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(dramatic music playing)

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(dramatic music continues playing)

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(dramatic music continues playing)

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(dramatic music continues playing)

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(cheerful music begins playing)

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(cheerful music continues playing)

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(music becomes more dramatic)

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(tense music playing)

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- You better take this along, Don.

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It's gonna be cold on the farm.

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- Okay.

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- How many shirts are you taking?

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- Three.

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- I'm taking five.

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- Five?

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- Yeah. I told 'em at the office,

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I might not be back until Tuesday.

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We'll get there this afternoon,

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that will give us all Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

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We'll make it a long, wonderful weekend.

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- Sounds long, all right.

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- It'll be good for you, Don,

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after what you've been through.

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- Trees and grass and sweet cider

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and buttermilk and water from that well,

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that's colder than any other water.

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- Wick, please, why this
emphasis on liquids?

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Very dull liquids.

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- Sorry Don.

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- You know, it think it'd be a good idea,

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if we took along my typewriter.

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- [Wick] What for?

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- To write. I'm gonna write there.

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Get started on that novel.

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- You really feel up to writing?

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- Why not?

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- I mean, after what
you've been through...

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- I haven't touched the
stuff for 10 days now.

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- I know. I know you haven't, Don.

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Where is the typewriter?

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- In the living room, in the closet,

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kind of towards the back.

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(bottle clinks)

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- [Wick] Are you sure it's in
the closet? I can't find it.

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- Well, look by the desk.

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(footsteps thud)

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- [Wick] Isn't it under your bed?

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(bottle clinks)

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Did you find it?

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- Oh sure, sure.

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Here it is.

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- And here's some paper.

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Tell you what we'll do,

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we'll fix up a table on the south porch,

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and nobody will disturb
you, I'll see to it.

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Oh, and maybe Saturday,

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we can run down to the country club.

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- I'm not going near that country club.

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- Why not?

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- Because they're all
a bunch of hypocrites,

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and I don't like to be whispered about:

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Look who's here from New
York, the Birnam brothers,

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or rather the nurse and the invalid.

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- Oh, stop it Don, nobody
there knows about you.

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- No? The minute we get off the
train, the alarm is sounded.

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The leper is back, hide your liquor.

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(doorbell buzzes)

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That's Helen
- I'll take it.

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(doorbell buzzes)

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- Helen!

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- [Helen] Hello, Wick, where's Don?

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I'm glad I made it, I
was afraid you'd be gone.

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Presents.

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The new Thurber book, with
comical jokes and pictures.

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A nice, quiet, little double
murder by Agatha Christie.

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Cigarettes, chewing gum,

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and darling have a wonderful time,

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and don't forget lots of sleep,

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lots of milk.

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- Lots of cider, lots of nice
cold water from the well.

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I know.

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- Bend down.

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(lips smack)

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And now I must be going.

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I'm 10 minutes late for
the concert already,

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so long, Wick.

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- What concert?

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- Carnegie Hall. Barbirolli's conducting.

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They gave me two tickets at the office.

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- Who are you going with?

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- Nobody.
- Nobody.

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What are they playing?

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- Brahms' second symphony,
something by Beethoven,

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something by Handel, and
not one note of Grieg.

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- Sounds wonderful.

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Goodbye boys, see you Monday.

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- [Wick] Tuesday.

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- Wait a minute.

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Wick, I just had a crazy idea.

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- [Wick] As, for instance?

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- Who says we have to take the 3:15 train?

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We could go on the 6:30.

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- [Wick] What are you talking about?

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- Well, I just thought,
if we took a later train,

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Helen wouldn't have to go
to the concert by herself.

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She's got two tickets, hasn't she?

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- No, no. I'm not going to
upset any of your plans.

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You're going on the 3:15.

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- Oh, now Helen, it's so silly!

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A whale of a concert, an
empty seat next to you.

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- No, Don. Everything's all set.

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Now, they'll be at the station to meet us,

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and dinner will be waiting.

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- Put in a call.

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We'll be taking a later train,

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and dinner at nine o'clock,
we'll be in bed by 10.

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- Nothing doing. We're going.

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- Wick is right, and don't
worry about that empty seat.

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I'll find myself a nice, handsome,

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South American millionaire.

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- There you are, did you hear?

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Besides, we'd have to
break our necks anyway,

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to catch the train.

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- Five to three.

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- You see? Oh, don't be so stubborn. Wick.

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- All right, go ahead.

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- Just a minute. I'm not going.

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- Then what are we talking about?

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Well, I want you to go. You and Helen.

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- Me and Helen?

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- That's the idea. Who
likes Brahms, you or I?

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- Since when don't you like Brahms?

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- I'll just stick around
here and finish packing.

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Take a little nap, maybe.

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- Nonsense. If anybody
goes... Helen's your girl.

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- There's something in that, Don.

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- And what's more,

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I don't think you should be left alone.

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- I shouldn't?

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- No.

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- I'm not to be trusted. Is that it?

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- Really Don...

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- after what you've been through...

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- After what I've been through,

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I couldn't go to the concert.
I couldn't face the crowds.

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I couldn't sit through
it with all those people.

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Besides, I wanna be alone
for a couple of hours,

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and kind of assemble myself.

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Is that such an
extraordinary thing to want?

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- Don't act so outraged, would you mind?

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- [Don] All right, anything else?

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- Please, boys.

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- [Wick] Come on, Helen.

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- You'll stay right here?

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- Where would I go?

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- Then, you'll be here. When we come back?

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- I told you I'm not
leaving this apartment.

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- You've told us a good many things, Don.

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- All right, if you don't believe me,

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why don't you take my keys,
lock me in like a dog.

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- We've got to trust
Don. That's the only way.

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- Sorry, Don.

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Let's go Helen.

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- So long, Don.

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- So long.

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- Bend down.

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(traffic hums)

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(bottle clinks)

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- What's this?

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- Eh, it's whiskey, isn't it?

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- How'd it get there?

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- I don't know.

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- I suppose it dropped from some cloud.

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Or someone was bouncing
it against this wall,

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and it got stuck there.

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- I guess I must have put it there.

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- Yes, you must.

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- And I don't remember when,
probably during my last spell,

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maybe the one before. I dunno.

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Don't look at me like that, Helen.

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It doesn't mean a thing.

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I didn't know it was there.

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Even if I had, I wouldn't have touched it.

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- Then you won't mind.

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- Mind what?

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(whiskey slushes)

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- Now, you trot along with Helen.

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- Why? Because of that?

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You think I wanted you
outta the apartment,

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because of the bottle?

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I resent that like the devil,

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and if there's one more
word of discussion,

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I don't leave on your blasted weekend.

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- Let's go, Wick.

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(bottle clinks)

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- You'll be good. Won't you Don, darling?

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- Yes. Helen, now will you stop

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watching me all the time, you two.

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let me work it out my way.

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I'm trying. I'm trying.

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- I know you're trying
Don. We're both trying.

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You're trying not to drink,
and I'm trying not to love you.

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(dramatic music playing)

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- Call the farm Don, and tell
'em we're taking the 6:30.

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- Sure.

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- So long.

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(door clicks closed)

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- [Wick] Come on, Helen.

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- [Helen] Should we?
- [Wick] He'll be all right.

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- What if he goes out
and buys another bottle?

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- With what? He hasn't a nickel.

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There isn't a store or a bar,

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that'll give him 5 cents worth of credit.

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- Are you sure he hasn't
got another bottle,

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hidden someplace?

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- Not anymore, he hasn't.

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I went over the apartment
with a fine tooth comb.

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The places he can figure out.

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(foreboding music playing)

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(laundry basket slams against wall)

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(foreboding music continues)

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(vacuum bangs on floor)

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(door lock rattles)

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(tense music playing)

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(door thuds)
(door bell buzzes)

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- [Don] Who is it? Who is it?

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- Mrs. Foley, come to clean up.

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- But not today, does it have to be today?

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- I ought to change the sheets,
and it's my day to vacuum.

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- Come on Monday.

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- [Mrs. Foley] All right, Mr.
Birnam. Is your brother in?

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- No, he isn't.

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- [Mrs. Foley] What about my money?

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Didn't he leave my money?

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- What money?

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- [Mrs. Foley] My $10. Didn't he leave it?

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- Probably. Where would he leave it?

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- [Mrs. Foley] In the kitchen.

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- Where in the kitchen?

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- [Mrs. Foley] In the sugar bowl.

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- Just a minute.

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(ceramic clatters)

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- I'm sorry, Mrs. Foley. It isn't there,

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he must have forgotten.

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- Oh, putt! I wanted to do some shopping.

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- [Don] You'll get it Monday.

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- All right, Mr. Birnam.

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(door clicks closed)
(dramatic music playing)

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- Two bottles of rye.

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- I'm sorry, Mr. Birnam

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- What are you sorry about?

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- Your brother was in here.

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He said he's not gonna
pay for you anymore.

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That was the last time.

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- Two bottles of rye.

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- What brand?

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- You know what brand,
Mr. Brophy, the cheapest.

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None of that 12-year-old
aged-in-the-wood chichi.

259
00:11:42,723 --> 00:11:45,609
Not for me. Liquor is all one, anyway.

260
00:11:45,609 --> 00:11:49,458
- You want a bag?
- Yes, I want a bag.

261
00:11:49,458 --> 00:11:50,667
(register dings)

262
00:11:50,667 --> 00:11:51,693
- Your brother said not
to sell you anything,

263
00:11:51,693 --> 00:11:53,367
even if you did have
the money to pay for it,

264
00:11:53,367 --> 00:11:55,353
but I can't stop anybody, can I?

265
00:11:55,353 --> 00:11:56,551
Not unless you're a minor.

266
00:11:56,551 --> 00:11:58,041
- I'm not a minor, Mr. Brophy,

267
00:11:58,041 --> 00:11:58,899
and, just to ease your conscience,

268
00:11:58,899 --> 00:12:02,816
I'm buying this to refill
my cigarette lighter.

269
00:12:04,191 --> 00:12:08,235
(dramatic music playing)

270
00:12:08,235 --> 00:12:11,152
(car engines roar)

271
00:12:13,672 --> 00:12:15,049
(Don whistles)

272
00:12:15,049 --> 00:12:16,716
- [Grocer] Yes, sir.

273
00:12:18,045 --> 00:12:18,878
Thank you.

274
00:12:23,395 --> 00:12:24,953
- Good afternoon, Mrs. Deveridge.

275
00:12:24,953 --> 00:12:26,691
- Hello, Mr. Birnam.

276
00:12:26,691 --> 00:12:30,152
That's the nice young man who drinks.

277
00:12:30,152 --> 00:12:33,313
(companion tuts)

278
00:12:33,313 --> 00:12:35,577
(foreboding music playing)

279
00:12:35,577 --> 00:12:37,944
- How is my very good friend, Nat, today?

280
00:12:37,944 --> 00:12:39,349
- Yes. Mr. Birnam.

281
00:12:39,349 --> 00:12:41,140
- This being an especially fine afternoon,

282
00:12:41,140 --> 00:12:43,441
I have decided to ask for
your hand in marriage.

283
00:12:43,441 --> 00:12:44,274
- Look, Mr. Birnam...

284
00:12:44,274 --> 00:12:45,465
- If that is to be your attitude, Nat,

285
00:12:45,465 --> 00:12:46,699
I shall have to drown my sorrows

286
00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:49,087
in a jigger of rye. Just one, that's all.

287
00:12:49,087 --> 00:12:50,249
- Can't be done. Mr. Birnam.

288
00:12:50,249 --> 00:12:53,149
- Can't? Now, let me guess why.

289
00:12:53,149 --> 00:12:55,697
My brother was here, undermining
my financial structure.

290
00:12:55,697 --> 00:12:56,530
- I didn't tell him nothing

291
00:12:56,530 --> 00:12:57,508
about the wristwatch you left here,

292
00:12:57,508 --> 00:12:58,398
or your cuff links.

293
00:12:58,398 --> 00:12:59,690
- Thank you very much, Nat.

294
00:12:59,690 --> 00:13:00,563
Today, you'll be glad to know,

295
00:13:00,563 --> 00:13:02,625
we can barter on a cash basis.

296
00:13:02,625 --> 00:13:03,583
(pounds on bar)

297
00:13:03,583 --> 00:13:04,416
- [Nat] One straight rye.

298
00:13:04,416 --> 00:13:06,083
- That was the idea.

299
00:13:10,499 --> 00:13:14,249
(dramatic music intensifies)

300
00:13:21,494 --> 00:13:24,744
(cash register groans)

301
00:13:28,327 --> 00:13:31,910
(dramatic music continues)

302
00:13:41,652 --> 00:13:43,440
(music ends)

303
00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:45,398
- Don't wipe it away, Nat.

304
00:13:45,398 --> 00:13:48,979
Let me have my little vicious circle.

305
00:13:48,979 --> 00:13:52,215
You know, the circle is the
perfect geometric figure.

306
00:13:52,215 --> 00:13:54,761
No end, no beginning...

307
00:13:54,761 --> 00:13:56,414
What time is it?

308
00:13:56,414 --> 00:13:57,588
- Quarter of four.

309
00:13:57,588 --> 00:13:59,730
- Good. We have the
whole afternoon together.

310
00:13:59,730 --> 00:14:01,168
Well, let me know when
it's a quarter of six.

311
00:14:01,168 --> 00:14:03,184
It's very important.

312
00:14:03,184 --> 00:14:06,245
I'm going to the country, for
a weekend with my brother.

313
00:14:06,245 --> 00:14:07,484
- [Gloria] Hello, Mr. Birnam.

314
00:14:07,484 --> 00:14:09,432
Happy to have you back
with the organization.

315
00:14:09,432 --> 00:14:11,341
- [Don] Hello, Gloria.

316
00:14:11,341 --> 00:14:13,274
I wish I could take you along, Nat,

317
00:14:13,274 --> 00:14:16,094
you, and all that goes with you.

318
00:14:16,094 --> 00:14:17,375
Not that I'm cutting myself off

319
00:14:17,375 --> 00:14:19,792
from civilization altogether.

320
00:14:22,087 --> 00:14:24,037
(paper bag rustles)
(bottle clinks)

321
00:14:24,037 --> 00:14:25,449
Now, of course, there arises a problem

322
00:14:25,449 --> 00:14:27,198
of transportation into the country.

323
00:14:27,198 --> 00:14:30,770
How to smuggle these two time
bombs past the royal guard,

324
00:14:30,770 --> 00:14:32,228
I'll roll one bottle in a copy

325
00:14:32,228 --> 00:14:33,139
of the 'Saturday Evening Post',

326
00:14:33,139 --> 00:14:35,264
so my brother can discover it like that.

327
00:14:35,264 --> 00:14:36,097
And I want him to discover it,

328
00:14:36,097 --> 00:14:38,022
because it'll set his mind at ease.

329
00:14:38,022 --> 00:14:40,522
The other bottle... Come here.

330
00:14:41,643 --> 00:14:44,728
That one I'm tucking into
my brother's suitcase.

331
00:14:44,728 --> 00:14:46,572
He shall transport it himself,

332
00:14:46,572 --> 00:14:47,925
without knowing it, of course.

333
00:14:47,925 --> 00:14:49,828
Then, while he's greeting the caretaker,

334
00:14:49,828 --> 00:14:51,873
I'll slide it out and hide it

335
00:14:51,873 --> 00:14:55,144
in the hollow of the old apple tree.

336
00:14:55,144 --> 00:14:56,243
- Oh, Mr. Birnam,

337
00:14:56,243 --> 00:14:58,315
why don't you lay you off
this stuff for a while?

338
00:14:58,315 --> 00:15:01,219
- I may never touch it
while I'm there. Not a drop.

339
00:15:01,219 --> 00:15:02,541
What you don't understand, all of you,

340
00:15:02,541 --> 00:15:03,829
is that I've got to know it's around.

341
00:15:03,829 --> 00:15:04,747
That I can have it if I need it.

342
00:15:04,747 --> 00:15:06,926
I can't be cut off completely.

343
00:15:06,926 --> 00:15:09,088
That's the devil. That's
what drives you crazy.

344
00:15:09,088 --> 00:15:10,272
- Yeah, I know.

345
00:15:10,272 --> 00:15:11,295
I know a lot guys like that.

346
00:15:11,295 --> 00:15:14,363
They take a bottle and put it on a shelf.

347
00:15:14,363 --> 00:15:15,660
All they wanna do is just look at it.

348
00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:18,637
They don't even take a cork-screw
along, just to make sure.

349
00:15:18,637 --> 00:15:21,729
And all of a sudden they grab the bottle,

350
00:15:21,729 --> 00:15:23,594
and bite off the neck.

351
00:15:23,594 --> 00:15:25,047
- Nat, one more reproving word,

352
00:15:25,047 --> 00:15:27,585
and I shall consult our
lawyer about a divorce.

353
00:15:27,585 --> 00:15:29,198
Now, don't forget quarter of six.

354
00:15:29,198 --> 00:15:33,115
My brother must find me
home, ready and packed.

355
00:15:34,687 --> 00:15:35,937
Shall we dance?

356
00:15:38,071 --> 00:15:40,309
- You're awfully pretty, Mr. Birnam.

357
00:15:40,309 --> 00:15:41,959
- I bet you tell that to all the boys.

358
00:15:41,959 --> 00:15:45,159
- Why, natch. Only, with
you, it's on the level.

359
00:15:45,159 --> 00:15:46,677
- Yeah. Sit down.

360
00:15:46,677 --> 00:15:49,781
- No, thanks. Thanks a lot, but no thanks.

361
00:15:49,781 --> 00:15:51,660
There's somebody waiting.

362
00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:54,119
- Him? I bet he wears arch supporters.

363
00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:56,161
- Oh, he is just an old
friend of the folks.

364
00:15:56,161 --> 00:15:59,079
Lovely gentleman. He
buys me dimpled Scotch.

365
00:15:59,079 --> 00:16:00,762
- He should buy you Indian rubies,

366
00:16:00,762 --> 00:16:03,416
and a villa in Calcutta,
overlooking the Ganges.

367
00:16:03,416 --> 00:16:04,994
- Don't be ridic.

368
00:16:04,994 --> 00:16:07,418
- Gloria, please, why
imperil our friendship

369
00:16:07,418 --> 00:16:09,880
with these loathsome abbreviations.

370
00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,449
- I could make myself free
for later on, if you want.

371
00:16:13,449 --> 00:16:15,295
- No Gloria, I'm going
away for the weekend.

372
00:16:15,295 --> 00:16:16,632
Some other time.

373
00:16:16,632 --> 00:16:17,465
- Anytime.

374
00:16:18,700 --> 00:16:22,043
Just crazy about the back of your hair.

375
00:16:22,043 --> 00:16:27,043
(Gloria clicks her tongue)
(dramatic music begins)

376
00:16:28,279 --> 00:16:30,766
- Nat, weave me another.

377
00:16:30,766 --> 00:16:31,799
- Better take it easy.

378
00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:33,133
- Oh, don't worry about me.

379
00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:35,367
Just let me know when
it's a quarter of six.

380
00:16:35,367 --> 00:16:37,112
- Okay.
- Come on Nat, Join me.

381
00:16:37,112 --> 00:16:39,127
One little jigger of dreams, huh?

382
00:16:39,127 --> 00:16:40,247
- No thanks.

383
00:16:40,247 --> 00:16:42,833
- [Don] You don't approve of drinking?

384
00:16:42,833 --> 00:16:44,300
- Not the way you drink.

385
00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:46,433
- It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat?

386
00:16:46,433 --> 00:16:48,931
It pickles my kidneys. Yes.

387
00:16:48,931 --> 00:16:51,849
But, what does it do to my mind?

388
00:16:51,849 --> 00:16:55,000
It tosses the sandbags overboard
so the balloon can soar.

389
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,496
Suddenly, I'm above the ordinary.

390
00:16:56,496 --> 00:16:58,694
I'm competent, supremely competent.

391
00:16:58,694 --> 00:17:00,945
I'm walking a tightrope
over Niagara Falls.

392
00:17:00,945 --> 00:17:03,050
I'm one of the great ones.

393
00:17:03,050 --> 00:17:05,847
I'm Michelangelo moulding
the beard of Moses.

394
00:17:05,847 --> 00:17:07,682
I'm Van Gogh, painting pure sunlight.

395
00:17:07,682 --> 00:17:11,002
I'm Horowitz playing the Emperor Concerto.

396
00:17:11,002 --> 00:17:14,337
I'm John Barrymore, before the
movies got him by the throat.

397
00:17:14,337 --> 00:17:15,621
I'm Jesse James, and his two brothers,

398
00:17:15,621 --> 00:17:19,531
all three of 'em. I'm W. Shakespeare.

399
00:17:19,531 --> 00:17:21,860
And out there, it's not
Third Avenue, any longer.

400
00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:24,183
It's the Nile, Nat, the Nile,

401
00:17:24,183 --> 00:17:27,600
and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra.

402
00:17:28,597 --> 00:17:29,430
Come 'ere.

403
00:17:31,415 --> 00:17:32,641
Purple the sails,

404
00:17:32,641 --> 00:17:36,239
and so perfumed that the winds
were love-sick with them;

405
00:17:36,239 --> 00:17:37,516
the oars were silver,

406
00:17:37,516 --> 00:17:41,253
which, to the tune of flutes, kept stroke.

407
00:17:41,253 --> 00:17:42,847
(melancholy music playing)

408
00:17:42,847 --> 00:17:44,555
- Maybe he's at Morandi's, or Nat's bar,

409
00:17:44,555 --> 00:17:46,588
or that place on 42nd street?

410
00:17:46,588 --> 00:17:48,672
- What difference does it make?

411
00:17:48,672 --> 00:17:49,653
- You're not really going, though.

412
00:17:49,653 --> 00:17:50,869
- I certainly am.

413
00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:51,981
- You can't leave him alone.

414
00:17:51,981 --> 00:17:52,928
Not for four days.

415
00:17:52,928 --> 00:17:53,806
- Yes I can.

416
00:17:53,806 --> 00:17:55,055
- For heavens sake, Wick,

417
00:17:55,055 --> 00:17:57,084
if he's left alone, anything can happen!

418
00:17:57,084 --> 00:17:58,571
And I'm tied up at the
office every minute,

419
00:17:58,571 --> 00:17:59,851
all Saturday, all Sunday.

420
00:17:59,851 --> 00:18:02,425
I can't look out for him,
and you know how he gets.

421
00:18:02,425 --> 00:18:04,502
He'll be run over by a
car. He'll be arrested.

422
00:18:04,502 --> 00:18:06,175
He doesn't know what he's doing.

423
00:18:06,175 --> 00:18:08,592
A cigarette might fall from
his mouth and he'd burn in bed.

424
00:18:08,592 --> 00:18:10,176
- Oh, Helen, if it happens, it happens.

425
00:18:10,176 --> 00:18:12,790
And I hope it does. I've
had six years of this.

426
00:18:12,790 --> 00:18:14,707
I've had my belly full.

427
00:18:16,350 --> 00:18:18,001
- [Helen] Wick, you can't mean that.

428
00:18:18,001 --> 00:18:21,160
- Yes I do. It's terrible,
I know, but I mean it.

429
00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:22,058
- For heavens sakes Wick...

430
00:18:22,058 --> 00:18:23,757
- Who are we fooling?

431
00:18:23,757 --> 00:18:25,463
We've tried everything, haven't we?

432
00:18:25,463 --> 00:18:27,090
We've reasoned with him, we've babied him,

433
00:18:27,090 --> 00:18:28,575
we've watched him like a hawk.

434
00:18:28,575 --> 00:18:31,570
We've tried trusting him.
How often have you cried?

435
00:18:31,570 --> 00:18:33,683
How often have I beaten him up?

436
00:18:33,683 --> 00:18:35,005
Scrape him out of a gutter,

437
00:18:35,005 --> 00:18:37,312
and pump some kind of
self-respect into him,

438
00:18:37,312 --> 00:18:40,562
and back he falls, back in, every time.

439
00:18:41,953 --> 00:18:43,483
- [Helen] He's a sick person.

440
00:18:43,483 --> 00:18:44,881
It's as though there was something wrong

441
00:18:44,881 --> 00:18:46,835
with his heart or his lungs.

442
00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:48,471
You wouldn't walk out on
him if he had an attack.

443
00:18:48,471 --> 00:18:50,144
he needs our help.

444
00:18:50,144 --> 00:18:51,407
- [Wick] He won't accept our help,

445
00:18:51,407 --> 00:18:53,072
not Don, he hates us.

446
00:18:53,072 --> 00:18:55,436
He wants to be alone
with that bottle of his.

447
00:18:55,436 --> 00:18:58,019
It's all he gives a hang about.

448
00:19:02,308 --> 00:19:04,271
Why kid ourselves?

449
00:19:04,271 --> 00:19:06,438
He's a hopeless alcoholic.

450
00:19:07,555 --> 00:19:11,525
- [Don] The cloud-capp'd
towers, the gorgeous palaces,

451
00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:12,358
NAT!

452
00:19:12,358 --> 00:19:13,313
(Melancholy music playing)

453
00:19:13,313 --> 00:19:16,477
The solemn temples,
the great globe itself,

454
00:19:16,477 --> 00:19:18,088
- Mr. Birnam, you oughtta
go home, it's late.

455
00:19:18,088 --> 00:19:21,023
- Yea, all which it
inherit, shall dissolve.

456
00:19:21,023 --> 00:19:22,946
- You oughtta go home on
account of your brother.

457
00:19:22,946 --> 00:19:23,798
- Who says so?

458
00:19:23,798 --> 00:19:25,600
- You said so, on account
of you goin' away somewhere.

459
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:26,908
Don't you remember?

460
00:19:26,908 --> 00:19:28,641
(tense music playing)
- What time is it?

461
00:19:28,641 --> 00:19:29,603
10 past six.

462
00:19:29,603 --> 00:19:30,865
- Then why didn't you tell me?

463
00:19:30,865 --> 00:19:32,346
- What do you think I've
been doin' for half an hour?

464
00:19:32,346 --> 00:19:34,224
Hey, hey, your change!

465
00:19:34,224 --> 00:19:37,641
(dramatic music playing)

466
00:19:51,867 --> 00:19:56,700
(footsteps thud from above on the stairs)

467
00:20:05,507 --> 00:20:08,590
(door clicks closed)

468
00:20:13,421 --> 00:20:15,336
- Taxi! Taxi!

469
00:20:15,336 --> 00:20:17,045
I'll give you a lift as
far as Grand Central.

470
00:20:17,045 --> 00:20:18,798
- No, thanks, I'm gonna wait here.

471
00:20:18,798 --> 00:20:20,011
- You're crazy.

472
00:20:20,011 --> 00:20:23,244
- Because I won't give up? Maybe I am.

473
00:20:23,244 --> 00:20:25,437
- Let go of him, Helen,
give yourself a chance.

474
00:20:25,437 --> 00:20:27,245
- Goodbye Wick.

475
00:20:27,245 --> 00:20:30,662
(dramatic music playing)

476
00:20:37,318 --> 00:20:40,401
(door closes softly)

477
00:20:50,239 --> 00:20:54,489
(dramatic music continues to play)

478
00:21:23,093 --> 00:21:27,343
(dramatic music continues to play)

479
00:21:49,956 --> 00:21:54,206
(dramatic music continues to play)

480
00:22:12,734 --> 00:22:16,984
(dramatic music continues to play)

481
00:22:34,423 --> 00:22:38,673
(dramatic music continues to play)

482
00:22:39,938 --> 00:22:43,521
(melancholy music playing)

483
00:23:01,932 --> 00:23:06,349
(melancholy music continues playing)

484
00:23:12,003 --> 00:23:15,753
(tense music begins to play)

485
00:23:25,258 --> 00:23:26,091
- Hi.

486
00:23:28,116 --> 00:23:31,866
I thought you was going
away for the weekend.

487
00:23:36,034 --> 00:23:36,867
- Pete's sake, what are you doing?

488
00:23:36,867 --> 00:23:38,094
Come on and gimme a drink.

489
00:23:38,094 --> 00:23:39,088
- Right with you Mr. Birnam.

490
00:23:39,088 --> 00:23:40,429
I'm just fixing myself some lunch.

491
00:23:40,429 --> 00:23:42,399
- Stop it. Come on and gimme
a drink for heaven's sake.

492
00:23:42,399 --> 00:23:43,232
Come on, come on!

493
00:23:43,232 --> 00:23:44,065
(pounds on bar)

494
00:23:44,065 --> 00:23:44,898
- Okay.

495
00:23:46,370 --> 00:23:47,979
- Can't you hurry up a little?

496
00:23:47,979 --> 00:23:49,562
- Yeah. Mr. Birnam.

497
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,413
That young lady stopped in
last night, looking for you.

498
00:23:55,413 --> 00:23:56,263
- What young lady?

499
00:23:56,263 --> 00:23:58,745
- [Nat] The one with the leopard coat.

500
00:23:58,745 --> 00:23:59,578
- Yeah?

501
00:23:59,578 --> 00:24:01,659
- Yeah, she acted like she
just happened to drop in,

502
00:24:01,659 --> 00:24:03,808
but I know she was making
the rounds after you.

503
00:24:03,808 --> 00:24:04,800
- What'd you say to her?

504
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,278
- I said you haven't
been in for two weeks.

505
00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:07,872
- That's good. I can't let her see me.

506
00:24:07,872 --> 00:24:09,567
Not now, when I'm "off" like this.

507
00:24:09,567 --> 00:24:11,006
- Why don't you cut it short?

508
00:24:11,006 --> 00:24:13,916
- Don't talk like a charger.
I can't cut it short.

509
00:24:13,916 --> 00:24:14,752
You're on that merry-go-round,

510
00:24:14,752 --> 00:24:17,009
and you gotta ride it all
the way round and round,

511
00:24:17,009 --> 00:24:19,009
till that blasted music wears itself out.

512
00:24:19,009 --> 00:24:21,314
And the thing dies down
and clunks to a stop.

513
00:24:21,314 --> 00:24:23,333
- Hey, how about you eating some of this?

514
00:24:23,333 --> 00:24:24,636
- Take it away.

515
00:24:24,636 --> 00:24:26,784
- You gotta eat something sometime.

516
00:24:26,784 --> 00:24:29,221
- Just gimme another drink.

517
00:24:29,221 --> 00:24:31,640
- Mr. Birnam, this is the morning.

518
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,146
- That's when you need
it most, in the morning.

519
00:24:33,146 --> 00:24:35,041
Haven't you learned that yet?

520
00:24:35,041 --> 00:24:36,033
At night, this stuff's a drink,

521
00:24:36,033 --> 00:24:37,669
in the morning it's medicine.

522
00:24:37,669 --> 00:24:38,877
- Okay if I eat?

523
00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:40,794
- A little to one side.

524
00:24:45,266 --> 00:24:47,435
Nat, are you ever scared when you wake up?

525
00:24:47,435 --> 00:24:50,416
So scared, the sweat
starts outta you, huh?

526
00:24:50,416 --> 00:24:52,567
No, not you, with you it's simple.

527
00:24:52,567 --> 00:24:53,652
Your alarm clock goes off,

528
00:24:53,652 --> 00:24:55,193
and you open your eyes
and brush your teeth,

529
00:24:55,193 --> 00:24:57,865
and read the 'Daily Mirror'. That's all.

530
00:24:57,865 --> 00:25:00,542
Do you ever lie in your
bed, looking at the window?

531
00:25:00,542 --> 00:25:01,973
Little daylight's coming through,

532
00:25:01,973 --> 00:25:03,991
and you start to wonder,
is it getting lighter?

533
00:25:03,991 --> 00:25:05,270
Is it getting darker?

534
00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:07,744
Is it dawn, or is it dusk?

535
00:25:07,744 --> 00:25:09,894
It's a terrifying problem, Nat.

536
00:25:09,894 --> 00:25:12,543
Because if it's dawn you're
dead, the bars are closed,

537
00:25:12,543 --> 00:25:14,249
and the liquor stores don't
open till nine o'clock,

538
00:25:14,249 --> 00:25:17,583
and you can't last till nine o'clock.

539
00:25:17,583 --> 00:25:21,441
Or it may be Sunday. That's the worst.

540
00:25:21,441 --> 00:25:22,524
No liquor stores at all,

541
00:25:22,524 --> 00:25:23,737
and you guys wouldn't open a bar,

542
00:25:23,737 --> 00:25:25,671
not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat?

543
00:25:25,671 --> 00:25:28,491
- Because we gotta go to church
once in a while. That's why.

544
00:25:28,491 --> 00:25:31,922
- Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

545
00:25:31,922 --> 00:25:32,755
- [Nat] What happened to those two quarts?

546
00:25:32,755 --> 00:25:35,326
You polish 'em off last night?

547
00:25:35,326 --> 00:25:36,651
- What two quarts?

548
00:25:36,651 --> 00:25:39,651
- The two bottles you had.

549
00:25:39,651 --> 00:25:42,105
- That's right, I did have
two bottles, didn't I?

550
00:25:42,105 --> 00:25:43,560
I hid one of 'em.

551
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,038
I've still got it.

552
00:25:45,038 --> 00:25:46,478
I'm a capitalist, Nat!

553
00:25:46,478 --> 00:25:49,519
I've got untapped reserves. I'm rich!

554
00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:50,555
(glass slams on bar)

555
00:25:50,555 --> 00:25:53,107
- If you had enough money,
you'd kill yourself in a month.

556
00:25:53,107 --> 00:25:54,921
- Say Nat, was there a gentleman here...

557
00:25:54,921 --> 00:25:57,286
- Hello, Mr. Birnam, didn't
you go away for the weekend?

558
00:25:57,286 --> 00:25:58,790
- Apparently not, Gloria.

559
00:25:58,790 --> 00:26:00,256
- Was there a gentleman
here asking for me?

560
00:26:00,256 --> 00:26:01,667
- Not to my knowledge there wasn't.

561
00:26:01,667 --> 00:26:03,407
- Well, he was supposed
to come around 11 o'clock,

562
00:26:03,407 --> 00:26:04,310
he's from Albany.

563
00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:05,400
- Another friend of the folks?

564
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,534
- More a friend of the
friend of the folks type.

565
00:26:07,534 --> 00:26:08,865
A fellow called me up about him.

566
00:26:08,865 --> 00:26:09,996
Wants me to show him the town.

567
00:26:09,996 --> 00:26:11,859
- Like Grant's Tomb, for instance.

568
00:26:11,859 --> 00:26:12,692
- But def.

569
00:26:14,019 --> 00:26:15,960
- Ain't it amazing how many
guys come down from Albany,

570
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,043
just to see Grant's Tomb.

571
00:26:20,399 --> 00:26:22,710
- Sometimes I wish you came from Albany.

572
00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:24,458
- Yeah. Where would you take me?

573
00:26:24,458 --> 00:26:26,684
- Lots of places. Music hall.

574
00:26:26,684 --> 00:26:27,936
Then the New Yorker Roof, maybe.

575
00:26:27,936 --> 00:26:29,329
- There is now being presented

576
00:26:29,329 --> 00:26:30,915
at a theater on 44th street,

577
00:26:30,915 --> 00:26:32,904
the uncut version of Hamlet.

578
00:26:32,904 --> 00:26:36,069
Now I see us setting out for
that. Do you know Hamlet?

579
00:26:36,069 --> 00:26:37,343
- I know 44th street.

580
00:26:37,343 --> 00:26:38,731
- I'd like to get your interpretation

581
00:26:38,731 --> 00:26:40,517
of Hamlet's character.

582
00:26:40,517 --> 00:26:42,302
- I'd like to give it to you.

583
00:26:42,302 --> 00:26:44,272
- [Don] Dinner later, I
think. Nothing before.

584
00:26:44,272 --> 00:26:47,019
One should always see
Shakespeare on an empty stomach.

585
00:26:47,019 --> 00:26:48,170
- [Gloria] Not even a pretzel?

586
00:26:48,170 --> 00:26:50,098
- Could I have a glass of water?

587
00:26:50,098 --> 00:26:53,219
- [Nat] Oh sure. What'll
it be for a chaser?

588
00:26:53,219 --> 00:26:54,810
- This is Nat's Bar, isn't it?

589
00:26:54,810 --> 00:26:56,923
- That's what the man said.

590
00:26:56,923 --> 00:27:00,840
- I'm looking for a young
lady. Name of Gloria.

591
00:27:04,327 --> 00:27:05,667
- Are you Miss Gloria?

592
00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:07,121
- Who, me? No, I'm not.

593
00:27:07,121 --> 00:27:09,182
I just live with Gloria. She's not here.

594
00:27:09,182 --> 00:27:10,025
- She isn't?

595
00:27:10,025 --> 00:27:10,858
- [Gloria] No, she's sick.

596
00:27:10,858 --> 00:27:11,883
She went to the hospital.

597
00:27:11,883 --> 00:27:15,324
Ruptured appendix middle of
last night. Went like that.

598
00:27:15,324 --> 00:27:16,653
Scared the life outta me.

599
00:27:16,653 --> 00:27:18,261
- Oh, that's terrible.

600
00:27:18,261 --> 00:27:19,961
- [Gloria] Goodbye.

601
00:27:19,961 --> 00:27:20,794
- Goodbye.

602
00:27:26,620 --> 00:27:28,500
Could I have a word with you?

603
00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:29,333
- No, thanks.

604
00:27:29,333 --> 00:27:31,169
Thanks a lot, but no thanks.

605
00:27:31,169 --> 00:27:32,771
- [Man From Albany] Oh,
you're welcome. I'm sure.

606
00:27:32,771 --> 00:27:33,938
- Don't mench.

607
00:27:40,633 --> 00:27:41,466
- Nat.

608
00:27:42,466 --> 00:27:43,712
- Coming.

609
00:27:43,712 --> 00:27:45,943
- Now, Gloria, wasn't that
rather rude to send that nice man

610
00:27:45,943 --> 00:27:47,669
all alone to Grants Tomb?

611
00:27:47,669 --> 00:27:49,294
- When I've got a chance
to go out with you?

612
00:27:49,294 --> 00:27:50,384
Don't be ridic.

613
00:27:50,384 --> 00:27:52,458
- Oh, is our engagement definite?

614
00:27:52,458 --> 00:27:54,209
- You meant it, didn't you?

615
00:27:54,209 --> 00:27:55,704
- Oh, surely, surely.

616
00:27:55,704 --> 00:27:57,184
- I've gotta get a facial, a finger wave.

617
00:27:57,184 --> 00:27:58,701
The works. Right now.

618
00:27:58,701 --> 00:27:59,581
You're gonna call for me, aren't you?

619
00:27:59,581 --> 00:28:00,897
And if so, what time?

620
00:28:00,897 --> 00:28:01,730
- [Don] What time do you suggest?

621
00:28:01,730 --> 00:28:02,563
- [Gloria] How's eight.

622
00:28:02,563 --> 00:28:03,396
- [Don] Eight's fine.

623
00:28:03,396 --> 00:28:04,229
- I live right in the corner house.

624
00:28:04,229 --> 00:28:05,522
You know where the antique shop is?

625
00:28:05,522 --> 00:28:07,271
The one with the wooden Indian outside?

626
00:28:07,271 --> 00:28:09,161
They've got the Indian
sign on me, I always say.

627
00:28:09,161 --> 00:28:09,994
- I'll be there.

628
00:28:09,994 --> 00:28:13,006
- Second floor front. Oh, Mr. Birnam,

629
00:28:13,006 --> 00:28:15,941
all I got is a semiformal.
Will that be all right?

630
00:28:15,941 --> 00:28:17,543
- That'll be fine.

631
00:28:17,543 --> 00:28:18,793
- So long, Nat.

632
00:28:19,762 --> 00:28:22,084
- One last one, Nat, pour it softly.

633
00:28:22,084 --> 00:28:24,453
Pour it gently and pour it to the brim.

634
00:28:24,453 --> 00:28:25,802
- Look, Mr. Birnam,

635
00:28:25,802 --> 00:28:26,964
there are a lot of bars on Third Avenue.

636
00:28:26,964 --> 00:28:27,945
Do me a favor, will ya?

637
00:28:27,945 --> 00:28:29,326
Get outta here, and buy it somewhere else?

638
00:28:29,326 --> 00:28:30,159
- What's the matter?

639
00:28:30,159 --> 00:28:30,992
- I don't like you much.

640
00:28:30,992 --> 00:28:31,904
What's the idea of pulling her leg?

641
00:28:31,904 --> 00:28:32,933
You know, you're not gonna take her out.

642
00:28:32,933 --> 00:28:33,766
- Who says I'm not?

643
00:28:33,766 --> 00:28:34,655
- I say so. You're drunk,

644
00:28:34,655 --> 00:28:35,865
and you're just making with the mouth.

645
00:28:35,865 --> 00:28:36,698
- Give me a drink.

646
00:28:36,698 --> 00:28:37,531
- And that other Dame, the lady,

647
00:28:37,531 --> 00:28:40,205
I mean, I don't like what
you're doing to her either.

648
00:28:40,205 --> 00:28:41,270
- Oh, shut up.

649
00:28:41,270 --> 00:28:42,435
- You should've seen her
come in here last night.

650
00:28:42,435 --> 00:28:43,785
Looking for you, her eyes all rainy,

651
00:28:43,785 --> 00:28:45,275
the mascara all washed away.

652
00:28:45,275 --> 00:28:46,108
- Give me a drink!

653
00:28:46,108 --> 00:28:48,064
- That's an awful high class young lady.

654
00:28:48,064 --> 00:28:49,356
- You bet she is.

655
00:28:49,356 --> 00:28:50,803
- How the heck did she ever
get mixed up with a guy

656
00:28:50,803 --> 00:28:52,316
who sops it up like you do?

657
00:28:52,316 --> 00:28:53,887
- That's a problem. Isn't it?

658
00:28:53,887 --> 00:28:54,987
That nice young man who drinks,

659
00:28:54,987 --> 00:28:56,194
and a high class young lady.

660
00:28:56,194 --> 00:28:57,274
And how did she ever
get mixed up with him,

661
00:28:57,274 --> 00:29:00,017
and why does he drink,
and why doesn't he stop?

662
00:29:00,017 --> 00:29:01,706
That's my novel, Nat.

663
00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:04,190
I wanted to start writing
it out in the country.

664
00:29:04,190 --> 00:29:05,572
Morbid stuff.

665
00:29:05,572 --> 00:29:08,220
Nothing for the Book-of-the
Month Club, a horror story.

666
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:10,041
The confessions of a booze addict,

667
00:29:10,041 --> 00:29:12,691
the long book of an alcoholic.

668
00:29:12,691 --> 00:29:16,053
Oh, come on, Nat, break down, will ya?

669
00:29:16,053 --> 00:29:17,724
Do you know what I'm gonna call my novel?

670
00:29:17,724 --> 00:29:22,057
'The Bottle', that's all.
Very simply, 'The Bottle'.

671
00:29:23,634 --> 00:29:25,543
I've got it all here in my mind.

672
00:29:25,543 --> 00:29:28,013
Let me tell you the first chapter.

673
00:29:28,013 --> 00:29:30,794
It all starts one wet afternoon,
about three years ago.

674
00:29:30,794 --> 00:29:34,132
There was a matinee of La
Traviata at the Metropolitan.

675
00:29:34,132 --> 00:29:39,132
(upbeat music)
(people chatting)

676
00:29:53,093 --> 00:29:55,510
- Take your hat and coat sir?

677
00:29:58,614 --> 00:30:03,614
(operatic music playing)
(singing in Italian)

678
00:30:21,123 --> 00:30:26,123
(operatic music playing)
(singing in Italian continues)

679
00:31:00,004 --> 00:31:05,004
(operatic music playing)
(singing in Italian continues)

680
00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:35,806
(operatic music playing)
(singing in Italian continues)

681
00:32:01,572 --> 00:32:06,572
(operatic music playing)
(singing in Italian continues)

682
00:32:38,002 --> 00:32:41,335
(enthusiastic applause)

683
00:32:51,027 --> 00:32:54,527
(singing in Italian)

684
00:32:54,527 --> 00:32:55,786
(knocking on counter)

685
00:32:55,786 --> 00:32:56,696
- Did you forget something?

686
00:32:56,696 --> 00:32:57,694
- No, just going home,

687
00:32:57,694 --> 00:33:00,247
if it's all right with you.

688
00:33:00,247 --> 00:33:04,164
(singing in Italian continues)

689
00:33:06,695 --> 00:33:08,114
- Say, this isn't yours, is it?

690
00:33:08,114 --> 00:33:08,947
- It certainly isn't.

691
00:33:08,947 --> 00:33:10,390
- That's what it says though, 417.

692
00:33:10,390 --> 00:33:11,223
- I don't care what it says.

693
00:33:11,223 --> 00:33:12,903
- The checks must have gotten mixed up.

694
00:33:12,903 --> 00:33:14,424
- Maybe they did. Find me my coat.

695
00:33:14,424 --> 00:33:16,332
It's a plain man's raincoat, and a derby.

696
00:33:16,332 --> 00:33:17,165
- Are you kiddin'?

697
00:33:17,165 --> 00:33:18,885
Do you know how many plain
men's raincoats we have

698
00:33:18,885 --> 00:33:20,642
on a day like this? About a thousand.

699
00:33:20,642 --> 00:33:21,475
- Well, let me get back
there, I can find it.

700
00:33:21,475 --> 00:33:23,897
- No, please, that's
against regulations, sir.

701
00:33:23,897 --> 00:33:25,987
- I am not gonna wait here until
the end of the performance.

702
00:33:25,987 --> 00:33:27,438
- Well, you can get your coat tomorrow.

703
00:33:27,438 --> 00:33:28,271
- Tomorrow?

704
00:33:28,271 --> 00:33:29,104
- Yeah.

705
00:33:29,104 --> 00:33:29,937
- Look man, there's
something in the pocket

706
00:33:29,937 --> 00:33:31,037
of that coat that I...

707
00:33:31,037 --> 00:33:32,954
Well, it so happens, I find
myself without any money,

708
00:33:32,954 --> 00:33:34,668
and I need that coat, and I need it now.

709
00:33:34,668 --> 00:33:35,826
- Listen, if everybody went digging

710
00:33:35,826 --> 00:33:37,045
in through those coats...

711
00:33:37,045 --> 00:33:41,091
There's regulations, there's
got to be regulations.

712
00:33:41,091 --> 00:33:43,436
- Then what do you suggest?

713
00:33:43,436 --> 00:33:45,427
- Wait till the other
party arrives and swap.

714
00:33:45,427 --> 00:33:46,847
- I want my coat.

715
00:33:46,847 --> 00:33:51,847
- As far as I'm concerned,
mister, that's your coat.

716
00:33:51,981 --> 00:33:53,814
- You're a great help.

717
00:33:56,143 --> 00:34:01,143
(operatic music continues)
(singing in Italian)

718
00:34:15,452 --> 00:34:18,629
(enthusiastic applause)

719
00:34:18,629 --> 00:34:21,546
(crowd chattering)

720
00:34:30,979 --> 00:34:33,479
- [Audience Member] Thank you.

721
00:34:37,426 --> 00:34:39,593
(silence)

722
00:34:41,918 --> 00:34:42,920
- That's my coat you've got.

723
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:43,927
- And, that's mine, thank heaven.

724
00:34:43,927 --> 00:34:44,940
They mixed up the checks.

725
00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:46,600
- They certainly did, I
thought you'd never come.

726
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,348
- Well, you couldn't have waited so long.

727
00:34:48,348 --> 00:34:49,526
- Only since the first aria of the

728
00:34:49,526 --> 00:34:50,858
first act. That's all.

729
00:34:50,858 --> 00:34:52,437
- Do you always drop in
just for the overture?

730
00:34:52,437 --> 00:34:53,270
- Goodbye.

731
00:34:54,244 --> 00:34:55,911
- Oh, just a minute.

732
00:35:00,788 --> 00:35:04,247
Oh, oh my umbrella, if you don't mind.

733
00:35:04,247 --> 00:35:05,080
- Catch.

734
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,385
(umbrella slams on floor)

735
00:35:06,385 --> 00:35:08,218
- Thank you very much.

736
00:35:11,956 --> 00:35:14,131
- I'm terribly sorry.

737
00:35:14,131 --> 00:35:15,625
- You're the rudest person I've ever seen.

738
00:35:15,625 --> 00:35:16,664
What's the matter with you?

739
00:35:16,664 --> 00:35:17,727
- Oh, Just rude, I guess.

740
00:35:17,727 --> 00:35:19,595
- Well really, somebody
should talk to your mother.

741
00:35:19,595 --> 00:35:20,995
- They tried, Miss St. John.

742
00:35:20,995 --> 00:35:22,638
- My name's not St. John.

743
00:35:22,638 --> 00:35:23,956
- No. St. Joseph, then.

744
00:35:23,956 --> 00:35:24,957
- St. James.

745
00:35:24,957 --> 00:35:28,097
- First name Hilda or
Helen or Harriet, maybe.

746
00:35:28,097 --> 00:35:29,389
- Helen.

747
00:35:29,389 --> 00:35:30,972
- All right, Helen.

748
00:35:36,059 --> 00:35:38,117
I also know that you
come from Toledo, Ohio.

749
00:35:38,117 --> 00:35:39,196
- You do? How?

750
00:35:39,196 --> 00:35:40,036
- Well I've had three long acts

751
00:35:40,036 --> 00:35:42,119
to work you out from that coat of yours.

752
00:35:42,119 --> 00:35:46,458
Initials, label, Alfred Spitzer,
Fine Furs, Toledo, Ohio.

753
00:35:46,458 --> 00:35:48,757
- Maybe I should have explored your coat.

754
00:35:48,757 --> 00:35:49,938
- But you didn't, though.

755
00:35:49,938 --> 00:35:50,977
- Didn't have time.

756
00:35:50,977 --> 00:35:53,329
- Good. My name is Don Birnam.

757
00:35:53,329 --> 00:35:54,662
- How do you do?

758
00:35:56,068 --> 00:35:57,569
- Well, how do you like New York?

759
00:35:57,569 --> 00:35:58,518
- Love it.

760
00:35:58,518 --> 00:35:59,676
- Intend to stay long?

761
00:35:59,676 --> 00:36:01,949
- Oh, 60 years, perhaps.

762
00:36:01,949 --> 00:36:03,557
I live here now, I have a job.

763
00:36:03,557 --> 00:36:04,390
- Doing what?

764
00:36:04,390 --> 00:36:05,223
- 'Time Magazine'.

765
00:36:05,223 --> 00:36:06,156
- Oh, 'Time Magazine'.

766
00:36:06,156 --> 00:36:07,646
Then perhaps you can do something for me.

767
00:36:07,646 --> 00:36:08,479
- Yes.

768
00:36:08,479 --> 00:36:10,350
- Could you help me
become Man of the Year?

769
00:36:10,350 --> 00:36:12,055
- Delighted. What do you do?

770
00:36:12,055 --> 00:36:13,408
- Yes, what do I do?

771
00:36:13,408 --> 00:36:15,208
I'm a writer. I've just started a novel.

772
00:36:15,208 --> 00:36:16,525
As a matter of fact, I've started several,

773
00:36:16,525 --> 00:36:17,617
but I never seem to finish one.

774
00:36:17,617 --> 00:36:19,686
- Well, in that case, why
don't you write short stories?

775
00:36:19,686 --> 00:36:21,996
- Oh, I have some of
those. The first paragraph.

776
00:36:21,996 --> 00:36:23,935
Then, there's one half of
the opening scene of a play,

777
00:36:23,935 --> 00:36:26,426
which takes place in the
leaning tower of Pisa.

778
00:36:26,426 --> 00:36:27,656
Attempts to explain why it leans,

779
00:36:27,656 --> 00:36:30,496
and why all sensible
buildings should lean.

780
00:36:30,496 --> 00:36:32,376
- They'll love that in Toledo.

781
00:36:32,376 --> 00:36:33,505
- [Don] Oh, by the way,

782
00:36:33,505 --> 00:36:35,226
are you coming to hear
Lohengrin next week?

783
00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:36,137
- [Helen] I don't know.

784
00:36:36,137 --> 00:36:36,985
- Because if you are,

785
00:36:36,985 --> 00:36:38,526
I'm not letting this coat out of my hands.

786
00:36:38,526 --> 00:36:39,487
- [Helen] Don't worry.

787
00:36:39,487 --> 00:36:42,517
- Oh, but I do. Though, to be really safe,

788
00:36:42,517 --> 00:36:44,439
we should go together.

789
00:36:44,439 --> 00:36:45,655
- We could.

790
00:36:45,655 --> 00:36:47,596
- Are you in the phone book?

791
00:36:47,596 --> 00:36:49,225
- Yes, but I'm not home very much.

792
00:36:49,225 --> 00:36:52,080
- I'll call you at your office.

793
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,516
- Editorial research. If
Henry Luce answers, hang up.

794
00:36:54,516 --> 00:36:55,615
- All Right.

795
00:36:55,615 --> 00:36:59,377
(romantic music playing)

796
00:36:59,377 --> 00:37:00,210
- Would you like a taxi?

797
00:37:00,210 --> 00:37:01,620
- No, thanks, I'm taking the subway.

798
00:37:01,620 --> 00:37:02,701
- Oh, very sensible.

799
00:37:02,701 --> 00:37:03,534
- As a matter of fact,

800
00:37:03,534 --> 00:37:06,940
I'm going to an extremely crazy
party on Washington Square.

801
00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:09,561
If you like, I'll take you along.

802
00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:10,545
- Oh, thank you very much Miss St. James,

803
00:37:10,545 --> 00:37:13,462
but I have to see a friend up town.

804
00:37:14,503 --> 00:37:15,709
- Goodbye, Mr. Birman.

805
00:37:15,709 --> 00:37:16,542
- Goodbye.

806
00:37:21,010 --> 00:37:26,010
(glass shatters)
(tense music playing)

807
00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:31,175
- Who threw that?

808
00:37:31,175 --> 00:37:32,489
- It fell out of my pocket.

809
00:37:32,489 --> 00:37:33,573
- Do you always carry those things?

810
00:37:33,573 --> 00:37:36,206
- Well, no. You see that friend
of mine, the one up town,

811
00:37:36,206 --> 00:37:38,082
he has a slight cold, and I
thought I'd take this along,

812
00:37:38,082 --> 00:37:40,126
and make him a hot toddy

813
00:37:40,126 --> 00:37:41,929
- Well, see that he gets hot
lemonade and some aspirin.

814
00:37:41,929 --> 00:37:42,762
- I shall.

815
00:37:42,762 --> 00:37:43,595
- Goodbye.

816
00:37:47,595 --> 00:37:49,345
- Oh, Miss St. James?

817
00:37:50,443 --> 00:37:51,455
- Yes?

818
00:37:51,455 --> 00:37:53,434
- What kind of a party
was that you asked me to?

819
00:37:53,434 --> 00:37:54,577
- A cocktail party.

820
00:37:54,577 --> 00:37:56,110
- Invitation still stand?

821
00:37:56,110 --> 00:37:57,860
- Of course. Come on.

822
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,706
(romantic music playing)

823
00:38:05,706 --> 00:38:07,147
- [Nat] Okay, so, they go
to that cocktail party,

824
00:38:07,147 --> 00:38:09,214
and he gets stinko and
falls flat on his face.

825
00:38:09,214 --> 00:38:12,582
- He does not. By this time,
he's crazy about the girl.

826
00:38:12,582 --> 00:38:14,137
He drinks tomato juice.

827
00:38:14,137 --> 00:38:15,550
Doesn't touch liquor that whole week,

828
00:38:15,550 --> 00:38:17,418
for two weeks, for six weeks.

829
00:38:17,418 --> 00:38:18,668
- In love, huh?

830
00:38:20,211 --> 00:38:22,504
- That's what's gonna be so hard to write.

831
00:38:22,504 --> 00:38:25,184
Love is the hardest thing
in the world to write about.

832
00:38:25,184 --> 00:38:26,992
It's so simple.

833
00:38:26,992 --> 00:38:28,663
You've gotta catch it through details.

834
00:38:28,663 --> 00:38:30,272
Like the early morning sunlight

835
00:38:30,272 --> 00:38:31,883
hitting the grey tin of the rain spot

836
00:38:31,883 --> 00:38:33,748
in front of her house,

837
00:38:33,748 --> 00:38:34,581
the ringing of a telephone,

838
00:38:34,581 --> 00:38:37,843
that sounds like Beethoven's 'Pastoral'.

839
00:38:37,843 --> 00:38:39,376
A letter scribbled on
her office stationery

840
00:38:39,376 --> 00:38:40,455
that you carry around in your pocket

841
00:38:40,455 --> 00:38:44,535
because it smells like
all the lilacs in Ohio.

842
00:38:44,535 --> 00:38:45,618
Pour it, Nat.

843
00:38:48,967 --> 00:38:51,329
He thinks he's cured.

844
00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:52,680
If he can only get a job now,

845
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,853
they could be married, and that's that.

846
00:38:54,853 --> 00:38:57,616
But it's not, Nat, not quite,

847
00:38:57,616 --> 00:39:01,086
because one day, one terrible day.

848
00:39:01,086 --> 00:39:02,253
- Yeah, go on.

849
00:39:04,630 --> 00:39:07,457
- You see, this girl's been
writing to her people in Toledo.

850
00:39:07,457 --> 00:39:09,286
They want to meet the young man.

851
00:39:09,286 --> 00:39:10,771
So, they come to New York.

852
00:39:10,771 --> 00:39:13,000
They stay at the Hotel Manhattan.

853
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,619
Their very first day, she's to
introduce him to her parents.

854
00:39:16,619 --> 00:39:19,881
One o'clock lobby at the hotel.

855
00:39:19,881 --> 00:39:24,881
(romantic music playing)
(crowd chatting)

856
00:39:37,265 --> 00:39:39,479
- [Mr. St. James] No, that
wasn't enough, not for New York.

857
00:39:39,479 --> 00:39:42,876
They gave me a shampoo, scalp
massage, and a manicure,

858
00:39:42,876 --> 00:39:44,185
thought they were going
to tear off my shoes

859
00:39:44,185 --> 00:39:45,427
and paint my toenails.

860
00:39:45,427 --> 00:39:46,677
(Mrs. St. James laughing)

861
00:39:46,677 --> 00:39:48,143
- I had a lovely morning.

862
00:39:48,143 --> 00:39:49,876
Just did a little window shopping.

863
00:39:49,876 --> 00:39:51,389
Didn't wanna get all tired out.

864
00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:52,930
- [Mr. St. James] On account
of meeting that young man?

865
00:39:52,930 --> 00:39:54,271
Now, mother.

866
00:39:54,271 --> 00:39:57,039
- Who did you get that haircut for?

867
00:39:57,039 --> 00:39:58,387
- Wonder what's keeping Helen.

868
00:39:58,387 --> 00:39:59,632
- She'll be here.

869
00:39:59,632 --> 00:40:01,840
- This Birnam fellow went
to Cornell, didn't he?

870
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,757
- [Mrs. St. James] I believe so.

871
00:40:02,757 --> 00:40:03,851
- [Mr. St. James] But he never graduated.

872
00:40:03,851 --> 00:40:06,143
I wonder why. How old is he?

873
00:40:06,143 --> 00:40:07,345
- [Mrs. St. James] 33.

874
00:40:07,345 --> 00:40:08,318
- There's no job.

875
00:40:08,318 --> 00:40:10,647
As far as I can find
out, he never had one.

876
00:40:10,647 --> 00:40:12,749
I wish Helen wasn't so vague.

877
00:40:12,749 --> 00:40:13,965
- Maybe he has a little money.

878
00:40:13,965 --> 00:40:15,980
Some people do, you know, father.

879
00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:17,409
- [Mr. St. James] He ought
to have a job, anyway.

880
00:40:17,409 --> 00:40:18,495
- [Mrs. St. James] He's a writer.

881
00:40:18,495 --> 00:40:19,553
- [Mr. St. James] A
writer? What did he write?

882
00:40:19,553 --> 00:40:20,885
I never heard his name.

883
00:40:20,885 --> 00:40:22,778
- Now father, relax.

884
00:40:22,778 --> 00:40:24,692
You always expect the worst.

885
00:40:24,692 --> 00:40:25,644
- [Mr. St. James] I hope he realizes

886
00:40:25,644 --> 00:40:27,099
that Helen's our only daughter,

887
00:40:27,099 --> 00:40:29,117
and we ought to know a
few things about him.

888
00:40:29,117 --> 00:40:30,346
- Oh, it will all come out.

889
00:40:30,346 --> 00:40:34,858
His background, his prospects,
his church affiliation.

890
00:40:34,858 --> 00:40:39,858
(Mrs. St. James fades)
(tense music intensifies)

891
00:40:51,507 --> 00:40:54,840
(tense music continues)

892
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,497
(telephone clangs)

893
00:41:09,497 --> 00:41:12,914
(telephone dial rattles)

894
00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:16,468
- Hotel Manhattan?

895
00:41:16,468 --> 00:41:19,630
Would you please page Miss
Helen St. James? St. James.

896
00:41:19,630 --> 00:41:21,630
Yes, she's in the lobby.

897
00:41:22,486 --> 00:41:25,819
(tense music continues)

898
00:41:36,826 --> 00:41:40,021
Helen? Don. Darling, I'm terribly sorry,

899
00:41:40,021 --> 00:41:41,888
but I won't be able to
get there for a while.

900
00:41:41,888 --> 00:41:43,247
Will you please go ahead,
and have your lunch,

901
00:41:43,247 --> 00:41:46,384
and apologize to your parents?

902
00:41:46,384 --> 00:41:48,684
Oh, nothing serious. I'll be there.

903
00:41:48,684 --> 00:41:49,517
Goodbye.

904
00:41:51,439 --> 00:41:55,939
(telephone receiver clicks in cradle)

905
00:41:57,638 --> 00:42:01,638
(tense music continues playing)

906
00:42:11,763 --> 00:42:13,739
- [Don] Turn off that light.

907
00:42:13,739 --> 00:42:14,880
- Don.

908
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:15,814
- [Don] Turn it off.

909
00:42:15,814 --> 00:42:17,897
- For heaven's sake, Don.

910
00:42:20,439 --> 00:42:23,798
I thought you were with Helen,
and her father and mother.

911
00:42:23,798 --> 00:42:24,965
What happened?

912
00:42:28,674 --> 00:42:30,200
Come on, Don.

913
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:31,403
- [Don] I couldn't face it.

914
00:42:31,403 --> 00:42:33,264
- Couldn't face what?
Didn't you go to see them?

915
00:42:33,264 --> 00:42:35,792
- Certainly, I went. One o'clock sharp.

916
00:42:35,792 --> 00:42:38,844
I saw them, all right,
only they didn't see me.

917
00:42:38,844 --> 00:42:39,931
- How was that?

918
00:42:39,931 --> 00:42:42,191
- Such nice, respectable people.

919
00:42:42,191 --> 00:42:43,440
I couldn't face them, Wick,

920
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:44,898
and all the questions they'd ask me.

921
00:42:44,898 --> 00:42:47,109
I just couldn't do it. Not cold.

922
00:42:47,109 --> 00:42:49,440
I had to have a drink first. Just one.

923
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,461
Only the one didn't do anything to me.

924
00:42:51,461 --> 00:42:52,961
- So you had another and another.

925
00:42:52,961 --> 00:42:54,747
You poor idiot, Don.

926
00:42:54,747 --> 00:42:55,775
Won't you ever learn, that with you,

927
00:42:55,775 --> 00:42:56,764
it's like stepping off a roof

928
00:42:56,764 --> 00:42:58,863
and expecting to fall just one floor.

929
00:42:58,863 --> 00:43:01,031
- Will you call her, Wick?

930
00:43:01,031 --> 00:43:02,786
Tell her something. Tell her I'm sick.

931
00:43:02,786 --> 00:43:04,233
Tell her I'm dead.

932
00:43:04,233 --> 00:43:05,528
Will you call?

933
00:43:05,528 --> 00:43:06,996
- Yes. I'll call.

934
00:43:06,996 --> 00:43:07,829
- You know, she must have written them

935
00:43:07,829 --> 00:43:10,017
a lot of nice things about me.

936
00:43:10,017 --> 00:43:12,926
What a gentleman I am. A prince.

937
00:43:12,926 --> 00:43:14,113
- Which hotel is it?

938
00:43:14,113 --> 00:43:15,279
- [Don] The Manhattan.

939
00:43:15,279 --> 00:43:19,279
Mr. and Mrs. Charles St.
James, of Toledo, Ohio.

940
00:43:21,646 --> 00:43:24,479
(doorbell buzzes)

941
00:43:26,610 --> 00:43:28,360
- [Wick] Get up, Don.

942
00:43:33,938 --> 00:43:36,401
(door clicks shut)

943
00:43:36,401 --> 00:43:38,365
(doorbell buzzes)

944
00:43:38,365 --> 00:43:40,276
- Just a minute, Helen.

945
00:43:40,276 --> 00:43:42,943
(bottle clinks)

946
00:43:52,740 --> 00:43:54,204
- Hello Wick, is Don here?

947
00:43:54,204 --> 00:43:55,444
- Don? No.

948
00:43:55,444 --> 00:43:57,369
- Any idea where he could be?

949
00:43:57,369 --> 00:43:58,701
- Wasn't he meeting you?

950
00:43:58,701 --> 00:43:59,941
- He was supposed to meet us for lunch,

951
00:43:59,941 --> 00:44:02,114
and then he telephoned he'd be late.

952
00:44:02,114 --> 00:44:05,244
Mother's beginning to
think I just made him up.

953
00:44:05,244 --> 00:44:07,101
Do you suppose something happened to him?

954
00:44:07,101 --> 00:44:08,311
- Nonsense.

955
00:44:08,311 --> 00:44:10,635
- But surely he'd have called
back if he were all right.

956
00:44:10,635 --> 00:44:11,580
- Where'd he call you from?

957
00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:12,413
- I don't know.

958
00:44:12,413 --> 00:44:15,048
- I think I have an idea. He
called you from out of town.

959
00:44:15,048 --> 00:44:16,631
- Out of town? Where?

960
00:44:16,631 --> 00:44:17,464
- Philadelphia.

961
00:44:17,464 --> 00:44:18,396
- What's he doing in Philadelphia?

962
00:44:18,396 --> 00:44:20,259
- Well, there's an opening
on the Philadelphia Inquirer,

963
00:44:20,259 --> 00:44:21,843
the book section, and Don wrote them.

964
00:44:21,843 --> 00:44:22,676
He wired them.

965
00:44:22,676 --> 00:44:25,344
And I think this morning he
just took an early train.

966
00:44:25,344 --> 00:44:28,562
- Oh, why, he didn't
tell me a word about it.

967
00:44:28,562 --> 00:44:30,647
- I... I'm not supposed
to tell you either,

968
00:44:30,647 --> 00:44:32,276
he wanted it to be a surprise.

969
00:44:32,276 --> 00:44:33,109
- He did?

970
00:44:33,109 --> 00:44:34,434
- [Wick] Yes, he probably couldn't meet

971
00:44:34,434 --> 00:44:36,302
the right people right
away, missed a train.

972
00:44:36,302 --> 00:44:37,135
You know how it is.

973
00:44:37,135 --> 00:44:38,324
- Oh, it would be wonderful,

974
00:44:38,324 --> 00:44:41,491
if he got the job and started working.

975
00:44:42,606 --> 00:44:45,305
Or would it, Wick, with
him in Philadelphia,

976
00:44:45,305 --> 00:44:47,223
and me in New York?

977
00:44:47,223 --> 00:44:49,524
Don't ever tell him I said
that though, will you?

978
00:44:49,524 --> 00:44:51,246
- Of course not.

979
00:44:51,246 --> 00:44:52,848
- [Helen] I can never understand
why somebody like Don,

980
00:44:52,848 --> 00:44:54,302
a person with such talent,

981
00:44:54,302 --> 00:44:57,228
such flashes of real brilliance...

982
00:44:57,228 --> 00:44:59,395
Maybe I'm a bit prejudice.

983
00:45:00,729 --> 00:45:02,427
What are you doing, Wick?

984
00:45:02,427 --> 00:45:03,260
- Nothing.

985
00:45:03,260 --> 00:45:04,633
- Where did that bottle come from?

986
00:45:04,633 --> 00:45:05,737
- It just rolled out.

987
00:45:05,737 --> 00:45:07,695
- From under the couch?

988
00:45:07,695 --> 00:45:08,778
- Yes, Helen.

989
00:45:10,283 --> 00:45:11,116
You know, it's my guess that Don

990
00:45:11,116 --> 00:45:12,150
caught an early train and...

991
00:45:12,150 --> 00:45:13,825
- Is that Don's bottle?

992
00:45:13,825 --> 00:45:14,945
- What makes you think that?

993
00:45:14,945 --> 00:45:18,363
- There was a bottle
the first time we met.

994
00:45:18,363 --> 00:45:19,196
- There was?

995
00:45:19,196 --> 00:45:21,390
- [Helen] It fell out of Don's pocket.

996
00:45:21,390 --> 00:45:23,014
- That was for me, Helen.

997
00:45:23,014 --> 00:45:25,368
This one's mine too.

998
00:45:25,368 --> 00:45:28,260
You might as well hear the family scandal.

999
00:45:28,260 --> 00:45:29,093
I drink.

1000
00:45:29,093 --> 00:45:30,173
Don thinks I drink too much.

1001
00:45:30,173 --> 00:45:31,474
I had to promise to go on the wagon.

1002
00:45:31,474 --> 00:45:33,594
That's why I hid the bottle,
so he wouldn't see it.

1003
00:45:33,594 --> 00:45:35,472
- Oh, I'm sorry Wick,

1004
00:45:35,472 --> 00:45:38,174
I shouldn't have started asking questions.

1005
00:45:38,174 --> 00:45:40,377
It's really none of my business.

1006
00:45:40,377 --> 00:45:41,960
- Forget it, Helen.

1007
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,928
- I better be getting back to the hotel.

1008
00:45:44,928 --> 00:45:46,908
Don's probably there already.

1009
00:45:46,908 --> 00:45:49,144
And don't worry, Wick, I won't
mention a word of it to him.

1010
00:45:49,144 --> 00:45:49,977
- [Wick] Thank you, Helen.

1011
00:45:49,977 --> 00:45:50,810
- [Helen] Bye.
- [Wick] Bye.

1012
00:45:50,810 --> 00:45:51,977
- [Don] Helen.

1013
00:45:55,181 --> 00:45:56,269
I'm sorry, Helen.

1014
00:45:56,269 --> 00:45:58,830
I can't let you go, not like this.

1015
00:45:58,830 --> 00:45:59,663
- Don!

1016
00:45:59,663 --> 00:46:01,335
- [Wick] Shut your mouth,
Don. I'll take you downstairs.

1017
00:46:01,335 --> 00:46:03,985
- Thanks very much for your
Philadelphia story, Wick.

1018
00:46:03,985 --> 00:46:04,818
Nice try.

1019
00:46:05,874 --> 00:46:07,891
That looks so silly on you.

1020
00:46:07,891 --> 00:46:08,724
- Don't listen to him.

1021
00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,397
- She doesn't have to,
just look at the two of us.

1022
00:46:11,397 --> 00:46:13,411
- Yes. What is all this covering up?

1023
00:46:13,411 --> 00:46:14,758
- All that happened,
is that Don was nervous

1024
00:46:14,758 --> 00:46:16,063
at the idea of meeting your parents.

1025
00:46:16,063 --> 00:46:17,525
And so he had a couple of drinks.

1026
00:46:17,525 --> 00:46:20,131
- [Don] Come on, Wick, she'd
have found out sooner or later.

1027
00:46:20,131 --> 00:46:22,048
- Stop it. Both of you.

1028
00:46:23,290 --> 00:46:25,383
Don's a little tight. Most
people drink a little.

1029
00:46:25,383 --> 00:46:27,438
A lot of them get tight once in a while.

1030
00:46:27,438 --> 00:46:29,655
- Sure. The lucky ones who
can take it or leave it.

1031
00:46:29,655 --> 00:46:31,838
But then there are the
ones who can't take it,

1032
00:46:31,838 --> 00:46:33,721
and can't leave it either.

1033
00:46:33,721 --> 00:46:37,605
What I'm trying to say is I'm
not a drinker, I'm a drunk.

1034
00:46:37,605 --> 00:46:39,241
He had to put me away once.

1035
00:46:39,241 --> 00:46:40,074
- [Wick] He went to a cure.

1036
00:46:40,074 --> 00:46:42,097
- Which didn't take.

1037
00:46:42,097 --> 00:46:43,511
You see, that first time we met,

1038
00:46:43,511 --> 00:46:45,557
I should have had the
decency to get drunk,

1039
00:46:45,557 --> 00:46:46,791
just for your sake.

1040
00:46:46,791 --> 00:46:49,939
- For my sake? We're talking about you.

1041
00:46:49,939 --> 00:46:51,449
Is it really that bad Wick?

1042
00:46:51,449 --> 00:46:52,978
- [Don] Yes, it is.

1043
00:46:52,978 --> 00:46:54,114
- Can't we go over this tomorrow, Don,

1044
00:46:54,114 --> 00:46:55,940
when you're feeling more like yourself?

1045
00:46:55,940 --> 00:46:58,993
- Helen's heard the facts.
That's all there is to it.

1046
00:46:58,993 --> 00:47:01,603
- [Helen] Yes, I've heard them
and they're not too pleasant,

1047
00:47:01,603 --> 00:47:03,192
but they could be worse, after all,

1048
00:47:03,192 --> 00:47:04,774
You're not an embezzler or a murderer.

1049
00:47:04,774 --> 00:47:06,835
You drink too much, and that's not fatal.

1050
00:47:06,835 --> 00:47:09,012
One cure didn't take, there are others.

1051
00:47:09,012 --> 00:47:10,249
- [Wick] Of course there are.

1052
00:47:10,249 --> 00:47:12,110
- This has a familiar ring.

1053
00:47:12,110 --> 00:47:14,017
- But there must be a
reason why you drink Don.

1054
00:47:14,017 --> 00:47:15,593
The right doctor could find it.

1055
00:47:15,593 --> 00:47:17,391
- Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor.

1056
00:47:17,391 --> 00:47:19,386
I know the reason, the reason is me.

1057
00:47:19,386 --> 00:47:22,614
What I am. Or, rather, what I'm not.

1058
00:47:22,614 --> 00:47:24,662
What I wanted to become, and didn't.

1059
00:47:24,662 --> 00:47:27,904
- What is it you wanna be
so much that you're not.

1060
00:47:27,904 --> 00:47:29,123
(dramatic music playing)

1061
00:47:29,123 --> 00:47:31,456
- A writer. Silly, isn't it?

1062
00:47:35,026 --> 00:47:37,746
- You know, in college
I passed for a genius.

1063
00:47:37,746 --> 00:47:39,683
They couldn't get out
the college magazine,

1064
00:47:39,683 --> 00:47:41,177
without one of my stories.

1065
00:47:41,177 --> 00:47:44,464
Boy, was I hot. Hemingway stuff.

1066
00:47:44,464 --> 00:47:47,054
I reached my peak when I was 19.

1067
00:47:47,054 --> 00:47:48,724
Sold a piece to the 'Atlantic Monthly'.

1068
00:47:48,724 --> 00:47:51,397
It reprinted in the 'Reader's Digest'.

1069
00:47:51,397 --> 00:47:55,039
Who wants to stay in
college when he's Hemingway?

1070
00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:57,413
My mother bought me a
brand new typewriter,

1071
00:47:57,413 --> 00:47:59,861
and I moved right in on New York.

1072
00:47:59,861 --> 00:48:03,237
Well, the first thing I wrote,
that didn't quite come off.

1073
00:48:03,237 --> 00:48:04,718
And the second, I dropped.

1074
00:48:04,718 --> 00:48:07,367
The public, wasn't ready for that one.

1075
00:48:07,367 --> 00:48:10,714
I started a third and a fourth,

1076
00:48:10,714 --> 00:48:14,109
only, by then somebody began
to look over my shoulder,

1077
00:48:14,109 --> 00:48:17,346
and whisper in a thin, clear voice,

1078
00:48:17,346 --> 00:48:20,556
like the E-string on a violin.

1079
00:48:20,556 --> 00:48:24,723
"Don Birnam," he'd whisper,
"it's not good enough.

1080
00:48:25,636 --> 00:48:26,719
Not that way.

1081
00:48:28,226 --> 00:48:29,645
How about a couple of drinks,

1082
00:48:29,645 --> 00:48:32,849
just to set it on its feet? Huh?"

1083
00:48:32,849 --> 00:48:36,676
So, I had a couple, oh,
what a great idea that was.

1084
00:48:36,676 --> 00:48:38,061
That made all the difference.

1085
00:48:38,061 --> 00:48:39,629
Suddenly, I could see the whole thing,

1086
00:48:39,629 --> 00:48:41,530
the tragic sweep of the great novel,

1087
00:48:41,530 --> 00:48:43,711
beautifully proportioned,

1088
00:48:43,711 --> 00:48:45,419
but before I could really grab it,

1089
00:48:45,419 --> 00:48:46,762
and throw it down on paper,

1090
00:48:46,762 --> 00:48:47,823
the drinks would wear off,

1091
00:48:47,823 --> 00:48:51,138
and everything would
be gone like a mirage.

1092
00:48:51,138 --> 00:48:52,230
Then there was despair,

1093
00:48:52,230 --> 00:48:54,436
and a drink to counterbalance despair,

1094
00:48:54,436 --> 00:48:58,159
and then one the counterbalance
the counterbalance.

1095
00:48:58,159 --> 00:49:00,275
And I'd sit in front of that typewriter,

1096
00:49:00,275 --> 00:49:04,792
trying to squeeze out one
page that was halfway decent.

1097
00:49:04,792 --> 00:49:07,777
And that guy would pop up again.

1098
00:49:07,777 --> 00:49:09,881
- What guy? Who are you talking about?

1099
00:49:09,881 --> 00:49:11,232
- The other Don Birnam.

1100
00:49:11,232 --> 00:49:12,714
There are two of us, you know,

1101
00:49:12,714 --> 00:49:15,916
Don the drunk and Don the writer.

1102
00:49:15,916 --> 00:49:17,733
And the drunk would say to the writer,

1103
00:49:17,733 --> 00:49:21,011
"come on, you idiot, let's get
some good out that portable.

1104
00:49:21,011 --> 00:49:23,752
Let's hock it. Let's
take it to that pawn shop

1105
00:49:23,752 --> 00:49:27,363
over on Third Avenue.
It's always good for $10."

1106
00:49:27,363 --> 00:49:30,325
Another drink, another
binge, another bender.

1107
00:49:30,325 --> 00:49:33,242
Another spree, such humorous words.

1108
00:49:35,257 --> 00:49:36,876
I tried to break away from that guy

1109
00:49:36,876 --> 00:49:39,209
a lot of times, but no good.

1110
00:49:40,619 --> 00:49:44,571
You know, once I even got
myself a gun and some bullets,

1111
00:49:44,571 --> 00:49:47,738
I was gonna do it on my 30th birthday.

1112
00:49:48,658 --> 00:49:50,709
(drawer rattles)
Yeah, the bullets.

1113
00:49:50,709 --> 00:49:52,810
My gun went for three quarts of whiskey.

1114
00:49:52,810 --> 00:49:55,776
That other Don wanted us
to have a drink first.

1115
00:49:55,776 --> 00:49:59,759
He always wants us to have a drink first.

1116
00:49:59,759 --> 00:50:02,062
The flop suicide of a flop writer.

1117
00:50:02,062 --> 00:50:03,230
- All right, maybe you're not a writer.

1118
00:50:03,230 --> 00:50:04,796
Why don't you do something else?

1119
00:50:04,796 --> 00:50:06,623
- Sure. Take a nice job.

1120
00:50:06,623 --> 00:50:09,467
Public accountant, real estate salesman.

1121
00:50:09,467 --> 00:50:11,606
I haven't the guts, Helen,

1122
00:50:11,606 --> 00:50:14,151
most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

1123
00:50:14,151 --> 00:50:15,853
I can't take quiet desperation.

1124
00:50:15,853 --> 00:50:18,032
- But you are a writer. You
have every quality for it.

1125
00:50:18,032 --> 00:50:20,403
Imagination, wit, pity...

1126
00:50:20,403 --> 00:50:22,415
- Come on, let's face reality.

1127
00:50:22,415 --> 00:50:26,141
I'm 33. I'm living on the
charity of my brother.

1128
00:50:26,141 --> 00:50:29,654
Room and board free, 50
cents a week for cigarettes.

1129
00:50:29,654 --> 00:50:32,284
An occasional ticket
to a show or a concert,

1130
00:50:32,284 --> 00:50:34,705
all out of the bigness of his heart.

1131
00:50:34,705 --> 00:50:37,159
And it is a big heart, and a patient one.

1132
00:50:37,159 --> 00:50:38,646
- Now, Don, I've only
been carrying you along

1133
00:50:38,646 --> 00:50:39,479
for the time being.

1134
00:50:39,479 --> 00:50:41,108
- Shut up, Wick. I've never done anything.

1135
00:50:41,108 --> 00:50:42,139
I'm not doing anything.

1136
00:50:42,139 --> 00:50:45,367
I never will do anything.
Zero, Zero, Zero.

1137
00:50:45,367 --> 00:50:47,392
- Now you shut up.
We'll straighten it out.

1138
00:50:47,392 --> 00:50:51,137
- Look, Wick has the
misfortune to be my brother.

1139
00:50:51,137 --> 00:50:53,095
You just happened to walk in on this.

1140
00:50:53,095 --> 00:50:54,512
Now, if you know, what's good for you,

1141
00:50:54,512 --> 00:50:56,085
you'll turn around and walk out again,

1142
00:50:56,085 --> 00:50:59,815
and walk fast, and don't turn back.

1143
00:50:59,815 --> 00:51:04,161
(tense music continues playing)

1144
00:51:04,161 --> 00:51:07,375
- Why don't you make some
coffee, Wick? Strong. Three cups.

1145
00:51:07,375 --> 00:51:11,534
- Look, Helen, do yourself
a favor. Go on. Clear out.

1146
00:51:11,534 --> 00:51:12,850
- Because I've got a rival?

1147
00:51:12,850 --> 00:51:14,644
Because you're in love with this?

1148
00:51:14,644 --> 00:51:16,102
You don't know me, Don.

1149
00:51:16,102 --> 00:51:18,833
I'm gonna fight and fight and fight.

1150
00:51:18,833 --> 00:51:19,666
Bend down.

1151
00:51:21,013 --> 00:51:24,430
(dramatic music playing)

1152
00:51:27,097 --> 00:51:28,764
- [Helen] All right.

1153
00:51:36,429 --> 00:51:38,443
- [Don] That was three years ago, Nat.

1154
00:51:38,443 --> 00:51:41,293
That's a long time to keep
fighting, to keep believing.

1155
00:51:41,293 --> 00:51:42,575
She knows she's clutching a razor blade,

1156
00:51:42,575 --> 00:51:44,231
but she won't let go.

1157
00:51:44,231 --> 00:51:46,420
Three years of it.

1158
00:51:46,420 --> 00:51:48,748
- And what? How's it come out?

1159
00:51:48,748 --> 00:51:51,004
- I don't know. I
haven't figured that far.

1160
00:51:51,004 --> 00:51:53,396
- Want me to tell you?

1161
00:51:53,396 --> 00:51:54,564
One day, your guy gets wise to himself,

1162
00:51:54,564 --> 00:51:57,367
and gets back that gun, or,
if he's only got a buck 10,

1163
00:51:57,367 --> 00:51:59,041
he goes to the top of the
Empire State Building,

1164
00:51:59,041 --> 00:52:01,306
way up on top, and then...

1165
00:52:01,306 --> 00:52:02,590
(fingers snap)

1166
00:52:02,590 --> 00:52:03,817
Or you could do it for
a nickel on the subway,

1167
00:52:03,817 --> 00:52:05,550
under a train.
(fingers snap)

1168
00:52:05,550 --> 00:52:07,081
- You think so, Nat?

1169
00:52:07,081 --> 00:52:07,914
What if Helen is right?

1170
00:52:07,914 --> 00:52:08,747
And this guy sits down,

1171
00:52:08,747 --> 00:52:10,455
and turns out something good, but good.

1172
00:52:10,455 --> 00:52:12,415
And that pulls him up
and snaps him out of it.

1173
00:52:12,415 --> 00:52:14,623
- This guy? Not from where I sit.

1174
00:52:14,623 --> 00:52:15,456
- Oh, shut up, Nat.

1175
00:52:15,456 --> 00:52:16,289
I'm gonna do it.

1176
00:52:16,289 --> 00:52:17,356
I'm gonna do it now. It's all there.

1177
00:52:17,356 --> 00:52:18,189
You heard it.

1178
00:52:18,189 --> 00:52:19,192
- Yes Mr. Birnam.

1179
00:52:19,192 --> 00:52:20,492
- That's why I didn't go
away on that weekend, see,

1180
00:52:20,492 --> 00:52:21,820
so, I can be all alone up there,

1181
00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:23,280
and sit down at my typewriter.

1182
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,652
This time I'm gonna do
it, Nat, I'm gonna do it.

1183
00:52:25,652 --> 00:52:26,632
- Maybe you will.

1184
00:52:26,632 --> 00:52:28,849
- Thank you, Nat. Am I all paid up?

1185
00:52:28,849 --> 00:52:30,326
- Yes, Mr. Birnam.

1186
00:52:30,326 --> 00:52:32,479
- Goodbye, Nat. I'm going home.

1187
00:52:32,479 --> 00:52:34,688
This time, I've got it. I'm gonna write.

1188
00:52:34,688 --> 00:52:37,522
(suspenseful music playing)

1189
00:52:37,522 --> 00:52:39,605
- [Nat] Good luck to you.

1190
00:52:40,749 --> 00:52:43,749
(typewriter clicks)

1191
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,940
(suspenseful music plays)

1192
00:53:31,659 --> 00:53:35,659
(suspenseful music intensifies)

1193
00:53:50,022 --> 00:53:53,855
(suspenseful music continues)

1194
00:54:06,938 --> 00:54:08,841
- You had another
bottle. You know you did.

1195
00:54:08,841 --> 00:54:10,397
Where did you put it? You aren't crazy.

1196
00:54:10,397 --> 00:54:12,147
Where did you put it?

1197
00:54:13,367 --> 00:54:17,200
(suspenseful music continues)

1198
00:54:36,296 --> 00:54:40,129
(suspenseful music continues)

1199
00:54:52,254 --> 00:54:56,087
(suspenseful music continues)

1200
00:55:09,115 --> 00:55:12,948
(suspenseful music continues)

1201
00:55:31,908 --> 00:55:34,928
♪ It was so beautiful. So wonderful. ♪

1202
00:55:34,928 --> 00:55:37,874
♪ The stars above a show. ♪

1203
00:55:37,874 --> 00:55:41,556
♪ We were alone, we were alone ♪

1204
00:55:41,556 --> 00:55:42,971
- Check please.

1205
00:55:42,971 --> 00:55:44,493
- Right here sir.

1206
00:55:44,493 --> 00:55:49,493
♪ The time was right. The moon was low. ♪

1207
00:55:49,741 --> 00:55:54,741
♪ I held you tight. How
could I let you go? ♪

1208
00:55:56,723 --> 00:56:01,723
♪ It was so beautiful. So
wonderful. So gorgeous. ♪

1209
00:56:03,219 --> 00:56:06,006
♪ So divine. And you were mine. ♪

1210
00:56:06,006 --> 00:56:06,903
- Yes sir?

1211
00:56:06,903 --> 00:56:08,921
- Another gin vermouth, please.

1212
00:56:08,921 --> 00:56:12,732
- Yes sir.
♪ You were mine ♪

1213
00:56:12,732 --> 00:56:17,732
♪ Nighttime found us,
happiness around us. ♪

1214
00:56:19,441 --> 00:56:24,439
♪ Church bells ringing, day is done. ♪

1215
00:56:24,439 --> 00:56:28,600
♪ They'll be ringing when we're one ♪

1216
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:33,600
♪ Evenings blessing,
you and I caressing. ♪

1217
00:56:36,616 --> 00:56:41,616
♪ Music, moonlight, melodies,
only there for you and me. ♪

1218
00:56:46,562 --> 00:56:50,501
♪ It was so beautiful. So wonderful. ♪

1219
00:56:50,501 --> 00:56:54,194
♪ So gorgeous. So divine. ♪

1220
00:56:54,194 --> 00:56:59,194
♪ And you were mine, and you were mine. ♪

1221
00:56:59,711 --> 00:57:03,146
♪ It was so beautiful. So wonderful. ♪

1222
00:57:03,146 --> 00:57:08,146
♪ The stars above a show. We were alone. ♪

1223
00:57:09,059 --> 00:57:13,597
♪ We were alone. ♪

1224
00:57:13,597 --> 00:57:18,264
♪ The time was right. The moon was low. ♪

1225
00:57:19,538 --> 00:57:20,730
- Thank you.

1226
00:57:20,730 --> 00:57:22,605
♪ I held you tight. ♪

1227
00:57:22,605 --> 00:57:24,048
- Where is your washroom?

1228
00:57:24,048 --> 00:57:24,881
- Over there, sir.

1229
00:57:24,881 --> 00:57:28,381
♪ How could I let you go? ♪

1230
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:34,753
- How's about a Carnation
for your button hole?

1231
00:57:34,753 --> 00:57:36,003
- No thank you.

1232
00:57:37,353 --> 00:57:39,345
- Thank you, sir.

1233
00:57:39,345 --> 00:57:40,440
- Wash your hands?

1234
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:41,273
- Thank you.

1235
00:57:41,273 --> 00:57:42,690
- All ready, sir.

1236
00:57:45,257 --> 00:57:46,286
- Could you wipe my shoes.

1237
00:57:46,286 --> 00:57:47,203
- Yes, sir.

1238
00:57:48,131 --> 00:57:52,830
(muffled romantic music continues playing)

1239
00:57:52,830 --> 00:57:56,688
♪ I love you, love you. ♪

1240
00:57:56,688 --> 00:58:01,351
♪ Every little beat,
that I feel in my heart ♪

1241
00:58:01,351 --> 00:58:05,869
♪ seems to repeat what
I felt at the start. ♪

1242
00:58:05,869 --> 00:58:07,483
♪ Each little sigh... ♪

1243
00:58:07,483 --> 00:58:08,941
- Carnation, sir?

1244
00:58:08,941 --> 00:58:10,112
- I already took one.

1245
00:58:10,112 --> 00:58:11,412
- You did?

1246
00:58:11,412 --> 00:58:13,529
- For a very kind lady.

1247
00:58:13,529 --> 00:58:14,907
- Yes sir.

1248
00:58:14,907 --> 00:58:17,743
♪ Just to see and hear you... ♪

1249
00:58:17,743 --> 00:58:19,229
- Thank you.
- Thank you, sir.

1250
00:58:19,229 --> 00:58:23,307
♪ Brings joy I never knew. ♪

1251
00:58:23,307 --> 00:58:28,307
♪ But to be so near you, thrills
me through and through. ♪

1252
00:58:30,909 --> 00:58:35,909
♪ Oh, anyone can see why
I wanted your kiss. ♪

1253
00:58:36,946 --> 00:58:41,147
♪ It had to be, but the wonder is this. ♪

1254
00:58:41,147 --> 00:58:41,980
♪ Can it be true... ♪

1255
00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:43,839
- [George] That's him, that's the man.

1256
00:58:43,839 --> 00:58:45,613
- [Waiter] You were sitting here, sir?

1257
00:58:45,613 --> 00:58:47,205
- I beg your pardon?

1258
00:58:47,205 --> 00:58:49,372
(silence)

1259
00:58:51,804 --> 00:58:53,618
- You took this lady's bag, didn't you?

1260
00:58:53,618 --> 00:58:55,701
All right, let's have it.

1261
00:58:56,787 --> 00:58:58,194
- Of course.

1262
00:58:58,194 --> 00:58:59,196
- Somebody call a cop.

1263
00:58:59,196 --> 00:59:00,502
- No, George, no, it doesn't matter.

1264
00:59:00,502 --> 00:59:01,586
As long as I have the bag.

1265
00:59:01,586 --> 00:59:02,419
- Well, look in it.

1266
00:59:02,419 --> 00:59:04,114
Maybe he took something.

1267
00:59:04,114 --> 00:59:05,672
- $10 To be exact.

1268
00:59:05,672 --> 00:59:06,913
- Why I oughta kick your teeth in.

1269
00:59:06,913 --> 00:59:08,050
- George, George, he's drunk.

1270
00:59:08,050 --> 00:59:09,856
- [Manager] Come on, get outta here.

1271
00:59:09,856 --> 00:59:11,248
- How about the check?

1272
00:59:11,248 --> 00:59:12,907
- That's why I had to
borrow from the lady.

1273
00:59:12,907 --> 00:59:13,801
I didn't have enough.

1274
00:59:13,801 --> 00:59:15,836
I'll come back and pay the rest.

1275
00:59:15,836 --> 00:59:17,819
- Don't you show your
face in here again, ever.

1276
00:59:17,819 --> 00:59:18,984
Mike!
- Mike!

1277
00:59:18,984 --> 00:59:19,817
- Take him outta here.

1278
00:59:19,817 --> 00:59:21,965
♪ Somebody stole a purse ♪

1279
00:59:21,965 --> 00:59:23,065
♪ Everybody! ♪

1280
00:59:23,065 --> 00:59:24,174
♪ Somebody stole a purse. ♪

1281
00:59:24,174 --> 00:59:26,837
- I assure you, I'm not
a thief, I'm not a thief.

1282
00:59:26,837 --> 00:59:31,837
♪ Somebody came and took
away... he didn't even... ♪

1283
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,898
(horns honking)

1284
00:59:35,898 --> 00:59:39,065
(tense music playing)

1285
01:00:10,668 --> 01:00:13,835
(light switch clicks)

1286
01:00:17,136 --> 01:00:21,136
(tense music continues playing)

1287
01:00:51,536 --> 01:00:56,536
(tense music intensifies)
(Don sobs)

1288
01:01:11,814 --> 01:01:15,814
(tense music continues playing)

1289
01:01:19,103 --> 01:01:24,103
(telephone ringing)
(tense music playing)

1290
01:01:34,201 --> 01:01:38,034
(telephone continues ringing)

1291
01:01:49,024 --> 01:01:53,024
(tense music continues playing)

1292
01:02:04,264 --> 01:02:08,097
(telephone continues ringing)

1293
01:02:13,829 --> 01:02:16,746
- Stop it, Helen. Stop it, stop it.

1294
01:02:18,126 --> 01:02:20,876
I'm all right. I just can't talk.

1295
01:02:22,613 --> 01:02:27,446
Please, stop it.
(phone continues ringing)

1296
01:02:33,929 --> 01:02:37,429
(tense music intensifies)

1297
01:02:55,628 --> 01:02:58,961
(tense music continues)

1298
01:03:12,570 --> 01:03:15,237
(paper rustles)

1299
01:03:31,026 --> 01:03:32,281
(Don gasps)

1300
01:03:32,281 --> 01:03:34,078
- You'll never make it.

1301
01:03:34,078 --> 01:03:35,692
You'll never make that hock shop.

1302
01:03:35,692 --> 01:03:38,203
It's a block and a half away.

1303
01:03:38,203 --> 01:03:41,453
(phone begins ringing)

1304
01:03:43,310 --> 01:03:47,310
(tense music continues playing)

1305
01:04:04,532 --> 01:04:08,532
(tense music continues playing)

1306
01:04:29,299 --> 01:04:30,911
- This isn't Sunday, is it?

1307
01:04:30,911 --> 01:04:31,744
- Huh?

1308
01:04:31,744 --> 01:04:32,913
- I asked is this Sunday?

1309
01:04:32,913 --> 01:04:34,428
- No, Saturday. Why?

1310
01:04:34,428 --> 01:04:36,933
- Well, it's closed.
Nothing else is closed.

1311
01:04:36,933 --> 01:04:39,933
- Somebody passed away, most likely.

1312
01:04:41,203 --> 01:04:45,203
(tense music continues playing)

1313
01:04:58,922 --> 01:05:02,922
(tense music continues playing)

1314
01:05:18,656 --> 01:05:22,656
(tense music continues playing)

1315
01:05:32,451 --> 01:05:36,451
(tense music continues playing)

1316
01:05:51,783 --> 01:05:55,783
(tense music continues playing)

1317
01:06:14,198 --> 01:06:16,865
(train rumbles)

1318
01:06:20,496 --> 01:06:23,163
(horns honking)

1319
01:06:24,646 --> 01:06:28,646
(tense music continues playing)

1320
01:06:34,789 --> 01:06:36,410
- What's the matter with you?

1321
01:06:36,410 --> 01:06:38,591
- Why are they all closed?

1322
01:06:38,591 --> 01:06:40,916
They're all closed. Everyone of 'em.

1323
01:06:40,916 --> 01:06:42,418
- Sure they are. It's Yom Kippur.

1324
01:06:42,418 --> 01:06:43,251
- It's what?

1325
01:06:43,251 --> 01:06:45,393
- It's Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.

1326
01:06:45,393 --> 01:06:46,351
- It is?

1327
01:06:46,351 --> 01:06:48,467
And what about Kelly's? And Gallaghers?

1328
01:06:48,467 --> 01:06:51,202
- They're closed too.
We've got an agreement.

1329
01:06:51,202 --> 01:06:52,763
They keep closed on Yom Kippur,

1330
01:06:52,763 --> 01:06:55,434
and we don't open on St. Patrick's.

1331
01:06:55,434 --> 01:06:57,834
- That's a good joke. That's funny.

1332
01:06:57,834 --> 01:06:59,334
That's very funny.

1333
01:07:05,788 --> 01:07:10,788
(foreboding music playing)
(train rumbling)

1334
01:07:17,957 --> 01:07:21,957
(tense music continues playing)

1335
01:07:28,935 --> 01:07:31,518
(traffic hums)

1336
01:07:36,138 --> 01:07:36,971
- Nat.

1337
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,183
- Yeah. Mr. Birnam?

1338
01:07:41,774 --> 01:07:43,191
what do you want?

1339
01:07:46,961 --> 01:07:50,251
- Let me have one, Nat, I'm dying.

1340
01:07:50,251 --> 01:07:51,536
Just one.

1341
01:07:51,536 --> 01:07:53,831
- I thought you was
home, writing that book.

1342
01:07:53,831 --> 01:07:55,368
- They're playing a trick on me.

1343
01:07:55,368 --> 01:07:58,035
A dirty trick, Nat. Give me one.

1344
01:07:59,164 --> 01:08:02,590
I'll pay you when I can, only
just don't let me die here.

1345
01:08:02,590 --> 01:08:04,568
- No credit. And you know it.

1346
01:08:04,568 --> 01:08:05,786
- All right. It's charity.

1347
01:08:05,786 --> 01:08:09,099
I'm begging you. Give me one, Nat.

1348
01:08:09,099 --> 01:08:13,682
- Yeah, one. One's too many
and a hundred's not enough.

1349
01:08:21,779 --> 01:08:25,157
(Don slurping the liquor)

1350
01:08:25,157 --> 01:08:26,740
- [Nat] That's all.

1351
01:08:27,676 --> 01:08:30,323
- Oh, come on, Nat, come on.

1352
01:08:30,323 --> 01:08:31,874
I'll let you have my typewriter.

1353
01:08:31,874 --> 01:08:34,921
- I'm no writer. You're the writer.

1354
01:08:34,921 --> 01:08:35,754
- Please.

1355
01:08:35,754 --> 01:08:36,997
- Now go, go away.

1356
01:08:36,997 --> 01:08:37,938
- Please, Nat.

1357
01:08:37,938 --> 01:08:39,888
- I mean it, get outta here.

1358
01:08:39,888 --> 01:08:43,888
(dramatic music begins playing)

1359
01:08:51,129 --> 01:08:54,129
(footsteps shuffle)

1360
01:09:02,296 --> 01:09:04,963
(train rattles)

1361
01:09:09,248 --> 01:09:12,831
(dramatic music continues)

1362
01:09:34,554 --> 01:09:37,405
(doorbell buzzes)

1363
01:09:37,405 --> 01:09:38,725
- (Gloria) Who is it?

1364
01:09:38,725 --> 01:09:40,896
(doorbell buzzes)

1365
01:09:40,896 --> 01:09:43,563
- [Gloria] Who is it?
- It's me.

1366
01:09:45,496 --> 01:09:48,448
- Well, Mr. Don Birnam,,
as I live and breathe.

1367
01:09:48,448 --> 01:09:49,300
Only, if you're coming for our date,

1368
01:09:49,300 --> 01:09:51,208
you're a little late,
aren't you Mr. Birnam?

1369
01:09:51,208 --> 01:09:52,990
And if you're coming to
apologize, no thanks.

1370
01:09:52,990 --> 01:09:54,364
Thanks a lot, but no thanks.

1371
01:09:54,364 --> 01:09:55,197
- Gloria...

1372
01:09:55,197 --> 01:09:57,253
- Save your saliva.
I've had enough of you.

1373
01:09:57,253 --> 01:10:00,078
Def, but def. What do you think I am?

1374
01:10:00,078 --> 01:10:01,240
I break a business date.

1375
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,003
I buy me an evening purse,
a facial, a new hairdo.

1376
01:10:04,003 --> 01:10:05,380
Well, maybe you can do
that to your ritzy friends,

1377
01:10:05,380 --> 01:10:07,094
but you can't to me, understand?

1378
01:10:07,094 --> 01:10:08,124
- [Don] Gloria.

1379
01:10:08,124 --> 01:10:12,779
- Okay. What do you want
Mr. Don Birnam, Esquire?

1380
01:10:12,779 --> 01:10:14,960
- I need some money.

1381
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:16,521
- [Gloria] You what?

1382
01:10:16,521 --> 01:10:18,461
- Could you let me have some money?

1383
01:10:18,461 --> 01:10:21,846
- Say, you outta your
mind? Don't be ridic.

1384
01:10:21,846 --> 01:10:25,679
Get outta here. Make
with those stairs. Go on!

1385
01:10:27,051 --> 01:10:30,634
(melancholy music playing)

1386
01:10:34,099 --> 01:10:35,234
- I waited half the night,

1387
01:10:35,234 --> 01:10:38,401
like it was the first date I ever had.

1388
01:10:39,267 --> 01:10:41,600
The other half I was crying.

1389
01:10:44,227 --> 01:10:46,114
How much money?

1390
01:10:46,114 --> 01:10:49,511
- Could you let me have
10 or 5 or something?

1391
01:10:49,511 --> 01:10:50,428
- I'll see.

1392
01:10:51,276 --> 01:10:55,693
(melancholy music continues playing)

1393
01:11:00,406 --> 01:11:02,683
(money rustles)

1394
01:11:02,683 --> 01:11:04,710
- You look awfully sick. Mr. Birnam.

1395
01:11:04,710 --> 01:11:06,710
You got a fever or something?

1396
01:11:06,710 --> 01:11:08,377
- I'm all right now.

1397
01:11:09,983 --> 01:11:11,708
- Thank you a lot.

1398
01:11:11,708 --> 01:11:13,698
You do like me a little. Don't you honey?

1399
01:11:13,698 --> 01:11:16,031
- Why, natch, Gloria, natch.

1400
01:11:18,327 --> 01:11:20,524
- [Gloria's Roommate] Gloria,
who have you got out there?

1401
01:11:20,524 --> 01:11:21,357
- Coming.

1402
01:11:23,393 --> 01:11:27,105
(child vocalizing)

1403
01:11:27,105 --> 01:11:31,396
(footsteps thud on stairs)

1404
01:11:31,396 --> 01:11:33,896
(Don screams)

1405
01:11:41,951 --> 01:11:44,118
(silence)

1406
01:11:46,366 --> 01:11:51,366
(muttering)
(tense music playing)

1407
01:12:10,774 --> 01:12:14,774
(tense music continues playing)

1408
01:12:27,951 --> 01:12:29,618
- What's this place?

1409
01:12:31,189 --> 01:12:33,606
Hey, you, what is this place?

1410
01:12:35,538 --> 01:12:37,121
I'm talking to you.

1411
01:12:41,113 --> 01:12:44,080
- Good morning, Mary
sunshine. How's your head?

1412
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,207
- [Don] Where am I? What is this place?

1413
01:12:46,207 --> 01:12:48,157
- This? This is Hangover Plaza.

1414
01:12:48,157 --> 01:12:49,579
- What hospital is this?

1415
01:12:49,579 --> 01:12:51,587
- Alcoholic Ward. How's your head?

1416
01:12:51,587 --> 01:12:52,559
- It aches.

1417
01:12:52,559 --> 01:12:54,994
- Thought you had a fracture,
till we looked at the x-rays,

1418
01:12:54,994 --> 01:12:57,883
everything in one piece,
just a slight concussion.

1419
01:12:57,883 --> 01:12:59,336
- Why'd they put me in the alcoholic ward?

1420
01:12:59,336 --> 01:13:00,269
- Are you kidding?

1421
01:13:00,269 --> 01:13:04,294
We had a peek at your blood.
Straight Applejack, 96 proof.

1422
01:13:04,294 --> 01:13:05,127
- What day is it?

1423
01:13:05,127 --> 01:13:05,960
- Sunday.

1424
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:06,934
Are these yours?

1425
01:13:06,934 --> 01:13:07,767
You and the colored fellow

1426
01:13:07,767 --> 01:13:09,221
were being undressed at the same time,

1427
01:13:09,221 --> 01:13:11,077
they fell out of somebody's pants.

1428
01:13:11,077 --> 01:13:12,555
- They're mine.

1429
01:13:12,555 --> 01:13:13,852
- Are you a doctor?

1430
01:13:13,852 --> 01:13:15,324
- I'm a nurse. Name of Nolan.

1431
01:13:15,324 --> 01:13:18,491
They call me Bim. You can call me Bim.

1432
01:13:19,449 --> 01:13:20,681
What's your name?

1433
01:13:20,681 --> 01:13:21,677
- [Don] Birnam.

1434
01:13:21,677 --> 01:13:22,890
- What kind of Birnam?

1435
01:13:22,890 --> 01:13:24,007
- [Don] Don Birnam.

1436
01:13:24,007 --> 01:13:25,534
- Where do you live?

1437
01:13:25,534 --> 01:13:29,173
- 209 East... what do you need that for?

1438
01:13:29,173 --> 01:13:30,949
- [Bim] For the postcard.

1439
01:13:30,949 --> 01:13:32,071
- What postcard?

1440
01:13:32,071 --> 01:13:33,808
- To your folks, so they
know where honey boy is,

1441
01:13:33,808 --> 01:13:36,319
and can pick him up when
he's feeling better.

1442
01:13:36,319 --> 01:13:38,275
- [Don] No address.

1443
01:13:38,275 --> 01:13:40,239
- Okay. We'll get that
out of the phone book,

1444
01:13:40,239 --> 01:13:42,420
or the directory, or your wallet.

1445
01:13:42,420 --> 01:13:44,849
- Look, no postcard, understand?

1446
01:13:44,849 --> 01:13:46,606
Nobody's gonna pick me up.

1447
01:13:46,606 --> 01:13:48,263
- [Bim] The management insists.

1448
01:13:48,263 --> 01:13:49,709
If we let you guys go home alone,

1449
01:13:49,709 --> 01:13:51,101
a lot of you don't go home.

1450
01:13:51,101 --> 01:13:54,210
You just hit the nearest bar,
and bounce right back again.

1451
01:13:54,210 --> 01:13:56,621
What we call the Quick Ricochet.

1452
01:13:56,621 --> 01:13:57,609
- Look, I'm as well as you are.

1453
01:13:57,609 --> 01:13:59,518
I can get outta here right now.

1454
01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:00,351
- Ya think so?

1455
01:14:00,351 --> 01:14:01,535
- Where are my clothes?

1456
01:14:01,535 --> 01:14:02,499
- Downstairs.

1457
01:14:02,499 --> 01:14:03,694
- How do I get outta this place?

1458
01:14:03,694 --> 01:14:05,527
- Right through there.

1459
01:14:12,465 --> 01:14:15,632
(footsteps shuffling)

1460
01:14:20,876 --> 01:14:22,573
- Well, where do you think you're going?

1461
01:14:22,573 --> 01:14:24,046
- To get my clothes?

1462
01:14:24,046 --> 01:14:26,035
- You got your discharge?

1463
01:14:26,035 --> 01:14:26,868
- My what?

1464
01:14:26,868 --> 01:14:27,891
- Your release.

1465
01:14:27,891 --> 01:14:30,780
- I'm all right. Let me out.

1466
01:14:30,780 --> 01:14:31,843
- Get back there, go on.

1467
01:14:31,843 --> 01:14:35,135
- [Don] Keep your hands off me.

1468
01:14:35,135 --> 01:14:36,385
- [Bim] Birnam.

1469
01:14:39,046 --> 01:14:40,546
Come here, Birnam.

1470
01:14:42,548 --> 01:14:43,606
- Is this a jail?

1471
01:14:43,606 --> 01:14:46,088
- Well, this department's
sort of a halfway hospital,

1472
01:14:46,088 --> 01:14:47,431
halfway jail.

1473
01:14:47,431 --> 01:14:50,372
- Listen, Bim, in my clothes
is $5. That's all for you.

1474
01:14:50,372 --> 01:14:52,349
If only you won't send that postcard.

1475
01:14:52,349 --> 01:14:53,628
- Nothing doing.

1476
01:14:53,628 --> 01:14:55,028
- I don't want anybody to know.

1477
01:14:55,028 --> 01:14:57,482
- Your folks might as well get
used to our little postcards.

1478
01:14:57,482 --> 01:14:58,668
- What are you talking about?

1479
01:14:58,668 --> 01:15:00,853
- There'll be more of
them. You'll be back.

1480
01:15:00,853 --> 01:15:02,020
- Oh, shut up.

1481
01:15:03,910 --> 01:15:06,173
- Listen. I can pick an
alky with one eye shut.

1482
01:15:06,173 --> 01:15:10,059
You're an alky, you'll
come back. They all do.

1483
01:15:10,059 --> 01:15:11,417
- Him, for instance.

1484
01:15:11,417 --> 01:15:14,123
Shows up every month,
just like the gas bill.

1485
01:15:14,123 --> 01:15:16,689
And the one there with the
glasses. Another repeater.

1486
01:15:16,689 --> 01:15:18,419
This is his 45th trip.

1487
01:15:18,419 --> 01:15:20,658
Big executive in the advertising business,

1488
01:15:20,658 --> 01:15:24,728
lovely fellow, been
coming here since 1927.

1489
01:15:24,728 --> 01:15:26,319
Good old prohibition days.

1490
01:15:26,319 --> 01:15:28,354
Say, you should've seen the joint then.

1491
01:15:28,354 --> 01:15:31,522
This is nothing. Back then,
we really had a turnover.

1492
01:15:31,522 --> 01:15:34,215
Standing room only. Prohibition!

1493
01:15:34,215 --> 01:15:37,581
That's what started most
of these guys off. Whoopee.

1494
01:15:37,581 --> 01:15:39,448
- Now, be a good boy and drink this.

1495
01:15:39,448 --> 01:15:40,437
- I don't want it.

1496
01:15:40,437 --> 01:15:41,465
- You better take it,

1497
01:15:41,465 --> 01:15:42,655
or there'll happen to
be a little floor show,

1498
01:15:42,655 --> 01:15:45,714
later on around here,
might get on your nerves.

1499
01:15:45,714 --> 01:15:46,889
- Floor show?

1500
01:15:46,889 --> 01:15:48,195
- Ever have the D.T.'s?

1501
01:15:48,195 --> 01:15:49,028
- No.

1502
01:15:49,028 --> 01:15:49,942
- You will, brother.

1503
01:15:49,942 --> 01:15:50,859
- [Don] Not me.

1504
01:15:50,859 --> 01:15:52,250
- Like to make a little bet?

1505
01:15:52,250 --> 01:15:54,110
After all, you're just a freshman.

1506
01:15:54,110 --> 01:15:55,181
Wait till you're a sophomore.

1507
01:15:55,181 --> 01:15:57,608
That's when you start
seeing the little animals.

1508
01:15:57,608 --> 01:15:59,719
You know that stuff about pink elephants,

1509
01:15:59,719 --> 01:16:01,021
that's the bunk.

1510
01:16:01,021 --> 01:16:02,633
It's little animals.

1511
01:16:02,633 --> 01:16:05,240
Little tiny turkeys in straw hats.

1512
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:08,438
Midget monkeys coming
through the keyholes.

1513
01:16:08,438 --> 01:16:10,338
See that guy, over there?

1514
01:16:10,338 --> 01:16:12,430
With him, it's beetles.

1515
01:16:12,430 --> 01:16:13,870
Come the night, he sees beetles,

1516
01:16:13,870 --> 01:16:15,703
crawling all over him.

1517
01:16:16,727 --> 01:16:18,834
Has to be dark, though.

1518
01:16:18,834 --> 01:16:21,504
It's like the doctor was just telling me,

1519
01:16:21,504 --> 01:16:25,276
"Delirium is a disease of the night".

1520
01:16:25,276 --> 01:16:29,193
Goodnight.
(tense music begins)

1521
01:16:30,328 --> 01:16:33,245
(patient coughing)

1522
01:16:42,513 --> 01:16:46,513
(tense music continues playing)

1523
01:16:48,638 --> 01:16:52,721
(patient screaming hysterically)

1524
01:16:56,632 --> 01:16:57,882
- [Patient] No!

1525
01:17:01,805 --> 01:17:06,805
(patient continues screaming)
(tense music playing)

1526
01:17:12,161 --> 01:17:15,401
(orderlies jostling)

1527
01:17:15,401 --> 01:17:19,234
(patient continues screaming)

1528
01:17:25,455 --> 01:17:28,288
(patient sobbing)

1529
01:17:30,843 --> 01:17:34,176
- Get the restraints and get the doctor!

1530
01:17:38,412 --> 01:17:42,167
(patient screaming)
(tense music playing)

1531
01:17:42,167 --> 01:17:47,167
(patient laughing and
screaming hysterically)

1532
01:17:56,467 --> 01:18:00,300
(patient continues screaming)

1533
01:18:04,809 --> 01:18:07,344
- [Orderly] Get him up
to the violent ward.

1534
01:18:07,344 --> 01:18:10,363
(patient continues screaming)

1535
01:18:10,363 --> 01:18:12,780
- [Orderly] Up again, Doctor.

1536
01:18:15,014 --> 01:18:20,014
(cart rattles)
(patient sobbing)

1537
01:18:33,476 --> 01:18:37,059
- [Orderly] Violent
ward, get the elevator.

1538
01:18:39,518 --> 01:18:43,518
(tense music continues playing)

1539
01:18:50,279 --> 01:18:53,362
(orderlies grunting)

1540
01:18:54,475 --> 01:18:58,475
(tense music continues playing)

1541
01:19:16,086 --> 01:19:19,169
(footsteps clicking)

1542
01:19:32,336 --> 01:19:36,336
(tense music continues playing)

1543
01:19:52,947 --> 01:19:55,697
(train rattling)

1544
01:20:07,377 --> 01:20:11,377
(tense music continues playing)

1545
01:20:25,849 --> 01:20:28,516
(milk rattling)

1546
01:20:36,238 --> 01:20:37,071
- Good morning.

1547
01:20:37,071 --> 01:20:39,988
(milkman shushing)

1548
01:20:42,952 --> 01:20:46,452
- Anything wrong up there? Anything wrong?

1549
01:20:48,843 --> 01:20:50,168
Are you all right?

1550
01:20:50,168 --> 01:20:51,982
- Oh, I'm fine. Thank you.

1551
01:20:51,982 --> 01:20:53,450
- Have you been there all night?

1552
01:20:53,450 --> 01:20:54,890
- I've been waiting for Mr. Birnam.

1553
01:20:54,890 --> 01:20:56,040
- Mr. Don Birnam?

1554
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:57,870
- Yes. I suppose he stayed
overnight with some friends.

1555
01:20:57,870 --> 01:20:59,343
He has some friends in Long Island.

1556
01:20:59,343 --> 01:21:02,040
- Now, now, what kind of story is that?

1557
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:03,766
- I beg your pardon?

1558
01:21:03,766 --> 01:21:05,951
- I'm his land lady. I know
what goes on in this house.

1559
01:21:05,951 --> 01:21:07,265
I know Mr. Don Birnam.

1560
01:21:07,265 --> 01:21:09,683
I knew all about him the
first week they moved here,

1561
01:21:09,683 --> 01:21:11,041
five years ago.

1562
01:21:11,041 --> 01:21:13,462
Heard those bottles
rattle in the garbage can.

1563
01:21:13,462 --> 01:21:16,286
I know all about you,
you're Helen St. James.

1564
01:21:16,286 --> 01:21:18,051
You're working on the 'Time Magazine',

1565
01:21:18,051 --> 01:21:19,854
and you're his best girl.

1566
01:21:19,854 --> 01:21:22,244
I also know he's not
staying with any friends

1567
01:21:22,244 --> 01:21:24,434
in Long Island, he's off on another toot.

1568
01:21:24,434 --> 01:21:25,804
And you know, I'm darned right,

1569
01:21:25,804 --> 01:21:28,012
now, come on down and I'll
make you some breakfast.

1570
01:21:28,012 --> 01:21:29,722
- I don't care for any
breakfast, thank you.

1571
01:21:29,722 --> 01:21:31,009
Nor do I care for that kind of talk.

1572
01:21:31,009 --> 01:21:32,388
Even supposing you're right.

1573
01:21:32,388 --> 01:21:35,474
- Which I am. I could have
kicked him out 50 times.

1574
01:21:35,474 --> 01:21:37,048
The last when two taxi drivers

1575
01:21:37,048 --> 01:21:38,278
dumped him into the entrance hall,

1576
01:21:38,278 --> 01:21:39,853
out cold on the floor,

1577
01:21:39,853 --> 01:21:41,524
with all my tenants going in and out,

1578
01:21:41,524 --> 01:21:43,279
and children leaving for school,

1579
01:21:43,279 --> 01:21:44,233
- Please, please.

1580
01:21:44,233 --> 01:21:45,520
- Well, I didn't put him out.

1581
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,591
Not as long as his brother
could pay the rent.

1582
01:21:47,591 --> 01:21:48,960
You couldn't help liking him, anyway.

1583
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,666
He was so good looking.
He had such nice manners.

1584
01:21:51,666 --> 01:21:53,137
He always had a little joke.

1585
01:21:53,137 --> 01:21:56,542
- Stop talking about
him as if he were dead.

1586
01:21:56,542 --> 01:21:58,814
- Best thing for you, if he was.

1587
01:21:58,814 --> 01:22:03,814
(train rumbling)
(tense music playing)

1588
01:22:18,299 --> 01:22:22,299
(tense music continues playing)

1589
01:22:35,099 --> 01:22:37,061
(tense music continues playing)

1590
01:22:37,061 --> 01:22:39,644
(lock rattles)

1591
01:22:59,051 --> 01:23:00,606
- [Don] I want a quart of rye. Quick.

1592
01:23:00,606 --> 01:23:01,735
- Okay if I take off my coat first?

1593
01:23:01,735 --> 01:23:02,652
- [Don] No.

1594
01:23:05,591 --> 01:23:09,123
No cracks, no questions.
Just a quart of rye.

1595
01:23:09,123 --> 01:23:12,290
(tense music playing)

1596
01:23:18,884 --> 01:23:19,734
- Be $2.15.

1597
01:23:19,734 --> 01:23:22,143
- Come on, I need that liquor.

1598
01:23:22,143 --> 01:23:24,787
I want it, and I'm gonna
get it, understand?

1599
01:23:24,787 --> 01:23:25,865
I'm gonna walk outta here

1600
01:23:25,865 --> 01:23:29,622
with that quart of rye,
one way or another.

1601
01:23:29,622 --> 01:23:33,622
(tense music continues playing)

1602
01:23:51,220 --> 01:23:55,220
(tense music continues playing)

1603
01:23:58,534 --> 01:24:01,201
(phone ringing)

1604
01:24:05,582 --> 01:24:09,582
(tense music continues playing)

1605
01:24:17,376 --> 01:24:20,876
(phone continues ringing)

1606
01:24:21,801 --> 01:24:25,551
(eerie music begins playing)

1607
01:24:33,329 --> 01:24:35,996
(rat squealing)

1608
01:24:45,514 --> 01:24:49,514
(eerie music continues playing)

1609
01:25:02,091 --> 01:25:07,091
(bat flapping)
(music intensifies)

1610
01:25:27,051 --> 01:25:30,218
(tense music playing)

1611
01:25:38,768 --> 01:25:41,435
(rat squealing)

1612
01:25:44,425 --> 01:25:47,092
(Don screaming)

1613
01:25:52,950 --> 01:25:55,849
(dog barking)

1614
01:25:55,849 --> 01:25:59,349
(Don continues screaming)

1615
01:26:02,370 --> 01:26:03,824
- Miss St. James?

1616
01:26:03,824 --> 01:26:05,676
He's back. He's upstairs.

1617
01:26:05,676 --> 01:26:07,468
This is Mrs. Deveridge, yes.

1618
01:26:07,468 --> 01:26:09,276
He's back up in his apartment.

1619
01:26:09,276 --> 01:26:10,484
I heard him yelling.

1620
01:26:10,484 --> 01:26:12,984
(Don panting)

1621
01:26:18,830 --> 01:26:21,743
(doorbell buzzing)

1622
01:26:21,743 --> 01:26:23,578
(banging on door)

1623
01:26:23,578 --> 01:26:26,833
- Don, open the door, open it, please.

1624
01:26:26,833 --> 01:26:28,387
(banging on door)

1625
01:26:28,387 --> 01:26:30,043
Don, won't you let me
in? I know you're there.

1626
01:26:30,043 --> 01:26:31,793
Please open the door.

1627
01:26:33,736 --> 01:26:37,153
Don, don't you hear me? I wanna help you.

1628
01:26:38,440 --> 01:26:40,241
Don, I won't go away.

1629
01:26:40,241 --> 01:26:41,529
Do I have to go down and get the janitor

1630
01:26:41,529 --> 01:26:43,946
with a pass key to let me in?

1631
01:26:46,236 --> 01:26:48,450
(tense music continues)
(dog barking)

1632
01:26:48,450 --> 01:26:49,533
- Dave? Dave!

1633
01:26:50,881 --> 01:26:52,240
- [Dave] Yes, Mrs. Deveridge?

1634
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:53,463
- Come on up with the pass key.

1635
01:26:53,463 --> 01:26:54,880
Come on, come on!

1636
01:26:55,921 --> 01:26:58,421
(Don gasping)

1637
01:26:59,939 --> 01:27:03,106
(tense music playing)

1638
01:27:28,781 --> 01:27:32,281
(frantic footsteps pound)

1639
01:27:40,565 --> 01:27:43,565
(door lock rattles)

1640
01:27:47,517 --> 01:27:48,350
- Thank you very much.

1641
01:27:48,350 --> 01:27:49,546
- You'd better let us come too.

1642
01:27:49,546 --> 01:27:51,071
You can't go in there alone.

1643
01:27:51,071 --> 01:27:52,955
- I'll be all right, thank you.

1644
01:27:52,955 --> 01:27:54,955
- Come Sophie. Let's go.

1645
01:27:56,956 --> 01:28:00,539
(melancholy music playing)

1646
01:28:04,244 --> 01:28:05,236
- Don, darling.

1647
01:28:05,236 --> 01:28:06,408
- Go away, Helen.

1648
01:28:06,408 --> 01:28:07,850
- I'm here to help you, Don.

1649
01:28:07,850 --> 01:28:08,683
- No, no.

1650
01:28:10,426 --> 01:28:11,593
- Look at you.

1651
01:28:13,523 --> 01:28:17,690
You wanna get up Don? Put
your arm on my shoulder.

1652
01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,577
(melancholy music stops)

1653
01:28:31,202 --> 01:28:33,900
You'll have a bath and
I'll help you shave,

1654
01:28:33,900 --> 01:28:35,058
and you'll eat and sleep,

1655
01:28:35,058 --> 01:28:39,348
and when Wick comes back,
everything'll be all right.

1656
01:28:39,348 --> 01:28:41,111
- No, Helen, don't look.

1657
01:28:41,111 --> 01:28:42,406
- What's the matter Don?

1658
01:28:42,406 --> 01:28:43,739
- That wall.

1659
01:28:43,739 --> 01:28:45,150
- What wall?

1660
01:28:45,150 --> 01:28:46,563
- The mouse and the bat.

1661
01:28:46,563 --> 01:28:47,939
- The mouse and the bat?

1662
01:28:47,939 --> 01:28:51,772
- Yes, that hole in the
wall right behind you.

1663
01:28:53,096 --> 01:28:55,039
- There's no hole in the wall, Don.

1664
01:28:55,039 --> 01:28:55,872
- Yes, there is.

1665
01:28:55,872 --> 01:28:56,705
- No, there isn't.

1666
01:28:56,705 --> 01:28:57,538
- Yes.

1667
01:28:57,538 --> 01:28:58,976
- Don, please look for yourself.

1668
01:28:58,976 --> 01:28:59,809
Come on.

1669
01:29:00,728 --> 01:29:02,589
Come on, Don, please look.

1670
01:29:02,589 --> 01:29:05,089
(Don gasping)

1671
01:29:16,127 --> 01:29:16,960
- You see?

1672
01:29:17,867 --> 01:29:20,117
(Don sobs)

1673
01:29:21,689 --> 01:29:22,914
- [Helen] Everything's gonna be all right.

1674
01:29:22,914 --> 01:29:24,265
I'll stay right with you.

1675
01:29:24,265 --> 01:29:25,935
- [Don] It's little animals.

1676
01:29:25,935 --> 01:29:28,027
It's always little animals.

1677
01:29:28,027 --> 01:29:29,777
That's what Bim said.

1678
01:29:30,786 --> 01:29:33,593
- You're not making much sense, Don.

1679
01:29:33,593 --> 01:29:37,421
- You know what Nat said about the ending?

1680
01:29:37,421 --> 01:29:39,657
Like this.
(snaps fingers)

1681
01:29:39,657 --> 01:29:42,158
Or like that.
(snaps fingers)

1682
01:29:42,158 --> 01:29:44,414
Like this.
(snaps fingers)

1683
01:29:44,414 --> 01:29:46,635
Or like that.
(snaps fingers)

1684
01:29:46,635 --> 01:29:49,968
(rain pelts the window)

1685
01:29:53,304 --> 01:29:56,471
(tense music playing)

1686
01:30:13,768 --> 01:30:14,685
- Don! Don!

1687
01:30:22,973 --> 01:30:25,769
Where are you going, Don?
(quick footsteps on stairs)

1688
01:30:25,769 --> 01:30:26,936
- [Helen] Don?

1689
01:30:28,352 --> 01:30:32,352
(tense music continues playing)

1690
01:30:34,313 --> 01:30:36,730
(rain roars)

1691
01:30:46,068 --> 01:30:47,690
- All right, Don, give the pawn ticket.

1692
01:30:47,690 --> 01:30:48,523
- No scene, please.

1693
01:30:48,523 --> 01:30:50,229
- No scene. Just gimme the pawn ticket.

1694
01:30:50,229 --> 01:30:51,357
- Look, I don't want you to go in there

1695
01:30:51,357 --> 01:30:52,528
and claim it now, it would look queer.

1696
01:30:52,528 --> 01:30:53,591
- You're ashamed of what the pawn broker

1697
01:30:53,591 --> 01:30:54,478
will think is that it?

1698
01:30:54,478 --> 01:30:55,891
It doesn't matter what I think.

1699
01:30:55,891 --> 01:30:57,031
- Wick'll get you back your coat.

1700
01:30:57,031 --> 01:30:59,019
- You couldn't have taken
my bracelet or my paycheck?

1701
01:30:59,019 --> 01:31:00,611
It had to be that coat?

1702
01:31:00,611 --> 01:31:02,534
- You mean the one that
brought us together?

1703
01:31:02,534 --> 01:31:03,817
Stop being sentimental.

1704
01:31:03,817 --> 01:31:06,854
- Oh, I have Don, I assure
you. It's finished. It's dead.

1705
01:31:06,854 --> 01:31:08,917
For three years, they
couldn't talk me out of you.

1706
01:31:08,917 --> 01:31:11,069
I was the only one that
really understood you.

1707
01:31:11,069 --> 01:31:12,551
I knew there was a core of something.

1708
01:31:12,551 --> 01:31:15,082
Well, there is a core and
now I know what it is.

1709
01:31:15,082 --> 01:31:17,775
A sponge, and to soak it
full, you'll do anything

1710
01:31:17,775 --> 01:31:19,631
that's ruthless, selfish, dishonest.

1711
01:31:19,631 --> 01:31:20,875
- I asked you not to make a scene.

1712
01:31:20,875 --> 01:31:21,749
- Then give me the ticket.

1713
01:31:21,749 --> 01:31:22,838
- No, Helen, not now, please.

1714
01:31:22,838 --> 01:31:23,746
- I don't want the money.

1715
01:31:23,746 --> 01:31:26,828
You can get us drunk as
you like for all I care.

1716
01:31:26,828 --> 01:31:27,828
- Thank you.

1717
01:31:29,199 --> 01:31:32,616
(dramatic music playing)

1718
01:31:39,878 --> 01:31:41,069
- A gentleman came in a while ago.

1719
01:31:41,069 --> 01:31:42,795
How much did you give him for that coat?

1720
01:31:42,795 --> 01:31:43,628
- Why?

1721
01:31:43,628 --> 01:31:44,913
- Well, I want it back, it's my coat.

1722
01:31:44,913 --> 01:31:45,746
- It's your coat?

1723
01:31:45,746 --> 01:31:46,738
- It's all right, he had my permission.

1724
01:31:46,738 --> 01:31:47,941
How much did you give him?

1725
01:31:47,941 --> 01:31:48,774
- He didn't want any money.

1726
01:31:48,774 --> 01:31:49,762
He just wanted to swap it.

1727
01:31:49,762 --> 01:31:51,528
- Swap it for what?

1728
01:31:51,528 --> 01:31:53,533
- Oh, something he hocked
here a long while back.

1729
01:31:53,533 --> 01:31:54,366
- What?

1730
01:31:54,366 --> 01:31:55,199
- A gun.

1731
01:31:58,324 --> 01:31:59,157
- A gun.

1732
01:32:00,256 --> 01:32:02,078
(foreboding music begins)

1733
01:32:02,078 --> 01:32:05,771
- Now, if you want the coat back, I can...

1734
01:32:05,771 --> 01:32:09,188
(dramatic music playing)

1735
01:32:25,884 --> 01:32:30,134
(dramatic music continues playing)

1736
01:32:36,188 --> 01:32:40,438
(dramatic music continues playing)

1737
01:32:56,062 --> 01:32:59,145
(door knob rattling)

1738
01:33:05,348 --> 01:33:07,431
- [Don] What is it Helen?

1739
01:33:09,767 --> 01:33:11,267
What's the matter?

1740
01:33:13,833 --> 01:33:16,583
- Nothing. Dave gave me the keys.

1741
01:33:17,540 --> 01:33:19,957
I didn't think you were here.

1742
01:33:21,884 --> 01:33:23,668
- What do you want here?

1743
01:33:23,668 --> 01:33:25,346
- It's just that the rain is worse,

1744
01:33:25,346 --> 01:33:26,626
and I couldn't get a taxi.

1745
01:33:26,626 --> 01:33:28,843
I thought perhaps I could borrow a coat,

1746
01:33:28,843 --> 01:33:30,322
under the circumstances.

1747
01:33:30,322 --> 01:33:32,526
- Sure. How about my raincoat?

1748
01:33:32,526 --> 01:33:35,943
(romantic music playing)

1749
01:33:38,863 --> 01:33:40,660
- Funny that we should wind
up, after all these years,

1750
01:33:40,660 --> 01:33:43,375
just as we met, I with your raincoat.

1751
01:33:43,375 --> 01:33:46,034
- And I with your leopard coat.

1752
01:33:46,034 --> 01:33:48,411
I always got the best of the bargain.

1753
01:33:48,411 --> 01:33:49,661
Goodbye, Helen.

1754
01:33:52,968 --> 01:33:55,104
What are you looking for?

1755
01:33:55,104 --> 01:33:55,937
- I thought perhaps,

1756
01:33:55,937 --> 01:33:58,058
maybe you might have
something for my hair.

1757
01:33:58,058 --> 01:33:59,890
- Would you care to wear my black Derby?

1758
01:33:59,890 --> 01:34:02,046
- Any old thing? Any old scarf.

1759
01:34:02,046 --> 01:34:03,046
- All right.

1760
01:34:04,675 --> 01:34:07,842
(tense music playing)

1761
01:34:19,761 --> 01:34:21,141
- Here you are.

1762
01:34:21,141 --> 01:34:22,023
- Thank you.

1763
01:34:22,023 --> 01:34:22,856
- So long.

1764
01:34:25,004 --> 01:34:25,837
- Do you know, Don?

1765
01:34:25,837 --> 01:34:26,670
There was some whiskey left in the bottle,

1766
01:34:26,670 --> 01:34:28,131
after I cleaned up last night.

1767
01:34:28,131 --> 01:34:29,188
- Was there?

1768
01:34:29,188 --> 01:34:30,588
- Wouldn't you like to
know where I put it?

1769
01:34:30,588 --> 01:34:31,789
- Nope.

1770
01:34:31,789 --> 01:34:33,086
- Don't you wanna drink Don?

1771
01:34:33,086 --> 01:34:33,919
- Nope.

1772
01:34:36,864 --> 01:34:37,801
(tense music playing)
(drawer bangs open)

1773
01:34:37,801 --> 01:34:38,694
- Here it is right here.

1774
01:34:38,694 --> 01:34:42,222
Why don't you have one? Just one.

1775
01:34:42,222 --> 01:34:43,955
- What are you up to?

1776
01:34:43,955 --> 01:34:47,413
- Nothing. I'm just ashamed
of the way I talked to you.

1777
01:34:47,413 --> 01:34:50,848
Like a narrow minded, insensitive
small town teetotaler.

1778
01:34:50,848 --> 01:34:52,629
- I told you, I don't feel
like a drink. Not now.

1779
01:34:52,629 --> 01:34:54,546
- Come on Don, just one.

1780
01:34:54,546 --> 01:34:56,024
I'll have one with you. I'm in no hurry.

1781
01:34:56,024 --> 01:34:57,577
This is my easy day at the office.

1782
01:34:57,577 --> 01:34:58,461
- Look, Helen, there are a few things

1783
01:34:58,461 --> 01:35:00,845
I wanna put in order before Wick comes.

1784
01:35:00,845 --> 01:35:03,467
- Let me stay, please.

1785
01:35:03,467 --> 01:35:06,050
- No. I don't wanna sound rude,

1786
01:35:07,866 --> 01:35:11,322
but I'm afraid you'll have to leave now.

1787
01:35:11,322 --> 01:35:12,322
- Here, Don.

1788
01:35:13,571 --> 01:35:15,238
- You're very sweet.

1789
01:35:17,151 --> 01:35:18,570
Goodbye.

1790
01:35:18,570 --> 01:35:21,412
(romantic music playing)

1791
01:35:21,412 --> 01:35:22,915
Don't let me bend for nothing.

1792
01:35:22,915 --> 01:35:24,120
- You need this, Don, drink it.

1793
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:26,042
I want you to drink it.
I'll get you some more.

1794
01:35:26,042 --> 01:35:27,534
I'll get you all you want.

1795
01:35:27,534 --> 01:35:29,762
- What kind of talk is that?

1796
01:35:29,762 --> 01:35:34,613
- It's just that I'd rather
have you drunk than dead.

1797
01:35:34,613 --> 01:35:36,677
- Who wants to be dead?

1798
01:35:36,677 --> 01:35:38,686
- Stop lying to me.

1799
01:35:38,686 --> 01:35:41,850
(tense music playing)

1800
01:35:41,850 --> 01:35:43,183
- Give it to me.

1801
01:35:48,258 --> 01:35:49,872
All right, now go.

1802
01:35:49,872 --> 01:35:50,705
No fuss, please.

1803
01:35:50,705 --> 01:35:51,538
And don't call in the neighbors.

1804
01:35:51,538 --> 01:35:53,075
It won't do any good. I promise you.

1805
01:35:53,075 --> 01:35:55,649
- [Helen] I won't.
You've made up your mind,

1806
01:35:55,649 --> 01:35:57,668
but could you tell me why? Why?

1807
01:35:57,668 --> 01:35:58,960
- Because it's best all
around for everybody,

1808
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:00,242
for you, for Wick, and for me.

1809
01:36:00,242 --> 01:36:01,821
- But that's not true.
We love you, Wick and I.

1810
01:36:01,821 --> 01:36:04,600
- All right, then for me. Selfish again.

1811
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:06,875
- That's a sad, final word, Don.

1812
01:36:06,875 --> 01:36:07,708
- Look at it this way, Helen,

1813
01:36:07,708 --> 01:36:08,896
this business is just a formality.

1814
01:36:08,896 --> 01:36:11,855
Don Birnam is dead already.
He died over this weekend.

1815
01:36:11,855 --> 01:36:13,548
- Did he? What did he die of?

1816
01:36:13,548 --> 01:36:15,276
- Oh, a lot of things. Of alcohol,

1817
01:36:15,276 --> 01:36:19,461
of moral anemia, of
fear, of shame, D.T.'s.

1818
01:36:19,461 --> 01:36:21,399
- Oh, that Don Birnam.

1819
01:36:21,399 --> 01:36:22,862
And now you wanna kill the other one.

1820
01:36:22,862 --> 01:36:23,695
- [Don] What other?

1821
01:36:23,695 --> 01:36:25,279
- There were two Dons.
You told me so yourself.

1822
01:36:25,279 --> 01:36:27,207
Don the drunk, and Don the writer.

1823
01:36:27,207 --> 01:36:29,237
- Let's not go back to a
fancy figure of speech.

1824
01:36:29,237 --> 01:36:32,472
There's only one Don, he's through.

1825
01:36:32,472 --> 01:36:34,065
- Don.

1826
01:36:34,065 --> 01:36:36,436
- I'm all right. I still
have enough strength left.

1827
01:36:36,436 --> 01:36:38,193
- I know you have, I can see it.

1828
01:36:38,193 --> 01:36:40,212
Don't waste it by pulling a trigger, Don.

1829
01:36:40,212 --> 01:36:41,291
- No, let me get it over with.

1830
01:36:41,291 --> 01:36:42,243
Or do you want me to give you another

1831
01:36:42,243 --> 01:36:43,913
one of my promises that I never keep?

1832
01:36:43,913 --> 01:36:45,244
- I don't want you to
give me your promise.

1833
01:36:45,244 --> 01:36:46,088
I don't want you to give your promise

1834
01:36:46,088 --> 01:36:48,126
to anybody, but Don Birnam.

1835
01:36:48,126 --> 01:36:50,015
- It's too late. I
wouldn't know how to start.

1836
01:36:50,015 --> 01:36:51,973
- The only way to start is to stop.

1837
01:36:51,973 --> 01:36:54,477
There is no cure besides just stopping.

1838
01:36:54,477 --> 01:36:55,310
- [Don] Can't be done.

1839
01:36:55,310 --> 01:36:56,671
- Other people have stopped.

1840
01:36:56,671 --> 01:36:58,623
- People with a purpose,
with something to do.

1841
01:36:58,623 --> 01:37:00,395
- [Helen] But you've
got talent and ambition.

1842
01:37:00,395 --> 01:37:02,646
- Talent. Ambition. That's dead long ago.

1843
01:37:02,646 --> 01:37:03,851
That's drowned.

1844
01:37:03,851 --> 01:37:04,762
That's drifting around,

1845
01:37:04,762 --> 01:37:07,021
with a bloated belly on a lake of alcohol.

1846
01:37:07,021 --> 01:37:09,143
- No it isn't. You still have it.

1847
01:37:09,143 --> 01:37:10,160
- Quit trying to stall me, Helen.

1848
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:12,130
It's too late. There's no
more writing left in me.

1849
01:37:12,130 --> 01:37:13,126
It's gone. What do you expect?

1850
01:37:13,126 --> 01:37:13,959
A miracle?

1851
01:37:13,959 --> 01:37:15,948
- Yes, yes. Yes. If I
could just make you un...

1852
01:37:15,948 --> 01:37:17,631
(door bell buzzes)
- Who is it?

1853
01:37:17,631 --> 01:37:19,018
- [Nat] It's me, Mr. Birnam.

1854
01:37:19,018 --> 01:37:20,490
- What is it, Nat?

1855
01:37:20,490 --> 01:37:23,657
- I got something for you, Mr. Birnam.

1856
01:37:26,210 --> 01:37:27,504
I hope I ain't intrudin'.

1857
01:37:27,504 --> 01:37:28,669
- What is it?

1858
01:37:28,669 --> 01:37:30,310
- You know, when you had that accident?

1859
01:37:30,310 --> 01:37:33,315
Afterward, I found this
floating around on the Nile.

1860
01:37:33,315 --> 01:37:34,148
She writes pretty good.

1861
01:37:34,148 --> 01:37:35,243
I oiled her up a little,

1862
01:37:35,243 --> 01:37:38,910
and I didn't oil her
up so you can hock her.

1863
01:37:39,802 --> 01:37:41,015
- I'll take it, Nat.

1864
01:37:41,015 --> 01:37:42,182
- Hello, miss.

1865
01:37:43,473 --> 01:37:45,144
- Thank you, Nat.

1866
01:37:45,144 --> 01:37:47,977
- How are all them lilacs in Ohio?

1867
01:37:50,581 --> 01:37:52,160
- Well, Don, here it
is. What do you say now?

1868
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:53,066
(romantic music playing)

1869
01:37:53,066 --> 01:37:54,362
- Say about what?

1870
01:37:54,362 --> 01:37:56,706
- This. Someone, somewhere,
sent it back, why?

1871
01:37:56,706 --> 01:37:57,995
Because he means you to stay alive,

1872
01:37:57,995 --> 01:37:59,213
because he wants you to write.

1873
01:37:59,213 --> 01:38:01,015
I didn't ask for a big miracle.

1874
01:38:01,015 --> 01:38:02,040
- Write, with these hands,

1875
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:03,517
and a brain that's all out of focus.

1876
01:38:03,517 --> 01:38:05,294
- It'll clear up again. You'll be well.

1877
01:38:05,294 --> 01:38:06,127
- I'll be sitting there,

1878
01:38:06,127 --> 01:38:07,962
staring at that white sheet, scared.

1879
01:38:07,962 --> 01:38:08,795
- No you won't.

1880
01:38:08,795 --> 01:38:10,888
You've forgotten what it
feels like to be well.

1881
01:38:10,888 --> 01:38:12,729
- What am I gonna write about? What?

1882
01:38:12,729 --> 01:38:14,454
- What you've always wanted to write.

1883
01:38:14,454 --> 01:38:17,053
Where was the page I found?

1884
01:38:17,053 --> 01:38:19,462
'The Bottle: A Novel' by Don Birnam.

1885
01:38:19,462 --> 01:38:20,844
What was that to be?

1886
01:38:20,844 --> 01:38:21,846
- About a messed up life,

1887
01:38:21,846 --> 01:38:23,456
about a man and a woman and a bottle.

1888
01:38:23,456 --> 01:38:26,008
About nightmares, horrors, humiliations,

1889
01:38:26,008 --> 01:38:27,800
all the things I want to forget.

1890
01:38:27,800 --> 01:38:29,967
- Put it all down on paper,
get rid of it that way.

1891
01:38:29,967 --> 01:38:31,691
Tell it all to whom it may concern.

1892
01:38:31,691 --> 01:38:33,970
And it concerns so many people, Don.

1893
01:38:33,970 --> 01:38:34,803
- Yeah.

1894
01:38:36,431 --> 01:38:38,848
- I'll fix us some breakfast.

1895
01:38:40,287 --> 01:38:43,037
- We have quite a supply of milk.

1896
01:38:44,498 --> 01:38:47,720
You'll notice, I didn't
even find a first line.

1897
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:49,330
- Of course you couldn't
write the beginning,

1898
01:38:49,330 --> 01:38:53,620
because you didn't know
the ending. Only now...

1899
01:38:53,620 --> 01:38:56,203
(music swells)

1900
01:39:08,949 --> 01:39:11,449
Only now, you know the ending.

1901
01:39:14,508 --> 01:39:16,597
- I'm gonna send one copy to Bim,

1902
01:39:16,597 --> 01:39:18,485
one to the doctor who loaned me his coat.

1903
01:39:18,485 --> 01:39:19,735
And one to Nat.

1904
01:39:21,058 --> 01:39:23,798
Imagine Wick, standing
in front of a bookstore,

1905
01:39:23,798 --> 01:39:28,798
a great big pyramid of my
books, a novel by Don Birnam.

1906
01:39:29,043 --> 01:39:30,722
That's by my brother, you know.

1907
01:39:30,722 --> 01:39:33,546
- That's by my fellow.
Didn't I always tell you?

1908
01:39:33,546 --> 01:39:36,652
- I'm gonna put this whole
weekend down, minute by minute.

1909
01:39:36,652 --> 01:39:37,485
- Why not?

1910
01:39:37,485 --> 01:39:41,091
- The way I stood in
there, packing my suitcase.

1911
01:39:41,091 --> 01:39:43,433
Only my mind wasn't on the suitcase,

1912
01:39:43,433 --> 01:39:45,697
and it wasn't on the weekend,

1913
01:39:45,697 --> 01:39:47,070
nor was it on the shirts

1914
01:39:47,070 --> 01:39:49,972
I was putting in the suitcase either.

1915
01:39:49,972 --> 01:39:53,174
My mind was hanging outside the window.

1916
01:39:53,174 --> 01:39:56,841
It was suspended just
about 18 inches below.

1917
01:39:57,753 --> 01:40:00,811
And out there, in that
great, big concrete jungle,

1918
01:40:00,811 --> 01:40:03,851
I wonder how many others
there are like me.

1919
01:40:03,851 --> 01:40:08,026
Poor, bedeviled guys, on fire with thirst.

1920
01:40:08,026 --> 01:40:10,128
Such comical figures to
the rest of the world,

1921
01:40:10,128 --> 01:40:13,159
as they stagger blindly
towards another binge,

1922
01:40:13,159 --> 01:40:14,487
another bender, another spree.

1923
01:40:14,487 --> 01:40:18,070
(triumphant music playing)

1924
01:40:24,186 --> 01:40:25,019
(silence)