bond." "What they suggested seemed unthinkable, against nature." "But you see Daniel was so clearly beyond any medical help and as outsiders, it was a great honor." "Daniel was very brave." "And the drought did end." "We were delivered." "The life of another child was saved." "A most remarkable child." "Over the years, he's grown so special to us, almost like a son." "He's taught us so much." "Of course, you're uncertain, naturally." "So was I until I met him." "Now imagine, if you can a life without uncertainty." "Freedom from doubt." "The ability to choose." "Single-mindedness." "One life from each of us is all he asks." "He rewards our devotion a thousandfold." "Personal desires?" "Yes, of course." "Anything." " That's part of it." " It's only the beginning." "There was a time when man was at one with the gods, before the Fall." "Now we're at one again and their benediction is power." "It's a power you can't imagine." "Power to create a world of our choosing." "Power to destroy those who oppose us." "Chris was chosen." "When he found the shell, remember?" "It was a sign." "We want you to join us!" "It must be the father." ""We consecrate this ground..." ""...with this father's humble offering." ""We seek the strength and wisdom..." ""...of our benefactors." ""We call upon the ancient gods to renew our strength." ""Guide your hand to strike down the enemies of our faith and this nation." ""We welcome our brother, Cal..." ""...reborn into your grace." ""Restore nature's order." ""The power, which is our birthright." ""The glory, which is our destiny." ""Our enemies consumed by rings of fire." ""Our strength reborn..." ""...in sacrifice!"" "Do you believe?" "Yes, I do believe." "Dad?" ""Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her..."" " You okay?" " I'm all right!" "Where is he?" "Fucking maniacs!" "Who are these guys?" "They jumped in the elevator." "They took him up." "I'll take this one." "Dad!" "Let me go!" "Goddamn." "God gave His only begotten son." "Let him go!" "Remember that?" "It is God's will that innocence redeem the world." "We give our sons to war in the name of peace!" "Sacrifice our families to false gods, ambition, lust, pride!" "It's hypocrisy!" "This is all lies." "I was a slave, I had no life!" "You have no life!" "God gives you life!" "You give them innocence the gods give you life." "And your son was innocent, wasn't he?" "Peter, that was your son's name, wasn't it?" "And you sacrificed your son to the gods, didn't you?" "That was my salvation." "I was reborn." "It must have taken great strength and great courage." "Tell me." "He looked into my eyes." "He forgave me Peter." "He understood." "I'm over here." "Come to me." "No." "You come to me." "Let's go, boy." "Hey Bean, how's it going?" " Hey, Dad." "Got the barbecue sauce?" " Sure do." "Let's go easy on it this time." "Don't you look beautiful." " I'm glad you're home." " Me, too." " Be careful with that, Chris." " All right, Mom." "It'll keep." "Maybe it won't!" "Chris, that looks terrific." "You don't need my help at all." "What is it, boy?" "Easy!" "What's wrong, boy?" "Anybody up there?" "All right, out!" "I did it for us." "We'll be safe now."

"For those of you who were doing open-heart surgery or bringing peace to the Mideast, or whatever the fuck you were doing this is what you missed on Shameless last week." "It's your turn." "Get your goddamn ass out of this bed." "It's your fucking turn!" " Nanny Frank to the rescue." " Hymie has his first well-baby appointment." "I'll take him." "Nice place you got here." " What are you doing here?" " I was hungry." "You drove all the way to the Southside for a bag of chips?" "Well, a bag of chips and a ginger snap." " Can I help you?" " This is my son Hymie." "Our organization works with dying children." "Of course." "I know that." "It's my other child that's dying." "Carl." "Carl." "A word." " Cancer?" " You said you cater to dying children." " Camp?" " I've never been to camp." " Here he comes." " Hey, thanks for bailing me out." "All Mandy." "She used her dad's line of credit at Bad Bob's Bonds." "Mandy." "Being smart." "Tell your girlfriend to wear clothes, Lip." "I was thinking there might be a job opening." "Tell me, Fiona, how do you feel about deli meats?" "You're saying that if I blow you I can have a job?" "Hey, V, do you still have that mini camera you use for titty shots?" " He's in there." "You know what you're doing?" " I got it all on tape." "He's nasty." "I want day shifts." "Home by 6." "Stay down." " Stay." "Stay." " How long was that?" "Not long enough." "You need at least 90 seconds." "City pools are filled with city kids." "And by "city kids," I mean black kids who swim." "Stereotype-breakers like those two kids that ripped your bathing suit last year." " They turned it into a bikini." " If they'll do that when you run through the sprinklers, think what they'll do with a large body of water." "Savage little Cosby kids will drown your ass." " Times have changed." " That's what they said when they were holding me underwater repeatedly in the summer of '67." "The so-called Summer of Love?" "Not at the Sullivan Street Pool, it wasn't." "It was the summer of drowning whitey." "And until you hold your breath longer than they can hold their breath you're not going to Sullivan Street." "Go." " Whoa, can I try?" " No, Carl, you've got cancer." "Pack your bag." "We're leaving." "Milkovich house." "Speak briefly, then shut up." "Daddy, it's Molly." "Mommy died." "The lady upstairs is gonna tell the police I'm an orphan if a family member doesn't come get me." "Please, come." "Who the fuck's Molly?" "She's my half-sister whose meth-head mother apparently died." " You have a sister?" " Half." "Wanna finish?" "Sure." "Oh, my God." "You are so unbelievably tasty right now." " Don't wait for me." " Charging by the minute, Madame V?" "Yes." "Well, thank you for watching my wallet, you dirty little whore." "I am your dirty little whore." "Put me on my back, would you please?" "Oh, hello." "Oh, you've been working on your Kegels, huh?" "Oh, you're flexing now." "Oh, you're flexing." "Oh, you're flexing now." "Roll over, Hulk Hogan." " You want me to finish you off?" " I'm good, hon." "We gotta save your sperm for baby-making." " This was a baby-making session?" " Hoping so." "You cool?" "Yeah, yeah, it's just-- I just wish you had given me a heads-up before I went with the whore thing." "I don't want our kid's first impression to be that you're a whore." "It was making you hot." "Hot is good." "We gotta help your spermies rocket to my egg." "Well, just don't be upside-down too long." "My sperm get dizzy." "Heh." "Ow!" "Shh, shh, shh." " You all packed?" " I need a sleeping bag." "Just staple some sheets together." "This camp's got a rifle range, woods all around a lake." "I'm definitely gonna kill something like a grizzly, mountain lion, maybe a tiger." "Or I might go out in the canoe and shoot some fish." "Cancer's opening up a whole wonderful world for you." "A world your other siblings will never get to experience." "But they don't know this camp is only for kids with cancer." "So like I said before, you must keep that secret." "You still someone I can trust?" "Why am I the only one who caught cancer from Grammy?" "Life is rife with questions that baffle." "All we can do is carry on." "Am I going to die?" "Time will tell." "But don't you worry, I'm working on a cure." " You all packed up?" " Shh." " Yep." " What's Hymie doing here?" " I'm babysitting." " Sheila popping pills again?" "Sheila happens to think very highly of my ability to raise bright, independent children." "You're not leaving Hymie here, Frank." "Debbie can't take a special-needs kid on top of daycare." "Challenges foster growth." "You can't prevent Debbie from an opportunity to grow." "Not happening." "Carl, what are you doing?" " Making a sleeping bag." " These are Lip's sheets." " Not anymore." " All right, take my ROTC sleeping bag." " Really?" " Yeah, I'll grab it from upstairs." "Why couldn't you win a raffle for camp when I was little?" "Fortune dispenses randomly." " I hated camp." " Don't listen to Jamie, Carl." "Jimmy." "You okay holding down the fort with Debbie's daycare insanity starting?" "Jamie's got it." "Jamie is all over it." "Okay, little man, see you in a week." "I just wanna say thanks for being a great sister." "I may have never said that, but now I did." " You okay, Carl?" " Yeah." "I left a list of stuff we need at the store." "You kicking in for squirrel fund?" " Absolutely." "I'm living here, gotta do my part." " Don't have to." "Want." "Want to." "Debbie, daycare's starting!" "Wow, thanks, Ian." "I got a couple more things for camp too." "Bug spray and Swiss army knife." "For comfort and convenience, not as weapons." "Awesome." "See you in a week, pal." "See you." " Dad, we should go." " Coming." "Stay away from people with cancer, little dude." "Okay." " Who's ready for breakfast burritos?" " Me!" "Whoa." " So this sister" " Half." "She's just waiting somewhere for your dad to go pick her up?" "Near Milwaukee." " He gonna do it?" " No." "So you think maybe--?" "I don't know, maybe you should call her, tell her he's not coming?" "No call answers that question just as good as a call does." "So you're cool with your sister going in the foster care system?" "The system's better than here." "Yeah, says the girl who miraculously has never been in the system." " She have any other relatives?" " Who knows?" "Look, it sucks, but there's nothing I can do about it." "She sounded desperate." "I mean, let's see if we could get her." "Let's see if we can help." " Help how?" " Maybe locate the rest of her family." " How are we gonna do that?" " I don't know." " Drive up there, figure it out." " In the car neither of us have?" " She's your sister." " Half." "There's a coupon in the flyer for this." "Do you have one?" "I left it at home." "There's a stack of them over there." "No reason the store should have that 75 cents." "Adolpho, delivery ready at Register 3." "Princess, it's time for your break." "Princess, stop working so hard." "Princess, I got it." "Go take your break." "It's not a "break" break, it's a Bobby break." "Will you be coming up for Parents Day, Mr. Gallagher?" "No, no, no." "Working." "No time to relax." "Being able to afford Carl's cancer drugs means a lot of time at the foundry." "If I'm late, I get docked, I get docked too many times, I get fired." "If I get fired, I lose my benefits." "Benefits that will provide treatments to extend Carl's life past the doctor's original dire predictions." "We'll take good care of him, I promise." "Thank you." "Okay, folks, bus is leaving." "Get your hugs in." "Okay, check it out." "I was able to pull some strings and get you these special cancer pills." "Take one a day." "They'll give you the energy to get through camp." " Will they cure my cancer?" " Depends on your attitude." "I love you, Dad." "Okay." "Okay, good." "There you go." "Be brave." " Ten, 11, 12, 13..." " Ten, 11, 12, 13..." " One, two..." " One, two, three, four, five" "Ashish, it's not your turn." "What number did I get up to?" "Five." "Or 13." "Whoo!" "Yummy time." "It's been a while, hasn't it?" "What has?" "Since we had sex." "Oh, yeah." "Sleep deprivation is the silent romance killer." "Who thought Frank would be the cure?" " Jody?" " Yeah?" " Would you wanna stay here a little bit?" " Oh, you wanna snuggle?" "Jody is always down for maximum snuggams." "I was thinking maybe we could mix into snuggle time a little toy time." " Sheila, we've been over this." " I'll go slow." " Not gonna happen." " It's good to be nervous." " Not true." " Please?" "Sheila, sweetheart, I can't, okay?" "I like what we have now." "Let's not ruin it." "Breakfast in a sec." "I've been working on the railroad" "All the livelong day" " I've been working on the railroad" " Just to pass the time away" " Yo, I'm Hanley." " Carl." " What up?" " Not my red blood cell count." " What kind you got?" " The kind that kills kids." " You?" " Same." "Fiona, I need you to trade breaks with me later." " Sure." "When do I punch out?" " Bobby will tell you." "And a little tip I tell all the new gals:" "I don't punch out when I pull my extra break." "If I'm in the building, I'm gonna get compensated for whatever work I do." " Makes sense." " When it's my day I punch in, go home, nap, do shit with my boyfriend..." "I have one of the gals on the late shift punch me out at close." "Get paid for a double and only work 15 minutes." "Reason I need you to go for me is because I got a bunch of canker sores." "Need a break from the sucky-suck, if you know what I mean." "Jennica, could I go for you next week?" "I just got my teeth cleaned at the free clinic and the trainee hygienist just shredded my gums." "Been there." "No worries." "I'll ask Lucy." "I got seniority." "I got the evening Bobby shift, which is easy-peasy." "By then, basically his dick is just coughing up smoke." "Pancakes are in the oven." "Great session." "Yummy time, mucho yum." "He looks so happy and peaceful." "If ignorance is bliss, then Down syndrome's gotta be euphoria." " How are the pancakes?" " Filling." " You ever miss what we used to have?" " Your crepes?" "Definitely." "Jody's not much of a cook." "I mean, the things that we would do together." "Our social calendar was never that full." "No, I mean, like, the things." "I'm talking about what you and I used to have in bed." "Oh." "No." "You let me be in charge." "Remember?" "Jody only wants to cuddle and do it like missionaries." " Cuddling's good." " It's boring." "And uneventful." "I need events." " I want eventful play." " Shh." " I wanna be in charge." " Well, then be in charge." "Be forceful." "Jody's malleable." "He's not." "I've tried." "Would you talk to him?" "No." "I have needs, Frank." "I have needs." "I don't think I ask for too much." " I don't know what to do." " Oh, no." "Please, don't cry when I'm eating." "I'm sorry." "Just" " I miss it." "I miss it so, so much and the missing makes me sad." "All right, all right." "I'll talk to him." "Really?" "You will?" "Yes." "If you'll stop crying and let me enjoy my pancakes, yes." "I can stop crying." "I can stop crying." "I can." "I can stop crying." "You're visiting a Milkovich sister nobody's ever heard of in Milwaukee?" "Correct." "And you're gonna do what?" "We are going to evaluate her well-being, and, if need be, rescue her." " You mean kidnap." " Provide transport to a safer haven." " Kidnap." " Rescue." " Bad idea." " Look." "A kid's in trouble." "We're gonna help." "Crossing state lines to bring a minor to the Milkovich House of Horrors seems like abuse." "Look, her mother's dead, she's home alone, and she's scared." "Welcome to the predictable consequences of using crystal meth." "Have you ever driven this thing more than four consecutive miles?" " What's that smell?" " Fresh air." " Where's the rifle range?" " Don't think we have that anymore." " Why's it on the pamphlet?" " That's a worthwhile inquiry." " Shouldn't have put it on if you don't have it." " Well, let's go check." "Come on." " Damn it." " You all right, Lucy?" "No, I'm not all right." "I was filling in for Jennica on her-- I was filling in for Jennica's Bobby break." "I got Bobby juice on the blouse I'm wearing to Cuban Night." "Now Jennica's gonna get her car keyed, because I am fed up with co-workers who always have canker sore outbreaks when it's their turn." "Hey, don't forget to backload those." "There was a farmer who had a dog" "And Bingo was his name-o" "B-I-N-G-O B-I-N-G-O" "B-I-N-G-O And Bingo was his name-o" "Wanna sing along with us, Carl?" " I wanna shoot a rifle." " I got some info for you on that one." " We no longer offer a rifle range." " That's bullshit!" " Language, please, Carl." " There's a range on the pamphlet." "How about I teach you to play chess?" "How about I call Action 4 News and tell them you lie to dying kids about what they get to do at this horseshit camp?" " I'm sorry, Carl." " I wanna go to the forest and kill something." "Let's find you something safe to do, yet still thrilling." "Like making a tie-dye T-shirt." "You don't have to want it." "Doing things you don't wanna do is how you make a relationship work." "I can't, Frank." "I'm sorry." "Sex toys are a gateway choice." "Toys can be mind-expanding." "I just got my one-year chip from Sex Addicts Anonymous." "Part of my recovery is to make certain I only have loving, committed sex." " No battery-powered aids allowed." " She just wants to kick it up a notch." "Make her happy." "The key to my continued happiness is to have loving sex infrequently." "I've mastered the infrequent part." "This isn't about your happiness." "It's about Sheila's." "I've finally got my life back under control." "If I kick it up a notch, there's no stopping me." " It's an addiction." " Oh, would you stop bragging?" "We're all sex addicts, man." " Ten, 12 times a day?" " Thinking about it?" "Yeah, more." "No, the act." "Arousal and release." "Before I got into SAA, I was having sex 10, 12 times a day." " Giving or receiving?" " Never receiving, always destroying." " Destroying?" " That's what I used to call it." "Destroying pussy." "You all make coming to work such a delight." " Ten to 12 times a day?" "The same woman?" " Never." "That's the Internet." "Once you announce your depravity there's other depravers seeking company." "You put it out there, you find a ton of willing participants..." " ...who wanna be humiliated having sex." " I gotta re-up my AOL account." "One week, I had 32 different partners." "Didn't cost me a dime." "Toys, contraptions, restraints." "You start messing around, you think you're under control." "Eventually, you abuse your arousal center needing stranger and stranger shit to flip your switch." "I mean, I started to look at sex like a fight." "And my weapon was my cock." "Knew I had a problem when I couldn't get hard unless I was slapping it in the face of a woman who was pretending to cry." "I underestimated you, Jody." "In a bar full of depraved people, you are the grand poobah of depravity." "Was." "Won't be again." "What do I owe you for the ginger ale, Kev?" " Vanilla or chocolate?" " Mixed." "You got any rainbow sprinkles?" "They discontinued sprinkles last summer." "Some brands have been linked to cancer." "I already have cancer." "This camp blows." "No sprinkles?" "What is this, Mexico?" " We're trying to create an enjoy" " Create some sprinkles before we die." "Hey, kids, it's Moppy the Clown." "Yo, Carl, way to speak up." " Wanna go check out the lake?" " Sure." " I'll go ask." " Don't ask." "Just go." " They'll get mad if we don't ask permission." " Cancer is our permission." "We've been at this camp a day without seeing the lake." "I've never seen a lake." " Not even Lake Michigan?" " Where's that?" "I didn't get a chance to swing by the bank." " I'll get money in the squirrel fund tomorrow." " Okay." " How'd it go today?" " Weird." " Daycare?" " No kids lost limbs." "No kids were lost by Jim." " Excellent." " How'd cashier work get weird?" "I think everyone at work, other than me, is blowing the manager." "That's genius." "Evil genius." "Taking advantage of women who can't afford to lose their jobs?" " It's sick." " Then quit." "I need the job." "Overtime, benefits." "But eventually, they're all gonna realize I'm not carrying my share of the load." "Literally." "Maybe I can figure out a way to make them all stop before they realize I'm getting a free ride." "If we stick together and collectively boycott giving him what he wants, maybe it can stop." " There's strength in numbers." " "United we stand, divided we suck dick."" "Hey, revolutions have begun with less inspiring phrases." "Cool." "Flat rocks skip better." "They pay for your braces before they found out you were dying?" "I'm not dying." "You got cancer, dude." "You're dying." "We're all dying." "My dad got me some special pills." "Good luck with that." "Seriously." "They ain't got no cure." "I thought this camp was supposed to help kids." "Fresh air and that stuff." "The only kids invited to this camp are the ones that ain't gonna make it." "This is the final party." "One final "screw you."" "Putting all this cool shit within arms' reach and then not letting us do dick." "If you had to pick one wish they could actually grant, what would it be?" "Titties." "Never seen a real girl's titties." " Porn?" " Sure, but never seen titties in real life." " You?" " Older sister." "Describe them." "Like titties, except they're your older sister's so you don't really wanna keep looking at them." " How's that?" " It's fine." " You feeling me?" " I do." " What's my name?" " Have you forgotten your name?" " Say it!" " It." " My name." " Jody." "Hey, Molly." "It's me, Mandy." " This is Lip, my friend." " Hey." "Is Daddy here?" "He's at sea, but he sends his love." "How are you?" "Am I coming home with you?" "Molly, did your mom--?" "She have, like, an address book with family members from her side of the family?" "Cousins or anyone like that?" "No." "Okay." "What about her cell phone?" "You know anyone on that?" "She only had two numbers on it." "Daddy's and her dealer's." "You never meet any uncles or aunties?" "Just you." "And my cousin, David." "He's in the Navy and fights bad guys." "But other than him, no." "Are you taking me to Daddy?" "Whoa, 51 seconds, Debs." "Only 39 seconds to go." "Hey, Register 2, you having a party?" "Ladies will be all aflitter." " Hi." "Patty." "Deli." " Hey, Patty." "Fiona." "Just a chance to mingle, away from work." "Coffee, cocktails, conversation, totally casual." "I've been working here 25 years, no one's ever thrown a party." "Good to get to know people away from the salt mine, you know." "I don't, but I'm glad you're gonna show us." " Want me to bring something?" " All set." "You sure?" "Something from the deli?" "Bobby will give us a discount." "Or I could throw away some meat and pick it up from the dumpster." "Don't worry, I'll double-bag it." "I'm just gonna do chips and salsa." "Something light." "More room in my belly for beer." "See you tonight." "Panerai." "Nice." "How nice?" "Two thousand." "It cost me 5 three years ago." "Don't need a pedigree, just need an answer." "Okay, kids." "For lunch we have organic chicken, a fresh kale salad and a juice bar with beets, cukes, ginger and carrots ready to be ground down into their essential goodness." " Any chicken nuggets?" " I love nuggets." "Chicky nugs?" "I want some." "Sorry, guys, no chicken nuggets." " You got a car?" " No." " I'm a college student." " Buy one." " People who go to college are rich." " I'm not." "Then call us a cab and get us some nuggets." "I got money." "My mom said I could buy whatever I want from the camp store." "I want chicken nuggets." " There's no nuggets at the camp store." " We're dying of cancer." "Serial killers on death row get lobster for their final meal." "These meals could be our last." "We can't get chicken nuggets?" "We have cancer." "Go get us some nuggets now." "Nuggets." "Nuggets." "Nuggets." "Hanley, I'm gonna get you to see some real titties." "Not sister titties." "Not porn titties." "Just naked, real titties." " Well, I'm off to work." "Mm-mwah." " Okay." "Eggs are in the oven, Frank." " You were gonna talk to him." " I did." "Nothing's changed." "Not gonna happen overnight, Sheila." " I am running out of time." " You're not." "I think we can have what we had again." "And I would never cheat on Jody but I am ready to ask him if you and I can have a little toy time on the side." "We had something special, but not as special as you and Jody." "I don't need Jody." "I need you." "I need you back because of what you let me feel by allowing me to make you feel something that you don't want to feel." "You brought a girl to my house without asking me first?" "You took me in when I needed it." "My MS has got real bad." "My whole left side goes numb for weeks." " I'll help." " Your heart's in the right place." "You're the best Milkovich there is." " I should have called first." "I'm sorry." " No." "It's not a bad idea, Mandy." "It's a bad time." "I mean, I can't take care of little kids." "Take her back." "There are good people who work in the places that take care of orphans." " She'll be better off." " You'll look after her while we figure it out?" "What are you gonna do when there's no Aunt Rande to run to?" "One day, there won't be." "That day is today." "Loving sex is a rule of my program." "Don't let your emotions completely obscure the barbaric roots of the sexual act." "Don't lose touch with the seeds of our animal nature." "That's a good thing." "We're not animals, we're people." "With the ability to elevate sex to a spiritual, loving experience." "You can have that with Sheila and still give her what she needs." " That's not been my experience." " You're smarter, stronger." "You can handle it." "Sheila needs you." "I love her, Frank." "I really do." "Then don't let past regrets scare you from embracing new experiences." "It's what it unleashes in me that I'm afraid of." "Jody, the most important part of your recovery is this little family you've started." "Sheila wants to be sensitive to your recovery, but she has needs." "Your acceptance of those needs is an act of love." "This is love." "You're not breaking your sobriety." "You're showing her how much you care." "Hmm." "Ready, Jody." "Right." "What are we doing again?" ""Eat at Anne's." With an arrow." "Cool." "Hop on." " Mm." " Hey, where you been?" " Hey." "Milwaukee." " What?" "Love Milwaukee." "Breweries." " What's all this?" " Party for work." "Hey, Fiona." "Fiona, this is Molly, Mandy's sister." "You have a sister?" "I do." "Hey, Molly, bathroom?" " You guys, I'm up to 75 seconds." " Doing what, Debs?" " Prepping to be drowned at the city pool." " Oh." "Cool." "This is Molly, Mandy's sister." "Can you show her the bathroom?" "You have a sister?" "Milwaukee?" "Look, her mother OD'd and she called Mandy." "Uh-huh." "So why are you involved?" " He's Captain Chivalry now." "She's a girl that needs shelter while we figure out the next step." " Can she stay here for a bit?" " Kind of full up." " Not with Carl in camp." " Take her to her father's." "We're not gonna take her to her father's." "Her father likes to molest his daughters." "Should have led with that." "You don't need to be playing house with Mandy Milkovich." "So yes or no?" "Until Carl gets back." "But doing shit like this signals something to a girl like Mandy." "You sure you know what kind of signals you're sending?" " Pop." " Can you meet me for a drink?" " Is everything all right?" " If everything was all right I wouldn't ask you to meet me for a drink on short notice." " Can't you tell me on the phone?" " Just put on your big-boy pants and meet your father at a bar of your choice so we can mumble like men over a beer." "No." "This is where they lock up the pain pills." " We need a bolt cutter." " No, we don't." "Just use your Swiss army knife and unscrew the bolts." "Or we can just break the glass." "When I break the glass, you guys cough so no one will be suspicious." "One, two, three, cough." "What are you kids doing?" "We were gonna steal the drugs and sell them." "Really?" "You need to work on your lying." " What do you need money for?" " We wanna pay a woman" "Shut up." "This is a camp that's supposed to fulfill wishes." "But all you do is say no." "Kids, I came to work here to do my part in diminishing the burden of your illness." "I know you've been disappointed with some of the restrictions put on you here." "I wish I had the power to change that." "You may have more power than you think." "Frank, Jody wants to talk to you." "Ladies, thanks for getting together on such short notice." "Who doesn't like a party?" "You've all embraced me at the store and I really appreciate it." "And I just, I want to say that we, collectively, have a voice." "And we should start voicing it." " You starting a ladies choir?" " I sing at the church every Sunday." " I can't sing at all." " No." "No, but" "Ladies, we need to speak about what's going on at work." "With Bobby." "I, like all of you, am happy to have a job, okay?" "But I don't want this job if the cost is a never-ending payback hummer." "I don't want to live in that world." "It's not right." " Someone finally said it." " I've said it for months." "But you didn't throw a party." "If we band together, we can put an end to this." "An end to hearing your name called over the loudspeaker." "An end to him deciding we're here to please him whenever the urge arises." "An end to feeling like we have to give him whatever he wants like we are some desperate whores who are happy for the attention." "Our jobs are not his to threaten us with." "Our mouths are not his property to use as he pleases." "I was this close to biting it off last week." "We need to say, "This stops now."" "Yeah!" " It's not that bad." " What?" "I mean, he showers daily, keeps himself clean." "Last year, when my kid got sick, he gave me time off." " Says something." " Patty's right." "When I punch in late, he never dock me." "What's a blowjob if when my kid is sick I stay home?" " It's sexual harassment." " Exactly." "He let me take flowers to put on my mother's grave." "No charge." " He charges you a weekly hummer." " Right." "He lets you take home week-old carnations that are already dying." " To hell with his flowers." " It's once a week for 10 minutes." "Stick your finger up his rear and pop his cork, you get it done in two." "That's what I'm gonna do, and leave a Lee Press-On up there." " Give him something to scream about." " Amen, Jennica." "We're playing a dangerous game, ladies." " Patty, come on." " Okay?" "Wait." "Wait." "If we cause a ruckus, we get him fired, guess what." "We don't know who the next manager will be." "What if he doesn't let us call in sick when we're really not sick?" "What if he doesn't let us go to a funeral without punching out?" "What if he doesn't let us take home expired meat and sheet cakes and a pony keg once and again, for free?" "Bobby's a nice guy." "Okay, okay, so we have to provide him with oral pleasure once a week." " Is that such a bad thing?" " Yes!" "No, no, no." "Listen, girls, listen." "Think about it." "The dick we're sucking may very well be better than the dick we might have to suck instead." " Thank God you're in the minority." " Thank you." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " Let's take a vote." " On what?" "The situation at hand." "Whether we keep what's working, working." " You want to have a vote?" " Hey, you convened the blow job town hall." "Let's vote." "Yes or no." "Fine, show of hands." "No, no, no." "Secret ballot." "Let the democratic process unfold." "Couple of tips:" "Don't relax." "Pretend you're scared." " She likes that." " I don't have to pretend, though." "It'll stretch, trust me." "If God didn't want us putting things up our ass he would have given the rectum a gag reflex." "So tonight maybe you and Molly should sleep together." "I'll bunk with Ian and Liam." "If she wakes up in the night freaking out..." " ...you'll be there." " All right." "How long?" " Ninety-two seconds." " Yes!" "I'm only doing this for Hanley." "I have cancer too." "Me too." "You're the best friend I've ever had." " Now how about the lower half?" " Not happening, pal." "Wendy?" "Wow." "Exactly how I imagined them to be." "Okay." ""Blow job."" ""No blow job."" ""Blow job."" ""Abstention"?" " Really, ladies, one of you is abstaining?" " What does that mean?" "It means someone doesn't care one way or another." "I never minded it, but he never asks me anymore." "That's because you're a human piranha, Lois." " And blow jobs win, six to three." " With one abstention." " That's what I'm talking about." " I want a recount." "Yeah, come on, ladies." "How could this many of you vote for blow jobs?" " Yeah, have the guts to say who you are." " Patty's right." "It's not that bad." " What about your blouse?" " Stain came out." "Admit it, Fiona, he doesn't taste that bad." "I wouldn't know." "I've never done it." "Oh." "You're the reason why I had to pick up an extra hummer this week?" " Pop." " James." "Um..." " Is this a place you frequent?" " Yeah, neighborhood joint." "What's up?" "Um..." "Your mother and I are getting a divorce." "Kev, shots, please." "I'll just be down the hall." "You might hear some sirens and stuff during the night, but you'll be safe." " Okay." "Good night." " Good night." "Here you go." "Change of underwear and a nightgown." "I'll be back in a second, Molly." " Thanks." " Oh, yeah." "No worries." "Night." "Night." "I will totally teach you to swim." "We can protect one another from city kids who hate white people." "Oh, yeah, that's just my girl penis." "It looks exactly like a boy penis." "But I'm a girl, so it's different." "Mm." "Incompatibility finally caught up to us." "When are you moving out?" " Now, basically." " Basically?" " Well, literally." " Oh." "She changed the locks." "Hmm." " Where are you staying?" " Hotel, probably." "So how's Mom?" "Oh." "She's fine." "I'm being nice." "How's your mother?" "Your mother she is on the final slope downward into the pickle jar." "A pill to rise, a pill to sleep, a pill to numb her throughout the day." "And then Tanqueray to wash it all down." "She changed the locks." "So be it." "Yeah." " And remember to breathe." " I don't wanna do this." "Just keep reminding yourself, this is love." "Say it with me." "This is love." " This is..." " Love." " This is love." " This is love." " This is love." " Exactly." "Okay, Sheils, you're good to go." "Thanks, Frank." "This is love." "Wait, wait, wait." "It's not my fault." "I was over-served, okay?" "All right, let's just agree to blame the bartender and call it a night, okay?" "What, are you picking up a little crack first?" "This is where I live." "Hey, Fiona, Ian, you've met my father." " Hello." " Hey." " Whoa, whoa." "Hey, Ian, a little help here?" " Sure." "Yeah, we were at the Alibi and we had a few." "I'll get a pillow and a blanket." "All right." "This one's gonna take." "My boys are gonna hit your bull's-eye, I can feel it." " Come on, boys, swim!" " Ha-ha-ha." "Swim like Michael Phelps!" "Swim, baby!" " Can a vagina go deaf?" " Whoo!" " Ha-ha-ha." " Get up there, now!" "My parents are getting divorced." " I mean" " Is that a good thing or bad thing?" "I mean, now I'm gonna have to spend more time with both of them, so not good." "Listen, I'm sorry I brought him here." "He was in a state and we were right around the corner and..." "Let's end this day right." "Oh, sorry." "It's okay." "I'm done." "What the fuck?" "What the fuck?" "What the fuck?" " I was looking for the shower." " Who the fuck are you?" " It's Jimmy's dad." " What's going on?" " Oh." " Whoa, where's your clothes?" "I was gonna take a shower." " I came into the wrong room." " Then hopped in bed with a full chub." " What?" " Jimmy's dad tried to go balls-deep on me." " No, no, I didn't" " Then why'd you grab my sack?" " Cover up." " Okay." " Everything all right?" " Doesn't seem to be." " Molly, Debs, back to bed." " Fuck." "Are you sure--?" "When you feel a full chub in the back, the meaning is clear." "Ned was looking for me." "I met him at a club." "We've been hooking up for a while." " You've been screwing Jimmy's dad?" " I didn't know it was Jimmy's dad at the time." "He's nice." " Is this why Mom kicked you out?" " What?" "No, no, no." "Does she know that you're..." "Gay?" "Not so much gay as, you know, sometimes I enjoy men more than women." "No, no, it's not that." "I'm broke, son." "Financially broke." "That's why she threw me out." "That's not the only reason but most of it." "I'm sorry about in there." "Were you trying to screw Lip?" "No." "It was the wrong bed." "It's the other kid." "Ian." "I'll be at the Four Seasons." "I think I still have a credit card that works." "I'm so sorry." "If I had to apologize for all the stuff my father's done..." " ..." "I wouldn't have a voice left." " Hmm." "They were really nice."

"(man) America has been victimised again." "Last night's terrorist attack in San Antonio was the latest in this series of bombings that began 11 weeks ago in ten different cities." "Retrieve the package." "Call me when you have it." " What happened?" " You shouldn't have come here, Scott." "I don't wanna hurt you, but I will unless you do exactly what I say." "I'm Mr Al-Rezani's attorney." "There are no terrorists here." "Yes, it's Sandra Palmer." "I'd like to speak with my brother." "The FBI was just here, and they wanted access to the IAA's personnel records." "I have to do whatever I can to stop these attacks." "That includes giving law enforcement the authority to follow up every single lead." " I can't find the files." " They've been erased." "Don't try to recall them." "I used the shredding program." " Sandra, what are you doing?" " You're under arrest." " Take Mr Al-Rezani into custody." " Wait." "He has nothing to do with this." " Don't move." "Where is Assad?" " Put down your weapon." "I came alone." "Fayed set you up." "He provided CTU with the coordinates to this house." "Move!" "Move!" "Most of my people and the governments that support us agreed to a cease-fire." " Fayed wants to sabotage it?" " Yes." "But finding Fayed is the key." " These are Fayed's men." " They're going in the subway." "They can't get on that train." "(Assad) Only the bomber is getting on the train." "The other man is the handler." "(Jack) You follow the handler." "I'm going after the bomber." "(screaming)" "(phone rings)" " We're heading in your direction." " I'll find you." "Stay with the handler." "He's our only connection to Fayed." " You still have Fayed's man in sight?" " He's in a grey sedan, about six cars ahead." "(phone rings)" " Yes?" " (Fayed) Are you on schedule?" "There was traffic by Union Station." "I'm on the road now." "There has been a change." "I need you to stop in Newhall before you come back here." "The Americans will be feeling helpless." "I'm making the call." "(Buchanan) The casualty estimate in St Louis has risen to 112." "The mall attack in Baltimore is even worse." "Over 200 dead, many of them children." "My God." "What about the bomb in Los Angeles?" "Jack Bauer averted the attack at Union Station." "Surveillance from Metro Transit also confirmed he's working with Assad." "Have you made contact?" "Jack's been dark since he called to warn us about Fayed and we didn't listen." "I didn't listen." "Fayed is demanding to speak with the president." "Mr President, we're receiving a call on a scrambled channel from Fayed, sir." " He's demanding to speak with you." " Put him on." "This is President Palmer." "Mr President, we've proven we can strike at you any time, anywhere." "But I am prepared to offer you a cease-fire, if you meet my demands." "Your demands?" "We met your demands when you deceived us about Assad being behind these attacks." "Now you expect me to accept your assurances of a cease-fire?" "I expect you will take action that promises to avoid the loss of more American lives." "What do you want?" "You are holding 110 so-called enemy combatants at your Palmdale military facility in violation of international law." "You must have all these freedom fighters on a nonmilitary aircraft in the air by the end of the hour." "The pilot will be told the destination once the plane is outside your airspace." "If I agree, there is not enough time..." "You'll find a way." "If you don't release the prisoners by the deadline, the consequences will be immediate and devastating." "I will only make this offer once, Mr President." "For your country's sake, I hope you accept it." "Is that what these attacks have been about?" "Releasing the prisoners?" "Sir, I feel it's wishful thinking to assume this is Fayed's endgame." "Contact Palmdale." "Find out what would be involved in making this happen." "Yes, sir." "Mr President, you cannot seriously consider giving in to this man's demands." "I mean, you said yourself, Fayed cannot be trusted." "No, he can't." "I do not believe he has any intention of stopping these attacks." "Not permanently." "But doing this buys us more time to find Fayed." "At the very least it gives the country a respite from the bombings." "Sir, you'd be releasing 110 extremely dangerous terrorists." "Karen, I am very well aware of that." "But unless we find Fayed, I may be forced to." " Oh, no." "We got a problem." " What?" "He's heading north." "The farther he gets, the less traffic we'll have to hide in." "It'll be hard to track him to Fayed without him seeing us." " What else can we do?" " Call CTU." "They'll give us satellite coverage." "No CTU." "They killed my men." "They tried to kill me." "Fayed made them believe you were behind the bombings." "I will not work with my enemies." "You are working with one now." "You might hate this country, you might hate its values." "If you're serious about disarming, bringing your organisation and others to the table, then you know you have to compromise." " That is your political reality." " What's to say they won't put me in prison?" "I can't tell you they won't, but right now that is our only lead to Fayed." " Make the call." " Thank you." " Morris, I need you to load this." " What is it?" "Fayed is asking the president to release all the prisoners from Palmdale." "We need to vet each one in case he does." "He won't." "They are serious high-grade terror suspects." "No one's letting them go." "Excuse me." "Are you refusing to do this?" "Give this to the girls in archives." "I'm working up Fayed threads." "It's more important." "I don't care what you think is important." "It's not your place to tell me." "Just calm down." "I'm trying to help you do yourjob." "You have to evaluate directives." "Don't waste the time of your most important analysts." " I'm..." " Morris." "What?" "What?" "Put filters on each of these files." "If I don't have results on my screen in 20 minutes, you are out of here." " Grow up." " (phone rings)" " O'Brian." " Chloe, this is Jack." " I didn't think I'd ever hear your voice again." " I need to speak to Buchanan." "Hold on." "Buchanan." " (Chloe) It's Jack on line one." " Jack, where are you?" "With Assad, tracking a suspect in the train bombing." "We know you're working with Assad." "Are you sure you can trust him?" "I think so." " What do you need?" " Suspect's on Florence, crossing Ormond." "We believe he'll lead us to Fayed." "We need satellite support." "Logging on to the NSA server now." "Fayed contacted the president and demanded he release the prisoners at Palmdale." "What's the president's position?" "If we don't find Fayed by 9am, he'll go through with it." "It'll take me ten minutes to get satellite coverage." "I had to use the subserver." "That's too long." "He's entering Route 7." "If we try to follow, he'll see us." "Chloe, can you speed up access?" "Sat queue's overloaded." "The country is on high alert." " We'll use Caltrans cameras to track him." " There isn't a traffic cam on Route 7." "I looked." "Figure out another way to track him till the satellite's up." " Where's your nearest TAC team?" " 12 miles away." "Send 'em in my direction." "I'll get back to you." " Do you think this man will recognise you?" " No." "What do you have in mind?" "All right, thanks." "Manning on comm." "I spoke to Jack." "He's surveilling one of Fayed's men and needs backup." " Where is he?" " Florence Boulevard, near Route 7." "He's running this operation with Assad." "Did I hear that correctly?" "We're working with Assad?" "Rendezvous with them and lend support." "All warrants on Assad are rescinded for the time being, understood?" "Curtis?" "We're on our way." "Don't get up." "(horn)" "Hey!" "What's wrong with you?" "I know you saw me coming!" " It was my right of way!" " You telling me I don't know how to drive?" " I'm talking to you!" " You all right?" "I saw the whole thing." " This has got nothing to do with you!" " I'm a witness." "You drove into him." "What is it with you people?" "You're gonna stick up for him?" "Fine, I'll wait here until the police arrive." "Screw both of you." "Screw you!" "Where are you going?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "This is your fault!" "I saw his license for the police." "I can't wait for the police." "I can't drive this." "I need to be somewhere." "I'll deal with this later." "Where are you going?" " Newhall." "I was getting on Route 7." " So was I. I'll drop you there." "Come." "Come." "Thank you." "(phone rings)" "I hope you won't let that bastard get away with this." "You must file a police report." "I know." "Come on." " (woman) CTU." " I need to speak with Bill Buchanan." "Hold, please." "(phone rings)" " Buchanan." " Fayed's man is now in a car with Assad." " What happened?" " Suspect was in a traffic incident." "Listen." "Assad left his phone open so we can monitor." "I'll be following roughly two miles behind in a white Jeep Cherokee." "Assad will let us know where he's going." " I'm ready to transfer you into the call." " Go ahead, Jack." "Bill, they can't hear us on our side." "You should be on the call now." "I don't know Newhall very well." "I need you to guide me." "(man) I will." "Nadia, do an all-agency data pull on Newhall." "Set up parameters for a sort." "When we get satellite, make sure we have coverage of that area." "Let Curtis know he's to intercept Jack on Route 7 on the way to Newhall." " Fayed." " What is it?" "Our scout reports increased activity around the Palmdale military prison." "The transport buses are starting to arrive." "Good." "By the time our brothers are on the aircraft, it will be too late for the Americans" " to realise what's happened." " We still don't have the component." "We will." "Ahmed should be on his way to pick it up now." " Scott, is that you?" " Yeah." "Honey, we were beginning to get worried." " My God, Ahmed, what happened?" " Mom, he has a gun." " What's going on?" "What is this?" " Where's Ray?" "Just put the gun down and tell me what's happening." "Call him." "Ray!" "Yeah?" " What the hell?" " I don't wanna hurt you, but I will unless you do exactly what I say." "You're a nurse, right?" "You have bandages?" " Yeah." " Go get them." "Now!" "You two, on the couch, now." "Come on." "Sit down now." "I need you to patch this leg, stop the bleeding." "My God, Stan was right." "You are a terrorist." " Stan's dead." "He killed him." " What?" " I can't stop this bleeding." " Don't tell me that!" "The wound's too deep." "You have muscle tissue damage." "You need to see a doctor." "Just bandage it!" "There's a package in there." "I'm supposed to take it to a man who has an item for me." " Press." " Ah!" "Obviously I can't do that now, so you're gonna have to." "I'm not leaving you alone with my family." "Your family will be safe when you do what I say." "When you pick up the item, you'll call me and I'll give you further instructions." " What's in this package?" " None of your concern." "Just make the drop." "Grab that phone and come here." "Come here, come here." "Understand this." "If I see anyone - the police, FBI, anybody outside this house, or if you take too long - your wife and son are dead." "Do you understand me?" "Look at me!" "I understand." "Where am I going?" "There's an address on the front pocket of that backpack." "It's a man named Marcus." "Go." "(phone rings)" " How far away are you?" " Less than five minutes." "Get there fast." "Assad and Fayed's man are on open road, five miles ahead." "Got it." " Oh, darling?" " What?" " Since when do you take Milo's side?" " You're doing it again." " What?" " Pick on your bosses when you're stressed." " Milo's not my boss, heaven forbid." " He might as well be." "He could bounce you." "I think you want it sometimes." "And why would I want that?" "I don't know." "It's your character flaw, not mine." "The files you wanted are all unlocked." "They'll be on your screen in a minute." "Good." "Mr President." "I just got off the phone with CTU." "They've reconnected with Jack Bauer." " Where is he?" " He's following one of Fayed's operatives." "CTU is coordinating support for Jack." "They believe this man will lead them to Fayed." "Did CTU offer a time frame for locating him?" "No, sir." "At this point, any estimates are premature." " Have you spoken with the Palmdale facility?" " And the airfield." "If we wanna have the prisoners in the air before the end of the hour, we have to have them on buses and on the road within the next ten minutes." "If you still want to proceed with that option." "I know you disapprove of my decision, but unless Jack and CTU call to say they have Fayed, there is no other option here." " Tell them to load the buses." " Yes, Mr President." "(Assad) Sand Canyon Road." "What?" "I was just remembering." "I had a friend who lived on Sand Canyon Road." "We can take the service route from here." "They're two miles ahead." "We can monitor with this cellphone." "CTU wants you on comm." " You copy?" " Ten-four." " CTU, this is Manning." " (Bill) Go ahead." "I'm with Jack." "Do we have satellite access yet?" " It's coming up." "Is Jack on the line?" " I'm here, Bill." "We're redirecting the NSA satellite to the area around Sand Canyon Road exit marker." "When we have a fix on Assad's vehicle, we'll upload it to your GPS." "Copy that." "It's good to see you, Jack." "I'm sorry for what you were put through." " But I'm glad you're back." " Thanks." "Now you have to work with Assad." "Doesn't that bother you?" "The man's a terrorist, responsible for taking hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent lives over the past 20 years." "Doesn't that mean anything to you?" "I don't know what means anything any more, Curtis." "I spent my whole life defending this country against people like Assad." "And now he's trying to disarm his people, renounce terrorism." " The playing field has changed." " That doesn't change Assad's past." "We have to make sure that he pays for the crimes that he's committed." "If he's our only chance at a peaceful resolution to this, that might not happen." "Anyway, it's not our call to make." "We'll see." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Nothing." "Good." "This isn't working." "There's still too much pain." "I need something stronger." "Uh, there are some prescription painkillers in the kitchen." "Get them, and some water." "Make sure I can see you." "They're in the cabinet over the TV." "Give it to me." "Sit down." "Sit down!" "Sit down, sweetie." "Form an orderly line." "Head count will be taken." "Then, and only then, you'll be loaded onto those buses." "Understand, any problems you cause will only delay this process." "Get in line." "I'll tell him." "Right." "Uh, that was the FBI." "Your sister, she's been arrested." " What?" "When?" " Less than an hour ago." "FBI agents were sent to the offices of the Islamic-American Alliance to serve a warrant for their personnel files." "Sandra deleted them in front of the agents." " They had no choice but to arrest her." " Dammit." "Where has she been taken, Tom?" "She's being detained." "One of our provisional facilities." "(woman) Yes, sir." "(yelling, chanting)" "Walid, I'm so sorry I got you into this." "I deleted those files." "It wasn't right for them to arrest you for my actions." "Don't apologise." "You were protecting the rights of innocent Americans." "That's what this country stands for, even if the government's forgotten." "Back away." "Move back." "Come on." "That's it." "You take him." "Where are you taking him?" "Walid?" "I'll be all right." "Over here, Ms Palmer." "Take off her cuffs." "For you." "I'll be right here." " Hello?" " (woman) Please hold for the president." " What were you thinking deleting those files?" " I was standing up to an unlawful seizure." "You making a point is the last thing I need today." "I ordered your release." "Agents have instructions to take you home." "I don't wanna be released." "I wanna fight this, bring attention to the liberties your administration allowed to be violated." " Do you have any idea what's going on?" " Of course." "Innocent people are dying all over the country." "You make a civil rights case now." "Somebody has to." "If you're gonna release anybody, it should be Walid." "He's the head of the organisation under investigation." "The FBI wants to hold him until they know what was in those files you deleted." "There is nothing incriminating on those files." "You have my word." "Walid is innocent." "Then Walid has nothing to worry about, Sandra." "Listen, I don't have time for this." "You are released." "Go home." "I will call you later." " I need to speak with Walid." " That's not going to happen." "I'm his attorney." "You have to give me access to him." "Don't tell me what I have to do." "I'm following orders." " Walid has rights." " Limited rights, Ms Palmer." "He's being held under the revised enemy combatant statute." "Applying this statute to somebody like him is ridiculous." "Is the law being completely thrown out of the window?" "When you're through with the lectures, I have orders to drive you home." "Ma'am?" "Stay to the left." "Once inside the secure zone, you will disrobe." "After a cavity search, you'll be given back your clothing." " Sir, you have to keep moving." " I don't care." "I'm innocent." "I wanna talk to somebody in authority." " We're not gonna ask you again." " Don't touch me." " Let him alone!" " Sir, get back in line." "Not until you let go of that man." "Take your hands off me." "Take him to interrogation." "Do you live around here?" "No." "Visiting relatives?" " Why do you ask?" " To make sure you can get back to your car." " I'll be OK." " "I'll be OK."" "My son, he says this." "He has a memory like a fish." "His mother is very worried." "On the next corner, make a right." "Drop me off at the end of the street." " Did you copy that?" " It's the 6500 block of Alderton." "Bring up the data on all buildings within a half mile and begin a pre-sort." "Like I'm doing already?" "Right over here." " All right, thanks again for your help." " Please, it's nothing." "He's crossing 64th Road, heading towards the commercial district." "I'm turning around." " There he is." " We've acquired the suspect on satellite." " Have your men set up a moving perimeter." " Collier, take your men across 64th." "Set up a moving perimeter behind the target." " He'll be well trained." "Be careful." " My men know theirjob." " Do I know you?" " No, but I know you." "He's entering a commercial building one block south of you." "Copy that." "Boorman, we're gonna take Assad with us." " Watch him." "Search him for weapons." " Assad is part of this operation." "Not any more." "Wait." "Wait." "I'll take care of it as soon as this is over." "I promise." "Thank you." "It's a self-storage facility - one floor, 200 units." " Boorman, keep him here." " Team leader, do you copy?" "Go ahead, Collier." "I see two dozen cases of ammunition, boxes with Czech writing." "This is a dead drop." "Fayed's not here." "We only have a few minutes, Jack." "If the suspect won't lead us to Fayed to stop the prisoner exchange, we have to move now, get information through interrogation." "Bill, that's too risky." "We have no guarantee we can make him talk in time." "That's a risk we have to take." "Move your men into position." "Understood." "All teams, we're moving in." "Silent approach, non-lethal force." "(clang)" "Get out where I can see you!" "Step out with your hands up!" "Curtis!" "Everyone back!" "Get a fire hose." "Get the fire department and ambulances here!" "Bill, it's Jack." "Suspect is dead." "He was taking a laptop out of the storage unit." "We'll check the hard drive, but it's damaged." "Understood, Jack." "I need the president." "Yeah, got the feed of the prisoners at Palmdale." "(intercom beeps)" " Yes?" " (woman) I have Bill Buchanan on the line." " Put him on." " Yes, sir." " We've had a setback to our operation." " What happened, Bill?" "The suspect Jack was following killed himself rather than be apprehended." "We're examining for evidence." "There's no telling how long that will take or if it will lead us to Fayed." "I'm sorry." " So am I. Keep me informed." " Of course." "If you're intent on following through with this prisoner release, we await your orders." "Load them on the plane." "This is Lennox." "The president has made his decision." "Load the prisoners on the plane." "Head count is correct." "All men accounted for on bus three." "I want confirmed head counts on all other vehicles." "(man) Copy that." "Bus one confirmed." "Roger that." "We will proceed single file in an orderly manner onto the plane." "There will be no mistakes and no disorder." "Is that clear?" "Let's get these buses out of here as soon as we can." " Let's move." " Yes, sir." "Fayed, we just heard from the airport." "Our people are being loaded onto the planes." "The president has given in to us." "Hello?" "Hello?" "(man) Back here." " You Marcus?" " Who are you?" "I'm supposed to give this to you and you're supposed to give me something in return." "It's not enough." "What do you mean?" "The component cost me more than I thought it would." "I need another 50,000." " But that's all he gave me." " Well, then go back and get the rest." "I can't do that." "Look, I need whatever it is you're selling, please." "Just take the money." "I am begging you." "Hey." "Until you get more money, we have nothing more to talk about." " C-can I use your phone?" " Yeah." " (phone rings)" " Hello." " He, um, wants another $50,000." " Tell him you don't have it." "I did and he said to come back when I get it." "There is no more money." "I don't care what you have to do, but get that item from him." "You understand what happens here if you don't?" "(clears throat) Yeah." "I understand." " What'd he say?" " He says he'll get the money." "And before I bring it back here, he just wants to make sure you really do have it." "There it is." "You son of a bitch!" "I'll kill you!" "Shut up, just take the money!" "Just take it." "The hard drive is mostly toast, but I was able to recover the most recently accessed file." "Some kind of wiring schematic." "How much do we have?" "About a page and a half." "Mostly in Arabic, some of it in Russian." "Get Assad over here now." "Boorman, bring him." "Do you know what this is?" "A list of electronic components, build specifications, programming instructions for a detonator." "But this is for a nuclear device." "Is it possible Fayed could've acquired a nuclear weapon?" "His organisation has tried unsuccessfully in the past." " He may have found a way." " Son of a bitch!" " You knew about this all along, didn't you?" " Curtis!" "Curtis!" "Let go of him now!" "Assad, please." "There is a reference file at the bottom of the page." "Sovtel Three." "That's a compact bomb the Soviets made till the late '80s - a suitcase nuke." " They're all accounted for?" " Destroyed." "There was a claim a device was diverted to a nuclear scientist with suspected terrorist ties." " Calls himself Saif al Din." " Looking up his file." "There won't be much." "It's a code name, means "sword of the faith"." " Intelligence never discovered his identity." " We have a six-year-old surveillance photo." "Put it up." " Do you recognise him?" " Yes." "I saw him with Fayed a year ago." " His name is Hasan Numair." " Chloe, did you copy that?" " Looking up his name." " We need to know where this man is now." "I think we already do." "He's a terrorist being released from the Palmdale military prison." "Call the White House." "Bring up the feed from the airfield." "This is what Fayed has been planning all along." "These bombings were designed to make you free this man." "Son of a bitch." " Have they freed the prisoners?" " It'll be a couple minutes till they're in the air." "Call the airfield." "Send it to my office." "Tell the president I'm stopping the release." "This is Nadia Yassir from CTU." "I need to speak to the president, priority three." "This is Buchanan." "The prisoner you want is Hasan Numair." "I'll send his picture." "Roger that." "Let's move it, boys." "Prisoner Numair, raise your hand." " I've got the photo." " Copy that." "Prisoner Numair, identify yourself now." "We need to go over every square inch." "Someone tell the sarge he needs to get up here now." "(gunshot)" "Hurry up." "Fayed is waiting for you." "English SDH"

"Knock on a girl's door." "Like that girl from the bathroom that you're so hot for." " What, Natalie?" " Yeah, Natalie." "Victor's reading skills are anywhere near where they should be." "And I think we need to hold him back." "And I disagree." "And, hey, Amber getting married." "How about that?" "I just don't want to see her make a big mistake." "Maybe Ryan isn't Seth." "Okay?" "What are you doing?" "I am working on Kristina's campaign budget." "Doesn't she have the woman that does that?" "Yeah, Heather." "But if I let her do this, we're gonna wind up bankrupt." "It's right up here." " You wanna help back there?" " No." " You sure?" " No, I got it." "I don't know how grandma Blanchie will do on these hills." " But..." " She will be fine." "My... buddies from my unit will escort her or carry her, if they need to." " Okay." " It's right over here." "Isn't this beautiful?" "Yeah, it's really pretty." "I think so too." "It's very pretty." "I'm winded." "Yeah." "Aah!" "Oh, God." "Just a spider." "It's okay, it's okay." "Oh, my God." "All right, let's take a breath." "We're good now." "Okay, okay." " Wow." " So- okay, so this is it." "This is the spot." "This is our lake." "Okay, right." "It's our special place." "Ryan took me here on one of our first dates." "Yeah, it was sort of a little special spot of mine beforehand, so it was a big deal to bring her here." "But I knew she was the one, even then." " Aw." " Honey." "I could tell." "I love you." "I love you." "So- it's gonna be perfect." " It's perfect." " Uh!" "I don't know if your mom likes it." " What's going on over there?" " I like it, I like it." "I just--I don't know where everybody's gonna sit." "It's not a lot of space for both families." "Well, I only have my buddies." "And they're gonna be my groomsmen." "And that's pretty much it." "Yeah." "What about your family?" "Oh, it's just my mom." "And she's not gonna be able to make it out." "Your mom's not gonna make it for your wedding?" "Mom, we don't-- oh, okay." " It's okay." " So, less people." "So, yes, I guess we do have the space." "Yeah, right?" "But, I mean, this isn't the only option, obviously." "We just love it." "But I really hope that you like it, 'cause it means a lot to us." "Like it?" "I love it." "Good, good." "All right, um, this is, like, sad, brooding, Drew song." "Okay." " Whatever, I'll just play it." " All right." " Yeah, I dig this." " Yeah?" " I like it." " Yeah, me too." "It's, like, sad, but-- I think music's, like- it's, like, um, it's like that one thing that lets you know if you're compatible with somebody, you know?" "Like, if you can't share your music with somebody, forget it, it's over." "That makes sense." "Like, cut your losses." "All right." "This is my, like," ""I need to have a good cry" song." " Great, yeah." " Okay, it's a little bit old." "It's a little bit different." "But if you know this, we're officially soul mates, all right?" "All right." "♪ Just before our love got lost ♪" "♪ you said anything?" "Wait, yeah, um- ugh." "Magic had to end somewhere." "It's a.. this is Joni Mitchell, right?" " Yeah." " Yeah, I love Joni Mitchell." "God." "People think I'm so weird for liking her." " For Jo--no." " But this song, I mean, like, it speaks to me." "I, like, worship Joni." "Her voice, it's so haunting, right?" "Yeah, I know." "Haunting--that's a good-- that's a good word, yeah." " Yeah." "I've never met anybody who likes this song, like, let alone even knows this song." "Well, now you have." "Well, you know this seals the deal, right?" "There's no fighting fate." "Drew Holt, you are officially my best college friend." "Oh." "Yeah." "Right back atcha." " All right, I'm off." " Okeydoke." " I'll see ya tonight." " Ow!" "Seriously, go play in your room, leave!" "Mm, you go to work, okay?" "I got it." "Yeah?" "Okay." "Mm, you go to work, okay?" "I got it." " You're gonna be late." " All right." " Just go." " Good luck." " Mom, he's bothering me!" " Thank you." "Guys, come on." "We just need one big fish." "Kristina, we're doing great at the $10 to $25 level." "People are stepping up." "They believe in your campaign." "That's exciting." "That's not gonna pay the bills." "Come on, Adam, you own a music studio." "You must have some clients you could talk to about a donation." "I feel weird asking the clients for money." "Why?" "Because I don't want 'em to feel obligated." "Oh, that's exactly what I want them to feel." "What about your former clients, not your cli-- what about that mister" " Yeah, yeah." "That guy, he hit it big." "You helped him out a lot." "He's a rapper, the mister" " Mistah R.A.Y.?" " Mistah R.A.Y., mistah R.A.Y." " He knows Mistah R.A.Y.?" " Yes." "He knows Mistah R.A.Y. You're holding out" "Mistah R.A.Y. on us?" "You know who he is?" "Mistah R.A.Y. was, like, the soundtrack of my life." "His first album-- are you kidding me?" "What's he like?" "He's a very, uh, intimidating man." "And I'm terrified of him." "And I'm not gonna ask him for money." " He loved you." " He didn't love me, honey." "He was amused by me." "There's a big difference." "And I'm not gonna go call him or go to his house and ask him for $1,000." "Okay, so- of course you're not gonna ask him for $1,000." "A guy like that..." "Thank you." "You go after way more." "♪ May God bless and keep you always ♪" "♪ and may your wishes all come true ♪" "♪ may you always do for others ♪" "♪ and let others do for you" "♪ may you build a ladder to the stars ♪" "♪ and climb on every rung" "♪ and may you stay" "♪ forever young" "♪ may you grow up to be righteous ♪" "♪ may you grow up to be true ♪" "♪ may you always know the truth ♪" "♪ and see the lights surrounding you ♪" "♪ may you always be courageous ♪" "♪ stand upright and be strong ♪" "♪ and may you stay" "♪ forever young" "♪ may you stay" "♪ forever young" "♪ You're in or you're out" "♪ you're in or you're out" "♪ are you in, are you out ♪" "♪ you're in or you're out" "♪ and leave our bodies on the floor ♪" "♪ and leave our bodies on the floor ♪" "Wow, I can actually hear the egotistical douchebaginess in his voice." "Yeah." "Well, I hope that's what your label's going for." "Because this is take 30, and it doesn't seem to be changing, so-- Yeah." "♪ You're in or you're out" "♪ you're in or you're out" "Thank you." "That's how you do that, fellas." " Let's go again." " What do you want?" "Uh, so that was really good, guys." "Do you wanna just try another take?" "Another take?" "Are you kidding, man?" "That was, like, magic." "Are you not pushing record or something?" "That was perfect." "That was, like, textbook." "Just tell him to sing it straight, you know." "Enough with the fancy theatrics." "What's he's saying?" " We need a clean sound." " Okay." " Honestly, that was" " Uh, so, hey, Oliver." "Your voice sounds awesome." "Yes." "The label's asking if maybe you could just do one just a little more pulled back this time." "On the next take." "Oh, pull it back?" "Hey, turn around!" "You want me to pull it back?" "Yeah, I'll pull it all the way back into your ass." "You know what?" "Let's just take five." "And then we'll all-- Yeah, yeah, let's take five." "I'm gonna take five right in there." "And you don't know rock and roll!" "Whoa, whoa, hey." "Come on, bud." "Listen, this place isn't even paid for yet, bud." "I don't even care." "I don't care about the piano." "♪ I'm done with this crap just give him a few minutes." "He's gonna exhaust himself." "Look, he's already running out of breath." "We're out of here." "Get your stuff, man." "I'm not dealing with this." "Let's go, let's go." "Put the sticks down." "What are you waiting on?" "Hey, how'd everything go with the brats this morning?" "Oh, fantastic." "They're doing their punishment as we speak." " Ah." " Stop it!" "No, it's--stop!" " You don't like it, huh?" " Hey!" "Everything okay?" "It's kind of okay, but I told 'em they had to spend the afternoon cleaning." "Yours is all wet." "There's nothing in the house that's not clean." "Whose fault is that?" "Cleaning gives me a sense of calm." "Yes, of course." "You want me to give 'em something to do?" "I got it." "I got it, babe." "Hey, stop it." "Stop." "Set 'em down, on the ground." "Set 'em down." "Let's go." "We didn't do anything." "Now what we have here is a failure to communicate." "No, that's not the problem." " She's the problem." " Quiet, quiet, quiet." "Now your mother tells me there's been some fighting, some screaming and yelling, and disrespecting your elders, and a pronounced lack of good old American work ethic." "Don't look at her." "She's leaving." "She's not gonna be here." "She's gone." "You're just gonna leave us here?" "That's our punishment?" "Well, your grandpa has some chores he'd like you to help out with." "And his chores, they're gonna take a lot longer than my chores." "Oh, yeah." "You're right about that." "We'll see you at 1700 hours, all right?" "Right this way, troops." "All right." "Right?" "This is it, yeah." "This is an album right here, okay." "Joni knows how to lift you up and tear you down, all at once." "And we're gonna have to skip the song after this one, 'cause it makes me cry." " Oh, seriously?" " Yeah." "Listen, Drew, this music is powerful stuff." "And I guarantee you it is gonna take you to the next level with this girl, all right?" " Yeah." " Oh, my God." "I can't do it, man." "I can't do it, Adam." "I quit." "This Oliver Rome guy, he's defeated me." "With the pork pie hat and the Jethro Tull look," "I can't do it." "Hang in there." "What is going on in here?" "Why are you guys listening to Joni Mitchell?" "Because she's a genius, first of all." "Okay?" "Oh, uhhuh." "And our nephew came in here for a little advice." "Not just on music, but on the female of the species." "And he came to me, not you." "So I'd appreciate it if-- Really?" "You wanted his advice?" "There's a girl I like who likes Joni Mitchell, so I'm trying to listen to it." "But I know this is stupid." "She's not gonna believe that I'm into this, obviously." "Drew, Drew, listen to me, okay." "You're at a critical juncture with this young lady, okay?" "Right now, she's see you as her friend, okay?" "You got a very small window to break through the friend zone and into the fun zone." " In the laying' pipe zone." " Okay." " Let's call it what it is." " I've got this." "You actually are making a good point, shockingly." "Listen to me." "With track nine," "I swear to you, anything is possible." " All right." " Anything." " I'm holding my breath." " Look." "I dated a girl for a year and pretended I was vegan, so I'm in no position to judge." "But, I do have a piece of advice." "I know." "If she doesn't like me for me, then what's the point?" "No, that would be terrible advice." "What I'm saying is, you have got to commit to this lie." "It doesn't have to be a lie." "You can't just listen to a couple of tracks off this album and think you're gonna pull it off." "You've gotta work for it." "You gotta read the liner notes." "You gotta know what that song- yo, yo, hey." "Oh, Joni." "Track nine-- bone zone, every time." "Um, we need you downstairs, 'cause you gotta push the red button or whatever." "I mean, I could probably do it, but I mean, you're the engineer, right?" "Is that how that works?" "Yeah, I'll..." "You know, you should come do that." "Go pull them levers." "You know, whenever you're ready." "Come on." "And as for the bathrooms, if you must know," "I was also looking up" ""deluxe porta potties" on the Internet." "That's not a category." " It is, oh, yeah." " No, no." "Very, very lush." "You'll see." "Oxymoron-- "deluxe porta potty."" "Listen, everything's gonna be fine, all right?" "Good." "What are you gonna wear?" "Oh, God." "I forgot about that." "Something billowy." "Something with room for my eating habits." "Hey, who's his best man gonna be?" "Um, I don't know." "We haven't really talked about it yet." "But I don't even know, honestly, how much of that stuff we're gonna really do, like, the traditional, you know- but you're--right, but you're having a wedding, so that's traditional, so-- Yeah." "And so none of his family is coming?" "Uh, I don't think so." " Hm." " Yeah, I don't" " I was just looking forward to meeting" "I just--I don't feel like I know him that well." "I haven't met them either." "I don't know." "He's not close with them, you know." "I think there's some complicated issues there." "And I think it's probably not the healthiest relationship." "And I think he just wants to move away from that." " Aren't you curious?" " To be honest, it's kind of a sensitive subject with him." "And I just don't really wanna push it." "And I don't know, I trust him, you know." "I'm sure he will share with me the right things." "And not everybody's that close to their family." "And I think it's-- it makes sense, you know?" "If you don't have a good thing with him, you wouldn't want him there." "Right, or it would be an opportunity to-- anyway, I hear you." " Mom, this is not therapy 101." " I understand." " Okay, got it, thank you." "Duly noted, your attitude about this whole thing." "Well, a wedding brings these questions up, doesn't it?" "Apparently." " Made you some coffee." " Thanks." "Are you just practicing being a wife?" "Yeah, just practicing." "Um..." "Hey." "So, you know, um..." "My dad is, like, really not the best." "He's, like, kind of the worst." "I don't even really like him as a person." "But, you know, he's my dad, and he's a big part of me." "And, you know, it's important to me that he's there on the biggest day of my life, you know?" "That's great." "I'm happy." "That's great." "I look forward to meeting him." "Okay." "I guess what I'm saying is that" " I know what you're saying." "Okay, well, it feels important to me that, you know, your family knows me and that I know them, and- and I'm gonna introduce you to them at some point." "I just think our wedding is supposed to be the happiest day of our lives." "And if my step dad comes to that, it's not gonna be." "So they're not coming." "Okay, well, does that mean that-- that you mom can't come then, because of him?" " Yeah, probably." " Okay." "Well, what about your real dad?" "I mean" " I told you, he's not around." "Okay, well, do you wanna at least, you know, let him know that you're getting married?" "No, he's, like-- he's dead." "He's not--he's not- honey, I'm sorry." "I didn't know." "I'm sorry." "I bet that was really awful for you." "Yeah, I'm sure it was really awful for me, but I'm-- look." "All that stuff is in the past." "And let's just leave it there." "Let's just move forward with our future." "I've never been happier, ever." "You're the best thing that's ever happened to me." "I love you." "We're getting married." "We're getting married." "Yeah, it reminds me of that song, Court and Spark." " Court and Spark?" " Yeah." "Um, no, who's that by?" "That's by Joni Mitchell." "Oh, you know, I really only know that one song that I played you." "It was from a movie." "Oh." "My mom digs it, so-- but I didn't know you were this, like, big Joni Mitchell super fan." " I'm--yeah, I guess so." " That's kinda cool." "How about I come by your room later?" "You can, like, play me more of her stuff." " Cool, yeah." " All right, I'll see ya." "How you coming, Victor?" "Good." "I think I got this thing cleaned pretty good." "You know what that thing is?" "That's a water pump." "What does it do?" "Well, it's the heart of the engine, that's what it does." "I mean, it cools everything, you know?" "You wanna scrub that really good." "You know, that's called the impeller there." "Get those bolts, 'cause those are tricky." "I think I could clean it even better." "Yeah, that's good." "I'm done." "Let me see." "All right." "It's pretty good." "You grab that baby and start on that." "You're gonna have to use some more elbow grease now." "What is that?" " What's what?" " The elbow grease." "That's just when you scrub hard." "But most importantly, it is my wife's commitment to education that truly makes her the best candidate for mayor, and why you should feel confident donating money to her campaign." "I am urging you, as your friend and your brother, not to make that speech to mistah R.A.Y." "Crosby, I don't want to do this, okay?" "I promised Kristina, and now I just want to get it over with." "Well, that's the spirit." "I'm sure she'll appreciate the enthusiasm." "Oh, hey." "Hey." " You guys ready?" " Uh, actually, no." "I just came up here to say you guys have been great, better than Ashes of Rome deserves." "But today is the band's last day at the studio." "Hold on a second." "After putting up with all that, you're firing us?" "You're not the ones getting fired." "Mm." "I've got to tell the band that I'm dropping 'em." "Sorry for making your life so miserable the last couple of weeks." "Hopefully, we can send some better business your way in the future." "Oh, I would love that." "Thank you." "Soon." "All right." "Thanks for helping me through that." "Yes!" "Are you kidding me?" "What are you so happy about?" "We just lost business." "That was the worst experience of my life." "Do you know what kind of financial pressure" "I'm under right now with this campaign going on?" "Listen to me." "As the father of a newborn, life is too short for that." "Well, as the father of three children," "I'm here to tell you that life is expensive." "So why don't you try to figure out how we're gonna fill our schedule while I go over to Mistah R.A.Y.'s house and beg him for some campaign money?" " Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey." " What?" " Don't forget these." " Would you give me the- listen to me." " Don't do that." "Listen, these are very valuable." "Crosby, knock it off." "I swear to God." "Okay." "Hey, yo." "Who this?" "Uh, hey, it's Adam Braverman." "I'm here to see Mistah R.A.Y." "Uh, okay, I'll just come on in." "Thank you." "Adam Braverman." "What's goin' on, my ninja?" " How are you?" " How you doin'?" "I'm good." "Yo, so how's the little baby doin'?" " Uh, good." " Hey, yo." "So the first time I met this fool, we was sittin' on my couch talkin' business, and he didn't even know his wife was in labor." "Just havin' a baby, funny story." "Uh, she's good." "The little girl's good-- Nora." "And my wife is good too, which is a perfect segue to what I wanted to talk to about." "Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo." "Slow down, white boy." "Okay." "You're not gonna ask Mistah R.A.Y. how he doin'?" "Of course, I just-- I know you're a busy man, didn't want to take up a lot of your time." "But of course I want to know how Mistah R.A.Y.'s doin'." "I--how he doin'?" "Mistah R.A.Y. Is damn fine!" "Mistah R.A.Y. Is living' the dream!" "Yeah, right on!" "Okay." "Well, I'm just happy that that album you recorded at the Luncheonette was such a big success." "You're damn right." "Yo, look around." "Yo, this is what hard work and talent gets you." "Thank you, Jesus Christ." " Hallelujah." " Amen." "Amen to that." "And I just am real happy that the Luncheonette could play a small part in the success of that album." "I mean, a very small part, not obviously as large a part as your talent, your hard work, and, uh--and Jesus." "I'm gettin', like-- like, a little vibe from you right now." "I sense you're troubled, Adam." "Oh, well, I mean, we've had some troubles at work." "It's been a tough time." "Well, you can talk to me." "Whatever you need, you can talk to me." "Ah, it's--you know, just, we lost a client." "And, uh-- Oh, damn." "I'm sorry, man." "I know how it is." "Oh, no, no, no." "We lost a client, like, we lost their business." "They were dropped by their label." "We just lost their business." "Ah, that label bull, man." "Yeah, they're still alive." "Label crap, man..." "They're good at ruining good music." "Yeah." "See, that's why I put a studio in here, 'cause Mistah R.A.Y. answers to nobody." "So you're not with a label, or you're with your own label?" "Yeah, I do my own thing, man." "We're takin' our music straight to the streets." "That's the future right there, bitch." " You think?" " Hell, yeah." "You don't want to work for the man." "You want to be the man." "Yo, that changed my life, Adam Braverman." "It changed my life." " You know what I'm sayin'?" " I think I do." " So, what happened?" " I don't know what happened." "We just got to talking about business, and then it was over." "And I was prepared." "I had note cards and everything." "I just--I feel like I let you down." "You know what?" "You didn't let me down, honey." "It's so awkward asking people for money, it's fine." "I chased after him, and they just took off." "You know what, you tried." "That's all that matters, is you tried, and I'm so grateful for that." "How'd you do?" "Ugh, not so hot." "I mean, I did okay I guess." "I talked to this really great retired school teacher." "She started teaching at Berkeley unified in 1948." "She was the kindest woman in the world." "She said she wanted to give me all of her extra money for this campaign, because she believed in me." " That's great." " 25 bucks." "I know, I know." "She was so sweet on the phone." "It was just heartbreaking." "It's like the people that don't have money are the ones that want me to be mayor." "I really--I feel like I let you down." " You didn't let me down." " Oh, tell me you got good news for me--please, people." "Check?" "Signed photo of Mistah R.A.Y., anything?" "I forgot the photo, and it just-- it's not gonna happen." " It's not gonna work." "What?" "Ah, damn it." "He tried so hard." "He did his thing." "Guys, what happened?" "It's just not gonna work." "I'm sorry." "That's all?" "It's just not gonna work?" "Okay." "Well, you're lucky I come bearing good news." "Really?" "What is it?" "I got you a meeting with Harry Lerner." "The developer?" "Don't say it like it's a dirty word, Kristina." "He's a millionaire, that means checks..." "Good thing." "Okay, good." "Good, good." " Donations." " A lot of money." "How did you score that guy?" "Because I'm relentless, and I'm annoying, and I don't take no for an answer." "Does he know where we stand on the downtown loft project, though?" "We can be vague." "That's the beauty of a person-to-person meeting." " I just" " Face to face, you don't have to get into specifics, Kristina." "We guide the conversation." "We avoid what we don't want to talk about." "As long as we're clear that if I get elected," "I'm not gonna support his endeavors." "All right." "If it comes up, we'll be very clear that you won't support it." "But we don't need to talk about it." "Go upstairs and get dressed." "I'm dressed." "No, you're not." "Upstairs, come on." "I really don't like that tone." " I like her." " Mm." "You know, I sat down with Bob Little the other day, and he's a smart kid." "And he gets it." "But I want to keep an open mind about everything, and that's why I'm here." "And to be honest, this one didn't give me much of a choice." "Yeah." "She's very persistent." "I respect that." "Well, thank you so much for sitting down with us and taking the time." "I know how busy you are." "Do you live in Berkeley?" "Or- no, I'm--uh, Mill Valley." "Oh, Mill Valley." "Wow." "It's pretty nice up there." "It's gorgeous." "Yeah, but I went to Cal." "So it's always been a dream of mine to see downtown Berkeley get revitalized 'cause it's, you know-- Wow, great." "And Kristina went to Cal too." "I went to Cal." "Yeah, that's where her passion for education began." "Mmhmm." "I saw a system that was broken, and that's why I'm putting my hat in the ring for mayor." "Okay, I don't know if you know about my loft project." "I'm creating a multi-use apartment complex downtown." "The ten-story one?" "Well, you know, it's eight or, you know, might only be able to get to do six because, you know, we don't really know how high we're gonna be able to go, because you really do" "have to jump through a lot of hoops to get anything approved here in Berkeley." "Berkeley citizens are pretty involved, you know." "With that project comes a lot of, like, construction and traffic and congestion- and what they need is a leader who can really explain to them the pros and cons of something like that." "You know, it could add jobs, it could boost the economy." "Exactly." "'Cause, frankly, look." "The projections are saying that the Lerner group is going to create over 100 new construction jobs." "Oh, that's great, construction." "Kristina's brother-in-law is a contractor." "So he's gonna love that." "Yeah, and 60% of those jobs are gonna be union." "But what I need is," "I need to get by the zoning review board." "And the first time, it passed eight to zero." "But then it got kicked back up to the city council for further review." "I think the process takes a while." "Yeah, there's so much pork and fat in the government, and that's what Kristina wants to cut out." "That's good because, you know," "I feel very strongly about this project, and there's no way that I'm gonna give it up." " Good for you." " I like that." "I admire your tenacity, and that's exactly why I'm running for mayor." "You know, my main focus is education, and I'm so passionate about that, so- and we definitely-- we're rooting for you." "We really want to see your project go through, right, Kristina?" "Yeah." "But, you know, my main focus is education." "Yeah." "Mom's here." "We're saved." " Hi, sweetheart." " Hi, how'd it go?" "Please take me home now." "Mmmm." "No." "Well, officially, they still have ten more minutes on the clock." "You heard your grandpa." "Ten more minutes, Syd." "Awesome." "Grandpa, I think if we hurry up, we can still finish disassembling this water pump." "Yeah, I think you're right." "This one seems a little tight though, doesn't it?" "Yeah." "Okay." "I don't have my glasses here." "We're on step four." "Why don't you read it out there." ""It is p-possible" ""that some--some-- that some bolts--"" "come on, just let me do it." "We'll be here all day." ""It is possible that some bolts" ""take more effort to remove than others." "This possibly indicates improper torque."" "Hey." "Come on." "Give daddy a smile." "Smile for daddy." "Look at that." "Smile for daddy." " Hey, Cros." " Give me a little smile." "Can I talk to you for a second?" " Uh-oh, Uncle boss is here." " Hey, Jasmine." "My mom was here all morning, so she's a little tired." "Honey, tickle her or something." "I want to see a little smile before I hang up." "Jasmine, how you doin'?" "We just got a little business conversation here-- oh, look at that smile!" "That's great." " You got your smile." " That's not a smile." " Okay, bye Jasmine." " No, no, no, don't turn it." "Five minutes of your time, you can call 'em back in five minutes--important business." "When I took my job here," "I was promised a family-friendly environment." "This is so family-friendly, it's gonna get even better." "Take a look at this." "You know what that is?" "No, what is it?" " That's our future." " It's a bunch of numbers." "Our future is a bunch of math and numbers?" "Just forget about the numbers for right now, okay?" "Okay." "All that is to say, it's time for us to start our own label." "You want to start our own label?" "Yeah." "You're the only person left in America that doesn't know that the music industry is dying?" " Oh, it's not dying." " You're the last one?" "All right." "It's d.I.Y." "You know what that means?" "Do it yourself." "So forget about the old business model, okay?" "Uhhuh." "We are gonna be a one-stop shop." "The bands that we sign are gonna be recorded by us, produced by us, and their music is gonna be distributed by us." "Mm." "And then who pays us?" "Well, that's all in the numbers here, and I can explain it in detail if you want." "I don't need this explained to me." "I need to know who's gonna pay us." "All you need to know is that real profitability is a real possibility." "It is time for you and I to take it to the next level and truly start working for ourselves." "We already work for ourselves." " No, no, we don't." " Yeah, we already- no, we don't." "We're still beholden to the labels and the producers." "Look, if you don't want work for the man, you got to be the man." " Wow, that is inspirational." " Listen to me- how are we going to get this amazing talent?" "'Cause no band worth its salt is gonna sign with an unproven label-- it's not gonna happen." "Well, they would if they just got dropped by their label." "You want Ashes of Rome to come back here." " Boom, you got it." "Exactly." " That's your plan?" "You want to sign those idiots?" "We're gonna sign those idiots." "Let's put aside for a second that" "I think the lead singer is repugnant, and focus on the fact that the only good thing about that band is their songs, which they don't own anymore." "They're owned by their ex-label." "Oh, you have a look of confusion on your face." "This business, which you claim to know so much about, works that way." "Well, that's not right." "It's not right, but that's the reality of the situation." "That is really not right, Cros." " Yeah, that's how it works." " You know what?" "This is just another reason why we have to do this:" "To right that wrong." "We're gonna get those songs back." "Let's do it." "How are we gonna get the songs back?" "I don't know, but I'm gonna figure it out." "I tell you what." "I will get back in the control room with Oliver Rome if you can get those songs back." " I'm on it." " Good luck to you." " You've got to trust me." " This is- all right?" " Yeah." "I'm not too nervous about this happening, as you can see." "♪ But now they only block the sun ♪" "♪ the rain and snow on everyone ♪" "I don't know." "I mean, maybe it's not as good as I remember." "No, I love it." " Oh, really?" " Yeah." "Play me something else." "Okay, um..." "I--I can't." "I'm sorry, I can't do it." "Why?" "Why not?" "Joni Mitchell is-- I don't know." "I kind of-- I pretended to like her just 'cause I knew that you liked her." "Why would you do that?" "I think it's because I like you." "Like, more than just friends." "Oh." "Um- it's also cool if you don't, you know, like me back." "I'm not saying that-- I won't be weird or anything." "I just couldn't-- I couldn't keep playing Joni Mitchell and pretending." "I just couldn't do it." "It's fine, really." "Um..." "Well, now I know." "Here, I'll play Beach House or something." "Great." "Well, now, do you have enough food there?" "This is for Joel, so I don't have to cook him dinner." "Well, I don't think there's anything left for me." "Come on." "Guys, let's go." "Thank you so much for doing this, by the way, dad." "This is-- Oh, come on." "It's fun." "It really is, and it's nice to be needed." "You are that." "Uh, yeah." "Well, you know, I don't want to, you know, pry or stick my nose in where it doesn't belong, sweetheart." "His reading's really bad." " Boy." "Tsk." " I know." "I'm working with him at night, you know, but the book reports are torture." "Mm-hmm." "Well, what do the teachers say?" "They say that it's bad." "Actually, they wanted to hold him back a year, make him do fourth grade again." " That's tough." " I know." "And they said it was our choice, so we said no." "But now, he's falling behind day by day, I can see it." "Joel says I'm overreacting, but I can see it, you know." "I don't mean to drag you into this." "I just feel kind of alone with it." "Well, hey, listen." "I got your back, okay." "Whatever I can do." "Thank you." "Here, you can do that." "Thank you." "Are you sure you need all of this?" "Honey?" "Yeah?" " Hey." " Hi." " You working away?" " I am." " How are you?" " Good, how are you?" "How was work?" "Good." "It was good." "Wow, look at that." "$20,000, the Lerner group came through." "That's great, huh?" "They sure did, right?" "Congratulations, right?" "Yeah, sort of." "I mean, it took Heather less than seven minutes to sell me out in the meeting." "Uhoh." "I mean she was great, wonderful." "And she made him feel heard without making any overt promises." "So that was all wonderful, but- well, it's all good then, isn't it?" "I don't know." "I just feel, like, gross." "Everyone's gonna know that all of my fundraising came from a developer." "You know what I mean?" "It's like- look, as long as you do the right thing with the money, nobody's gonna care where it came from." "But I do." "I care." "I just want to feel good about where I'm getting the money for my campaign." "And this check, it just doesn't make me feel good, you know?" "You know what?" "Then don't take it." "But if I don't take it, then the campaign is over." "I know, it's a tough call." "It's 20 grand." "What would you do?" "No, what would you do?" "Don't put this on me Kristina." "I'm not putting in on you." "I'm just asking you, what would you do?" "I think that, in the world of politics, this is business as usual." "Cash the check?" "It's a tough call." "It's 6:00 P.M. dinner should be on the table." "Where is it?" "I feel like I'm going crazy." "You are correct, sir." "Let's go to Burger and Pie." "Let's get out of here." "It's on TV that they brought back their torpedo burger." "Yes, Burger and Pie." "I could use a break." "Okay." "Go grab mom's purse, babe." "I'm gonna get Nora, okay?" "Honey, please go get your bag." "Here, give it to-- okay." "Max?" " Okay." " Oh, boy." "See it like you've never seen it before." "It's incredible, wow." "Forget that you've been here having food fights with your cousins." "I mean, I'm just saying the price is right and the bathrooms work, so I don't know." "No, I mean it's great, it is." "It's great." "I love it so much." "Obviously, I-- Really?" "Of course." "I love the idea of getting married here." "I don't know." "Just-- isn't it just gonna be exactly like" "Uncle Crosby and Jasmine's wedding?" "No, no." "Picture your wedding." "We--we'll make it different, you know?" "You think?" "I don't know." "What if-- I don't know." "Look, it's up to you, okay?" "I just-- I'm here to support you." "I just wanted you to consider it." "Uh-huh." "I almost believed you that time." "I was very close." "No, really, really." "I don't know." "Oh, also I--I talked to Ryan about his family." "And he's--they're definitely not coming, so" " Aww." " I don't know." "It's very stressful, his past, and he just kind of wants to build a new life with me and- if only it were that easy." "I mean, your past is what makes you who you are." "It's what you bring to a marriage, you know?" "If only we could leave the past behind us, right?" "Yeah." " What?" " I just don't" "I just--look, I've been where you are in terms of being young and being hopeful." "Here we go, here we go." "This is the part that I knew I was gonna come." " The part where I tell you" " Yeah." "That you acted like my marriage is the same as yours." "No, no, no." "I've had experiences that I'm trying to help you- but you act as if you can even possibly relate to my situation." "I can relate to your situation." " No, you can't!" " I can relate directly to your situation..." "You can't." "Because I married someone when there were lots of warning signs, and that's all I'm saying." "Are you saying there's a lot of warning signs with Ryan?" "You said there's a lot of warning signs." "He's not like dad, you know." "He's different, and he's very dependable." "And he's solid." "And he wants this-- dependable?" "Amber." "I mean, he's beaten people up." "He crashed your car." "You came to me last year when you broke up to say that you-- you were afraid you'd be his caretaker the rest of- this is what you've been saving up this whole time, so that this is what-- I'm not saving it up!" "I'm just saying, open your eyes and be clear on what you're doing." "I don't want you to make the mistakes I made." "You think that my situation is gonna be like yours and dad's, and it's just not at all." "It's completely different." "And it's frustrating to me that you think that it would ever be similar, because I'm not you." "And Ryan's not dad." "I'm gonna go." "Okay?" "I'm gonna get married at the lake." "I decided already, okay?" "So I hope that you come." "I hope that you like it." "Man, you are the worst pool player ever." "Man, whatever, we'll put up a "g" then." "I'll put up two gs, you ain't sayin' nothin'." "White boy's back." " Yo, Adam, what up, fool?" " Hey." "I see you thought about what we talked about" " the other day, huh?" " I did." "And, uh, I found it very inspirational, so I spoke to my brother about it." "But that's--that's not why I'm here, uh- no problem, have a seat, man." "No, I-I'd rather stand." "My wife is running for mayor of Berkeley, and I'm very proud of her." "So you're here because you want my vote?" "See, I got this little prison situation that kind of makes me, uh, ineligible." "I see." "Well, my wife would've loved your vote." "But what she really needs right now is money for her campaign." "See, she's running on an education platform." "She really wants to get schools here in Berkeley on the right track." "And she's gonna do it, if she's elected." "You know, she's the most tenacious, selfless person you'll ever meet." "And her platform is education, so she has a tough time raising money." "We've got a lot of small donations, but we need one big donation to help us really compete in this race." "And that's why I'm here." "How much you lookin' for?" "Uh, $20,000." "You think she got what it takes?" "I do." "I know she does." " What you think?" " You already know what I think." "Man, it's for the kids, fool." "It's only 20 gs." "What you talkin' about?" "Here." "Here." "Uh, hold on a second." "Mistah R.A.Y., I-I don't think I can accept cash." " Little Ray!" " Yeah, dad?" " Bring daddy his checkbook." " Okay, where is it?" " It's on my desk." " Okay." "I didn't--I didn't know you had a son." "Yeah, that's why I do what I do." "Yeah." "Say hi to Mr. Braverman." " Hello." " Hi." " Nice to meet you." " Nice to meet you." "Look, the schools in this city are a joke." "Make sure she makes them better, all right?" "She will." "That's what she's gonna do." "Oh, yeah, and tell your wife there's a speed bump at the end of my street." "I don't like it." "When she gets elected," "I want it gone." "Oh, it's gone." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." " Hey." " Hi." "Hey, babe." "What are you doing home so early?" "Are you fixing the chair?" " Yeah." " Yay." "Trying to earn my keep around here." "Finally." "Hi." "Your mom called, like, two or three times." "What did she say?" "She just left a message, said to call her back." "She's annoying." " No." " Mm-hmm." " She's a mom." " She's the worst." "Hmm." "Hey, I got some good news." "What?" "I have decided that I would officially like to marry you at the lake." " Really?" " Mm-hmm." " Wow." " Are you happy?" "Yeah." " Are you sure?" " I'm positive." "It's magical, and there's..." "Nowhere else I'd rather become your wife." "Where you--where we going?" "To show my appreciation, like..." " Finally." " In a special way." "I thought my punishment was over." "Well, jeez, I thought you liked working on the car." "Well, I don't care whether you like it or not." "I got--Victor, I mean, heck, you know," "I can't do this on my own, you know?" "How come Sydney doesn't have to help?" "Well, you know, Sydney, to be honest with you, is pretty useless around anything mechanical." " 'Cause she's a girl?" " No, no, no." "Not because she's a girl." "Your aunt Sarah was an ace mechanic." "I mean, your sister-- I mean, Sydney" "I mean, jiminy Christmas, you've seen her work." "She was pretty bad." "I mean, my parts were way cleaner than hers." "And I figured out how to put the water pump back inside the car." "Yeah." "So I mean, what do you say?" "Will you help me out here?" " Okay." " Great." " Okay." " Now, here's the deal." "See, now it's gonna be hard work." "I mean, we're gonna get stuck sometimes." "We won't even know what we're doing." "And, uh, well, that means we're gonna have to read the manual to help us out." "I'm not good at reading." "Well, here we go." "See, my eyes are old." "And, uh, the print is really small." "I can't do this on my own." "It's, uh-- it's up to you, kid." "I read really slow." "Well, where the heck do you think I'm goin'?" "I got nothin' else to do." "My gosh, we've got to get those gaskets in." "So, know what?" "Just start right there." "What's that say?" ""Remove front adjuster--adjusters."" "Oh, my gosh." "That means we've got to take the engine out and the transmission." "That's a week's work." "♪ I'm makin' a beautiful day ♪" "♪ gonna drive my car" "Hey, buddy." "Dad told me that you passed up on a big campaign donation, and you're really upset, so I shouldn't bug you about dinner." " Well, that's true." " I don't understand why you would pass up on money, but he said that it's really cool that you did." "That was very nice of him to say." "Did he explain to you why I passed up on the money?" "He said you didn't want to be in bed with Harry Lerner." "And then I said that I wouldn't want" "Harry Lerner in my bed either." "And then he said that was supposed to be a metaphor, and then told me to go play video games." "Yeah, you know, politics can be pretty complicated sometimes." "I know." "I was president." "That's true, you were president." "A very good president." "At that." "Are you gonna drop out of the race?" "I don't want to drop out of the race, but, you know, with-- without money, it's kind of hard to run for mayor." "So I-I don't know." "You'd probably make a good mayor, though." "Better than Bob Little." "Thanks, buddy, that means a lot." "I'm gonna support your campaign, I think, until I can conduct more research." "And then I'm gonna decide between the two of you once I have more information on the other candidate." "Well, I so appreciate you giving me the benefit of the doubt, I do." "What's this?" "Where did you get this?" "Hank told me that I could have $20 if I could shut up for one full hour." "And then I did." "I don't think you should drop out of the race." "♪ And that's gonna be my beautiful day ♪" "♪ oh, oh-oh-oh" "♪ my, my" "♪ I'm learning to fly" "♪ hey, hey" "♪ what's that you say?" "♪ Let's not forget we're alive ♪" "♪ we're alive"

"PreviouslyonLucifer..." "Someone'sescapedfromHell." "Who escaped Hell?" " Mom." "If she's not coming to kill me, thenI don'tknow whatshe'sdoing." "Aren't you glad to see me?" "I apologize for my human form." "Chloe, I'm sorry." "You don't get to be sorry." "I'vebeendemoted." "I'mreassigned toassiston cases." "Ineedto figureout whereI fitin in thisworld." "I need some space." "Thingshavebeen verytryingforme." "Lucifermadeadealwith your ex to take you back to Hell." "Andhedoesn'tbreakdeals." "I want what your father took from me." "All right, you can stay, just until I figure out what I need to do." "Iwantto sayI'm sorry... forallmy sins." "For anything I have ever done that hurt people." "I was stupid." "And I am sorry." "I am so sorry." "All I want now is forgiveness." "I just want to take it all back." "Please." "No!" "Just let me take it back!" "No, no, no, no!" "No...!" "There's no need for squeals." "We'll stop this torture any time you like." "Just say the word." "Don't you dare stop." "What happens if he stops?" "Well, Lucifer, don't be shy." "Introduce me to your friend." "Lucifer, you brought a surprise." "I most certainly did not bring any surprises." "Oh, she's beautiful." "That's my mum you're talking about." "This just got too weird." "Listen, Mum, I know I chose not to return you to Hell, yet..." "Which I appreciate." "But that doesn't mean you can just waltz in here and accost my guests." "I apologize." "It's just that all these human rules and customs are so confusing." "Remember, I'm still getting used to this earthly skin sack." "Yes, yes, you used to be a goddess." "I know, but things are different now." "And I will figure it out." "Now that we're together again," "I just want to be part of your lives." "Not this part!" "Out of bounds." "Wait." "What do you mean by "lives"?" "I want to see Amenadiel." "What?" "It's time." "I am not going to live in fear of my own son." "We may have had our differences..." "He literally carried you to Hell." "But I created him." "Certainly that has to count for something." "It doesn't." "Bummer, right?" "One look at you, and he'll take you right back where you came from." "I'm surprised he hasn't come sniffing around already." "Well, what am I supposed to do, just sit here and hide?" "See a movie, go to a museum." "Catch up on what's happened over the past few thousand years." "You'd be surprised." "Yes." "I suppose a lot has changed." "I mean, who would've predicted you would've taken on this human job?" "I'm a punisher, Mother." "It's what I've always done." "The only thing that changed was the locale." "I know what you're thinking, but I was assisting on a stakeout that went long, and I'm really sorry, but I promise you," "I will make it up to you, okay?" "How?" "Double fudge, your favorite." "You're lucky I like you." "Hey." "Hey." "Thank you for letting me do the pickup here at work." "I've just been running around a lot since the demotion." "You know, helping out on everyone else's cases." "Yeah." "It's fine, it's fine." "Are we still going on our family camping trip?" "Oh, uh..." "We're still ler... working out the logistics of that." "Of the trip." "Look, I know that you're still mad at me." "I deserve it." "But this stuff between us is starting to affect Trixie." "So I think that we need to talk later." "Yeah, yeah." "We should." "You're right." "Uh, Decker." "Okay, yeah." "Two seconds." "Iwasstupid." "And I'm sorry." "Victim's name was Nicholas Sands, 35." "Worked as an exec at the Internet startup called Wobble." "Wobble?" "Please tell me that's a pornography site." "Oh, no, no." "Wobble's like a next gen Facebook, you know?" "People post updates, photos, links." "Mine's mostly slo-mo videos of me doing cannonballs onto inflatable pool toys." "You should check it out." "I'll pass, but thank you." "Nick's confession was posted to his Wobble account six hours ago, right around the time of death." "Which means whoever did this wanted us to find that video." "So we could see how weepy this chap was before he died." "Now, that is cruel." "Ella, do we know how the fire started?" "Any chemicals we can trace?" "So far, all we've got is paraffin oil." "Which is highly flammable, but also, like, everywhere." "Even in crayons, so color at your own risk." "Doesn't help us narrow the suspects." "Yeah, but this might." "Okay, so based on the burn pattern, which is pretty gnarly in this case, it looks like the highest concentration of accelerant was placed, well... here." "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire." "Lucifer." "I mean, I've heard of hot pants, but this really brings new meaning to the term "fire crotch," doesn't it?" "Lucifer." "Wait." "I have more." "Smokey Bobinson." "Weekend at Burnie's." "His burning bush?" "Oh." "Very good." "That was actually me, by the way, so don't tell anyone." " Hey, guys?" "Dead body." "Can you please take this seriously?" "I assure you, Detective, I'm taking this very seriously." "Look at this." "Our killer was clearly punishing his victim." "And?" "And punishing is my job." "So if there's someone out there stealing my jam, I need to find out who." "It's game bloody on." "Do not touch the charred crotch." "Is a sentence I never thought I'd say out loud." "It's vicious work." "I mean, I reserve this kind of treatment for the truly terrible in Hell." "Pedophiles, Nazis." "People who put their seats back on a plane." "Uh-huh." "Seeing as the nature of the crime is so specific, we need to figure out who had a personal grudge against the victim." "Hmm." "Uh, by the way, you've skipped a spot, there." "Oh." "Yeah, it's not like you to miss a step in the clothing department." "Yes, well, I had to rush out this morning." "I've got an unexpected houseguest I can't get rid of." "Oh, right." "New lady friend that you can't shake." "A rather old one, actually." "Yeah, I know how..." "complicated exes can be." "What?" "She's not an ex." "You should see this, Detective." "Thanks." "What is it?" "E-mails from Nick's supervisor at Wobble." "A woman by the name of Leila Simms." "Let me guess, something riveting about the latest quarterly report?" ""How could you?" ""I should have known better." "You won't get away with this."" ""I'll burn you starting with your man parts"?" "No." "Still, that's a pretty good lead." "Yep." "Do not... touch... the charred crotch." "And Nick was so..." "sweet and charming." "How could someone do such a thing?" "So, Leila, you were his supervisor." "How well did you know him?" "We dated briefly, a while ago." "Oh." "Would you say things sort of flamed out, or did they end in more of a blaze of glory?" "Lucifer." "You're right, far too subtle." "Why did you torture the poor young man to death?" "Torture him?" "Oh, God." "You think I had something to do with this?" "Well, we know about the angry e-mails." "I was pissed off." "He shared pictures of us together." "Mm, mid-coitus?" "If so, we'll have to confiscate those immediately." "No." "Just of us at-at dinner." "But I'm his boss, and inter-office romance is frowned upon here." "Well, it hardly seems worthy of lighting a man's johnson on fire." "Wait." "Is that how he died?" "There's something you should see." "Ray, can you come in here, please?" "Ray, I'm gonna need you to pull up the video of Tommy at the company retreat." "Thevideoof Tommy?" "Ray's head of our H.R." "Being protective is part of his job." "Do it, Ray." "Nick was a charmer, but he had a tendency to be a little harsh with interns." "Aka, he could be a real dick." "As you'll see." "Aah!" "Aah!" "My balls!" "Get it off!" "Come on, that is quite funny." "Nick posted the video shortly after the retreat, and even though it was quickly taken down, everyone saw it." "Tommy was a laughingstock." "He quit pretty soon after." "Certainly looks like motive." "Huh." "What can you tell me about Nick Sand's death?" "Just that the bastard finally got what he deserved." "Okay." "And why did he deserve it?" "As soon as I took the job at Wobble," "Nick made it his personal mission to make my life hell." "Sabotaging my work, terrorizing me, making me the butt of all of his jokes." "Or the balls, in this case?" "That stupid video was my breaking point." "Everyone saw it." "Everyone laughed at me!" "No one's laughing now, Tommy." "So after everything that happened, what, you-you wanted to make him feel your pain?" "He deserved what happened to him." "Yeah, but you're not answering the question." "Did you kill Nick?" "I understand punishment all too well, Tommy, and Nick deserved to be punished." "He did, didn't he?" "Mm." "He took your dignity, and so you had to take your revenge." "There was no other way to get your proverbial balls back." "So tell me did you desire..." "I killed him." "Oh." "Well, that took all the fun out of it." "That did not go how I expected." "Oh, come now, Detective." "He obviously wanted people to know that he got his revenge." "Now our would-be punisher's brought to justice, and the field is mine again..." "What on earth is she doing here?" "Charlotte Richards." "The defense attorney we saved, remember?" "She must be back here defending some scumbag." "But why are they all being so... chummy?" "Well, she used to be a cop, and, oh, yeah, 'cause she's a knockout." "Personally, I'm surprised that you haven't tried..." "Pardon me, pardon me." "Excuse us." "Charlotte, hello." "Do you mind if we have a quick word?" "What are you doing here, Mother?" "I thought we agreed you'd do something constructive with your time, like mall walking or a studio tour, perhaps, but..." "How did you even find your way here?" "Well, it wasn't difficult." "I simply smiled at a male human and asked him to take me." "Need I remind you that Charlotte Richards has a husband out there who's wondering where she popped off to." "And you have a son who wants to take you back to Hell." "So drawing attention to yourself in a police station in this little... getup, not a good idea." "But I had to see it for myself." "My boy, working, toiling, amidst humanity's muck." "Well, I hope it's everything you imagined and more." "Now go see Cabaret." "I'm sure you'll find it riveting." "I just don't understand." "Of all the things that you could do with your talents, law enforcement?" "Have you considered I might enjoy exploring humanity?" "They eat, darling." "All they do is eat." "And then afterwards, the food comes out changed and not for the better." "Detective." "I didn't realize you and Charlotte knew each other so well." "Oh, we do and we don't." "It's a long story, really." "Right, shall we go somewhere to, uh, celebrate solving the case?" "No." "Not yet." "Tommy was humiliated." "Makes sense why he'd want to kill Nick." "But something just doesn't sit right." "Detective, you, of all people, should know how good it feels to punish someone who's wronged you." "How so?" "Oh, come now." "You may not be roasting Dan's chestnuts-- yet-- but a shoulder shrug here, a dismissive look there could be just as effective." "Okay, fine." "Maybe I've been a little hard on Dan lately, but he deserves it." "And I'm sure you found it very satisfying." "But have you considered for just one moment how your fighting affects those caught in the middle?" "You mean Trixie?" "What?" "No, I mean me." "Think how terribly bored I am by it all." "Ah, look, there he is." "Now's your chance to stop with your "will they, won't they" nonsense." "It's not that simple." "I'm avoiding a difficult conversation." "Well, I..." "Hi." "There's something you got to see." "Another apology video dropped along with another body." "I know it was wrong!" "I shouldn't have posted that video!" "She didn't deserve to be humiliated like that." "I'm sorry." "Two murders." "Same M.O." "But Tommy was already in custody when this guy was killed." "There's no way he did this." "Tommy wanted his dignity back." "Whoever did this clearly had a much grander objective in mind." "Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we're tracking a serial killer." "Victim's Adam Wiser, 29, worked as an assistant at a local bank." "Time of death was two hours ago, but apparently he's been missing for almost two days." "Ooh, that's a long time on a sex rack." "Not a record, but quite impressive." "Ella, we know the cause of death?" "Well, he's got broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and possible cranial bleeding, which would all totally suck." "And yet, this dude asphyxiated." "He was choked with an apple?" "No." "More like an orchard." "We're gonna have to cut him open to get the rest." "That's messed up." "Certainly brings new meaning to the term "deep throat."" "Why not just kill the guy?" "Why all the pomp and circumstance?" "Well, our punisher's clearly sending a message." "Perhaps if we find the video that Apple Boy is apologizing for, we'll know what that message is." "Hold this." "What are you doing?" "The original video was filmed on Nick's phone, right?" "What if Adam's doing the same thing?" "Be careful, Detective." "Might be a booby trap." "The video's already cued up." "Look at this." "Notice anything familiar?" "The ball gag's amaranth." "Just like the apple." "What, so our killer's paying homage to a bloody sex tape?" "He's recreating the crimes he's punishing for." "First lighting Nick's groin on fire, now this." "He's upping his game." "Yeah, but what's with the outfit?" "I mean, other than giving me super creepy flashbacks to Catholic school, it doesn't add up." "And the woman is not wearing one in the video." "She certainly looks too old to be in school." "Unless she teaches at one." "Her name's Sarah Aiken, 27." "Third grade teacher." "Cute." "Not hot, but extra points for proclivities." "When she broke things off with Adam, he uploaded his revenge porn to Wobble." "Some teachers caught wind of it, and she was fired." "Well, maybe she took out both Nick and our loathsome ex." "You know, no harm, no foul." "And no dice because she had no connection to Nick." "Oh." "And shortly after she lost her job, she killed herself." "What, so our poor, sexy teacher's dead, and our apple-chomping schoolboy's responsible?" "And the only other connection we were able to find is that both victims posted their illicit videos to Wobble." "So, maybe some sicko saw both videos and decided to take action." ""Sicko"?" "Sounds to me like someone's doing our job for us." "We don't exact vengeance, Lucifer." "Well, maybe we should." "As far as I'm concerned, these little wankers got exactly what they deserved." "See you later." "Hey, where are you going?" "We have to find out who did this." "Well, I thought someone out there was stealing my job, but far be it for me to stand in the way of excellent work." "I'm off for a drink." "No." "Honestly, I'm impressed." "It's hard going out on your own." "Changing old habits." "I admire the steps you're taking." "Well, don't admire too much." "I'm still coming to Lux." "Hmm, yes." "Baby steps are fine." "Plus, the view here is... nice." "The real key is to avoid setbacks." "Setbacks that are tall, blond and have a special place in Hell?" "Mm." "Hi, Maze." "Hi, human." "I need to get rid of that bitch." "Now I know why you're still here." "Why?" "You and Lucifer are very close." "It's normal that you be jealous of a new girlfriend." "I'm not jealous." "Ah." "Mm-hmm." "And she's not his girlfriend." "She's just toxic." "Lucifer doesn't see it, but I do." "Oh, so you want to protect him?" "I want her to get what she deserves." "Which, at the very least, is a head-butt." "I'll be right back." "Okay, okay." "Okay, maybe... we should start with our words." "Perhaps as Lucifer's friend, you can talk to him." "Express how you feel." "He won't listen." "But maybe someone else will." "Where are you going?" "Taking your advice." "Hey, Man Bun." "Take care of my friend." "Why do I even try?" "Because you're an incredible woman." "Oh." "Thanks." "So, I reached out to Wobble to cross-reference who saw both Nick and Adam's videos." "And?" "They lawyered up." "Hid behind privacy laws, and without a warrant," "Wobble won't let us anywhere near their viewership data." "Okay, pull the warrant, and I'm on my way there." "No problem." "Dan." "Um..." "So I've been thinking about the trip, and, um..." "I don't think it's fair to put Trixie in the middle of our problems, you know?" "So you want to skip it." "No, I want to spare us all heartache and..." "I just feel like if we go on the trip and, you know, we pretend everything's fine, then we're just lying to her." "Yeah." "All right." "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Mom." "Oh." "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm taking your lead, son." "Learning about your beloved humanity." "By dancing at my club?" "Well, I saw all the people on the tables smiling and I wanted to discover what they were so happy about." "Oh, is it possible it's the money that I pay them?" "It's possible." "But I have to admit that when I started dancing, rubbing up against the other humans," "I got a tingling sensation..." "Okay, that's enough." "Excuse me, excuse me, thank you." "I don't understand." "I thought you'd be pleased by my effort." "Disturbed is more like it." "Are you actually trying to systematically disrupt every part of my life?" "No." "I'm trying to learn about every part of your life." "Oh, right." "How's that going for you so far?" "Well, quite illuminating, actually." "I understand now why you have this provocative club." "I understand why you amused yourself with that curvaceous savage." "But what I don't understand..." "Is my human job." "Yes, I know." "It's very simple:" "I'm a civilian consultant." "But why do you still punish people?" "It's what I've always done." "That's not true." "That's who your father wanted you to be." "Are you still trying to win him over?" "Careful, Mother." "Why?" "Are you going to punish me?" "I'm sorry, Detective." "I looked into the two videos in question, and unfortunately, there was no overlap." "Doesn't make any sense." "I'll need a list of everyone who saw the videos." "Sadly, we don't track people, just I.P. addresses." "Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way." "Can you take me through how your video process works?" "Well, our users can upload anything they want." "And if we find that the content's inappropriate-- uh, anything from animal cruelty to beheadings-- it gets taken down." "By who?" "Our content moderators." "Huh." "Most of them only last a few months." "Frankly, most people can't stomach something so dark or upsetting." "Right." "God, that has got to smart." "Can I see that again?" "Lucifer?" "Oh, Detective." "You're here." "Did you know that this room collects all the best parts of the Internet?" "Can I talk to you for a second?" "Yeah, yeah." "But you got to see this-- a-a naked man thinks he can jump on the back of a rhino." "You'll never guess what he lands on." "Actually, you probably will." "What?" "You've seen it already?" "What are you doing here?" "Trying to catch our killer." "Duh." "I thought you didn't care whether this sicko was brought to justice." "Oh, I don't." "But then I realized that our killer may have the answer to a question that I'm, you know, struggling with." "Mm." "Why does he punish?" "That's it?" "First you want to teach this vigilante a lesson, and now you want to have a talk with him?" "Yes." "And lucky for me, I found out where you were headed." "I mean, these videos are enthralling." "No, I-I can't." "I can't watch these." "Oh, I've seen worse." "But never so many collected in one single room." "You know, if I ever go back to Hell," "I am getting me one of these." "Selfish bastards get to see everything." "Yeah." "They do." "I know where the overlap is." "Amenadiel, I know you're in there." "Open up!" "Hey." "What are you hiding?" "Nothing." "Oh." "I see what's going on with you." "You do?" "Sure." "Humans say that rebound sex is important after a breakup." "You don't have to hide that you're getting some." "I'm not." "Right." "Of course." "I didn't want you to feel awkward." "Silly me." "So what are you doing here?" "I have a problem." "I need your help." "There's a new... woman in Lucifer's life." "I want her gone, but he won't listen to me." "And why do you care?" "I thought you were stepping away from both of us." "I am." "But before I do, I need you..." "I'll talk to him." "Yeah." "Well, that was easy." "I'm his big brother, Maze." "I really should start looking out for him more often." "Okay." "Thank you." "All right." "Thanks." "Dan's working with Wobble to trace what moderator may have pulled both videos." "Hopefully, we'll have an answer soon." "Then why are you so sure the killer's one of these misanthropes?" "Well, serial killers usually start with someone they know." "If the killer worked here, they knew Nick, saw how much the prank hurt Tommy." "So you think seeing someone they recognized in one of these twisted videos finally made them snap?" "Maybe it awakened something in them." "Something that was always there, just fighting to get out." "But... they were just trying to do a job." "Job no one else wanted." "Well, maybe they chose that for a reason." "No one chooses to be a sin-eater, Detective." "No one wants to be custodian of the world's filth." "Why would they?" "Absorbing the worst humanity has to offer, day in and day out." "Changes you." "So you think it's the job's fault that they started to punish?" "People don't arrive broken." "They start with passion and yearning till something comes along that disabuses them of those notions." "Hmm." "Which means... that none of these people did it." "Okay." "I'm not following." "Well, look at Tim there, with the photos of his ugly children." "Ivan and his flowerpots." "Poor Andrea's still hoping Destiny's Child get back together." "Don't you see?" "These people still have hope." "Excuse me." "Yeah." "Who's had this job the longest?" "Um... maybe me." "I've been at it two whole months." "Huh." "Oh." "Anyone else?" "No." "Other than Leila, of course." "Leila, your boss?" "Yeah." "She started as a moderator before the company blew up." "She was the first of us." "Thanks." "Leila knew Nick, she had access to the videos." "If she's behind this..." "She's known what we've been doing every step of the way." "Dan, I need you to see if you can trace the videos to one person in particular now." "We're looking at Leila Simms." "I can't believe we had the killer right under our nose." "And she's gone." "Touché, Leila." "Touché." "Luci?" "Luci, you home?" "He's not here." "He left in quite the hurry before." "Think it was something I said." "I'm sorry." "Are you his latest, uh...?" "Trust me, I'm not his latest anything." "All right." "So, what are you doing here, then?" "I'm having a bit of an existential crisis, I suppose." "I've been known to be a good listener." "Okay." "Uh..." "I'm having some trouble with my kids." "Needed to get away from them for a little bit?" "No, the opposite, actually." "I'm trying to get closer to them, but I'm not having much luck." "Tell me." "Are you a good son?" "I try to be." "Well, then perhaps you can explain." "Would a good son blindly take his father's side in a divorce?" "Would a good son send his mother to Hell?" "And would a good son stand here right before me, without a care in the world, plotting to send me back?" "Mom?" "I thought I would come to Earth to be with my sons." "Instead, Lucifer is obsessed with his human job, and you're still your father's loyal soldier." "I'm tired of fighting for things that I'm never gonna have." "So just take me back, Amenadiel." "I'm ready." "No matter what happens," "I will always..." "love you." "Always." "Leila took down both videos, killed Nick and Adam, and then led us by the nose until she had time to escape." "Why didn't I realize it was her?" "Because as a punisher, she's quite adept at avoiding her own medicine." "Quite impressed, really." "Hey, Dan." "Yeah, I just saw it." "I'm already working on a trace." ""Judgment Day"?" "Oh." "People should really be careful how they use that phrase." "It isn't actually due for another couple of years." "She's gonna kill herself live on the air." "What?" "Well, that won't do at all." "How am I supposed to talk to her if she's dead?" "Glad you have your priorities in order." "Thought we were dealing with someone smart and clever, who tortured with a brutal sense of irony, but killing herself whilst humiliating her company..." "Doesn't fit the pattern." "Hey, Sharon, can you pull up the video of Leila driving again?" "Yeah." "Sure." "Pause it there." "What are you looking for, Detective?" "Zoom in to the edge of the seat." "Can you go in tighter?" "Well, I know images can be deceiving, but that looks an awful lot like a gun, doesn't it?" "Leila's not our killer." "She's in danger." "You understand this sicko pretty well." "Where do you think he's going?" "Well, somewhere linked to her sins, I suppose." "We barely know Leila." "Who knows what the killer thinks she's done?" "Well, she runs the company that hosts humanity's worst depravities, but we know she's not there." "Hey, Dan, how's the trace coming?" "The I.P. just keeps pinging back to Wobble's main server." "It's got to be a mistake." "Unless it's not a mistake at all." "You know, if you take away the blinky lights and add some lost souls, this place bares a striking resemblance to Hell." "Shh." "Listen." "My name is..." "Leila Simms." "I'm one of the co-founders of Wobble." "I wanted to apologize to anybody who's watching for... for creating a forum where evil and hate sought a refuge." "And there's Queen Wobble herself." "Yeah, but where's the killer?" "And tonight I go down with the ship." "Right alongside all of those awful sins that-that I helped give a voice to." "Please, please." "P-Please, please." "D-Don't make me do this." "Please." "There's Ray, the HR rep." "Oh, goodness me, I should have known." "Halitosis-- first sign of evil." "He had all the access he needed to find his targets and frame Leila." "What are you waiting for?" "Shoot him." "If he drops that lighter, he'll kill her." "I don't have a shot." "Okay, Detective, this next part will be much easier if you're not here, so I'm gonna politely ask you to leave, okay?" "I'm not going anywhere." "We're gonna figure this out." "Just give me a second." "All right, no rush." "Whilst you're pondering, I'm gonna go and have a word with our killer." "That's a great idea." "Sorry, say that again." "I never meant to cause anybody any pain." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "Yeah." "Hello, Raymond." "Hate to, uh, blow up your spot, but I have a question to ask you before you complete this twisted little mise-en-scene." "Stay back." "I swear I will drop this, and she is dead." "Oh, gosh, there's the halitosis." "It travels, doesn't it?" "You should really get that looked at, but first, indulge me this one simple query." "Why?" "What?" "Why are you a punisher?" "I understand the longing for justice or the joy of sweet revenge, but no one's forcing you to do this, so why would you take it upon yourself?" "Because I couldn't take it anymore." "All that evil is constantly spreading." "I had to do something." "I had to punish them." "You're wrong." "You didn't have to do anything." "You wanted to punish them." "No, that's not true." "Yes, it started with Nick-- that was impulsive." "But then you got a taste for blood, and it felt good, didn't it?" "I was doing my part." "You had big plans to go on vengeance quest until we came nipping at your heels, at which point poor Leila took the fall." "An innocent!" "No, you're wrong." "And then what, you'd stop?" "Get away scot-free?" "We both know you can't stop because you love it!" "Just like the people you punished." "I don't!" "I..." "I do." "I-I like seeing them beg for forgiveness." "You see, the difference between us is that you became part of the problem, Ray." "Someone deserving punishment." "You're right." "I do." "We all do." "No, wait!" "Man, you really don't shut up." "Congratulations, Detective." "I suppose you could say I look quite extinguished." "Right." "Shall we get you untied?" "Burning the midnight oil?" "Ha, ha, what can I say?" "Being everybody's bitch really sucks." "Yeah, well, it won't last forever." "So I've had some time to think, and, um..." "I realize that" "I've been really harsh lately." "It's okay..." "No, let me finish, please." "I've been really hard on you for a while now." "And I've been... so upset and so angry." "And..." "I did, I felt really betrayed." "I know." "But I realize you've... you've been working so hard to make it right, and I feel like, for the sake of Trixie, that we should go on the trip." "You know, we should go, like we always have." "I can't do that." "Wh..." "What do you mean?" "You were right before." "We shouldn't lie to our daughter." "Okay." "Look, I-I'm always gonna be Trixie's dad." "And I'm always gonna be part of your lives." "But we've been living in the past for too long." "We're no, we're no good for Trixie if we're no good for each other." "But I think we both know the truth." "It's time we get a divorce." "Hello, Luci." "Tell me you didn't do it." "Do what?" "Don't play stupid with me." "You know exactly what I'm talking about." "Easy, Lucifer." "Your brother didn't send me to Hell, if that's what you're worried about." "But you were so adamant." "I told you, Lucifer, a mother's love counts for more than you think." "My time on Earth has helped me to realize that Father has a tendency to overreact." "So you're going against Dad?" "Things change, brother." "Do they?" "Well, I for one am grateful that we're all just in the same room, together, as a family again." "Yes, not so fast, Mother." "You see, I did make a promise, and I am a man of my word." "I told you that you could stay here until I figured out how to reconcile my deal with Dad, and now I have." "So you're going to punish me anyway?" "I am, indeed." "And not because" "I've been brainwashed by Dad or I'm trying to prove anything." "I punish because I'm good at it." "I like giving people their due." "Makes me happy." "I suppose I can't ask for a better reason." "Which brings me to your sentence." "Mother... you shall remain right here on Earth amongst the creatures you so despise... as one of them." "Wait." "You're going to send me into the life of Charlotte Richards?" "Mm-hmm." "Well, how's that supposed to work?" "Not my problem." "And what if I refuse?" "You can't fight this;" "you're human now." "But that husband..." "And there's children, right?" "They're going to need things." "Oh, I'm counting on it." "But if you truly want to be with your sons, then that's the price that you have to pay." "So be it." "Your money or your life, bitch." "I-I choose money." "Does anyone choose life?" "That doesn't very..." "Come here!" "I'll give you what you want!" "Just hold on." "I said, hold on!"

""TAI HOM" VILLAGE" "Want to eat, Mama" "Eat this..." "Tasty..." "Mr. Chu, how much for a whole pig" "Take this." "The whole pig" "Take it." "Thank you." "Brother Kwan, give me your blessings." "I made a website for myself." "Look, it's not bad." "I'll get tons of girls from this website." "I'm the Little Tiger of "Tai Hom" Neighborhood." "Look, tons of girl surfers." "They're flooding me with e-mails ICQ." "We will get lots of business from this." "You like it?" "Is that me?" "Of course!" "Isn't it too much?" "Not really, men like it this way." "Don't tell anyone." "I'll take over Mongkok when I have enough girls." "Hung Hung, the Shanghai Angel?" "Cool!" "She looks so "Mainland"." "She's hot." "Even the pros have websites!" "You like her?" "She looks really good." "are you serving on Sunday?" "Everyday!" "don't take long, Ah Lui!" "You hear?" "Any cool new websites?" "Korean girls?" "Any other photos Any Japanese?" "This girl has been stripping for weeks." "I'll find it myself." "Leave it!" "Sit..." "I'll dictate." "You write." "Healthy female pig... named Mama... seeks high-grade male mate... for breeding." "Big reward... if their mating bears 20 piglets!" "Sang Heng Road, 3C." "Chu's Roast Pork." "No school, little boy?" "School's over." "Where's your family?" "Dad working, brother studying, and Morn ran off." "What's your name?" "I'm called Tiny." "What's your name?" "My name is Tong Tong." "You want some roast pork?" "Roast pork...?" "Okay, 2 catties." "Which piece?" "That one." "exactly 2 catties." "You want some lychees?" "Have one." "I haven't seen you before." "I'm not from here." "It's my first time here." "The pork tastes great." "Anyone here?" "Yes, coming!" "What do you want?" "2 catties of roast pork." "I'm going, Tiny." "Bye, Tong Tong." "Where's that girl?" "She's gone!" "Where is she?" "I really saw her... the girl from the computer." "You go that way!" "Did you write this ad?" "Yes." "Very well..." "What do you need that for?" "I'm here to look at your pig." "Is she fertile?" "Of course." "Fertility is different from sex drive." "I'm closing up." "You go home first." "Actually, I want to talk to you... about collaborating with me in a study." "If I'm successful, then we'll be rich." "Of course, success won't be easy." "They've had some success overseas." "What are you talking about?" "I need this pig for an experiment." "To see if she can be impregnated." "Giving birth is easy for her." "I'm not talking about piglets." "I want her to have human babies!" "The U.S. has already succeeded." "They use a cow to carry a human fetus." "It was a baby boy." "He was lucky to get an endless supply of milk!" "Pigs have a lot of milk, too." "More than enough for a baby." "Is that possible?" "Placing a human embryo inside a pig..." "That's not a biological problem." "Western countries have always used animals to research cures for diseases." "Mr. Chu, do you believe in Jesus?" "I..." "But you must believe in science." "Science is an amazing thing." "The operation is very simple." "We extract the woman's egg." "We inseminate it." "We observe the development under a microscope." "When they progress into multi-cells," "I'll inject hormones into rabbits to make them more sexually active." "The embryo is placed into the rabbit." "Doesn't it hurt the rabbit?" "It's an experiment." "I can't use a lab rat!" "When the pig is ready," "I'll take the embryo out of the rabbit and transplant it into the pig." "It will be injected into the pig's uterus." "That's science!" "How much?" ""Fast food"" " HK$300. "Full set"" " HK$380." ""Overnight"" " HK$500, didn't you know?" "Any Northern girls?" "Northern girls?" "Of course." "But not today, something else." "What?" "Whatever... hurry!" "Faster than you can say "go"." "Where do you live?" "Sang Heng Road 3C." "You will be satisfied." "Be discreet." "Of course I recognize your voice, Mr. Chu." "Hey!" "Sorry..." "I slipped." "Hurry!" "Yes, yes, right away." "Hurry up, he's waiting." "Fat and poor, still whoring!" "Mr. Chu isn't that poor." "Next time, locals like Mr. Chu..." "I have to charging double." "There's no such rule in this business." "What now?" "Hurry up." "Why the wig?" "Why not a school uniform and pretended for a lesson?" "I want to go to Hollywood too." "Shanghai Angel Hung Hung." "At your service Daily, Check-up:" "HK$300." "Injection:" "HK$600, Hospital Overnight: $1,000" "I want an injection." "You're my idol." "I dream of you every day." "Are you Hung Hung, the nurse?" "Yes." "Have you made up your mind?" "An overnight stay in the hospital." "Fine, HK$ l,000" "What?" "Pay now?" "Yes, we agreed on ICQ." "I haven't even had an injection yet." "Pay first." "are you a Tiger?" "A tiger's head, but a snake's tail." "It's never happened before." "I don't know why..." "Don't you like me?" "I'll be your manager." "Manager?" "Yes." "Why not be my boyfriend?" "Really?" "Really!" "I'll stay at your place." "Where do you live?" "Hollywood... over there." "Pretty?" "Pretty, my ass!" "It's not pretty?" "Have you lived there?" "No." "Then don't sound so high and mighty." "True, I can't afford it." "How long have you lived here in Tai Hom?" "I was born here." "You're worse than me... born in such a poor place." "Hollywood always pressing down at you, it must feel bad." "What are you looking at?" "You." "What for?" "I've never seen a Shanghai girl up close." "You're really a Shanghai girl?" "Yes." "Don't you know?" "Shanghai girls are hot." "Let's go." "Let's go up the hill" "Where to?" "The view is better up there" "Hurry Up" "Have you been to Shanghai?" "No" "You haven't even been to Shanghai?" "Shanghai is now prettier than Hong Kong" "You're pretty, too" "What?" "I said you're pretty" "Really?" "Yes!" "Why don't you put your panties on?" "Why?" "Are you embarrassed?" "I'll put them away" "Hurry Up" "Come up here So what?" "You can see everything from up here" "You see?" "It's different" "Seeing things from higher is different" "Hollywood looks like "5-Fingers Mountain"" "So I live in "5-Fingers Mountain"" "Do you live in the thumb or in the pinky?" "I'm not sure" "Anyway, I live in there" "You try and see" "The buildings are slanted" "Try this then" "Right" "There are ten fingers" "Then "1 0-Fingers mountain."" "See?" "Don't underestimate my institute" "Introduce your girlfriend to me, Brother Keung?" "I'll give her a nose job and a breast job..." "You'll walk prouder when you're with her" "How can a woman go around without cleavage?" "What do you think?" "Brother Keung, you have so much heat..." "Does this work, doctor?" "Of course!" "This is the traditional method for releasing heat" "How do you usually release heat?" "Tong Tong, what are you doing?" "Looking for you, for your shop" "Not this side, that side" "How far?" "Very far" "Eat, it tastes good" "Really?" "Yes" "Here?" "Yes" "There's a lot of food" "Buy some" "Don't buy any, there's more inside" "Alright" "Please go inside" "There are many things inside" "Okay" "Father, I'm back" "I brought Tong Tong for a tour" "How are you?" "Only a man of your size could be his father" "Yes" "Are you roasting pork now?" "Yes" "All that is roast pork?" "Have some lychees..." "Thank you" "Come here" "I'll show you Mama" "What a huge pig!" "The other day, my father Yes put out an ad to find a male pig for her" "Male pig?" "Yes, we've done that before." "8 piglets in the litter." "Can't make much money from that." "How many do you need?" "The more the better." "20, 30, even 40." "I'm doing an experiment with someone." "To see if she can bear a ba..." "Tong Tong." "Come around more often." "I'll teach you how to barbecue pork." "You'll teach me?" "You're great." "Tong Tong" "Let's go play on the swings." "Alright." "Tong Tong, go higher!" "It's fun, Tiny." "Isn't it great?" "High enough?" "Tiny!" "I can see the rooftops!" "So high!" "Higher!" "Tiny!" "What do you see?" "I can see the rooftops!" "Higher" "Ah Sai" "Keep going, Ah Sai" "Ah Sai" "Higher!" "Is that you, Tong Tong?" "Hi, Mr. Chu" "How about some roast pork?" "Okay" "I'm giving you an injection." "You'll have lots of babies." "Good pig." "Her uterus is small, can she handle it?" "Mr. Chu, are you a woman?" "No one is asking you to give birth." "Mr. Chu..." "I gave her some anesthetics." "She'll calm down." "Then I'll take a blood sample." "We'll check for AIDS." "Pigs are very promiscuous, you know." "Don't worry." "Relax." "I tell you..." "You should feed her more nutritious food." "Because all the fetuses have their own placenta and can manufacture their own blood." "The blood systems are completely separate." "The pig just needs to supply amino acid... protein and glucose... and nutrition." "it will go through the umbilical cord to the fetus." "Don't worry." "Relax." "Mr. Chu, this is the rabbit's essence." "This is unnatural." "What unnatural?" "Giving birth is very natural!" "I didn't ask someone... to rape your pig!" "If she really has a human baby..." "If I change my mind, can she have an abortion?" "Of course." "How?" "How?" "How do we do it?" "Kill her." "Are you crazy?" "Mr. Chu." "If I succeed..." "You must treat the piglets nicely." "Maybe one day she'll be your wife... or the mother of your children." "I won't do it!" "Mr. Chu, let me make this shot first." "Our deal is over!" "Hurry and wake up the pig!" "Tiny, turn on the water!" "Hurry!" "Wake up, Mama!" "Mama's running away!" "Mama!" "Do you know... this is an important experiment!" "Don't you understand?" "You're worse than a pig!" "My pig ran away!" "Mama!" "Mama!" "Mama..." "Mama..." "Nurse Hung Hung, where are you?" "Mama..." "Fatty!" "What's happening?" "Mama ran away!" "Mama..." "Mama..." "Missing Female Pig, 8 years old." "2.5 feet tall, 1 20 kg." "Lost in the area yesterday." "Reward." "Call231 3-1 1 59." "Chu's Roast Pork." "Mama, where are you?" "Mama..." "Mama!" "Tiny, what's up?" "Our Mama ran away." "Our Mama ran away." "Really?" "What brought you here?" "You speak Mandarin?" "You're not the only one from the mainland!" "Let's go!" "Who is she?" "My father hired her from the mainland." "Who is he?" "My brother." "This is Miss Tong Tong." "Hello." "Hello." "What are you roasting?" "Piglets." "Piglets?" "So many!" "Yes." "Aren't you hot?" "Tiny." "Those sesame-skinned ones taste good." "That's Chu's best pork." "How long does it take to roast a pig?" "About half an hour." "So quick?" "Yes." "I know how to roast, too!" "Don't play with that!" "Come over here." "What?" "Why are you home so early?" "I couldn't find Mama, so I carne back." "How did you meet her?" "She carne to our shop." "How come you never mention it?" "You little shit!" "Tiny." "Will you get Soya Milk for me?" "One for me too?" "Alright, here's some money." "Go." "Hurry." "You live here?" "My father lives here, I live over there." "That side?" "Yes." "Where's your father?" "Gone out working." "Isn't it hot?" "Yes" "But still roasting?" "Look at you, sweaty allover." "Why are you roast all those pigs?" "For a wedding banquet." "What's your name?" "Ming." "Ming?" "Yes." "What's sesame-skinned?" "When the skin is full of tiny bubbles." "Can you teach me how to roast?" "Okay, you roast this one." "Hold the wooden handle." "But don't touch the metal." "Like this?" "Flip it." "Flip it over?" "It's all red." "Flip it again." "Smile!" "Your thighs are so large..." "Two." "Three." "Four." "Isn't that large?" "You sweat a lot..." "Yes." "I can wipe it for you." "You're fat like your father." "But you're cute." "Do you know that?" "I'm not." "They call me Porky Pig." "But Porky Pig is cute!" "I don't like them thin like the Monkey King!" "Who are you?" "Whoever you want me to be." "And what if I blew on you?" "Okay." "How does that feel?" "I can't hold back anymore, no..." "Hey, Fong Fong!" "You're the best." "Let's do it again." "Afraid the second time will take longer?" "No, it's bad for your body." "Don't worry." "It's for you." "Thank you, you don't have to." "We're friends." "If I take your money, what would I be?" "Friends also need money too." "Hold on..." "Tiny!" "Wait a second." "Peter, I see a good friend." "I'll see you later, bye." "Let's go!" "See that plane?" "Flying like planes!" "Taste good?" "Yes." "Have you ever had so much fun?" "No." "No?" "Me neither." "Morn used to bring me here." "Since she left, no one brings me." "Have you been on a plane?" "No." "I want to go to America." "You know where it is?" "Yes, far away." "It's big there." "They have Hollywood and Disneyland." "Really?" "And... universities." "If one day I'm gone... will you miss me?" "Yes!" "You can take me with you." "Eat up!" "This is beautiful!" "What's that down there?" "That's your home." "My home?" "Yes, that's Tai Horn Village" "Tai Horn Village" "You've never seen your home from this far up?" "No." "Is this really your house?" "No, I wouldn't buy such an expensive flat." "Look down... which is your house?" "Can't find it." "Keep looking." "How?" "Tiny..." "Play a game with me." "What game?" "Can I eat first?" "Alright, but..." "Tell me your phone number first." "2321 -1 668 are you sure?" "2321 -1 668" "You're not lying?" "It's true!" "Tiny!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Tong Tong!" "Over here!" "Tong Tong!" "Over here!" "Can you see me?" "It's me, Tiny!" "2321..." "Boss, answer the phone." "Maybe news about Mama." "2 catties please." "Okay." "Hello?" "Hello, Mr. Chu?" "Yes" "This is Tong Tong." "Tong Tong?" "Get Tiny on the phone." "Tiny is not home." "He just went back." "I'm playing treasure hunt with him." "Tell him to wave a flag for me." "Wave a flag?" "Yes, I'm up in Hollywood." "Tell him I can't see him." "I understand... how if I wave a flag for you?" "Alright!" "Tong Tong, over here!" "Can you see me?" "Tong Tong!" "See me?" "Here!" "Here!" "Tong Tong, here!" "Can you see me?" "Tiny!" "Be careful, Dad!" "Don't stand there... like a piece of meat!" "Watch me!" "Tong Tong, over here, can you see me?" "I see you!" "Tiny!" "Tiny!" "Tong Tong, over here!" "Tiny!" "Can you see?" "Tong Tong!" "I see your red flag!" "I can see you too!" "Something's going on out there." "Tong Tong!" "I see you!" "Tong Tong..." "He doesn't order girls anymore, what's up with him?" "He seems to be waving towards Hollywood." "They're signaling." "Tong Tong!" "I see you!" "Tong Tong!" "You can see me!" "Look!" "I'm over here!" "Mr. Chu, over here!" "Peter Chau Barristers and Solicitors" "Our client, Hung Hung Tam... has filed a complaint against you" "According to our client, on August 1 6th, 2000, in Tai Horn Village, you sexually assaulted our client." "Which Hung Hung Tam?" "This act was a violation... of our client's rights." "We demand that a sum of HK$50,000... be paid for compensation." "HK$50,000?" "Otherwise, legal actions... will be taken against you." "That's insane!" "HK$50,000?" "Hung Hung Tam, born 1 985." "85, 86, 87... 97, 98, 99, 2000... ." "2001..." "What?" "You're only 1 6!" "Peter Chau, what does your client want?" "sue you." "For what?" "Sex with girls under 1 6 is a criminal offense which carries a 5 year prison term." "You're kidding?" "I'll call the cops." "It's useless... your sperm can be traced to you through DNA testing." "Remember your sperm?" "Damn you!" "Go to hell!" "That's enough!" "Stop it!" "Are you crazy?" "Stop!" "That's mine!" "Fong Fong, it's Peter." "I've collected all your money for you." "You're going to be rich." "Thanks to you." "Don't mention it." "But..." "What?" "There's a monkey in Tai Hom Village." "who hasn't paid yet." "Impossible!" "Fong Fong, I got another call." "Call me later!" "Teacher convicted for statutory rape of 1 6 year old girl." "This is Fong Fong." "That monkey you mentioned hasn't paid yet?" "Really?" "Yes." "Who can escape from me?" "Did you send him the clippings?" "Of course." "What?" "Nothing." "Peter, can you... take me to the US?" "When would I have time?" "Then what happens to me?" "I'll teach him a lesson for you..." "I got another call." "I'll call you later." "Alright, bye." "Tiny, where are you off to?" "Find Mama." "Find Mama?" "She's long gone." "Still have to find her." "Someone raped her already." "Forget it." "1 0 bottles of water, boss." "Stay there!" "Get him!" "Are you Wong Chi Keung?" "No." "Then why did you run?" "Why are you holding my arm?" "So cocky?" "Hold him down!" "Hold your hand out!" "Chop it off!" "My hand!" "Hand..." "Nice hand!" "Keung, your water." "I'll get it later." "Hey, are you Wong Chi Keung?" "No." "You're not?" "Don't move!" "I heard him call you Keung." "He made a mistake." "Oh yeah?" "Shit, maybe we chopped the wrong guy." "Your name is not Wong Chi Keung?" "It's not." "Mr. B!" "This is the real Wong Chi Keung." "I'm not Wong Chi Keung." "I'm Tiger Wong." "Peter, he says he's Tiger Wong." "Tiger Wong is a stage name." "Then we'll count it as two." "Two?" "Alright!" "Action!" "You got the wrong guy." "No!" "No more free rides for you!" "Free what?" "Don't you know Hung Hung?" "No!" "Chop off his hand!" "No!" "I don't know her!" "No?" "Chop off his hand!" "No!" "Do it!" "My hand!" "It hurts..." "My hand!" "Mr. B!" "This is the right one." "Throw it away!" "Wong Chi Keung?" "Doesn't hurt anymore, right?" "Of course not, you know..." "I used my family's secret formula." "Not like Hong Kong hospitals... only stop the blood and not the pain." "I have to thank you." "You're not like Hong Kong people." "They look down on mainland doctors." "Wong Chi Keung..." "Wong Chi Keung..." "Brother, why are there so many Wong Chi Keungs?" "Because their parents were lazy." "Does Keung have a tattoo?" "Yes." "Mister... have you seen a chopped off hand?" "Who is it?" "Tiny from Chu's." "He found a hand." "You have a chance." "What hand?" "How do you know I got my hand chopped off?" "I guessed." "Where's the hand?" "It's horrible, is it a hand?" "How did you know it's mine?" "Your tattoo is on it." "Really?" "Great job, Tiny!" "Reward him." "Give him HK$ l,000" "Don't tell anyone." "It's embarrassing to lose a hand." "Doctor Lui." "Doctor." "What?" "Can my hand be sewn back?" "Don't worry, Brother Keung." "He put your hand in the freezer." "If it's not over 5 hours, then yes." "Thank you, Doctor." "I'm only 1 8." "I don't want to lose my hand." "Don't worry!" "In the mainland, everyone calls me magician." "I guarantee you that after the operation," "You'll be surprised!" "Doctor, are you trying to scare me?" "I'm saying you'll be surprised how perfect it is." "Xiao Gu, anaesthetize him." "Hey, what is it?" "What kind of animal is it?" "What's wrong?" "Nothing..." "Just wait." "Nothing?" "Head of a Tiger and tail of a Snake?" "Damm it!" "This is not his hand." "Don't let her come in." "Why don't you go home?" "You don't look like a child of new immigrants." "But you are... right?" "What future do you have with him?" "Doctor..." "What?" "Is my hand sewn back?" "I did quite a good job." "Really?" "Yes, but there's a problem." "Tiny made a mistake." "It wasn't your hand." "There was nothing I could do." "How did this happen?" "There's nothing to be done." "I did my best." "It's not so much a problem." "Most people won't notice." "Take it easy..." "Calm down." "I did my best, Brother Keung" "Where are you going?" "You have me, you still whored around!" "Don't go!" "you deserved!" "They should have killed you." "Asshole!" "Where are you going?" "Come back!" "Ah Lui!" "No illegal structures allowed." "All structures should be demolished." "Violators subject to prosecution." "Fatty, you have a girlfriend?" "I guess so." "What's her name?" "Tong Tong." "Tong Tong." "Nice name." "Have you bang her yet?" "I guess so." "Once." "Smart." "Let me use your computer." "I'll forget the HK$ l,000 your brother owes me." "Why does he owe HK$ l,000?" "Forget it!" "Fatty, you surf the..." ""Shanghai Angel" sex site?" "No." "No?" "Really?" "Really." "No?" "What are you looking for?" "An angel called Hung Hung." "She's the one who got my hand chopped off." "Have you seen her?" "No." "No?" "I don't buy it." "Your brother was part of it." "Tell him to pay back the HK$ l,000." "Didn't you say forget it?" "So I lied." "Don't!" "I'm tired!" "Come, I'll make you dark chicken soup." "No..." "Let's go!" "It's good for you." "You have to keep your word!" "What are you doing?" "Relax, just using the computer." "You need a fork to do that?" "Leave!" "Go!" "That's it?" "I'm leaving then." "What is this?" "What is that?" "It's Mama?" "It's Mama?" "Dad, Mama's back!" "She's back!" "It's Mama!" "Wonderful!" "Who painted all this on you?" "@@" "Looks like the work of the Kowloon King." "Looks quite good." "Mama's really back." "Mama, I missed you..." "You must be hungry?" "All pigs!" "Mama" "Good morning, Mr. Chu." "'Morning." "Is the pork fresh?" "Fresh!" "Alright, give me 2 catties." "Okay!" "I don't want the leftovers." "Fresh pork!" "Feel it, it's hot." "Good business, Mr. Chu." "Chop it nicer." "Alright." "'Morning, Dad, I'm off to school." "Alright, go to school" "'Morning, Dad, I'm off to school." "Police sentenced for 1 0 years for statutory rape." "Doctor Lui, this is Mr. Chu." "I want to ask you..." "You don't believe me, why are you asking me?" "Doctor Lui... my friend has a problem." "He slept with a girl once." "What are the chances of her getting pregnant?" "Why don't you ask your pig...?" "Would she get pregnant if she was raped by another pig?" "Also, do you know... is anyone who knows about law?" "No, I don't!" "Doctor Lui!" "Chu..." "Not happy?" "Your pig's back, you should be happy." "Leave me alone." "What?" "Come on, be happy." "No!" "You're a pest!" "Come on, cheer up." "Don't!" "You're sad because you don't see that Northern girl?" "You have me." "Come on, cheer up." "Leave me alone!" "Get out!" "Be careful!" "You're so rough!" "What do you know about her?" "Chu..." "Listen, give me a kiss." "Go kiss your mother!" "What are you doing?" "Don't play around!" "Get up!" "Damn!" "Missing, Female, 35, medium built, black hair." "Disappeared after leaving work at Chu's last night," "If discovered, call 231 3-1 1 59." "Big reward." "Chu's Roast Pork." "Missing Hand, male, right hand, 1 8 years old, medium built, solid and buff." "Tattoo of a tiger's body." "Lost in the area several days ago." "If found, call 9401 -231 1." "Big reward." "Chu..." "This place is over 60 years old." "They're tearing it all down." "Not here." "Over here." "I want a photo here." "Here?" "It's all messy." "I'm telling you to do it!" "There!" "Lower, I want to get "Hollywood"." "Take another one." "Let's go over there." "Hey, Ah Lui!" "It's Keung..." "Keung!" "Where are you going?" "Moving." "Already?" "The government will tear it down soon!" "We have to go." "Tong Tong?" "!" "What Tong Tong?" "Hung Hung Tarn... has empowered our company to collect HK$50,000." "With interest, the total amount is HK$1 50,000." "HK$1 50,000?" "You witch!" "HK$1 50,000!" "Collect it down here if you dare!" "Fatty!" "Isn't your girlfriend named Tong Tong?" "Don't lie to me, this letter is for you." "Hung Hung and Tong Tong is the same person." "We have been set up!" "She extorted money from me." "Now you too." "Last time was HK$50,000." "This time HK$1 50,000!" "Really?" "Where does she live?" "I don't know." "Cut the act." "You like her..." "Tiny, where does Tong Tong live?" "Hollywood luxury apartments, Vantage View..." "Block C, 26th floor, flat 260." "Why do you want to know?" "She's in trouble." "Are you coming?" "What are you afraid of?" "She got my hand chopped off." "She's crazy." "She'll come after you again." "Useless trash!" "You're an asshole!" "You told him where to find her." "Tiny, what are you doing up there?" "Come down!" "Keung took a knife to Tong Tong's house." "I have to tell her." "Come down, it's not your business!" "I won't!" "Come down, it's not your business!" "won't you come down?" "Tong Tong, run!" "Let him chop her up!" "Tong Tong, run!" "Let him chop her up!" "It's me, Tiny!" "Tong Tong, run!" "Wong Chi Keung has come to kill you!" "Tiny, come here!" "Tiny..." "Give me the flag!" "Give me the flag!" "No!" "Little rascal!" "Tong Tong, run!" ""Run"!" "Tong Tong, run!" "Tiny..." "How dare you?" "Stay there!" "Tiny..." "I'll beat you to death!" "Tong Tong, run!" "Get away!" "What the hell?" "Damn it!" "Tiny!" "Tong Tong, run!" "This way!" "Come out!" "Damn!" "Fat jerk!" "Your brother is waving a flag!" "Damn whore!" "She's over 20!" "She cheated us all." "What have you lost?" "She made me lose my arm!" "I never knew the importance of my right hand." "My mother taught me to use my right hand for chopsticks." "I thought I would use it all my life." "I write and shake hands with my right hand." "Use the mouse with my right hand too." "Even jerk off with my right hand!" "What is this?" "A second left hand?" "One is enough" "Why give me another one?" "Damn doctor, you won't get away with it!" "Look!" "What is it?" "It's not obvious." "Not obvious?" "The US president is left handed." "Does he have two left hands?" "Does he?" "Your girlfriend has two left hands?" "Would you vote for a president with two left hands?" "One is enough!" "I have two!" "What do I look like?" "Looks like your pig's hoofs." "Enough?" "You have a problem with me?" "Chop me up!" "Go ahead!" "Chop me!" "Chop my hand off." "I don't like my hand!" "I'm like a monster." "I beg you, please chop it off!" "It's not my hand..." "I won't hurt." "Go ahead!" "What are you waiting for?" "Do it!" "Head of a tiger and tail of a snake." "Chop off the snake tail." "Do it, please!" "Please, chop it off for me." "Why do you just sit there?" "Do it!" "Don't sit there like a pig!" "I don't like this monster hand." "Do it, please!" "Chop it off for me." "Thank you, Tiny! "Tong Tong, Hung Hung"."

"All right." "All right, everybody!" " My daughter needs a pink spot." " Never mind now." "You'll all get a chance." "Herbie." "Come here, Herbie." " We were here first." " The mothers again." " Forget the mothers." " Get 'em out." "I don't want the mothers in the wings." "I don't want 'em in the house!" "They're only tryin' to help the kids." "Don't argue with me, Herbie." "Mothers, please, will you get out?" "Get off stage!" "I want you to come forward one at a time." "And now let's have the first wee lad on Uncle Jocko's Kiddie Kapers." "Take 'em each from the top, then cut to the last eight." "All right!" "Uncle Jocko presents Clarence and his clarinet." "Go ahead, kid." "Cut to the end!" "To the end, kiddo!" "And who does Uncle Jocko have here?" "Baby June and Company." "I'm "and Company. " I mean, I assist." "That is until Mama finds out what I do best." "She's workin' on it." "You seem like nice kids, but I've only got time for half your routine." "Let's have it fast, forte and off." "Okay?" "Herbie, come here." "That one's gotta get the contract." "The one with the balloons." "The one that gets it is the one with talent." " I'm the boss and I pick the cast." " And I'm getting sick of it, George." "Gus, hit this doll with a surprise pink when she does her turn, huh?" "And now Uncle Jocko presents Baby June and Company." ""Let me entertain you" ""Let me see you smile" ""I will do some kicks" ""I will do some tricks" ""I'll tell you a story" ""I'll dance when she's done"" "Sing out, Louise!" "Sing out!" "Now quiet." "Who said that?" "You're behind, Louise." "Catch up, dear, catch up." "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Get off the stage, please!" "Didn't I see your sensitive face at the Odd Fellows Hall?" "I'm not an Odd Fellow." " Knight of Pythias." " I'm not a Knight of Pythias." " Aren't you anything?" " I'm an Elk." "I should have known it by your good manners." "My father's an Elk, too." "1853 Seattle, Washington." "I got his tooth here someplace." "I'm an Honorable Elk." "Hi, Bill." "Mind holding Chowsie?" "That's short for Chow Mein." "Mama just loves chow mein." "Stop sucking your thumb, Louise." "I just marvel how you can make a performer into an artist." "So you can help my little girls by giving them a nice loud "da-de-da de-da-da. "" "Mr. Zipser, when my girls do their specialty would you ad-lib it?" " Sure." " Show 'em, girls." " You're the boss." "What do I do?" " Get her out!" "Mr. Electrical!" "Would you please spot Baby June?" "The one with all the movement." "Each movement has a meaning of it's own." "Hit her with something pink." "Or would you prefer amber?" "I never can make up my mind what color to use." "Decisions, decisions, decisions!" "She's ready for the big time." "We'd be there too if we had first-class management." "Big time?" "Open time, layoff time, big time." "Boy, is she..." "Is that so?" "Don't you laugh." "Don't you dare laugh!" "Please, let us get on." " We're not finished." " You are according to me." "'Cause you're playing favorites with Miss Balloon?" "Louise heard every word." "How dare you let that untalented balloon block up my babies!" "I won't leave this stage till she does." "Have you no loyalty to the Elks?" " It's not a question of Elks, but of talent." " My girls have the only talent on the stage." "I'll tell that to the editor of the Gazette." "Which it so happens, he's an Elk." "I'll also shout out loud the whole audition is bein' fixed because of her." "You get in the wings and wait." "Thank you, Professor." "Thank you, Jocko." "Herbie, come here." "Thank you, Mr. Zipser." "I don't care who she shouts on, we sign the balloon." "You sign, I resign!" "Hit it, girls!" "Uncle Jocko was a gent." "He quit." "And I made the usual arrangements with my wedding rings." "Pawned them." "All three of them." "And we all started back to Pa's house in Seattle to refinance." "We were like an advancing army on the big time, backfirin' all the way." "Mama, I've been thinking." "How come I have three fathers?" "Because you're lucky." "Does it have to be this cold, Mama?" "Breathe hard on each other, kids, and hold that Thermos up against you." "Why does this pile of junk have to be stopping all the time?" "Because it isn't going, Mama." "The trouble's got to be in either the universal joint or the rear end." "Now, now." "No dirty talk." "Don't worry." "Whatever it is, I'll fix it." "I think something melted." "Look, Mama." "What are we gonna do?" "We'll break our jump." "There must be a theater in this hamlet." "We'll get a hitch into town, which means we'll go see one of Mama's brothers." "Have you got brothers in this town, too, Mama?" "Practically all men in America are Mama's brothers." "Like your grandpa says:" ""You can always tell the size of a man's heart by the button in his lapel. "" "What would Grandpa say about this automobile, Mama?" "He'd ask if it was insured." "It is, isn't it?" "Only for fire." "Get everything out." "I smell smoke!" "Mr. Willis, don't give me that stuff about what the other salesman used to sell you." "How much of his candy did you sell?" "Practically zero." "He steered you wrong." "You're not on the ball with your patrons selling plain chocolate bars." "It's like women wearing bustles." "Now this is an era of flaming youth." "Of flappers, of shifters." "It's a world that crunches." "What should you sell?" "Crunchy Butterfingers." "Crispy Baby Ruths covered with our nourishing milk chocolate, safe for a baby." "I'm gonna put you down for 100 gross, Mr. Willis." "I personally guarantee you'll reorder within a month." " Ten dozen chocolate bars." " You're cheating yourself." "Here." "Ask her what her kids eat." "Butterfingers, so help me." "I speak as a mother." "Who'd argue with a mother?" "Not me." "Twenty dozen assorted." "Are you the woman Buffalo Mr. Beckman called me about?" "I certainly am." "I came to discuss the act." " Now, how big is your orchestra?" " Three pieces." "Piano, cover and stool." " What kind of act do you do?" " It's great." "I caught it in LA." " You two a team?" " I've never seen him before." "I speak only as a pro." "Well, sometimes I play an act when I got a weak movie." "Tell you the truth, lady, I got a weak movie." "But this town's very brotherhood-minded Buffalo-wise." "Are you sure you're a lady Buffalo?" "Honorary." " Now we can talk turkey." " Turkey's 60-40." "That's a deal." "She gets the 60, you get the 40." "But no guarantee." "With a town full of Buffaloes, she doesn't need a guarantee." "I don't like it, but I'm stuck with my Buffalo oath." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go to the ladies room and fix the sink." " Thanks for getting me that 60." " Thanks for getting me this order." "Thanks for saying you caught the act in LA." "I did." "Hello, Chowsie." "I was Uncle Jocko." "Uncle Jocko!" "Well, where's your goggles and tam-o'- shanter?" "How come you're sellin' candy?" "I quit the profession, thanks to you." "Me?" "You triggered it down in LA." "I had this candy bar proposition for a long time and I'm singing like a bird." "I tip the Fedora to you." "Name is Herbie Sommers." "Hovick." "Rose Hovick." "How come you quit the profession to become a candy butcher?" "Because, lady, Rose..." "The profession is makin' a buck the hard way." "Not if it's in your blood." "When you say that, you look like a pioneer woman without a frontier." "Is that good or bad?" "It's good." "You've got what it takes." "You won't let the world push you around." "Say, it's that fashionable cocktail hour again, Rose." "I'd like to buy you a small booze and a bite to eat." "Now, there's a local speak which has fair gin but dandy chow mein if you happen to go in for Chinese food." "Is there any other kind?" "Say, you're a regular Irene Castle, Rose." "Everybody in my family is except Louise." " But you're working on it." " You bet I am." "She must be able to do somethin'." "But June is already the show-biz whiz." "She's a worker all right." "I'd like to see her in a big flash act." "A lot of scenery." "Maybe six little girls behind her." "All brunettes to show off her blondness." "To really show her off, you oughta back her up with boys, like Ziegfeld does." "What does he know about vaudeville?" "My mind's made up, it'll be girls." "No, you're wrong, Rose, it oughta be boys." "I don't need any advice from a candy butcher." "Check, please." "Herbie, don't get so mad." "I know I need advice." "I know I need management." " I know everybody in the business." " Who?" " Later, boy, later." " Yes, ma'am." "Who don't I know?" "That's a better question." "Mr. Albee, Mr. Loew, even Mr. Goldstone." "You know what Mr. Goldstone says when he sees me?" "What?" "He says, "Hello, Herbie. "" "Hello, Herbie." "Hello, Rose." "I like you." "You certainly didn't show it when we auditioned for you in LA." "We had so many stage mothers there..." " I hate to see mothers exploiting their kids." " Not me." "I'm a mother first and don't you forget it." "That's why I'm taking the girls back to Seattle to my father's house." "So that June can go to the dentist and Louise can get her tonsils out." "I knew you were a good mother." "Wanna know something?" "I'm crazy for mothers." "Yeah?" "Anybody who likes mothers so much should have been a father." "I never married." "I had five sisters." "The ugly one didn't marry until a year ago." "She's pregnant now." "I don't like dirty talk." " I apologize." " No need to." "You're a gent and I like gents." "Does that mean you'd consider marrying again?" "Not me." "I don't mean for instance, but anybody?" "After three husbands it takes a lot o' butter to get you back in the frying pan." "How much butter, Rose?" "That all depends on who's dishing it out." "This time he'd have to be in the profession." "Why?" "After 20 years of show business..." "No, you kind of breathe better in the real world." " Funny." " What?" "Us." "I like you, but I don't want marriage." "You like me." "You don't want show business." "That seems to leave you there and me here." "Now that depends on how you look at it." "You look at what we don't have." "I look at what we do have." ""Funny" ""You're a stranger who's come here" ""Come from another town" ""Funny" ""I'm a stranger myself here" ""Small world, isn't it?" ""Funny" ""You're a man who goes travelling" ""Rather than settling' down" ""Funny" ""'Cause I love to go travellin'" ""Small world, isn't it?" ""We have so much in common" ""It's a phenomenon" ""We could pool our resources" ""By joining forces" ""From now on" ""Lucky" ""You're a man who likes children" ""That's an important sign" ""Lucky" ""I'm a woman with children" ""Small world, isn't it?" ""Funny, isn't it?" ""Small and funny" ""And fine"" "Sometimes it's a real fine world, Rose like tonight." "Yeah." "But there's tomorrow." "Tomorrow I gotta get those kids on a train and, gee, Herbie, how they hate trains." "Where's your next stop?" "I'm goin' back east to Chicago and the home office." "Chicago?" "Do you know Mr. Weber of the Weber Theater in Chicago?" "He likes kid acts." "Maybe you could talk to him." "Be a cinch." "Might also be a cinch for me to drive you and your beautiful family to Seattle." " I couldn't ask you to go out of your way." " Why not?" "Seattle's just a hop, skip and a jump..." "I wouldn't mind a hop, skip and a jump, if you'd sit in the front seat with me." "And I like company, especially children." "You like kumquat?" "Fortune cookies?" " No, I want the check now, though." " Yes, sir." "I have a suggestion." "If you'd like to test my driving, just hop into the old flivver right now." "I'll show you the view from Lookout Mountain." "Sure, Herbie." "Just wait'll I get my hat." "And my hatpin." "So everything was comin' up roses." "Herbie drove us all the way to Seattle." "It was a pleasure to have a man behind the wheel." "All right, let's face it, it was a pleasure to have a man." "This is the end of the line, Rose." "I'll sure be missing you all a lot." " I owe you money for lunches and stuff." " Mark it on ice." "Grandpa!" " Hello, sweethearts." " Hi, Grandpa." " I've been worried crazy." " You worry too much, Pa." "I want you to meet Mr. Sommers, a very big gentleman in the candy game." " Herbie, this is my father." " Pleased to make your acquaintance, sir." "Glad to meet you." "Did the express company deliver our valises?" "Yeah, to the station, collect." "Pa was head of the baggage room at the Kings St. Station." "Pa also plays the piano good." "Pa could've been a real pro." "You just stop with that show talk." "Guess I'll be shovin'." "I'll be seeing ya, Rose." "I'll be seeing ya, Herbie." "I'll be seeing ya, kids." "I'll be seeing ya, Herbie." "I'll be seeing ya." "I'll be seeing ya." "More show talk." " Goodbye, Rose." " So long, Herbie." ""Act opens Weber Theater, Chicago." "Split week beginning April 20th." ""$300." "Agreement calls for four boys and two girls." ""Confirm and rush photos." "Kindest personal regards." ""Love, Herbie P.S. Don't forget, four boys. "" "Four boys." "I gotta teach that Herbie not to be so pig-headed." "I think Herbie's right, Ma." "Boys would be good in the act." "But they better have talent!" "Whose act is this?" "We've gotta get some dollars to get to Chicago." "Give me the jewelry, kids." "Mama, do we have to stay in show business?" "Hurry up, darling." "Honest, Louise!" "How are you going to get the boys, Mama?" "We'll get 'em." "Louise can be a boy." "We got that jiggin' kid from Klamath Falls." "Herbie and I'll get the others." " How're we gonna pay them?" " Experience'll be their pay." "If I can hock this stuff, I'll get a down payment for costumes and scenery." "Then we'll squeeze money out of Grandpa and we're on our way to Chicago and the big time." "I gotta get that Reo I saw for sale for 88 simoleons." "Pa!" "Oh, Pa!" "Yeah?" "Maybe you think I don't know you been conniving' behind my back." "I didn't want to tell you till it was sure." "We're booked, Pa." "I got almost enough for incidentals." "I know you'll put up the rest." "Oh, bunk!" "Something wonderful will happen for my girls." "Bunk!" "I've had a dream, Pa." "Aren't you ashamed of yourself, fooling our kids with those dreams?" "They're real dreams and I'll make 'em come real for my kids." "What are you, a crazy woman?" "Heaven put you here because it meant for you to stay right here." "Heaven helps those who help themselves." "And I need your help, Pa!" "You squeezed the last penny out of me you'll ever get!" "It's too late for me." "It's for my kids!" "It's not too late for you to get a husband to support you." "After three husbands, I'm through with marriage." "I want to enjoy myself." "I want my girls to enjoy themselves." "And travel like Mama does." "Yeah, and you'll leave them just like your mother left you." "Never!" "I don't want them to sit their lives away the way I did." "And the way you do, with nothing but a calendar to tell you one day is different from the next." "And that plaque!" "From your grateful railroad company, to say congratulations." "For 50 years you did the same dull thing every dull day." "That plaque is a great tribute." "It's solid gold." "Yeah?" "How much could you get for it?" "Rose, if you..." "What good's it doing hanging there?" "That plaque belongs there." "Like you belong home instead of running around the country like a gypsy." "Anybody that stays home is dead." "If I die it won't be from sitting, it'll be from fighting to get up and get out!" ""Some people can get a thrill" ""Knitting sweaters and sittin' still" ""That's okay for some people" ""Who don't know they're alive" ""Some people can thrive and bloom" ""Livin' life in a livin' room" ""That's perfect for some people" ""Of 105" ""But I at least gotta try" ""When I think of all the sights That I gotta see yet" ""All the places I gotta play All the things that I gotta be yet" ""Come on, Papa, what do you say?" ""Some people can be content" ""Playin' bingo and paying' rent" ""That's peachy for some people" ""For some humdrum people to be" ""But some people ain't me!" ""I had a dream" ""A wonderful dream, Papa" ""All about June and the Orpheum Circuit Give me a chance and I know I can work it" ""I had a dream" ""Just as real as can be, Papa" ""There I was in Mr. Orpheum's office" ""And he was saying to me, 'Rose" ""'Get yourself some new orchestrations New routines and red velvet curtains" ""'Get a feathered hat for the baby Photographs in front of the theater" ""'Get an agent and in jig time You'll be bein' booked in the big time!" "'" ""Oh, what a dream" ""A wonderful dream, Papa" ""And all that I need" ""Is 88 bucks, Papa" ""That's what he said, Papa" ""Only 88 bucks"" "You ain't gettin' eight cents from me, Rose." "I'll get it someplace else then." "But I'll get it and I'll get my kids out!" ""Goodbye to blueberry pie" ""Good riddance to all the socials I had to go to" ""All the lodges I had to play All the Shriners I said hello to" ""Hey, New York, I'm comin' your way" ""Some people sit on their butts" ""Got the dream, yeah, but not the guts" ""That's livin' for some people" ""For some humdrum people I suppose" ""Well, they can stay and rot!" ""But not Rose!"" "We blew into the Windy City to break in our new flash act." "Herbie, makin' out like Uncle Jocko, got us the boys." "The only thing that bugged me was our spot on the bill following some unknown stand-up comic." "My girl is so dumb she was fired from the five-and-ten cents store because she couldn't remember the prices." "And her uncle, she's got an uncle, I won't say that he he drank too much you see, but two years after he died his liver won a Charleston contest." "How about that one, huh?" "Well, listen, I can't go any bigger than that." "So good night, folks." "I'll be seeing you soon." "Well, let's see your kids follow that." "What a ham!" "Yeah." "He'll never get anyplace." ""Extra, extra!" ""Hey, look at the headlines Historical news is being made" ""Extra, extra!" ""They're drawing a red line Around the biggest scoop of the decade" ""A barrel o' charm A fabulous thrill" ""The biggest little headline in vaudeville" ""Presenting in person" ""That 3-foot-3 bundle of dynamite" ""Baby June!"" "Hello, everybody." "My name is June." "What's yours?" ""Let me entertain you" ""Let me make you smile" ""Let me do a few tricks Some old and some new tricks" ""I'm very versatile" ""And if you're real good I'll make you feel good" ""I want your spirits to climb" ""So let me entertain you" ""And we'll have a real good time Yes, sir" ""We'll have a real good time"" "Mr. Conductor, if you please." "Was I right about June or was I right?" "In the next couple of years she killed the people on the big time." "We were Dainty June now and we headlined the Orpheum Circuit." "Boy, was I ever happy." "My dream was in high gear." "But after a while the booking offices were in low." "Instead of 52 weeks solid, the next year we signed for only 44." "And the following season, we laid off as much as we played." "But we worked more than most." "Like this split week Herbie booked in Newark." "Newark is in New Jersey and New Jersey is only one big deep breath from New York." "And in New York was Grantziger's Tivoli." "And that was my real big dream." "But did you ever notice something's always waking'you up?" "It ain't even noon yet." "Turn it off." "Please!" "Turn it off, Plug." "Was that the alarm?" "No, it was Major Bowes and you just got the gong." "Surprise!" "Happy birthday, Louise." "Wild Indians." "Wild Indians, that's what you are." "Happy birthday, darling." " Come on, make a wish." " Yeah." "Oh, I wish..." "Oh, Mama, I wish..." "That greedy monkey ate a piece out of the cake." "Bad, Gigolo." "Bad, bad, bad." "Blow out the candles, Louise." "Say, that'd make a good coat." "There's only ten candles on this cake." "What do you care?" "You're not eating candles." "Yeah, but she only had ten candles last year and the year before that." "Come to think of it, she's had ten candles for the last..." "Stop right there." "As long as we have this act, nobody is over 12." "And you all know it." "Except me, of course." "You can give Louise her presents while I see if the chow mein is warmed up." "Chow mein?" "It's my birthday." "But chow mein for breakfast?" "Why not?" "There's an egg roll, isn't there?" "If your mother paid us a salary, we could've all bought you presents." "But it's more fun to clip from the five-and-dime anyway." "It's a catcher's mitt and a big league baseball." "Gee, thanks, Yonkers." "I clipped a bowl of goldfish but they caught me, so I drew a fish instead." "It's beautiful." "Here, Louise." "Oh, June." "You shouldn't have done that." "Gee, what a beautiful box." "Oh, it's lined in velvet." "Sure, it's for diamonds and like that because someday, who knows, you might get some." "It's beautiful." "Thank you." "Here, I should've wrapped it." "It's a chicken and it plays music." "You don't have to wrap a music box, Tulsa." "Well, happy birthday, Plug." "Happy birthday, Tulsa." "I mean, you're welcome." "All right, only one egg roll apiece." "I counted them." "No more." "Take it easy." "Don't claw each other to death." "Now, I wanna tell you about a dream I had." "It's really in your honor, comin' on your birthday." "Baby, you'll love it." "You all will." "Children, it's a new act." "That ain't a dream, it's a miracle." "In this act I saw June singing a song in like a barnyard." "And then a cow came onstage." "A cow?" "That's pretty sophisticated." "Not a real cow." "Sort of a dancin' cow, with a great big smile." "That cow..." "That cow leaned right over my bed and spoke to me." "What did the cow say?" "Mrs. Hovick!" "I am not cooking in here, Mr. Kringelein." "That cow, in front of..." " Open up this door!" " I'm dressing." "That cow..." "Mrs. Hovick!" "I'll call you tomorrow when I'm finished." "Now about that cow." "Mrs. Hovick!" "That dear, talented cow looked me right in the eye and said:" ""Rose, if you want to get back on the Orpheum Circuit..." ""... you put me in your act. "" "You know what I'm gonna do?" "You're gonna pay that talented cow and not us." "I'm not payin' anybody but I'm takin' that cow's advice." "I'm gonna call the new act, "Dainty June and Her Farm Boys. "" "I'll put the cow in the act, and Chowsie and the monkey." "Kids, this is real big time." "I really had an inspiration." "No cooking, Mrs. Hovick." "The very idea of entering a woman's boudoir without knocking!" "Where's your hot plate?" " Where's your search warrant?" " In all my years running a theatrical hotel..." "Leave, or your name'll be mud throughout the entire theatrical profession." "You know the rules." "No cooking." "No sterno stoves." "No percolators." "No electric irons turned upside down." "No dogs and no..." "Happy birthday, darling." "This is Herbie's birthday present to you." "Why, it's a damned zoo." "Profanity in front of my babies." "June, get the Bible." "Get the Bible." "I'll report you to the Board of Health, and my friends." "Hello, Gladys." "You can just pack up this menagerie and get out of here!" "You'll have to throw us out, you heartless animal hater." " Send for the SPCA." " Send for the police." "Why, I rented this producer's suite to one adult and three children!" "Now I see one adult and one, two, three, four..." "You counted him twice." "It's a simple birthday party for my child." "One, two, three, four..." "Stand still!" "I'd offer you some chow mein, but there's only one egg roll." "One, two, three, four, five..." "How many people are sleeping in these rooms?" " What rooms?" " This room, madam." "Why there isn't a soul in this room." " Now, you know what I mean." " Except you and me, honey." "Mr. Kringelein, what are you tryin' to do?" "Stop!" "Help!" "Help!" "Mr. Kringelein, stop!" "Help!" " Oh, my babies!" " Mama!" "A peeping tom." "A monster." "Oh, my babies!" "My babies!" "Get her some water." "Gladys, a simple little birthday party." "Chow mein." "A tiny little cake." "Thank you, darling." "Can you imagine?" "These dangerous middle-aged men." "You never know what sort of beasts and brutes you'll meet..." "Rose, what happened?" "Mr. Kringelein, the hotel manager, tried to..." "Again?" "I had to do something, Herbie." "And don't you dare apologize to him." "I hope it didn't spoil Louise's birthday." "Why should it?" "Thank you, everyone." " Back to your rooms now." " Yes, thank you." "Thank you." "You, too." "No." "Rose, this is Mr. Goldstone." "Mr. Goldstone, the child has a birthday once a year." "We have a small party, a tiny little cake..." "The act is booked at the Tivoli Theater." "...fried rice and subgum chow..." "Mr. Goldstone puts on the Grantziger shows." "He practically has the last word." "We just have to show the act to Mr. Grantziger." "Mr. Goldstone says that's a cinch." ""Have an egg roll, Mr. Goldstone" ""Have a napkin Have a chopstick" ""Have a chair" ""Have a sparerib, Mr. Goldstone" ""Any sparerib that I can spare I'd be glad to share" ""Have a dish Have a fork" ""Have a fish Have a pork" ""Put your feet up, feel at home" ""Have a smoke Have a Coke" ""Would you like to hear a joke?" "I'll have June recite a poem" ""Have a lichee, Mr. Goldstone" ""Tell me any little thing that I can do" ""A ginger peachy, Mr. Goldstone" ""Have a kumquat, have two" ""Everybody give a cheer Santa Claus is sittin' here" ""Mr. Goldstone, I love you" ""Have a Goldstone, Mr. Egg Roll" ""Tell me any little thing that I can do" ""Have some fried rice, Mr. Soy Sauce" ""Have a cookie Have a few" ""What's the matter, Mr. G?" "Have another pot of tea" ""Mr. Goldstone, I love you" ""There are good stones And bad stones" ""And curbstones and Gladstones" ""And touchstones And such stones as them" ""Such as them" ""There are big stones And small stones" ""And grindstones and gallstones" ""But Goldstone is a gem" ""There are milestones There are millstones" ""There's a cherry There's a yellow" ""There's a blue" ""But we don't want any old stone" ""Only Goldstone will do" ""Moonstone, sunstone We all scream for one stone" ""Mervyn Goldstone" ""We love you" ""Goldstone!"" ""Little lamb, little lamb" ""My birthday is here at last" ""Little lamb, little lamb" ""A birthday goes by so fast" ""Little bear, little bear" ""You sit on my right, right there" ""Little hen, little hen" ""What games should we play and when?" ""Little cat, little cat" ""Oh, why do you look so blue?" ""Did somebody paint you like that?" ""Or is it your birthday, too?" ""Little fish, little fish" ""Do you think I'll get my wish?" ""Little lamb, little lamb" ""I wonder how old I am" ""I wonder how old I am" ""Little lamb"" "The won ton soup is better in San Francisco." "The fu yung has more egg in it in St. Louis." "But I will say New York City has got the best doggone, subgum chicken chow mein I ever tasted." "The onions are chopped good and fine." "Hand me that plate." "Mother!" "We're payin' for it, aren't we?" "You'll get an ulcer like Herbie." "Besides, what the dogs don't eat, we will." "Did it ever occur to you there might be someone who doesn't like Chinese food?" "Don't be silly!" "Who?" "You like it, don't you, Herbie?" "Of course, I love it." " Did she?" " Yes." "That's a healthy-wealthy lady-wady." "Oh, Lord!" "Herbie's angry." "He's chain-smoking." "Herbie's never angry." "It's bad for his ulcer." "Come on now, girls, beddy-bye." "But it's so early." "Baby, tomorrow you're gonna audition for Mr. T.T. Grantziger and his Tivoli Theater." "You gotta look young." "Can I wear a dress?" "A dress'd make you look old, and you don't own one." " Good night, Uncle Herbie." " Good night, June." " Good night, Louise." " Good night, Herbie." "I'll cold cream their faces and be right back." "The hotel is just two doors away." "Honestly, the way you behave with those girls." "Rose!" "We need silverware for when we set up housekeeping' on Riverside Drive." "You're so high and mighty with a suite at the Astor and you still steal the cutlery." "You gotta grasp every opportunity." "Herbie, how long is it gonna take you to get used to me?" "How long did it take me to get used to those coats?" "What's wrong with them?" "Louise is very handy with a needle." "As the Lord says, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. "" "And it serves 'em right for overcharging." "They can skip the cold cream for one night." "All this time we've been together and you still stand up for me." " It's instead of standing up to you." " I hope the babies'll be all right." "Rose, no matter how you dress them, or smother them, they're not babies." " They're almost young women!" " They're not and they never will be!" "I'm embarrassed in front of them." "Why should you be?" "You're almost their father." " When are you going to marry me?" " Don't forget our scrapbooks..." " When are you going to quit stalling?" " When we're rolling in dough." " Do you know there's a depression?" " Sure I know." "I read Variety." "You know what it's doing to vaudeville?" "Do you know what the talkies are doing to vaudeville?" "Don't you know I love you?" "Do you think I'd be unfaithful to my husbands if you didn't?" "I gotta think of my girls and their happiness." "Louise is some happy being the front end of a cow." " It's better than the rear end." " She and June should be in school." "I promised June I'd get her on the Pantages Circuit and I did." "Honey, could I have a spoon to stir my tea?" "I promised her I'd get her on the Orpheum Circuit and I will." "I will." "And you promised me that after I do you'd marry me." "I promised myself she'd be a headliner at the Tivoli Theater and she will." " Did you hear what I said?" " Yes, but I'm ignoring it." "Thanks, honey." "Herbie, it isn't very polite of a gentleman to remind a lady that she welched." "Besides, there was no date on that promise." "Will you stop handing me that?" "Rose, sometimes..." "Your stomach!" "Why don't you get angry on the outside instead of letting' it settle inside?" " I'm afraid." " Of me?" "No, of me." "Me." "Why?" "If I ever let loose, it'll end up with me picking up and walking." " Only around the block." " Oh, no!" "Don't say that." ""You'll never get away from me" ""You can climb the tallest tree" ""I'll be there somehow" ""True, you could say 'Hey, here's your hat'" ""But a little thing like that" ""Couldn't stop me now" ""I couldn't get away from you" ""Even if you told me to" ""So go on and try, just try" ""And you're gonna see" ""How you're gonna not at all" ""Get away from me"" "What do you want?" "There are better managers." "Not for me." " Even weaker men." " Not for me." " Then what?" " You." "Herbie, just go on helping me like you've been helpin'." "So you get the Tivoli, so what comes after?" " Rose, what you expect..." " I'll get!" "And after I get it, I promise to marry you." "I even promise to keep my promise." "Herbie, I don't want anything to upset that audition tomorrow including' your stomach." "Yes, Mr. Grantziger." "I know, but they're having a little difficulty with their scenery." "Well, wait till you see it." "I'm trying, Mr. Grantziger." "Keep the tempo up now." "Keep it bright." "That's the mother." "I have told her!" "Hello, Mr. Grantziger." " Where is he?" " He's in his office at the top of the theater." " Hi." " We're ready now." "It's a privilege to audition, Mr. Grantziger." "You're gonna love us." ""Extra, extra!" ""Hey, look at the headlines Historical news is being made" ""Extra, extra!" ""They're drawing a red line Around the biggest scoop of the decade" ""A barrel of charm A fabulous thrill" ""The biggest little headline in vaudeville" ""Presenting in person" ""That 4-foot-8 bundle of dynamite" ""Dainty June!"" "Hello, everybody." "My name is June." "What's yours?" ""I have a moo cow, a new cow" ""A true cow named Caroline" ""She's an extra special friend of mine" ""I like everything about her fine" ""But if we moved to the city" ""Or we settled by the shore" ""She'd make the move" ""'Cause she loves me more"" "Yes, Mr. Grantziger?" "Dainty June, would you come out here, please?" "Face front, dear." "Profile." "Yes, Mr. Grantziger." "Thank you." "That's all." "But we've got a big dramatic finale." " Sure." "But he's seen quite enough." " Hit it!" "Hit it!" ""Broadway, Broadway!" ""We've missed it so" ""We're leaving soon and taking June" ""To star her in a show" ""Bright lights, white lights" ""Rhythm and romance" ""The train is late So while we wait" ""We're gonna do a little dance"" "Straighten that line!" ""Broadway, Broadway!" ""How great you are" ""I'll leave the farm With all its charm" ""To be a Broadway star!" ""Bright lights, white lights" ""Where the neons glow" ""My bag is packed" ""I've got my act" " "So all aboard, come on, let's go!" " Let's go!" ""'Bye!" "'Bye!"" "Get this." "It's a train." "Goodbye, Caroline." "I'll write to you." "Don't forget to wire." "Goodbye, Caroline." "Goodbye." "Don't forget to wire." "Goodbye." "'Bye." "Goodbye." "Wait!" "Stop the train." "Stop everything." "I can't go to Broadway with you." "Why not, Dainty June?" "Because everything in life that really matters is right here." "What care I for tinsel and glamour when I have friendship and true love?" "I'm staying with Caroline." "Yes, Mr. Grantziger?" "What?" "He liked it." "Well, of course he did." "Yes, sir." "Yes, Mr. Grantziger, if that's what you want." "If you and your tribe'll come up to the office, I'll make out a contract." "You won't be sorry, Mr. Grantziger." "This is gonna make you!" "Miss Cratchitt, I believe Mr. Grantziger made a mistake a slight mistake on this contract." "So do I." " Happy, girls?" " Yes, Mama." "We auditioned for Mr. Grantziger's Tivoli." "This is for Mr. Grantziger's Variety." " That's right." " But the Variety is way down on 12th Street." "He'll give you a visa to get there." "Yes?" " I'd like to talk to Mr. Grantziger." " No!" "Now you can't disturb Mr. Grantziger." "Listen..." " I'm through listening." "Where is he?" " He's still auditioning down on the stage." "When we're down there he's up here, and when we're up here he's down there." "Mr. Grantziger is a very clever man." "I'll go see if he's down on that stage." "This way?" "No." "No, Rose." "Wait." " We will wait right here." " Herbie..." "Look, friend, strictly between us, if I were you I'd sign that contract." "There's only one item in that act of yours that the boss likes." "Dainty little June." "He thinks she can be an actress musical comedy, Broadway, that sort of stuff." "And he's right." "That's great, isn't it, Rose?" "On one condition:" "You stay away." "Stay away?" "I'm her mother." "You said it, I didn't." "What about the act?" "One week at the Variety." "After that, what about it?" "June is the act." " This must be a private discussion." " How are Louise and I supposed to live?" "You might get a job, dear." "I have a job, dear." "And I do it damn well!" "This'd be much better than vaudeville for June, and for us." " Nothing is better than vaudeville." " Was better than vaudeville." " Where's your values?" " Motherhood comes first." "Then you ought to see that this is right." "You'll have June on the stage." "I'll take care of you and Louise and we'll all live like real people." "Rose, this way we can have our cake and eat it, too." "Your cake!" "Besides, June wouldn't start all over again, like some beginner." "Ask her, Mama." "Ask her." "Yes." "Oh, Mama, yes." "Please say yes." "I want to learn, to work." "I'll try so hard to make you proud of me, Mama." "Say yes, Mama." "No." "And I am proud of you, Baby." "You don't need lessons any more than you need Grantziger." "There's no one in show business who doesn't need him." " Take a good look at this person." " Rose." "They're so smart in New York." "New York is the center of everything." "New York is the center of New York." "The country's full of people who know people who know what a mother means to her daughter." "Hicks like you don't know." "And Grantziger's a hick!" "He'll get no place." "Do you hear me, keep still!" "Don't you dare answer that phone when I'm yellin' at you." "Did you hear what I said?" "They're tryin' to take my baby from me." "Over my dead body they will!" " Come on, we'll go down and tell him." " Just a minute, Mrs. Hovick!" "Mrs. Hovick!" "Don't worry, kids I will read her the Declaration of Independence." "Believe me." "It's not your fault, Herbie, it's just the way it is." "Well, I'm gonna try to change the way it is." "Just you wait." "No!" "Mama's just talking angry, June." "She won't really spoil anything." "Yes, she will." "I'll never be anything but Baby." "Dainty old Baby June." "Well, aren't ya happy that somebody like Mr. T.T. Grantziger thinks you can be a real actress?" "I would be happy if Mama would only see what this means to me." "I'm going to be awfully unhappy remembering how I lost this chance." "Mama made you a vaudeville star and she can do it again." "Vaudeville is gone, Louise." "It's over." "The only show business left is right here on Broadway." "I want to learn to be part of it." "Part of this kind of show business." "You can be anything you want." "You were born for this business." "You're a real stage personality." "You're really wonderful, Louise." "I am?" "Why?" "Because, well, I don't know." "When it comes to the act, you never worry about yourself only for me." "I don't have any talent." "It doesn't really matter." "It's just that Mama would like it better if I did." "Your mother isn't feeling well." "I'm gonna take her back to the hotel." "Don't worry, kids, I'll figure something out." "More than ever I wish Mama would marry Herbie." "And then we could all be together." ""If Mama was married We'd live in a house" ""As private as private can be" ""Just Mama, three ducks, five canaries" ""A mouse, two monkeys, one father six turtles and me" ""If Mama was married" ""If Mama was married I'd jump in the air" ""And give all my toe shoes to you" ""I'd get all these hair ribbons Out of my hair" ""And once and for all I'd get Mama out, too" ""If Mama was married" ""Mama, get out your white dress" ""You've done it before" ""Without much success" ""Mama, Godspeed and God bless" ""We're not keeping score" ""What's one more or less" ""Oh, Mama, say yes" ""And waltz down the aisle while you may" ""I'll gladly support you" ""I'll even escort you" ""And I'll gladly give you away" ""Oh, Mama, get married today" ""If Mama was married There wouldn't be any more" ""'Let me entertain you" ""'Let me make you smile" ""'I will do some kicks" ""'I will do some tricks'" ""'Sing out, Louise!" ""'Smile, Baby. '" ""Mama, please take our advice" ""We aren't the Lunts" ""I'm not Fanny Brice" ""Mama, we'll buy you the rice" ""If only this once" ""You wouldn't think twice" ""It could be so nice" ""If Mama got married to stay" ""But Mama gets married" ""And married, and married" ""And never gets carried away" ""Oh, Mama" ""Oh, Mama" ""Oh, Mama" ""Get married today"" "How do you like those kids?" "They knew darn well I'd marry Herbie at the right time and place." "But 12th Street sure wasn't what I had in mind." "So what if the act is a little shabby right now?" "Instead of buyin' longer costumes, I'm gonna get shorter boys." "And that goes for Tulsa, too." "All thatjiggin'." "Say, that's pretty fancy footwork, Tulsa." "Why don't you show it to Mrs. Hovick?" "It's just fooling around." "Well, you started fooling around about three months ago." "He had to do something during the layoffs." "I thought maybe you were worried about the act." "Because the way things are pickin' up, I wouldn't be surprised if you kids got paid." "Things are lookin' so good I might even treat you to an ice-cream soda." "No, thank you." "Chow mein?" "Baby Ruth?" "Butterfinger?" "Mama doesn't like us to eat just before a show." "We don't always have to do what your mama likes, do we, Louise?" "Herbie?" "Oh, nothing." "Tulsa, if you and the boys have any problems just bring them to me, huh?" "Sure, Herbie." "You can't blame him for tryin' to act like a big shot." "Everybody knows he's just a stooge." "He is not." "I mean, we all depend on him." "I like Herbie." "We all do." "You didn't tell him, did you?" "I mean, that you're rehearsing for a team?" "How did you know I was?" "I saw you practicing last Monday after the matinee." "I was up in the flies." "I wouldn't tell anybody, Tulsa, honest." "I'm very secretive, just like you." "Look..." "See?" "That's what that means in your palm." "And this means that you make up dreams." "Just like me." "See?" "And what do you make up dreams about?" "People." "I do that, too." "Yes, but yours are about a partner for your act." "She's gonna be more than a partner, I hope." "I mean, I dream..." "Well, you know." "What would she have to be like, Tulsa?" "A real wonderful dancer and a singer, I guess." "Oh, no." "I'm gonna do most of that." "I don't mean I'm gonna hog it all, but..." "Well, they always look at the girl on a dance team." "Especially if she's pretty." "Makeup could help, and costumes." "I've got the costumes all figured out." "A blue satin tux for me." "With rhinestone lapels?" "You think?" "I'll sew 'em on." "Okay." "Thanks." "Well, you see, I pretend..." "Oh, this is a mirror." "I take a comb and comb my hair." "Take a flower smell it and put it in my lapel." "And then I spot the audience." ""Once my clothes were shabby" ""Tailors called me 'Cabbie'" ""So I took a vow" ""Said, 'This bum'll be Beau Brummel'" ""Now I'm smooth and snappy" ""Now my tailor's happy" ""I'm the cat's meow" ""My wardrobe is a wow!" ""Paris silk" ""Harrod's tweed" ""There's only one thing I need" ""Got my tweed pressed" ""Got my best vest" ""All I need now" ""Is the girl" ""Got my striped tie" ""Got my hopes high" ""Got the time and the place And I got rhythm" ""Now all I need's a girl to go with 'em" ""If she'll just appear" ""We'll take this big town for a whirl" ""And if she'll say 'My darling, I'm yours'" ""I'll throw away my striped tie" ""And my best pressed tweed" ""All I really need is the girl"" "I start easy, you see." "Now I'm more debonair." "Break." "And I sell it here." "I start this step, see." "And then I build it." "And now I double it." "She appears all in white." "I take her hand and I kiss it." "And lead her on the floor." "This step is good for the costume." "Astaire bit." ""Now we waltz" ""Strings come in"" "And I lift her." "Again." "Once more." "And now the tempo changes and all the lights come up and I build for the finale." "Louise, that's it." "Over here." "Give me your hand." "Now follow me." "That's it, Louise." "Now do it faster." "That's it." "Now the front." "Do it again." "Do it again." "Turn." "Louise." "So okay, they keep on makin' garages out of vaudeville houses and bowling alleys and stuff like that." "But kill vaudeville?" "Did you ever hear such banana oil?" "There was still Omaha." "So we were a smash, like usual." "And then made tracks for a sensational engagement in Dallas." "As we waited for the train I was high." "Just had a feelin' everything was gonna be dipsy-doodle." "You know how you are sometimes." "There'sjust somethin' in the air." "Have you guys seen Louise and June?" "Where's Jerry and Joe?" "Why's everyone late?" "We'd like to talk to you." "Let me find out whether the train's on time." "Is the southbound train on schedule?" "I wouldn't say it is and I wouldn't say it ain't." " I will say you got time for a bowl of chili." " Thanks." "We have a short wait." " Why don't you get a cup of java?" " We ain't goin' to Dallas, we're quitting." "You've been threatening that for years." " No, this is the truth." " We're not kidding." "Tell her, Herbie." "The boys are kind of unhappy." "Not serious." "I'll straighten it out." " You can't straighten it out." " Mrs. Hovick, we're finished." "We want our railroad tickets." "We're going in the other direction." " You're walkin' out on the act?" " They don't mean anything of the kind." "They're just kids and every once in a while they get upset." "When they get upset, I get upset." "And I don't like it." "Shut your traps." "Now where are June and Louise?" "I shouldn't have let 'em go to the movies." "They're crazy about John Gilbert." "I couldn't refuse." "Mrs. Hovick, you've got to believe us." "It's nothing personal, but we're quitting the act." "I told you in Klamath Falls I didn't want boys." "They're troublemakers." "But we got boys, Rose." "Just let me talk to them, will you?" "Fellas, Angie, I've always been your friend, haven't I?" "So give a listen." "Now don't lower yourself to argue, Herbie." "These rats wanna quit the act, let 'em quit." "They want their railroad tickets, give 'em bus tickets." " What's keepin' the girls?" " We got lots of time." "Fellas, I know we've had a couple of layoffs in the past..." "It isn't that, Herbie." "We're too old." "Would you be too old if we could increase your salary?" "Increase what salary?" " Herbie's been payin' us..." " Moron!" "How long will it take you to get used to me, Rose?" "Button your coat." "Ingrates!" "You take the bread out of that man's mouth and spit it in his face." "As the good Lord says, "Good riddance to bad rubbish. "" "Give 'em the tickets." "They were sluffin' the act anyway." "Okay." "Okay." "Thanks, Herbie." "We'd also like Joe's ticket." "Joe's leaving, too?" "That leaves us just with Jerry." "Well, not exactly." "Jerry's already gone." "On his own." "Where you been?" "Where's the baby?" "You didn't let her stay for the second show?" " No, we didn't go to the show." " What?" "I've been looking for the baby all over the place." "I finally went to the hotel and the room clerk gave me this note for you." " What's she writing me for?" " I don't know." " What's in it?" " I'll read it to you." "I can read my own letters, thank you." ""Mama..." ""..." "I've had a dream." "Me." ""My dream was like a nightmare." ""I dreamed I was a very old lady, but I was still Dainty June..." ""... still doin' the same old act." ""I was so ashamed of myself, I ran away, Mama..." ""... from the act, from you, from your dreams..." ""... because they only made you happy." ""And if I want a dream of my own, my very own, I have to be like you, Mama." ""I have to fight for it." ""I started toward my dream three weeks ago in between shows." ""I married Jerry." ""Please don't worry about me, Mama." ""Maybe I'm enough like you to make my dream come true..." ""... to grow up and be a real actress." ""I'll always love you and Louise, Mama..." ""... and I'll always be grateful to Herbie." ""June. "" "When did they leave?" "Did she tell you where they were going?" "No." "Nothing, honest." "I'll call the cops." "They'll find 'em, Rose, and bring 'em back." "Don't you worry." "You shouldn't call the cops." "They'll scare June." "It's gotta be against the law for a 13-year-old to be marrying'." "Rose, she must have lied about her age." "I'm gonna call the police." "I'd better get her ammonia." "I think it's in her valise." "Can I use your phone?" "I've gotta call the police." "This little girl, underage, who married a boy..." " How old are they, mister?" " The girl's 13." "The boy is 17, 18." "There's nothing illegal about that in this state." "It's legal for a girl of 12 and legal for a boy at 16." "This is pioneer country and we've never changed the law." "I still want to call the cops." "Come on in." "You won't hear any different from them than me." "Can we have the tickets now?" "We gotta get movin'." "Police department." " I fixed up an act of my own..." " Get moving." "Don't be sore, Herbie." "It ain't our fault the act's washed up." "Goodbye, Herbie." "Hey, fellas good luck." " Thanks, Herbie." " Thanks." "Good luck to you, too, Herbie." "Good luck, Louise." "Come on, Yonkers." "Goodbye, Louise." "Goodbye?" "You mean you're all going away?" "Yeah, all of us." "Gee, I'm sick about it, but I gotta think of my future." "Why didn't you tell me, Tulsa?" "Like you once said, Louise, it's in my palm." "I keep secrets the way you do." "Listen, I would've loved June to be my partner." "I know." "You'll find another one." "What will you do?" "I don't know." "Well, I hope we run into each other again." "Maybe we'll even play on the same bill." "Yeah." "Maybe." "You're a great girl." "You're the cat's whiskers." "That's what we all say." "You're just like one of the boys." "Yeah, that's me all right." ""One of the boys. "" "Thanks, Tulsa." "I just talked to the authorities." "There's no way we can get June back." "What're we gonna do?" "Rose." "Rose." "Honey, listen." "I'm still in the candy business." "It's steady, 52 weeks a year, every year." "I'll be a district manager." "We can stay put, have a home of our own." "Louise can go to school." "Rose?" "Rose, you still got Herbie." "You can marry me and I promise you won't have one single worry for the rest of your life." "Don't you want that?" "Yes." "Oh, Mama, say yes." "Herbie." "You read palms, I read minds." "It's okay." "It's all gonna be fine now, honey." "Everything happens for the best." "Okay, so the act is finished." "But you and me and our daughter we're gonna have a home of our own." "We even got a cow for the backyard." "We're gonna be the best damned homebodies you ever saw." "The boys walked because they think the act's finished." "They think we're nothin'." "Well, let 'em walk." "Let 'em all walk." "I don't need any of 'em." "They needed me." "I'm used to people walkin' out." "When my own mother did it, I cried for a week." "Your father did it." "Then the man I married after him did it." "Well, this time I'm not cryin'." "Because I don't need any of 'em." "I'm the electricity." "I was always the electricity." "Who do you think made the act?" "I made it!" "And I can make it again." "And I will, I swear I will." "This time I'm gonna do it for you." "This time I'm gonna make you a star, baby." "We're gonna have all new costumes, all new people, all new everything." "It's like bein' born all over again." "We got everything ahead of us." "Take a look at our new star." "Look at her, Herbie." "Look at her." "You're right." "This is today and everything else is yesterday's mashed potatoes." "Finished?" "Why, we're just beginning." "And this time nothing's gonna stop us." ""I had a dream" ""A dream about you, baby" ""It's gonna come true, baby" ""They think that we're through" ""But, baby" ""You'll be swell, you'll be great" ""Gonna have the whole world on a plate" ""Startin' here, starting' now" ""Honey, everything's comin' up roses" ""Clear the decks, clear the tracks" ""You got nothin' to do but relax" ""Blow a kiss, take a bow" ""Honey, everything's comin' up roses" ""Now's your inning" ""Stand the world on its ear" ""Set it spinning" ""That'll be just the beginning" ""Curtain up, light the lights" ""You've got nothin' to hit but the heights" ""You'll be swell, you'll be great" ""I can tell, just you wait" ""That lucky star I talk about is due" ""Honey, everything's comin' up roses" ""For me and for you" ""You can do it" ""All you need is a hand" ""We can do it" ""Mama is gonna see to it!" ""Curtain up, light the lights" ""We got nothin' to hit but the heights" ""I can tell, wait and see" ""There's the bell, follow me" ""And nothin's gonna stop us till we're through" ""Honey, everything's coming up roses and daffodils" ""Everything's comin' up sunshine and Santa Claus" ""Everything's gonna be bright lights and lollipops" ""Everything's comin' up roses" ""For me and for you!"" "No, no, no." "That's not right." "Sing out, Louise, sing out." "Let Mr. Ziegfeld hear you." "I got it!" "I got it!" "I had another dream." "Instead of boys we'll use girls." "And you know the cow in the act?" "It's not gonna be a cow anymore." "It's gonna be a bull." "So, it's gonna be a bull." "It's a good idea." "And you're gonna be the bullfighter." "And you know what?" "We're callin' the act Madame Rose's Toreadorables." "All we need is the girls." "Yes, Mother." "All we need is the girls." "How're we gonna get 'em?" "We'll get 'em Uncle Jocko." "Herbie did the Uncle Jocko bit again and got us six girls for the act, semi-talented." "I didn't like the dough goin' out for hotels, so I discovered the Army and Navy stores." "Surplus tents, for instance." "Ready, Louise?" "Yes, Mama." " Ready, girls?" " Yes, Madam Rose." "Remember, you mustn't be discouraged by the past." "You're artists of the theater." "Madam Rose's Toreadorables." ""Extra, extra!" ""Hey, look at the headlines Historical news is being made"" "Sing out!" ""Extra, extra!" ""They're drawing a red line Around the biggest scoop of the decade" ""In the decade" ""A barrel of charm A fabulous thrill" ""The biggest little headline in vaudeville" ""Presenting in person" " "That 5-foot-3 bundle of dynamite"" " Sell it!" "Sell it, girls!" ""Senorita Louise"" "Well, come on, Louise, come on!" "Olé, everybody!" "My name's Louise." "What's yours?" "Well, it's comin' along." "Mama I'm just no good at it." "Now don't be silly." "All right, girls, let's try the finish." "They'll forgive you anything if you've got a strong finish." "You're late." "Now, girls, let's make it stirring!" "Pick up your feet, Louise!" "Pick 'em up!" "Up, up!" "I guess they're tired." "All right, girls, over to your tents." "Get ready for bed." " Good night, Louise." " Good night, Mama." " But it's still light, Madam Rose." " Don't argue, go to bed." "And don't forget to write your mothers for money." "How'd it go in town?" "Not even a benefit." "They're too un-American down here, that's what." "We better talk about goin' back up north as soon as I tell the girls a bedtime story." "Why do you make Louise wear that wig in the act?" "It makes her look more like a star." "Why do you keep the cow?" "Herbie, if that cow goes, I go." "The act can be fixed." "If I was doin' it for her sister I'd have it all set." "But you're not." "And I'm not my sister." "She doesn't expect you to be." "Mama I love you so much and I've tried hard as I could but the act is rotten and I'm rotten in it." "How do you like that?" "Typical of a kid." "Mama, I've been wanting to say this..." " Always impatient." " Mama..." " A few break-in dates don't go so good..." " I'm not a blonde." "And I'm not my sister, and I just can't do what she did." "She's not asking you to." "Maybe you want show business..." "Maybe?" "Why, it's our whole lives!" "It's what we've been working for since you were born." "Honey, maybe I have been on the wrong track about your material but I'll find out what you do best." "The good Lord says, "You gotta take the rough with the smooth. "" "And you're lucky." "You were born lucky, because you're not alone, see?" " Right, Herbie?" " Right." "You know, we could get a nice refund on this if we'd ever paid for it." "How about getting a gallon of peroxide and a carton of toothbrushes?" "What for, Herbie?" "Make 'em all blondes." "I was only jokin'." "So was I, honey." "But why not do it?" " Louise, they're just children." " They're young girls, Mama." "As blondes they could be pretty young girls." "With some imagination it might work." "It'd jazz up the act, make it easier to sell." "We could call it, Madam Rose and her Blonde Babies." "Baby Blondes." "No, nothing with babies." " Hollywood Blondes." " Yes!" "All blondes except you, 'cause you're the star." "If I'm the star then it should be Louise and Her Hollywood Blondes." "Rose Louise and her Hollywood Blondes!" "Okay." "Well, I told you everything would come up lollipops." "Herbie got us a two-week date." "And we were paid minimum plus, guaranteed in advance at the Wichita Opera House." "We were on our way up again." "Nothin' can stop Rose." "Nothin'." "Okay, okay." "Kill the traveler." "That's right, trim it." "Okay." "That's right." "It's a real live theater!" "With a real live stage!" "Don't you love it?" "Louise, look!" "A real live theater." "Just like opening day rehearsals used to be." "Mama's gonna love it." " Will you kill them floods?" " Will you shut your face?" " She isn't gonna love that." " Or that!" "Slave, my fiddle." "What the hay?" "What kind of an act is that?" "Yeah?" "Okay, jailbait, you the Hollywood Blondes?" " Yes." "I'm..." " You're late." " Our car broke down and..." " Skip it." "Some of you can use that dressing room." "The rest of you, over there." "The first one you share with Tessie Tura, the Texas Twirler." "The second with Mazeppa, Revolutions in Dance." "Now shake it up, will you?" "So you're the act that's supposed to keep the cops out, huh?" "Boy, you must be lousy." "It's a real live theater, all right." "He reminds me of my brother." "Don't start sniveling." "Take the cow and anything else you can carry into the first dressing room." "Marjorie May, take the other girls into that second room and start unpacking." "I want to go home." "Look at this!" "That Tessie Tura must be a very fancy lady." "She must also be a pig." "Louise!" "In here, Mama." "Let me help you." "Baby, we're back in the theater." "We're back in a real live theater." "I really think we ought to talk to Herbie." "He went up front to check on our billing." "Good morning." "Good morning, I..." "It ain't weighted right." "It scratches the devil out of me and it just don't bump when I do." "Maybe there's somethin' wrong with your bumper." "Big joke!" "I'm out there bumpin' my brains off with no action and she's bein' witty." "Hey, you with the neck." "I paid six bucks for that costume." "Now back where you found it." "Yes, ma'am." "Get the bags, get the cow, get the props!" "You don't know what kind of theater this is." "Yes, I do." "It's a house of burlesque." "A house of burlesque." "And you know what that is?" "Filth!" " When your friend Herbie shows his face..." " I'm sure he didn't know." "Not much, he didn't." "Agnes!" "He got the booking over the telephone." "We were all so happy." "My name is Amanda." "Your name is Agnes and I want you and the others out of here in two seconds." " But, Madam Rose..." " March!" "March!" "Go!" "Wait a minute." "Wait in the other dressing room." "You take the rear end of the cow, I'll take the front." "And what bags we can't carry, your friend Herbie can pick up and carry himself." "Listen to me." "Just because you think Herbie can do no wrong..." " This has nothing to do with him." " You don't know what burlesque is." " Yes, I do." " No, you don't!" "No daughter of mine will work in a burlesque house." "And no daughter of any woman I know." "Where are we gonna work?" "Vaudevillians won't even live in the same hotel as burlesque people." "Mama, how much money do we have?" "Including what's left of their allowances, how much money do we have?" "Somethin' will turn up." "It has turned up and this is it!" "Mama, we're flat broke." "We've gotta take this job." "Even if you wanted to quit and go home, we'd have to take it." "I had a dream." " Mama..." " You're gonna like this one." "I had it over a week ago, only I didn't want to tell you." "The cow came into my room." "But she wasn't dancing', smiling' this time." "She was wheezing' and kind of sad-like." "She came over to my bed and looked at me, and she said:" ""Rose, move over. "" "I'm sorry, Mama." "Why?" "She didn't ask you to move over." "I mean, I'm sorry I'm not good enough in the act." "It's the act that isn't good enough, baby or somethin'." "Rose!" "In here." "Look, I didn't know." "Louise." "Rose, I didn't know, believe me." "I do, honey." "Oh, what's the difference?" "The money is good." "It's only two weeks and maybe by that time somethin' will turn up." "Right?" "Right!" "You're a nice girl, Rose." "Thank you." " That's show business." "I bet we get top billing." "Actually, you see, they had us kinda lost in the middle." "I thought last would be better, so that it reads:" ""And Rose Louise and Her Hollywood Blondes. "" "They'll use plenty of pictures and put a box around it." "Forget the box, Herbie, and the pictures." "You don't know what they say in the business, but Herbie does." "When a vaudeville act plays burlesque it means it's all washed up." "Herbie, nothin' is gonna turn up for us, is it?" "No." "It is a pretty rotten act." "Honey, it's not the act." "It's like I been tellin' you, vaudeville is dead, stone-cold dead!" " We sure tried though, didn't we?" " We sure did." "Right?" "Right." "Herbie." "I better get the cues ready." "Hey, Rose Louise, where's your music?" "And your light cues?" "I'll be right with you." " You Rose Louise?" " Yeah, I'm Rose Louise." "Oh, Herbie." "Things are lookin' up." "I got a show to open, Rose Louise, so move your butt." "Now listen, you little punk!" "For the next two weeks you're gonna speak like a Sunday school teacher." "You got something in this theater A lady." "Take a look." "That is a lady." "And that is also a lady." "And every girl in this act is a lady and don't you forget it." "Do you understand?" "Yes, sir." "Now get out there on that stage and I'll give you the cues when I'm ready." "Yes, sir." "Excuse me ma'am." "Sir, won't you give me your protection?" "I'm a lady, too." "Just let me by, lady, and there won't be any casualties." "Say, you're cute." "How about you and me goin' for a ride after the show?" "All my seats are reserved." "The thing worked, thanks to you." " Well, if you ladies will excuse me." " We're very busy." " In my dressing room?" " In your dress..." "You heard me." "And I don't like sharing' it any more than you do." "Particularly with a troupe from the Virgin Islands." "Now don't start up on us, understand?" "We're headliners from the Orpheum Circuit." "We were booked into this theater by mistake." "Weren't we all?" "Say, who made that?" "I did." "I make all our costumes." "My, look at them ladylike little stitches." "That miserable broad who's been makin' my gowns must be usin' a fish hook." "What do you pay her?" " $25 a gown and I provide the material." " $30." " She's new in the business." " $30." " Are you her mother?" " Yes." "$30." "I'll get the material after the matinee." "It's a deal." "Louise, where's your toreador costume?" "The girls must have it in the other dressing room with them." "Heaven knows what else they've got in their dressing room." "From the way that dame walks she would've made a real good stripper in her day." "Tessie..." "Tessie, I'm short a talking woman." "Tough. "T, U, F." Tough." "The new comic won't use a chorus girl." "Then let him use Mazeppa." "Everybody else has." "Now you know Mazeppa's got her Gladiator Ballet just before his spot." "Let them cut the ballet." "It stinks anyway." "Be a sport." "I'm in a bind." "You're always in a bind in this flea-bitten trap." "I'm a strip woman, slob." "I don't do no scenes." "Now blow." "Have you ever heard of a first-class strip woman playin' scenes?" "When you play stock in a dump like this, I guess you gotta expect to get insulted." "The work is steady, isn't it?" "But you bring a new star in for each show, don't ya?" "Tessie, it's just a few lines." "Fat boy, save your bad breath." " I'll give you $10 extra." " No." "I can read lines." "Who are you?" "Rose Louise, of Rose Louise and Her Hollywood Blondes." "Just a minute." "What kind of lines?" " You in her act?" " Not exactly." " Shut up!" "How are your legs?" " Great!" "And I'll learn her the scenes." "Okay, $10." "It's money, Mama." "What kind of lines will she read out on that stage?" "The same burlesque junk that's been said since the year 1." " Say, where've you been all your life?" " Playin' vaudeville." "Where?" "In the Louvre?" "You name any town in the United States and we've played it." "My grandpa says we've covered the country like gypsies." "Well, you may be a gypsy, Rose Louise, but you're..." "Say, that ain't a bad name if you ever take up stripping'." "She won't." "No, but you'll let her feed lines to a bum comic for a lousy $10 a week." "That's training'." "She's gonna be a headliner." "This is only temporary." "Just as soon as we finish here she's goin' right back to vaudeville." "I better talk to Herbie about this." "We never do anything without consulting our artists' representative." "I'd like to consult your artists' representative." "That's a man." "He and Mama are gonna be married." "She better grab him or she's dumber than she looks." "Don't you start calling my mother dumb." "She's a lot smarter than any of you." "Listen, we gotta share a dressing room." "Let's smoke a peace pipe, okay?" "I'm willing." "I hope so." "Sharin' a dressing room is like sleepin' together, and if you don't get along..." "I'll thank you not to give the boss any notion that I would ever play scenes." "And one more disparaging remark about my ballet will find this bugle right in your eye." "Please!" "There's a lady present." "Where?" "Open your eyes instead of your mouth." "Gypsy, meet Miss Mazeppa, Miss Electra." "Say, you're even younger than I was when I started stripping'." "I'm not gonna strip." "Somethin' wrong with stripping'?" "No, I just meant I don't have any talent." "You think they have?" "I, myself, of course, was a ballerina." "But take it from me, to be a stripper all you need to have is no talent." "You'll pardon me but to have no talent is not enough." "What you need to have is an idea that makes your strip special." ""You can pull all the stops out" ""Till they call the cops out" ""Grind till you're fined or you're banned" ""But you gotta get a gimmick" ""If you wanna get a hand" ""You can sacrifice your sacro" ""Workin' in the back row" ""Bump in a dump till you're dead" ""Kid, you gotta get a gimmick" ""If you wanna get ahead" ""You can uh" ""You can uh You can uh, uh, uh" ""That's how burlesque was born" ""So I uh And I uh" ""And I uh, uh, uh" ""But I do it with a horn" ""Once I was a schlepper" ""Now I'm Miss Mazeppa" ""With my revolution in dance" ""You gotta have a gimmick" ""If you wanna have a chance" ""She can m'm, She can m'm" ""She can m'm, m'm, m'm" ""They'll never make her rich" ""Me, I uh And I uh" ""And I uh, uh, uh" ""But I do it with a switch" ""I'm electrifyin'" ""And I'm not even tryin'" ""I never have to sweat to get paid" ""'Cause if you got a gimmick" ""Gypsy girl, you got it made" ""All them m'm And them m'm" ""And them m'm, m'm, m'm" ""Ain't gonna spell success" ""Me, I m'm And I m'm" ""And I m'm, m'm, m'm" ""But I do it with finesse" ""Dressy Tessie Tura" ""Is so much more demure" ""Then all them other ladies because" ""You gotta get a gimmick" ""If you wanna get applause" ""Do something special" ""Anything that's fresh'll" ""Earn you a big fat cigar" ""You're more than just a mimic" ""When you got a gimmick" ""Take a look at how different we are" ""If you wanna make it" ""Twinkle while you shake it" ""If you wanna grind it" ""Wait tell you've refined it" ""If you wanna bump it" ""Bump it with a trumpet" ""So get yourself a gimmick" ""And you, too" ""Can be a star"" "Herbie." " Hello, Herbie." " Hello, Rose." "You win." "We've come to the end." "Guess we'd better make some new plans." "How about marrying' me?" "Sure." "Sure!" "Sure." "I love you, you know." "Yeah, I do." "Let's do it today." "Not while we're still in burlesque." " The day we close." " It's a deal." "Oh, Herbie." "I do, I do!" "So do I, Rose." "Come in." "I'll bet you thought I forgot, huh?" "Not Herbie!" "I remember everything, including the wedding bouquet, the finest in Wichita." "Thanks, Herbie." "They're knockouts, aren't they?" "They sure are knockouts, Herbie." "Hey, stop packing and talk to me!" "Gosh, this is the great day!" "I can't help it." "I'm nervous." "Why aren't you?" " I've never been so nervous." " You've never been married before." "You've never been married before like you'll be married this time." "She's a little sad, too." "You know, about the girls." "Rose, honey, I know what you're feelin'." "It ain't easy to give this up after all these years, but you'll never regret it." "I ought to shut up, but I can't help it." "I'm finally getting everything I ever wanted." "Including a fancy ceremony and bridesmaids." "What the minister will say when he sees all that Hollywood blonde hair I don't know." "I don't know." "Let's hope he's colorblind." "What difference does it make?" "All he has to ask in exactly one hour is:" ""Do you, Rose, take him, Herbie?"" "And you know what I'm gonna answer?" ""I, Rose, take you, Herbie. "" "Thank you." " I better get the bags in the car." " I don't know why I stay in this business!" " Lf it ain't one headache, it's another!" " They'll hear you out front." "It's my theater, ain't it?" "Last week, no talkin' woman." "The week before, no second banana." "If you knew that crazy broad wasn't here why'd you start the performance?" "She don't go on till next to closing'." "She said she was only goin' to the drugstore." " What'd they arrest her for?" " Shoplifting." "Cut the spot." "Rose, can we invite the minister for a drink afterwards?" "It's the star strip!" "Cut it!" "Mama, we could hang the cow's head over the mantelpiece." "They'll yell "murder" if it's the same bags they've seen the last eight weeks." " The star's the novelty." " Pastey, what do you expect me to do?" " Let you strip?" " No." " My daughter can do it." " What?" " Rose Louise." " Since when?" "Since she's seen how easy it is." " She didn't look bad in the scenes." " She'll look great when I fix her up!" " What's the gimmick?" " She's young and you got any better ideas?" "She'd better get ready now." "It's the star spot." " That means star salary." " Lf we keep her." "You will." "She's gonna be wonderful." "I knew somethin' would turn up." "Where's the dress you were making for Tessie?" "Lt'll work perfect for you." "Get into your makeup." "There isn't much time." "Silly, you aren't really gonna strip." "All you're gonna do is walk around the stage in time to the music and drop a shoulder strap at the end." "You're a lady, like Herbie says." "You'll parade so grand they'll think it's a favor if you even show 'em your knee." "Louise, it's the star spot." "I always promised my daughter we'd be a star." "Not like this." "You can't do it, Rose." "Herbie, it's all right to walk out when they want ya but we can't walk out when after all these years we're still a flop." "That's quittin'." "We can't quit because we're still a flop." "Please, do this." "Then we can leave proud because we made it." "Maybe only in burlesque." "Maybe only in second-rate burlesque at that, but..." "Let's walk away a star." "Baby." "No time to finish that dress." "I'll get everything ready." "Get the junk off this dress, the Tessie trim." "Herbie, see what the house is like." "Sure." "Sure, why not?" "Didn't I always tell you, you were born lucky, Louise?" "Not too much makeup, baby." "Young and girlish, pure." "Don't smear that junk on your face the way the others do!" "Just leave your mouth the way the good Lord made it." "Not too much rouge." "No beauty marks." "Grand, elegant, with a classy ladylike walk." "Ye gods, shoes!" "We can use the black ones." "The old ones that we borrowed from Tessie." "They'll have to do." "If they're too big, stuff 'em with paper." "Your hair's all wrong." "You can't just let it hang there like spaghetti." "Get it up, dear!" "And puff it out on top." "It's gotta be classy." "Thank God the Lord gave us good color and that you washed it this morning." "Do you think we should use a few feathers in it?" "No, that's what they all do." "Jewelry!" "No, let Tessie and the others wear all this vulgar junk." "Come in." " She ready?" " She'll be there." "She's on in seven minutes." "She'll be there." "Come on, Louise." "Get in the dress." "Come dear, come." "You're gonna be just wonderful, darling." "Go along, dear." "Here's your dress." "Keep a lot of pins in your hair." "Get it tight so it won't fall down." " Will you get out of here!" " Six and a half minutes." "I know, I know." "Say, whose are these?" "My wedding present from Tessie." "Good for a lady." "She can wear 'em." "Now what else?" "Music." "Music." "Spanish." "Military." "Cow." "Maybe she can do the Let Me Entertain You number." "Baby, you can do the Let me Entertain You number." "I'll mark it for the conductor to repeat two choruses slow." "No, two and a half." "And sing out, Louise!" "Just walk and dip." "Remember, you're a lady." "Make 'em beg for more and then don't give it to 'em." "Did I forget anything?" "Is that you, honey?" "How is the audience?" "It don't matter." "The car is outside and the girls are in it." "I'm just gonna put these bags in the car and then we're going." "You, Louise and me, we're gonna get married." " This is our farewell to show business." " Herbie, don't talk dumb." "Two performances, a lot of dollars, and she'll always remember she was a star." "You want your daughter to take off her clothes in front of a lot of hooting savages?" "You really want her to be ogled and leered at?" "When a star's onstage there's an invisible wall between her and the audience." "She's an artist." "An artist can keep her audience away and leave them smiling." "Listen, I'm getting sick to my stomach again." "Herbie, don't you see that I have to do this?" "No, I don't see that you have to do this!" "All I see is what I have to do." " I'm leaving." " I apologize." "No, let me!" "For my resemblance to a mouse." "No, a worm!" "The way I've crawled after you." "No more, Rose." "No more, I won't!" "I wanted to crawl away from you because my stomach turned over to think of coming back to tell you we're finished!" " Tell me after we're married." " We'll never be." " We certainly are." " No, no!" "No, never!" "Not even if you got down on your knees and begged." "Now look, I still love you, Rose." "But all the vows from here to doomsday couldn't make you a wife." "I want a wife, Rose!" "I'm gonna be a man if it kills me." " So you're killin' me." " Nobody can kill you." "You think I got a bulletproof vest?" "You're jealous, that's what you are." "Of my girls, 'cause they're always first." "They always did and they always will." "And Louise is gonna be a star!" "She's gonna be a star if it kills you and her." "She's gonna be a star someplace!" "While she's gonna be a star, where are you gonna be?" "Where will you be when she gets married?" "She won't get married for years." "She's just a baby." "Sure." " Anyway, her career'll always come first." " That's right." "That is right." "Herbie..." "Why does everybody walk out?" "Maybe Louise won't." "Don't leave, Herbie." "I need you." "What for?" "A million things." "Just one would be better." "Goodbye, honey." "Be a good girl." "You go to the devil!" "Get her music to the conductor and you better stand by me for the light cues." "I just hope you know what you're doin'." ""Lucky" ""You're a man who likes children" ""That's an important sign" ""Lucky" ""I'm a woman with children" ""Funny" ""Small and funny"" "I'll get the music to the leader." "Remember you're a lady." "And you are going to be a star!" "Mama I'm pretty." "I'm a pretty girl, Mama." "Come on, come on." "You look beautiful." " Just for luck, honey." " Are you nervous, baby?" " What?" " I said, "Are you nervous?"" "No, Mother." "Wichita's one and only burlesque theater presents:" "Mama!" "Gypsy Rose Lee!" "Her name's Louise." "It ain't anymore." "Go on, kid." ""Let me entertain you" ""Let me make you smile"" "Sing out, Louise!" "Sing out!" ""Let me do a few tricks" ""Some old and then some new tricks" ""I'm very versatile" ""And if you're real good" ""I'll make you feel good" ""I want your spirits to climb" ""So let me entertain you" ""And we'll have a real good time Yes, sir!" ""We'll have a real good time"" "Don't just walk, do something!" "Dip!" "Just dip!" "Take something' off!" ""Let me entertain you"" "A glove!" "Give 'em a glove!" ""And we'll have a real good time." "Yes, sir!" ""We'll have..." ""... a real good time!"" "The Alhambra Theater of Detroit is happy to present that lovely newcomer, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee!" "Philadelphia's Diamond Burlesque takes pleasure in presenting that lovely new star Miss Gypsy Rose Lee." "Hello everybody." "My name's Gypsy." "What's yours?" "Minsky's world famous burlesque takes great pride and pleasure in presenting the queen of the striptease the incomparable Miss Gypsy Rose Lee in our salute to the new year." ""Let me entertain you" ""Let me make you smile" ""Let me entertain you" ""We'll have a real good" ""And if you're real good" ""I'll make you feel good" ""I want your spirits to climb" ""Let me entertain you" ""And we'll have a real good time Yes, sir!" ""We'll have..." ""... a real good time!"" " Good evening, Mrs. Hovick." " Good evening." "Glad to see you." "If you are, you're the only one." "Who put that sign up on the blackboard?" "I do not know, madame." "I think it was probably a pleasantry." "I don't think it's a very pleasant pleasantry." "A cow!" "What's that for?" "That's a souvenir to remind some people where they came from which it wouldn't do any harm." "Renee, that comes down." "You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress not a cheap stripper." "My sister's the actress, Mother." "And I'm not a cheap stripper." "I'm the highest paid in the business." "You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back." "No, I'll be dead." " Renee, would you take this tray, please?" " I'll do it." "Mother, please." "And bring my press agent in as soon as he comes." "Oui, madame." "Since when do you fix your face before you have your bath?" "A photographer is coming." "Where's he going to photograph you, in the tub?" "Eventually." "Louise!" "Mother, it's for a very chic fashion magazine." "Do you think I oughta freshen up?" "They only want me in the tub." "I'll get it." "Hello." "Hello." "No, it's difficult right now." "I'm not leaving." "Let's meet at the party." "Yes." "Yes, I promise." "A bientôt." "A bien what?" "I guess I am being a little much but, Mama, I love it." "Who's givin' the party?" "Some friends." "In the old days, I used to be asked first." "I wouldn't go even if I did have somethin' to wear." "I got more important things to do." "Like thinking' up an idea for a new strip for us." "We're still stuck with that wind machine you bought to blow my clothes off." "Actually, I'm putting in a new number on Saturday." "What is it?" "You'll see." "I'll see!" "Mama, let me surprise you." "You're just one big surprise after another these days, aren't you?" "We'd better go shopping tomorrow for the material for your dress." "I have a French lesson tomorrow." "Well, I'll go alone." "You got any color in mind?" "Mother, I've already started to make the dress." "Well, I'll run your bath for you." "Mama, you don't have to." "That's what I have a maid for." "Let me do somethin', damn it!" "What, Mother?" "A million things." "I'm not a baby." "Neither am I!" "Don't take that tone with me, young lady." " Your sister..." " I am not my sister!" " You're not Louise either!" " Neither are you!" "Yes, I am!" "More than you, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee with your maids and press agents and fancy friends with their fancy parties." "Your loudmouth mother isn't invited to those high-tone parties." "They laugh at her." " They don't!" " They do." "Don't think I don't know that's one reason you don't want me backstage." "So I won't hear 'em laugh." "It's them you ought to keep out, not me!" "Because they're laughin' at you, too." "The burlesque queen who speaks lousy French and reads book reviews like they was books!" "Turn it off, Mother!" "You know what you are to them?" "A circus freak." "This year's novelty act." "And when the bill is changed you'll..." "I said, turn it off!" "Nobody laughs at me!" "Because I laugh first." "At me!" "Me, from Seattle!" "Me, with no education." "Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life!" "Well, Mama, look at me now." "I'm a star!" "Look!" "Look how I live!" "Look at my friends!" "Look where I'm going!" "I'm not staying in burlesque!" "I'm moving, maybe up, maybe down!" "But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it." "I'm having the time of my life!" "Because for the first time, it is my life!" "And I love it." "I love every second of it!" "And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me!" "I am Gypsy Rose Lee!" "And I love her!" "And if you don't, you can just clear out now!" "Your press agent is here with the photographer." "All right, tell him I'll be ready in a minute." "Mama, we can't go shouting seven performances of this a week." "The whole family shouts." "It comes from our living so near the railroad tracks." " I'm getting an ulcer." " You think I'm not?" "Yes, I think you're not!" "If you want an ulcer, get one of your own, 'cause you can't have mine!" "Let's forget it." "No, let's finish it." "I should go feed Chowsie." "Mama, you fought your whole life." "I wish you could just relax now." " You need more mascara on your left eye." " Mama, you've got to let go of me!" "Let go?" "I'll give you anything you want." "You need me." "A house, a farm, a school." "A dramatic school for kids." "You were always great with kids." "I'm a pro." "I'm not an old work horse you can turn out to pasture just because you think you're riding high on your own." "Mama, no kid does it all on his own." "I'm not a kid anymore." "And from now on, even if I flop I flop on my own." "Hey, Gyp, what do you say?" ""So long, Rose. " That's what she says." ""Don't slam the door as you leave. "" "Hi, Rose." "Gyps, baby, may I present Monsieur Bougeron-Cochet." " Enchantée, monsieur." " Enchanté, mademoiselle." "Excusez-moi." "Let's make with the oiseau, kiddies." "One before you take the plunge, Gyps." "Get ready now." "All right, miss, but just one thing I wanna know." "All the pushing and workin' and fenaglin' all the scrimpin' and the schemin' and lyin' awake nights figuring':" "How do we get from one town to the next?" "How do we all eat on a buck?" "How do I make an act out of nothin'?" "What did I do it for?" "You said I fought all my life." "I fought all your life." "So now, tell me, what did I do it for?" "I thought you did it for me, Mama." "Come on smile, Gyps." "Show us your talent." "That's it." ""I thought you did it for me, Mama. "" ""I thought you did it for me, Mama. "" "I thought you made a no-talent ox into a star because you like doin' things the hard way, Mama." "And you have no talent." "Not what I call talent, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee." "I made you." "I made you!" "And you wanna know why?" "You wanna know what I did it for?" "Because I was born too soon and started too late, that's why." "What I got in me..." "I could've been better than any of you." "What I got in me what I've been holdin' down inside of me if I ever let it go there wouldn't have been signs big enough." "There wouldn't have been lights bright enough." "Here she is, boys!" "Here she is, world!" "Here's Rose!" ""Curtain up" ""Light the lights" ""Play it, boys" ""You either got it or you ain't" ""And, boys, I got it" ""You like it?" ""Well, I got it" ""Some people got it and make it pay" ""Some people can't even give it away" ""This people's got it" ""And this people's spreadin' it around" ""You either have it, or you've had it"" "Hello, everybody." "My name's Rose." "What's yours?" "How do you like them egg rolls, Mr. Goldstone?" ""Hold your hats and hallelujah Mama's gonna show it to you" ""Ready or not Here comes Mama" ""Mama's talkin' loud Mama's doin' fine" ""Mama's gettin' hot Mama's goin' strong" ""Mama's movin' on Mama's all alone" ""Mama doesn't care Mama's lettin' loose" ""Mama's got the stuff Mama's lettin' go" ""Mama, Mama" ""Mama's got the stuff Mama's gotta move" ""Mama's gotta go" ""Mama, Mama" ""Mama's gotta let go" ""Why did I do it?" ""What did it get me?" ""Scrapbooks full of me in the background" ""Give 'em love and what does it get you?" ""What does it get you?" "One quick look as each of 'em leaves you" ""All your life and what does it get you?" ""Thanks a lot And out with the garbage" ""They take bows And you're batting' zero" ""I had a dream" ""I dreamed it for you, June" ""It wasn't for me, Herbie" ""And if it wasn't for me" ""Just where would you be" ""Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" ""Well, someone tell me When is it my turn?" ""Don't I get a dream for myself?" ""Startin' now, it's gonna be my turn" ""Gangway, world, Get off of my runway" ""Startin' now, I bat a thousand" ""This time, boys, I'm takin' the bows" ""And everything's comin' up Rose" ""Everything's comin' up roses" ""Everything's comin' up roses" ""This time for me" ""For me" "Just tryin' out a few ideas I thought you might wanna use." "You'd really have been something, Mother." "Think so?" "If you had had someone to push you like I did." "If I could have been, I would have been." "That's show business." "About that school for kids, like you said." "I could open one, but kids grow up." "Anyway, I guess I did it for myself." "Why, Mother?" "Just wanted to be noticed." "Like I wanted you to notice me." "I still do, Mama." "Louise." "Okay, Mama." "Okay, Rose." "Say, you look like you should speak French." "You're coming to that party with me." "No." "Come on." "Like this?" "Here, you can wear my mink." "I've got a stole in the car." "Well only for an hour or two." "Say this looks better on me than on you." "Funny how we can wear the same size." "Especially in mink." "You know, I had a dream last night." "It was a big poster of a mother and daughter." "You know, like the cover of that ladies' magazine." "Yes, Mother." "Only it was you and me, wearing exactly the same gown." "It was an ad for Minsky and the headline said:" ""Madame Rose..." ""... and her daughter Gypsy!""

"Then I took it out to eat it." "It was... this big." "Yellow, tasty looking sponge cake." "I held it in my bosom all day." "Then I saw a girl carrying her sister on her back." "Looked obvious they were starving." "So pale, weak and helpless" "I turned away to eat it." "But I ended up giving it to them." "It must've been warm since" "I carried it around all day." "I didn't know if I'll ever have cake like that again." "She gobbled it down and shoved some in her sisters mouth." "Think God will remember that?" "Though its been 30 years?" "Absoposilutely." "Remembering is His specialty." "Of course." "That song, Father Can you play it for me, again?" "You can do CPR, right?" "Go!" "Stop!" "Again!" "200 Joules." "Charge." "Those who seek direct communication with God are prone to self-hatred..." "The Devil will eat right into you." "As St. Bruno said, 'Suicide is to die a martyr for Satan.'" "It's worse than first degree murder." "It's worth a life sentence..." "in hell." "20 Hail Mary's, get lots of sun and take a cold shower." "Get Gods help through science and take some anti-depressants" "Stop thinking about killing yourself." "And... forget the bastard who dumped you." "Father..." "I'll deal with the bastards and the worldly matters." "You just stick to praying, Father." "Ask the bishop to send me to Emmanuel Labs, please?" "The Vatican does not approve of that experiment." "Sarah died on Monday even after 8 surgeries." "Hyo-sung went into a coma yesterday." "It kills me to watch them dying." "No one knows what really goes on at that lab." "I want to save people." "I told you to go to med school since you were in the crib, study ophthalmology, and heal my eyes." "But Father, I must go and..." "Enough!" "I'll just give you absolution." "Stick to the confession!" "Geeze!" "Dear patients, I regret not seeing you before I left." "I was busy preparing for my sudden vacation." "I packed a bunch of things." "But they say to bring my body only." "The monastery prepared a luxurious hotel for me." "Fr." "Emmanuel Memorial Biochemical Labs At times like this I'm glad I joined The Order." "EV, namely Emmanuel Virus." "When infected with it, the symptoms are..." "First, blisters start to form at the limbs, then around the lips eyelids, inside the nose, then spreads to the middle of the body through the respiratory and digestive tracts" "The blisters cluster together get bigger, and burst open." "If the lesions form in the muscles, it can form big ulcers and will hemorrhage." "If it reaches the internal organs, the patient will start coughing up a lot of blood, and eventually die of excessive bleeding." "There is no cure." "So if you were to get infected during the experiment... all is lost." "Now." "Instead of the usual answer." "What is your real purpose for volunteering for this experiment?" "On occasion, some people come here thinking prayer is useless." "And with the intent to commit a 'dramatic suicide'." "That is very discouraging for us." "By nature... it's hard to distinguish the state of mind of those who want martyrdom or suicide." "I expect you're not someone like that are you?" "Are you sure about this?" "My prayers work fine." "Please look at the camera and speak." "Since Father Emmanuel isolated the virus, there's not been one African among the 600 victims." "They've all been Caucasians or Asians." "And over 80% of them have been missionaries, namely single males." "That's why the people here call the disease the 'Curse of Bazira'." "Bazira is the goddess of widows." "First, we administer the vaccine we have developed, then an inactive EV inside the body." "Then we observe if the vaccine functions properly." "Grant me the following in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" "Like a leper rotting in flesh, let all avoid me." "Like a cripple without limbs, let me not move freely." "Remove my cheeks, that tears may not roll down them." "Crush my lips and tongue, that I may not sin with them." "Pull out my nails that I may grasp nothing." "Let my shoulders and back be bent that I may carry nothing." "Like a man with tumor in the head let me lack judgment." "Ravage my body sworn to chastity leave me with no pride, and have me live in shame." "Let no one pray for me." "But only the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me." "A month has gone by already." "Watching the grand view through the window is more fun than TV." "The hotel owner gave me her best room, saying I'm handsome." "Thanks to all the sunlight my skin is tanned and peeling." "Time of death, 3:31 p.m." "Grant me the following in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." "Like a leper rotting in flesh, let all avoid me." "Like a cripple without limbs..." "His skin... let me not move freely... 6 months later" "Touch my leg, Father!" "Please pray for me, Father!" "Please, Father?" "My daughter has leukemia!" "I heard... people are coming to seek prayers from The Bandaged Saint?" "Don't know how that nonsense started." "Though I did hear of some people getting cured." "Guess it can have a psychological effect." "After all, you're the only one who survived out of 50 volunteers." "Right?" "Wow!" "You're so lucky!" "Are you the miracle survivor out of 500?" "My son has cancer!" "Please pray for him!" "It's just a psychological effect There's nothing I can do." "Channel 9 won't come on, Mom." "Let's pray kids." "Did you ever live in Busan?" "We are gathered here to pray for Kang-woo." "Born under Your grace and love, embracing even a wounded street dog... he was a kind hearted boy." "Remember his goodness and have mercy on him." "In Jesus' name we pray." " Amen." " Amen." "I don't believe in this but since it's from an old friend..." "Now, I recognize you, son." "Sorry." "You're a Father, now." "I'm sorry, Father." "You used to come over for noodles." "Fifth grade, right?" "You lived at the church orphanage?" "My son could never pass stray cats and was so good to the orphans." "Your sister was so shy and ran out whenever I came over." "She had calluses on her feet and Kang-woo made me touch them." "Her parents rented a small room in our house." "Her father was a high school dropout." "This is my bloodshed for you so that sins may be forgiven." "One day, they left her in my room and said they'd be back soon." "But they never came back!" "So I took the three-year-old in and raised her like a daughter and puppy." "Happy Hanbok Shed call me 'mommy'" "I'm her mommy-in-law, now." "Marriage was no big deal." "She just moved from sleeping in my bed to Kang-woo's." "Why'd you buy the laver at that place again, Mom?" "I told you it's no good and the owner's a cocksucker" "You hate Kimbap?" "No, I'm sensitive to smell these days." "I suddenly got a whiff of blood." "Kang-woos home." " Mom, I caught a cold!" " What?" "Hi, Sang-hyun!" "I told you to wear your long johns." " Were here, too" " Welcome." "My friend the priest." "This is our dam's manager and his wife." "It's an honor, Father I'm Young-du" "She's a Filipina so she's Catholic." "Say hello, Evelyn." " Tae-ju!" " How've you been?" "Here comes the Police Chief!" "Please, I quit the force a long time ago." "He's the dam's security head This is Fr." "Hyun, Sang-hyun" "Hello." "Do you like fishing Father?" "Get on his good side and you can fish there though its banned." "Daytimes a bit tricky." "Come by at nights." " Have a seat, Father" " Let's get started." "Koreans don't appreciate Mahjong." "Would you like to play, Father?" " Sorry." "I don't know how" " I see." "Did I tell you about Father Hyun praying for Kang-woo?" "I was standing right next to my son." "Suddenly, I felt something hot come down on my head." "I felt tingly all over like someone was poking me with needles." "Then my boy said 'It feels hot right here, Mom.'" "Then the cancer vanished." "It vanished?" "You always feel tingly cuz of your blood pressure." "But I did a biopsy just in case." "The endoscope showed it was esophagus cancer." "Women shouldn't get sedated endoscopes." "Doctors secretly rape them." "I win!" "Three closed triplets!" "That's 8 points." "Can we turn the heater down?" "But I'm cold." "Kang-woo says he's cold!" "Thank you very much." "I'm losing so much." "Instead of the hot water bag!" "I'm going down to get the lights in the store." "Don't you love our Mahjong gang?" "Wednesdays." "Mercury." "Water." "Oasis!" "How's that for our gang's name?" "She's a Catholic Veronica." "She was in a bad hit-and-run." "Lost a lot of blood." "She doesn't have much time." "Let this water call to mind your baptismal sharing... in Christ's redeeming passion and resurrection." "Veronica." "Make your confession." "By the power the apostolic See has given me in the name of the..." "Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I grant you a plenary indulgence and... pardon for all your sins." "Amen." "Through this holy anointing... may the Lord in his love and mercy help you... with the grace of the Holy Spirit." "And... may the Lord who frees you from sin... save you and raise you up." "Amen." "Where'd you wander off to this time?" "I woke up I was at the pharmacy." "And some man walked past." "Aren't there pills for sleepwalking?" "I should lock your room from the outside." "Should've got me pills for my cold." "Weren't you cold?" "You never catch a cold." "She's a Yeti, Mom." "Smells like when you had gastritis." "I'll go find the pills." "Must you do this to believe me?" "Don't grab my heart so hard." "When I drank Hyo-sung's blood... the blisters disappeared." "It's as if the vampire cells suppressed EV." "But, it doesn't last very long." "Father..." "I didn't choose the blood that was transfused into me!" "You know I went there to do good!" "Now, I thirst after all sinful pleasures." "But how can I get human blood without killing!" "First..." "The Lord said not to worry about what to eat." "For He feeds even the birds in the sky." "Here." "I think I won." "Small four winds!" "Closed, half flush, bonus 3 points!" "30 bucks!" "You lose!" "Some priest." "From Macao or something?" "He's the only one who survived out of 500." "500, yeah right." "When did you go out?" "I didn't see you." "It's ah..." "kind of an infectious disease." "Scary, isn't it?" "How different..." "without his glasses." "How can you get infected?" "Not through a kiss for sure." "I never kissed anyone in my life." "Until now." "I don't get shy." "I didn't run out cuz I'm shy." "Back in Busan..." "It's cuz I was sick of everything." "The mom, idiot son, and the dark, damp house." "The non-stop weepy, old songs." "I waited for you to come." "The orphanage boy..." "I waited for you... when I was young... cuz the idiot liked you." "When you came, he left me alone." "I'm not a shy person." "I run out on my bare feet... to escape from this hell sooner." "I even run out from my sleep." "They think its sleepwalking." "I feel awake only then and asleep the rest of the time." "Honey!" "Tae-ju!" "Hot water bag!" "Tae-ju?" "Tae-ju!" "You bitch!" "There she goes again." "I fed you and raised you!" "Go put her to bed!" "You can't even change your husband's hot water bag?" "How dare you!" "I win." "Let go!" "Stomach troubles?" "What took you so long?" "Eat up other's money and you'll get diarrhea." "What's got into you?" "This looks fun." "So exciting to touch." "I could do it all night, too." "You don't even know how to do it." "Me?" "I know how to do it." "I'm good." "They are on fire!" "I can't wait till next Wednesday." "Then how about Sundays, too?" "Why not?" "Well..." "It's Easter Sunday I'm staying at the hospital." "It's best to leave things in wanting." "Mom..." "I... can't live like this anymore." "I..." "I want to help the needy." "Maybe I can volunteer at a hospital or something." "On Sundays." "Thank you for coming." "Don't come again." "But I came to help the needy." "It's a bigger sin for a priest." "I'm not Catholic." "To me, you're just a needy, single man." "We can both go to hell for this." "I don't have faith I'm not going to hell." "But I..." "I have a terrible disease." "I'm too damn healthy." "Just once, I wish I could be sick in bed." "It's okay." "Hyo-sung's in a coma." "Unless his vitals drop no one will come in here at nights." "Sorry, I hurt you." "No, it's good." "It's strange, but good." "Is it supposed to feel this good?" "What's wrong with me?" "Are other women like this?" "Am I a pervert?" "Did you eat?" "Ah, yes." "Can we meet during the day next week?" "Daytimes a bit..." "We could be together longer." "I don't want to keep my disease a secret from you." "I am... a kind of a..." "I don't kill anyone you know." "Hyo-sung..." "He loved helping the hungry." "He'd offer me his blood, if he wasn't in a coma." "If you only heard the sponge cake story." "No one blames someone for getting hurt in an accident!" "No one gets criticized for having cancer!" "I went there to do good!" "So what if I'm a vampire?" "Did you like me cuz I'm a priest?" "It's not that, is it?" "That's just my job." "Being a vampire is like having different palates... or different biorhythms don't you think?" "When two people are in love, does it really matter?" "No, what I mean is..." "You hate that I'm a vampire?" "Think I could've slept with you if I wasn't?" "How could I have sex with you?" "As just a priest?" "Come with me." "I'll take you away from this hell." "You liked doing it with me Kang-woo's no fun." "Tae-ju?" "What's going on?" "The toilet's not flushing." "It's going down now." "Closing time." "Hello?" "How can... someone become a vampire?" "Can you catch it through sex?" "Can you turn me into one?" "Vampires are..." "cuter than I thought." "Can you bend this?" "What for?" "Can you jump down from here?" "Too high?" "I'm ready." "Did Kang-woo do that?" "Does he hurt you often?" "Not often..." "Want me to rip him up like that coin?" "I lived as their dog my whole life... feeding the idiot, washing him and even helping him masturbate." "You know..." "I'm practically a virgin." "He's..." "Does it hurt?" "Can't you volunteer somewhere else?" "Mental hospitals are so scary." "Drink it." "Can't you go back to the lab?" "Ask if there's any way for a cure?" "Sunlight is bound to hit me on my way there." "Sunlight..." "I wish I can see the sunrise over the sea before I die." "What are you thinking!" "Vampires can't see the sunlight!" "I don't care if it's at night." "The moon, the stars and even a firefly..." "Be the miracle worker!" "Make the blind see!" "Give me the vampire blood!" "It even killed EV!" "Please, Sang-hyun!" "Come here!" "Sang-hyun!" "Father Hyun!" "Please!" "Just a little bit, please?" "I'm no longer a priest nor a friar." "Forget the rules!" "Forget the Vatican!" "I'm leaving!" "Father Hyun!" "Father Hyun!" "I don't know why you wandered astray." "But I know you'll get through this." "I took pity on you when you were young." "We had you over for noodles." "You can stay here as long as you want." "Thank you." "Tae-ju..." "She's really good at heart." "I'm giving the shop and everything to her." "Did I do it too hard?" "It's perfect." "One more time, then?" "Good night." "Sweet dreams." "Get out!" "Go!" "Hurry!" "Go!" "Someone will see you!" "No!" "Don't!" "* The seagulls flying in the distance..." "* I called, but no response." "* O, my hometown by the waters where bright blue stars glisten... * in my dreams full of sorrow." "Remember Tae-ju when she was young?" "Wasn't she cute?" "When she was 12 she woke me up and showed me her panties." "Said she peed blood." "Cuz mom worked her day and night with needlework." "We cried together all night." "Planning on taking all night?" "It's only 9 o'clock." "The hospital and police questioning will take hours." "What if the sun comes up?" "I said, no!" "Just a little bit?" "They'll find out with an autopsy!" "Why go somewhere else for blood?" "We have blood right here." "Put the knife down." "Yeah, put it down." "No!" "Don't come near me!" "One female." "Unconscious." "Well be going soon." "Don't mention that I let you fish here." "I'll take care of everything." "Father Hyun..." "Father..." "He became ill again for our sins!" "Grant me the following in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." "Like a leper rotting in flesh, let all avoid me." "Like a cripple without limbs let me not move freely." "Remove my cheeks that tears may not roll down them." "There was a house at the bottom of the lake." "A submerged village." "I thought he was dead." "But when I went up he'd float up, too." "So I put him in a closet in the house and a big rock on his chest." "What if he comes out and chases me?" "I should've put a rock at the closet door, too." "Death is the end." "Right Father?" "When you're dead, you're dead?" "See?" "Vampires are not immortal." "You still want my blood?" "You want to see this dark world that badly?" "You live on other's blood but won't give me a drop of yours!" "Give me absolution and I'll give it to you." "God the Father of mercies, has reconciled the world to himself through the death and resurrection of his Son... and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins;" "through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace... and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father... and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." "Amen." "Let us praise the Lord." "The Lord's mercy endures forever." "The Lord has forgiven your sins." "Go home and rest." "You must be tired." "She's my only friend." "I know she'll get better if you pray for her." "Please." "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." "Amen." "I pray to Tae-ju." "Please wake up and listen to my prayer." "I said Kang-woo was drunk from a bottle of So-ju." "So say the same to the cops." "When this is all over we will be together." "We must not meet for a while." "Though my face may seem cold and rigid... my heart only beats for you." "When we meet again I believe we'll finally be happy." "Father?" "Doing it this way... feels like III live on inside you." "Stop all the... thinking, longing." "The police needs the body to close the case." "Kang-woo couldn't swim, Mrs. Ra You gotta move on with your life." "Kang-woo can swim." "Father Hyun's still not taking calls?" "It must've been a big shock." "Still, he could've come to the funeral." "Kang-woo!" "Kang-woo!" "I'm Sang-hyun, Ma'am." "I know I'm all wet but..." "My poor baby." "What took you so long?" "Why didn't you call?" "Bastard!" "You son of a bitch!" " Mrs. Ra!" " Mrs. Ra!" "Wake up Mrs. Ra!" "Drink this, Mrs. Ra!" "This is why we should all watch our blood pressures." "Watch our drinking." "And stay away from salty foods." "Let's give Mrs. Ra our positive energy, Oasis-style." "Starting with Tae-ju." "Mom..." "How long's it been?" "Why are you so wet?" "What?" "Is there a leak?" "Whys it so damp?" "Come here and stop imagining things." "It's all psychological." "Stop making a fuss and will you come here?" "Was he here, too?" "He?" "Who?" "* Seagulls flying in the distance..." "Don't fall for it." "It's all just an illusion." "It's just psychological." "You're going?" "How can someone do it five times, straight?" "Mom never once threw me a birthday party." "How dare you!" "But she always gave me plenty to eat." "Then thank her." "Thank you." "Can't you go to that detective?" "Aren't you thirsty these days?" "I'll throw you a birthday party this year." "Really?" "The first birthday party in my life?" "But..." "I don't know when my birthday is." "But who made you boss?" "Telling me this and that and hitting me around." "Kang-woo never laid a hand on me." "Did Kang-woo... beat you or not?" "Why does that matter?" "That's why he died!" "Don't make excuses!" "You would've killed him anyway." "So you can have me for yourself." "Do you know how hard I tried not to kill people?" "You can't even begin to imagine!" "A blood thirsty beast is growling inside me!" "But I tiptoed around afraid to hurt anyone." "I killed him cuz of you." "To save you." "To save me?" "Then why am I living a nightmare?" "I stay up trembling at the thought of your cold hand touching me." "How did this happen?" "Mom!" "Mom!" "I'm done for." "He's going to kill me." "Poor Kang-woo..." "My poor, dear mom..." "You treated that devil like a son and this is what you get?" "Did I do it alone?" "It was your idea." "No!" "It was his idea!" "He said he'll kill the mother and son!" "Honest!" "I'm sorry." "Please forgive me." "We were a happy family of three till you infested us!" "You're a germ!" "You said I was cute, you cunt!" "Mommy, mommy..." "Look at me." "You can't die like this." "Mom." "Tell me you forgive me." "Mom..." "Look at me." "If you forgive me blink once." "Just one blink?" "Please?" "Just once?" "Please?" "Let's go!" "That devil will suck all the blood out of you, too!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Stay back you devil!" "I want to go to Kang-woo." "Kill me, please." "You want to go?" "Go to your husband?" "Really?" "Happy birthday, Tae-ju." "Completely white just like daylight." "That's a good girl." "From now on, we wear shoes inside the house like in the States." "Cuz I'm in charge, now." "You have to sleep during the day, too." "And eat at night..." "Did you just move?" "Watch TV while I'm out." "A scary movies gonna be on." "I'm not ashamed at all!" "I told you!" "III get the blood!" "Stealing from the hospital?" " There's more." " What?" "I'm helping people who want to commit suicide." "I know many people like that from listening to confessions." "If I run out, I'll find more through the Internet." "They face death more peacefully if I help them." "If they just give it to you, what fun is that?" "It tastes much better this way." "How many has to die for your taste?" "Maybe around 500?" "How's that, Father?" "I told you I'm not a Father anymore!" "Oh dear, the Father is mad." "Stop acting so humane!" "You're not even human." "Then what are we?" "We're human-eating beasts that's what!" "Is it a sin for a fox to eat a chicken?" "Don't make me regret saving you." "Kill me or save me you'll regret either way." "We're through!" "I dump him and he drops me like this?" "You're the only one I've got, now." "You said women are safe from EV." "Your blood is completely mixed with mine." "Then, I'm no longer a woman?" "Hold on." "I'll get a doctor." "Hello?" "How do you feel..." "Tae-ju..." "What day is it today?" "The eyes are so telling." "They can express everything between yes and no." "What good is just a yes or no?" "You need a subject and verb to communicate." "The subject is what's being stared at." "If you stare at something for over 4 seconds... others will automatically turn to look, too." "Is that a published theory?" "Haven't had the chance yet." "I'm an expert at reading the eyes after 2 years of marriage" "That's why her Korean's not improving." "Can you tell what mom's saying?" "That's what I'm talking about!" "Tae-ju just saw me peek over at Mrs. Ra." "She knew what I was going to say, before I said it." "By glancing at my eyes." "Mrs. Ra said I'd win if I took this piece." "And that she wants some Vodka." "Vodka!" "I win!" "Closed, Self-draw, bonus 3 points," "Big three dragons!" "See that?" "Thank you, Mrs. Ra." "You want to play that bad?" "How about teaming her up with Evelyn?" "If you blink it means 'yes'." "A long blink means 'no'." "Okay?" "Blink if you understand." "Throw it away." "Mrs. Ra is back!" "Evelyn?" "Vodka." "'D'." "'D', what?" "You can move your finger, mom?" "What's wrong with your nail?" "'L' It's another letter!" "What?" "'L, D'." "Or 'D, L'?" "'D' comes last, 'LD'." "Maybe she wants the 'LCD' on?" "There's probably a 'C' somewhere." "'C'..." "Found it!" " 'K'!" " 'K'?" "L. D. K?" "Ladies Delaying, Killing the game." "'D' comes last!" "'KLD'!" "Mrs. Ra, it's 'DKL', right?" "She says, no." "'KLD'?" "'KILLED'?" "I'm right?" "See?" "It's 'KILLED'!" "Whatever, let's keep the game alive." " Whose turn is it?" " Killed who?" "Mahjong brings back memories of Kang-woo?" "Mom... it's not your fault." "He didn't die cuz of you." "Stop playing and go to bed." "Tae-ju's so strong." "Stop torturing yourself" "Look at me, Mrs. Ra." "It was an accident." "No one killed Kang-woo." "It's not like Tae-ju and Sang-hyun killed..." "Selfish humans." "Bastards coming to play Mahjong with a grieving family" "What?" "Why you little shit." "I'm leaving, cuz shit smells not scares." "Honey!" "No!" "Oh, Young-du." "Young-du!" "Stop it." "You easy-blood drinking coward." "It's cuz he's dead and the heart stopped pumping." "Cut off the ankles and... hang them over the bathtub and let gravity do the rest." "We can put the blood in Tupperware and keep it in the fridge" "I thought of using a motor pump but this works best." "Sucking a little and throwing the body away is treating life too lightly, isn't it?" "Evelyn..." "How could I have made all those Kimbaps without you?" "It's over now." "Happy?" "Tae-ju." "Listen to me carefully." "Why do I have to run away?" "From my own house?" "Wont they search the house when they find the 4 people missing?" "They'll come in here without dusting off their shoes?" "Search the house, open the cabinet and open the curtains..." "Then we'll die?" "What are you doing?" "You already had your fill." "Where are we going?" "Where are you going?" "The sun's coming up!" "Didn't you have your fill from Evelyn?" "I wanted to live with you forever and ever." "Together again in hell then." "When you're dead, you're dead." "It's been fun, Father."

"Subtitles downloaded from Podnapisi.NET" "Who are you?" "CASTIEL:" "Castiel." "I'm an angel of the Lord." "I gripped you tight and raised you from perdition." "Hi, Dean." "It's me, Lilith." "You are not real." "What's the matter, Dean?" "Don't you remember all the fun you had down there?" "Somebody help me!" "Hello again, Dean." "Don't you recognize me?" "But we were so close in hell." "Alastair." "They sliced carved and tore me in ways that you...." "And Alastair would make me an offer to take me off the rack if I started the torture." "And every day I told him to stick it where the sun shines." "For 30 years I told him." "But then I couldn't do it anymore, Sammy." "And I got off that rack, and I started ripping them apart." "I lost count of how many souls." "[MUSIC PLAYS ON TV]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "Following the Civil War the eyes of the nation turned to the West where outposts like Fort Bellows served as" "[ELECTRICITY BUZZES]" "Come on." "Crap." "What the hell?" "Man." "You?" "It's impossible." "Just stay away from me." "Just stay away from me!" "[SCREAMS]" "What are you doing?" "What's it look like I'm doing?" "Like you're looking for a job." "Yahtzee." "We just finished a job like two hours ago." "Adrenaline's still pumping, I guess." "So, what do you think?" "Cedar Rapids, Tulsa or Chi-Town?" "I am all for working, I really am but you've got us chasing cases nonstop for like a month now." "We need sleep." "We can sleep when we're dead." "You're exhausted, Dean." "I'm good." "No, you're not." "You're running on fumes, and you can't run forever." "What am I running from?" "From what you told me." "Or are we pretending that never happened?" "Stratton, Nebraska." "Farm town." "Man gets hacked to death in a locked room inside a locked house." "No signs of forced entry." "Sounds like a ghost." "Yes, it does." "Boy, three bedrooms, two baths, one homicide." "This place is gonna sell like hotcakes." "Hey, check this out." "Huh." "It's probably a dumbwaiter." "All these old houses had them." "Know-it-all." "What?" "What?" "You said...." "What?" "Never mind." "No blood stains, fresh coat of paint." "It's a bunch of bubkes." "[DEVICE CRACKLING]" "SAM:" "Needle's all over the place." "You got power lines." "Great." "So...." "Ugh." "Well, that's super disturbing." "Think it got left behind?" "By who?" "Unless Bill Gibson likes to play with doll heads." "[AUTOMOBILES APPROACHING]" "SAM:" "Uh-oh." "You said this place was still for sale." "Apparently it's not." "Come on, Buster." "Good dog." "What do you think?" "It's nice, right?" "Did anyone bother to check if we get a signal out here?" "Actually, I did, Kate." "But we decided to move anyway just to ruin your life." "Come on, let's unpack." "Uncle Ted, please back me up here." "TED:" "The kid's right, Bri." "You're ruining her life." "See?" "Thanks for the help, Uncle Ted." "Calling it like I see it, buddy." "Hey." "What?" "Be nice." "I am nice." "What do you think?" "We do okay?" "I don't know." "Who are they?" "Can I help you?" "SAM:" "Are you the new owner?" "Yeah." "You guys are...?" "This is Mr. Stanwyck." "I'm Mr. Babar." "County Code Enforcement." "We had the building inspected last week." "Is there a problem?" "Asbestos in the walls, a gas leak." "Yeah, I'd say we got a problem." "Asbestos?" "Meaning what?" "Meaning until this house is up to code, it's uninhabitable." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "You're saying we can't stay here?" "It's a health hazard." "You don't want to." "Hold up." "We just drove 400 miles." "There's a motel just down the road." "Till this gets cleaned up, I suggest you stay there." "All right, and what if we don't?" "Well, you get a fine or you go to jail." "Pick your poison." "One night." "One night, and then I'll take care of everything ASAP, I promise." "Yeah, you do that." "Another motel?" "Awesome, Dad." "I hope this one has hooker sheets like the last one." "SUSAN:" "Danny." "BRIAN:" "Come on, Danny." "What did the room look like when you found it, Mrs. Curry?" "I already told the local boys, there was blood everywhere." "And Mr. Gibson?" "Where was he?" "Everywhere." "How long have you been cleaning Mr. Gibson's house?" "Five years." "So you knew him pretty well." "Well, not really well." "He was real private." "Not the easiest man." "Not that I blame him." "What do you mean?" "His wife dies in childbirth, daughter hangs herself 20 years later." "I'd be bitter too." "I think I got some pictures." "Here." "DEAN:" "Thanks." "Can we keep these?" "Suit yourself." "Now, why'd the daughter kill herself?" "I don't know." "That was before my time." "You ever notice anything odd in the house when you were cleaning?" "Like what?" "You know, like lights going on and off or things not being where you left them?" "No." "Well, maybe there was one thing." "What's that?" "Well, sometimes I thought I heard like a rustling in the walls." "Like a rat?" "Yeah." "Well, must have been some big sons of guns out there, huh?" "Wouldn't know." "Never saw any." "Do you know where Mrs. Gibson and her daughter were buried?" "They were both cremated." "All right, so it probably wasn't the mom or the daughter." "Whose ghost was it?" "I don't know." "I say we give that place a real once-over and see." ""Code Enforcement," my ass." "There's no asbestos." "You sure?" "Hell, yes." "I've built enough homes to know that." "There's no gas leak either." "Who were those guys?" "Not from the county, I can tell you that." "Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I just thought I saw something, that's all." "It's gonna be great here, Kate." "It really is." "Yeah, Mom." "I'm sure." "Everything's gonna change." "SUSAN:" "Danny, are you unpacking?" "Uh, yeah, I'm almost finished." "Hello?" "It's okay." "I'm Danny." "Hi." "SUSAN:" "Zucchini will grow, but the soil is too acidic for beets." "Do you understand any of this?" "Can you smell that?" "[GROANS]" "That." "Smells like a raccoon died up there or something." "That's pleasant." "Thank you." "Can I continue having a conversation with myself?" "I'm listening." "Uh, vegetable garden." "What are we doing, Bri?" "What do you mean?" "Us." "On a farm." "Talking about zucchini." "It's gonna be different." "I promise you." "We're gonna be happy." "And if we're not?" "We will be." "We have to be." "I can't put the kids through another year like the last." "Crap." "So, what now?" "We could tell them the truth." "Really?" "No, not really." "Hey, guys." "You're gonna wanna come see this." "What the...?" "Crayon." "Danny!" "DANNY:" "Yeah?" "Get your butt down here." "Tell you what." "If my kid did this" "He's not your kid, Ted." "Just butt out." "Hey, go easy on him." "His teacher said he might act out." "BRIAN:" "Hey, buddy." "Something you wanna tell me and your mom?" "I didn't do that." "Okay." "Look, just tell me the truth, and all you gotta do is clean it up, okay?" "No punishment." "But I didn't." "The girl in the walls did it." "The girl in the walls?" "She wants you to go and me to stay." "All right, one last time." "The truth, buddy." "That is the truth." "I can stay, but she hates grown-ups." "If you don't leave, she's gonna get really mad." "All right, go to your room." "Mom!" "If Andy were here, he'd believe me." "Upstairs." "Now." "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "[PANTING]" "It's okay, Buster, it's okay." "I hate it here too." "[LICKING]" "Ugh." "Ew, Buster, gross." "What's the matter with you?" "Oh, my God." "Oh, God." "[SCREAMS]" "Ew!" "BRIAN:" "Katie, baby." "Calm down and tell us what happened." "I just got molested by Casper the Pervy Ghost, that's what." "Ghost?" "Yes, Dad, a ghost." "It's the girl in the walls." "Who?" "Okay, both of you, knock it off." "[KNOCKING]" "We heard screams." "What's going on?" "You two." "Did you touch my daughter?" "What?" "No." "BRIAN:" "Who are you guys?" "SAM:" "Relax, please." "You have a ghost." "A ghost." "I told you." "It's the girl." "Both of you, relax." "What are you guys playing at?" "Your family is in danger." "You need to get out of the house now." "What the hell?" "Nobody move." "[BUSTER WHINING]" "Buster!" "Buster!" "Buster!" "Buster!" "Buster!" "What the hell?" "Buster!" "Go back inside." "Go." "We are not the bad guys, but you're in danger." "First things first, you gotta get your family out of here." "Head to the motel I was talking about." "You'll be safe there." "What are you two gonna do?" "Oh, no." "Oh, come on." "Oh, come on!" "Dude, the guns are gone." "So's the...." "Basically everything is gone." "The truck's no good." "Both tires slashed." "What kind of ghost messes with a man's wheels?" "What's going on?" "[SCREAMING]" "She's there!" "She's there!" "SUSAN:" "Where?" "She was right there in the woods." "What's a ghost doing outside?" "You wanna stay and find out?" "Everybody inside." "Are you crazy?" "We need to get the hell out of here." "In what?" "This ghost is hunting us." "Everybody back inside now." "Move." "Whatever's outside, it can't get in this circle." "As long as the salt line is unbroken, this is the safest place to be." "Safe from ghosts?" "Yes, as a matter of fact." "Okay, I'm not listening to this anymore." "Come on." "I gotta get my family out." "Let's go." "Nobody's going until we kill this." "Sir, please, this is what we do." "Just trust us." "You hunt ghosts?" "That's right." "Like Scooby-Doo?" "Better." "SAM:" "You saw her outside, right?" "Okay, does she look like either one of these girls?" "Her." "She was paler and a lot dirtier, but that was her." "That's the girl in the walls." "So it was the daughter?" "That girl in the picture, she's dead?" "She killed herself inside this house." "So, what, the maid got her story wrong?" "Rebecca wasn't cremated?" "SAM:" "Unless her spirit's attached to something inside the house." "She hung herself in the attic, right?" "You wanna babysit and I'll check it out?" "Look, I don't care who hung themselves where." "Maybe something is going on, but" "It's a spirit." "It's some hillbilly bitch, and I'm not about to sit around waiting for her to go Deliverance on my ass." "Nobody's leaving the house." "Stop me." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Listen, man, I've got a gun." "You don't get back in that circle, you're gonna have yourself a third hole." "Dude, you don't have a gun." "And?" "I'm not letting that bastard or anyone else die tonight." "You cool?" "Go." "Hey, Fonzie." "Question for you." "This indestructible force field made out of salt?" "Have to be kosher stuff or what?" "Knock it off, Ted." "[CREAKING]" "Shh." "What was that?" "Mom." "Everybody stay calm." "She's a ghost." "She can't come in the circle." "You said ghosts couldn't cross." "They can't." "She's not a ghost." "Shoot her!" "Yeah, about that...." "Go, go, go." "Move." "[SCREAMING]" "Oh, my God." "Hey!" "Hey, you okay?" "Where is everybody?" "Hiding." "All right, go get them." "Go." "Go get them." "So it's not a ghost." "It's just a girl?" "It's not just a girl." "It's psycho Nell." "I'm telling you, man." "Humans." "So who is she, then?" "Maybe it's the daughter." "Maybe she didn't hang herself." "She'd be like 50 by now." "I don't know." "What did you find in the attic?" "Some old junk." "I found Rebecca's diary." "That's about it." "I wish you found a howitzer." "We gotta get this family safe." "It's just a human, so they can run for it." "We gotta hold her off." "We're okay." "Danny, Ted, we gotta go." "I'm good." "Danny?" "Come on!" "Danny, we gotta go." "Told you it was some crazy bitch." "Yes, you did." "Head to town." "We'll take it from here." "Danny, come on, baby, we're leaving." "Danny, we gotta go." "KATE:" "Danny?" "Brian, where is he?" "Danny!" "Danny!" "Suse, Suse, Suse." "We will find Danny, I promise you." "No." "No." "Take Kate and go now." "Now, while you still have a chance." "Not without Danny." "BRIAN:" "We will find him." "I'm not going with Mom alone." "She's right." "Until we find your son the safest place for you right now is in the shed." "I am not going in there either." "Yes, you are." "It is the best defense." "Windows are boarded." "It's got one door." "It's our best shot right now." "Trust me." "Suse, Kate, go." "Go." "All right." "You and me will take the outside." "You two take the house." "Let's go." "TED:" "What are you doing?" "She's human." "She had to come from somewhere." "You smell that?" "Every day." "Come on." "You're not going down there." "Well, do you want to?" "Please, nobody grab my leg." "Please, nobody grab my leg." "Dog." "It's what for dinner." "Danny?" "Find anything?" "Yeah, her kitchen." "Her what?" "[CREAKING]" "[SCREAMING]" "Look, why are we just standing here?" "Let's go in." "Let's check the house." "We have to wait for those guys to get back, okay?" "[KNOCKING]" "DEAN:" "Sam, it's me." "Help me out." "Did you get Danny?" "No." "No?" "Well, where's Ted?" "He's outside." "Well, why doesn't he come inside?" "Because I had to carry him out." "I'm sorry." "SUSAN:" "You're...?" "What does that mean?" "What does that mean, you're sorry?" "Are you saying that he's dead?" "No." "No, he's not saying that he's dead." "You're not saying that, are you?" "We were in the walls, and she attacked." "And I couldn't get to him in time." "Uncle Ted is dead?" "I shouldn't have left him alone." "I'm very sorry." "BRIAN:" "We'll find him, Suse." "We will." "Where else is there to look?" "Danny's dead, isn't he?" "BRIAN:" "No, Suse." "He is." "Why not?" "She killed my brother." "Now she killed my son." "No, Danny is alive." "No, no, he isn't." "Yes, he is." "Do you remember what he said about the girl who lived in the walls?" "She said he could stay." "No." "No." "I just don't understand why this happens to us." "I mean, we're good people." "We're a good family." "What happened to Andy happened, okay?" "I cannot change that." "But I will find Danny, I promise you." "And when I do, we are gonna be fine." "You and me, the kids, we're gonna be fine." "Okay." "DEAN:" "Andy your son?" "Oldest." "He got himself killed in a car accident last year." "I'm sorry." "It nearly tore Suse and I apart." "Still could, I imagine." "That's why we moved here." "Fresh air, fresh start." "Not even my line." "Marriage counselor." "Course, she might be right." "After all, what could possibly go wrong in the country?" "I'm getting your son back." "If it's the last godforsaken thing I do." "Why do you care so much?" "Dean." "We gotta talk." "What is that?" "Rebecca's diary." "I just finished reading it." "And?" "That girl back there?" "Pretty sure she was Rebecca's daughter." "Rebecca had a kid?" "It's all she talks about." "Being pregnant, being ashamed of being pregnant." "Jeez, rent Juno and get over it." "Wait, why kill herself after the baby?" "Maybe because her dad called her a dirty whore and said he was gonna lock the baby up." "Why would he say that?" "Oh, gross." "Yeah." "So the daddy was the babydaddy too?" "Dude was a monster, Dean." "Wow, a story ripped from an Austrian headline." "Humans, man." "So she's been locked up her whole life?" "You saw her eyes." "Has she ever seen light?" "She's barely human." "So she's been caged up like an animal and she busts out and ganks dear old Dad-slash-Granddad?" "I guess." "Well, can't say I blame her." "I'm sure her life was hell." "Doesn't mean she gets a pass for murder." "Like you know what hell's like." "I didn't...." "Forget it." "So where do we find her?" "Kid's gotta eat, right?" "What?" "He kept her hidden, locked up, but he had to feed her, didn't he?" "I guess." "I think I know where." "[GRUNTING]" "[MUFFLED SCREAM]" "[MUFFLED SCREAMING]" "Could've kept her hidden here for years." "Kept her fed, nobody would ever know." "BRIAN:" "Danny!" "Danny!" "DEAN:" "Watch out, I'm going down." "No, that's my son." "I know it is, but I said I would get him." "I will." "Let me." "Hey, you got curtains?" "We need rope." "It's okay." "Shh." "It's okay." "[SCREAMING]" "Bitch is a klepto." "Come on." "[WHISPERS] Danny." "Danny." "[MUFFLED SCREAMING]" "Danny?" "Your dad's upstairs." "Come on." "Watch your head, watch your head." "Hurry, he's coming back." "He?" "Her brother." "[YELLING]" "[SCREAMING]" "Oh, my God!" "Danny." "Okay." "Pull." "Come on, buddy." "Come on, buddy." "Don't look back, Danny." "Just come on, come." "Mom." "Mom!" "Come on." "You okay?" "It's okay." "Get him out of here." "You gotta go." "Dean?" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Come on, Mom." "[REBECCA SCREAMING]" "[POUNDING]" "BRIAN:" "Suse!" "[KATE CRYING]" "Thanks for the head start." "Why doesn't it surprise me you guys don't like the police?" "It's sort of a mutual-appreciation thing, really." "Well, thank you." "Thank you." "You okay?" "No, we're the opposite of okay but we're together." "Thanks." "You okay?" "You know, I felt for those sons of bitches back there." "Life-long torture turns you into something like that." "You were in hell, Dean." "Look, maybe you did what you did there but you're not them." "They were barely human." "Yeah, you're right." "I wasn't like them." "I was worse." "They were animals, Sam, defending territory." "Me?" "I did it for the sheer pleasure." "What?" "I enjoyed it, Sam." "They took me off the rack, and I tortured souls, and I liked it." "All those years, all that pain." "Finally getting to deal some out yourself." "I didn't care who they put in front of me." "Because that pain I felt it just slipped away." "No matter how many people I save I can't change that." "I can't fill this hole." "Not ever." "[ENGLISH SDH]"

"But we haven't been on real leave in months." "Don't you want to have fun?" "Me, you, trance, working together on a mission." "No captain, no high guard protocol, and, best of all, lots of profit to go around." "Well, beka, as definitions go," "I find that one woefully lacking in detail." "You want details?" "Okay." "It's a mission I've been planning for months." "During this mission, we will find this..." "Thing, and once we've found this thing, we will be rich and happy beyond your wildest nietzschean fantasies." "Well, now it's much clearer." "And what precisely is this..." "Thing?" "She can't tell you." "Why?" "Why can't I tell him?" "Because if you tell him, tyr will die." "Then by all means, leave me in suspense." "Tyr will die?" "Aren't we being a little dramatic?" "It's only dramatic until somebody does die." "Okay, cut to the chase." "You said you come from a bad future." "What happened?" "I told you." "I made a lot of mistakes, so that's why I came back, to set them right." "And this is one of those things?" "Not taking tyr-- that's good for everyone, trust me." "Okay, but the legend still says we need three people, and since harper took rommie on that "educational" field trip to Albuquerque drift," "I'm out of options." "What about Dylan?" "Not an option." "Who better than Dylan?" "Dylan's the captain." "If he comes along, it becomes his mission, his prize, and I've done way too much research on this just to hand it over to captain terrific." "Beka, we need Dylan." "According to the f.T.A. Clipping service, a lot of other people are after this thing." "Bad people?" "Bad, good, it doesn't really matter." "What matters is if they get there first and they find it..." "I know." "Trust you." "Fine." "I'll ask him." "The engine of creation?" "You've heard of it?" "Well, yeah." "I mean, it's a machine that can rearrange space and time." "It can reignite suns, create whole planets..." "Even raise the dead." "Yeah." "And you think we can find it on the planet of shintaida?" "That's right." "You know, there's just one problem." "The engine of creation is a myth." "It's like the holy grail of ancient earth, or the wyverni hordes of Gehenna-mortis." "Or a restored commonwealth?" "You know, that's not funny." "All right." "You really believe that this exists?" "I wouldn't be going if I didn't believe." "Think about it, Dylan-- something like the engine of creation, it could do anything." "It could make dreams come true-- even yours." "All right." "Let's dream." "He is the last guardian of a fallen civilization, a hero from another time." "Faced with a universe in chaos," "Dylan hunt recruits an unlikely crew and sets out to reunite the galaxies." "On the starship Andromeda, hope lives again." "Shintaida..." "A planet beautiful in its natural brutality, blessed by a dazzling assortment of deadly creatures and brilliant under its bloodlit skies..." "Sounds inviting." "So this guy's an expert on shintaidan archaeology?" "Renowned." "His expedition left for shintaida two months ago, armed to the gills with guns." "However, I, professor mino tabascalli, will brave shintaida's deadly traps, tame its unseen enemies, and locate its temple of spirits, and, at long last, hold in these, my hands, the legendary engine of creation." "I will accomplish what hundreds before me have perished trying to accomplish." "And no one has heard from him since." "Nope." "He never came back." "Ah." "But you have a different plan?" "My plan is to come back." "It's a good plan." "A good plan." "Are we there yet?" "No." "You know, beka, we've already covered 17 kilometers." "Maybe we should call it a day." "Captain's orders?" "I heard that." "No, no." "Look, it's your mission, it's your call." "I'm just getting a little hungry." "Considering it-- except this ravine we're walking through, according to my map, it's called the "eyes of blood and peril"." "The eyes of blood and peril." "Let's just stop here." "No." "No!" "Why?" "What's wrong with this spot?" "The eyes of blood and peril." "This is a bad spot." "Let's put down over here." "The "rock of refuge"." "Good idea." "If you don't mind, I'll take point." "Now I remember why I prefer outer space to Terra firma." "These rocks are killing my feet." "One more kilometer." "We're almost there." "Yeah." "Just remind me to wear an a.G. Harness next time we go hiking." "Note taken." "So where's Dylan?" "He's up ahead, scouting for a campsite." "I just hope he's careful." "Oh, he's always careful." "He's Dylan." "Yeah, you're right." "I guess I'm feeling just a little responsible." "It's been almost two years since I've been a captain of a mission." "I just hope nothing bad happens." "[ Metal shifting ]" "Something bad just happened, didn't it?" "Dylan!" "Oh, this is so embarrassing." "Well, it's some kind of mine." "Thank you, Dylan." "I am painfully aware of it." "Then you probably know that you shouldn't move." "Uh, yeah." "Is there anything helpful about mines in the legend?" "Well, the shinta call them the "death rattles"." "That's helpful." "And as far as I know, there's no record of the explosive materials used." "That's good." "No explosions." "She's right." "There is no incendiary device here." "Looks like a simple trigger mechanism." "A very old trigger mechanism." "But reliable, I am sure." "Now, the question is what does it trigger..." "And where it triggers from." "Trance, could you step back over there, please?" "Wait." "Hold on." "Here's what we're going to do, okay?" "Counterweights." "Trance, I want you to get that rock" "well, that was impressive." "Or stupid." "Depends on how you look at it." "Are you okay?" "Huh?" "Good thing I didn't pack light." "Here." "Souvenir." "Thanks." "[ Hinge creaking ]" "It worked." "This must seem a little strange to you." "In what way?" "Beka being in charge." "Actually, I find it a little educational." "Really?" "Oh, sure." "Leadership is hard to define." "There's really no right way, and there's no wrong way." "Everyone seems to have their own style." "[ Beeping ]" "Don't step here." "Land mine." "See?" "Beka definitely has her own style." "Yes, she does, but so do you." "You treat everything like it's a game of go." "You always plan your strategy six steps ahead, never lose sight of the big picture." "It's my military upbringing-- strictly by the book." "Sometimes it's my own private book, of course." "Beka, on the other hand..." "She kind of likes to fly by the seat of her pants." "Yes, but I believe that's what makes her a good slipstream pilot, and it's also what makes you two such a good team." "You complete each other." "Then it's a good thing we're on the same side." "More than you know." "Dylan, trance, you'd better come see this!" "She must have found the rock of refuge." "Don't step there." "The remains of Dr. Tabascalli's expedition." "Emphasis on "remains"." "They're all decapitated." "My god, they never had a chance." "They couldn't even get to their weapons." "Beka!" "Tracks." "Guns are gone." "Right." "I say we forget the rock of refuge." "It's badly named." "Agreed." "Let's get out of here." "Beka." "Dylan." "Does this belong to you?" "Dylan, I'm sorry." "It's not your fault, trance." "That's right." "Blame me." "Johann fletcher." "Damned glad to meet you." "Let her go." "Or what?" "We already slashed the archaeologists." "What's a couple more?" "Lady, the chances are excellent that my force lance will kill the three of you before your finger squeezes the trigger." "I'm pretty sure" "I'll clip Goldie first." "Well, maybe, but she's already been killed three times that I know of, and she just keeps coming back to life." "Please." "He's right." "I do." "I'll count to three." "He's lying, sweetie." "One..." "Two..." "Excuse me." "[ Weapon powering down ]" "How stupid are you people?" "I'm assuming we're all looking for the engine of creation, am I right?" "Yes." "You're quite right!" "Ahem." "Shut up, flux." "Maybe." "That's what I thought." "So then you're familiar with the legend?" "Legend?" "The legend that says that it takes three people to get the engine, so unless your trio stays intact, you can kiss it goodbye." "Yeah, but if I kill Goldie, you lose." "You know what?" "I'll count again." "One..." "Two..." "Three!" "So..." "Counting to three?" "Kind of tells them when to shoot." "That's why I have this." "[ Whistles echoing ]" "Where are you going?" "Madame, I don't see where that's any of your business." "Everything is my business." "Well, if you must know, I'm following orders." "My employers have demanded that I steal your boss's force lance." "Well, I'm sorry to tell you, but you've failed, because if you had, you'd be lying unconscious on the floor right now from the security charge." "Would I?" "Sorry." "But if I don't return with that force lance, sir's going to kill me." "Yes, and if you try to get it, I will kill you." "Isn't this a sticky wicket?" "Rock, meet hard place." "Trust me." "It's not that sticky." "If sir still wants the engine, he needs three people, remember?" "Oh." "Bully!" "So he won't kill me, and you won't." "Provided you tell me how you got here." "I was the most dedicated manservant, trance, always there with a toasty-crisp bath towel, an impeccably placed oyster fork, the choicest of bons mots, but, alas, my employer fell on hard times and traded me to sir." "How much did he sell you for?" "Well, he was bargaining for his life, actually, but sir killed him anyway and took me." "Not one to negotiate, sir." "Tell me about him." "Sir was an f.T.A. Enforcement wing pilot, and his lover, Duran, was a rester terrorist." "So they fell in love and they abandoned their respective causes?" "Actually, they betrayed both sides and murdered their former associates." "Killing people is the glue that keeps them together, and if they get the engine of creation, they intend to reshape the universe to serve their infinite whims and perversions." "Then why are you helping them?" "Well, it tugs on my conscience every now and then, but I am, after all, a dedicated manservant." "You want to know what I think?" "Oh, yes, very much." "I saw your faces when you stumbled across those dead archaeologists." "You were as scared as we were." "Yes, but I'm often scared." "I think you three didn't kill those archaeologists." "You just wanted us to believe that to scare us, and I also think that you don't want anyone else to get hurt over this engine, especially yourself, so here's what I suggest." "You take sir and Duran and head north, and I will convince beka and Dylan to go south." "That way, they won't be able to kill each other, and it will just be our secret." "I do love secrets." "Well, then I'm glad we had the chance to talk." "The ruins must be around here somewhere." "Fletcher and Duran seem to think so." "Do you think they really killed those people?" "No." "No." "They're bad, but they're not butchers, just very strange lovers." "Yeah." "He's totally controlling, and she's this sexy shoot-from-the-hip kind of gal." "What could they possibly have in common?" "Harper always says that opposites attract." "That's just his excuse to meet women." "Everyone's the opposite of harper." "That's true." "Hey, guys, I found something!" "After you." "Nice work, trance." "This place must be thousands of years old." "Maybe it's a ceremonial chamber." "It kind of gives me the creeps." "Guys..." "I think I just found Dr. Tabascalli." "He must've escaped whoever killed his friends." "Until they caught up with him here." "Decapitated." "Like the others." "That's a big knife." "That's not a knife." "It's a shuriken." "Specifically..." "That shuriken." "Is this on the regular tour?" "The legend talks about a whirling guardian of the sanctum." "Well, that is definitely whirling." "So this must be the sanctum." "So that's good." "Yeah." "Yeah, good!" "This is just fantastic." "Any legends about an exit?" "The answer is here." "The shinta are all about touch and feel." "Yeah, they do all their touching and feeling with flying, bladed weapons." "Trance, can't you use your guessing Powers for good?" "I thought you'd been through this drill." "We never got that far." "Eeney meeney miney Moe..." "Save our asses, now let's go." "I got it." "Trance!" "Dylan!" "Oh..." "Well, that was..." "Fun." "So..." "Where are we?" "Right where we're supposed to be." "That's good." "According to this, the engine of creation should be behind this panel." "All we need is the key." "Of course, the key." "You didn't happen to bring the key?" ""Three souls turn as one," ""and the key shall be delivered by the penitent,"" "so the operative word here is "penitent."" "Three statues." "Three of us." "They don't look very penitent to me." "It's worth a try." "Okay, remember, turn as one..." "And..." "Go." "Okay, that happened." "Tabascalli said something about a stone center containing the universe." "I think this plug is the key for that panel." "The simplest solution is usually right." "Pull away..." "But be careful." "And the engine shall deliver itself to the righteous." "And now it's time to deliver to the righteous." "I don't believe it." "We must not be righteous enough." "Or fletcher's people got here first." "What's that smell?" "Almond..." "I think I opened more than the panel." "It's cyanide." "That stuff's not good for you." "This says nothing about cyanide." "Well, we'd better make something up." "I've got nothing." "Pull the key." "Pull the key." "Do something, anything." "The simplest solution is usually right, right?" "That's far enough." "The engine, give it to us now." "That's funny." "I was just going to say the same thing." "Drop the attitude, sweetie." "Excuse me?" "Ow!" "Hey!" "Oh, dear." "I hope you'll be a trifle more cooperative." "Give us the engine." "Does it look like we have it?" "You lie to us, she's dead." "Again?" "This is ridiculous." "What do you think, it's in my purse?" "Shinta." "Ahga Torr enscara-teh." "Ahga Torr enscara-Teh!" "Oo teh ennamehka teh!" "Drop your weapons." "Are you out of your mind?" "I think it's best if we do what she says." "Myun-gora-teh." "You're welcome." "Beka, we'll get out of this in one piece." "We always do." "This is so different." "Well, it is, because we've been in worse situations before." "Yeah, we have, but those situations were all your responsibility." "Excuse me?" "I'm not blaming you." "I'm just saying, you were our captain, you're our leader, and you got us out of them." "That's one thing" "I'm starting to realize I really like about being your first officer." "Whenever things go wrong, it's not my fault." "Is that supposed to make me feel better?" "I'm just saying, until now, I had forgotten how much I hate it when plans go to hell on my watch." "Not that it happens that often, of course." "Of course." "Hey, guys, look at this." "In heaven now are three." "So then that's supposed to be the engine?" "That?" "Yeah." "It should be bigger than that." "Shinta guards coming this way." "They want you, trance." "No, trance!" "Beka, it's all right." "I'll be..." "They can't separate us." "We have to be three." "Beka..." "I'm going, I'm going." "Mehtoko orringah shintaida, teh lo turangay ahmin-battah lo shinta-sahmo kumarentaka!" "She's probably saying," ""that group has three, this group has two." "Let's kill them..." "A lot."" "I hope you're wrong." "Escarpey inohtempe teh agorrah." "Lo turangay issahmeha." "Iss mishamikan kumarentaka izinyanga-- excuse me." "Teh ha varamo-- pardon me." "Shinta lady" "I'm sure what you're saying is very important." "The only problem is that we don't understand you." "I'm pretty sure that he does." "I?" "Koto ha varamo teh?" "Lo manoshee mogatesco..." "Faraneh, teh kanoska." "Hari-shan." "What's she saying?" "She wants me to explain the contest to them." "Well, this should be interesting." "You do what I say, flux." "You work for me." "Not one word." "Hari-shan." "All right, all right." "All right." "Maybe only just a couple of words." "Apparently, the only reason they haven't killed us, as they did the others, is that our respective trios appear to fit the prophesied profile of the legendary chosen three." "In heaven now are three." "But what have they done with trance?" "So now we must submit to the contest of fire and pain." "Is it anything like spin the bottle?" "The winner will be crowned by destiny to take the engine of creation." "Ahran ga tehno!" "She wants a volunteer from each side." "To do what?" "Hmm..." "To volunteer?" "Hey, I didn't volunteer!" "I don't even like volunteers." "Hey, bring back our third!" "It's supposed to be three, not two." "I don't think we're volunteering for the tribal talent show." "It's my mission, my head." "I volunteer." "So do I." "Aw, geez, catfight." "No, I..." "I volunteer." "Dylan-- beka, let me do this." "Then I volunteer, too." "Can't have too many." "Get off me, fletch." "I can take him." "No." "Don't give me any lip." "It's never easy." "[ Shinta singing ]" "I thought we'd agreed that this was my mission." "That means I make the decisions, especially the life-and-death ones, and now that they've taken trance," "I'm more responsible than ever." "I have followed every one of your orders since we've been down here, beka." "Like hell you have." "What?" "When I was standing on that mine," "I had a way out of the problem, counterweights, but no, you hurl yourself at me and be the hero." "I wasn't trying to be a hero." "I just thought my way was quicker." "And out there just now?" "So I volunteered for their stupid contest." "Look, Dylan," "I think we both know that whatever this contest is, it'll start bad and end worse." "I should be the one fighting, not you." "Beka, I was only trying to help." "Yeah, well, saving my life when I should be saving yours is not helping." "See, I know what this is about." "I wasn't your first choice for this mission." "Trance had to talk you into asking me." "Come on, I'm right, aren't I?" "Yeah, well," "I can't manipulate you like I can manipulate tyr." "I think tyr might have something to say about that." "Look, Dylan..." "For reasons that I can't get into right now, you've become very..." "Or fairly..." "Do you know what I'm saying?" "No." "You've become important to me." "Careful," "I might start to like you." "I just don't want to be responsible for losing you." "I'm not planning on losing." "That's not what I meant." "I know." "Whatever happens out there tonight..." "I know that deep down inside..." "I really was your first choice." "Right?" "Yeah." "Orrintahko!" "That must be shinta for "show time."" "Yep." "Your choice, fletcher." "I'm an expert with either one." "I'm a swordsman, myself." "Yeah, all guys think that." "No one has to die here." "Orrintahko, leeka drohma!" "Oh, I'm guessing someone has to die." "[ Clinking ]" "They must be the out of bounds." "Don't go out of bounds." "Ahga Torr enscara-teh!" "Couldn't we just settle this with a nice game of go?" "Score one for my team." "Bite me." "Kill him, baby!" "Get up, Dylan." "Get on your feet." "Come on!" "Is there anything you like more than watching your boyfriend fight?" "Yes, watching him kill." "If you don't want to die, work with me." "Work with you?" "You're trying to kill me." "If I was trying to kill you, you'd be dead by now." "Hey!" "That's cheating." "You are not getting my engine." "We'll see about that." "Care if I join you?" "No." "I was just getting used to your phony accent, flux." "Looks like I'm not the only one with a new look, trance Gemini." "We thought we'd lost you." "And that's why you're here." "That's why they're here." "Well, someone has to retrieve the engine of creation." "It doesn't really matter who." "It does matter." "Maybe not to you or to our people, but it matters to the engine." "Do you see this?" "The engine is doing this." "It will only deliver itself to the right people." "We're the right people." "No, they are." "I just hope that they realize it in time." "That's right, Dylan." "Show the engine you're worthy." "Ooh, interesting move." "I didn't even see that one coming." "Amin-gaya!" "Get your hands off me." "It's our engine." "Let me finish this fight." "They've done it." "Dylan and beka have won." "Well, like I said, someone has to retrieve the engine, and we all know what happens next." "Some of us better than others." "Come with me." "Your brothers and sisters would love to know what's become of you." "No." "My place is here with my friends." "Your place is with us." "Don't forget whose side you're on." "I never have." "I never will." "You can't defy us forever, trance." "No..." "But I can dream, can't I?" "Even if it's just for a little while." "I..." "I don't know what's going on, but it sure beats fire and swords." "Trance..." "Leema KO hata say remba!" "And the engine shall deliver itself to the righteous." "By refusing to destroy, they are worthy to create." "In other words, you win." "So what the hell happened to you?" "They just took me off the board for awhile." "I believe they were afraid I'd help you cheat." "I don't cheat." "Yes, and that's why you've won, both of you together." "The engine of creation." "So it's heavier than it looks." "You know what?" "I'll bet it takes three." "This doesn't seem right." "I have no idea what it's made of, but the sensors claim that it could weigh up to three galaxies." "Well, we definitely carried it in here." "What do you think, trance?" "I think your guess is as good as mine." "Whenever she says that, I never believe it." "What do you believe?" "Oh, beka, I don't know." "When I was a kid, my dad told me a story about the engine, how a famous vedran archaeologist found it at an excavation site in kepora ven." "She studied it and discovered that it was older than the universe itself, that it actually created the universe, and then it made her a god." "And she went crazy, right, and almost destroyed everything in existence?" "Until the last moment, when she came to her senses and turned the machine against itself." "Splitting it into five pieces, which the vedrans then scattered across the stars." "What if that story's true?" "What if this is just a fragment of the engine?" "Well, then, we went to an awful lot of trouble to find a fragment." "Maybe it still works." "Come on." "Well, a fifth of anything that can reset the universe and make dreams come true, come on, it's got to be good for something." "All right, let's try it." "Make a wish." "Ready?" "Yeah." "Anything?" "No." "You?" "Nothing." "Yeah." "We're approaching Andromeda." "Prepare for docking." "Well, maybe it is worthless, but, you know, it did make me realize something." "What's that?" "We make a pretty good team, captain hunt." "This made you realize that?" "Well, then, I'm thinking maybe it does make dreams come true."

"Move a little to the left, please." "Adele, you are restless." "I worry too much, you know that." "About what?" "The future." "Sit with me, Maria." "Try to smile, Maria." "It's good to exercise your facial muscles once a year." "I see you, Maria." "Come closer." "Why don't you help your aunt?" "Put on my favorite necklace." "Your little fingers are perfect for the job." "One day, you'll have to stop being so timid." "Life will demand it of you." "Your only enemy is fear." "When our daughter Maria said she was marrying an opera singer, we decided he would sing Mozart at the wedding." "Let's keep the whole thing Austrian, I said." "These are troubling times." "Let us hope that this memorable evening is a harbinger of happier days." "It makes me sad that your Aunt Adele is not here today." "She would have been proud of you." "I am sad too, uncle." "At least she's not alive to witness what is happening to the country she loved." "I want... you to have this, Maria." "Her favorite." "You are headstrong and inquiring." "Something of Adele's spirit is in you." "I will always treasure it." "There you are, sister." "Come, Maria, it's time for cake." "The whole world has been looking for you." "Quickly, I'm hungry." "You have to help me cut it, Luise." "That Maria of yours is a heart stealer." "The Chancellor has conceded on every front." "Hitler has made an empty promise about Austrian sovereignty." "But my bet is that by the end of the month the Nazis will be marching round the Ringstrasse in their jackboots." "The Austrians will not allow it." "I will leave for Zurich on Sunday with Luise." "By next week, the rest of you must join us." "There will be much to do." "We must take our time." "Like always, you are a dreamer." "Do you like it?" "Why is it all gold?" "Ignore the gold." "That's Klimt." "Look at my face." "Does it resemble me?" "Yes, but I don't think you look happy." "I wonder what it will be like to be a woman when you are older, whether you will have to amuse yourself with trivialities." "Portrait of Adele, painted by Klimt." "One of our most famous paintings." "A wonderful example of Austria's heritage." "Quickly, let's get home." "The government has announced that citizens may not leave the country without authorization." "These new regulations will be enforced immediately." "My brother was right." "We should have left already." "Look." "It's Mrs. Klein, the doctor's wife." "What are they doing to her?" "Forcing her to clean the pavement with acid." "And Mr. Rosenblatt was made to write "Jew" on his shop window." "But why?" "Why do you think, Therese?" "Fetch my cello, Maria." "What for, Father?" "It's nearly five." "Why should this Saturday be different from any other?" "Because it is." "I will not allow them to touch us." " Father." " The cello, Maria." "Go." "The passport office will close at 2 p.m. until further notice." "Denied." "Next." "My husband's brother is in England, and my sister is in Switzerland." "We have places to stay in both countries." "There are only four of us, but we need to leave Austria as soon as possible." "So do all the other Jews." "What makes you so special?" "Denied." "Next." "Your business is finished." "Paint." "Jewish pigs." "Serves you right." "Don't look." "Thank heavens." "We were worried." "Open the door!" "They're here." "Of course they are." "Fritz, open the door." "Yes, sir." "Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer?" "My brother is in Switzerland on business." "Is that what it's called?" "Your brother's sugar company is guilty of tax evasion amounting to one million Reichsmark." "His assets have been frozen until the money is paid." "This officer will be staying with you." " From now on, you are under house arrest." " My uncle is a law-abiding citizen." "You are a family that appreciates the power of art." "Holbein." "Impressive." "A silver cup with precious stones." "A diamond necklace." "Two silver candlesticks." "A cello!" "Stradivarius." "Of course, only the best." "No, please." "It is his joy." "This is a first step in making reparation towards those whose art was unlawfully taken from them." "The mountain landscape hung in the main room of our house." "It was the first thing you saw when you opened the front door." "Mrs. Altmann, a powerful speech you gave." "But why don't you let the past be the past?" "You people never give up, do you?" "Not everything is about the Holocaust." "My brother has booked the last two tickets to Cologne." "And then what?" "From Cologne, we go to the border." "There's a contact." "He's been paid to smuggle us across." "When is the flight to Cologne?" "Eight o'clock this evening." "I can't leave my parents." "It's our last chance, Maria." "But someone has to drive us to the airport." "A friend of my father owes him a favor." "He will never let us out of his sight." "I have an idea." "But first, I have to say goodbye to them." "Papa." "Mutti." "The time has come, hasn't it?" "You know as well as I do they won't let my father fetch a doctor because he has committed the crime of being Jewish." "So the least you can do is let us go to the pharmacy." "And why do you both need to go?" "For God's sake, if you're that worried we're going to run away, why not come with us?" "Fine." "I'll take you." "But we come straight back." "Shame." "I was hoping we could all go to the cinema." "Don't be more than a minute." "One minute, that's all." " Good evening." " Good evening." "What can I do for you?" "My father has a very high fever." "We need something to lower his temperature." "One moment." "Right, this should help." "Keys!" "Fritz." "Yes, yes, yes.." "What are you doing?" "I'm feeling faint." "I need air." "Please open the door." "The soldier smoking on the street is with you?" "No!" "No, please open the door, quickly." "Of course, you are Jews." " No!" "Please!" " Hey!" "They're trying to get away!" "Quickly!" "Da." "Halt!" "Halt!" "That way." "Are you sure this heads to the Town Hall?" "Yes." "Go!" "I'll meet you there!" "Jewish scum." "They went in there." "The car." "Catch them." "Thank you." "I'd do anything for your family." "Good luck." "Thanks." " Thanks." " My pleasure." "Your tickets, please." "Traveling to Cologne?" "Cologne, yes." "You have no luggage?" "It's all very unexpected." "We are going for one night." "My husband is understudying Wotan at the Cologne Opera." "Their baritone has fallen ill." "Van Karajan is conducting." "We're very excited." "Good luck." "Thank you." "Next." "Announcement for passengers of Flight 12, destination Cologne." "Due to unforeseen circumstances, your departure has been delayed." "Our apologies for any inconvenience caused." "Ladies and gentlemen, we're ready to start boarding." "Please have your tickets ready for inspection." "Achtung!" "There are passengers who will not be boarding this flight tonight." "Herr Stephan Neumann und Herr Karl Neumann." "Make yourselves known!" "Please approach." "Ladies and gentlemen." "It's from my sister." "She's waiting for us in California." "But she's had news from Vienna." "Your father?" " Hi." " Good evening." "It starts in two minutes." "The time has come, hasn't it?" "Come here, my darling." "I'm leaving now." "You are doing the right thing." "But I don't want to." "You must leave, Maria." "You must move forward." "There is no future for you here." "America will be your home." "Take us with you in your heart, Maria, and learn to be happy again." "Can I help you?" "I know this house." "Can I look around?" "Of course." "Please." "Maria, Maria Come here and bring the secateurs."

"Previously on Sleepy Hollow:" "Is it true we have a son?" "I would have told you when you first awoke." "Katrina withheld too much from me." "It's hard to believe in her as I have." "I was trying to please you." "_" "_" "Henry stole the Jincan." "I don't know what he's planning, but he has to be stopped." "There is some good inside him." "What are you saying, Crane?" "I must fight for my son." "Is it time already?" "I have a few hours left before I report for duty." "Let's use them wisely." "These last few days have been an unexpected gift." "I don't mean to sound ungrateful." "I know General Washington requires you in New York." "This war will end." "A story we tell our children when we're old." "And what will our children be like?" "Our boys will be strapping young lads." "And our girls will be enchantresses." "Like their mother." "I may lack the proper identification to vote, but what excuse do our fellow countrymen have?" "A voter turnout rate of only 40% nationwide." "This is a disgrace." "It's a midterm, Crane." "I fought through lines of British regulars for the right to vote, yet our modern countrymen can barely form a line." "Oh, but, of course, they're more than passionate to vote for American Idolatry." " American Idol." " I know its name." "I'm telling you what it should be called." "So, Colonial America was a golden age because everybody voted in the States?" "Oh, wait, black people couldn't vote." "Neither could women." "So I would have been turned away at the door twice over." "Actually, you don't own significant tracts of property, so... thrice over." "Well, maybe I could afford property if I weren't paying all of your bills." "It is true." "Our nation's historical lack of universal suffrage is among its greatest disgraces." " But we have come a long way since." " Mm." "It took 180 years and two constitutional amendments for me to win this freedom." "Next." "What do you think you're doing?" "I thought I might observe you vote." "It's illegal for two people to step into the booth." "Oh." "Well, at least take my recommendations." "Proposition 3, on zoning laws, is a travesty." "Shh." "Democracy in action." "This should help you feel better." "You must at least try to drink." "This illness is unnatural." "I can feel it." "It's like poison inside of me." "You think I did this to you?" "I swear... this is not my doing." "Sorry to arrive unannounced." "Proceed." "Katrina is not well." " What is the meaning of this?" " A house call, if you will." "These men are here to care for her." "No... unhand me." "Tell me... what is wrong with her?" "I'm sorry, old friend." "I'm here at Moloch's command." "Everything is as expected." "Now Moloch has a new purpose for her." "There must be another way." "Time to go." "Stop!" "I beg you... stay this madness." "Let me speak to Lord Moloch myself." "There is no time." "We are his servants." "And he does not tolerate disobedience lightly." "No!" "Abraham, please." "Help me." "Abraham!" "Abraham!" "No!" "Abraham!" "Abraham!" "Katrina!" "Aah!" "Aah!" "Get her!" "Abraham." "Help!" "Miss, are you okay?" ""No campaigning at polling place." It's absurd." "General Washington gave each voter a pint of beer at the ballot box." "Feel better?" "Yes, oddly." "Your exclusion from Sheriff Reyes' inner circle must sting." "I can't fault her for wanting to clean up the town." "Even if she doesn't know what she's really up against." "Morning, Sheriff Reyes." "Officer Mills." "Hey, Mills." "Oh." "Got a call on the way here that sounded up your alley." "State trooper picked up a Jane Doe, brought her over to Westchester General." "A redhead... in full Colonial getup." "Katrina?" "Who else could it be?" "It was her idea to stay with the Horseman." " Why would she have left?" " She wouldn't." "Unless something had gone terribly awry." "Katrina." "I need you to step away from my patient." " She isn't a Jane Doe." " This is my wife." "Her name is Katrina Crane." "Do you know what's wrong with her?" "She has a fever of 105 and an infection in her abdominal wall." " Is there a diagnosis?" " Not yet." "Once we get the culture results back from the lab, we'll have a better idea." "Thank you." "Let us know when you hear." "Katrina." "Hello." "You're safe now, my love, you hear?" "What happened?" "It was Henry." "He came with some men, and they... and they wanted to take me away." "I had no choice but to run." "Ichabod, what's happening to me?" "I have tried various healing incantations." "But this is unlike any sickness I've ever seen." "Henry expected this illness." "He said that Moloch has a new purpose for me." "Purpo..." "What sort of purpose?" "He did not share the details." "He..." "He only wanted to take me away." "All right." "We will find a cure." "Well, we won't find one here." "Headless may be benched because the sun's out, but Henry's gonna come looking for you, so we got to get going." "Let's get you some medicine." "Get you cleaned up before we go." "Well, the nurses... they took my clothes." "I don't think we have time for a shopping spree." "I had no idea fashion changed so drastically since my era." "Well, it isn't exactly everyday wear." "Some drunk goth chick's clothes ended up in the lost and found." "Perhaps these garments should have remained lost." " You don't like them?" " No." "Well, yes, they... simply a shade form-fitting." "Those men... they came with Henry to take me." "You two get lost." "I'll trail 'em." "Alone?" "No, it's too dangerous." "We need to find out what's wrong with Katrina." "These guys know." "I'll be fine." "Your mission right now is to take care of her." "Very well." "We shall rendezvous at the archives." "Be careful." "You, too." "Signaculum deprenhesio." "Signaculum deprenhesio." "Magic." "Is it not too much in your present state?" "The sickness ebbs and flows." "The hex will warn us if Henry's men approach." "Come." "Tell me, what else do you remember about them?" "The doctor had a notebook with a... symbol on it." "A goat with the Rod of Asclepius jutting from its head." "Oh, no." "No, no." "This." "Did it look like this?" "Yes." "This is the symbol of a bygone secret organization, the Hellfire Club." "The British society of scientists?" "They fought for evil to prevail in the War for Independence." "Franklin infiltrated their ranks." "It's how he obtained the key that allowed Lieutenant Mills to escape purgatory." "What would they want with me?" "Franklin references an experiment." "A woman was infected with a mysterious illness with symptoms like yours." "What worries me is Franklin leaves no further notes on the woman's ailment." "Or even whether she survived." "This is my doing." "I should never have left you with the Horseman." "Moloch would have found a way to... bring this sickness upon me whether I was under your roof or Abraham's." "Abraham said he knew nothing of Moloch's plans, either." "I don't understand." "How can a headless horseman say anything?" "A-An enchantment on this bauble." "It allows me to see the human spirit within him, converse with him, and I..." "Converse?" "I..." "And what do you and..." "Abraham converse about?" "Whatever I must." "To gather information to further our cause." "You think I enjoy it?" "No, that's not what I meant." "These secrets that have come between us, they break my heart, but they do not reflect our love." "I understand." "But now you wonder what else I must be keeping from you." "There is nothing." "I swear it." "One day this war will end, and when it does, we will build a life together." "The life we deserve." "Crane, I've tracked Henry's buddies to a warehouse off the Taconic." "I'll call you when I've got more." "We lost the witch." "I don't know how, but she got away." "We will continue our search." "I just checked the translation." "I understand that." "The tablet says within the setting of one sun." "I'm looking at it now." "There is no other translation." "We will continue our search." "I'll let you know if anything develops." "I guess it was nothing." "Let's get back to work." "Do you think they intended to bring Katrina to this place?" "The pattern of veins on the cadaver matched yours exactly." "The doctor's notebook." ""Vessel..." ""experiencing high fever, blood pressure" ""and increased heart rate." ""Speed of infection consistent with... successful inception."" ""Inception."" "That can't be good." "Keep reading, Ichabod." ""Delivery and expiration of vessel:" "ten to 12 hours."" "Katrina, you're not ill." "I'm... pregnant." "I'm pregnant." "I don't understand." "How is... how is this even possible?" "You two haven't been alone together for a while." "Abraham." "Ichabod, I would never..." "So if it isn't his or Crane's..." "This thing growing inside of me is not born of any man." "How did it happen?" "Was it a potion?" "A fertility spell?" "Wait, wait, wait, wait." "This section... refers to inception." ""The vessel will be implanted" ""with... a birthing seed of Eastern origin, derived from a substance called Jincan."" "As in Jincan venom?" "A poison made from the deadliest creatures." "Henry obtained it from us." "We thought as a weapon." "Jincan is no ordinary poison." "It's been used for centuries by dark covens to grow demons." "Henry is growing a demon inside of you." "Why?" "My hex." " Someone is coming for us." " Take the tunnels." "Go." "Go!" "Find her!" "This is where I left Jeremy." "And where he took his new name." "You sure we'll be safe here?" "Churches are consecrated ground." "You don't think Henry can get around that?" "The termites did." "This place holds great meaning to him." "I can only hope he will not attack us here." "I don't think we can base our strategy on hope." "Henry's not gonna stop until he finds you." "He's the one that did this." "Which means he can undo it." "I'm not sure we understand each other." "Henry is a Sin Eater." "He can remove this demon growing inside of me." "We must concentrate on facts." "Now, Lieutenant Mills is right." "Henry possesses great power, but he uses it for evil." "Yet... he continues to struggle against that side of himself." "He has shown us nothing but contempt." "Because somewhere beneath that broken exterior, he still cares." "He doesn't want us dead out of apathy." "There is still a part of him that remains human." "Perhaps if we could reach it, he could be made whole." "Katrina... he's trying to kill you." "Moloch is trying to kill me." "Henry follows Moloch because he had no family to grab onto, but now we are here." "We have never lost faith in each other." "Have you really lost all faith in our son?" "I have not." "Do you hear yourselves?" "Henry is the Horseman of War." "He told us, point blank, he means to help Moloch raise hell on Earth." "How does anyone come back from that?" "He is my child." "And I cannot believe he's a lost cause." "I pray you feel the same." "Do not let your feelings for him affect our mission." "And I have not." "You're right about Henry." "The odds and the evidence are stacked against us." "But Katrina is ill." "The doctor's notebook said the vessel would expire at sundown." "We're running out of time." "The only option we have... is to beseech Henry." "My mind is made." "Should we put it to a vote?" "I can do the math." "Democracy in action." "I had an urgent call from your psychiatrist." "Said it was an emergency." "What do you want?" "It's not what I want." "Thank you, Captain." "It is time we talked." "I know you're unhappy with Ichabod's plan." "Crane sees it as a test." "I think he's going to lose." "What is it?" "I think that the... demon that's inside of you is called "The Horrid King."" "Wait." "It's moving." "Quite a trick you pulled, getting me here." "Is Abigail around the corner?" "Are you afraid?" "Katrina slipped through your fingertips." "You must be feeling vulnerable." "Oh, you have worked it out." "We know there's a demon growing inside her." "A demon?" "How pedestrian to expend all that effort on a mere demon." "I don't understand." "Who is the Horrid King?" ""And were they known" ""to men by various names," ""and various idols through the heathen world." ""Say, Muse, their names, then known, who first, who last..."" " You cannot mean..." " Would I lie to my own father?" "That's impossible." ""...is made with the blood of human sacrifice" ""and parents' tears." ""First came the Horrid King..." "Moloch."" "No." "Don't say, "No."" "Say, "Rise."" ""Rise, My Horrid King." "Rise, Moloch."" "The demon inside of me..." "Is Moloch." "The demon of the Apocalypse... is growing inside of me." "There must be something in your arsenal that can slow this, at least until Crane gets back." "My power is nothing against his." "Then we'll find a different way to save you." "There is one way we can stop this." "Moloch cannot rise if his vessel dies first." "Stop." "That's not an option." "When Crane first fell on that battlefield all those years ago, and all of the voices of Heaven and hell were shouting in your ear," ""Let him die,"" "you found another way to save him." "We will find another way to save you." ""How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."" "King Lear." "Act one, scene four." "Our mutual love of words is no coincidence." "Perhaps I should thank you for the twinkle in my eye." "Do you really think I cannot see through this chicanery?" "You live in Fredericks Manor, the very place you were brought into this world." "It is a nexus of dark magic." "And, coincidentally, where your mother first held you, first taught you feelings of love." "What did you tell yourself when you poisoned her?" "That you were not really responsible?" "The blood was on Moloch's hands?" "I intended to paint my hands with both your blood." "Then flick your wrist." "Make it so." "Fate is fickle, Father." "Best not to tempt it." "If you let her die, it will plague you for an eternity." "Like the eternity I spent in that box?" "She is not the reason bad things happen." "Your mother's love banished her to purgatory." "Her love for you." "Her decision to save you." "Then read my sin, see for yourself." "Tell me you're unmoved." "No." "You will not touch me." "Because you fear you will witness the depth of my suffering." "You are sick with Moloch's evil, but you can fight it." "You can spare her..." "Jeremy." "You have a choice." "Yes, I do." "And I choose Moloch." "I choose his leadership, and I choose his might." "I choose his fire that will burn the world." "No matter what you do, no matter where you hide her, your wife will die, and Moloch will be born!" "Help!" "That was you." "Oh." "You better sit down for this." "Oh, I know." "Katrina is bearing Moloch himself." "Henry took great pride in that." "I'm so sorry." "I tried." "You must know I tried." "If I should pass..." " No, don't say such things." " If I should pass, you cannot give up on Henry." "You'll be all he has left." "Evidence of good in him... is not proof that he will change." "Every day in purgatory, I woke up without any proof I could ever save you." "What kept me going was faith." "I clung onto it for 231 years." "Had I done so for 230, we would not be here today." "Remember your own words, my love." ""We must have faith."" "What are we searching for?" "The Hellfire Club had this stone tablet in their lab." "I know it has some significance, but the photo didn't turn out right." "This distortion... this is curious." "This resembles the aurora borealis." "Northern lights?" "Yes." "Franklin." "Benjamin Franklin was obsessed with the phenomenon." "He theorized the aurora could banish demons from Earth." "He wrote a paper." "I must Internet immediately." "Oh, my God, it sounds like a swine being strangled." "Does this not go faster?" "You know, dial-up was a pretty impressive invention at the time." "And so was the wheel, I'm sure." "Oh." ""Aurora Borealis:" ""Suppositions and Conjectures" "Towards Forming a Hypothesis for Its Explanation."" "By Benjamin Franklin." "Franklin always wrote in code." "Though his handwriting is so abysmal, that could be considered an encryption on its own." "Actually, it is." "Look." "Some of the letters are written in print, others in cursive." "The printed letters spell out a message." "Uh..." "Right." ""The Hellfire Club" ""has acquired a tablet..." ""bearing instructions on..." ""the birth of Moloch." ""The only tool with the power to stop him is..." ""the aurora borealis." ""Knowing this," ""Franklin... built..." ""an aurora prism" ""and hid it inside of the tablet." ""If the prism... is ever exposed to sunlight," ""it projects an aurora banishing Moloch before he is born."" "If we get that tablet and find the prism..." "And shine sunlight through it onto Katrina, we can save her life." "That lab is heavily guarded..." "and that was before I broke in." "It's the one thing I miss about modernity... an army to assist me." "An army." "I know where we can get one of those." "Katrina." "Katrina." "We've found a way to stop Moloch." "But I must leave you for a very short while." "This device is called a "radio."" "Push this button and speak, and wherever I am, I will respond." "Like magic." "Mills, I told you to keep your walking historical society out of my precinct." "There is something we need to tell you." "What's that?" "The truth about what's going on in Sleepy Hollow." "A doomsday cult?" "That's right." "In a warehouse out on Spangler Road?" "The Manson Family out in sunny California sounded crazy once, too." "That body showed signs of torture." "Couldn't have been more than a few weeks old." "What's he doing here?" "The club has Colonial origin." "I went to Crane earlier on." "It was his research that cracked the case wide open." "The Hellfire Club, founded in 1718 by the Duke of Wharton, has a long history of horrific experimentation on human subjects." "It's lunacy, of course... but their possession of illegal arms and their horrific experiments are very real." "We need a tactical team." "If we jump on this, we can bring them in." "In the short time that I've be here, you haven't given me much reason to trust you, Mills." "You said you wanted to clean up Sleepy Hollow... return it to the peaceful town you used to know." "Well, here's your chance in a very big way." "Sheriff!" "Search warrant!" "Shots fired." "Officer needs help." "The tablet's in here." "There." "That case." "Think you can crack it?" "It's a three-digit pass code." "A cult such as this would use a number of significance." "I can decipher it." "Come on, Crane." "Just give me a moment." "We don't have a moment." "589 Wharton Street was the address of the London clubhouse." "1718, the year the club was founded." "No." "They're a freaking evil club... try 666." "What a lack of imagination." "Let's go." "Mills." "I can see why Corbin always spoke so highly of you." "Thank you." "But I was only half the team." "What did you say you did again?" "I'm a criminal profiler, with an emphasis on acts of historical imitation." "Let's be in touch." "Ichabod, please hurry." "Katrina?" "Katrina, we're coming back." "It's coming now!" "Katrina!" "Katrina, can you hear me?" " We end this now!" " Stay with me, Katrina." "Stay with me." "We're almost there." "Hold on, Katrina!" "Oh, my God!" "She isn't breathing." "Katrina, please!" "Please don't... please don't leave me." "Oh, God..." "Breathe, Ka..." "Please, Katrina!" "Don't you... don't..." "Oh!" "Oh, thank... oh, thank God." "Oh, thank God." "We did it." "I thought we'd lost you." "You're here." "Where I belong." "Whereas..." "I belong somewhere else." "She's fallen asleep." "Holding her just now... is a joy I've not felt in an age." "And yet..." "Today was a bit close for comfort?" "I agree." "Moloch nearly rose to our world." "You're wondering how long we can keep up this dance." "How long before Abraham comes looking for Katrina?" "He will stop at nothing to get her back." "Well... at least we got clarity." "We know where Henry stands." "You can't possibly still think you can reach him." "When I touched Henry today, somehow..." "I saw him." "Experienced a memory he did not mean for me to see." "Help!" "A lost boy, alone in the woods, crying for help." "I know it's hard to see... but I believe, inside, he is still that small boy." " Henry would love for you to believe that." " No." "I do not think he would." "But it is a question of faith." "We stopped Moloch." "Today was a win."

"This is a story of an ordinary little boy named Charlie Bucket." "He was not faster or stronger or more clever than other children." "His family was not rich or powerful or well-connected." "In fact, they barely had enough to eat." "Charlie Bucket was the luckiest boy in the entire world." "He just didn't know it yet." "Evening, Buckets." "Evening." "Hi, Dad." "Soup's almost ready, darling." "Don't suppose there's anything extra to put in, love." "Oh, well." "Nothing goes better with cabbage than cabbage." "Charlie I found something I think you'll like." "Charlie's father worked at the local toothpaste factory." "The hours were long, and the pay was terrible yet occasionally, there were unexpected surprises." "It's exactly what I need." "What is it, Charlie?" "Dad found it, just the piece I needed." "What piece was it?" "A head for Willy Wonka." "Well, how wonderful." "It's quite a likeness." "You think so?" "Think so?" "I know so." "I saw Willy Wonka with my own two eyes." "I used to work for him, you know." "You did?" "I did." "He did." "He did." "I love grapes." "Of course, I was a much younger man in those days." "Willy Wonka began with a single store on Cherry Street." "But the whole world wanted his candy." "Mr. Wonka." "Yeah?" "We need more Wonka bars and we're out of chocolate birds." "Birds?" "Birds." "Well, then we'll need to make some more." "Here." "Now open." "The man was a genius." "Did you know he invented a new way of making chocolate ice cream so that it stays cold for hours without a freezer?" "You can even leave it lying in the sun on a hot day, and it won't go runny." "But that's impossible." "But Willy Wonka did it." "Before long he decided to build a proper chocolate factory." "The largest chocolate factory in history." "Fifty times as big as any other." "Grandpa, don't make it gross." "Tell him about the Indian prince." "He'd like to hear about that." "You mean, Prince Pondicherry?" "Well, Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr. Wonka and asked him to come all the way out to India and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate." "It will have 100 rooms, and everything will be made of either dark or light chocolate." "True to his word, the bricks were chocolate and the cement holding them together was chocolate." "All the walls and ceilings were made of chocolate as well." "So were the carpets and the pictures and the furniture." "It is perfect in every way." "Yeah, but it won't last long." "You better start eating right now." "Oh, nonsense." "I will not eat my palace." "I intend to live in it." "But Mr. Wonka was right, of course." "Soon after this, there came a very hot day with a boiling sun." "The prince sent an urgent telegram requesting a new palace but Willy Wonka was facing problems of his own." "All the other chocolate makers, you see, had grown jealous of Mr. Wonka." "They began sending in spies to steal his secret recipes." "Fickelgruber started making an ice cream that would never melt." "Prodnose came out with a chewing gum that never lost its flavor." "Then Slugworth began making candy balloons that you could blow up to incredible sizes." "The thievery got so bad that one day, without warning Mr. Wonka told every single one of his workers to go home." "He announced that he was closing his chocolate factory forever." "I'm closing my chocolate factory forever." "I'm sorry." "But it didn't close forever." "It's open right now." "Yes, well, sometimes when grownups say "forever," they mean "a very long time."" "Such as, "I feel like I've eaten nothing but cabbage soup forever."" "Now, Pops." "The factory did close, Charlie." "And it seemed like it was going to be closed forever." "Then one day we saw smoke rising from the chimneys." "The factory was back in business." "Did you get your job back?" "No." "No one did." "But there must be people working there." "Think about it, Charlie." "Have you ever seen a single person going into that factory or coming out of it?" "No." "The gates are always closed." "Exactly." "But then, who's running the machines?" "Nobody knows, Charlie." "It certainly is a mystery." "Hasn't someone asked Mr. Wonka?" "Nobody sees him anymore." "He never comes out." "The only thing that comes out of that place is the candy already packed and addressed." "I'd give anything in the world just to go in one more time and see what's become of that amazing factory." "Well, you won't, because you can't." "No one can." "It's a mystery, and it will always be a mystery." "That little factory of yours, Charlie, is as close as any of us is ever going to get." "Come on, Charlie." "I think it's time we let your grandparents get some sleep." "Good night, Grandpa George." "Night, Charlie." "Night-night." "Chair." "Thank you, dear." "Night, Grandpa Joe." "Good night, Grandma Georgina." "Nothing's impossible, Charlie." "Good night." "Night, Charlie." "Sleep well." "Indeed, that very night, the impossible had already been set in motion." "Dear people of the world I, Willy Wonka have decided to allow five children to visit my factory this year." "In addition, one of these children shall receive a special prize beyond anything you could ever imagine." "Live golden tickets have been hidden underneath the ordinary wrapping paper of five ordinary Wonka bars." "The bars may be anywhere in any shop, in any street, in any town, in any country in the world." "Wouldn't it be something, Charlie, to open a bar of candy and find a golden ticket inside?" "I know, but I only get one bar a year, for my birthday." "Well, it's your birthday next week." "You have as much chance as anybody does." "Balderdash." "The kids who are going to find the golden tickets are the ones who can afford to buy candy bars every day." "Our Charlie gets only one a year." "He doesn't have a chance." "Everyone has a chance, Charlie." "Mark my words, the kid who finds the first ticket will be fat, fat, fat." "Augustus." "This way." "I am eating the Wonka bar and I taste something that is not chocolate or coconut or walnut or peanut butter or nougat or butter brittle or caramel or sprinkles." "So I look and I find the golden ticket." "Augustus, how did you celebrate?" "I eat more candy." "We knew Augustus would find the golden ticket." "He eats so many candy bars a day that it was not possible for him not to find one." "Yes, it is good, Augustus." "Golden ticket claimed and four more..." "Told you it'd be a porker." "What a repulsive boy." "Only four golden tickets left." "Now that they've found one, things will really get crazy." "Of every shape, size and hue." "Veruca." "Can you spell that for us, please?" "V-E-R-U-C-A." "Veruca Salt." "As soon as my little Veruca told me she had to have one of these golden tickets I started buying all the Wonka bars I could lay my hands on." "Thousands of them." "Hundreds of thousands." "I'm in the nut business, you see." "So I say to my workers:" "Morning, ladies." "Lrom now on, you can stop shelling peanuts and start shelling the wrappers off these chocolate bars instead." "Three days went by, and we had no luck." "Oh, it was terrible." "My Veruca got more and more upset each day." "Where's my golden ticket?" "I want my golden ticket." "Well, gentlemen, I just hated to see my little girl feeling unhappy like that." "I vowed I would keep searching until I could give her what she wanted." "And finally, I found her a ticket." "Daddy, I want another pony." "She's even worse than the fat boy." "I don't think that was really fair." "She didn't find the ticket herself." "Don't worry about it, Charlie." "That man spoils his daughter." "And no good ever comes from spoiling a child like that." "Charlie, Mum and I thought maybe you wanna open your birthday present tonight." "Here you are." "Maybe I should wait till morning." "Like hell." "Pop." "All together, we're 381 years old." "We don't wait." "Now, Charlie, you mustn't feel too disappointed you know, if you don't get the..." "Whatever happens, you'll still have the candy." "Ah, well." "That's that." "We'll share it." "Oh, no, Charlie." "Not your birthday present." "It's my candy bar, and I'll do what I want with it." "Thank you, darling." "Thank you, Charlie." "Bless you." "All right, let's see who found it." ""The third ticket was found by Miss Violet Beauregarde."" "These are just some of the 263 trophies and medals my Violet has won." "I'm a gum chewer mostly, but when I heard about these ticket things I laid off the gum, switched to candy bars." "She's just a driven young woman." "I don't know where she gets it." "I'm the Junior World Champion Gum Chewer." "This piece of gum I'm chewing right now I've been working on for three months solid." "That's a record." "Of course, I did have my share of trophies, mostly baton." "So it says that one kid's gonna get this special prize, better than all the rest." "I don't care who those other four are." "That kid, it's gonna be me." "Tell them why, Violet." "Because I'm a winner." "What a beastly girl." "Despicable." "You don't know what we're talking about." "Dragonflies?" "But wait, this is just in." "The fourth golden ticket has been found by a boy called Mike Teavee." "All you had to do was track the manufacturing dates offset by weather and the derivative of the Nikkei Index." "A retard could figure it out." "Most of the time I don't know what he's talking about." "You know, kids these days, what with all the technology..." "Die!" "Die!" "Die!" "Doesn't seem like they stay kids very long." "In the end, I only had to buy one candy bar." "And how did it taste?" "I don't know." "I hate chocolate." "Well, it's a good thing you're going to a chocolate factory, you ungrateful little..." "That question is, who will be the winner of the last gold?" "Dad?" "Yes, Charlie?" "Why aren't you at work?" "Oh, well, the toothpaste factory thought they'd give me a bit of time off." "Like summer vacation?" "Sure." "Something like that." "In fact, it wasn't like a vacation at all." "The upswing in candy sales had led to a rise in cavities which led to a rise in toothpaste sales." "With the extra money, the factory had decided to modernize eliminating Mr. Bucket's job." "We were barely making ends meet as it was." "You'll find another job." "Until then, I'll just..." "Well, I'll just thin down the soup a little more." "Don't worry, Mr. Bucket, our luck will change." "I know it." "Charlie." "My secret hoard." "You and I are going to have one more fling at finding that last ticket." "You sure you want to spend your money on that?" "Of course I'm sure." "Here." "Run down to the nearest store and buy the first Wonka candy bar you see." "Bring it straight back, and we'll open it together." "Such a good boy, really." "Such a good..." "Grandpa?" "You fell asleep." "Have you got it?" "Which end should we open first?" "Just do it quick, like a Band-Aid." "Did you see that some kid in Russia found the last golden ticket?" "Yes, it was in the paper this morning." "Good boy." "Come on, George." "Good boy." "One Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Ludgemallow Delight, please." "Okay." "Here you go." "The nerve of some people." "I know." "Lorging a ticket." "Come on." "It's a golden ticket." "You found Wonka's last golden ticket." "In my shop too!" "Listen." "I'll buy it from you." "I'll give you $50 and a new bicycle." "Are you crazy?" "I'd give him $500 for that ticket." "You wanna sell me your ticket for $500, young man?" "That's enough of that." "Leave the kid alone." "Listen." "Don't let anyone have it." "Take it straight home, you understand?" "Thank you." "Mom!" "Dad!" "I found it!" "The last golden ticket!" "It's mine!" "Here." "Read it aloud." "Let's hear exactly what it says." ""Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this golden ticket, from Mr. Willy Wonka." "I shake you warmly by the hand." "Lor now, I do invite you to come to my factory and be my guest for one whole day."" ""I, Willy Wonka, will conduct you around the factory myself showing you everything there is to see."" ""Afterwards, when it is time to leave you will be escorted home by a procession of large trucks each one filled with all the chocolate you could ever eat."" ""And remember, one of you lucky five children will receive an extra prize beyond your wildest imagination." "Now, here are your instructions."" ""On the 1 st of Lebruary, you must come to the factory gates at 10 a.m. Sharp." "You're allowed to bring one member of your family to look after you." "Until then, Willy Wonka."" "The 1 st of Lebruary." "But that's tomorrow." "Then there's not a moment to lose." "Wash your face, comb your hair, scrub your hands, brush your teeth, blow your nose." "And get that mud off your pants." "Now we must all try and keep very calm." "Lirst thing that we have to decide is this:" "Who is going with Charlie to the factory?" "I will." "I'll take him." "You leave it to me." "How about you, dear?" "Don't you think you ought to go?" "Well, Grandpa Joe seems to know more about it than we do, and..." "Provided, of course, he feels well enough." "No." "We're not going." "A woman offered me $500 for the ticket." "I bet someone else would pay more." "We need the money more than we need the chocolate." "Young man, come here." "There's plenty of money out there." "They print more every day." "But this ticket there's only five of them in the whole world and that's all there's ever going to be." "Only a dummy would give this up for something as common as money." "Are you a dummy?" "No, sir." "Then get that mud off your pants." "You've got a factory to go to." "Daddy, I want to go in." "It's 9:59, sweetheart." "Make time go faster." "Do you think Mr. Wonka will recognize you?" "Hard to say." "It's been years." "Eyes on the prize, Violet." "Eyes on the prize." "Please enter." "Come forward." "Close the gates." "Dear visitors it is my great pleasure to welcome you to my humble factory." "And who am I?" "Well..." "Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka." "The amazing chocolatier." "Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka." "Everybody give a cheer!" "Hooray!" "He's modest, clever and so smart." "He barely can restrain it." "With so much generosity." "There is no way to contain it!" "To contain it To contain, to contain, to contain!" "Hooray!" "Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka." "He's the one that you're about to meet." "Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka." "He's the genius who just can't be beat." "The magician and the chocolate wiz." "The best darn guy who ever lived." "Willy Wonka, here he is!" "The amazing chocolatier." "Wasn't that just magnificent?" "I was worried it was getting a little dodgy in the middle part, but then that finale..." "Who are you?" "He's Willy Wonka." "Really?" ""Good morning, starshine." "The Earth says hello."" ""Dear guests, greetings." "Welcome to the factory." "I shake you warmly by the hand." "My name is Willy Wonka."" "Then shouldn't you be up there?" "I couldn't very well watch the show from up there, now, could I, little girl?" "Mr. Wonka, I don't know if you'll remember me but I used to work here in the factory." "Were you one of those despicable spies who tried to steal my life's work and sell it to parasitic, copycat, candy-making cads?" "No, sir." "Then wonderful." "Welcome back." "Let's get a move on, kids." "Don't you want to know our names?" "Can't imagine how it would matter." "Come quickly." "Lar too much to see." "Just drop your coats anywhere." "Mr. Wonka?" "Sure is toasty in here." "What?" "I have to keep it warm in here." "My workers are used to an extremely hot climate." "They just can't stand the cold." "Who are the workers?" "All in good time." "Now..." "Mr. Wonka, I'm Violet Beauregarde." "I don't care." "Well, you should care." "Because I'm gonna win the special prize at the end." "Well, you do seem confident, and confidence is key." "I'm Veruca Salt." "It's very nice to meet you, sir." "I always thought a verruca was a type of wart you got on the bottom of your foot." "I am Augustus Gloop." "I love your chocolate." "I can see that." "So do I." "I never expected to have so much in common." "You." "You're Mike Teavee." "You're the little devil who cracked the system." "And you." "Well, you're just lucky to be here, aren't you?" "And the rest of you must be their..." "Parents." "Yeah." "Moms and dads." "Dad?" "Papa?" "Okay, then." "Let's move along." "Would you like some chocolate?" "Sure." "Then you should've brought some." "Let's be friends." "Best friends." "An important room, this." "After all, it is a chocolate factory." "Then why is the door so small?" "That's to keep all the great big chocolatey flavor inside." "Now, do be careful, my dear children." "Don't lose your heads." "Don't get overexcited." "Just keep very calm." "It's beautiful." "What?" "Oh, yeah, it's very beautiful." "Every drop of the river is hot, melted chocolate of the finest quality." "The waterfall is most important." "Mixes the chocolate." "Churns it up." "Makes it light and frothy." "By the way no other factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall, my dear children." "And you can take that to the bank." "People." "Those pipes suck up the chocolate and carry it away all over the factory." "Thousands of gallons an hour." "Yeah." "And do you like my meadow?" "Try some of my grass." "Please have a blade." "Please do." "It's so delectable and so darn good-Iooking." "You can eat the grass?" "Of course you can." "Everything in this room is eatable." "Even I'm eatable." "But that is called cannibalism, my dear children and is, in fact, frowned upon in most societies." "Yeah." "Enjoy." "Go on." "Scoot, scoot." "Son." "Please." "Dad, he said, "Enjoy."" "Why hold on to it?" "Why not start a new piece?" "Because then I wouldn't be a champion." "I'd be a loser, like you." "Daddy, look over there." "What is it?" "It's a little person." "Over there, by the waterfall." "There's two of them." "There's more than two." "Where do they come from?" "Who are they?" "Are they real people?" "Of course they're real people." "They're Oompa-Loompas." "Oompa-Loompas?" "Imported, direct from Loompaland." "There's no such place." "What?" "Mr. Wonka, I teach high-school geography, and I'm here to tell you..." "Well, then you'll know all about it, and, oh, what a terrible country it is." "The whole place is nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the entire world." "Hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible, wicked whangdoodles." "I went to Loompaland looking for exotic new flavors for candy." "Instead I found the Oompa-Loompas." "They lived in tree houses to escape from the fierce creatures who lived below." "The Oompa-Loompas ate nothing but green caterpillars, which tasted revolting." "The Oompa-Loompas looked for other things to mash up with the caterpillars to make them taste better:" "Red beetles, the bark of the bong-bong tree." "All of them beastly but not quite so beastly as the caterpillars." "But the food they longed for the most was the cocoa bean." "An Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he found three or four cocoa beans a year." "But, oh, how they craved them." "All they'd ever think about was cocoa beans." "The cocoa bean is the thing from which chocolate is made, so I told the chief:" "They are such wonderful workers." "I feel I must warn you, though, they are rather mischievous." "Always making jokes." "Augustus, my child, that is not a good thing you do!" "Hey, little boy." "My chocolate must be untouched by human hands." "He'll drown." "He can't swim." "Save him!" "Augustus!" "No!" "Augustus!" "Augustus, watch out!" "There he goes." "Call the fire brigade!" "It's a wonder how that pipe is big enough." "It isn't big enough." "He's slowing down." "He's gonna stick." "I think he has." "He's blocked the whole pipe." "Look." "The Oompa-Loompas." "What are they doing?" "They're going to treat us to a little song." "It is quite a special occasion." "They haven't had a fresh audience in many a moon." "Augustus Gloop, Augustus Gloop." "The great big, greedy nincompoop." "Augustus Gloop, so big and vile So greedy, foul and infantile" ""Come on!" we cried "The time is ripe." "To send him shooting up the pipe!"" "But don't, dear children, be alarmed." "Augustus Gloop will not be harmed." "Augustus Gloop will not be harmed." "Although, of course, we must admit." "He will be altered quite a bit." "Slowly, wheels go round and round." "And cogs begin to grind and pound." "This greedy brute, this louse's ear." "Is loved by people everywhere." "For who could hate or bear a grudge." "Against a luscious bit of fudge?" "Bravo!" "Well done!" "Aren't they delightful?" "Aren't they charming?" "I do say, that all seemed rather rehearsed." "Like they knew it was gonna happen." "Oh, poppycock." "Where is my son?" "Where does that pipe go to?" "That pipe, it just so happens to lead directly to the room where I make delicious strawberry-flavored, chocolate-coated fudge." "Then he will be made into strawberry-flavored, chocolate-coated fudge." "They'll be selling him by the pound all over the world?" "No." "I wouldn't allow it." "The taste would be terrible." "Can you imagine Augustus-flavored, chocolate-coated Gloop?" "No one would buy it." "I want you to take Mrs. Gloop up to the Ludge Room, okay?" "Help her find her son." "Take a long stick and start poking around in the big chocolate-mixing barrel, okay?" "Mr. Wonka?" "Why would Augustus' name already be in the Oompa-Loompa song, unless?" "Improvisation is a parlor trick." "Anyone can do it." "You, little girl." "Say something." "Anything." "Chewing gum." "Chewing gum is really gross Chewing gum, I hate the most." "See?" "Exactly the same." "No, it isn't." "You really shouldn't mumble." "Because I can't understand a word you're saying." "Now, on with the tour." "Are the Oompa-Loompas really joking?" "Of course they're joking." "That boy will be fine." "What's so funny?" "I think it's from all those doggone cocoa beans." "Hey, by the way, did you guys know that chocolate contains a property that triggers the release of endorphins?" "Gives one the feeling of being in love." "You don't say." "All aboard." "Onward!" "Here." "Try some of this." "It'll do you good." "You look starved to death." "It's great." "That's because it's mixed by waterfall." "The waterfall is most important." "Mixes the chocolate, churns it up, makes it light and frothy." "By the way, no other factory in the world..." "You already said that." "You're all quite short, aren't you?" "Well, yeah." "We're children." "Well, that's no excuse." "I was never as short as you." "You were once." "Was not." "Know why?" "Because I distinctly remember putting a hat on top of my head." "Look at your short, little arms." "You could never reach." "Do you even remember what it was like being a kid?" "Oh, boy, do I." "Do I?" "In fact, Willy Wonka hadn't thought about his childhood for years." "Trick or treat!" "Trick or treat!" "Trick or treat!" "Who do we have here?" "Ruthie, Veronica, Terrance." "And who's that under the sheet?" "Little Willy Wonka." "Willy Wonka was the son of the city's most famous dentist Wilbur Wonka." "Now let's see what the damage is this year, shall we?" "Caramels." "They'd get stuck in your braces, wouldn't they?" "Lollipops." "Ought to be called "cavities on a stick."" "Then we have all this..." "All this chocolate." "You know, just last week, I was reading in a very important medical journal that some children are allergic to chocolate." "Makes their noses itch." "Maybe I'm not allergic." "I could try a piece." "Really?" "But why take a chance?" "Mr. Wonka?" "Mr. Wonka?" "We're headed for a tunnel." "Oh, yeah." "Lull speed ahead." "How can they see where they're going?" "They can't." "There's no knowing where they're going." "Switch on the lights!" "People, keep an eye out." "We're passing some very important rooms here." "What do you use hair cream for?" "To lock in moisture." "Whipped cream." "Precisely." "That doesn't make sense." "Lor your information, little girl whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips." "Everybody knows that." "Stop the boat." "I wanna show you guys something." "Now, this is the most important room in the entire factory." "Now, everyone, enjoy yourselves, but just don't touch anything." "Okay?" "Go on." "Go on, scoot." "Hey, Mr. Wonka, what's this?" "Let me show you." "Thank you." "These are Everlasting Gobstoppers." "They're for children who are given very little allowance." "You can suck on it all year, and it'll never get any smaller." "Isn't that neat?" "It's like gum." "No." "Gum is for chewing." "If you tried chewing one of these Gobstoppers you'd break all your little teeth off." "But they sure do taste terrific." "And this is Hair Toffee." "You suck down one of these little boogers and in exactly half an hour a brand-new crop of hair will grow out over the top of your little noggin." "And a mustache." "And a beard." "Who wants a beard?" "Well beatniks, for one." "Lolk singers and motorbike riders." "You know, all those hip, jazzy, super-cool, neat, keen and groovy cats." "It's in the fridge, daddy-o." "Are you hep to the jive?" "Can you dig what I'm laying down?" "I knew you could." "Slide me some skin, soul brother." "Unfortunately, the mixture isn't right yet." "Because an Oompa-Loompa tried some yesterday, and, well, he..." "How are you today?" "You look great." "Watch this." "You mean that's it?" "Do you even know what "it" is?" "It's gum." "Yeah." "It's a stick of the most amazing and sensational gum in the whole universe." "Know why?" "Know why?" "Because this gum is a full three-course dinner all by itself." "Why would anyone want that?" ""It will be the end of all kitchens and all cooking." "Just a little strip of Wonka's magic chewing gum and that is all you will ever need at breakfast, lunch and dinner." "This piece of gum happens to be tomato soup, roast beef and blueberry pie."" "It sounds great." "It sounds weird." "It sounds like my kind of gum." "I'd rather you didn't." "There are still some things that are..." "I'm the world-record holder in chewing gum." "I'm not afraid of anything." "How is it, honey?" "It's amazing!" "Tomato soup." "I can feel it running down my throat." "Yeah." "Spit it out." "Young lady, I think you'd better..." "It's changing." "Roast beef, with baked potato." "Crispy skin and butter." "Keep chewing." "My little girl's gonna be the first person to have a chewing-gum meal." "Yeah." "I'm just a little concerned about the..." "Blueberry pie and ice cream!" "That part." "What's happening to her nose?" "It's turning blue." "Your whole nose has gone purple." "What do you mean?" "Violet, you're turning violet." "What's happening?" "Well, I told you I hadn't quite got it right." "Because it goes a little funny when it gets to the dessert." "It's the blueberry pie that does it." "I'm terribly sorry." "Mother?" "What's happening to me?" "She's swelling up." "Like a blueberry." "I've tried it on, like, 20 Oompa-Loompas, and each one ended up as a blueberry." "It's just weird." "But I can't have a blueberry as a daughter." "How is she supposed to compete?" "You could put her in a county fair." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah." "Listen close, and listen hard." "To the tale of Violet Beauregarde." "This gentle girl She sees no wrong." "In chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Yeah." "She goes on chewing till, at last." "Her chewing muscles grow so vast." "And from her face Her giant chin." "Sticks out just like a violin." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "For years and years she chews away." "Her jaws get stronger every day." "And with one great, tremendous chew." "They bite the poor girl's tongue in two." "And that is why we try so hard." "To save Miss Violet Beauregarde." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Chewing, chewing all day long." "Mr. Wonka!" "I want you to roll Miss Beauregarde into the boat and take her along to the Juicing Room at once, okay?" "Juicing Room?" "What are they gonna do to her there?" "They're gonna squeeze her." "Like a little pimple." "We gotta squeeze all that juice out of her immediately." "Mother, help me." "Please." "Come on." "Let's boogie." "Without the boat, we'll have to move double-time to keep on schedule." "There's far too much to see." "Mr. Wonka?" "Yeah?" "Why did you decide to let people in?" "So they could see the factory, of course." "But why now?" "And why only five?" "What's the special prize, and who gets it?" "The best kind of prize is a surprise." "Will Violet always be a blueberry?" "No." "Maybe." "I don't know." "That's what you get from chewing gum all day." "It's disgusting." "If you hate gum so much, why do you make it?" "Once again, you shouldn't mumble." "It's starting to bum me out." "Can you remember the first candy you ever ate?" "No." "In fact, Willy Wonka did remember the first candy he ever ate." "I'm sorry, I was having a flashback." "I see." "These flashbacks happen often?" "Increasingly today." "This is a room I know all about." "Lor you see, Mr. Wonka, I, myself, am in the nut business." "Are you using the Havermax 4000 to do your sorting?" "No." "You're really weird." "Squirrels." "Yeah." "Squirrels." "These squirrels are specially trained to get the nuts out of shells." "Why use squirrels?" "Why not use Oompa-Loompas?" "Because only squirrels can get the whole walnut out almost every single time." "See how they tap them with their knuckles to make sure it's not bad?" "Oh, look." "Look." "I think that one's got a bad nut." "Daddy, I want a squirrel." "Get me one of those squirrels." "I want one." "Veruca, dear, you have many marvelous pets." "All I've got at home is one pony and two dogs and four cats and six bunny rabbits and two parakeets and three canaries and a green parrot and a turtle and a silly old hamster." "I want a squirrel!" "All right, pet." "Daddy will get you a squirrel as soon as he possibly can." "But I don't want any old squirrel, I want a trained squirrel." "Very well." "Mr. Wonka, how much do you want for one of these squirrels?" "Name your price." "Oh, they're not for sale." "She can't have one." "Daddy." "I'm sorry, darling." "Mr. Wonka's being unreasonable." "If you won't get me a squirrel, I'll get one myself." "Veruca." "Little girl?" "Veruca, come back here at once." "Veruca." "Little girl?" "Don't touch that squirrel's nuts." "It'll make him crazy." "I'll have you." "Veruca." "Veruca." "No!" "Veruca!" "Let's find the key." "Nope." "Not that one." "Daddy!" "Veruca!" "No." "It's not that one." "There it is." "There it isn't." "Daddy, I want them to stop." "What are they doing?" "They're testing to see if she's a bad nut." "Oh, my goodness." "She is a bad nut after all." "Veruca!" "Daddy!" "Where are they taking her?" "Where all the other bad nuts go." "To the garbage chute." "Where does the chute go?" "To the incinerator." "But don't worry." "We only light it on Tuesdays." "Today is Tuesday." "Well, there's always the chance they decided not to light it today." "Now, she may be stuck in the chute just below the top." "If that's the case, all you have to do is just reach in and pull her out." "Okay?" "Veruca Salt, the little brute." "Has just gone down the garbage chute." "And she will meet, as she descends." "A rather different set of friends." "A rather different set of friends." "A rather different set of friends." "A fish head, for example, cut." "This morning from a halibut." "An oyster from an oyster stew." "A steak that no one else would chew." "And lots of other things as well." "Each with its rather horrid smell." "Horrid smell." "These are Veruca's newfound friends." "That she will meet as she descends." "These are Veruca's newfound friends." "Who went and spoiled her, who indeed?" "Who pandered to her every need?" "Who turned her into such a brat?" "Who are the culprits?" "Who did that?" "The guilty ones, now this is sad." "Are dear old Mum and loving Dad." "Oh, really?" "Oh, good." "I've just been informed that the incinerator's broken." "So there should be about three weeks of rotten garbage to break their fall." "Well, that's good news." "Yeah." "Well, let's keep on trucking." "I don't know why I didn't think of this." "The elevator's by far the most efficient way to get around the factory." "There can't be this many floors." "How do you know, Mr. Smarty-Pants?" "This isn't just an ordinary up-and-down elevator, by the way." "This elevator can go sideways, longways, slantways and any other ways you can think of." "You just press any button and, whoosh, you're off." "Oh, look." "Look." "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Ludge Mountain." "I'd rather not talk about this one." "This is the Puppet Hospital and Burn Center." "It's relatively new." "The administration offices." "Hello, Doris." "Why is everything here completely pointless?" "Candy doesn't have to have a point." "That's why it's candy." "It's stupid." "Candy is a waste of time." "No son of mine is going to be a chocolatier." "Then I'll run away." "To Switzerland." "Bavaria." "The candy capitals of the world." "Go ahead." "But I won't be here when you come back." "Sorry, son." "We're closing for the night." "I wanna pick a room." "Go ahead." "Here." "Put these on quick, and don't take them off whatever you do." "This light could burn your eyeballs right out of your skulls." "And we certainly don't want that, now, do we?" "This is the testing room for my very latest and greatest invention:" "Television Chocolate." "One day it occurred to me:" ""Hey, if television can break up a photograph into millions and millions of tiny pieces and send it whizzing through the air then reassemble it on the other end why can't I do the same with chocolate?" "Why can't I send a real bar of chocolate through the television, ready to be eaten?"" "I'm not gonna touch it." "I'm not going in that direction." "Sounds impossible." "It is impossible." "You don't understand anything about science." "Lirst off, there's a difference between waves and particles." "Second, the amount of power it would take to convert energy in matter would be like nine atomic bombs." "Mumbler!" "Seriously, I cannot understand a single word you're saying." "Okey-dokey." "I shall now send a bar of chocolate from one end of the room to the other by television." "Bring in the chocolate." "It's gotta be real big because you know how on TV you can film a regular-size man, and he comes out looking this tall?" "Same basic principle." "It's gone." "Told you." "That bar of chocolate is now rushing through the air above our heads in a million tiny little pieces." "Come over here." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on!" "Watch the screen." "Here it comes." "Oh, look." "Take it." "It's just a picture on a screen." "Scaredy-cat." "You take it." "Go on." "Just reach out and grab it." "Go on." "Holy buckets." "Eat it." "Go on." "It'll be delicious." "It's the same bar." "It's just gotten a little smaller on the journey, that's all." "It's great." "It's a miracle." "So imagine, you're sitting at home watching television and suddenly a commercial will flash onto the screen, and a voice will say:" ""Wonka's chocolates are the best in the world." "If you don't believe us, try one for yourself."" "And you simply reach out and take it." "How about that?" "So can you send other things?" "Say, like, breakfast cereal?" "Do you have any idea what breakfast cereal's made of?" "It's those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners." "But could you send it by TV if you wanted to?" "Of course I could." "What about people?" "Well, why would I wanna send a person?" "They don't taste very good at all." "Don't you realize what you've invented?" "It's a teleporter." "It's the most important invention in the history of the world." "And all you think about is chocolate." "Calm down, Mike." "I think Mr. Wonka knows what he's talking about." "No, he doesn't." "He has no idea." "You think he's a genius, but he's an idiot." "But I'm not." "Hey, little boy." "Don't push my button." "He's gone." "Let's go check the television, see what we get." "I sure hope no part of him gets left behind." "What do you mean?" "Well, sometimes only half of the little pieces find their way through." "If you had to choose only one half of your son, which one would it be?" "What kind of a question is that?" "No need to snap." "Just a question." "Try every channel." "I'm starting to feel a little anxious." "There he is." "Mike." "The most important thing." "That we've ever learned." "The most important thing we've learned As far as children are concerned." "Is never, never let them near The television set." "Or better still just don't install The idiotic thing at all." "Never, never let them Never, never let them." "Never, never let them." "Never, never let them." "It rots the senses in the head." "It keeps imagination dead." "It clogs and clutters up the mind." "It makes a child so dull and blind." "So dull, so dull." "He can no longer understand A fairy tale, a fairyland." "A fairyland, a fairyland." "His brain becomes as soft as cheese." "His thinking powers rust and freeze." "He cannot think, he only sees." "Regarding little Mike Teavee." "We very much regret that we." "Regret that we." "Shall simply have to wait and see." "Wait and see, wait and see." "Wait and see, wait and see, wait and see." "We very much regret that we." "Shall simply have to wait and see." "If we can get him back his height." "But if we can't." "It serves him right." "Somebody grab him." "Help me." "Help me." "Oh, thank heavens." "He's completely unharmed." "Unharmed?" "What are you talking about?" "Just put me back in the other way." "There is no other way." "It's television, not telephone." "There's quite a difference." "And what exactly do you propose to do about it?" "I don't know." "But young men are extremely springy." "They stretch like mad." "Let's go put him in the taffy puller." "Taffy puller?" "Hey, that was my idea." "Boy, is he gonna be skinny." "Yeah." "Taffy puller." "I want you to take Mr. Teavee and his little boy up to the taffy puller, okay?" "Stretch him out." "On with the tour." "There's still so much left to see." "Now, how many children are left?" "Mr. Wonka, Charlie's the only one left now." "You mean, you're the only one?" "Yes." "What happened to the others?" "Oh, my dear boy, but that means you've won." "Oh, I do congratulate you." "I really do." "I'm absolutely delighted." "I had a hunch right from the beginning." "Well done." "Now, we mustn't dilly or dally." "We have an enormous number of things to do before the day's out." "But luckily for us, we have the great glass elevator to speed things along..." "Speed things along." "Come on." ""Up and Out"?" "What kind of room is that?" "Hold on." "Oh, my goodness." "We're gonna need to go much faster, otherwise we'll just never break through." "Break through what?" "I've been longing to press that button for years." "Well, here we go." "Up and out." "But do you really mean?" "Yeah." "I do." "But it's made of glass." "It'll smash into a million pieces." "Augustus, please don't eat your fingers." "But I taste so good." "Look, Mother." "I'm much more flexible now." "Yes, but you're blue." "Daddy, I want a flying glass elevator." "Veruca, the only thing you're getting today is a bath, and that's final." "But I want it." "Where do you live?" "Right over there." "That little house." "What time do you think they'll be back?" "Hard to know, dear." "I think there's someone at the door." "Hi, Mom." "Mom." "Dad." "We're back." "Charlie." "Charlie." "Goodness." "This is Willy Wonka." "He gave us a ride home." "I see that." "You must be the boy's..." "Parents?" "Yeah." "That." "He says Charlie's won something." "Not just some something." "The most "something" something of any something that's ever been." "I'm gonna give this little boy my entire factory." "You must be joking." "No, really." "It's true." "Because you see, a few months ago, I was having my semiannual haircut and I had the strangest revelation." "In that one silver hair I saw reflected my life's work my factory, my beloved Oompa-Loompas." "Who would watch over them after I was gone?" "I realized in that moment:" "I must find a heir." "And I did, Charlie." "You." "That's why you sent out the golden tickets." "What are Oompa-Loompas?" "I invited five children to the factory and the one who was the least rotten would be the winner." "That's you, Charlie." "So, what do you say?" "Are you ready to leave all this behind and come live with me at the factory?" "Sure." "Of course." "I mean, it's all right if my family come too?" "Oh, my dear boy, of course they can't." "You can't run a chocolate factory with a family hanging over you like an old, dead goose." "No offense." "None taken, jerk." "A chocolatier has to run free and solo." "He has to follow his dreams." "Gosh darn the consequences." "Look at me." "I had no family, and I'm a giant success." "So if I go with you to the factory, I won't ever see my family again?" "Yeah." "Consider that a bonus." "Then I'm not going." "I wouldn't give up my family for anything." "Not for all the chocolate in the world." "Oh, I see." "That's weird." "There's other candy too besides chocolate." "I'm sorry, Mr. Wonka." "I'm staying here." "Well, that's just unexpected and weird." "But I suppose, in that case, I'll just..." "Goodbye, then." "Sure you won't change your mind?" "I'm sure." "Okay." "Bye." "Things are going to get much better." "And for once, Grandma Georgina knew exactly what she was talking about." "The next morning, Charlie helped his parents fix the hole in the roof." "Grandpa Joe spent the whole day out of bed." "He didn't feel tired at all." "Charlie's father got a better job at the toothpaste factory repairing the machine that had replaced him." "Things had never been better for the Bucket family." "The same could not be said for Willy Wonka." "I can't put my finger on it." "Candy's the only thing I was ever certain of and now I'm just not certain at all." "I don't know which flavors to make or which ideas to try." "I'm second-guessing myself, which is nuts." "I've always made whatever candy I felt like, and I..." "That's just it, isn't it?" "I make the candy I feel like, but now I feel terrible, so the candy's terrible." "You're very good." "Pity about that chocolate fellow, Wendell..." "Walter." "Willy Wonka." "That's the one." "Says here in the paper his new candies aren't selling very well." "But I suppose maybe he's just a rotten egg who deserves it." "Yep." "Oh, really?" "You ever met him?" "I did." "I thought he was great at first, but then he didn't turn out so nice." "He also has a funny haircut." "I do not!" "Why are you here?" "I don't feel so hot." "What makes you feel better when you feel terrible?" "My family." "What do you have against my family?" "It's not just your family." "It's the whole idea of..." "They tell you what to do, what not to do and it's not conducive to a creative atmosphere." "Usually they're just trying to protect you because they love you." "If you don't believe me, you should ask." "Ask who?" "My father?" "No way." "At least, not by myself." "You want me to go with you?" "Hey." "Hey, what a good idea." "Yeah!" "And you know what?" "I've got transport..." "I have to be more careful where I park this thing." "I think we've got the wrong house." "Do you have an appointment?" "No." "But he's overdue." "Open." "Now, let's see what the damage is, shall we?" "Heavens." "I haven't seen bicuspids like these since..." "Since..." "Willy?" "Hi, Dad." "All these years and you haven't flossed." "Not once." "It was on this day that Willy Wonka repeated his offer to Charlie who accepted on one condition." "Sorry we're late." "We were brainstorming." "Thought I heard thunder." "You staying for dinner, Willy?" "Yes, please." "I'll shuffle the plates." "You smell like peanuts." "I love peanuts." "Oh, thank you." "You smell like old people and soap." "I like it." "Elbows off the table, Charlie." "How do you feel about little raspberry kites?" "With licorice instead of string." "Boys, no business at the dinner table." "Sorry, Mom." "I think you're on to something, though, Charlie." "In the end, Charlie Bucket won a chocolate factory." "But Willy Wonka got something even better:" "A family." "And one thing was absolutely certain:" "Life had never been sweeter."

"Smoking and drinking is injurious to health." "Smoking and drinking is injurious to health." "Hail!" "Hail!" "Hail the supreme lord!" "Hail!" "Hail!" "Hail the supreme lord!" "Are you crying when cutting onions?" "Are your tomatoes becoming pulp?" "Is it hot when cutting chillies?" "Then you have to purchase this slicer." "It costs only Rs.1499 only." "But if you order in next five minutes, you can have it for Rs.625 only." "With this latest sharp edge technology.." "..you can cut vegetables in the size of your choice." "Badaliya slice wizard!" "Wow!" "Are these just for vegetables?" " What else?" "Wow!" "Bedaliya slice wizard!" "Your kitchen will turn into a heaven with this." "Badaliya slice wizard!" "Cut it!" "Everything is fine, Mr. Venkat." "Are my dialogues okay?" " Perfect." "Your schedule for today is over." "Hey, Venky!" "It seems you are enjoying your job a lot." "Do you mean tele-shopping anchoring?" "No!" "Don't know how long but it is irritating." "How long were you working?" "By next march, it will be four years." "That means you must have been famous TV actor by now." "Nothing like that." "No one even recognizes me." "Are you serious?" "Why doesn't anyone recognize when you are there for 4 years?" "Don't you believe me?" "Come with me." "Here, can any of you recognize me?" "Don't feel bad, Venky." "But I heard that the ladies at office are your close friends." "Oh, feeling shy?" "!" "Venky!" "Do you have any work this evening?" "I cannot." "What's the work?" " A small shopping." "This time sari!" "You selection is always best." "Oh, how can you ask me to select a sari for you?" "I gave my appointment to someone else." "Sorry!" "Are you bored even after such fans?" "There is no relation between job and this." "I don't want to do this job." "What did I think of doing and what am I doing?" "What did you think of doing?" " My father's name is N. Bhanumurthy." "Did you hear his name?" "Bhanumurthy means the person in dooradarshan(TV channel).." "Yes, he is." "I too wanted to become famous news reader like him." "That's good." "I didn't see him lately." "After cable TV was introduced in 1991.." "..he suffered paralysis." "After that he lost his ability to speak." "Oh, no!" "How is his treatment going?" "There will be one hour session every Sunday." "Another typhoon in Bay of Bengal." "Coastal people are in fear." "Mr. Venkayyanaidu assured that they will win in four states.." "..and madam Sonia denied that." "Onions Rs.100, petrol Rs.80 and Rs.70:$1." "These rates are making people cry." "Did you see?" "He moved." "Government and oil companies conflict regarding gas companies dispute." "Kholi helped India win with a ton." "The news ends now." "We shall meet here at the same time next sunday." "Yours, N. Venkateswara Rao." "Such an improvement in just ten sessions." "He will become normal with 40 more sessions." "When your father read the news, everyone used to feel great." "You should also become famous like him." "Oh, no!" "By the way I heard the channel.." "..you are working is going to start news bulletin." "Why don't you try in that?" " I already did, sir." "There is a twist in that too." "There are two demons standing between me and news reading." "Who are they?" "First is Vamanrao." "Give it." " Just try." "Oh!" "Listen, it is not enough if you want to become news reader." "You need to work hard." "If you waste your time all day.." "..who will supply news for you in the evening?" "Listen, Mr. Vamanrao!" "If you read news with that voice.." "..you will need a guy like me to do the dubbing part." "You just watch." "I will be reading news tonight." "Hey boy!" "It is not the voice that is need to read the news.." "..you should have honesty in your heart." "Courage to say any news without fear." "More than anything else.." "..you need to know current affairs and not these affairs." "Who is the second person?" " My boss!" "A. Udayabhaskar." "What is it, Uday?" "Why are you standing alone in the photo?" "I am like this since childhood." "I am different." "Yes, Venki told me that." "Did Venky tell you?" "About what?" "He said that you hate humans and go to zoo every sunday." "That you don't know how to speak to people." "Especially with ladies." " He is nuts." "He might have said it because I didn't made him news reader." "What else did he say?" "Since you are motherless and grew up studying in hostels.." "..and since you possessed everything that you need.." "..you became like this." "Just a moment." "I hate people who behaves like him in the office." "You are jealous that he speaks well with ladies." "It is not a big deal." "Everything is written in this book." "People bit dust by following such books." "I don't think so." "Do you want to see?" "Friends!" "That was a fine presentation." "Let us meet after the lunch." "Okay." "Katti!" " Yeah?" "Can I speak with you for a moment?" " Yes, sir." "When are we going on a date?" " Excuse me?" "Just to have some fun." "I am the executive vice-president of this company." "Is this how you behave with me?" "How long are you going to hide?" "I understood your true intentions." "How did you understand?" "It is written in this." "If a girl wears short clothes like that.." "..it means she like that other person a lot." "Showing her open hand means, 'I am open..'" "'..and I have nothing to hide.'" "What if I stand like this?" "If you stand like that then you are.." "..my slave." " Oh!" "What if I stand like this?" "It says that you are ready to live together with me." "What is the meaning if I slap you like this?" "It is not in the book, but I understood." "I got it pretty clearly, actually." "Oh, she didn't consider that you are a motherless child." "Don't worry." "Ladies behave differently sometimes." "I don't mind." "But your prestige is ruined." "I don't tell this to anyone." "What if she says?" " I can counter in a thousand ways." "Who will trust her?" "Anyone didn't see this." "If you are so dumb, how are you going to get married?" "Do you have any plans?" "About the marriage?" "My dad is searching matches." "What else did Venki say?" "Venky!" "I spoke to your boss." "Is that true?" "What did you say to him?" "If you insist.." "..he might give you news reader post." "What do you mean by insist?" " Confidently." "All the best." "Bye!" "Come in!" "Hey, celeb boy!" "I have edited your ad yesterday." "It was wonderful." "You are made for this, man." "How long should I do this, Mr. Uday?" "You promised me many things." "You said you will give me news and gameshow." "You said many things." "But I heard that you are giving it to Vamanrao." "Yes." " Sir!" "Please give me evening news reader post, sir." "Listen, Venki!" "A host of the game show.." "..don't know who plays and who wins." "What do we get from that?" "If it is news reader, it's about scams.." "..foreign trips and assembly sessions.." "..releasing of movies.." "..just telling everything." "They don't show your talent." "Just look at you." "Badaliya slice wizard." "It was wonderful." "Sales increased because of your anchoring." "Venki!" "That is your talent." "Don't waste it." "Okay?" "Don't waste my time too." "Sir!" " Yes?" "You are stone hearted." "Venki!" "Please!" "What is it, Venki?" "Why are you crying after using Badaliya slice wizard?" "What is the reason?" "What is it?" "Hello?" "Yes?" "Greetings, sir!" "How are you?" "Match from Karampudi!" "My son is busy launching Tamil channel." "He said he doesn't want to get married this year." "Hello?" "Actually my son is very tall." "It will be better if the girl is at least 5'9"." "Hello?" "Her birth star is 'Aslesha'." "Hello, are you listening?" "It is said that her mom-in-law dies if this marriage happens." "But groom's mother is already dead, sir?" "That is why we want to be extra careful." "Hello?" "My son studied MBA." "It would have been nice if the girl finished her graduation." "Hello?" "The girl is.." "..more educated than the guy." "It doesn't sound good." "Sir!" "My son is running a TV channel." "He has to attend to parties with big shots." "His wife shouldn't be too much traditional." "He said it would be nice if she can move in society." "My son is outgoing, if she is also outgoing.." "..who will take care of our traditional values?" "We showed it to our family priest.." "..he said their horoscopes did not match." "Even we approached the same priest." "He said they were nicely matched." "We say many things if we don't like the match." "You shouldn't question us directly." "I cannot do this." "Earlier you used to get three matches per week." "Now.." "It became very rare like Olympic medals." "That is the situation." "When do you want to get married?" "When I get that mood." "How many matches should I send back?" "Didn't you like any of them?" "There is just one match that I like." "And that isn't it." "That is why I have decided.." "..no matter if the girl is from middle class.." "..I just want her to be beautiful." "That is why I called him." "Sir!" "You are playing too much with marriage proposals." "If you still adamant.." " I am not adamant." "I am intelligent." "I see!" "Too much intelligence is also harmful." "Have a look." "Wow!" "Look at this girl." "She is wonderful." "Take a look." "Oh, no!" "How can you reject without even looking at the photo?" "Is it okay if I reject after looking at it?" "She is a doctor." "But it is written that she is a dentist." "Yes, she is a dentist." "She is very involved in her occupation." "But her family members wanted her to get married." "Did you like her?" "Fix the marriage date." "I will get married soon." "We should go and see her first." "Excuse me!" "Why did you call me urgently?" "I didn't call you for office work, Venki." "Then?" "I saw you talking to girls many times." "Sir!" "I will stop that, sir." "Are you not afraid?" "Don't you feel tensed thinking 'they like me or not?" "'." "Why should I feel tensed if they don't like you, sir?" "That's not it." "How can they speak so closely with you?" "I don't know how to approach them." "I don't know how to express my feelings." "I don't know anything regarding women." "What happened?" "I had marriage looks yesterday." "Did she say that she didn't like you?" "There wouldn't have been choice if she said that." "Oh!" "She said she wants to talk to me." "She said what we saw and spoke there is not enough." "She said we have to talk over dinner." "I want her to choose me, Venki." " That is fine." "I didn't see you like this before." "I don't know but I like that girl." "This is really unexpected.." "..but I really want to marry her." "But I don't know how to make her like me." "What will you do if you are in my place?" "You are praising me a lot." "What will you do if you are in my place?" "I will give a nice advice to the boss and get good impression." "Okay." "Did you go to their house yesterday?" "Yes." "You did." "So What did you saw there?" "A sweet plate on the table, light snack in the hand.." "..two incense sticks.." "I didn't mean that, sir." "Did you see some cupboards or racks there?" "Yes." "I did." "There was a cupboard and an old fridge next to it." "What did you see on the fridge and also on the table in front of you?" "Did you observe anything?" " What work do we have with them, Venki?" "By looking at the furniture in her house, you can find her interests.." "..and can try to understand her." "Oh!" "That is what you mean?" ""Black clouds are forming.."" "There were many photographs of her taken.." "..at different cities sticked on the fridge." "Mr. Uday!" "What can we understand from this?" "That girl.." "Is a wanderer." "She likes travelling, sir." "So, you can say that you love travelling." "What else did you see?" "And.." "I saw Md." "Raffi song collection in the cupboard." "She likes Md." "Raffi, isn't that true?" "No, she likes his songs." "If you study about Md." "Raffi's greatness.." "..and play his songs in your car.." "..and display your greatness." "Okay!" "Okay!" "Okay!" " Next?" "Next?" "I saw a book on Raja Raghuvaran's paintings near the window." "Super!" "With painting scheme in center.." "..I know a restaurant." "Ravi Varma's paintings are displayed in a corner there." "Take her there and speak about Ravi Varma." "I saw many books in the cupboard." "I will say that I like reading." "Not only that, you can gift her a nice book." "Yeah, definitely." "When speaking with her.." "..I can use big english words in the middle." "That's it." "Did you see how simple this is?" "Thanks, Venki!" "It is nice when you encourage me like this." "You can take your scooter tomorrow." "I will drop you in my car." "Come on." "By the way Venki, you move so closely with girls." "Didn't you like any girl?" "Yes, I did." "But.." "Oh, didn't she like you?" "She did." "We liked each other." "What is the problem then?" "That is a beautiful story." " You tell me the story." "I will decide whether it is beautiful or not." "Not now, sir." " It's alright, Venki." "Come on." "Is that necessary?" " Of course!" "Few years back, for summer holidays.." "..I went to Vizag." "There I met a girl." "Rs.40 for Rs.80!" "Rs.40 for Rs.80!" "Rs.40 for Rs.80!" "Pavan Kalyan's latest movie." "Rs.40 for Rs.80!" "Madam!" "What?" "Rs.40 for Rs.80!" "You are selling Rs.40 ticket for Rs.80?" " Yes." "I feel like giving it for Rs.70 for you." "But I don't want give you more than Rs.50." "This has become common everywhere." "I will not take anything less than Rs.70." "Okay, I have two tickets." "If you take both of them, I will give for Rs.100. Okay?" "Okay, get lost." "Hello!" "I have a boyfriend." "I too have a girlfriend." "Name?" "N. Venkateswara Rao." " No." "Listen, please!" "Shall we take those two tickets for Rs.100?" "I will give you fifty rupees." "Or I can give you sixty." " What?" "!" "Do you think that I sell tickets in black?" "No." " That is not the problem." "How can I sit next to you to watch the movie?" "Granny!" "Please tell her, granny!" "Yes, child!" "He is a good guy." "He sat with me last week." "He bought me popcorn in the interval." "Okay, let us go." "I don't want money, but I want popcorn and coke in the interval." "So?" "You said that you stay at Sitanagar." "Even I stay there." "If you don't mind.." "..I can drop you on my bike." "It's alright." "I will go." "Okay, come on." "Yes." " Okay." "Come!" "Actually!" "I have to tell you something." "What?" "I don't have any bike." "I came here by bus." " What?" "Why did you say that you would drop me then?" "I thought it would be romantic." "I have a scooty." "Come on, let us go." "One minute!" "When you came by scooty, why did you agree to come with me?" "You stay at LIC apartments and so do I." "Still I don't know your name." " Prabhavati." "Nice name." " I don't think so." "My full name is Sri Sai Sirisha Prabhavati." "Nice names!" "It should be either Sirisha or Prabhavati." "I don't like both of them together." "How will it sound if a boy is named Ramudu Bheemudu?" "Rama Krishna is a common name for boys." "What is there in the name." "Just leave it." "I have to tell you something." "I don't have any boyfriend." "I don't have any friends in this city." "I am from Delhi." "I came to Vizag for the first time." "To my grandmother's house." "I am from Hyderabad." "I came to my aunt's house." "To spend the holidays." "I think you too don't have any girlfriend." "Should I lie or tell you the truth?" "I don't mind whatever you say." "Just tell me whether it is truth or lie before saying it." "I didn't have any girlfriend the day before yesterday." "I didn't have any girlfriend even yesterday." "And no one till today morning." "It's enough." "Get down." "Today also no girlfriend." " Oh!" "We reached the apartments." "Oh!" "This isn't Delhi." "If you have any phone number.." "Hey, Srinu!" " Yes?" "Do you have pen or pencil?" "Why would I have such things?" "You can take a piece of coal if you want." "How?" " You remember the first four digits." "I will remember the last four." "Thank you very much." "Uncle?" "I agreed to your trip thinking that you might like going to beach and enjoy." "Uncle!" " You'll be fine." "You will pass time for two months and go." "But I am the one who stays here." "I understood, uncle." " I don't think that you will misbehave." "But it is better to be cautious." "Uncle!" "What is it?" "Did you really remember the last four digits for real?" "Hey, you are over cooking it." "You are slow." "Are you sad because you couldn't note down her number?" "How did you know, aunt?" "You have grown up now." "Don't you know that you should carry a cell phone with you?" "It's alright." "You can use my cell phone while here." "What happened now?" "Why are you crying?" "Had you given it yesterday, I would have noted her number." "By the way do you think I can see her tomorrow?" "Why are you so desperate?" "Nothing like that." "Delhi girl in our apartment!" "Just curious." "She is Mrs. Rukmini's granddaughter." "Her parents are having some fight." "That is why they sent her here." "She is very nice girl." "Go and give these rotis to your uncle." "I don't understand uncle's behaviour at all." "He is suffering a lot because of sugar problem." "Hey, Venki!" "Venki!" "Please bring half litre milk." "Why don't you ask the milkman to deliver at home?" "Hey, go and bring it." "Oh, is that you?" "I was waiting for you." "What for?" "Is it for movie?" "Aren't you ashamed?" "I thought you were a nice guy and gave you phone number." "How dare you give me eleven blank calls at night?" "Do you know what a disturbance it is for others?" "Me?" "!" "I don't even remember your number." "Shut up!" "It is my mistake to give my number to a person like you." "Hey, how dare you make eleven miss calls at night.." "..and blame me for that?" "She gave that number to me." "Why did you write it down?" "How dare you?" "Krishna taught Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna." "Aren't we all had it printed and reading?" "This is also same." "Self satisfaction." "How dare you write her number down.." "..make eleven blank calls and shift the blame on me?" "Forgive me, sir." "Please!" "If you do such stupid things again.." "..I will kill you." "Sorry." "Anyone who knows my number.." "..tries to call me a lot." "This happened many times before." "Those blank calls were from.." "..that Srinu." "I am Gemini!" "I am a bit short tempered." "Please don't mind." "Gemini means your birthday is June.." " May 31st." "Oh!" "Sorry!" " What for?" "It is true that Srinu is the one who made.." "..those blank calls the day before yesterday." "But it is I who made 12 blank calls yesterday." "I was afraid to say anything." "So I hung up." "I am Vergo." "So a bit coward." "Please don't mind." " What?" "Virgo!" "August 26th." "Hi!" "I want to ask you something personal." "What gift did dad give on your birthday and how did you feel?" "He gave me a teddy bear." "Stupid gift but since Shekar gave it, I was thrilled." "Sandhya!" "What gift did your boyfriend gave on your birthday?" "Lokesh gave me a cellphone." "Sailesh gave the red shirt." "Rupesh gave MP3 player." "Anyone else?" "Take her to a five star restaurant for dinner." "Tell her that diamonds are girls best friend.." "..and gift her some nice diamond set." "Oh, diamonds?" "Do you mean diamonds in cards?" "Diamond king and queen." " Shut up!" "You liked a girl for the first time." "Can't you do that?" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Hey, listen." "Can I take her to dinner without diamond set?" "Hey, you are hopeless." "Okay!" "Okay!" "I got it." "Venki!" "Grandpa's train will be missed." "We have to go to the station." "Bring the auto." "Hey, auto!" "Would you come to the station?" " Do you want me?" "What will you take?" " Money." "I mean how much?" " Sixty rupees, sir." "Okay, come on." "He likes us a lot." "Yes, he do." " By the way.." "How much did you pay for auto?" "Hundred rupees, uncle." "Hundred?" "Four hundred and seventy, uncle." "For fixing a fan?" "Eleven hundred and fifty." " For provisions?" "It is seven hundred and ninety." "He didn't give the bill." " Let it be." "I am happy that he didn't ask for fine." " He did, uncle." "Thirteen hundred and fifty, uncle." "But cylinder is three hundred only." "I got it in black." "Nine hundred and ninety five rupees, uncle." "Change." " It's okay." "You are young." "Keep it." "Thanks, uncle." ""What is this feeling in my heart?"" ""Why my heart beat increased?"" ""This typhoon that started inside.."" ""..but cannot hear slightest sound outside."" ""What is this feeling in my heart?"" ""Why my heart beat increased?"" ""This typhoon that started inside.."" ""..but cannot hear slightest sound outside."" ""I cannot think of it.."" ""..as a big problem either."" ""What is the need to hide.."" ""..when I enjoy this feeling?"" ""When you touch casually.."" ""..or do something unknowingly.."" ""..it feels all okay.."" ""..and my heart surrenders to you silently."" ""What is this feeling in my heart?"" ""Why my heart beat increased?"" ""This typhoon that started inside.."" ""..but cannot hear slightest sound outside."" ""This happiness that I never experienced before.."" ""..made me forget everything else."" ""This is the way of romance."" ""That our heart is asking us to understand."" ""This is something our heart encounters.."" ""..and drives us mad saying not to waste this boon."" ""What is this feeling in my heart?"" ""Why my heart beat increased?"" ""This typhoon that started inside.."" ""..but cannot hear slightest sound outside."" ""What is this feeling in my heart?"" ""Why my heart beat increased?"" ""This typhoon that started inside.."" ""..but cannot hear slightest sound outside."" "Hello?" "I am bored." "Is that so?" "Why are you laughing?" "I am bored." "Bore?" "You have to dig ninety feet." "Oh, is anyone with you?" "Yes." "Yes, just next to it." "You can dig." "Why don't you come aside and speak?" "No matter where you dig, you will find water." "Water!" " Then come to my house." "There is no one at home." "So, how long will you take to come?" "Dig more." "Ten.." "You will get it in ten minutes." "Okay?" "Where are you going?" "I cannot see this program." "My dear!" "Would tension ease if we spray scent?" "Did you swim in scent?" "Isn't this too much?" "Hold your nose." "Your face is nice only." "Come inside." "I was getting mad with boredom." "That is why I called you." "You should called me after you are completely mad." "We would have had a lot of topics to talk then." "Stop it!" "I remembered you when I felt boredom." "I didn't know my name is so entertaining." "Your name is normal but you are.." "..entertaining." "Without thinking that we will be in youth someday, we were given old names." "Prabhavati Venkateswara Rao." "Hey, didn't you like my name?" "But it is you who said that." "If it is really a problem, why don't you change it?" "I don't like changing my name." "Okay, I have an idea." "You just marry a guy with good name." "Then his name will join next to your name." "Okay." "Good idea." "Suggest a name." "You are from Delhi." "Find some Singh." "Prabhavati Singh." "What about Dubay?" "Prabhavati Dubay?" "Or else Prabhavati.." "Bhattacharya?" "Kolkatta!" "Prabhavati Prabhakaran, Chennai." "Two times 'Prabha'?" "It is very bad." "Okay." "Prabhavati Sharma?" "Varma?" "Malhotra?" "Maharotra?" "Khan?" "Khanna?" "Suksena!" "Prabhavati Suksena!" "It is very sexy!" "Venki!" "Why don't you say some entertaining name like yours?" "Then Prabhavati.." "..Venkateswar." "How is it?" " No!" "It is like combination of Maheswari Parameswari." "Should I tell you a truth?" "I didn't like.." "..my name a lot earlier." "But when you call it, I feel it is nice." "Why is that?" "Because.." " Why is that?" "Because.." "Why is that?" " Because.." "Hold the pinky!" "What?" "!" " Pinky, Venki!" "It is getting late." "I have to go." " Good night." "When will we meet again?" "It has been many days since I am here but I didn't go to beach yet." "Will you take me to the beach?" "If you ask.." "..I will definitely take you to the beach." "I know every part in the beach." "My friends call me son of the beach." "This is the first time.." "..I visited a beach in my life." "So, coming to beach for the first time.." "..how do you feel?" " Feel sad!" "Huh?" "Since I cannot come to beach for the first time again." "My granny always tells me.." "..that my feet resembles a lot like my mother's." "What is the problem between us?" "There is no problem." "Marriage at an younger age.." "No problem." "What about your parents?" " Mother is house wife.." "My father is my role model." "He was a big TV celebrity once." "He was a news reader in Dooradarshan." "His popularity was very big." "He loved his job a lot." "But after the introduction of cable TV.." "Oh.. so you too want to become TV news reader." "Right?" " No." "I want to become famous news reader." "It is a dream of me and also my parents." "Ajanta toothbrush for mom.." "..dad.." " Hey!" " Brother.." " Hey!" "And also mine." "By the way what do you want to become?" "I am very practical." "I keep my foot on ground always." " I am a dreamer." "My eyes always looks into the sky." "Coconut?" " Okay." "Hello?" " Venki.." "Is it Prabhavati?" " Yes." "Venki is here." "Your mother." " Mom?" "!" "Mom, her birthday is not today." "Tomorrow." "I will call you again." "Hang up." "Would you tell your mom about every girl you meet?" "Not about everyone." "By the way.." "..I want to meet you tomorrow morning again." "What for?" "I think you forgot." "Tomorrow is your birthday." " O God!" "How did you know?" "I heard it in the TV news." "19th birthday celebrations of U. Prabhavati from Delhi.." "..will be celebrated grandly at Vizag tomorrow." "Her friend and neighbour N. Venkateswara Rao.." "Stop it." "I remembered." "I told you in the lift that day." "Your birthday.." "..I should be the first one to wish you and also meet you." "What for?" " Because I like you." "I like you too." "I love you.." "I love like you." "Hi, baby!" "We love you." "Darling!" "Prabha, just a moment." "I will be back in a moment." "Where are the people who commented Prabhavati?" "Did you see how strong they are?" "Like the stunt masters in movies." "They are also same." "They definitely are good fighters." "Terrible!" " Will you shut your mouth?" "I have to get down in the next floor." "Just come up once." "I will do the first aid." "You can go when pain goes." "What if it takes three days?" "It's alright." "You can stay." "What if it take the entire life?" "I told you not to get involved in silly things." "She lives in fourth floor." "Don't bend too much." "You will fall." "Hi, dad!" "Happy birthday." " Thank you." "I am the first one, right?" "Happy birthday." "And the second one too." "Yes." " Happy birthday." "I am third." "Come on, let us celebrate." "I have planned a surprise today evening." "Please, Venki!" "I don't like it." "Hey, Prabha.." "Prabha!" "Prabha!" "Prabha!" "Please!" "Listen to me, please!" "Prabha!" "Please!" "Don't deny!" " No." "I was planning this for a month now." "Please!" "Prabha!" "Please, Prabha!" "Please!" "Please!" "Please!" "Please!" " Oh!" "Okay." "Seriously?" " Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Hey!" "Venki!" "Venki!" "Put me down." "Put me down." "Wouldn't our prestige be ruined.." "..if anyone sees you?" " Oh!" "She asked me to find her weight, uncle." "Nothing more than that." " If she asks you to find the weight.." "..you can give some approximate weight." "But is it necessary to be so accurate?" "Stop it now." "Thinking that it would be romantic.." "..I asked him to find my weight." "He gave me Rs.1 and showed the weighing machine." "Do you think everyone will be like you?" "Auto!" "How much do you take for station?" "Sixty rupees, sir." "Sixty rupees?" "He will agree to fifty if we ask." "I doubted the moment you said hundred." "Pulses, rice, salt, oil.." "..I was thinking why everything was so costly." "All round figures." "If everything in Vizag becomes so costly.." "..how a middle class man like me can live." "I was worried." "So, all this is your scam." "Why do you like her so much?" "Uncle!" "You scold me for taking money." "But I really like that girl." "You are thinking like that." "Why you like that girl.." "..can you write ten reasons for it on a paper?" "You cannot." "Not only on the paper.." "..you cannot write it on slate too." "Because there wouldn't be any." "I thought of writing the same about your aunt." "I couldn't find more than three reasons." "I couldn't find more than two." "Oh!" " You don't have more than five reasons in total." "Then why did you get married?" " Because my dad didn't agree." "It would have been nice if he did." "Please stop the vehicle, uncle." "What for?" " Stop first." "I will tell you." "What is it?" "Not ten, I can give you hundred reasons." "I wrote hundred reasons." "Is that true?" "Come on, sing it to me." ""I cannot say that.."" "".." "I didn't see more beautiful girls than her."" ""But no matter how many beauties I see.."" ""..my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""When I thought for reason, I don't know.."" ""..why this happened and is very confusing."" ""My heart is listing more than hundred reasons.."" ""..one by one in detail."" ""Yahoo!" "Yahoo!"" ""Yahooooooo!"" ""No matter if she gets angry.."" ""..or looked at me in anger.."" "".." "I felt everything was wonderful."" ""This is some kind of madness."" ""I agree if anyone says that."" ""But even then.."" ""I cannot stop my heart.."" ""..from loving her even more."" ""I like that madness.."" ""..and I want to live with it."" ""I cannot say that.."" "".." "I didn't see more beautiful girls than her."" ""But no matter how many beauties I see.."" ""..my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""If everyone dreams about movie stars.."" ""..and want to marry only them.."" "".." "I don't think there would be so many happy couples in this world."" ""If you look at her with my eyes.."" ""..you will find that she is the only beauty in this world."" ""Even if I say so, if everyone wants to see.."" ""..her with my eyes, I cannot allow that."" ""I want to tell her that she is only mine."" ""But I am not able to say it to her."" ""I cannot say that.."" "".." "I didn't see more beautiful girls than her."" ""But no matter how many beauties I see.."" ""..my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""Yahoo!" "Yahoo!"" ""Yahoooooo!"" ""Yahoooooo!"" ""Yahoooooo!"" ""Yahoooooo!"" "Oh, God!" "When you give tip for the server in front of her.." "..you should show some dignity." "Here, keep this money." "Three rupees per reason.." "..keep this three hundred with you." "Once again happy birthday, madam." "Thank you." "I feel so good." "You wanted to ask me something." "Yes." "Venki!" "You said you want to ask something." "Can you tell me which of these two is salt and which is pepper?" "Did you spend so much money for the party to ask this?" "If the holes are less it is salt and it they are more then it is pepper." "Is that so?" "I thought salt would be salty.." "..and pepper will be spicy." "Come on!" "Ask it." "Do you think I would punch you?" "Do you love me, Prabha?" "I will punch you." "That's true." "I like you a lot." "Me too." "I like myself a lot." "Come on, Prabha." "I know you understood what I want to say." "I wait for the moment to meet you everyday." "Whenever my phone rings, I think that it might be you." "Hey!" "What do you want to say now?" "How would you name the relation between us?" "Is it necessary to name it?" "I like you." "That is true." "You are special." "That is also true." "Is it necessary to name that now?" "Do you mean I am just a friend to you?" "Best friend if you want." "It isn't even an hour since I cut my 19th birthday cake." "It is not good to ask me to decide about love or marriage." "Such decisions are taken now only." "Not after you become old." "Venki!" "Are all these necessary now?" "There is a lot of time for such things." "So, what do you want us to do?" "Let us be in touch." "Let us see what happens in future." "Let life unfold." "I understood." "Is it Delhi culture?" "It is new to me." "Parties, pubs and picnics." "Your parents do not have enough time to fight." "How can they think about you?" "Prabha!" "Prabha!" "Prabha!" "I am sorry, Prabha." "Fine!" "Be sorry!" "Prabha!" "You will be in Delhi by Saturday." "I will be at Hyderabad by Sunday." "These two.. at least these two days.." "Prabha!" "I am really sorry, Prabha!" "I thought a lot last night." "I behaved very foolishly." "I think I don't have the maturity that you have." "Prabhavati is not here." "She went back to Delhi." "Do you have any contact number of her at Delhi?" "Delhi code is 011!" "Prabhavati told me not to give you her number." "Prabha!" "This happened in 2009!" "It is very old story." "Don't you have any latest stories?" "Sir!" "This is the matter of love." "I cannot think of second one." "Okay." "I have to go right from here." "Will you get down here?" "Let us meet at the office tomorrow." "See you tomorrow." "Okay, sir." "Once in olden days people went to God.." "I want to ask you.." " Sir!" "Do you want some buttermilk?" "Do you know what self praising is called in English?" "Gasconade!" "Mr. Ravi Varma brought God to every house through his paintings of God." "Are you listening?" "Seriously." "Are you listening?" "Do you want to have some tea, sir?" "Do you know the biggest word in English?" "I don't know, sir." " Then don't bring tea." "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" "To our country.. to our country.." "To our country.." "To our country.." "To our country motion picture was brought by.." "Dada Saheb Phalke.." "..Raja Ravi Varma." "Do you know about his assistant?" "This is a song from film 'Lofar'." "Music by Laxmikanth Pyarelal." "Lyrics by Anand Bakshi." "And singer is Md." "Rafi." "What is this Md." "Rafi madness?" "Is he such a great singer?" "In the voice of Rafi sir.." "..there was a magic.." "..I cannot express it." "Sir!" "Whether it is Dilip Kumar or Dharmendra.." "..when he sings for them, wow.." "..when he sings then wow.." "What a traffic!" "Move fast!" "I have to go for lunch." "With my would be wife." "I think you are bored." "Should I play some songs?" "Hey, what CD is this?" "There will be many CD's in the car." "It is better to play it." ""Don't leave me in a stage of restlessness."" ""Please come back, I swear."" "Hey, do you like Md." "Rafi?" "Even I like Md." "Rafi and his songs." "When he sings then the magic of his voice.." "What can I say?" " I want to tell you something." "Oh, let me finish." "Wait!" "It will feel like a thousand violins are playing when he sings." "The emotions that we have buried in the depths of our heart.." "..will come up with overwhelming joy." "It feels like the sadness of our heart is blown away by a gust of wind." "That song was sung by Hemanth Kumar." "Hemanth.." " Yes." "Hemanth Kumar?" "Who is he could be?" "This is Hemanth Kumar." "But Md." "Rafi sings well." "Like violins and" "Removing sadness.." ""Please come back, I swear."" "To which restaurant are we going now?" "Welcome to Rinaessence, sir." "How can I help you?" "I have a reservation under the name Udaya Bhaskar." "It's a Parsi restaurant." "Not that but I like to travel a lot." "Travelling, you know like ship, train, plane.." "Good!" "Even I like travelling." "What are the places did you see?" "Ashok Nagar, Balnagar, Varasiguda, Chandrayangutta.." "Funny!" "Are you joking?" "I thought you were serious." "What are your likes and dislikes?" "Books!" "Books!" " Oh!" "Books?" " I like to read a lot." "In fact I brought a book to gift you." " Oh!" "Beginners guide to Alhabad." "This book?" " Yes." "I mean you like travelling and.." "..I like books." "So combining both.." "this.." "Oh!" "Do you really like to read?" "Yes." " What is your favorite book?" "How can I name one?" "I read a lot of books." "Did you read Roald Dahl books?" " Yes." "What is your opinion?" " I think he is simply.." "..supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" "What is it?" " I think I used very big words." "I do giving to my sescopedal edges sometimes.." "..but I like books and libraries." "And also universities." "In fact if I have two sons then.." "..I will name them as Nagarjuna and Venkateswara." "Do you mean the movie heroes names?" " No." "I meant the universities." "Would you name Osmania if it is a girl?" "Yeah, good idea." "I names dog in our street as KITS and cat as BITS." ""Black clouds are forming.."" "Hey, Raja Ravi Varma's painting is here." "I didn't observe it till now." "Do you like Raja Ravi Varma's paintings?" "Of course!" "I do want to too some gasconading.." "..but in my college days I was a good student by the way." "I got a gold medal for the thesis on world paintings." "Really?" "!" " Yeah." "That means you have a lot to tell me." "Yes." " Explain me about it." "Raja Ravi Varma, the painter prince.." "Forget about things on the right.." "Look at the breast look, they look so unincombat by the time she was in.." "..in olden days when everyone was not allowed to enter the temples.." "..to show people how the God looks, he started to paint the pictures of Gods.." "..and took the God to peoples houses." "He is great." " Hello, sir." "Yes." "So, there are like 1220 web sites about him." "Master of arts.. hey!" "Oh, no!" " Bloody hell!" "Sorry, sir!" "Sorry!" "I am sorry." "Sorry!" "Sorry!" "Sorry!" "It's okay." "It's okay." "I thought of this when I came here." "That it would have been nice if we sit at different table." "Let's take another table." " No, we have reservation." "We should sit here only." " Come on!" "Restaurant is empty." "Excuse me!" "You know what!" "I didn't like water spilling on your clothes." "Let us go to another restaurant." "Come on." " No!" "No!" "We are here." "If someone meet accident once, does it means it happens always?" "Let us sit here." "I like this place." "Service here is also not good." "When I asked for fork once, he pricked me with it." "Wow, Monalisa!" "Is that her?" "I am hungry." "Shall we order something?" "Please!" "We can." "Let the waiter come here." "What is your opinion about this painting?" "This painter do not have the talent that Ravi Varma has." "Come on, Da vinci.." "What?" "!" " You know, Da vinci is a mathematician.." "..cum engineer cum sculptor cum.." "..writer cum musician.." "..cum anatomist.." " Is he not a painter?" "Monalisa!" "This is the painting that inspired many poets around the world." "Is that true?" "Can you say some poem?" ""Monalisa is my sister"" ""Her smile is super."" ""Come on, let us party."" ""Who is this girl?"" ""Where did she come from?"" ""What she gonna do to us all?"" ""She broke my heart.. heart.."" "Hey, Prabha!" "Did you like the guy?" "Just wait!" "Let her speak." "Prabha!" "Did you like the guy?" "I don't know." "What is the problem?" " No problem at all." "No problem means you liked him." "No, that means I cannot say that I don't like him." "He seems to be a good guy." "But he tried a lot to impress me." "His attempts kind of nice at that moment.." "..but I was scared after a second thought." "Attempts?" "!" " Yes." "He tried to convince me that we have same interests." "He tried to use big English words like a student appearing for GRE coaching." "What is that?" "If you cannot come to a conclusion, what should I say to the mediator?" "How can I marry him just because you don't know.." "..what to say to the mediator, brother?" "He liked you a lot when he first saw you." "Is it enough if he only likes me?" "Marriage is one time event in this life." "I cannot take a decision with just two hours of acquaintance." "Listen, Prabha!" "You just keep quiet." "I will talk to her." "Prabha!" "Do you want us to look for more matches?" "We cannot get a good match than this." "He is well educated and also rich." "I will see just one more match." "If that person is worse than this guy.." "..I will marry this guy." "Okay?" "Promise me that." " Promise!" "Worse than this guy?" "!" "Isn't it hard, sir?" "Can't we find one?" "I am out of ideas, Venki." "If Sirisha doesn't marry me.." "..I will close the channel and go to Himalayas." "Sir, just listen to me." "I lost my impression because I heard your advice." "What did I do, Mr. Uday?" "Aren't there any other girls?" "There are many other girls out there." " No." "I tried a lot already." "Searched a lot." "Looked a lot of girls." "There isn't anyone else." "This is the only girl." "But she is not coming into my hands." "Mr. Uday!" "Don't worry so much." "I have an idea." "There will be many fools in our city." "Let us send one of them to her house." "After seeing him, she will definitely marries you." "Oh, no!" "I cannot risk." "What if she likes him and marries him?" "That's a good point." "But where can we find a loyal fool?" "There is one." "Who is that fool?" "It is you." "Since your future is in my hands.." "..I cannot do anything if you think of betraying me." "Sir, I can give you advice but don't involve me in this." "Listen, Venkateswara Rao!" "Think of this as a practice and do it." "What is this, sir?" "He is going to play the game but I should do practice?" "Venki!" "You are my loyal employee!" "Can't you do this for me?" "This is the correct opportunity to show your respect for me." "Don't think I would plead you." "If you don't do what I say.." "Sir!" "I have a small doubt." "What if I fall in love with her in this process?" "Then I would kill you." "What if she falls in love with me?" "Then you will be killed by my hands." "Sir!" "Emotional blackmail wouldn't work." "Just because I am working with you.." " Venki!" "Venki, stop!" "How dare you speak against me?" "I heard that you met Gemini TV creative head." "You have attended the interview also." "He called me and enquired about you." "If I say anything bad about you.." "..you will be finished." "If you prove yourself useful to me.." "..I will give you news reader post." "Are you trying to trap me with this?" " Hey, come with me." "Come with me." "I have a work with you." "Listen, Venki!" "You need to adjust in some circumstances." "You have to." "You should choose wisely about the circumstances." "Are you suggesting to take his offer?" "If you want the job of your choice.." "..you should go around sometimes." "Attend marriage looks just for fun." "Otherwise you will lose what you have and want." "Don't I have any other choice?" "I don't think you have." "First agree to this." "Venki!" "I will count up to ten." "Ten!" "Nine!" "Sir!" " Eight!" " Sir!" "Sir!" "Seven!" " Sir!" "Don't do anything out of anger, sir." "I will do any help you ask for." "In your plan to cheat and marry her, I will give you my 100percent support." "Don't mind that I held your choler a while back." "What did you say, sir?" "Why would he mind?" "You are his boss, so you can do that." "When are we going to start the project?" "Immediately." "Plan of action." "First you should make me eligible bachelor and send there." "I can take care of that." "Oh, then you will make her believe that you are a complete fool." "She will marry me and I can live happily with her." "Is that all?" " No." "She will say that she want to see another match." "That is why I asked you to be patient." "She will ask that guy too to take her to dinner." "Then I will behave in a way that she likes." "Then she will marry you and I have to search for another girl." "No, sir." "I cannot find any for you." "Listen, sir!" "When the matter moves ahead a bit.." "..and she chose to marry me.." "..we will place some heartbreaking things in front of her." "Then her heart will be broken." "And she will decide not to marry anyone." "Then both of us will have to search for new matches." "Please don't speak about searching for new matches, sir." "We do not completely break her heart, Mr. Uday." "We will bring just a crack." "While I am trying to break her heart, you should befriend her." "When I move out of the scene, she will approach you.." "..and tell you that she cannot find a good guy than you." "Then you can console her that it is not a big thing.." "..and forgive her." "Then you will get married to her happily." "Huh!" "Done?" " Done!" " Done!" "Greetings, madam!" "How are you?" " Greetings!" "I am fine." "Have some coffee!" "He has half acre land at his native place." "Half acre is nothing these days." "Oh!" " No!" "Reject!" " Reject!" "Look at him, sir." "His five sisters are educated." "But he is.. he is rich instead." "Are his sisters married?" "First he will get married.." " No." "No to this too." " Look at this, sir." "This is second marriage for him but he is rich." "He love marriage attempt failed.." "..so he wants to opt for arranged marriage." "That means his first marriage was a failure." "No, it was super hit." "He want to continue that." " Reject this too." "Look at this, sir." "He looks handsome." "Who is he?" "He has finished his degree." "Works in a software company and earns a lot." "Why did you show those stupid matches when you have this?" "You have selected it before I came to that decision." "Since you have selected Venki, she will be married to Mr. Uday." "What did you say?" "I was saying just leave the rest to me." "Let me have some coffee first." "Congratulations, sir." "I had arranged different match for he girl your son liked." "I don't understand what you say." "Just get my son married." "That's all." "Hello!" " Sir!" "From the list I showed.." "..they have selected our Venki." " I am proud of my boy!" "I hope they didn't see Venki in TV program." "Who will watch that, sir?" "Then search a good parents for him and arrange marriage looks." "That is very complicated process." "Bringing a mother and father.." "..and teach acting to them.." "..and then making them perform correctly is very difficult." "Let us arrange marriage looks in some place." "Just the guy and the girl." "Okay?" " Okay." "Where did your brother keep the photo?" "It's alright, sis-in-law." "You said that you liked him." "And I like the name N. Venkateswara Rao." "What if you go without seeing the photo and confuse?" "Nothing will happen." "Hello?" "She will search for faults if she sees this photo now." "Okay." "Okay, sir." "Prabha!" "You can start." "He will wear a blue shirt and kakhi pant." "Is my sari okay?" " Superb!" "Brother!" "Is he software side?" "Isn't he news reader?" " Deloitte!" "Salary of 7lakh 20thousand." "Hello?" "Hello!" "I wore blue shirt and kakhi pant." "What is she wearing?" "Yellow?" "!" "Oh, yellow sari?" "Okay, I will take care of it." "Nice shirt!" " Thanks!" "New one!" "My boss bought for me." "Did you come here to see a girl for marriage?" " Yes." "She is wearing a yellow sari and I have to wear blue shirt and kakhi pant." "Oh, got it." "What a coincident." "I too came for that purpose." "Tomorrow!" "I can wear any color shirt." "Is that why you wore such a shirt?" "My name is Chinta Gurumurthy." "Her name is Swapna." "Nice meeting you." " My name is Venki." "Her name is Sirisha." "Boss's name is Uday." "NRI!" "I went to US on L1 and.." "..changed to H1 recently." "Oh, is that good, sir?" "Yes." "Next is green card." "Oh!" "For the safety and health of Chinta Gurumurthy.." "..this is an offering made to God." "Why did you come to this temple now?" "I visit temple occasionally and ask the God to fulfill my dreams." "That is called worship." "Even the God tells me what I have to do." "That is called madness." " Mad?" "!" "What do you do, sir?" "Didn't you get visa?" "I don't have the idea of going to US." "It is difficult.. not easy you know?" "Just see me now" "Struggled hard in SAP in India.." "You did SAP?" " Yes" "You should call it S.A.P" "What does it mean?" "Don't know exactly.. it is something.." "I think it is German" "Leave me alone.." "I am a bit tense" "Why be tense?" "It'll be set" "It shouldn't be set.." "mine is a long story" "My things should get set.." "mine is a normal story" "I want apply for H1 visa soon" "Wow!" "Hello.." "I didn't see his photo" "Didn't he see my photo either?" "Ok then.." "I'll look for the blue shirt" "The one in the yellow saree.." "her name is Prabhavati" "Surname starts with 'U'." "Born and brought up in Delhi" "Native place is Vizag" "Her date of birth is May31st 1989.." "Zodiac sign is Gemini" "Her name is not Prabhavati but Sirisha.." "Her full name is Sri Sai Sirisha Prabhavati" "How do you know all this?" "Why didn't you tell me all these details earlier?" "Even a man who wants to marry won't seek so many details" "Does she know any details about me by the way?" "It seems she didn't see your photo even" "She knows only your name" "Ok.." "I'll face my troubles" "Ok.. do so" "Your name is.." " N Venkateswara Rao" "Is that the correct name?" "Oh.. is it you?" " Yes" "I'm Sirisha.. nice name!" "Your name is very nice.." " So nice?" "!" "Is better than Chinta Gurumurty?" "I don't mean that" "A friend of mine too has the name N Venkateswara Rao" "So there are two persons with the same name" "There are three of them.." "the third one too is here abouts" "Is it ok for you if kids get educated in US?" "Why am I bothered where your kids get educated?" " Ah?" "I'll make a short call and return" "Hello father.. please cancel the marriage proposal tomorrow" "I have chosen a girl already" "I think she's the one" "Father.. if anyone pings from office.." "..reply with BRB.." "it is work from home anyways" "Hey.. why are you overplaying the role given to you?" "You don't want it anyway" "Let me make my efforts" "I'll take along on H4 for now.." "and then through my consultant.." "SAP.. oh, sorry!" "I'll get trained on S.A.P and get it converted to H1" "One can earn upto 75 dollars per hour" "That's good income in Edison.." "the school district is also good." "You are a great planner.." "but do what you are told for now" "If you play out the role without reading the script.. this is what results" "I am trying to help, but you are not giving me any freedom" "Let's go" "Sorry madam" " What?" "You are not my type" "Don't feel bad that I'm saying this in your face" "But just a minute ago.." "Had we met a minute ago.." "..the result would have been something else" "You.. what?" "!" "Alas!" "Hello, father!" "I just broke up!" "Hey Prabha.." "how did he say that he didn't like you?" "We never expected such an outcome" "Even I too didn't feel like talking to him" "But, how arrogant he is!" "If he didn't like you, he should have found some excuse" "How dare he tell you in the face!" "What are you thinking about, Prabha?" "I should speak to him once more" "But he said he didn't like you" "Is it enough if he is the only one who doesn't like this?" "What do you mean?" "!" "You said you would take only 15 min.." " I had to fill petrol" "Why are you so angry?" "Didn't check the zero?" "No, I didn't.." "neither for petrol nor for marriage!" "Hey, sit here.." "That's a 5-year old issue, Venky!" "What is the point in raking up age old matters?" "What is the guarantee that she still likes you?" "That she is ready to seek other marriage proposals.." "..don't you realize what it means?" "If I meet her once, the matter will be resolved" "What about the other issues around you?" "One shouldn't be afraid in love or shouldn't fall in love at all" "But if the one you love is your boss' love too, you better keep mum.." "But she was so disheartened to see that man with same name as me" "What is the guarantee that she won't be disheartened to see you?" "Venky, marriage happens only when both like each other" "But if two people like the same person, trouble happens" "But it is me who that girl likes" "Think hard about this, Venky" "If things go wrong, you could lose both the girl and your job!" "Take my advice and let go of her" "There is no cure for love like we have for headache" "Love is like pneumonia, Venky" "It is cured in 3 days even if you don't take any medicine" "One has to keep blowing the nose till then" "I am not going to sit quiet" "I think, I still love her" "It is fine that you feel all that.. but.." "Is it the same Sirisha that Mr. Uday wants to marry.." "Prabhavati.." " Whatever!" " My boy, Venky!" "I'll manage all those matters" "But you shouldn't try to meet that girl at all" "I take your leave" "You know that father will be treated on Sunday" "Still why did you have to go?" " Sorry, mom!" "Get in." "The headlines in the news today." "News being presented by N. Bhanumurty" "In bollywood, in a movie called 'Maine pyaar kiya', Rakesh Roshan's son.." "Hritik Roshan acted well and stood up to his father's reputation" "In America, the son of George Bush senior.." "George Bush, became the president" "In Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Yadav's son Akhilesh became the CM" "And in cricket, playing against England, Yograj Singh's son.." "..hit 6 sixes in a single over!" "I who read news in Doordarshan.." "..earned a great reputation and titles." "But my son fell in love with a girl.." "Sorry, father!" "She wasn't there yesterday.." "I am fine still" "She wasn't there the day before either.." "I am happy all the same" "It means that I'll be happy even if she wouldn't be there tomorrow" "You never told me any time that I should become this or that.." "You were my childhood hero!" "I used to feel great when others praised you" "I used to feel very happy!" "I too wanted to become like you one day" "I'll be.." "I'll be like you" "You shall feel proud of me that day, father!" "It seems that you changed the plans on the spot" "It seems you said you didn't like her" "That's why I got a gift for you" "So I shall go after Sirisha right away.." "For me to assume your wit, smartness.." "..pace, energy and intelligence.." "this device will help" "You'll keep coaching me what I should say and do.." "..and I'll make the girl fall in love with me" "This is for you.." "via bluetooth.. what do you say?" "So.. if I coach you on the fly, you'll snare her" " Yes.." "What was your rank in the entrance exam?" "I got in via NRI quota.." "Didn't like the plan?" "Venky, know what they call a person who promises but fails?" "They may call him N Venkateswara Rao!" "But my problem is not that.." "Here.. take this 3G phone.." "From now on, you shall ensure that I don't talk like a fool" "The plan looks fine Mr. Uday!" "But I can't keep advising you on wireless an entire life" "You shall do that too if required" "I think I forgot its charger in the car.." "I shall go and get it.." "you pay the bill meanwhile" "Okay?" "How much is it?" " 310 rupees, sir." "How are you doing, Venky?" " Ah?" "I'm fine.. how about you?" "I.." "I have to leave." "Are you angry that I left Vizag without telling you?" "Nothing of that sort.." "Why don't we share a cup of coffee together?" "For old times sake.." "Come this way.." "I remembered those summer times when I saw your photo" "It was such a nice time" "Nice feeling!" "Yes, indeed.." "We were young and foolish.." "Did you go to Vizag again?" "No.. did you go there?" "What do you think?" "Didn't you ever remember me before you saw me again?" "You ran away even after you saw me" "But you were the one who disappeared in the first place" "But now I appeared on my own wish" "No.." "You got this wish after you saw me" "Otherwise you would have assumed another surname.." "That's what you want.." "I want to be Prabhavati Venkateswara Rao!" "I came to spend some happy moments with you.." "In that case, you keep talking and I'll return shortly!" "Where are you going?" " To the washroom!" "Sir, give me the charger.." "I'll get it charged." "You make a move." "Venky, Sirisha is here." "I'll go and talk to her.. you go" " Sir.." "Wait, let's implement our plan." "You go the washroom and coach me the sentences.." "Go in there, Venky" " Sir.." "Hello!" " Hey!" "Hey.. what are you doing here?" "What are you doing here?" " Me.." " I came for some fresh air.." "Came for some fresh air.." " Fresh air?" "!" "What!" "You?" " I didn't come for fresh air.." "I came to meet a friend" "I am inside!" "Ah!" "Don't reveal the name!" " Don't reveal the name!" "Why?" "Do you like the suspense?" "Tell me something!" "What shall I say?" "You say something.." "Did you like my shoes?" "What?" " But are wearing slippers!" "Did you like my shoes?" "They are fine.." "'What a strange person'!" "Tell me the truth.." "aren't they too bright and gawdy?" "But they don't look like shoes at all?" "They are slippers.." "called flip-flops in America!" "No!" "They are fine.." "So if any friend of yours wears such shoes.." "..and goes out with you for a movie or shopping, you won't feel insulted?" "I wouldn't.. what's wrong with them?" "They look really nice.." "Then I shall come in these shoes.." "why don't you join me for dinner?" "Where shall we go?" "To the Taj or..." "Not now, sir.." "my friend is waiting outside.." "I thought you will get angry on seeing me.." "Regarding the marriage proposal.." "..I am not at ease with myself." "I want some more time to take a decision.." "You don't think about that.." "We shall go for a dinner once more meanwhile.." "We may do so.. but just had my lunch!" "A dinner once more?" "I don't want it" " But I agreed at once when you suggested.." "You should agree when I ask for it" "That is the rule" "I can't follow the rule.." "will pay a fine if needed.." "That is true too" "But I don't want it." "Things will get complicated unnecessarily" "Trust me.. nothing extravagant!" "Ok.." "I too have something to tell you" "By the way.." "you were mentioning a friend earlier" "By the way.." "you were mentioning a friend earlier" "Who is that friend?" " Who is that friend?" "Is he handsome?" " Is he handsome?" "Do you like him very much?" "Your boyfriend?" " Nothing like that, sir." "We are just good friends, that's all" "Nothing like that.." "he belongs to a family I know.." "Ok then.." "Friday 7 pm at Taj Banjara.." "Ok then.." "Friday 7 pm at Taj Banjara.." "You are forcing me into it.." "let me finish this first!" "Thanks Venky, it all happened because of you" "I shall see you in office tomorrow.." "Leaving now, see you." "Sorry, I got delayed." "Were you bored?" " No.." "I was talking to a friend who dropped by" "He is so funny!" "It takes a minute to guess what he is saying" "How do you know him?" " Through a marriage.." "I met him at a marriage.." "But why did you want to check proposals at a temple?" "I am 25 now.." "You know that my feet are always grounded" "I'm very practical!" "Yeah!" "I know that quite well!" "And you said your eyes are always looking at the sky.." "What happened to your dream of becoming a news reader?" "Listen, I have to go.." "When do we meet again?" " Friday, 7 pm.." "Friday, 7 pm.." "I have some other thing to attend" "Ok then.. go to attend that thing.." "Prabha, shall we tell Gopal Rao that you liked Uday proposal?" "Or we shall seek any other proposal if you wish" "But you won't find a better one than this" "Don't look for any other proposal, sis-in-law." "Shall we fix the marriage dates then?" " I'll marry Venky and none else" "But how?" "I'm going to meet Venky today and ask clearly" "What shall we say if Uday's side calls up today?" "I'm going to meet Uday too today" "I'll tell him clearly" " No, Prabha!" "There can be confusion but not double clarity at the same time." "Give me a week more, brother" "I don't know what you will do" "If you don't decide within a week, I shall do what I like" "Hello.." " It's me.." " It's me here too!" "Venky, please." "I want to speak something with you" "I don't mind even if you get angry" "Will you please meet me once?" " Sure!" "I have a holiday next week." "Shall we meet then?" "Venky!" "I don't have that much time." "I have to meet you urgently." "We shall meet today." "I don't have any important engagement." "I will cancel it for you." "Shall we meet at 7 o'clock?" " Not needed." "You can look after your work." "Let us meet at 9 o'clock." "Bye, Prabha." "Who is it?" "Prabhavati from Vizag?" "Where did you meet her again?" "I went to marriage looks the other day." "Oh, marriage looks?" "!" "Will you invite us for the marriage at least?" "I will take you too if she invites me." "Okay?" "What do you mean?" "Sir?" " Venky!" "Did you write a love letter before?" "Why did you ask that, sir?" "Nothing." "I want you to write one for me." "Oh, no!" "Why would I write a love letter to you, sir?" "If necessary, you write it yourself." "I will sign it." "You should write the letter and I will sign it." "I want to give it to Sirisha during dinner tonight." "Is that so, sir?" "I cannot do that, sir." "You are the one who is love then how can I write the letter?" "I will love the girl and you love the letter." "I know it will come wonderfully." "Sir?" " Don't say anything." "Just write it." "Show some teamwork." ""There is no doubt, your beautiful smile.."" ""..brought this excitement."" ""There is no doubt, your shyness.."" ""..is driving me towards you."" ""There is no doubt, your sweet voice.."" ""..fills my heart with happiness."" ""My heart is floating high in the air."" ""When I think about you, my dear."" ""I want to walk with you like a companion.."" ""..this is the request of my heart expressed in this letter."" ""There is no doubt, your beautiful smile brought this excitement."" ""There is no doubt, your shyness.."" ""..is driving me towards you."" "Hi, Venky!" "Do you think she would come?" "What should I do if she doesn't come?" "You can have the order parcelled if she doesn't come, sir." "Not that." "Should I give her the letter as soon as she comes or before she leaves?" "This is not some movie ticket to show as soon as we enter." "This is a letter." "You have to give it romantically before she leaves." "Sir, what will you have?" "Okay." "Okay." ""Black clouds are forming.."" "Venky!" "Venky!" "Here she comes." "Yes." "Oh!" "Hi!" ""Black clouds are forming.."" "Why do you always keep a bluetooth in your ear?" "Actually.." " Like the Chakra in Lord Vishnu's hands.." "Like the Chakra in Lord Vishnu's hands.." "Like the Trident in Lord Shiva's hands.." " Like the Trident in Lord Shiva's hands" "I keep bluetooth in my ears." "You speak wonderfully." "You have a saint sense of humor." "Really?" " Yes." "Thank you." "For a new friendship." "What is new in this?" "This is fourth time we are meeting." "Correct!" "But I have a confession to make." "Difference!" "This is not a church." "I am not a Father!" "But you must hear my prayer." "I said some lies in the beginning of our friendship." "Interesting." "Go on." "Actually.." "I am.." "..an ordinary man." "I know that Md." "Rafi is a singer." "But I don't know about his songs." "I used to think painter Ravi Varma is related to director Ram Gopal Varma." "I tell the PA to book the tickets when it comes to travelling.." "..but not so interested." "But I lied to you." "But I lied to you." "What for?" " Because.." "I like you." "Sir!" "Should I bring you something?" "Mr. Uday!" "I don't know how to tell you.." "Oh, no!" "Just idly!" "Oh, no!" "Just idly." "Idly?" "!" "Idly!" "I..d.." "I..y.." "I do love you." "I do love you." "Oh!" "Mr. Uday!" "How to say this.." "I went to spend summer holidays with my granny five years back." "Idly will be nice, sir." "That is our speciality." "Guntur?" "Uncle?" "Guntur?" "Uncle?" "Vizag!" "Grandma!" "Oh, I too want to tell you something." "I have attended three marriages after meeting you." "I thought about the same thing in every marriage." "Is it how to marry me?" "Hey!" "Actually why.." "When Sirisha is there, how could this groom marry that bride?" "That was my doubt." "Do you know why they did that?" "Because they didn't see you." "But I saw Sirisha." "It's true." "From the moment I met you.." "..everything I could think.." "..is you and only you." "That is why.." "..I am not able to see anyone else." " I am not able to see anyone else." "Why are you looking at me like that?" "There is something on your face." "Is it gone?" " No!" "Now?" " No." "There is beauty on your face." "Sir!" "Do you want ginger chutney or coconut chutney?" "Oh, beauty cannot go even if you wipe it." "Beauty cannot go even if you wipe it." "Sir!" "Do you want ginger chutney or coconut chutney?" "What is beauty?" "Hey!" " Sir!" "Do you want ginger chutney or coconut chutney?" "Beauty means.." "Give it." " Do you want ginger chutney or coconut chutney?" "Beauty means.." "Hey, give it back." " Sir!" "Do you want ginger chutney or coconut chutney?" "Beauty means.." "Beautiful eyes, nose, lips.." "So, beauty means what you see outside." "Beauty means what you see outside?" "Anybody?" "Anybody?" "Beauty means what you see outside?" "No, not only what appears.." "..but I believe kidneys, liver and lungs will also be beautiful." "I don't understand." "Sir, ginger chutney or.." " Idiot!" "I am sorry, Uday." "I don't know how to tell you this." "In Vizag.." " Ginger chutney or coconut chutney.." " You.." "I will fall at your feet, don't tell me anything." "I will fall at your feet, don't tell me anything." "No, Uday!" "I cannot let you wait.." "..I feel very bad." "I hate myself for this." "I am not able to look straight into your eyes." "Your eyes are.." "..very beautiful." "Just like fish." "Your eyes are also nice." " My eyes?" "I don't think so." "But when I look at your eyes.." "But when I look at your eyes.." "Sir!" "Do you want coconut chutney or ginger chutney?" "I'll eat one with coconut chutney.." "..and the other with ginger chutney." "Would you mind?" "I'll eat one with coconut chutney.." "..and the other with ginger chutney." "Would you mind?" "What?" "!" "Sorry!" "You fool!" "Oh, no!" "I am sorry." "I am sorry." "No!" "No!" "It's okay." "I have to meet a friend at 9 o'clock." "Very important." "Then let us meet again tomorrow." "Not possible." "My family members are going out." "I must look after the aquarium." "Bye!" "Venkateswara Rao asked me to come at 7.30pm." "This girl is with him." "Something is wrong." "You forgot about letter, sir." "Siri!" "Siri!" "Siri!" "Siri!" "Siri!" "All that I couldn't tell you directly are written.." "I mean wrote them and signed." ""I am under the moonlight, but it is very warm.."" ""..when I think about you."" ""No matter where I am.."" "".." "I remember only you."" ""Your eyes entered into my dream.."" ""..and showed me a new world."" ""After knowing the truth that sleep has deserted me.."" ""..my heart is seeking your shelter."" ""Like a companion.."" ""..walk with me.."" ""..this is a request I made through this letter."" ""I am under the moonlight, but it is very warm.."" ""..when I think about you."" "Come, Prabha!" " Venky!" "Don't play games with me." "Please." "If you are angry with me, let us finish it later." "Anger?" "How can I be angry with you when I don't even think about you?" "I like you a lot." "Me too." "I too like me a lot." "I know that you like me too." "Is that why.." "..you are looking for other matches?" " Venky!" "Please.." "I always think about those summer holidays." "Most beautiful two months of my life." "Venky!" "If you are with me, rest of my life will also be like that." "I really believe it." " It has been many days." "Had I committed some crime then, I would have been released by now." "But I am unable to get rid of you." "I don't have time to argue with you." "I will ask you straight." "Will you marry me?" "Please!" "Sorry, Prabha!" "Did you see this letter?" "How beautifully he wrote it?" "I read it three times while coming here." "Why?" "Do you have to return it tomorrow?" "Shut up!" "There are people who love me a lot." "But I was longing for you." "Go and marry him then." "Go!" ""Did you hear the voice of the birds chirping?"" ""The shower that clouds bring to the earth.."" ""..is coming out of my eyes."" ""No matter what happens or what I do, can I sit quiet?"" ""I am not able to move ahead."" ""My heart is being crushed between my love and your hatred."" ""For everything that has happened.."" ""..my heart is sending this silent letter of apology."" "I have won." "Hello!" " Prabha!" "Don't forget to give food to fishes." "Okay." " Milkman will come." "I kept the vessel outside." "Okay." "Think about Uday too." "Sis-in-law!" "One minute!" "Hello, angel!" "Why are you here?" "You said that there wouldn't be anyone at home today." "So I came here." "I am in a bad mood now." " Boss!" "Finish it quickly." "There is no battery." " I will not stay for too long." "Battery is about to finish." "You know what.." "I am sorry." "Thank you for being so patient." "Friends?" "Come inside." " Thank you." "I have read your letter." " Really?" " Yes." "Did you like it?" " Yes." " I didn't read it yet." "What do you mean?" " I wrote it but didn't read it." "Oh!" "Sorry!" "I didn't offer you coffee." "Like to have some chips and tea?" "Okay." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" " Venky!" "Hello!" " Boss!" "Where are you?" "Signal is not reaching." "Venky!" "Venky?" "Venky!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Venky?" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Venky!" "Hello!" "I thought of proposing her tonight." "But there is no signal in the balcony." "And there is no charging in your phone." "What should I do, Venky?" "Sir!" "I have another bad news for you." "Talk time is also less in my phone." "Don't you have any balance?" "You just cut the phone." "I will call you." "No, Sirisha is here." "Keep talking." "You are strange." "Why don't you come here and say something?" "How long can I talk when talk time is less?" "Come and sit here." "I always like to sit here." "These plants.." "..this cold breeze.." "..full moon and it's silvery light.." "..what else do we need?" " It would have been nice if we had cell phone signal." "What happened to you?" "To tell you the truth.." "..the way you revealed your feelings to me.." "..I liked it a lot." "Thank God!" "Didn't you like me?" "I didn't say that." "I couldn't react because of the situation I was in." "What did you like in me?" "Should I tell you now?" " Yes." "Let us speak about it at some other time under some cell tower." "But everything is written in the letter." "Nuisance!" "The thing I like the most in you is your way of talking." "Oh!" " Very funny." "Please!" "Not in the letter.." "..I want to hear you saying it." "There is no battery, balance and signal." "Forget about talking and let me do this." "Please.." "Leave me." " Just a minute." "Hey, what are you doing?" "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "I love you, Siri." "I wanted to put this ring and make you agree to our marriage." "But I did something else in tension." "Sorry!" "Please!" "I like you a lot." "Please forgive me and try to understand." "Or understand and then forgive me." "No matter what the sequence, do those two things." "Please!" " Get out of my house." "Venky!" "This is terrible!" "Everything is destroyed." "Lower your voice, sir." "What happened?" " I thought of putting the ring on her but.." "O my God!" " Siri!" " Sir!" " Siri!" " Wait, sir." "She will ask why I behaved like that." "Please, Venky!" "Please help me." "Sir!" "Light is dim here." "She cannot see who is speaking." "I will handle it." "Leave it to me." "Leave it to me." "Sir!" "Sir!" "Please!" "Call out for her." " Siri!" "Loudly!" " Siri!" "She is out." "What should I do?" "Say sorry." " I am sorry, Venky!" "Not to me." "I am sorry, Siri." "Why did you do that?" "Because I am a fool." "Because he is a fool." "Who is he?" " I mean.. me.." "Do something, Venky!" "Please!" " Ah?" "!" "Siri!" " Siri!" "Why did you change your voice?" "I change my voice when I sing." "You asked me why I like you." "Now I will tell you." "Listen!" ""I cannot say that I didn't see more beautiful girls than you."" ""But no matter how many beauties.."" "".." "I see my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""When I thought for reason.."" "".." "I don't know why this happened and is very confusing."" ""I cannot say that I didn't see more beautiful girls than you."" ""But no matter how many beauties I see.."" ""..my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""No matter if you get angry.."" ""..or looked at me in anger.."" "".." "I felt everything was wonderful."" ""Yes, it is."" ""This is some kind of madness."" ""I agree if anyone says that."" ""But even then, I cannot stop my heart from loving you even more."" ""If everyone dreams about movie stars.."" ""..and want to marry only them.."" "".." "I don't think there would be so many happy couples in this world."" ""If one looks you with my eyes, they will find.."" ""..that you are the only beauty in this world."" ""Even if I say so, if everyone wants to see.."" ""..you with my eyes, I cannot allow that."" ""I cannot say that I didn't see more beautiful girls than you."" ""But no matter how many beauties I see.."" ""..my heart didn't have this feeling before."" ""When I thought for reason, I don't know.."" ""..why this happened and is very confusing."" "Why didn't you tell this a while ago?" "Tell me why I didn't." "When you are in front of me.." "..not only with you.." "..it is very difficult even to speak to myself." "Very difficult, Siri." "Hey, make it simple." "I am sorry for throwing you out." "Will you come upstairs once?" "Please!" "If you say that you will marry me.." "If you say that you will marry me." " Huh?" "Venky!" "Just now a war is over." "Why do you start another one?" "Will you.." "..marry me?" "I love you." "I love you." "Let us get married happily." "Let us get married happily." "Stop it." "Just come here." "We can think later." "Wonderful!" "It seems she will agree if I ask again." "Shall I?" "I am coming." " She is almost agreed." "Yes!" "Thank you, Venky!" "Thank you so much!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Shit!" "Where did you go?" "I know everything." "Why are you cheating yourself and also Prabhavati?" "And also cheating Mr. Uday.." " Not so many cheatings, mom." "I really don't like Prabhavati." "Hey, you don't have any reason to like her." "Is that true?" "Yes, mom." "Then what is this, my son?" "If people think about marrying to movie stars.." "You read the name wrong, mom." "It's Kareena." " Than what?" "Mom!" "I am very close to fulfilling father's dream." "Don't say anything at this time." "You innocent fool!" "If he make you news reader in his channel after this.." "Prabhavati will come and ask Mr. Uday.." "..why is Venky, who came to see her.." "..working in his office, what will he say then?" "Do you think he is using me, mom?" "He is just playing with you." "Listen!" "You can read news in some other channel if not in this." "But can you marry some other girl than Prabhavati?" "You make friendship with many girls.." "..but you never spoke about them like you speak about Prabhavati." "Listen to me and do something quickly." "Hey, congratulations!" " What for?" "First bulletin of the evening news is today." "Go and get ready." "I heard that boss's marriage is fixed." "Oh, no!" "Venky!" "Resign this job.." "..and become a marriage broker." "Aren't you ashamed to do such things?" "Hey, Venky!" "Come on in!" "You know?" "I am the happiest man under the sun today." "Why did you come here now?" "I have to go out." "I have an important engagement." "Engagement?" "Small shopping with Sirisha, engagement.." "My engagement." "Tomorrow is my engagement with Sirisha." "I have to tell you something, sir." " Are you resigning?" "Yes, sir." "Vamanrao is coming to tell you the truth." "To tell the truth.." "Vamanrao is sitting in front of you." "Sorry, Mr. Vamanrao." "Boss will give you an opportunity." "Just wait for a while." " Innocent Kalyani!" "I am a practical man." "You forgot your pants." "We should spend money for the clothes that appear on screen." "There is no need to buy something when do not appear on screen." "It is a waste." "Vamanrao is coming to you to tell you the truth." "So the Sirisha whom you loved is my Prabhavati, sir." "Venky!" "You can get any girl because of your talent." "I doubt that you have many girlfriends." "If your girlfriends form a human chain on hearing your marriage news.." "..it will be as long as Mahatma Gandhi road." "Listen." "Leave Sirisha to me." "No, sir!" "The only girl whom I loved is Prabhavati." "Venky!" "This is my order." "If you don't leave Sirisha to me, I will dismiss you." "You don't have to since I am resigning." "Do you remember, three years back.." "..I appointed you here because of your anchoring.." "..in college anniversary function." "I gave you an opportunity to fulfill your dream." "Ungrateful guy!" "Do you know what loyalty is?" "I spoke nicely just because you helped me." "Or else I hate you." "Chit-chatting with ladies in the office, disrespect for seniors.." "..but come on time for the salary." "You say that you are poor at expressing your feelings." "But you expressed your hatred on me very well, sir." "It is because I hate you a lot." "My hatred made me speak like that." "If you really love Prabhavati, your love would have made you express it." "But you cannot express your love." "That is because you didn't love." "But I can." "I will go and express my love to Prabhavati immediately." "I don't want this evening news reader post." "And I don't want the salary which comes in the middle of the month." "Please leave me, sir." "I will take care of my life." "Sir!" "Four years back Prabhavati liked me." "What about four years after?" "Even after four years, she liked me who reflected in your talk." "How sad?" "But Sirisha is going to marry me and only me." "But I won't let her." "I will go and tell the truth to Prabhavati." "Leave me!" "Leave me, sir." "I said Leave me." "Hey!" "Hey!" "How dare you hit me?" "You!" "You!" " Hey!" "Hey!" "Sir!" "Leave me, sir!" "Sir!" "Sir!" "Leave me!" "Please, sir!" "Leave me." "Sir!" "Sir!" "Leave me, sir!" " Now, this." "Sir!" "You can do whatever you want but Prabhavati is mine." "Is Prabhavati yours?" "How dare you turn against me?" "You will stay like this till my engagement with Sirisha is over." "I will think what to do with you till marriage later." "Sir!" " Yes?" " Our first news bulletin starts in an hour." "We can take care of everything once Venky is here." "It is Vamanrao and not Venky." "Why is that, sir?" " Venky has resigned." "He didn't even inform the program director." "I told Vamanrao to get ready." "You make everything ready." "Venky!" "Venky!" "Are you here?" "I still doubt it." "If you are inside, knock with your left foot." "Right foot at least." "Please!" "I saw him going inside." "What is it?" "You forgot your bluetooth?" "I understood the way, so I wanted to manage myself." "Shoes!" "Shall we buy some shoes?" "How many times should I tell you not to pull your shirt like that?" "I should have some signature moment." "Today you are not saying anything." "Is there some problem?" "What can anyone say anything after being tied?" "I mean my mouth." "Today is the first bulletin of our news program.." "Still I came to meet you.." "I like you that much.." "Is it true?" " Yes.." "See?" "Idea!" "Welcome, Madam" " Please tune into UBTV please." "No problem, Madam." "It is Vaman Rao presenting you the news." "This is the first news program being presented.." "..by UBTV and we assure our viewers.." "..that we'll make all out efforts to bring you the truth.." "..and shall be in the forefront on that count." "When opposition party is offering 2000 bucks for a vote.." "..the ruling party is offering only 1500 bucks.." "Claiming this, people from Ponnur mandal in Guntur district.." "..Pochipalem village residents have started an agitation" "They have boycotted voting." "But still there was 75 percent voting.." "He is Vaman Rao and has a fantastic voice.." "Famour cine star Kirit Kumar.." "..if you want to know what his second son Virat Kumar is doing.." "..keep watching the evening news!" "By God!" "How hard is this job of news reading, Subba Reddy!" "Hey, check it at the top!" " Kalyani!" "Could anyone see my shorts when I was reading the news?" "Tell your Venky that pants are not important for news reading.." "One must have courage in his heart.." "We are live on air, sir.." " Live!" "Is it not a break?" "!" "Welcome back to evening news.." "Famous cine star Kirit Kumar's.." "..second son Virat Kumar is also.." "..set to enter the cine field in near future." "For the same, to give a fillip to his acting, he is learning.." "..horse-riding, karate, gymnastics.." "..culturing silk worms etc.." "and for the same he went to Hollywood." "Now we present business news.." " What?" "!" "The stock market has crashed in a heap.." "On monday, Nifty hit its first block.." "..at 5722." "The first support value is 5544." "Why is he getting so confused?" "Stock market news is like that!" "For several prominent cities across the country.." "..we bring you the weather bulletin." "Venky, this is your chance!" "1-2-3.. roll!" "I am N Venkateswara Rao with the weather updates.." "Oh.. shucks!" " Venky!" "What is Venky doing there?" "First, we go to Delhi!" "Normally the max temp over here should be about 25." "And the min hovers around 15.." "I never been to Delhi.. but it is here that my Prabhavati was born.." "That's why I like that city a lot.." "Next come Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.." "Let's drop these and come to Vizag.." "I don't know much about the weather here.." "..but met Prabhavati here." " Hey, your son-in-law!" "What is he doing on Uday TV?" "One afternoon to see movie Jalsa at Mourya theatre.." "C-16 and C-17 the seat numbers.." "I bought the tickets in black for a 100 each.." "The two months that summer we roamed all over Vizag.." " I'm coming.." "Dolphin's nose, RK beach, Kailashgiri etc.." "But after that for two years, the summers of 2011 and 2012.." "..I went back to Vizag but Prabhavati didn't come." "What?" "!" "You went to Vizag for me?" "!" "After four years, I and Prabha.." "..met in Hyderabad again under unexpected circumstances." "Prabha!" "Your eyes must have seen a different person.. but your heart saw the real me." "I still love you, Prabha.." "It is me who you liked.." "..and it only you that I love." "I don't want to leave you this time." "Kalyani!" "It was because some commented about you at the beach.." "..that I picked a fight there.." "What was the result.. a broken jaw!" "May I tell you something?" "If they comment about you again, I will fight them once more!" "You know why?" "I still love you!" "You asked me many times that day on Necklace road.." "..I couldn't tell you that I like you." "But today I tell you.." "I love you so much, Prabha.." "I really love you.." "in the past, present and forever!" "Shiri!" "Shiri!" "I want to talk to you.." "She is going away!" "Hey.. who are you after all?" "!" "Chinta Gurumurty!" " What do I care who you are?" "!" "Why are you obstructing me?" "Hey, what is the problem with you?" "!" "No marriage or marriage proposals!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Let me out!" "Auto!" "Will you take me to UBTV office?" "I will take you to Ajay TV office.." " What?" "!" "I know Hyderabad auto guys well.." "Let me talk to him!" "Auto, will you take you to Ajay TV office?" " I'll go to UBTV.." "Get in now!" "Take her to that place.." "H4.. kids.." "their school in Edison!" " Let's go!" "Marriage.." "remember me?" " Go fast!" " This is Goa!" "If Prabha agrees, we'll have our honeymoon at this place." "Else it could be Shimla or even Manali." "Wherever Prabhavati wants to go." "Venky!" "So it is you who ran the entire story in the background!" "Yes, I'm not only Venky but also very cocky!" "You scoundrel!" "Ah!" " How dare you?" "!" "Is it you who wrote that letter too?" "The script is mine.." "..but directed and produced by my boss!" " Boss!" "Why are you beating me?" "You!" "Would you play with my feelings like this?" "I had no other option - Why did you tell so many lies?" "I had to do it, Prabha." "It was you who wrote that song too, right?" "Such lies!" " What about you?" "Didn't you ask him to come up?" "It is you that I called!" " Is it?" "!" "But it wasn't I who came up." "Neither was it me who put the ring on your finger." "And when I proposed the Friday meeting.." "..you had a dinner program with Mr. Uday.." "..and lied to me that you have some other work to attend!" " Venky!" "I wanted to meet Mr. Uday to reveal the truth to him." "Guys.. just relax!" "Phone my Pinky.." "This is great.." "Hello!" " Sir, our program is a great hit!" "Is it so?" " Our TRP ratings have beaten the competition!" "Thank you!" "Thank you very much!" "Sir!" "Did you see this?" "Please dismiss him immediately, sir!" "Hello!" " My boy!" "Did you see the TV today?" " I did.." "That's why I came to dismiss him right away!" "You fool!" "Did you see how many people watched the news today?" "Venky has become a big star now!" "We'll get a very bad name if we dismiss him now.." "What about his treachery?" " Our TRP ratings are higher than competition!" "TRP ratings are important than personal issues.." "Is that your final say?" " Don't you agree?" "What about my situation, sir?" "Are you suffering financially?" "Are you going through family problems?" "Is you health on a thin line?" "If worshipped properly even lord Shani gives blessings." "So buy today the yantra for appeasing lord Shani!" "It will cost you only Rs.199 if you order immediately.." "Cameraman, hope it is presented well.." "I take your leave.." "For latest news updates stay tuned into UBTV." "Venky!" "So you have become a news reader at last!" "What did you do to your boss?" " What else?" "I can't shed him midway!" "There is something stuck to your face.." "What is it?" "Is it gone?" " No.." "A little towards the right.." "over there.." "Beauty got stuck to your face.." "Oh.. but beauty can't be wiped away from the face!" "Beauty.. is it?" "Action!" ""Find it.. find it.."" ""..find out what you feel.."" ""In the beginning and in the end.."" ""..the difference between your feelings."" ""When you reach your goal.."" ""..find the joy that you experience."" ""The happiness of your friendship.."" ""..cannot be expressed in words."" ""Is that so?"" ""I don't know!"" ""Is that so?"" ""I don't know!"" ""Is that so?"" ""I don't know!""

"FANTASTIC MR. FOX" "He gave me some pills." "I told you." "You probably just ate some bad gristle." "We take the short cut or the scenic route?" "Let's take the short cut." "But the scenic route is so much prettier." " Okay, let's take the scenic route." " Great." "It's actually slightly quicker, anyway." "Thank you." " What is a squab?" " You know what a squab is." "It's like a pigeon, I suppose." "Should we go through the hole under the horse fence or climb the rail over the bridle path?" "Well, I guess the horse fence would be a little safer." "But the bridle path puts us out right next to the squab shack." "Okay." "What's wrong?" "You're acting all skittish." "Don't worry." "I've been stealing birds for a living since before I could trot." "By the way, you look unbelievably beautiful tonight." "You're practically glowing." "Maybe it's the lighting." "What's that?" " What?" "I think it's a fox-trap!" " Look at this." " No, get away from there." "Is it spring-loaded?" "Yeah... yeah, I guess if you come from over there, ...and you're standing at this door to the squab shack, ...this little gadget probably triggers the..." " What!" "?" " Move out of the way, darling." " That's right where it's going to land." " Stop it!" "Let's go!" "No, it just falls straight right down..." " I guess it's not spring-loaded." " I'm pregnant." "Wow!" "We're gonna have a cub." " Honey, that's great news." " If we're still alive tomorrow..." "If we're still alive tomorrow morning, ...I want you to find another line of work." "Okay." "Does anybody actually read my column?" " Do your friends ever talk about it?" " Of course." "In fact, Rabbit's ex-girlfriend just said to me last week," ""I should read Foxy's column," but they don't get the Gazette." " Ash!" "Let's get cracking!" " Why would they?" "It's a rag-sheet." " I'm sick." " You're not sick." " I have a temperature." " You don't have a temperature." " I don't want to go." " Hurry up." "You're going to be late." "I love the way you handled that." "Your cousin Kristofferson's coming on the sixth." "I want you to be extra nice to him ...because he's going through a very hard time right now." "Where's he gonna sleep?" "We're gonna make a bed for him in your room." "I can't spare the space." "Put him in Dad's study." "Dad's study is occupied by Dad." "I don't want to live in a hole anymore." "It makes me feel poor." "We are poor..." "but we're happy." "Comme-ci, comme-ca." "Anyway, the views are better above ground." "Honey, I'm seven non-fox-years old now." "My father died at seven and a half." "I don't want to live in a hole anymore, ...and I'm going to do something about it." "Well, I'm off." "Have a good day, my darlings!" "You know, Foxes live in holes for a reason." "Hm, yes, I know." "What're you wearing?" "Why a cape with the pants tucked into your socks?" "I guess he's just different." "Oh, hey, Mr. Fox." "Yes." "Here it is." "This is the tree." "Come on over." "This is..." "Uh, I'm gonna call you back." "Obviously, it's first growth, indigenous." "Original dirt floor, good bark, skipping stone hearth... as you can see." "Kylie?" "Kylie!" "What'd I tell you?" "I'm showing the property." " You're not supposed to be here." " Oh, what time is it?" "I'm sorry." "This is Kylie." "He's the super." "He's a little..." "What's in the bucket, Mr. Kylie?" "Kylie?" "Kylie!" " Just minnows." "Try one?" " Certainly." "Thank you." "It's not exactly an evergreen, is it?" "Aren't there any pines on the market this side of the river?" "But, pines are pretty hard to come by in your price range." "What?" "What?" "What's that?" "May I ask what you do for a living, Mr. Fox?" "I used to steal birds, but now I'm a newspaper man." "Oh, sure." "I've seen your by-line." "Good afternoon, gentlemen." " You're going?" "You're..." " Oh, and Kylie..." "Thank you for the minnow." "It was superb." "Don't buy this tree, Foxy." "You're borrowing at nine and a half with no fixed rate, plus moving into the most dangerous neighborhood in the country ...for someone of your type of species." "You're exaggerating, Badger." "I'm sugar-coating it, man!" "This is Boggis, Bunce, and Bean!" "Three of the meanest, nastiest, ugliest farmers in the history of this valley!" "Really?" "Tell me about them." "Alright." "Walt Boggis is a chicken farmer." "Probably the most successful in the world." "He weighs the same as a young rhinoceros." "He eats three chickens every day for breakfast, lunch, supper, and dessert." "That's twelve in total, per diem." "Nate Bunce is a duck and goose farmer." "He's approximately the size of a pot-bellied dwarf, ...and his chin would be under water in the shallow end of any swimming pool on the planet." "His food is home-made doughnuts with smashed-up goose livers injected into them." "Frank Bean is a turkey and apple farmer." "He invented his own species of each." "He lives on a liquid diet of strong, alcoholic cider which he makes from his apples." "He's as skinny as a pencil, as smart as a whip and possibly the scariest man currently living." "The local human children sing a kind of eerie little rhyme about him." "Here, listen to this." "Boggis, Bunce, and Bean." "One fat, one short, one lean." "These horrible crooks, so different in looks, ...were nonetheless equally mean." "In summation, I think you just got to not do it, man." "That's all." "I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, ...but I'm gonna ignore your advice." "The cuss you are!" "The cuss am I?" " Are you cussing with me?" " No, you cussing with me?" " Don't cussing point at me!" " You can cuss yourself!" " You're not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!" " Don't cuss with me!" " Just buy the tree." " Okay." "Take a left and then to the right." "Set them down." "Just another batch." "Help that other guy over there." "Lift with legs not with your back." "Flip it sideways." "Don't try to be a superman here." "Alright." "We got two circles." "We got the yellow circle and the green circle." "Let's just keep them separate." "Hold it right there." "We need to bring about two percent more in." "Good." "Here we go." "A little bit more." "A little bit more." "That's good." "Let's just that bottom structure resettled in." "Let's bring in the side unit." "Watch out!" "Try to be careful, you guys." "Don't... don't peel away the bark." "Hi." " Hi." "He's slightly younger, but he's a cuss of a lot bigger." "That's just genetics, I guess." "Ash has a littler body-type." "Go!" "Watch this, Dad!" "Well, well..." "Good jump, Ash!" "Remember to keep your tail tucked!" "Still painting thunderstorms, I see." "Do you still feel poor?" "Lesser." "Wow!" "Wow!" "Look at that!" "This kid's a natural!" "I'm speechless, Kristofferson!" "Plus, he knows karate." "Do you think I'm an athlete?" " What are you talking about?" " Well, you know, I think I'm an athlete, ...and sometimes I feel like you guys don't see me that way." "What's the sub-text here?" "Is he praying?" "I think that's yoga." "How long is Kristofferson supposed to stay with us?" " Until your uncle gets better." " Right, but roughly how long do we plan to give him on that?" "Double-pneumonia isn't even really that big of a deal, is it?" "Lower your voice, Ash." "Who am I, Kylie?" " Who how?" "What, now?" " Why a fox?" "Why not a horse or a beetle or a bald eagle?" "I'm saying this more as, like, existentialism, you know?" "Who am I, and how can a fox ever be happy without a, uh you forgive the expression, a chicken in its teeth?" "I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds illegal." "Here, put this bandit hat on." "Maybe you're a medium." "Take it off for a min." "And don't wear it around the house." "And so it begins." "Do you mind if I slide my bedroll slightly out from under the train set?" "It's hard to sleep in that corkscrew position." "There's a lot of attitudes going on around here." " Don't let me get one." " No, it's only just that my spinal-cord" "Sleep wherever you want, man." "Here, take my bed." "I'll just, uh, I'll crawl under the book-case." "Who cares if I get splinters in my ears?" " Never mind." " Oh, you're gonna pout about it?" "Because I've had it up to... here!" "With the sad house guest routine." "Good night." "I used to do this professionally, and I was very successful at it." "I had to get out of it for personal reasons, ...but I've decided to secretly do one last big job on the sly." "I'm bringing you in as my secretary and personal assistant." "Okay!" "This is actually kind of a big deal, so don't just say, "OK!"" " Okay." "Well, thank you." " I'm gonna tape this for my records, ...so don't make a lot of sounds." "Meaning stop rocking." "Master Plan." "Phase one." "Side A." "We'll start with Boggis's Chicken House." "Number one." "His only security is a few old hunting beagles and a low stone wall." "Now a word about beagles..." "Never look a beagle directly in the eye." " And if..." " Why not?" "Beagles aren't so tough." "Yeah?" "Well, first of all, one of these beagles has chronic rabies, ...which he's on medication for, and if you get bit by him you have to get shots in your stomach for six months." "And, second..." "listen, I'm not going to justify this to you." "Just pay attention and stop interrupting me." "I'm taping this." "I picked some blueberries, and laced each one with ten milligrams of high-potency sleeping powder." "Enough to tranquilize a gorilla." " How do we make them eat it?" " Beagles love blueberries." "Remember: they aren't very smart, but they're incredibly paranoid ...so always kill a chicken in one bite." "One bite, get it?" "Are you listening to me?" "I look into your eyes and I can't tell whether you're getting anything I'm saying." "Magnesium." " Magnesium!" " Sorry." "Pipette." " Pipette." " Oh, sorry." "Potassium tri..." "What are you looking at?" "Oh, no." "Why's your cousin such a wet-sandwich?" " I beg your pardon?" " What's that mean?" "That means I didn't understand what you just said." " A wet-sandwich?" " Yeah, a wet-sandwich." "He's too short." "He dresses like a girl." "He's different." "Are you a bully?" "You're starting to sound like a bully." "Watch this." "You've just destroyed the whole experiment." "We'd better extinguish this magnesium." "Stand back." "Wow!" "I like your ears." " Mine?" " Thank you!" "I like your spots!" " Really?" "I used to cover them up." "But, you know..." "You're supposed to be my lab partner." " I am!" " No, you're not." "You're disloyal." "A few beagles, as we discussed, but we're ready for that." "Yeah, but back in the old days, didn't they used to do a thing where if somebody saw a wolf, and..." "Wolf?" "What wolf?" "Oh, nothing?" "Never mind." "Here comes the low stone wall." "Not a problem." "What the cuss?" "Where'd this giant fence come from?" " We had a master plan!" " What's this lightning bolt?" "That could mean maybe this fence might be electric." "Well, I just hope it doesn't mean thunder." "Because I have a phobia of that." "Watch this." "Beagles love blueberries!" "Didn't I tell you?" "The master plan's working again!" "Now!" "This is the tricky part." "One of us got to jump that barbed-wire, ...slide under the tire-spikes, and flip open the fence-latch." " Who's it gonna be?" " Not me." "You know who could do this part easily is Kristofferson." "That kid's like a professional, Olympic-level..." "Why don't we go around that way?" "There's no obstacles." "Yeah." "That's better." " I said one bite!" " I'm trying!" "I have a different kind of teeth from you!" "I'm an opossum!" "Give me that." "That's so grisly!" "There's blood and everything!" "Follow me." "Hey, what's the master escape plan?" "Follow me again!" "Quick!" "Give me that." "Alright." "Let's hit the five and dime on the way home!" "We need to make some fake price tags and wrap these chickens in wax-paper ...so it looks like we got them at the butcher shop!" "Where'd you get this chicken?" "I picked it up at the Five-and-Dime last night on my way back..." "It's got a Boggis Farms tag around its ankle." "Must've escaped from there before I bought it." "It's Bunce tonight!" "He's got a refrigerated smokehouse with" " a hundred geese..." " Woah!" "Woah!" "I thought you said we were only doing one last big job." "We are, but it's... not done yet." "It's a triple-header." "Let see some hustle!" "Coach, we don't have whack-bat where I'm from." "What're the rules?" "There's no whack-bat on the other side of the river!" "?" "No, we mostly just run grass sprints or play acorns." "Well, it's real simple:" "basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig-runners, ...and the player at whack-bat." "The center-tagger lights the pine-cone and chucks it over the basket, ...and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar-stick off the cross-rock." "Then the twig-runners dash back and forth until the pine-cone burns out, ...and the umpire calls "hot box"." "Finally, at the end you count up however many score-downs ...it adds up to and divide that by nine." " Got it!" " Go in for Ash." "Substitution!" "Ash, come out!" "You need a breather." "What?" "I'm out!" "What?" "I still feel good, Coach!" "Let me finish this eighth!" "No, come on." "Step out." "Step out." "Let's go." "Am I getting better, Coach?" "Well, you're sure as cuss not getting any worse." "Really?" "You think I'd end up being as good as my dad if I keep practicing?" "Your dad?" "Your dad was probably the best whack-bat player we ever had in this school." "No, you don't wanna have to compare yourself to that." "Yeah, but I think I've some of the same raw natural talent, don't you?" "You're improving." "Let's put it like that." "Hot box!" " Divide that by nine, please!" "Yeah!" "That's the first time this kid's ever swung a whack-bat?" "He really is your father's nephew, isn't he?" "Not by blood." " No?" " He's from my mother's side." "Oh, yeah." "What's that stand for?" "Huh?" "It's for..." "It's for pep." "Pep?" "It's a K." "Come on, now!" "Look alive!" "Attaboy!" "We're going steady." "What's that?" " What "what"?" "What this?" "It's nothing." "It's just some old trophy I won for being an athlete." "I'm supposed to cover this book party at some animal's nest ...in a tobacco field down the hill, ...so me and Kylie are going to hop over there and give it a whirl." " Don't wait up." " What's the book?" "Some memoir." "I'll get him to sign you a copy." "Dinner was pitch-perfect." "I spotted a couple of broken burglar bars underneath the back door to Bean's secret cider cellar." " We're breaking into Bean's house?" " Cellar." " Where he lives?" " Where he keeps the cider." " Below where he lives." " Where'd you come from?" "Go back to the tree and do your homework!" " I wanna help you steal some cider." " We're going to a book party!" "And keep your mouth shut about any cider, because no one ever said that." " Now get out of here!" " But..." "But nothing!" "You're gonna get me in a lot of trouble!" "Besides you're too little and uncoordinated." "One, two, three." "Where the cuss does that kid get off?" "Can you believe that?" "How did he get tipped off?" "You think he's going to tell on us?" "Before we go any further, from now on can you give me some kind of signal once in a while just so I know any of this is getting through to you?" " Was that it?" "Okay, fine." " There's another one." "Good." "You made it." " Anybody see you?" " I don't think so." "Here, put this bandit hat on." "I must say, I'm pleased to be invited, but I'm not sure..." " I should be doing this, Uncle Foxy!" " Why not?" "Because I don't like to be dishonest with people!" "Well, just keep your mouth shut, and it won't be a problem!" "Yeah, but I don't think he should come with us, either." "We're not taking a vote!" "You know, one time this wolf I saw..." "Wolf?" "What's with all the wolf talk?" "Can we give it a rest, for once?" " Look at all this." "Apple juice." " Apple juice?" "Apple juice?" "We didn't come here for apple juice." "This is some of the strongest, finest alcoholic cider money can buy or that can even be stolen." "It burns in your throat, boils in your stomach, ...and tastes almost exactly like pure, melted gold." "Y'all are trespassing, now." "Illegally." "Around these parts, we don't take kindly to cider poachers." "You've aged badly, Rat." "You're getting a little long in the tooth, yourself, partner." "Bean security, what?" "Why you're wearing that badge?" "What is it?" "It's my job." "How's your old lady doing?" "Do you refer to my wife?" "She was the town tart, in her day." "Wild and foot-loose and pretty as a mink stole." "Is that true?" "Of course, not." "I mean, certainly, she lived." "We all did." "It was a different time." "Let's not use a double-standard." " She marched against the..." " But town tart?" "Shut up." "That was close, Rat." "Be careful." "Oh, I'm as careful as a..." "How many jars should I bring up, Franklin?" "I don't know." "Two, I guess." "You drank three yesterday, though." "Alright, take three." "No, two's plenty." "Oh, my cuss." "Is she blind?" "I think she might have astigmatism." "Or possibly a cataract of some form." "Anyway, her eyes don't see well." "What'd I tell you?" "This kid's a natural, am I right?" "It's so good of you to come." "Lovely to see you." "You're both looking splendid." "How've you been, Walter?" "In good health, I trust?" "Nathan?" "All is well?" "Wonderful." "Any fox problems?" " Are you joking?" " It's horrible." " We're miserable." " He's laughing at us." " It's humiliating." " We're furious." "I don't even want to talk about it." "Perhaps we ought to kill him." " Well, that seems rather obvious." " He's too sneaky." "Ah, right." "Of course." "He's very clever, isn't he?" "Might be bit difficult, I suppose." "But I've already figured out where this fox lives, ...and tomorrow night we're gonna camp in the bushes, ...wait for him to come out of the hole in his tree, ...and shoot the cuss to smithereens." "How's that grab you, fellas?" "Yeah." "Well, let's see." "Why not?" "Another book party?" "Woah!" "I didn't see you, sitting in the dark over there." "Yeah, no." "Actually, there's a fire." "I just got the call." "They said maybe it's arson?" "I got to interview the marshall and see what's..." "Kylie, is he telling the truth?" "I don't want to be put in the middle of this." "Thanks, Kylie." "Why is he wearing that bandit hat?" "His ears were cold." "He's not with us." "Go back to bed." "If what I think is happening is happening it better not be." "Nice job covering for me." "Next time, you..." "All three!" "Kill him!" "We got the tail, but we missed the fox." "Petey!" "Sorry to wake you." "I can trouble you to dash out here right away with, shall we say, ...three shovels, two pick-axes, 500 rounds of ammunition and, uh a bottle of apple-cider." "It'll grow back, won't it?" " Tails don't grow back." " Tails don't grow back." " Except for lizards." "Tails don't grow back." "I'm gonna be tailless for the rest of my life." "Well, anyway, it's not half as bad as double-pneumonia, right?" "I mean, his dad's got one foot in the grave and three feet on a banana peel." "That's a lot worse than..." "Excuse me, everyone." "I'm gonna go meditate for half an hour." "You've got twenty-nine minutes to come up with a proper apology." "Me?" "Me, have an apology?" "He gets a bandit hat!" "He just got here and he got a bandit hat!" "Where's my bandit hat?" "Why didn't I get shot at?" "It's because, you, you..." "you think I'm no good at anything!" "Well, maybe you're right!" "Thanks!" "I told you not to bring him." "Why the cuss didn't I listen to my lawyer?" "At this point we'll be lucky if we can flip this tree for half of what we've already sunk into it." "I won't be able to sleep on my back for six weeks and on my stomach I feel congested." "Why the cuss didn't I listen to my lawyer?" "Because you don't listen to anybody." " What was that?" " What?" "I said..." "Wake up!" "Everybody!" "They're digging us out!" " They'll kill the children!" " Over my dead body, they will." "That's what I'm saying!" "You'd be dead, too, in that scenario!" " Well, I'm arguing against that!" " What are you talking about?" " Why are you yelling at me?" " Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "You say one thing, she says another, and it all changes back again!" "I've got it!" "There's not a moment to lose!" " Why didn't I think of this before?" " Think of what?" "We've been trapped before." "Dig!" "I think it's time for me to give us a pep talk and explain some things." " A very long time ago..." " May I have a word with you privately?" "Well, we're in a hole." "Just on the other side of this mineral deposit." "Follow me." "I'm gonna lose my temper now." " When?" " Right now." "Well, when..." "Oh, my God!" "Twelve fox-years ago, you made a promise to me... while we were caged inside that fox-trap, that if we survived you would never steal another chicken, goose, turkey, duck, ...or squab, whatever they are." "And I believed you." "Why?" "Why did you lie to me?" " Because I'm a wild animal" " You're also a husband and a father." "I'm trying to tell you the truth about myself." "I don't care about the truth about yourself." "This story is too predictable." "Predictable?" "Really?" "What happens in the end!" "?" "In the end, we all die unless you change." "Petey, listen." "Run down to the rentals department over at Malloy Consolidated and place an order for, shall we say, one Mighty Max, one Junior Spitfire, and a long-range Tornado 375 Turbo." "For immediate delivery." "Ash, are you mad at me?" "I understand if you are, and I'm sorry." "I wouldn't have ever involved your cousin if I realized you would feel this way." "It was only ever just because he's kind of a natural, I mean..." "Hey, look at him dig!" " Anyway, I'm sorry your feelings..." " You know what?" "I'm gonna put dirt in my ears." "Yeah, that's better." "I can't hear you now but keep talking." "I don't have beagle ticks, by the way." "Whoa!" "Me, neither." "Whoever said we've beagle..." "Apparently, that's what you've been telling everyone." "Beagle ticks and pelt lice." "I never said that, and you're misquoting me or somebody is, but I'm gonna get to the bottom of it." "Look, Ash, we may or may not ever see the light of day again, ...but I really like Agnes, and I think she likes me." "Great." "She's a free agent." "What do I care?" " Well, then why're you dead-set on..." " Can I ask you a question?" " You may." " What's the point of sitting on the floor... with your legs twisted into a pretzel talking to yourself for an hour and forty-five minutes?" "It's weird." "My father and I first started practicing meditation together when I was..." "Yeah?" "Well, that's great." "But I'd worry more about what that does for your reputation than whether or not you have beagle ticks or not." "I don't." "Nor pelt lice." "One of those slovenly farmers is probably wearing my tail as a necktie by now." "You're paranoid, Foxy." "Farmer, thank you." "Correct me if am misreading the data, you've successfully destroyed the scenery, but the alleged fox" "Look at Dad's tie." "What will you three prominent farmers do now?" "Well, Dan, I can tell you what we're not going to do." "We're not gonna let him go." "Stand clear, please." "Stand clear, everyone." "Contact!" "Boggis, how many men, did you got working on your farm?" " Thirty five." " Bunce?" " Thirty six." " And I've got thirty-seven." "That's..." "I'd say, a hundred and eight altogether." "Petey!" "Drop everything and assemble all hundred and eight members of our entire three combined work-forces." "We're gonna starve them out and then kill them." "Starting in, shall we say, fifteen minutes." "An estimated, a hundred and eight snipers are currently in position surrounding the demolished fox residence." "Many local animals, who'd appear to be trapped underground, ...without provisions of any kind at this point." "If I had a crystal ball, I'd predict a fairly grisly outcome to the situation." "But we stand on the scene, watching closely, ...as events continue to unfold." "This is gonna be a total cluster cuss for everybody." "How long can a fox go without food or water?" "Well, I can only answer as an opossum, ...but I don't think I can last more than another couple of hours.." "...before I get completely dehydrated and starve to death." "What's that?" " Dad?" " Not a sound." "You scared the cuss out of us!" "A lot of good animals are probably gonna die because of you." "We've been digging in circles for three days." "Half the woods have been obliterated." "Nobody can get out." "Right now my wife's huddled at the bottom of the flint-mine... with no food, no water, and twenty seven starving animal brats!" "I just want to see a little sunshine." "But you're nocturnal, Phil." "Your eyes barely even open, on a good day." "I'm sick of your double-talk." "We have rights!" "We don't like you, and we hate your dad." "Now grab some of that mud, chew it in your mouth, and swallow it." " I'm not gonna eat mud!" " Cuss, yeah, you are." "Don't do that." "Why'd you take your shoes off?" "So I don't break your nose when I kick it." "I can fight my own fights." "No, you can't." "Those farmers aren't gonna quit until they've got you and every member of your family nailed upside-down to a bloody stick with your eyes gorged out." "This is getting a little too personal." "Give me a minute." "I've got an idea." " What is it?" " It could be a good one." " Lay it on us." " It might save our lives." "Say the idea!" "Alright!" "Let's try it!" "Go to the flint-mine." "Tell Mrs. Badger, et al. that help is on the way." "Is help on the way?" "I sure as cuss hope so." "Ash, I know what it's like to feel different." "I'm not different, am I?" "We all are." "Him, especially." "But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?" "Not to me." "I'd prefer to be an athlete." "Gentlemen, this time we must dig in a very special direction." "I got to kind of feel out the vibe." "Begin." "Come on!" "I hit it slap in the middle!" "Do you get how incredible this is?" "Just... just making up one as I went along, really." "That's just weak song-writing!" "You wrote a bad song, Petey!" "We took everything." "They took everything?" "Let me call you back, Petey." " Well, they'd be anywhere by now." " They're digging right under our feet." "Well, in a sense, we've only made matters worse." "We should have stayed out of it." "I've got an idea." "I'm still not getting a signal." "Is anyboby getting any reception?" "I don't have any signal, but I've got a problem." "Crisp up those ducks." "Aye, drag those chickens." "Slow them down just a little bit, we're a little ahead." "Where are the apples?" "Stiil out?" "You still have them raw?" "Well, slice them up." "Let's get them in the pantry." "I can imagine how painful, even just emotionally, that must be for you." "Well, you know, it's not the end of the world." "Oh, but Foxy, how humiliating!" "Having your whole tail blown clean off..." "Can we drop it?" "Yeah, it's really good." "Sweet and nice." "Hey, they say you're a natural." "True or false?" " I just..." " Answer the question." " True, I guess" " Correct." "Get out of here, Agnes." "I need to have a private word with Kristofferson." " Just a minute." "She doesn't..." " I don't mind." "I'm gonna go talk to them." "Listen to me, I just had a brainstorm for something fantastic I've got to do." "But I can't do it alone." " I'm not interested." " Hear me out." "No, thanks." "I think foxes from your side of the family take unnecessary risks." "Only because they got the guts in their blood and so do we." " Was I a bit rude to Agnes?" " Yeah." "I'd probably say something I shoudn't." "I'll say something to her in a minute." " What's the brainstorm?" " In a nutshell?" "We're gonna steal back my dad's tail." "Okay, chief." " Here we go." "Well, it took a near catastrophe for all of you to finally take me up on my offer to have you over to the flint-mine for dinner." " but I guess we have..." " I'm sorry." "Maybe my invitation got lost in the mail." "Does anybody know what this badger's talking about?" "Hey, hold on." "But Clive's right." "In all seriousness." "Excuse me, B." "I guess we do have these three ugly farmers to thank for one thing:" "...reminding us to be thankful and aware of each other." "I'm gonna say it again." "Aware." "I don't feel safe." " That's because we're not." "You should probably put on your bandit hat now." "Personally, I don't have one, but I modified this tube sock." " We look good." " Yeah, we do." "Now where would you keep a prized tail, if you collected them, if that was your hobby?" "I'd probably hang it over the mantelpiece." "Right." "Good." "In fact..." "what's that smell?" "Ever tasted one of Mrs. Bean's famous nutmeg-ginger-apple-snaps?" "Well, I didn't do." "They are still warm." " We got it wrong." " What?" "It's not over the mantelpiece..." "The necktie." " Let's go." "What?" " Hang on." "I wanna do more." " She's there!" " She can't see." "Look at each other." "Here we are." "Wow!" "Now I've already had too much to drink, and I'm feeling sentimental, but I'm gonna say something, anyway, which nobody wants to admit, ...but I think is probably true." "We beat them." "We beat those farmers, and now we're triumphantly eating ...their roasted chicken, their sizzling duck, ...their succulent turkey, their foie gras de..." " Where did the boys go?" " What?" "Where?" " Ash?" "Kristofferson?" " Boys?" "Oh, my God!" "That was crazy!" "I can't believe what just happened in there." "Come on, let's go out of here!" "Let's go!" "Where are we?" "Where are we?" "Where are we?" "What?" "Kristofferson?" "What am I hearing again, baby?" "What's happening?" "Am I still paranoid?" "Cider?" "What just happened?" "Something with cider." "That was dangerous." " Is anyone hurt?" " We're all hurt!" "My entire flint-mine just got demolished." "Apple juice." "Apple juice flood." "Let's do a head-count!" "Everybody pick a buddy!" "Where did the boys go?" " Ash?" " Ash?" "Kristofferson?" "Ash!" "?" "I'm here!" "Ash!" "Who's your buddy?" " Kristofferson." " Where is he?" " I don't know." " Why not?" " I lost him!" " You lost him?" " I, uh, I was in the kitchen..." " Where were you?" " We were trying to find the necktie." " What are you talking about?" " It's my fault." " Oh, no." "Where did you that nutmeg-ginger-apple-snap?" "And why are you wearing that fake bandit hat!" "?" "We went to steal back your tail." " Kristofferson!" "Kristofferson!" " Kristofferson!" "Kristofferson!" "Wrap this wet, little mutt in a newspaper and put him in a box with some holes punched in the top." "There's only one way out of this sewer, but the manhole cover's closed, ...and there's a station wagon parked on it." "Which means we're permanently stuck down here." "You still think we beat them, Foxy?" "Badger's right." "These farmers aren't gonna quit until they catch me." "I shouldn't have lied to your face." "I shouldn't have fallen off the wagon and started secretly stealing chickens on the sly." "I shouldn't have pushed these farmers so far and tried to embarrass them ...and cuss with their heads." "I enjoyed it, but I shouldn't have done it." "And now there's only one way out." "Maybe if I hand myself over and let them kill me, ...stuff me, and hang me over their mantelpiece." "You'll do no such thing." "Darling, maybe they'll let everyone else live." "Oh, why did you have to get us into this, Foxy?" "I don't know, but I have a possible theory." "I think I have this thing where I need everybody to think..." "I'm the greatest..." "the quote-unquote fantastic Mr. Fox." "And if they aren't completely knocked-out and dazzled, ...and kind of intimidated by me, then..." "I don't feel good about myself." "Foxes traditionally like to court danger, hunt prey, ...and outsmart predators." "And that's what I'm actually good at!" "I think, at the end of the day, I'm just..." "I know." "We're wild animals." "I guess we always were." "I promise you, if I had all this to do over again," "I'd have never let you down." "It was always more fun when we did it together, anyway." " I love you, Felicity." " I love you, too." "But I shouldn't have married you." "Did I ever tell you about the time I learned we were gonna have a cub?" " In the fox-trap." " Right." " We were at gunpoint, and your mother..." " said she's pregnant." "Let me tell it, okay?" "I had no idea how we were gonna get out of this jam, and then it hit me: what do foxes do better than any other animal?" " Dig." " You're stepping on my lines." "Right, keep telling it." "So we dug." "And the whole time I put paw over paw, ...scooping dirt and pebbles with your mother digging like crazy beside me," "I kept wondering:" "who is this little boy gonna be?" " Or girl." " Or girl, right." "Because at that point we didn't know." "Ash, I'm so glad he was you." "It's not your fault..." "it's mine." "Goodbye." "Well, I guess we should, uh probably split into a certain number of groups and start doing something, right?" "Can I have a glass of water?" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me?" "Kristofferson?" "Hello?" "Can you hear us?" "Kristofferson?" "They got the boy." "They want to trade the son for his poppa." "Why'd they write this in letters cut out of magazines?" "To protect their identities." "Oh, right, but then why did they sign their names?" "Plus, we already knew who they were because they're trying to kill us." "Mr. Fox, we have your son." "If you ever want to see him alive again..." "You took the wrong fox." "I'm his son." "I can see the resemblance." "What's that?" " Help!" "Come on, man!" "Come on!" "Look at you, girl!" "You're still as fine looking as a creme brulee." "Am I being flirted with by a psychotic rat?" "Excuse me, may I cut-in?" "The boy is locked in an apple crate on top of a gunlocker in the attic of Bean Annex." "Would you have told me if I didn't kill you first?" "Never." "All these wasted years." "What were you looking for, Rat?" "He's trying to say something, Dad." "Cider." "Here you are, Rat." "A beaker of Bean's finest secret cider." "Like melted gold." "He redeemed himself." "Redemption?" "Sure." "But, in the end he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant." "He might been..." "Yes, he did." "My suicide mission's been canceled." "We're replacing it with a go-for-broke rescue mission." "In a way, I'm almost glad that flood interrupted us, ...because I don't like the toast I was giving." "I'm gonna start over." "When I look down this table with the exquisite feast set before us," "I see, two terrific lawyers, a skilled pediatrician, ...a wonderful chef, a savvy real estate agent, ...an excellent tailor, a crack accountant, a gifted musician, ...a pretty good minnow fisherman, and possibly the best landscape painter working on the scene today." "Maybe a few of you might even read my column from time to time." "Who knows?" "I tend to doubt it." "I also see a room full of wild animals." "Wild animals with true natures and pure talents." "Wild animals with scientific sounding Latin names that means something about our D.N.A." "Wild animals each with his own strengths and weaknesses due to his or her species." "Anyway, I think it may very well be all the beautiful differences among us that just might give us the tiniest glimmer of a chance of saving my nephew and letting me make it up to you for getting us into this crazy whatever-it-is." "I don't know." "It's just a thought." "Thank you for listening." "Cheers, everyone." "Let's eat!" "What?" "I was just playing along with the pitch he was doing." "Will you join me?" "I will." "Go ahead." "Thank you." "Alright!" "Let's start planning!" "Who knows shorthand?" "Great!" "Linda!" "Lutra Lutra!" "You got some dry paper?" "Here we go." "Mole!" "Talpa Europea!" "What do you got?" " I can see in the dark?" " That's incredible!" "We can use that!" " Linda?" " Got it." " Rabbit!" "Oryctolagus Cuniculus!" " I'm fast." " You bet you're!" "Linda?" " Got it." " Beaver!" "Castor Fiber!" " I can chew through wood." " Amazing!" "Linda?" " Got it." " Badger!" "Meles Meles!" " Demolitions expert!" "What?" "Since when?" " Explosions, flames, burning things!" " Demolitions expert!" " Okay!" "Linda?" " Got it." " Weasel!" "Mustela Nivalis!" " Stop yelling!" "Alright!" "Alright, Ash, you get these little kids organized ...and put together some kind of a K.P. unit or something to keep this sewer clean." "It's good for morale." "Done!" "What's K.P?" "I think it means janitors." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Mate, over here!" "Hey!" "I wanna go with you, too." "I wanna fight." "Good." "Fabulous!" "Microtus Pennsylvanicus!" "I didn't get a job yet or a Latin name." "What's my strength?" "Listen, you're Kylie." "You're an unbelievably nice guy." "Your job is really just to..." "be available, I think." "I don't know your Latin name." "I doubt they even had opossums in ancient Rome." "It's stupendous." "Where's us?" " Right here." " Paint an X." "Dear Farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean," "I have no alternative but to agree to your terms." "Move the station wagon and open the manhole cover below the foot of the drainpipe next to the cobbler's shop and meet me there today at 10 a. m. sharp." "I will hand myself over to you in exchange for the boy's safe return." "Cordially, Mr. Fox." "Why'd he write this in letters cut out of magazines?" "I don't know, but you did the same thing." "I don't trust this guy." "Anyway, set up the ambush." "Synchronize your clocks." "The time is now nine forty-five a. m." "Here, put these bandit hats on." "Did you bring the boy?" "Of course, we did!" "Say something, kid!" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me?" "Come on!" "That doesn't sound anything like him!" "It's amateur night in Dixie!" "What the cuss is he burning?" "Is that all you've got, Mr. Fox?" "Twenty-eight pinecones fired!" "Twenty-two targets hit." "...phase!" "Go!" " Yes, sir." "Da..." "Dad's on fire." " Foxy, you're on." " We are ready." "I'm gonna find him, I'm gonna bring him back." "I know, you will." "Contact!" "Are you scared of wolves?" "Scared, no!" "I have a phobia of them!" "Well, I have a thing about thunder!" " Why?" "That's stupid!" " I don't like needles myself!" "Where did you come from again?" "How did you get in the sidecar?" "I feel like I'm losing my mind!" "I've got a fox on a motorcycle with a littler fox and, uh what looks like to be an opossum in the sidecar riding north on farm lane 7." "Does that sound like anything to anybody?" "Red, it's Franklin Bean!" "Turn around, get the cuss back here, ...and pick us up on the A.S.A.P!" "Kylie, you got a credit card?" " Sure." "See, this is what I was saying about how good you are at just being available for..." "A Titanium Card?" "How the cuss did you qualify for this?" "I pay my bills on time." "I've always had good credit." " Come on." " Wait a second." "What's this thing you do?" "The whistle with the clicking sound." "What do you mean?" "That's my trademark." "Give me a blueberry." " What?" " Blueberry." " You didn't say..." " You forgot the blueberries?" "I did say it!" "I wrote it on your paw!" "Yeah, it's written..." "What's that white stuff around his mouth?" "I think he eats soap." "That's not soap." " Well, then why does he have that bubbly..." " He's rabid." "With rabies." "I've heard about this beagle." "You two go ahead while I distract him." "Who?" "Huh!" "What!" "?" "I can fit through there." " Hm?" "You wanna know why?" "Why?" "Because I'm little." "Give me that shoelace." "It's me." "I'm rescuing you." " I've got mixed feelings about that." " I don't blame you." "Can you give me a karate lesson real quick?" "Okay." "Stand like this." "Position yourself on the balls of your feet." "Close your eyes." "You weigh less than a slice of bread." "I feel like there's a tenderness in your eyes, isn't there?" "Yes, I'm right." "Let's review the principle of ... techniques:" "...jumping, flipping, landing." "You're a good boy." "A little lonely, maybe, but terribly sweet." "Is your name Spitz?" "That's German, isn't it?" "Now for a rudimentary version of the cyclone chop." "First, you need to get a running start, which obviously, I can't do in here, ...then, as you arrive at the destination of the chop lean and thrust into the point of contact," "...paw remains open and straight, then withdraw instantaneously." "Remember, it's the pull back that matters." "The pull back generates the force of the impact." "Got it." "Yeah, I'm just gonna chop this thing right off." "He's gonna do it!" "Why, you're just as sweet as..." "I thought he said: never look a beagle in the eye." "Did..." "Did you chop it?" "Oh, no!" "No!" "No!" "Kristofferson?" "Kristofferson!" "I'm okay." "I'm okay." " I'm sorry." " That's alright." "You were just trying to unlock the apple crate." "No, I mean, I'm sorry about..." "Oh, you mean from before." "The apology you owed me which you never actually said." "Right." "I'm grumpy." "I spit." "I wake up on the wrong side of the bed." "I'm just different, apparently." "But... it won't happen again." "Kristofferson, I'm sorry." "That's alright, too." "Throw me the shoelace, please." "Are you okay?" "He's wearing it." "Your tractors uprooted my tree." "Your posse hunted my family." "Your gunmen kidnapped my nephew." "Your rat insulted my wife and you shot off my tail." "I'm not leaving here without that neck tie." "Kill him!" "Actually, we should just go." "Where did I park?" "I weigh less than a slice of bread." " What?" " I'll be right back." "Ash!" "?" "Dodge the grabbers, duck the taggers, ...jump the twig basket and knock the cedar-stick off the cross-rock." "Hot box!" "Ash, that was pure, wild animal craziness." "You're an athlete." "Here, put this bandit hat on." "Goggles!" "Are you gonna...?" "Holy swearing cuss!" "Petey!" "Bring us a ladder, please." "Stand by!" "I just intercepted a high frequency radio signal with the can." "And I think they're on their way home!" "Don't turn around." " What?" "Where did he come from?" "Where did you come from?" "What are you doing here?" "Canis lupus!" "Vulpes Vulpes!" "I don't think he speaks English or Latin." "Pensez-vous que I'hiver sera rude?" "I'm asking if he thinks we're in for a hard winter." "He doesn't seem to know." "I have a phobia of wolves!" "What a beautiful creature." "Wish him luck, boys." " Good luck." " Good luck out there." "These three, in this reporter's opinion, obsessed farmers remain convinced the fox in question will eventually reappear." "Why?" "Because foxes aren't meant to live in a sewer." " They're refugees." " All they have to eat down there is..." "Trash!" "And not much of it." "Thank you, farmers." "For Action Twelve, this is Dan Peabody." "What are we looking at?" " It's just his tonsils." "They're little swelled." " Oh, is it serious?" " No, hopefully, he wants to lose them." " Lose the tonsils?" " Let's..." " I'm hungry." " Well, have some water." "Here." "I like walking." "My darlings?" " Where are we going?" " Nobody knows." "We were in the middle of a meditation practice." "Watch your step." "Let's see, now." "Where does this lead?" " Oh, no, Foxy." "It's filthy." " Keep a good grip, everyone." " This better be worth it." " I think I see a little sliver of light." "What's this?" " Is it a door?" " You're a terrible actor, Foxy." "Do you smell something?" "Is that... freon?" "I'm gonna crack open this trap door and see if something's on the other side." "I highly doubt it, though." "There's probably just more sewer." " You know, wouldn't it be surprising if" " Open it." "Hey, look!" "There's a whole, enormous, glorious, ...gigantic supermarket up here!" "And they close early on weekends." "You really are kind of a quote-unquote fantastic fox." "I try." "Get enough to share with everybody, and remember the Rabbits are vegetarians, and Badger's supposedly can't eat walnuts." "I guess now that Kristofferson's dad's already down to single pneumonia and getting better, he'll be going home soon, huh?" "Actually, when he spoke to me from the hospital, he said he was already talking to Weasel about real estate availabilities ...down in our sewer system." "Oh, really?" "Well, now's the time to buy." "Okay, I get it." "Is that your trademark?" "I'm pregnant again." "Wow!" "I think we're both glowing." "Do another toast, Dad." "Okay." "Let's see." "Yeah." "Right." "Okay!" "They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum." "But it's cool to the paw." "Try it." "They say my tail needs to be dry cleaned twice a month but now it's fully detachable." "See?" "They say our tree may never grow back." "But, one day, something will." "Yes, these crackles are made out of synthetic goose, ...and these Giblets come from artificial squab." "And even these apples look fake but at least they've got stars on them." "I guess my point is... we'll eat tonight, and we'll eat together, ...and even in this not particularly flattering light, ...you are without a doubt, the five-and-a-half most wonderful wild animals I've ever met in my life." "So let's raise our boxes." "To our survival!" "How was that?" "That was a good toast." "Subtitle silentFØX"

"Um...you have no actual medical training?" "No." "I have kids." "Learned a lot right there." "I've seen nurses give my son throat cultures, and what is it?" "You stick a giant Q-tip down their throat and wait." "Urinalysis:" "You take that dipstick to see if the white count's high." "Yes, I understand." "Yeah." "I'm great with people." "You'd have to observe me to know for sure." "Trust me on that." "I'm a fast learner." "Show me in a lab once and I've got it down." "I always wanted to go to medical school." "That was my first interest." "Then I got married and had a kid too young and blew that." "Out of high school, I got a job with Fleuer Engineers in Irvine." "I fell madly in love with geology." "Geology?" "Yeah." "I learned how to read maps." "Yeah." "But I lost my job because my boy got chickenpox, 1 04 temperature." "My ex-husband was useless, so...." "That didn't really work out." "You got a really nice office." "Thanks." "Look...." "Oh, fuck!" "Goddamn it!" "Good morning, Mr. Masry." "Morning, Rosalind." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "And you?" "Very well." "Thank you for asking." "Good morning." "How you doing?" "Donald." "Did you see it last night?" "I taped it." "Don't tell me what happens." "It was so good." "Your nine o'clock's here already." "Remind me." "Erin Brockovich." "Car accident." "Not her fault, she says." "She was referred." "Erin, hi." "Hi." "Ed Masry." "Sorry you had to wait." "That's okay." "Here, sit." "Sit down." "Thank you." "I never thought standing could take it out of you." "Ever since that shithead hit me it's like my body's put together wrong." "You poor thing." "Did anyone ask if you wanted coffee?" "Yeah." "I'm fine." "Good." "Listen, whoever did this to you made one hell of a mistake." "And you and me, we're gonna make him pay for it." "So, uh why don't you tell me what happened?" "I was pulling out real slow, and out of nowhere his Jaguar comes racing around the corner like a bat out of hell." "They took some bone from my hip and put it in my neck." "I don't have insurance so I'm about $1 7,000 in debt right now." "I couldn't take painkillers." "They made me too groggy to take care of my kids." "Matthew's 8, and Katie's almost 6." "And Beth's just 9 months." "I just wanna be a good mom a nice person, a decent citizen." "I just wanna take good care of my kids." "Yeah." "Yeah, I know." "Seventeen thousand in debt?" "Your ex-husband helping?" "Which one?" "There's more than one?" "Yeah, there's two." "Why?" "You must have been feeling desperate that afternoon." "What's your point?" "Broke, three kids, no job." "Doctor in a Jaguar is a meal ticket" "Objection." "Sustained." "He hit me!" "So you say." "He came tearing around the corner, out of control." "An ER doctor, who spends his days saving lives, was out of control?" "That asshole smashed in my fucking neck!" "Open and fucking shut?" "!" "Exactly the language" "It was over before that!" "I told you he might get personal." "You said I was set." "I never said that." "You told me I had a good shot!" "Let's settle down." "Fuck "settle down" !" "I've got $74." "I can't afford to settle down!" "I'm sorry, Erin." "Do they teach lawyers to apologize?" "Because you suck at it." "Hello?" "Hi." "Hi, Erin." "You're back so soon." "Were you a good girl?" "You're my little baby." "What is that?" "A little cough?" "She's got a cough." "I sat in the steam with her to try to loosen it up." "I think I've got cough medicine." "Bueno." "Listen." "I didn't wanna tell you before." "With your worries." "What?" "My daughter bought a big house with a room for me." "I'm moving in with her." "When?" "Next week." "Next week?" "I know." "But it's good for me." "Now I can help take care of my grandkids." "It's good for you." "Now with money, you can hire a good babysitter." "Not the old lady next door." "Thanks." "Matthew?" "Katie, you back here?" "Yeah." "Come on in, would ya?" "Hey, get in the house." "No dripping." "Okay!" "Sweetie." "Please don't get sick on me, please." "Let's fix dinner." "Yes, look." "Look at the water." "Goddamn it!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Matthew!" "Katie!" "We're going out!" "You go ahead and order." "I'm gonna have a cheeseburger deluxe with a Coke." "Mommy, can I have a cheeseburger deluxe with no cheese and no bread?" "Did you get that?" "And she will have a cup of chicken broth and a few crackers, please." "And for you?" "Just a cup of coffee." "You're not eating?" "My lawyer took me out to a fancy lunch to celebrate, and I'm still stuffed." "How about that?" "Yes, I'm calling about the job ad in the paper." "I'm calling about the job ad." "The great personality, good voice." "I don't have any actual sales experience." "I don't really have a resume, but I can" "I don't have any computer skills." "Oh." "Well, I thought it was the local store." "Okay." "Thanks anyway." "Okay, bye." "Ed Masry, please." "Yes, I'm holding for Ed Masry." "Is he ever in the office?" "No, but I've called about a dozen times." "I'd like to leave a message." "Brockovich, B-R-O-C-K-O-V-l-C-H." "I'm a client." "I want him to call." "It's that simple." "Okay." "Goddamn it!" "Brenda!" "Brenda!" "Yeah?" "Who put that there?" "The files you asked for." "I didn't ask you to put it in the middle of the floor." "Get a towel, will you?" "Hey, hey" "Hey, what's she doing here?" "Who?" "Donald." "What's she doing here?" "She works here." "Erin." "How's it going?" "You never called me back." "I left messages." "You did?" "I didn't know that." "Donald seems to think" "There's two things that aggravate me:" "being ignored and being lied to." "I never lied." "You said things'd be fine." "They're not." "I trusted you." "I'm sorry." "I don't need pity." "I need a paycheck." "And I've looked." "When you spend 6 years raising babies, it's hard to get a job that pays." "Are you getting this down, honey?" "Or am I talking too fast for you?" "I'm sorry about that." "But we have a full staff now" "Bullshit." "If you had a full staff, you'd return a client's damn call." "I'm smart and hard-working." "I'm not leaving here without a job." "Don't make me beg." "If it doesn't work out, fire me." "Don't make me beg." "No benefits." "What we do in here is file all of the cases." "That way, at any time, we can tell the status of a file." "Where it is in the office and stuff." "Here's where we organize all the files alphabetically." "Simple enough." "Okay." "And here is your desk." "Okay." "I want to show you where the Xerox machine is." "Everybody has a code." "Do I get to pick my own code?" "We'll see." "Can you tell me who I talk to about getting an advance on my paycheck?" "Just for the weekend." "Rosalind's the office manager." "She handles the payroll and petty cash." "She's gone already." "She leaves early on Fridays." "Okay, thank you." "Oh, for Pete's sake, here." "I've only got hundreds." "I don't want your money, Mr. Masry." "Where do you think your paycheck comes from?" "Have a good weekend." "Thank you." "See you." "All right, see you." "See you Monday." "Hi, my sweetie." "Hello." "How are you?" "Matthew, Katie." "Hey, Mom." "Hi, sweetie." "How are you?" "Thanks a lot." "You're welcome." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hello." "What are you doing making all that goddamn noise?" "Introducing ourselves to the neighbourhood, I guess." "Well, I am the neighbours." "There." "We're introduced." "So shut up." "Wait." "Hold on there." "Let's start over, okay?" "My name's George." "What's yours?" "Just think of me as the person next door who likes it quiet." "Don't be like that." "Look, we live next door." "I feel bad." "I'm sorry." "Will you accept my apology?" "We're living right next door." "If you need a cup of a sugar" "I don't need sugar." "You don't." "Why don't I take you out to dinner to apologize?" "Give me your number." "I got your address so you can't get away." "I'll call you up proper and ask you out." "You want my number?" "I do." "I do want your number." "Which number do you want, George?" "I like the way you say that." "How many numbers you got?" "I got numbers coming out of my ears." "For instance, 1 0." "Ten." "Yeah." "That's how many months old my baby girl is." "You got a little girl?" "Yeah." "Sexy, huh?" "How about this?" "Six." "That's my other daughter." "Eight is my son." "Two is the times I've been married and divorced." "$1 6 is what I have in my bank account." "850-3943, that's my phone number." "I'm guessing zero is the number of times you're gonna call it." "Hey, how do you remember your bank balance?" "See, that impresses me." "You're dead wrong about that zero." "How long has she been crying?" "She's got that tooth coming in." "Give her a cold washcloth to suck on." "I'll check back later." "Where's Anna?" "She's out to lunch with the girls." "I have to open a file." "Real-estate thing, pro bono." "Okay." "Know how to do that?" "Yeah, I got it." "No problem." "You're a girl." "Excuse me?" "Why aren't you out to lunch with the girls?" "You're a girl." "I guess I'm not the right kind." "Look, you may want to-- Now that you're working here" "You may want to rethink your wardrobe a little." "Why is that?" "Well, I think some of the girls are a little uncomfortable because of what you wear." "Is that so?" "Well, it just so happens, I think I look nice." "As long as I have one ass instead of two, I'll wear what I like if that's all right with you?" "You might wanna rethink those ties." "With real-estate stuff, could you remind me?" "I'm a little confused." "Why are there medical records and blood samples in real-estate files?" "You've been here long enough." "If you don't know how to do your job by now, I'm not gonna do it for you." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Matthew?" "Katie?" "Matthew?" "Katie?" "Matthew!" "What happened?" "Hi, Mom." "Hey." "Hungry?" "Am l--?" "They're here?" "I went to pick them up." "She came by an hour ago." "Something came up, she dropped them off." "Something came up?" "Why didn't she call?" "I don't know." "She, I was, she-- I don't know why." "That stupid bitch." "Mom!" "I just can't believe she dumps my kids off when nobody's home." "I was home." "We're fine." "We cooked burgers, had some milk." "You want a hot dog?" "There's one." "Or a cheeseburger?" "But this mustard is slippery." "Mom, what do you think about me getting a tattoo?" "One, two, three." "I got all these kings." "You win, you got a joker." "King." "Joker." "You stole a joker!" "You cheat." "What do you mean?" "You cheat!" "Get another one." "Time to go to bed." "Get ready for bed." "Brush your teeth." "Play tomorrow?" "Yeah." "Good night, buddy." "What's that?" "This is a Harley-Davidson, the best motorcycle ever." "And if I ever catch either one of you near one, knock you silly." "Brush." "And keep it down, the baby's asleep." "You got great kids." "Well, I'm sure I'll fuck 'em up eventually." "Why?" "I'm not a good judge of character, or I wouldn't have left them with that idiot, who cost a lot and smelled like chicken fat." "And after I find her and kill her I don't know what I'm gonna do." "If you need help with them, I could do that." "I'm not leaving my kids with you." "Why?" "I don't even know you." "What do you wanna know?" "Thanks for today" "You're welcome." "It was my pleasure." "How many decks did you have?" "We had more than enough." "Got so many friends you can't use one more?" "If you need someone to look after your kids after school, or whatever I don't have a job now." "Oh, that's a great recommendation:" "" l'm unemployed."" "By choice." "I work when I need to." "What do you do?" "Live off your trust fund?" "I do construction, which pays good, and I make it last by living cheap." "Is that supposed to impress me?" "Hey." "Bed." "Your little ghosts." "You always this hard on people who try to help you?" "I'm out of practice." "Well, let me remind you then." "The polite thing is to say thank you." "I'd start it off with that." "Then, " Hey, that's a really nice offer." "I don't mind taking you up on that."" "Why do you want to watch my kids?" "I like kids." "Right." "I like hanging out with them." "They keep it simple." "You're home every afternoon?" "I'm usually working on my bike." "If it doesn't work out, you can always send them back to the chicken-fat lady." "This isn't gonna get you laid." "Get in bed." "Good, because I don't find you attractive either." "Then we're even." "I'm so glad we got that out of the way." "I feel much better." "I do too." "Because now I can just look after the kids and I don't have to worry about you coming on to me." "Bring the phone into the changing room." "Of course they won't." "Mrs. Masry, don't be such a tease." "Hold on, just hold on." "Yeah?" "Sorry, would you mind if I investigate this?" "Investigate what?" "This real-estate thing with the Jensens." "The pro bono." "I wanna make sure I understand what I'm reading." "Yeah, yeah, sure." "You don't mind?" "Okay, great." "Thanks." "Donna Jensen?" "I'm Erin Brockovich, with Masry and Vititoe." "Oh!" "You're a lawyer?" "Hell, no." "I hate lawyers." "I just work for 'em." "Do you have a minute?" "I don't mean to be a pain to PGE after all they've done for Hinkley but if they want this place, they're gonna have to pay for it." "You didn't put the house up for sale." "They just wanted to buy it?" "Oh, yeah, yeah." "Oh, I don't wanna move." "Uproot the kids?" "I've got a couple of girls." "Honest to God, I don't know if I have the energy." "You know, I've been sick." "Me and Pete both have." "The idea of selling, if they're not gonna pay us properly I don't see the point." "Yeah, yeah, I can see that." "I guess the only thing that confused me" "Not that your medical problems aren't important." "How come those files are in with all the real-estate stuff?" "There's just so much correspondence, I just keep it all in one place." "I'm sorry, I just don't see why you're corresponding with PGE about your medical problems in the first place." "Well, they paid for the doctor's visit." "They did?" "You bet." "Paid for a checkup for the whole family." "Not like with insurance, where you pay and maybe you see some money in a year." "They just took care of it." "Just like that." "We never saw a bill." "Wow." "Why'd they do that?" "The chromium." "The what?" "The chromium." "Well, that's what kicked this whole thing off." "What kind of chromium?" "There's more than one?" "There's straight-up chromium, it does good things for the body." "There's chrom three, which is fairly benign." "There's chrom six, hexavalent chromium which, depending on the amounts, can be harmful." "Harmful how?" "What would you get?" "With repeated exposure to toxic levels, anything from chronic headaches to respiratory disease, liver failure heart failure, reproductive failure, bone or organ deterioration." "Plus, of course, any type of cancer." "So that stuff, it kills people." "Yeah, definitely." "Highly toxic." "Highly carcinogenic." "It gets into your DNA, so you pass the trouble to your kids." "Very bad." "Well, what's it used for?" "A rust inhibitor." "The utility plants use piston engines that get hot, they run water through." "Chromium's in the water to prevent corrosion." "How do I find out what kind of chromium they use in Hinkley?" "Been to their water board?" "What's that?" "Every county has one." "They keep records of anything in their jurisdiction." "You should find something there." "County water board." "Alrighty." "Well, thanks." "Good luck." "I wouldn't advertise what you're looking for." "Incriminating records have a way of disappearing when people smell trouble." "I'll remember that." "Thanks." "This guy's too smart." "It's only a matter of time until he makes his move." "He positions women employees in such a way that they have no choice but to respond or lose theirjobs" "That's a heavy door." "Let me give you a hand." "Thank you very much." "Aren't you a gentleman, Mr...?" "Scott." "Mr." "Scott." "Pleased to meet you." "I'm Erin." "Erin." "Erin." "Cool." "What can I do for you, Erin?" "Believe it or not, I'm on the prowl for some water records." "You come to the right place." "I guess I did." "Just tell me what you wanna look at, and I'd be glad to dig 'em out." "I wish I knew." "It's for my boss." "He's in this water dispute and he wants me to find all kinds of papers, from all kinds of places." "You know, it would probably be easiest if I squeezed back there and poked around myself." "Would that be all right with you?" "Come on back." "I'm gonna need you to sign in here." "Oh, sure." "" Pattee," is that your middle name?" "No, maiden." "Oh, you're married?" "Not anymore." "Can I just...?" "Yeah." "I love your pants." "Oh, well, yeah, thanks." "Well, this is it." "It's impressive." "I'll call you if I need anything." "All right." "Okay." "Thank you." "Okay." "Where's my stuff?" "Where have you been?" "Where the fuck is my stuff?" "Don't you use language like that with" "Someone took my stuff." "Nice to see you." "I had photos of my kids" "Toothbrush, toothpaste, mousse and deodorant." "What's going on?" "This isn't a job where you can disappear for days at a time." "You don't do the work, you don't get to stay." "All I've been doing is working." "Ask Mr. Masry." "You ask Mr. Masry." "He fired you." "You said to fire me?" "I'll call you back." "You've been gone for a week." "I left a message." "I was gonna write a whole damn report." "That's not how we work." "You don't leave a message and take off." "Want me to check in every second?" "It's called accountability." "I'm not talking to you, bitch!" "That's enough!" "Look, Erin, this incident aside, I don't think this is the right place for you." "So I'm gonna make a few calls, find you something else." "Don't bother." "I'm trying to help." "You're trying not to feel guilty about firing someone with 3 kids." "Fuck if I'm gonna help you do that." "Get back to work!" "What the hell are you doing here?" "I'm fixing the leak." "Damn it, I don't ask you to do things like that." "Look at this mess that you've made." "I'm not done with that yet." "Well, get it out." "Relax." "Shit!" "Where did it go?" "Where is it?" "Back there." "Behind your foot." "Going up your leg now." "Jesus!" "Who fucking lives like this, George?" "Who lets their kids run around in a place with bugs the size of house cats?" "All you have to do is call an exterminator." "I can't call an exterminator." "I can't afford one." "I can't even afford my phone." "I got fired." "What?" "What do you mean, you got fired?" "You're working so hard." "Doesn't matter." "Doesn't make one fucking bit of difference." "I don't know what happened to me." "I mean...." "God, I was Miss Wichita, for chrissake." "Did I tell you that?" "You are living next door to a real, live fucking beauty queen." "I still have my tiara." "And I thought it meant I was gonna do something important with my life." "That it meant I was someone." "You're someone to me." "Are you gonna be something else that I have to survive?" "Because I'll tell you the truth I'm not up to it." "I get up in the centre of the stage and I have the big bouquet of flowers." "I had my foot out like this, and I said:" "" I will devote my entire reign as Miss Wichita to bringing an end to world hunger." "And to the creation of a peaceful earth for every man, woman and child."" "How long were you Miss Wichita?" "One year." "By the time I got through opening new supermarkets I only had a few weeks left to work on hunger..." "...and world peace." "World peace." "I don't know what I was thinking." "What about you, huh?" "What about me?" "Let me tell you something." "Let me get that out of your hair." "Thank you." "Nice." "You're a very special lady." "Don't be too nice to me, okay?" "Why?" "Makes me nervous." "It's some slim pickings here, baby." "Maybe that's Ed McMahon." "Let's go see." "Wrong Ed." "What are you doing here?" "I had an interesting call this afternoon from Dr. Frankel..." "...from UCLA." "Oh, yeah?" "He wanted you to know that the " legal limit for hexavalent chromium is .05 parts per million and at the rate you mentioned, .58, it could be responsible for the cancers" in that family you asked about the Jensens." "Well." "Wasn't that nice of him?" "Funny how some people help people, and others just fire them." "I'm sorry." "You were gone." "I assumed you were off having fun." "Why the hell would you assume that?" "Maybe you look like someone who has a lot of fun." "By that standard, I assume you never get laid." "I'm married." "Look, what is this" " What's the story on this cancer stuff?" "You wanna know, you have to hire me back." "I got a ton of bills to pay." "Fine." "Fine." "Donna just put in these new cabinets, stained the wood and all when she gets a call from PGE, saying a freeway's gonna be built and they wanna buy her house for an off-ramp." "The husband's sick with Hodgkin's." "She keeps getting tumours believing one has nothing to do with the other." "Because PGE told her about the chromium?" "They had a seminar." "They invited 200 people from the area had it at the plant about chromium three and how good it is when they're using chromium six." "That document you found at the water board the one that says about the bad chromium...." "You didn't happen to make a copy, did you?" "Of course I did." "Could I have a look?" "I want a raise." "And benefits, including dental." "It's not how I do business." "What way is that?" "Extortion." "A 5% raise, we'll talk about benefits later." "Ten." "There are lots of other places I could get work." "1 0% raise and benefits, but that's it." "I'm drawing the line." "He's drawing the line." "This the only thing you got?" "Well, the place is a pigsty." "There's probably more." "I know how those things are run." "What makes you think you can just walk in there and find what we need?" "They're called boobs, Ed." "Yes, I'm sure it is." "I understand." "I agree." "I agree." "I'm going to." "Right now." "I'm almost done." "Look." "How are we doing?" "We're doing great." "Good." "Well, you've got quite a lot done already." "So...." "Sorry, we need to have those records back now." "No." "These papers are public record." "I'm not leaving until they're copied." "Fax these to this number, okay?" "All of them?" "All of them." "An on-site monitoring well?" "That means it was" "It's on the PGE property." "And you say that this stuff, this hexavalent chromium...." "Well, it's poisonous." "Yeah." "It's gotta be different than what's in our water, because ours is okay." "The guys from PGE told me." "They sat right in the kitchen and told me that it was fine." "I know." "But the toxicologist that I've been talking to he gave me a list of problems that come from hexavalent chromium exposure." "Everything you all have is on that list." "No, no, no." "That's not what-- That's not what our doctor said." "He said that...." "Well, that one's got absolutely nothing to do with the other." "But PGE paid for that doctor." "Ashley!" "Shanna!" "Get out of the pool!" "How come?" "I said so, that's why." "The minute Brenda sent that fax I'm saying, the second she pressed the "send" button PGE's claim department was on the phone to me scheduling a meeting." "So you think that-- Let me do it." "You're driving me nuts." "You think we scared them?" "Taking the trouble to send someone sounds like they're sitting up and taking notice." "Mr. Foil?" "In the interest of putting this to rest PGE is willing to offer the Jensens $250,000 for their home." "$250,000?" "In terms of land value in Hinkley we feel that's a more than fair price." "How about in terms of medical expenses?" "$250,000 isn't gonna come close to what this family's gonna spend on doctors." "I understand they've had bad luck, health-wise." "They have my sympathies." "But that's not PGE's fault." "You're kidding, right?" "Look at these readings." "PGE's own technicians documented toxic levels of hexavalent chromium in those wells on numerous occasions." "Everything the Jensens have had is proven reaction to exposure to hexavalent chromium." "They have had...." "They have had...." "Breast cysts, uterine cancer, Hodgkin's, immune deficiencies asthma, nosebleeds" "A million things could cause those problems." "Poor diet, bad genes, irresponsible lifestyle." "Our offer is final and more than fair." "Wait a minute." "I thought we were negotiating here." "$250,000 is all I'm authorized to offer." "I'll present your offer to my clients." "I doubt they'll accept." "Before you go off on a crusade remember who you're dealing with." "PGE's a 28 billion dollar corporation." "28 billion dollars?" "I didn't know it was that much!" "Wow!" "Twenty-eight billion!" "Holy cow!" "They made an offer." "No, a million would have been an offer." "They send that mail clerk down to jerk me off, waste my time." "Why?" "You heard what that kid said." "They have 28 billion dollars." "They can afford to waste time." "You can't?" "Am I made of money?" "Why are you yelling?" "I'm pissed." "Fuck you!" "Fuck you back!" "I really hate you sometimes." "No." "You love me." "You've been reading for hours." "I'm a slow reader." "Excuse me." "Are you Erin Brockovich?" "Yeah." "I'm Tom Robinson." "This is my wife, Mandy." "We used to live across the street from the Jensens." "I think you know Donna." "PGE bought our house last year." "Well, the vet said they had a bunch of tumours and stuff." "Well, you can see they couldn't really walk." "How many were born like this?" "Twelve or 1 3 or so." "When Donna told us what you told her about the chromium we figured it might have something to do with this." "Yeah, it might." "Really, may I keep these?" "Yeah." "Okay, great." "Thank you so much." "I really appreciate it." "There's something else too." "What?" "Mandy, here, has had five miscarriages." "I'm so sorry." "I figured it was something I did." "Like, when I smoked marijuana, maybe or took birth control pills but then Donna said that you thought this chromium might be to blame for her problems." "So I figured maybe it wasn't just me." "I have to take a bath." "You should go in." "They're not asleep?" "Beth and Katie are." "How was school?" "Fine." "Did you do your homework?" "Yeah." "Any problems?" "I know you're upset, but the way this job is things come up at the last minute." "Things that I gotta deal with." "Fine!" "Please don't be mad at me." "I'm doing this for us." "I know it's hard for you to understand but don't you want Mommy to be good at her job?" "I don't miss dinner all the time." "We all ate together last night." "You were reading the whole time." "There's something about this thing I don't understand, Mr. Masry." "If PGE messed with our water why would they say anything about it to us at all?" "Why not just keep quiet about it?" "To establish a statute of limitations." "In a case like this, you only have one year from the time you learn about the problem to file suit." "So PGE figures "We'll let the cat out of the bag." "Tell them the water isn't perfect." "If we can ride out the year with no one suing we'll be in the clear forever."" "But they told us more than a year ago." "That's okay." "We're not suing." "Not yet." "All we're doing is using this information to get you a nice purchase price on your house." "And you two, a comparable retroactive bonus on your sale price." "PGE still looks good to their shareholders." "They're not in a lawsuit." "All they're doing is buying property." "Doesn't say how much this thing's gonna cost us." "My fee is 40% of whatever you get awarded." "Boy, do I know how you feel." "The first time I heard that number, I said, "You're kidding me."" "Forty goddamned percent?" "I'm the one that's injured, and this joker sits at a desk all day and he wants almost half of my reward?" "Erin, can l--?" "But then I asked him what he makes if I don't get anything." "Then I don't get anything either." "Plus, he's out all the costs." "So I realized he's taking a chance too." "You got a pen, honey?" "All right, then." "Oh, I made a bundt cake." "Who would like coffee and cake?" "I do." "Thanks, but we have to get back." "Have a fucking cup of coffee, Ed." "Coffee will be great." "Thank you." "All right." "I'll help you." "My wife makes really good bundt cake." "I love bundt cake." "Well, it seems like everybody in the family ended up with a rash somehow." "It seemed like no matter what we did, it always came back." "Over what kind of period of time?" "Oh, long time, you know, years." "I never did keep track of it." "Kids are sick." "Animals need to be fed." "Just couldn't get rid of it." "Well, Mrs. De Soto said that she wasn't exactly sure what you had." "We know what it is." "It's gastrointestinal" "Gastrointestinal cancer." "She got sick about nine months ago" "Nine months ago." "And they operated on her about six months ago." "The intestine." "Right." "Hi." "I'm Erin Brock" "I know who you are." "Donna called me." "Can I come in?" "We're not interested in getting involved." "Can I ask why?" "What's the point?" "Donna told me that you've been sick and that your kids were sick" "You people don't give a shit." "Anything to get what you want." "Thanks for having me" "It's a good day to come by." "She's feeling good." "Well, Mike Ambrosino had remembered that he had seen you folks at the hospital." "That's what brought me out here." "Yeah, we've been there from time to time." "And you!" "Wooftie!" "Ain't you a beauty?" "You drive all the boys crazy, don't you?" "I can see it in your eyes." "You drive them wild." "You do, don't you?" "Torture them." "It's good for them." "Don't teach her anything too early." "Yeah, she can't wait to get on her new dress." "She wants to go to school." "We're trying to do that, in a few months." "Yeah, get her out of her nightgown here." "She's gonna do it." "Absolutely not." "Why not?" "Because I said no." "The reason PGE even talks to us is because this is a quiet real-estate dispute." "We add plaintiffs, we're in the middle of a toxic-trot with a statute problem, against a massive utility." "No, thank you." "Okay, so here's what I'll do." "I'll go to the Daniels', the nicest people you'll ever meet who watch their girl fight like a dog against cancer." "I'll tell them we can't help them, because you just don't wanna work that hard." "Work hard?" "Let me tell you something." "I've worked all my life." "I've built a firm and kept it alive through lawsuits and injunctions." "I've survived a quadruple bypass, cancer being born with one kidney and diabetes." "I personally managed to save a million dollars over 30 years, getting clients 1 0 times that." "Don't tell me I don't work hard!" "Don't tell me I can't stop, take a breath and enjoy life." "What the hell do you know about any of this?" "Something like this, Erin, it could take forever." "They're a huge corporation!" "They'll bury us in paperwork for years." "I'm just a guy with a small, private firm!" "Who knows they poisoned people and lied about it." "We can get these people." "With a little effort, I think we can nail their asses to the wall." "With your legal expertise, you believe that?" "Don't you ever just know?" "Do you know about money?" "They settle due to lack of money." "You know what toxicologists and geology experts cost?" "We're looking at $1 00,000 a month." "I've already spent some of my savings." "We'll figure it out." "I don't know shit, but I know the difference between right and wrong!" "Lovers' quarrel?" "Bite my ass, Krispy Kreme." "I feel you looking at me." "I'm sorry." "How many families are we talking about?" "Four more." "Eleven people so far." "There's more?" "I found a document at the water board, a toxic test well reading from 1 967." "More people have lived there since then." "This is a whole different ball game." "A much bigger deal." "Kind of like David and what's-his-name." "Kind of like David and what's- his-name's whole fucking family." "Here's the deal." "If, and only if, you find all the evidence to back this up, I'll do it." "You're doing the right thing." "Remind me of that when I'm filing for bankruptcy." "Of course, gathering evidence is a big job." "Hell of a lot bigger than just filing." "I'll be working a lot harder taking on a lot more responsibility." "I don't believe this." "A raise wouldn't hurt." "I'll spend more time in my car so I'll probably be needing one of those cell phones." "I don't believe this." "Just a little phone." "Thank you!" "Whoever is behind you." "Just play." "Go, roll the dice and play." "Come on, aren't you gonna play?" "Roll the dice." "Come on." "Hello." "Is this the Erin Brockovich that's been snooping around the water board?" "Yeah." "Who's this?" "You should watch your step." "A young lady with three young children really should think again." "Who is this?" "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Who is it?" "It's okay." "I'm not gonna quit because of one creepy phone call, George." "Come on, Erin." "A job shouldn't put you in danger." "I'm not in danger." "The phone might be tapped but" "What?" "That's usual." "We've got a dead bolt, it's not a big deal." "You don't think you're a little out of your league?" "That's what those PGE fucks want me to think." "But they're wrong." "Erin, there are plenty of jobs out there." "How would you know?" "What that's supposed to mean?" "You got a problem with me caring for your kids instead of a job?" "I can get a job." "You can leave the kids with the chicken-fat lady again." "I said I'm sorry." "Keep your voice down." "I know what these kids can sleep through, better than you." "Scott, tell me something." "Does PGE pay you to cover their ass?" "Or do you just do it out of the kindness of your heart?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Nobody calls me Pattee." "That sicko that called could've only found out about me from you." "People are dying, Scott." "You've got document after document that says why, and you haven't said one word about it." "I wanna know how the hell you sleep at night." "I'm about to drive off the road, I'm so tired." "Keep me awake." "What do you want, a joke?" "No, I don't want a joke." "Tell me about what went on back there." "Come to think of it, we had a big event around here." "Beth started talking." "What?" "Beth?" "My Beth?" "We were sitting around and she pointed at a ball and said:" "" Ball."" "Out of the blue like that." "It was pretty intense." "You know, seeing somebody's first word." "Of all the words in her life, that's the first word she says.: "ball. "" "She pointed her little finger with her beautiful, soft, chubby little arm and her cheeks." "It's like she'd been looking at it for months and couldn't get it out, but knowing what it was." "She didn't look away or anything." "She was just sitting there with her arm out." "You should've seen Matthew and Katie and me." "Ourjaws just dropped." "We must've stood there for three or four minutes andjust looked at her." "She just had her arm out like that. "Ball. "" "And, you know, her little lips wrapped around it." "It was great." "It was intense." "I brought some stuff that you might be interested in." "My name's Erin, and I'll be here all day." "Let's go over to these nice ladies." "Hi." "How are you?" "Good." "I brought some information today, if you wanna have a look at it." "If you have any questions, let me know." "Hi." "Excuse me, ladies, I'm Ed Masry." "I'm the lawyer involved in the case." "You might like to read these." "If you have questions, I'm here all day." "Sounds good." "Thank you." "Thanks so much." "Is your phone number in this?" "There's more important information than that in there." "I'm bored." "So are the kids." "I'm a little busy, honey." "We invited these people." "Ed and I have to" "I'm sorry." "You know what?" "Please, I have an idea." "Can you take her?" "She's getting heavy, and I'll work faster if you take her." "Got a knee for me?" "Hello." "Hello, sweetness." "Guess what?" "What?" "I would like to go home." "Everything's done?" "We got a lot done." "Did you?" "I think I ate three watermelons." "Piggyback!" "Let's go, brother." "Get on." "Careful." "Here, get on me, now." "Erin, excuse me." "This is Nelson Perez, he works at the compressor station." "Hi, nice to meet you." "PGE." "Oh, hi." "I've come at a bad time." "No." "Can you just give me one--?" "Of course." "Sure." "Thank you." "You know what?" "Why don't you guys go ahead without me, and I'll get a ride with Ed." "No, Mom." "No, sweetie, I'll be right behind you." "I'll be right behind you, all right?" "I really" " This is so" "Fine." "Go, go, go." "Get down, bud." "Hang on tight there." "Help your sister with her shoes." "Let's go." "This is so helpful." "Is it okay if I write this down?" "I have so many questions." "I wanna know about how the plant works and the cooling towers, just everything." "I wanna know about how the plant works and the cooling towers, just everything." "They use the hexachrome here, in these cooling towers, as an anticorrosive." "Then they dump the excess water into these ponds." "I don't remember seeing any ponds up there." "They've been covered over, and not too carefully." "If you dig one inch under the surface dirt's as green as a fucking shamrock." "And that's what caused the contamination?" "It didn't help, but no." "The problem started on the bottom." "According to this in most cases you would line these ponds so the shit didn't seep into the ground." "But guess what?" "They skipped that step?" "Here are the ponds, the plume comes down and Hinkley is down here it's 1 4 years of hexachrome flowing into the groundwater." "Jesus." "This guy just offered all this information?" "Well, yeah." "Nelson cares what's in those ponds." "He used to spend time wading around them." "That was his job." "Shit." "What's the matter?" "I don't know if we can pull this off." "This is a monster case." "We're up to 41 1 plaintiffs." "We've taken 1 62 declarations." "Probably hundreds more out there have moved away." "We have to find them, it's taking time." "Money's going out, nothing's coming in." "I have to take a second mortgage." "So?" "So!" "I have to tell you." "I've been making inquiries with other firms bigger firms to share some of the cost." "They all said no, said they don't have it." "We got PGE by the balls." "PGE Hinkley, but nobody'll get rich unless we pin this on Corporate..." "...in San Francisco." "What do you mean?" "PGE Corporate claims they didn't know about Hinkley." "They knew." "They had to know." "Show me the document to prove it." "Then they didn't know." "If so, we can't hit them with punitive damages." "With punitive damages, it's a sum of money that can have some effect on these people's lives." "So what do we do now?" "Let's assume there are documents connecting PGE Hinkley and Corporate and they know about them." "We take our 400 or so plaintiffs and everything you've dug up we file a lawsuit to provoke a reaction." "See if they offer a reasonable settlement, or throw more paper at us." "Sounds great." "Let's do that." "There's a downside." "PGE will submit a demurrer." "A list attacking each complaint claiming that each cause of action has no merit." "And if the judge agrees with them he'll dismiss our case." "PGE will have no reason to settle." "Then it's all over." "So basically it all comes down to what this one judge decides." "Basically, yeah." "Jesus." "Well, I'd got so used to having them come up benign." "Guess I just didn't expect it." "I sure wish I would've had longer to get used to the idea." "You think if you got no uterus and no breasts you're still technically a woman?" "Sure you are." "Yeah, you just" "You're actually a happier woman." "No need to worry about maxi-pads and underwire." "We're gonna get them, aren't we?" "You gotta promise me that we're gonna get them." "I have before me a complaint on behalf of residents of Hinkley, California, who have filed against PGE." "For damages, medical expenses and personal trauma due to contamination of the ground water in their area by the defendant." "And I have here 84 motions to strike and demurrers submitted by representatives of Pacific Gas Electric." "Each one attacking the validity of this complaint." "I have reviewed all of the information carefully." "I'm ready to give my decision." "Before I do, is there anything anyone wants to say?" "No, Your Honour." "No, Your Honour." "Very well." "In the matter of the plaintiffs of Hinkley, California vs. PGE it is the order of this court that each of the 84 motions to strike and demurrers are denied." "And the causes of action against Pacific Gas and Electric are upheld." "On a more personal note as a resident here in Barstow, which is not far from Hinkley I am disturbed by reference to evidence that suggests that not only was hexavalent chromium used but that your clients actually sent these residents pamphlets telling them that it was good for them." "Tell your clients they're going to trial." "Jesus." "They look like the Secret Service." "Intimidation." "Let the games begin." "Show them into the conference room." "Donald, Anna I wanna talk to you for a minute." "Counsellors." "Counsellors." "Let's be honest." "$20,000,000 is more than these people have ever dreamed of." "Now that pisses me off." "First of all, since the demurrer, we have more than 400 plaintiffs." "Let's be honest, we know there's more." "They may not be sophisticated, but they can divide and $20,000,000 isn't shit after splitting it." "Second of all they don't dream of being rich." "They dream about watching their kids in a pool without worrying that they'll have a hysterectomy at 20." "Like Rosa Diaz, our client." "Or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Bloom, another client of ours." "So before you come back here with another lame-ass offer I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth." "Or what you expect someone to pay you for your uterus." "Then take out your calculator and multiply that number by 1 00." "Anything less than that is a waste of our time." "We had that water brought in special for you folks." "Came from Hinkley." "I think this meeting's over." "Damn right it is." "What the fuck?" "Did a bomb blow up?" "You letting the kids run wild?" "What's that?" "I saw them in a mall one day." "I said, " Damn they'll look good on those beautiful ears."" "I bought them and I said, "When Erin does something nice, I'll surprise her."" "You know how long ago that was?" "Six months ago." "I'm sorry, I've just" "And so what I'm thinking is...." "Either you gotta find a different job or a different guy." "I mean...." "There may be many men out there who don't mind being the maid and getting nothing." "But I ain't one of them." "I can't leave my job, George." "Yes, you can." "People do it all the time." "How can you ask me to do that?" "This job...." "For the first time in my life, I got people respecting me." "Up in Hinkley I walk into a room, everybody shuts up to hear what I have to say." "I never had that before, ever." "Please, don't ask me to give it up." "What about your kids?" "I'm doing more for them now than I did living with my parents." "One day they'll see it." "Well, what about me?" "What about you?" "You think the men who gave me those children asked me what I wanted before walking away?" "All I've ever done is bend my life around what men decide they need." "Well, not now." "I'm sorry." "I won't do it." "Well...." "Erin, I'm not them." "So...." "What more can I do to prove that to you?" "Stay." "What for?" "I mean, you got a raise." "You can afford daycare." "You don't need me." "Hi." "We can get them, Pamela." "We can." "I don't wanna feel it all over again and then not have it come out right." "I don't know if I could handle that." "Put the kids through that." "The thing is, it doesn't matter whether you win, lose or draw here." "You were lied to." "You're sick and your kids are sick because of those lies." "You all have to come together to stand up in a courtroom and say that." "I'd bring the kids into the hospital with towels soaked from their nosebleeds." "They called County Services because they assumed the kids were abused." "Am I gonna get the best behaviour in the office?" "No." "What's with the attitude?" "I just need cool, I need quiet." "Hello." "Am I alone in the car?" "Yes?" "I don't understand why" "I don't wanna talk about it now." "The other moms gave permission." "I don't care." "So when can I get a friggin' answer?" "Don't talk to me like that!" "Randy's mom said yes." "Goddamn it, Randy's mom doesn't work, and his dad didn't leave her!" "Figuring out who takes him to roller hockey is probably easier at Randy's house." "Now cool it." "I'll be as quick as I can." "Matthew, can you watch your sister?" "Matthew." "All right, fine." "Come here, Beth." "Can I come with you?" "No, baby, I'll just be a second." "Thank you." "I'm only sorry you couldn't meet Erin." "I will." "You will." "We have a lot of work to do together." "Thanks for coming." "Erin, I was just talking about you." "Meet our new partner, Kurt Potter." "He'll handle Hinkley." "I see what you mean about a secret weapon." "Erin, it's great to meet you." "You've done a fabulous job." "I'll be seeing you." "Thanks, I appreciate you coming over." "What?" "Our new partner?" "When was I gonna hear about this?" "Just listen." "Did I ever tell you about that airline case?" "What the fuck are you talking about?" "A few years back, I was trying this airline case and I got my ass kicked by this guy." "He buried me in paper, brutal." "He's the toughest I'd ever been up against." "Make a point!" "It was Kurt Potter." "After the judge's decision, I asked him to partner, he didn't hesitate." "He wouldn't hesitate now, we did all the work." "Where was he before?" "Will you listen to me?" "It doesn't matter." "You wanna win this?" "He gave me this check." "It covers all our expenses to date and he's got more toxic tort experience than anyone." "This is good news!" "I got Pamela Duncan." "I'll open, Mommy." "You wanna open the can for Mommy?" "Well, here, I'll help you." "You turn it?" "Hi, George." "Hi, George." "Let's go see." "Erin Brockovich?" "Package from Masry and Vititoe." "Thank you." "Thank you." "What's in here?" "Baby." "There's no baby in here." "What is it?" "A dolly." "It's a dolly?" "It's" "Lookit." "" Lookit" is right." "Do you see that?" "I want that." "I want that too." "It's our lucky day." "Matthew, Katie!" "PGE has requested that we submit to binding arbitration." "What's that?" "That's where we try the case without a jury, before a judge." "It's called a test trial." "The judge's decision is final." "There's no appeal." "How many plaintiffs do you have?" "634." "They'll never try that many all at once." "So we need to get them together in groups of 20 or 30." "Worst cases, the most life-threatened, the sickest first and so on." "Each one gets a go before the judge to determine damages." "PGE proposes that they're liable anywhere between 50 and 400 million." "So wait a minute." "Let me just get this straight." "If we went to trial PGE could stretch this over 1 0 years with appeal after appeal." "Those people would" "These people expect a trial." "That's what we told them, you and me." "They won't understand this." "Kurt thinks it's the best way to go." "Look, I promise you that we'll be very sensitive on this point." "We'll make sure they see that this is the only way we can go forward at this time." "But we have a lot of work to do before we even broach that subject." "I'll take Erin down the hall so we can start on this stuff, and I'll fill her in on the details." "Those are my files." "Yeah." "We had them couriered over." "Listen, good work." "They're a great start." "We'll just spend some time filling in the holes in your research." "Excuse me" " Theresa, is it?" "There are no holes in my research." "There are things we need you probably didn't know to ask." "Don't talk to me like I'm an idiot." "I spent 1 8 months on this case and I know more about the plaintiffs than you ever will." "You don't even have phone numbers." "Whose number do you need?" "Everyone's." "We need to be able to contact the plaintiffs." "I said whose number do you need?" "You don't know 600 numbers by heart." "Annabelle Daniels." "Annabelle Daniels. 71 4-454-9346." "Ten years old." "Lived on the plume since birth." "Wanted to be a synchronized swimmer, so she spent every minute in the pool." "They detected a tumour in her brain." "An operation shrunk it, with radiation after that." "Her parents are Ted and Rita." "Ted's got Crohn's disease." "Rita has headaches and underwent a hysterectomy." "Ted grew up in Hinkley." "His brother and his wife and their kids Robbie Jr., Martha, Ed, Rose and Peter also lived on the plume." "Their number is 454-9554." "You want their diseases?" "I think we got off on the wrong foot." "That's all you got, lady, two wrong feet in fucking ugly shoes." "She insulted me." "Bullshit." "It was a misunderstanding." "Instead of being polite and treating her with respect" "Why should I respect her?" "Just because she's not supporting kids with no husband, she's not an idiot!" "Just because she dresses like a lawyer doesn't mean she didn't work her ass off in law school." "Excuse me for not going to law school." "Law school?" "At this point, I'd settle for charm school!" "Mr. Linwood!" "Bob?" "6086 Ridge Road Hinkley, California. 71 4 455...." "Okay, now, if you could walk me through all of the elements of Annabelle's illnesses." "Specific details when the symptoms began, prior to the first medical visit." "If you could reserve sentimental embellishments, I'd appreciate it because they won't help you in court." "I just need facts, dates, time." "I know Theresa isn't real warm, but she's a good lawyer." "She asks the same questions you did." "I told you everything." "I don't want her coming to the house again." "She upsets Annabelle." "Okay, if you don't like Theresa, that's okay." "You know how important Annabelle is to me." "Ed and I are still here for you." "I called Ed two days ago, Erin." "He still hasn't called me back." "Now, I hate to say this, but everyone's upset about this arbitration thing." "What?" "Pamela has written a letter telling everybody to get new lawyers." "That we've been lied to." "Is it true?" "No." "Did you?" "I'm telling you the truth, and I'll get to the bottom of all of this." "Don't lie to us." "I will take care of this." "Now, we're trusting you here, so...." "Thanks." "I'll talk to you soon, okay?" "I'm not saying it's not a strong case." "Otherwise, they wouldn't have dropped the demurrers." "I wouldn't be here." "What I am saying is, we don't have a smoking gun that ties San Francisco to Hinkley." "Something that proves that prior to 1 987 PGE Corporate knew the water was bad there and did nothing about it." "Erin, I thought you took a sick day." "So did I." "What's going on in there?" "Meeting about the PGE thing." "Are you sure?" "Yep." "We can find it, or we don't have a big win." "Can I take a brief break here for a moment?" "I'll be right back." "You told me you weren't feeling great." "Bullshit!" "If I was on my deathbed, if it helped you, you'd drag me out of it!" "How could you take this away from me?" "Nobody's taking anything." "Bullshit!" "You stuck me in Siberia!" "Dictating to some goddamned clerk so you could finish this without me." "They screwed up, Erin!" "They screwed up and they admit it." "The arbitration proposal could've been written in Sanskrit, for all the sense it made." "I know." "I spoke to Ted." "Pamela Duncan wouldn't even get on the phone with me!" "Pamela made everybody mad with that letter." "She called us thieves." "The whole thing's falling apart." "Why?" "Because before we go to arbitration, the plaintiffs must agree!" "How many?" "Usually they require about 70% ." "PGE is demanding 90." "In other words, everybody." "Do you understand?" "This is serious." "And, what, Ed?" "I'm not serious?" "You're emotional, you're erratic." "You say anything, you make this personal, and it isn't." "Not personal?" "That is my work!" "My sweat!" "My time away from my kids!" "If that's not personal, I don't know what is." "Hey, come on." "Come on." "Go home." "Get well." "Because you're no good to me sick." "I need you, all right?" "This case needs you." "Did you tell them that?" "Binding arbitration isn't that different from a trial." "It's overseen by a judge." "Evidence is presented in much the same way." "And then a jury decides?" "Sorry, I forgot to mention that there's no jury in binding arbitration." "No jury and no appeal." "What option do we have if we don't like the result?" "None." "The judge's decision is final." "Not a good answer." "No, but we don't anticipate that being a problem." "As I already told you it's definitely between 50 and 400,000,000 dollars." "Well, which?" "There's a big difference." "I wouldn't like to speculate." "Well, how does it get divided?" "Yeah, who gets what?" "My medical bills started two years ago, before some of the other people here." "My daughter was in and out of hospitals more than his." "It shouldn't matter when it started." "People, listen, please!" "The point we have to address tonight is getting everyone to agree that binding arbitration is better than a trial that could go on for 1 0 years before you see any money." "Maybe some of us wanna wait 1 0 years!" "Everyone has to agree, or no one has a chance!" "Those of you about to leave, I'd like you to keep this date in mind: 1 978!" "That's the year of the Love Canal controversy." "They're still waiting for their money!" "Think about where you'll be in 1 5 or 20 years." "Now, look, everyone." "Is this a big decision?" "Absolutely!" "But I do not believe this is a sell-out." "This is the best shot to get everyone some money now." "You and I both know there are people in this room who can't afford to wait." "To take that chance." "Are you gonna make them wait?" "So how many altogether?" "We got just about everybody that came here, but it leaves us about 1 50 short." "Oh, shit." "We'll have to go door-to-door." "I gotta go pick up my kids." "You need a hand with that?" "No." "You did good." "We'll see." "Thanks for coming." "Don't take them anywhere on your bike." "I'll give you money for a cab." "I got money." "So how long is this gonna take?" "I don't know." "A few days." "Got your own room." "I am really sorry, George." "Have the kids eaten?" "No." "Wanna get some pancakes?" "Come on, let's go." "Everybody up today." "All right." "Come on, baby." "What time is it?" "It's early." "We're taking your car to go get breakfast." "No, I need my car." "We'll be back in a minute." "Get some sleep." "Matt, buddy." "Put that down." "Let's go." "I'll be there in a minute." "Let's go get some pancakes, girly." "Come on." "Don't play with that." "It took me so long to get organized." "Would you put that back, please?" "This girl's the same age as me." "Is she sick?" "She is, but that's why I'm helping her." "We'll make her feel better." "Why can't her own mama help her?" "Because she's real sick too." "I'll bring you back some breakfast." "You want eggs?" "Eggs would be great." "Eggs would be perfect." "Hey, Matt." "Hey, Erin." "How are you?" "You been at this all day?" "Yeah." "You want some coffee?" "I'd love some." "I'll make a fresh pot." "Thanks." "Don't I know you?" "I don't think so." "Sure, you were at the barbecue in Hinkley." "And at the town meeting." "I was watching you." "I had my eye on you." "Nice." "You were talking to everybody and writing down a lot of stuff." "When I saw you, I said to myself, "There's something about her." "I really like that girl."" "Matt, can I get that coffee to go?" "Sure thing." "I feel like I can talk to you too." "Like you're the type of person I could say anything to." "Here you go." "Great." "What do I owe you?" "There's no charge." "Thanks, Matt." "Well, nice talking to you." "Would it be important if, when I worked at the plant, I destroyed documents?" "Maybe." "What's your name?" "Charles Embry." "Charles." "Erin." "Nice to meet you." "Can you excuse me for a quick-- I'm just gonna run to the...." "Oh, come on." "Oh, you fucking piece of crap with no signal!" "Fuck!" "Ed." "Ed, oh, my God." "This guy said he destroyed records." "He worked there." "Slow down." "I'm trying to relax." "This Charles Embry" "Who?" "Charles Embry." "I thought he was trying to kill me or pick me up but why would he use that, say that?" "It's crazy." "Shit." "Go back and see if he'll make a declaration." "A declaration." "But be careful." "Don't scare him off." "And stay calm." "Stay calm." "If it weren't for you, I'd be in Palm Springs now." "You're good at talking people into things." "Don't pepper him with questions." "Don't do that." "Just" "People wanna tell their story." "Just let him talk." "Let him do all the talking." "All right?" "Oh, sorry." "Would you like another beer, or...." "My cousin passed away yesterday." "He had kidney tumours no colon, his intestines were eaten away." "Forty-one years old." "I remember seeing him over at the plant." "He'd be cleaning the cooling towers, wearing...." "What do you call them?" "A mask?" "Yeah, doctors' masks." "And it'd be soaked in red from the nosebleeds." "I was working in the compressor." "The supervisor calls me up to the office and says:" ""We'll give you a shredder and send you to the warehouse to shred the documents we stored."" "He say why?" "Nope." "And I didn't ask." "Did you look at the stuff you destroyed?" "It was a lot of dull vacation schedules and stuff." "Then there were memos about the holding ponds, the water in them." "And readings from the test wells, stuff like that." "You were told to destroy those?" "That's right." "Course, as it turns out I wasn't a very good employee." "Good morning!" "Morning." "Ed." "Erin, what's this?" "May I?" "Yep." "Go ahead." "Well, you know what, Mr. Potter?" "We completely forgot your birthday this year." "Seeing as how you've been so good to me, it's a terrible oversight." "So Ed and I have been putting together a present for you." "Six-hundred and thirty-four." "They're signed, every one." "Holy shit." "Now, don't go getting jealous, Theresa." "We have something for you." "Internal PGE documents, all about the contamination." "The one I like best says I'm paraphrasing here, but it says, "The water's poisonous but it's best if this wasn't discussed with the neighbours."" "It's to Hinkley from PGE headquarters." "Stamp received March 1 966." "How did you do this?" "Seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise and Ed was losing all faith." "Completely." "No faith." "I went out there and performed sexual favours. 634 blowjobs in five days." "I'm really quite tired." "Oh, thank you." "Why did you want me to come?" "I wanna show you what you helped to do." "How are you feeling today?" "Good." "It's a good day." "Oh, I'm glad." "Well, come on in." "What a nice surprise this is." "Donna." "I wanted to come out here instead of calling because the judge came back with a number." "For the whole group, or for us?" "Both." "He's gonna make them pay 333 million." "And...." "Oh, my God." "He's gonna make them give 5 million of that to your family." "Five million dollars?" "Five million dollars." "I don't even know how much money that is." "Well, it's enough." "It's enough for whatever you could ever need or what your girls need, or your girls' girls." "It'll be enough." "Oh, Erin." "Oh, God." "Thank you so much." "It's okay." "I don't know what I'd have done without you." "It's a good day." "This is too much." "Masry and Vititoe, can l--?" "Shoot!" "Delivery for Ed Masry." "Last office down the corridor, on the right." "Thank you." "Masry and Vititoe" "Damn it!" "Does anyone know anything about these phones?" "Everybody loves the desk you picked out for me." "It's great." "Guess who's on the cover of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine?" "Talk to you later, baby." "Bye." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "I'd rather walk her through this in person, to show her visual aids, documents and stuff." "Tell her I won't take up too much of her time." "It's a little more complicated than Hinkley, so let me do that." "Say I'm not a lawyer." "That may help." "Great." "Why don't you give me the address now?" "Just in case." "All right." "Thanks so much." "Bye." "What's up?" "I have your bonus check." "I want you to be prepared." "The figure's not exactly what we discussed." "Why not?" "Because, after careful consideration, I felt that figure was not appropriate." "Although you may not agree you have to trust my" "Trust?" "You want me to trust you?" "Don't use big words you don't understand." "It's a complicated issue" "I did a job." "You should reward me accordingly." "It's not complicated." "All you lawyers do is complicate situations that aren't complicated." "Do you know why people think lawyers are scumbags?" "Because they are." "I can't believe you're doing this to me when I'm up to my ass in Kettleman plaintiffs which looks to be double the amount of Hinkley." "You expect me to leave my kids with strangers, knock on doors get these people to trust you, and you're screwing me!" "I want you to know, it's not about the number!" "It is about the way my work is valued." "No matter what I do, you're not" "As I was saying I decided that the figure you proposed was inappropriate." "So I increased it." "Do they teach beauty queens how to apologize?" "Because you suck at it."

"Previously on Mad Men." "Your girl full of surprises." "She really stood out, brainstorming wise." "Here's your basket of kisses." "What size Cadillac do you take?" "You know the rules." "I don't make plans." "My neighbor posed for that." "Believe me, he always looks very relaxed." "Don's in advertising." "How do you sleep at night?" "You must think I'm a creep." "Why are you here?" "I had to see you." "I thought take you up on your offer to look at my work," "Synchro:" "Hutch" "Season 1 Episode 8 The Hobo Code" "Hold the doors, please!" "Thank you." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Draper has you in early, huh?" "What's he up to?" "I don't know." "I kind of came in for myself." "Okay." "Honestly, I couldn't sleep." "I'm just filled with nerves." "The service elevator is out." "Do you mind?" "I'm moving today." "I'm supposed to go byat lunch and supervise the movers." "Probably lose the rest of the day watching other people work." "Well, that is a big day." "What do you have to be nervous about?" "Nothing." "Just, I think, Mr. Rumsen is presenting my copy today to the Belle Jolie people." "A thing like that." "We really took the local, didn't we?" "It's 7 in the morning." "I'm very sorry, sir." "Here we are." "I'm going to hop down for a coffee." "Would you like some?" "No." "Are you sure?" "Come in here, please." "Close the door." "There's no one here." "Close the door." "Do you know how hard it is to see you walking around here every day?" " Your skirt." "It's tight." " Just pull it up." "Be careful." "Listen, maybe this isn't the right time to mention this, but I want to clear the air." "I know I told you I would read the copy that you wrote, but..." "I haven't." "I'm glad." "I thought you just didn't like it." "That's too bad." "I know what you're going to say." "No." "You don't." "You haven't been right once." "I have all these things going on in my head, and I can't say them." "Do you think about me?" "I'll be honest." "A few times." "You're only 20 yards away." "Not right now." "I wake up in the morning, and I look into Trudy's eyes, and I think," ""We're supposed to be one person. "" "But whatever I try... there are all these things going on in my head." "She's just another stranger." "You're not alone in this." "I'm sorry I ripped your blouse." "It's okay." "Look who's off the clock again." "He's speaking Italian to his mother." "My stars." "Two weeks in, and she's already a goner." "He talks to his mother a lot." "Mr. Crane?" "I'll connect you." "Because he's not married." "Well, he's in the Art Department?" "What does he look like?" "Did you see that movie Marty with Ernest Borgnine?" "He lived with his mother." "Stop teasing her." "Yes, right away." "My guess is tall, dark, and handsome, but I'm a glass-half-full kind of gal." "She is so thoughtful." " Let me get my purse." " Forget it." "Mrs. Sterling will be calling before lunch time today." "Please put her through directly to me." " Done." " Ask her." "She'll know." "Salvatore Romano in the Art Department." "Do you know him?" "Handsome." "Very debonair." "Cologne, but not the cheap stuff." "Something European, maybe." "You're so specific." "You have voices." "I have other things." "Thank you so much for holding." " Good morning." " Good morning." "Mr. Cooper wanted to see you in his office." "Tell Mr. Sterling I'll be right there." "No, it's just Mr. Cooper." "Thank you, Peggy." "What happened there?" "I caught it on something." "I might start keeping a spare." "Come on in." "I'd prefer you didn't smoke in here right now." "Don, I am appreciative of your talents, and although that cannot be measured," "I have made an effort to quantify." "$2,500." "I..." "Thank you." "That's what you say." "Have you read her?" "Rand." "Atlas Shrugged*." "That's the one." "Yes." "Yes, it is." "See, I know you haven't read it." "When you hit 40, you realize you've met or seen every kind of person there is, and I know what kind you are." "Because I believe we are alike." "I assume that's flattering." "By that I mean you are a productive and reasonable man and in the end completely self-interested." "It's strength." "We are different... unsentimental about all the people who depend on our hard work." "Take $1.99 out of that $2,500 and buy yourself a copy." "I will." "Hello, there." "Hello." "Are you Traffic, or are you here for casting?" "I'm..." "I'm not a model." "I'm new." "Excuse me, Marty, who's doing the Firestone comps, you or Frank?" "Neither of us." "Sal, we were talking to Miss..." "Lois." "Lois Sadler." "I'm new here." "Switchboard." "Marty Faraday." " Why would they hide you?" " Hi, Lois." "Duane Davis." "Salvatore Romano." "Sorry about the mess." "No, it's divine." "I work in a closet all day, so just to come out and walk around is wonderful." "Is there anything I can do for you?" "I'm such a featherhead." "I need to get my paperwork in to Accounting, then find my way back to the switchboard room." "Am I close?" "No." "You're not even on the right floor." "I'll walk you there." "No." "Just point me there." "I'm fine." "Go upstairs, make a left outside of the stairwell, follow the wall past the ladies' room." "Nice to meet you." "That ate up some time." "I like when they flirt with me." "She was flirting with him." "You know, I had the salesman pushing this tie on me for 20 minutes." "I'd have bought it right away if I knew it worked." "It's not the ties." "They always talk to you." "They can tell you make money." "I told you, you don't need money to dress better than you do, Duane." "Mr. Campbell, I have your wife." "What line?" "Light up a line, will you?" "No, she's right here, in person." "Send her in." "Hello, my love." "Hello, homeowner." "What are you doing here, lovely?" "I thought I'd come get you and we could go together." "We could even walk." "It's 30 blocks." "It's beautiful outside." "I have a busier day than I thought." "Well, then let's do this here." "I said I'd meet you there if my schedule allowed, and now it doesn't look so good." "No, you didn't, and I'm here now." "What does it matter?" "This is my office." "How do you think it looks?" "Like you are beloved by your wife." "You see what happens when you just show up like this?" "We fight." "I came to celebrate us having our apartment, which I for one am happy about." "And you have ruined it." "I'm sorry." "I'm just busier than I thought." "Let's have a glass of Champagne." "I'm sorry." "We're going to live there a long time." "There's no point in being superstitious." "It's as simple as E Pluribus Unum*:" "from many, one." "From many shades of lipstick, one that belongs to her." "From a basket of kisses, she picks one." "It makes her unique." "It colors her kiss." "And her kiss, well, it colors her man." "Belle Jolie lipstick." ""Mark Your Man"." "I only see one lipstick in your drawing." "Women want colors, lots and lots of colors." ""Mark Your Man"." "It's pretty cute." "You like this?" "Well, maybe we should cut down to five shades, or one." "I'm not telling you to listen to anyone, but this is a very fresh approach." "It's okay, Kenny." "I don't think there's much else to do here but call it a day." "Gentlemen, thank you for your time." "Is that all?" "You're a nonbeliever." "Why should we waste time on Kabuki*?" "I don't know what that means." "It means that you've already tried your plan, and you're number 4." "You've enlisted my expertise, and you've rejected it to go on the way you've been going." "I'm not interested in that." "You can understand." "I don't think your three months or however many thousands of dollars entitles you to refocus the core of our business." "Listen, I'm not here to tell you about Jesus." "You already know about Jesus." "Either he lives in your heart, or He doesn't." "Every woman wants choices, but in the end, none wants to be one of a hundred in a box." "She's unique." "She makes the choices, and she's chosen him." "She wants to tell the world "He's mine"." "He belongs to me, not you." ""She marks her man with her lips."" "He is her possession." "You've given every girl that wears your lipstick the gift of total ownership." "Sit down." "No." "Not until I know I'm not wasting my time." "Sit down." "You know how to get back to the Roosevelt?" "We could have someone walk you over, or just meet you, if you're interested." "You're a troublemaker." "Although it is a place to get into trouble." "They just did this incredible renovation." "It reminds me a little of a steamship." "And the people..." "I was in the lounge last night, and I end up having a drink with Robert Mitchum." "Actually, many drinks." "Now you know we wouldn't steer you wrong." "Nice work." "I think you may be right about this." "We'll never know, will we?" "What?" "It's not a science, Hugh." "We'll do our best." "That Jesus thing." "I don't know what to say." "Probably better than dangling him out the window by his ankles." "That's just a story." "Don's never actually done that." "Ken, you will realize in your private life that at a certain point seduction is over and force is actually being requested." "He's a kid." "He thinks it's the other way around." "Peggy, ice!" "We'll need some." "Should I just put it down?" "How much ice?" "How do you take it?" "Home run, ballerina." "Go ahead, before Joan Holloway sees." "You call that celebrating?" "The meeting was so long, I was worried." "We barely finished the presentation, and he bought it." "No, he's bring modest." "Donald walked around the village three times and then set it on fire." "Oh, my God." "Can I see it?" "It's marvelous." "I thought it was going to say" ""It's the mark you make on your man"." "Was it, now?" "You may be a writer, honey." "Really?" "You're arrogant." "You want another drink?" "I don't know." "Not a writer." "Can I keep it?" "No." "What are you doing?" "Don't ever put your name on a list." "They keep track of everything we do here." "Have you never heard of Joseph McCarthy?" "It's the bowling team." "My God." "It happened." " They loved it." " What are you talking about?" "I'm heading out." "Don't look for me." "I have errands to run." "My Belle Jolie copy." "They loved it." " Congratulations." " That's so fascinating!" "I'm glad your other work was suffering for a reason." "They poured me a drink." " Who?" " Mr. Draper," "Mr. Rumsen, Mr. Romano, and..." "I'm so jealous." "Don't be." "I was just..." "I shouldn't be bragging." "They sold Peggy's copy." "My word." "Actually, they changed it a little bit, but it worked." " We're celebrating." " How about it?" "Five minutes to 5, we head to P.J. Clarke's." "Perfect!" "It's going to be a hell of an afternoon traffic meeting." "Champagne." "When did that happen?" "Another grateful client stopped by." "I thought you were moving today." "I was looking forward to seeing you in coveralls." "Yes, well, I managed to explain to the concerned party that I already have a job." "Do they ever stop asking for things?" "Hello." "Hello." "Hildy, she must have gone to lunch already." " Congratulations." " Yes." "I hear you're quite the little scribe." "You can trust Ken's opinion here." "He's a published author." "But he can't write copy." "I don't like to limit my words that much." "I also hate puns." "Come on." "Admiral: the television that won't go down the tubes." "Shut up." "So you going to celebrate?" "Well, yes, actually." "A bunch of us..." "just the girls so far... are going to P.J. Clarke's tonight." "Forget tonight." "I heard Cooper, Sterling, and Draper already left." "Am I wrong?" "What about Mr. Rumsen?" "Freddie Rumsen's at P.J.'s right now, and he doesn't know there's a party." "3:00, after the traffic meeting." "Joan's a tattletale." "I don't know, Peggy." "I'm kind of senior ranking when those other men are gone." "Speaker of the House." "He'll be there." "I should probably go home, actually." "If we're starting at 3, you can go home at 5." "It'll still be after work." "We all work so hard, I think we all need it." "Why not?" "Toodle-oo." "Mr. Romano," "I was headed out to lunch, but I have a phone call for you." "I'm glad I stayed in." "It's disconnected." "Everybody's talking about the meeting." "Miss Olsen said your artwork was spectacular." "She did, did she?" "Anyway, a bunch of us are taking her out to drinks." "P.J. Clarke's?" "She deserves it." "You have to come." "This is Lois Sadler, by the way." "I know that." "I'll be there." "Good." "Can I help you?" "Can I help you, sir?" "It's Don." "The ad man." "He's okay." "Excuse me, fellas." "Just because I can't call you doesn't mean you can't call me." "Pack a bag." "We're going to Paris." " What?" " Paris." "Now?" "Yeesh." "Where'd you get that?" "It's a bonus." "I'm not sure what for." "I bet." "What do you say?" "I called Idyllwild." "We can have breakfast at Versailles." "I'm sorry." "I have a special night planned." "I thought you didn't make plans." "Is he joing us?" "Yes." "He has to." "He looks kind of square." "Kibby just came four days straight from Juarez." "May I?" "I've been thinking about this since Port Authority." "Stay." "You'll love it." "We're going to get high and listen to Miles." "That's your plan?" "We can do this first and then do that." "It'll be a lot more fun." "Sit down." "Relax." "Next to me, Icky." "Where did you find him?" "You know you need to leave the Village for a decent screw." "I'll take care of him." "Do you like it?" "I feel like Dorothy." "Everything just turned to color." "The words." "You are good with the words, man." "Well put." "Kibby, why don't you make yourself useful and get me a glass of water?" "My word, I need to get one of those." "No, thanks." "Maybe." "We realize there's no music playing." "Just the..." "Good afternoon, ma'am." "I'm embarrassed to ask, seeing as we all have it hard right now, but is there any way" "I can trouble you for a meal?" "I'm willing to work for it." "Look around you." "We're not Christians here no more." "That is not true." "Fine, fine." "Work will feed your soul, but there's no work left here today." "Come back tomorrow?" "Nonsense." "You'll stay with us and eat with us, and work tomorrow." "I will have to boil those clothes, though, if you're going to sit at my table." "I'm not offended." "It would be a relief to me as well." "Dick Whitman, stop digging holes." "Build a fire under the cauldron." "Hiya, kid." "What did I say to you?" "Reminds me of myself." "That doesn't surprise me at all." "So we thank you, Lord, for this bounty we are about to receive that we may share it with those in need." "Amen." "Amen." "Amen." "Thank you again." "Thank you so much." "This smells delicious." "Where are those manners from?" "Let him eat and be on with it." "I'm from just east." "About New York, originally, some other places." "New York." "It's how you took to being on the bum so easy." "Archie, no one takes to charity easy." "I'm just saying I bet he don't know which end of a weed to pull." "That's the truth, sir." "I only know some farm work, but I've seen mills and docks and factories." "I've been a worker." "Are you a communist?" "No." "Yeah, I imagine they're different, all right." "They take a club to the jaw like anyone else." "They are souls, but they can't be saved." "That's true." "My mom always said that life is like a horseshoe." "It's fat in the middle, open on both ends, and hard all the way through." "Tomorrow... when you've finished some work." "Bless you." "I had to see this place for myself." "Good." "It's something, huh?" "No Bob Mitchum?" " What are you drinking?" " Campari with a twist." "You know, when I mentioned the renovation," "I didn't know if you heard me." "I've been curious about seeing this place." "I'm actually involved with architects on this department store." "Signage, mostly." "I like this room, although I am its prime target: traveling salesman." "In that suit?" "I should say not." "No, I'm not one of those boys who looks forward to a business trip to escape the wife and kids." "I'm really a homebody." "But New York?" "When you arrive, and that train starts slowing down and it gets all dark, my heart pounds, and I think," ""I'm going to climb that staircase and be in New York."" "I take it for granted." "It is a masterpiece of some kind." "Wherever I'm staying, I always demand a view." "It's building after building." "Little compartments filled with possibilities." "What's that from?" "42nd Street?" "What?" "No." "I'm just saying it's..." "it's like you can do anything." "I'm two ahead of you." "I have to eat something, or I'm going to continue to rhapsodize." "What time is it?" "I bet you don't have an expense account." "I'm not saying Peggy doesn't have something upstairs." "I'm just saying at Sterling Cooper things are usually happening downstairs." "I didn't know that." "God, the whole office is here." "I don't see the Art Department." "What about those two?" "I think I had too much to drink." "You are very petite." "Going back to the well." "Interested?" "Dance with me." "I don't like you like this." "Literally," ""With flies."" "The espresso beans mean health, wealth, and happiness." "Seems redundant, I mean, if you already have health and wealth." "So, are you happy?" "I'm one of those people who thinks the minute you ask that, you're not happy, so... no." "You're loud, but you're shy." "I feel like I'm getting my fortune told." "I'm sorry." "It's fine." "So what do you want to do?" "I don't know." "Let me break off with one of the writers, have my own little shop where copy follows art and not the other way around." "No, I mean my view." "You have to see it." "It's all the way to the park." "Of course it's dark now." "I don't know." "May I?" "I... don't know what to say." "It's Elliot." "And, Salvatore, you don't have to say anything." "No, I..." "I just..." "No." "Have another drink." "Think about it." "Elliot, I have thought about it." "I know what I want." "I know what I want to do." "I know what you're thinking." "I'll show you." "What are you afraid of?" "Are you joking?" "This... has been a pleasure." "Don, are you all right?" "I don't know." "Probably the guy in 2F." "He uses his wife like a speed bag." "Man." "I was going to truck down for some carrot juice." "Wait, wait." "Thank you." " Smoke?" " No." "He speaks." "I'm supposed to tell you to say your prayers." "Praying won't help you from this place, kid." "Best keep your mind on your mother." "She'll probably look after you." "She ain't my momma." "We all wish we were from someplace else, believe me." "Ain't you heard?" "I'm a whore child." "No." "I hadn't heard anything about that." " You don't talk like a bum." " I'm not." "I'm a gentleman of the rails." "For me, every day is brand-new." "Every day's a brand-new place, people, what have you." "So you got no home." "That's sad." "What's at home?" "I had a family once: a wife, a job, a mortgage." "I couldn't sleep at night tied to all those things." "Then death came to find me." "Did you see him?" "Only every night." "So one morning, I freed myself with the clothes on my back." "Good-bye." "Now I sleep like a stone: sometimes under the stars, the rain." "the roof of a barn." "But I sleep like a stone." "So where do you go?" "Tomorrow I'll be leaving this place, that's for certain." "If death was coming anyplace, it's here, kid, creeping around every corner." "Here." "You're an honorary." "This is how we talk to each other." "On the front gate of every house, there's a mark." "It's a code, just like you heard on the radio." "See..." "That's a pie." "It means the food here is good." "This one..." "That means watch out for the nasty dog." "This one here..." "That means a dishonest man lives here." "And this one..." "That means tell a sad story." "Here." "Don't be scared, kid." "You ain't a man yet." "Of course." "What?" "You two." "You're in love." "What?" "That's ridiculous." "Every day I make pictures where people appear to be in love." "I know what it looks like." "Looks like a magazine." "Love is bourgeois." "You're breaking my heart." "Dig." "Ad man's got a heart." "The grownups are talking." "Don't defend him." "Toothpaste doesn't solve anything." "Dacron sure as hell won't bring back those ten dead kids in Biloxi." "Neither will buying some Tokaj wine and leaning up against a wall in Grand Central pretending you're a vagrant." "You know what it's like to watch all you ants go into your hive?" "I wipe my ass with the Wall Street Journal." "How come every time we have a party, the ladies have to sit and listen to the men talk?" "Look at you... satisfied, dreaming up jingles for soap flakes and spot remover, telling yourself you're free." "My God." "Stop talking." "Make something of yourself." "Like you?" "You make the lie." "You invent want." "You're for them... not us." "Well, I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie." "There is no system." "The universe is indifferent." "Man, why'd you have to say that?" "Paris." "Now." "Let's go." "No, I can't." "Buy yourself a car." "The cops." "You can't go out there." "You can't." " Sir." " Good evening." "Wake up, Bobby." "Come on, kiddo." "Daddy." "Your sister's sleeping." "Ask me anything." "What?" "Anything." "I'm tired." "Ask me." "Why do lightning bugs light up?" "I don't know." "But I will never lie to you." "Well, sir," "I believe that does it." "I'll be on my way." "Thank you, again, for sharing your home." "Good luck to you." "Be on your way already." " Good morning, Peggy." " Good morning, Mr. Draper."

"(Claire) 25 years ago, god disappeared." "The archangel Gabriel decided he must destroy mankind to bring god back, but the archangel Michael stood against his brother and fought on the side of humanity." "The war continues." "(Laurel) The prophet built the fire that protects us." "It cannot go out." "Harper, I cannot let you put everyone else in danger." "[gunshot]" "I'm leaving Vega." "I've never stood still." "I'm not about to start now." " Guards!" " Drop your weapon!" "Why try to kill me now?" "You live in a palace built with their bones." "There's something in there that I want back." "Has anyone ever made it out alive?" "No, but there's always a first time." "You game?" "[woman screams in distance] [screaming, indistinct demonic incantation] [demonic shouting]" "What's in there?" "The possessed." "(Julian) Human body wasn't built for occupation." "Some angels can't bear its limits." "They go mad." "And we keep them in here." "It's an asylum..." "And a prison for those who break our laws." "So, a few days ago, an angel went mad and stole a key from me, took it in there." "I sent some soldiers in to find it." "Good men, but none of them made it back." "And I'd like you to bring it to me." "You want me to go into a madhouse full of insane angels..." "With just a machete and a flashlight?" "Chosen One is destined to become a great general, isn't he?" "So prove it to me." "Show me your markings are worth my alliance." "What's the key for?" "That's my business." "I mean, I'm looking for a powerful weapon, and you walk into my city claiming to be one." "I mean, what are the odds?" "(man) Julian." "Let's see what you're made of." "Alex, don't go in there." "Listen, you heard him." "This is the only way we're getting an alliance." "New Delphi has soldiers and empyrean steel." "It's the only thing that can kill an archangel." "I'm going in with you." " No, Noma." " Alex, no way." "Look out for Pete." "This city's dangerous." "I need you to keep Vega safe if I don't make it out of here." "[muffled demonic screaming] I'll do it." "But I need you to get a message to Vega." "Tell them Gabriel's alive." "The survivors of the human race are gonna need to stick together if we're gonna kill Gabriel." "Done." "So the angel in question will be wearing the key on a chain around his neck." "If you find it, then keep moving." "[eerie groaning]" "Good luck." "[door bangs closed]" "(man over loudspeaker) Attention..." "V-1 curfew is now in effect." "(man) They were killed by V-1 rebels." "Zoe Holloway escaped." "Laurel, Wes murdered that girl." "Harper..." "Her name was Harper." "And we had to do it, okay?" "What?" "How can you say that?" "I needed her confession..." "All her secrets and all her sins." "She wouldn't tell me anything." "I tried." "Now that she's dead, we're safe." "Whatever secrets she had died with her." "She was the last one." "Now I have everyone's confession." "I'm ready for the celebration tonight." "It doesn't make sense." "Why are these secrets so important?" "Why does everyone have to confess them to you?" "After tonight, you'll be gone." "You need their secrets before then because it's not a celebration." "It's a sacrifice." "Isn't it?" " Laurel, tell me I'm wrong." " We have to do it." "Every five years, the prophet told us to do it, and I volunteered." "That grave isn't for Harper." "No." "It's for me." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "[demonic whispering]" "[demonic whispering continues]" "[demonic growling]" "[demonic whispering continues]" "(Gabriel) When Vega sees their queen has fallen, they'll lose hope, make it so much easier to wipe clean this filthy slate." "Ah, Briathos." "Could you get into Vega?" "Then go." "You deserve a holiday." "And you can bring back a souvenir, the head of Claire Riesen." "My army will be here by sundown." "New Delphi won't give us Alex." "We'll liberate him." "There a problem?" "You want to attack two cities at once?" "The last time we did that, Michael was at our side." "We don't need him." "I've learned a great deal since then." "And when I'm done, father will see who's always been his most loyal son." "(Michael) Here, we strike here first." "What, the temple?" "No." "It's a sanctuary." "Spare it." "Be merciful, Michael." "These people don't deserve their god." "They are still father's children." "And yet he gives us the task of punishment." "I will do as I see fit." "Brother, your blood is too hot." "And yours is too cool." "We should use the amphorae." "These vessels contain darkness to drive them to madness, brimstone to blind and burn, and blood to drown the survivors." "The elements of god's wrath are swift, clean, honorable." "Honor is to look one's enemy in the eye." "But you wouldn't know that." "[banging]" "You've never killed a human with your bare hands." "You send soldiers to battle and use the amphorae, but it's not the same." "You don't know the beauty of it." "In winter, when blood spills on snow, it steams." "[sighs]" "You're insane." "Michael." "You think I'm just gonna stand by and watch you kill yourself?" "I have to." "One of us does." "One of our leaders wouldn't do it, and then the fire went out, and the possessed came in." "They killed my friends until our leader did what he promised." "Then the fire lit again, and we were safe." "You're afraid god won't return." "So am I." "You've let a false prophet take advantage of your fear." "But I hear god's voice." "We all do." "But I don't!" "And if it were father," "I promise he would have something to say to me!" "I'm one of his children too." "Michael, I have a responsibility." "That mean anything to you?" "It did..." "Once." "Father's wrath must have a face." "And that duty is mine." "How say you, Lyrae?" "A death is as glorious as birth." "Why else would father have made them mortal?" "Michael, you value a higher angel's counsel over your own brother's?" "Justice must be done." "No, I won't allow cruelty." "Father's orders were to cast these sinners out into the darkness." "I want them to suffer the limits of their bodies." "Spill blood, but do so with honor." "Always." "Michael..." "Farewell, Sodom and Gomorrah." "[demonic whispering]" " [gasps] - [screaming] [both grunting]" "(woman) There, that's better." "Are you afraid of the dark, soldier?" "[guttural scream]" "Don't be." "It's lovely in the dark." " [guttural scream] - ah!" "Turn out the light!" "Turn out the light!" "[guttural screaming] [suspenseful music]" "♪ ♪ [man speaking demonic language]" "(man) Over here." "[guttural screaming]" "(Alex) Open!" "(man) You okay, man?" "Yeah." "Who are you?" "I'm from Vega." "(man #2) Vega?" "General Riesen?" "[rock music playing on radio]" "♪ ♪ [door buzzes]" "[door buzzes]" "♪ ♪" "Wow." "[chuckles]" "I didn't think it was possible, Gates, but you have managed to turn this place from charming hovel to just hovel." "Well, hello to you too, Claire Riesen." "And all this is the price of genius." "A little method, little madness, you know." "To what do I owe this honor?" "I have a favor to ask." "Oh, straight to the point, just like your pop." "Well, I'll try not to take it personally, but I'm kind of busy, so..." "How busy?" "[music stops]" "Where'd you find that?" "My dad never came empty-handed." "You are a quick study." "Last time the general brought you here," "I don't think you were even old enough to have a drink." "It's been years, right?" "Yeah, well, things change." "Gates, I need you to find someone for me." "Zoe Holloway, she's a V-1, wants to overthrow my government." "What, did she say that in a strongly worded letter?" "No, she tried to kill me." "She escaped prison, and my soldiers can't track her." "But I bet you can." "[laughs]" "Claire, I'd love to help you, but I'm an engineer." "I power the city." "I build you a bomb here and there, but I don't play detective." "Come on, Gates." "You and my dad built this city." "You know it better than anyone." "You could find her." "Please, it's important." "Yes, it is, but I can't, not now, sorry." "Gates, I'm not asking." "[chuckles] I thought you said that this was a favor." "Yeah, well, now it's an order." "Tinker with that thing later." "You know what?" "This bad boy is a processing core from a generator that powers three floors in agri-tower B, all stalks of corn." "It went kaboom at 3:00 a.m." "So, I don't fix this, we can kiss that corn good-bye." "There are rumors of a rebellion, Gates." "You know what those grow up into?" "Civil wars." "It's the curse of the Bambino." "The Roston Red Sox traded away Babe Ruth and bought the team 86 years bad luck." "Michael was our babe Ruth." "After he left, everything fell apart." "I mean, he was the only angel that gave a damn about us." "Yeah, well, maybe we never really knew him." "Look, give me an hour, and I'll see what I can do, okay?" "Thanks." "General Riesen, what the hell are you doing down here?" ""General"?" "Sam, you know this guy?" "Why'd he call you Sam?" "Wait." "Who the hell are you?" "Eli." "I'm a prisoner, like him." "Wait." "W-why is he calling you Sam?" "That's my name now." "I didn't want to tell him who I really was." "Too dangerous." "I've been down here for weeks." "I am the leader of Vega." "Why are you a prisoner down here?" "I killed a monster, an eight-ball." "Claire... my Claire, is she okay?" "She's fine." "I left to protect her and the baby." "My daughter..." "She's pregnant?" "You just left her on her own?" "I told you," "I left to keep her safe." "I didn't just run away like you and Michael did." "There's something down here I need to get." "Some eight-ball has a key around his neck." "It's a round copper disc." "But I'm starting to think it's bullshit, and I was just sent down here to die." "No, I've seen it, out there." "But, no, look, it's dangerous." "So, no, just get us out of here, please." "No, show me the eight-ball..." "Now." "(Janeck) What's taking so long?" "Never fear." "I have the perfect plan of attack in mind." "[distant battle cries, screaming] [explosion]" "Michael..." "(Arif) My lord, my lord!" "Help me!" "The angels have come." "They'll slaughter us all." "No, no, no, no, no." "You are not safe here, friend." "You must go, go now." "No, no, no, you must come too, or they'll kill you also!" "How we've angered god, for him to let his angels upon us!" "Ah!" "You're one of them." "Aah!" "Now!" "Go, friend, go now." "I will not hurt you." "You're not my friend!" "Aah!" "[sword clatters]" "Are you afraid?" "No, I am not." "Is this it?" "This is what you'll use?" "Why are you here, Michael?" "I'm leaving..." "Tonight." "I know I can't change your mind, but I won't watch you die." "I can't." "I wouldn't have asked you to." "I can't save you, but there is someone I can." "Alex, the boy who's like a son." "He needs me." "Some promises can't be broken." "You taught me that." "Good-bye, Laurel." "When you came here, you were lost." "I saw in your eyes, you were running." "If you go back out there..." "Please promise me you'll be careful." "I know you don't believe in the things we do, but..." "I hope you find something you can believe in." "I have." "Now I know father's still out there." "I have faith, because he meant for me to come here to find what I'd lost, to find you." "The world ended, but all that was good and beautiful didn't die with it." "You are afraid." "Yes." "[door opens]" "Hey, what's going on?" "I found your rebels." "You found Zoe?" "Where is she?" "Uh-huh." "Some abandoned warehouse behind the flamingo." "I have my eye on ever watt in the city." "So when V-1s siphon off a little juice to power a lightbulb or a space heater," "I let it go, but this time..." "Huh, you do that?" "Yeah, why?" "You want me to stop?" "No, just didn't know you did it." "Okay." "So this warehouse is just lit up like times square." "Someone in there just started using massive wattage in there, way more than a lightbulb." "It could be computers, radios, communications." "If your gal's trying to start a revolution..." "Yeah, I get it, command central." " Now we can get Zoe." " Jackpot." "[ominous music]" "♪ ♪" "(Michael) Gabriel, I need you." "(Michael) You'll pay for what you've done!" "Savage, barbarian." "Unspeakable." "Men gutted, hung by their entrails, babes torn limb from limb before their mothers, and he delighted in it!" "Father asked for their death, not their torture!" "Gabriel." "You have killed with your own hands for the first time." "Brother." "He warned us never to leave the safety of Mallory, our home... [people murmuring]" "And to rid our community of secret and sin with confession and sacrifice." "And I, Laurel, have taken those secrets and sins into my heart." "[whimpers]" "As I die, so do they." "(Michael) Stop!" "I'm here to take your place." "(Michael) Gabriel, what have you done?" "Archangel." "Stay down!" "For eons, we've shed human blood on father's command." "It's a terrible task, but it's ours alone." "But the unholy joy you took with your duty shocked me more than any!" "Is such joy for archangels alone?" "For I gleaned it all from you, Michael." "Your brutality..." "Was a glorious inspiration." "You are my muse, Michael." "[laughs breathlessly]" "(Gabriel) Brother... (Lyrae) No, Michael, you wouldn't." "Lyrae, you have broken the will of god and must be punished." "No, you wouldn't, Michael." "I cast you down to the lowest sphere of heaven." "Gabriel." "Gabriel, stop him." "You will no longer hold the exalted rank of higher angel, thereby your body shall be taken from you." "Stop him, Gabriel." "I banish your spirit to the cold ether of the outer sphere." "Oh, what satire..." "That you should be judge and executioner." "To the darkness, far from the warmth of father's light." "Gabriel!" "[screaming]" "Michael." "You can't do this." "It won't work." "(Wes) Get out of here, you son of a bitch." "No, wait." "Why won't it work?" "You have to take the secrets and sins of this town into your heart, all of them." "Well, you haven't taken mine." "Am I not part of your town?" "You gave me shelter, fought the enemy shoulder to shoulder." "So, unless she takes my secrets too, then all of this is for nothing." " You don't belong here." " No, he's right." "(Laurel) He's one of us." "Michael, will you confess your secrets and your sins to me?" "I have killed." "No." "No, I have slaughtered." "Cities so scorched, no life may ever grow again." "My fury destroyed the innocent and the guilty and those I loved." "I was the one who passed judgment, but it's I who must be judged." "I have to take your place as sacrifice." "You give me the secrets to carry." "I'll take them with me." "Michael, you can't." "I won't let you." "I'm not the man you think I am, but I can be if you'll let me." "You're crazy." "It won't work." "It will work." "Father just told me it would." "(Alex) Why do they take the eyes?" "They're jealous of us." "I came here once." "It was a military defense bunker..." "Big, like NORAD." "[coughing]" "You don't look so good." "Well, I'm sick." "It's my heart." "Did you know about the eight-balls before you came here, that they live peacefully with humans?" "Why would you think that?" "Maybe somebody told you." "[distant clatter]" "[screaming] [gunshots]" "I'm gonna need that key." "Ah, you son of a bi..." "[gunshot] [grunting]" "Oh." "Oh, god." "Damn it." "[liquid slurping] [gagging]" "Oh." "[screeches]" "[grunting] [snarling] [speaking foreign language]" "Sanctify this vessel." "Protect this body and soul." "What are you doing?" "Come into the light." "[exhales sharply]" "What did you just do?" "How did you do that?" "(Alex) Get up." "Come on, get up." " You all right?" " Yeah." "These missions made my dad crazy." "He used to hate not being on the ground." "Lady Riesen, they're approaching target." "I want Zoe Holloway taken alive," "But if she resists, shoot to kill." "Ma'am." "(man) Let's move." "Move." " Your side, your side." " Covered." "(man) Come out!" "Show me your hands!" "Stand clear." "It's clear." "No sign of Holloway." "What?" " Here!" " Go!" "Move!" "[man shouts]" "Movement!" "Get down on the ground!" "Wait, wait, wait." "That's Zoe." "(Zoe) Go, go, go!" "[gunshots] Move it out!" "Damn it, he had her." "(man) Left side!" "Left side!" "[sighs]" "Michael, when you came to us, you were a stranger." "Now you belong to us." "Will you take the secrets and sins of our town into your heart?" "Yes, I will." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "It should be me." "Your grace is a light that shines in the darkness." "It's what's going to lead father home." "Hey." "[cries] [dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "It's happening." "I, Michael, take the secrets and sins of my people into my heart." "As I die, so do they." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪ [gasps] [gasps]" "Thank you." "[Laurel cries]" "It'll work." "It has to." "[demonic screaming]" "[crowd murmuring]" "Michael." "Father's will be done." "What are you doing?" "Lyrae spoke the truth." "I am father's sword." "I, too, must be punished." "No." "Gabriel, please, I beg you." "Never." "I'll sooner take my own life." "Forgive me." "I shamed you for your mercy, for the light inside you, a light I covet." "Mine has long since gone dim." "I fear it will not kindle." "It can, and it will." "No more, brother." "I'm done." "Perhaps we are never truly done." "[sniffles]" "Thank you." "(Claire) Sergeant Mills, please, take a seat." "I wanted to thank you for your efforts in tonight's mission." "Well, thank you, lady Riesen." "Sergeant, why did you hesitate..." "When you missed the shot?" "You could have captured Zoe." "It was dark." "My team was close." "I didn't want to hit anyone else by mistake." "You don't make mistakes." "Expert marksman, best in your unit, I hear..." "Flawless on a 500-yard moving-target test." "How far away was Zoe?" "50, 60 yards?" "Lady Riesen, I'm sorry I missed." "But that's not a crime, is it?" "No..." "Not unless you did it on purpose." "What?" "(Gates) Claire, I've got..." "I'm sorry, lady Riesen." "It can wait." "Look, I told you, it was dark." "I didn't want to hit one of my guys." "You had a clear shot." "Oh, yeah?" "What the hell do you know about guns?" "Corporal, give me your Beretta." "[gun cocks]" "Now..." "I'm no expert or anything, but at that range with a clear shot, even I wouldn't have missed." "Sergeant Mills, how many other traitors are there in my military?" "Go to hell, you bitch." "[screaming, groaning]" "Take him out." "[demonic screaming]" "Come on, the exit's up this way." "Come on." "General, come on!" "No, I can't go." "It's right here, come on!" "Come on, general." "Come on, you got it." " I can't make it." " Come on, buddy." "[demonic snarling] I can't." "I can't." "Shit!" "[demonic snarling] [shouts in demonic language] [banging on door] open the door!" " Alex?" " Open the door!" "[demonic screaming]" "Alex, you son of a bitch." "I never thought you were coming out of there." "Thanks, Noma." "Uh, who's this guy?" "Riesen?" "[sighs]" "General." "Ah." "Lady riesen." "[door closes]" "Don't tell me you're praying." "[chuckles] No, I used to, but I don't find comfort in it anymore." "Faith helps little children sleep at night, but it won't help me protect my city." "You know what?" "I did not recognize you before." "Hmm, I didn't recognize myself." "Curse of the Bambino lasted 86 years, right?" "Not 87." "The Red Sox didn't give up." "Neither will I." "Well, I'd bet on you." "Ah." "You know what?" "A lot has changed, but not that smile." "So..." "What did you want?" "Um..." "Surveillance camera caught a shot of your rebels when they escaped, and, uh, that's one of the crates the agri-tower guys use to deliver food." "I don't understand." "They left behind all their gear and guns, and they took this... why?" "What's in it?" "I don't think it's corn." "Hey, my key..." "Do you have it?" "Yes, I do." "(Julian) No one's made it out of there alive." "Orpheus only escaped the underworld because he had a magic lyre." "How did you do it?" "Like you said, I'm a powerful weapon." "Now I want my alliance." "Oh, no, that man's a murderer." "He killed an angel in my city." "Take him back to the asylum, where he belongs." "That is general Edward riesen of Vega." "Part of the pact between our two cities, which you now owe me..." "You'll pardon all of his crimes." "Find them quarters." "You have your alliance." "Welcome to New Delphi." "All of you." "Let's talk about Vega." "(Michael) Sweet dreams." "Jeez." "[gasping]" "Please, don't hurt me." "Oh, but I will, Wes..." "Much more than just hurt you." "It'll pale in comparison to what you did to Harper." "You see, killing was once a speciality of mine." "That's all behind me now." "But for you, I'd make an exception." "Lay a hand on anyone else, and I'll destroy you." "Speak of this to no one." "I'll be watching." "Am I understood?" "[safe lock clicking]"

"Lot number 149." "2004 Cadillac Escalade EXT." "Black, leather interior." "Bidding starts at $22,000." "Twenty-two." "Twenty-two." "I have 23?" "Anybody say 24?" "Twenty-four." "How about 25?" "I have 25." "Twenty-six?" "Twenty-six." "How about 27?" "Twenty-seven, 27." "Twenty-seven." "How about 28, 28, 28, 28?" "Twenty-nine, 29?" "Sucks I didn't bring my chequebook." "How about thirty, 30?" "Laverneous'd pop if he knew all these whiteys were scoping out his ride." "I put ads in El Clasificado, and The Sentinel." "But apparently only the Times crowd was interested." "Who wants to go 31?" "Thirty-one?" "Going, going." "Sold." "Thirty-one thousand dollars." "Okay, now we have lot number 611." "I did a little show and tell for the city attorney last night." "She sign off on the injunctions?" "One-Niners are Antwon Mitchell's foot soldiers." "And these injunctions are gonna keep them off the street pushing dope." "He's gonna feel the pressure." "Well, he's already feeling it." "This is gonna jack up the pain." "Seventeen thousand dollars." "Okay, next item." "Lot number 684." "Yamaha motorcycle, minimal damage." "All right, let's make this quick." "We gotta clock in to the boss." "You forget I'm your boss?" "What do you need?" "This address." "Chink heron dealer." "Hear a shipment came in last night." "And you don't like competitors." "You know, Bill Gates has his hit, I got mine." "Yeah, and busting dealers is ours, so sure." "All right, we'll pay a visit." "Do our part to keep the, uh, black tar monopoly safe." "Plus, I'm gonna need half his inventory." "We're good on demand, but light on supply because of your intel failure." "We give you information, we don't move product, get hung up in your shit." "Hey." "I'll beep you when we got the stuff." "Bitch with a badge doing my bidding." "It's a wonderful day." "As you know, we had our first auction this morning." "Try to keep your jaws off the floor." "We raised over $900,000." "I guess taking houses is profitable." "That's money out of the bad guys' hands, and back into the community." "Yeah, and a third comes to us." "Now, that's not the only good news." "Officers Sofer and Lowe have done a fantastic job documenting the One-Niners." "Thanks to their hard work, we got injunctions." "After we serve these, you see two or more One-Niners together in Farmington, that's called congregating in groups, and that's jail time." "One-Niners are just the beginning, so let's get these served by the end of the day." "Match the glamour shots to the injunctions." "You have any questions, get in touch with Danny or Julien." "Can't find them, come to me." "Thanks, everyone." "Any word on the girl?" "Talked to Angie's friends, kids at school." "No one's seen her, off the map." "Her mom goes in the ground tomorrow." "Girl checks in once a week." "Now nothing." "Talking about Angie?" "Yeah." "You speak to the family in Georgia?" "She, um, she hasn't been back to her apartment, didn't, um, pack any bags." "What if Antwon Mitchell found out Angie gave up the cul-de-sac bust?" "That would have to come from here." "You ran that." "Is there any chance that word got out?" "None." "I'm glad to hear IAD cleared you on the shooting." "Yeah." "Thanks for the word you put in." "Your CO's anxious to get you back." "I took personal time the rest of the week to look for Angie." "Let me know what you find." "All right." "Come here." "What the hell was that?" "Shane is slipping inside info to Antwon." "Angie goes missing the night we take his distribution centre." "She fingered." "And I'm supposed to pretend those two things aren't related?" "Shane wouldn't give up a girl to that." "He's down for stealing, planting evidence..." "We're all part of that." "But he would have been down." "We hadn't been there to rein in his shit." "On his own, we got no idea what he would do." "We're keeping Shane out of trouble." "Making noises to my boss doesn't help." "He didn't do this." "I'll look around and make sure of it." "You keep looking for Angie." "Catch the ball." "Come on, that's right." "Oh, you knuckleheads make it way too easy." "Game's over." "Against the fence." "Get against the fence right now." "Move." "Move your ass." "You." "Face me." "We was just balling." "Yeah?" "Well, from now on, T-Gun, a cop sees you so much as playing with your own dicks in the same room, you're going to County." "Oh, this one's for you, Notch." "It's called an injunction." "You're all documented members of a known criminal organization." "Judge thinks you're domestic terrorists, ladies." "I ain't no sheet-head." "Yeah, just a shithead." "Injunctions are zero tolerance." "That means no associating with known bangers." "No hanging with homeys, no riding together." "Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on." "So you trying to say it's illegal for me to hang out with my own brother?" "He your real brother?" "Yeah." "Like we came out the same vagina." "Well, the court says you're One-Niners first." "I mean, what you all think, we banging 24l7?" "It's not up to me." "All right, see who we got." "I'll tell the bartender his One-Niner clientele's banned." "Yo, all right, police, you know the dance." "You know the dance." "Buy me a damn drink!" "Jesus, shit." "Let's go." "You're gonna buy me a drink, bitch." "Break it up." "Break it up." "I'm DEA." "What?" "I'm undercover." "You bust this place, you're gonna screw it up." "Get off me, pig!" "Hold it right there!" "Don't shoot." "I got him." "He should be here and let go!" "I got him." "Ah!" "It's okay." "This is the guy that Billings was looking for on that 211." "All right, come on, asshole." "Come on." "Hospital says that alky you knocked around barely has a bruise." "Drunks are like super balls." "Bounce them off the floors, they never get a scratch." "I'll have to remember that one." "Credentials cleared." "Agent Hendricks say what he was doing at Lucky's?" "Couldn't tell you if I wanted to." "How long you been on the One-Niners?" "A while." "Obviously, we're tilling the same ground." "One-Niner heroin trade, probably Antwon Mitchell too." "I'm just a guy on the street." "Say I talked to the guy in the corner office?" "You'd have to be pretty convincing." "Give me a name." "I'll work on my sales pitch." "Federal investigations take precedence." "We say keep away from that bar, you better do it." "We can help you." "You don't even have working lights." "I'm bringing the place into the 21 st century." "Rewiring, high-speed internet." "Meanwhile, here's the low-tech version." "You guys are into the One-Niners." "We know everything about them." "Ink, homeys, drug dens." "The bangers know we're plugged into them." "We do the bust for you, get the heroin off the street." "You get closer to Antwon Mitchell, and your agent's cover isn't compromised." "You're making a lot of assumptions." "The DEA's set up on a One-Niner bar." "One-Niners are front and centre in the tar trade." "I'm a local, not a moron." "Antwon never sees the light of day again, I host the party." "LAMBERTl:" "One-Niners have been trading stolen cars for tar heroin." "Pipeline runs between L.A. and El Salvador." "Tar comes from Mexico." "LAMBERTl:" "It's grown there, imported through El Salvador." "Salvadoran named Spider's the go-between with the bangers." "Has a garage of stolen Camrys on Broadway." "How'd the El Salvadorans get hooked up with the One-Niners?" "Antwon." "Back in Lompoc, he took advantage of some bad blood." "Made an alliance with the Salvadorans against the Mexicans." "They are still tight." "You know where he unloads?" "Four months, no clue." "Slips us every time we get close." "So we use my people to bust the garage, convince Spider to share where he takes the drugs." "Work up the chain from there." "I'll have some unis round up Spider's family for leverage." "It's a good bet most of them are illegals." "So we're clear." "This is my op." "You screw it up..." "Wouldn't do that to you." "Antwon was some Iraqi National Guard general, we'd wait till he was all tucked in bed having a real nice dream, and then cluster bomb his ass." "Worst thing we could do is take a straight shot." "Not till we know where he's keeping that girl's body." "No, we gotta be patient." "Captain's got something cooking with DEA." "Wants us all on it." "Fed bullshit?" "No, I think we'll pass." "Captain's orders." "You wanna skate, you talk to her yourself." "Hey, Vic, your nanny is here." "Cass, everything okay?" "You still feeling sick, kid?" "Mr. Vic, I'm very sorry." "My girl, she's having a baby." "I thought that was next month?" "Baby come early." "Problems, I think." "Do you understand, right?" "It's okay." "Thank you." "Come on, honey." "Sorry, Dad." "No, that's okay, sweetie." "Not your fault." "Who's this?" "Cassidy." "She's feeling a little under the weather." "This is my boss, Captain Rawling." "Nice to meet you." "You too." "Why don't you take her home?" "I'll have Shane take the lead on Spider." "No, no, no, I got it covered." "I just have to call my backup sitter." "Your dad is very dedicated." "Why are you letting that bald cracker-ass run my boys off they corners with this injunction shit, huh?" "They ain't hardly earning." "I can only wrap my arms around so much." "Injunctions are coming from the top." "Maybe a brick of China white will ease the pain." "Fresh from your Asian friends." "I don't touch the stuff." "There is something else." "An El Salvadoran named Spider showed up on the radar." "So you got business with him, shut it down." "Cat named Verdice may show up on the same radar." "Make sure you shut that down." "All right." "Pick up your trash." "Yeah." "It's me." "Where the hell have you been?" "Checking out Spider's casita." "What, for the last half hour?" "It takes as long as it takes." "All right, well, Spider drove up about 10 minutes ago." "Feel like doing some work?" "Let's tear down the web then." "Let's go." "Hey, get down!" "Drop the bag!" "Get down right now!" "Get down!" "Don't move." "Clear!" "Clear!" "Whoa!" "Spider send in more than just cars back to the homeland." "You get a shit load a tar with those." "El Salvador, they got AK's up the ass, all the guerrillas." "But handguns, they're like tight pussy." "Rare and precious." "All right, let's pop the trunks, see what else we can find." "Here." "Nothing." "Hey." "Wetback's got some greenbacks." "Holy shit." "How much you think that is?" "Hundred grand or more." "Let's call it in." "You know, you have to talk to me eventually." "Victim was Raine Powell." "Worked down the street at Electronics Emporium." "What's this?" "Just what it looks like." "Wasn't us." "Talk to him." "I knew you'd wanna see where the body was, so I drew her for you." "Where the body was?" "You moved her?" "Yeah, the way people come speeding through, she would have been a pancake." "Did it ever occur to you to redirect traffic?" "Hey, I used up half my kid's chalk." "I don't need a thank you, but how about you get up off my ass?" "And this is?" "Oh, I had to move the pocketbook too." "You were a big help in the community meeting last week." "I mean, a real asset." "I believed in what I was saying." "Well, I hope you still do." "I've heard things." "Maybe some of the minority officers here aren't so thrilled with my policies." "Maybe you're one of them." "Some people feel like it all sounds good." "But the reality out there seems a little bit different." "We're arresting bad guys, just like always." "The way seizures work, everyone is guilty until proven innocent." "If we take the wrong car, it's not like people here can afford a lawyer." "Well, maybe you can do something about that." "Look into using seizure money to start a legal fund." "I guess so." "Sure." "It's a work in progress." "This policy isn't the usual Band-Aid." "Your guys got a location on Verdice's drug stash." "Grab your partner, come with." "Raine have any problems that you know of?" "Man trouble or money trouble?" "No, she was a good girl, you know." "What about boyfriends?" "Just Bear, but he wouldn't have done this." "So you saw Raine last night?" "I was overseeing a shipment." "She was stuck behind her computer screen, like always." "Type A personality." "Familiar." "I told her not to park down here, but the girl was a stickler for the policy." "The policy?" "Rules say employees can't park at the store lot." "Raine's the only who ever listened." "She lives with Cornelius Aimes, a. k.a. Bear, over on Parmer." "Check it out." "See?" "You're talking to me." "To the extent necessary to solve this case, yes." "Spider says he dropped off two keys last night to a guy named Verdice." "Gonna have dogs and shooters, so stay awake." "Let's go." "They're in position." "Go when ready." "Clear." "Clear." "Shit." "LAMBERTl:" "You sold me on this." "Spider gave us the right location." "This guy, Verdice, got lucky, bailed." "Bullshit." "Somebody couldn't keep their mouth shut, which is why we don't work with people like you." "No one leaked anything." "We go to Spider, we find what..." "I'm not letting you near my guy again." "I need to borrow this asshole." "Come here." "You got about 30 seconds to spill your guts." "How tough are you gonna be when your little brother's being hacked to pieces?" "I don't got no little brother." "Then it must be some other Juan Emilio I got back at the station." "It's gonna be bad when they have to deport him down south." "You got a lot of enemies." "La Colonia doesn't get him, the Mexicans will." "Twenty seconds." "Tar that comes to me, I bring it here." "Most of it Verdice gets at the church." "The church?" "Verdice is a believer, man." "Stuff comes in there, he takes what he needs." "Keeps the rest safe with Jesus." "I'm gonna have to scrap the whole operation, pull my agent." "Couple of months, put in a new face." "Where's my informant?" "Right here, sir." "Thought he might need to stretch his legs before he took his ride." "First, Angie fell off our radar." "Now this guy clears out like he's been tipped off after I give my word I'm not gonna screw this up." "What the hell's going on?" "Maybe the wrong person saw us nab Spider, spread the word." "Doesn't explain Angie's disappearance." "These were both your operations." "Both of them were successes." "Verdice and the heroin are still missing, so is Angie." "Lem's out looking for her." "We can still salvage this one." "Spider gave up his One-Niner contact." "Do I wanna know how you managed that?" "We brought his family in for leverage, I used it." "If you ask me, they probably packed up." "You know, cook houses move all the time." "What did you get from Spider?" "The El Salvadorans are shipping their drugs to a church on Avon." "Verdice is a member." "Has his guys as good God-fearing folk." "You're kidding me." "Sounds like Spider sold you a load." "He's not risking his family." "It's the real thing." "I'll work on a warrant." "Let's keep this contained." "The three of us, Army, Ronnie." "That's it, just the people we trust." "All right." "Here, take this." "Occurred to me to take that down." "I see Vic's humour grows more sophisticated by the day." "Boyfriend wasn't home, I grabbed Raine's diary." "Seems there were bumps along the relationship road." "Detective Huarez in San Antonio's got a different angle." "He's been tracking murders in the L.A. area." "Because there aren't enough in Texas?" "Because his suspect relocated to Farmington a month ago." "Hey, exposed dick?" "Thanks for the warning, Dutchboy." "Kleavon Gardner, questioned in four separate homicides." "Suspected him on two murders three days apart, then nothing for six months." "Witnesses placed him at a couple of the scenes." "But detectives in San Antonio weren't able to make anything stick." "Well, what's the connection to our body?" "All the victims were young black women in public places." "Raine was killed seven blocks from where Kleavon's sister lives." "Are we gonna be like this from now on?" "Huarez tried to warn somebody in this department a few weeks ago that we had a thrill killer on our hands." "Thrill killers need the juice, they take chances." "This guy's patient, an opportunity killer." "No wonder San Antonio PD screwed it up." "Get your profiles right, people." "Whatever he is, I'm going to introduce myself." "Oh, what?" "I'm not coming with?" "Stick to your True Confessions." "San Antonio police interviewed you 11 times." "They got you killing everybody but Osama." "What I don't get is, why you?" "They got no DNA, they got no prints." "Any excuse to fry a brother." "Justice, Texas-style?" "You said it." "He send you after me?" "Huarez." "Got a real hard-on." "Why is that?" "Might have mentioned he don't know how to screw his wife too well." "Shouldn't have done that, but he just got me worked up." "You get angry a lot, Kleavon?" "Nah, no more than usual." "About how long is this gonna take?" "Twelve hours was the limit in Texas." "Where were you last night, Bear?" "Little after midnight?" "Driving." "Around, collecting my nighttime thoughts." "Nighttime thoughts, about what?" "Life shit." "Think better at night." "Found this in, uh, Raine's underwear drawer." "She mentioned you." "Man, she's gone, why you wanna dig...?" ""Dear Diary, This job is just a stepping stone." "I'm going places, but I'm not sure Cornelius is ready to go with me. "" "Then she talks about you and a girl named, uh, Janelle." "Janelle's just some white chick." "Raine find out about you two?" "You read where she talks about that collage I did for her birthday?" "What kind of grown-ass man does collages, and kills his woman?" "You read this?" "I saw her put it away like a hundred times." "What was I supposed to do, bro?" "See, man, I knew this shit looked bad." "Where were you last night?" "At Janelle's, but it wasn't like that." "We were in the bed, but the clothes were on." "It was platonic." "You were sleeping together, but you weren't sleeping together?" "Yeah, there you go." "Bless this child, Father." "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I say amen." "Amen." "We thank you, Lord, for bringing this child..." "Reverend, I'm Captain Rawling." "I need a moment." "Oh, all right, must be some kind of problem." "They sending a captain." "Well, uh, we believe a few of your members are using this church to import illegal drugs." "That's not possible." "I'm sure it's without your knowledge." "Are these three boys here right now?" "Muncelle's car is in your lot." "He's known to hang out with the other two." "They were making sandwiches in the kitchen about a half an hour ago." "Those boys volunteer." "Their criminal days are in the past." "They are tagged One-Niners." "Just being here together's is against the law." "I know about those injunctions." "You find them out on the street, they're all yours." "But this is a house of the Lord." "We have a warrant on the way." "We just need to talk to the boys, do a search of the premises." "We'll be very respectful." "How do you think it's going in there?" "I'm more worried about what's going on over there." "I mean, they snag him and he gets caught, I don't wanna hear what Antwon's gonna say." "Damnit, here he is now." "Verdice is walking right into an arrest." "Get out of here." "Get out of here." "Get out of here." "Shit." "Yo, that's Verdice's ride." "He's coming for a pick-up?" "Not coming for the wine." "He's running." "Asshole's gonna try to split." "What are you doing?" "Army, what the hell are you doing?" "!" "Get out of the car!" "Get out of the car!" "Come here." "You talk, Antwon will know." "You keep your mouth shut, you get out of this alive." "Take it easy." "Let's go, get up." "What the hell was that?" "Hands behind your back." "Guy was gonna bail." "Stay out of my church." "Yo, get up." "Reading the good parts?" "Looking for more clues." "It's a real window into the mind." "How things going with your Texas chainsaw murderer?" "Says he's the victim of the good old boys network." "But something's off about him." "Maybe you'll have a take." "So we're back?" "No, but I can put up with you long enough to put someone like this behind bars." "I been telling my partner about how you were harassed in Texas." "Can we get you something to drink?" "So you can stop me from going to the can when my bladder fills up?" "No thanks." "So, uh, witnesses spotting you near those crime scenes was just dumb luck, huh?" "Just happened by." "No law against that." "Why'd you leave San Antonio, Kleavon?" "Just got sick of The Alamo." "Kind of feels like we're wasting our time." "His too." "Probably got somewhere you need to be." "Job?" "Girlfriend?" "Like we established, I'm new in town." "Must have a lot of free time." "What do you like to do?" "People watch." "Tell us where you were last night, we can end this now." "Oh, I was home." "I know, give us a rundown of the whole night." "So you can go over my statement 50 times, try to trip me up?" "No thanks." "Woman named Raine Powell was murdered last night." "Bludgeoned to death." "Maybe you, uh, happened by this crime scene too." "Yeah, I didn't kill her." "He didn't even blink at those photos." "Classic sociopathic non-reaction." "I don't know." "He seems pretty confident we won't come up with something." "He's already gotten away with at least four others." "What else do we got?" "Raine's diary mentions, uh, some beef with a co-worker, a friend she lent her bingo winnings to." "I'll have the unis pick him up." "Have to admit it felt good in there." "Two of us clicking." "Dutch, do you know where Vic is?" "No, why?" "He's got me watching his sick kid." "My shift ended and the sitter never showed." "Did you try his cell phone?" "No answer." "I know the mom, she works at Mission Cross." "Uh, I can call her." "How's she doing?" "Good." "Thanks again." "Vic had a uni with her the whole time." "It wasn't like he left her totally alone." "I can't believe he didn't call me." "Divorce is tough." "Mine was a while ago." "Anyway, thanks again." "It was really nice of you." "You're welcome." "Listen, um, wanna have dinner some time?" "Dinner?" "Why not?" "Three kids, a job, selling our house." "I don't have time." "I don't know." "We'll work around your schedule." "I don't know." "You work with Vic." "We barely see each other." "I tried it with a cop once." "Vic and I could not be more different." "Reverend, I have a signed search warrant." "You must open the door." "This is a house of worship." "There's an easier way to do this." "There are no drugs here." "Except for the heroin." "Reverend, I have the legal right to come inside." "Use force if I have to." "Neither of us wants that." "Then let the Lord be your judge." "We could pack it up, come back tonight." "Yeah, give them time to flush the tar?" "We already look like assholes." "Go in now, at least we have something in hand to show for it." "You believe in your intel, right?" "Oh, yeah." "Okay, people." "Let's go." "You know who we're looking for." "Remember that this is a church." "There are civilians inside." "So do your jobs, but use extra care." "All right, who's got the hawk?" "We do." "Good." "Four teams, two in the front, one on the side, one in the back." "Let's do it." "Captain, I'm not breaking down a church door." "Just think of it as a drug warehouse, because that's what it is today." "We shouldn't be going in like this." "Get in the back, both of you." "What the hell are you doing?" "You're knocking us out of this?" "All right, Reverend, last chance." "Open the door." "Do it." "The Lord is the stronghold of my life." "Of whom then should I go in dread?" "When evildoers close in on me to devour me..." "Hold it, Muncelle!" "It is my enemies who stumble and fall." "Don't you move." "An army should encamp me." "You all right?" "My heart does not fear." "Sofer and Lowe got the other ones coming out the back." "My heart does not fear." "Though wars are waged against me." "Even then do I trust..." "Any drugs?" "Nothing here." "Just the. 38." "We're gonna have to search the whole church and everyone in it." "Just be gentle." "Hey, hey, all that fast and furious shit, you're sending smoke signals to Vic and the captain." "What they gonna do, reprimand me?" "Look, we gotta find that heroin first, show him we're not Antwon's butt buddies." "I told you, that's temporary." "Ah!" "You got something?" "Yeah, botulism, residue." "K9 could do this in five minutes." "Yeah, if they'd ever show up." "Hey, just found a receipt in the good reverend's office." "Church candles are imported from El Salvador." "Okay." "Yeah." "Oh, heaven help them." "Vic." "Get these sinners baptized." "What's up?" "I got the toxies on Angie's mom." "Levels indicate she had over 500 bucks of heroin in her system." "Jesus." "Even a frat boy knows not to shoot that much poison." "Yeah, this was a junkie who could barely scrape enough together for a dime bag." "Somebody made sure she copped till she dropped." "Well, I'm connecting the dots, and all I'm seeing is a picture of Shane with Antwon Mitchell." "Hey, did Paula find you?" "She was trying to call." "Shit." "I had it on silent for the bust." "Something about Detective Wagenbach taking your daughter to the hospital?" "We'll do this later." "She's sick, you brought her to the station?" "Carmen dropped a bomb on me, backup sitter blew a tyre." "What was I to do?" "I had it." "Should've called." "Obviously not." "Otherwise you wouldn't have dumped her with a uni." "Christ, the first time in seven months there's been a problem." "Come on, Cass, let's go." "Maybe I should stay with Mom." "She's gotta work, sweetie." "Genine's waiting for us." "Let's go." "Go with your father." "I'll see you tomorrow." "One time thing, that's it." "You were, uh, pretty broken up about Raine earlier." "How are you doing now?" "Bunch of us from the store set up a shrine." "Teddy bears, flowers." "That's nice." "You know, your boss found those order forms you've been changing." "I sold a few DVD players, a couple of Xboxes on the side." "I was gonna tell you all about it." "Raine know about your enterprise?" "No way." "Really?" "Her diary, it says she confronted you." "Said she was gonna go to your manager." "I know, you were gonna tell me all about it." "Now, when Raine confronted you, what happened?" "You probably tried to reason with her." "Look, if it were up to me, I'd pin this on a real killer." "Some asshole who murders for fun." "Problem is, the unis eyeballed your car with what looks to be blood inside." "You didn't plan this." "Second degree murder." "You can get out one day, but we need to know the truth." "I offered her a cut." "But she pulled the moral high ground shit on you, didn't she?" "One thing I hate, it's a self-righteous bitch." "Tell me about it." "You did what you had to do." "She left you no choice." "So much for San Antonio eating our dust." "He's innocent." "Of murdering Raine." "Guy's still a stone cold killer." "And he just pitched a tent in our backyard." "We got a suspect, but no victim." "That's new." "It bites we don't live in a dictatorship." "Put the guy in a hole and forget about him." "Well, there's an impulse I can understand." "We can't turn Kleavon over to SIS until he commits a crime in L.A." "You know, I thought I hated being on the DA's shit list, but this is actually worse." "I can't believe you're still freezing me out." "I can't believe you sold me out." "Officer Lowe." "I think you should stick to desk duty the next few days." "See if you can find your way into what we're doing here." "If not, I understand." "But you should consider putting in for a transfer." "I wasn't gonna break into a church." "There was heroin in the holy candles." "This time." "Altar boys pin you as the head honcho." "We can't make a deal, you're eating roadkill goulash over at Lompoc." "Where's my spoon then?" "You wanna be a barrio martyr, that's fine with me." "But why not serve up Antwon instead?" "Antwon who?" "We can put you into relocation, keep you safe." "Lone Ranger and Tonto, they hauled your ass out of that car." "What did they say to you?" "They told me get out the car, and put my hands on my head." "And that's the last I'm saying." "Dutchboy." "Hero of the hour." "Your daughter was sick." "Wanted her mother." "You can't take a joke, so you make me look like a prick in front of my ex." "I'm sure your ex doesn't need any help seeing what kind of prick you are." "Just saw Angie's mother's tox report." "Lem have any news on Angie?" "I don't know." "Well, find him." "I wanna hear what he's got." "Used to be bad cops was good business." "But now I got a stash gone, a whole crew locked up and sellers who can't sell." "You wanna tell how the world got upside-down on your watch?" "Seeing as you were misusing a house of the Lord," "I'd say divine intervention." "He must really hate you." "Only reason he'd talk to me like that because he wants to see y'all dead or in jail." "Vic Mackey wants you gone." "We're the only thing standing in his way." "You think I need your ass, you're wrong." "You think you don't, you're wrong." "Look, protecting you is a full-time gig plus overtime." "So you can either tell me what you're into, or I can keep chasing Vic's tail." "Some days we'll catch it." "Some days we won't." "I'll think about it." "Yeah, you do that." "Antwon's gonna drop the body." "He's not that stupid." "Him being stupid is not what I'm worried about." "Well, I didn't hear you complaining about my leadership skills when I got you blown." "This isn't doing favours to get intel on bad guys." "You got me taking it up the ass from Antwon Mitchell." "Ramming cars to keep us out of prison." "I've dealt with guys like this before." "You or Mackey?" "Do you even have a clue how we're getting out of this?" "Look, I'm getting us close." "This guy thinks he can kill this little girl right in front of us?" "We're gonna find that little girl, we're gonna give her a proper burial." "Then when the time is right we're gonna shove a stick of dynamite up his ass." "Dr. Alvin Bernard's clinic has been providing free pre-natal care to Farmington's poor for 21 years, which is why I'm so pleased, Al, to give you this cheque for $10,000." "Is that money from seizures?" "Part of my promise to give a third of what we get from asset-forfeitures back to the community." "How does that community feel about your decision to invade a church?" "I wouldn't characterise it quite that way." "We found 12 kilos of tar heroin inside there." "I'd say they're pretty damn happy." "Any plans to seize it?" "No." "Is the reverend under arrest?" "The only people under arrest are known drug dealers with affiliations to Farmington One-Niners." "So you'd interrupt another baptism to put away a gang member?" "I'd interrupt my grandmother's funeral if it meant taking dangerous narcotics off the streets our children walk on." "But don't tell that to my grandma, because she's still full of piss and vinegar in Tarzana." "Reporters were tough today." "We keep storming churches, they're gonna get tougher." "You were all for it earlier." "I was." "I am." "It's just this thing's to good to blow..." "Hoda Stubbs was killed." "Angie too, I'm guessing." "I plan on finding who did it." "When you do, ask about the leak at the warehouse today." "We don't know if there was a leak." "Even if there was, we don't know they're related." "Could be accidental." "Stop bullshitting me." "You vouched for Shane." "What about Army?" "He seems like a good kid." "I don't think..." "I don't care what you think." "What do you know?" "Is there a reason you don't wanna dig deeper on this?" "I'm not about witch hunts." "I've been on the other side of a few." "I chose you for this job because I needed somebody as hungry as me to make it work." "And I'm getting it done." "Why are you riding me?" "Because shit is falling through the cracks." "Pressure on the seizure programme is only gonna get more intense." "And when it does, that shit is gonna rise straight to the surface." "If you can't withstand scrutiny about anything," "I need you to step aside." "I don't step aside." "I step up." "Which is the other reason I chose you." "Find the leak." "I mean, that's some cold ass shit." "Can't tell the Iraqi insurgents from the plain old Iraqi idiots." "Yeah, and no difference here." "Somebody gets in the way, we keep rolling." "I'm just saying." "Maybe that's the way we gotta look at things." "What's up?" "Son of a bitch, what did...?" "She was 14." "What the hell's your problem?" "You bring Angie to Antwon Mitchell yourself, huh?" "Hand her with a bow, or just tell him where to find her?" "No." "No." "No?" "Where is she then?" "!" "Back off." "Just back off." "I got it, okay?" "I got it." "Where is she then, Shane?" "Where's Angie?" "What are you asking me for, man?" "You telling me you're not in bed with Antwon Mitchell?" "You told him Angie gave up that cul-de-sac bust." "No, man, I would never do that." "What happened to her, Shane?" "What happened to her then?" "I don't know." "Dude, she was 14." "She just wanted to get her mom clean." "You tell me what you did!" "Nothing!" "Nothing!" "Look, you know that I would never..." "You know I would never hurt a kid." "Look, I got one of my own now, man." "Yeah, I know you." "I know you're lying." "I didn't kill that girl." "And I didn't give her name up to Antwon." "So you just stay out of my face." "I lose that one percent of doubt I got, we'll be mixing it up again." "Captain says she wants to hear your opinions, but only hers is right." "Agendas have a way of creating tunnel vision." "She said I could put in for a transfer." "Sure." "Stock the pond with true believers, make implied threats to get rid of ones who aren't." "You don't think I should leave?" "I think if you wanted to, you wouldn't have called me." "I grew up in Farmington." "I don't wanna see it torn more apart." "What is it you want me to do, Julien?" "You've got power." "Help us to stop her." "Going after a police captain is no walk in the park." "I should know." "There are other officers of colour that agree with me." "We wouldn't be alone." "I remember the last time you and I went down this path." "Things got messy, and you left me twisting in the wind." "Not this time." "Vic Mackey, he's got a lot invested in this policy." "He'll come after you." "Could dredge up the past." "I can handle it." "I'm a different man now." "Russian taxi king's expanded his realm." "Added three more cabs to the fleet." "Alex the Conqueror." "How many cabs we got wired so far?" "Even dozen, even managed to get one in his personal ride." "Sweet." "Yeah, what do you want?" "What the hell you think you're doing going after Shane?" "He ran right back and told you, huh?" "You got suspicions, fine." "We all agreed we'd keep them to ourselves." "Look, there's a 14-year-old girl rotting out there someplace." "Are you in on that too?" "What?" "You saying you gotta keep Shane close." "Maybe you gotta keep me far away because you're back to business as usual." "Riding in Mitchell's pocket with Shane." "I wanna bring down Antwon and find that girl as much as you do." "Really?" "Prove it." "Let me back in." "It's complicated." "You gotta do things my way." "Oh, you mean, I agree to protect Shane like always, right?" "Right?" "We added another car in the garage sting." "Shane didn't tell me you came after him." "I saw it." "Jesus Christ." "Lem's one crazy-ass white boy." "You really used to be tight?" "Yeah." "Lifetime ago." "What does he know about us?" "Nothing." "He's just guessing, he can't prove anything." "I'll handle him." "Look, you're just gonna have to trust me." "I'm gonna handle all this shit." "It's not about protecting Shane anymore." "It's about stopping him."