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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,977 --> 00:00:04,167 Why, hello. My name is Eric Jonrosh. 2 00:00:04,925 --> 00:00:07,009 Tonight you will see the fourth installment 3 00:00:07,044 --> 00:00:11,297 of what promises to be the best half hour of your life. 4 00:00:11,331 --> 00:00:13,382 It is my masterpiece... 5 00:00:13,433 --> 00:00:16,185 The Spoils of Babylon. 6 00:00:16,219 --> 00:00:19,055 It's nothing short of a masterpiece. 7 00:00:19,106 --> 00:00:21,374 I-- Listen, I can't say that. 8 00:00:21,408 --> 00:00:23,776 I can't say "masterpiece" twice like that. 9 00:00:23,810 --> 00:00:27,079 Any writer worth his salt knows you can't 10 00:00:27,114 --> 00:00:29,148 bunch the same word up against the same word like that. 11 00:00:29,182 --> 00:00:30,750 It's not done. 12 00:00:30,784 --> 00:00:34,453 Could someone please get me a glass of wine? 13 00:00:34,488 --> 00:00:37,006 And I'm not saying "masterpiece" twice like that. 14 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,842 Why, thank you, Doris. 15 00:00:39,876 --> 00:00:41,961 You're a breath of fresh air I would like to kiss... 16 00:00:41,995 --> 00:00:45,164 Tonight is the fourth episode of The Spoils of Babylon. 17 00:00:45,182 --> 00:00:48,050 Cynthia Morehouse and Devon are deeply in love. 18 00:00:48,101 --> 00:00:50,436 But because they are brother and sister, 19 00:00:50,470 --> 00:00:53,272 they cannot in good conscience stay together. 20 00:00:53,307 --> 00:00:55,191 Let's watch how it plays. 21 00:00:55,225 --> 00:00:58,311 And now, episode four... 22 00:00:58,345 --> 00:01:00,513 of The Spoils of Babylon. 23 00:01:00,547 --> 00:01:03,716 I've been treated like a heap of garbage 24 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:06,419 from the moment I've set foot on here. 25 00:01:06,453 --> 00:01:08,788 No one even remembers my name. 26 00:01:08,822 --> 00:01:12,124 They keep calling me Derek. 27 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:14,327 One guy called me Lou. 28 00:01:14,361 --> 00:01:16,379 Previously on the Spoils of Babylon... 29 00:01:16,413 --> 00:01:18,364 (gunshots and screaming) 30 00:01:18,382 --> 00:01:20,866 My name is Devon Morehouse. 31 00:01:20,884 --> 00:01:23,502 My story is an epic one. 32 00:01:23,536 --> 00:01:25,221 Devon, you haven't asked me to dance all night. 33 00:01:25,255 --> 00:01:29,058 I want to introduce you to the new Mrs. Devon Morehouse, 34 00:01:29,092 --> 00:01:31,093 Lady Anne York. 35 00:01:31,144 --> 00:01:32,228 Devon will be mine, 36 00:01:32,262 --> 00:01:33,479 and not as my brother, 37 00:01:33,513 --> 00:01:35,047 but as my lover. 38 00:01:35,065 --> 00:01:36,482 (screams) 39 00:01:36,516 --> 00:01:38,884 Lady Anne! My love, she's gone. 40 00:01:38,902 --> 00:01:40,052 You keep the child. 41 00:01:40,070 --> 00:01:41,354 - What? - You raise her. 42 00:01:41,388 --> 00:01:43,222 I kicked heroin. 43 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:44,824 I can't kick you. 44 00:01:44,858 --> 00:01:47,493 I'm in love with my s-- I mean, Cynthia. 45 00:01:47,527 --> 00:01:49,829 - And she's in love with me. - I forbid it. 46 00:01:49,863 --> 00:01:51,113 It looks like a carburetor. 47 00:01:51,164 --> 00:01:54,950 It will be our gift to mankind. 48 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:57,086 I'm dying, Devon. Mama! 49 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,754 No! 50 00:01:58,789 --> 00:02:02,591 This is my life, or what remains of it. 51 00:02:03,661 --> 00:02:06,865 Sync & corrections by dwigt www.addic7ed.com 52 00:02:09,182 --> 00:02:10,633 (horn honks) 53 00:02:10,684 --> 00:02:12,685 Cynthia and I shared the responsibility 54 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:15,554 of running the eighth largest company in the world. 55 00:02:15,588 --> 00:02:18,641 We rarely spoke to each other. 56 00:02:18,692 --> 00:02:22,027 Heartbroken, she married the first man who asked her, 57 00:02:22,062 --> 00:02:27,616 Chet Halner, a rather tepid banker from Memphis. 58 00:02:27,651 --> 00:02:30,119 Three to five months later, they had a child, 59 00:02:30,153 --> 00:02:33,873 A boy named Winston. 60 00:02:33,907 --> 00:02:36,409 I know I've said it before, but... 61 00:02:37,961 --> 00:02:40,329 the boy looks nothing like me. (laughs) 62 00:02:40,380 --> 00:02:41,547 Don't be such a dolt. 63 00:02:41,581 --> 00:02:44,500 He looks just like you, Chet. 64 00:02:44,551 --> 00:02:47,686 We should make another. 65 00:02:47,721 --> 00:02:50,423 I want Winston here to have a-- 66 00:02:50,457 --> 00:02:52,091 a little baby sister. 67 00:02:52,125 --> 00:02:54,927 - (chuckles) - Yes, maybe we'll... 68 00:02:54,961 --> 00:02:57,263 try that someday. 69 00:02:57,297 --> 00:03:00,399 We could practice by, uh... 70 00:03:00,434 --> 00:03:02,435 making love, you know? 71 00:03:02,469 --> 00:03:03,436 Oh, Chet! (laughs) 72 00:03:03,470 --> 00:03:05,471 Don't be such a bore. 73 00:03:05,489 --> 00:03:07,490 But many couples make love on a... 74 00:03:07,524 --> 00:03:10,409 (phone rings) semi-regular basis. 75 00:03:10,444 --> 00:03:13,279 Hello? Yes, Dorchester? 76 00:03:13,313 --> 00:03:14,663 What's that? 77 00:03:14,698 --> 00:03:17,283 You say a Seymour Luntz is here to see me? 78 00:03:17,317 --> 00:03:20,002 Oh, well, it's awfully late. Send him away. 79 00:03:20,036 --> 00:03:22,671 What's that? 80 00:03:22,706 --> 00:03:25,424 You say he's looking for Devon? 81 00:03:25,459 --> 00:03:28,093 Oh. Um... 82 00:03:28,128 --> 00:03:30,513 You know what? You can send him up. 83 00:03:30,547 --> 00:03:33,132 All right. Thank you. 84 00:03:33,166 --> 00:03:35,351 Seymour Luntz. 85 00:03:35,385 --> 00:03:36,602 Do you know him? 86 00:03:36,636 --> 00:03:38,604 Um, no, never heard of him. 87 00:03:38,638 --> 00:03:43,509 So... Mr. Luntz, what can I do for you? 88 00:03:43,527 --> 00:03:46,345 Well, I'm not sure, ma'am. 89 00:03:46,363 --> 00:03:48,314 I was really looking for your brother Devon. 90 00:03:48,348 --> 00:03:49,815 Is it a personal matter? 91 00:03:49,850 --> 00:03:51,817 Well, not really. It's just your-- 92 00:03:51,852 --> 00:03:54,019 your father and Devon paid me the money. 93 00:03:54,054 --> 00:03:55,454 Uh, paid you for what? 94 00:03:55,489 --> 00:03:58,491 (ethereal chanting) 95 00:03:58,525 --> 00:04:00,209 96 00:04:00,243 --> 00:04:01,693 What is it? 97 00:04:01,711 --> 00:04:04,830 It's a water-powered carburetor, ma'am. 98 00:04:04,865 --> 00:04:07,049 This little device gonna change the world. 99 00:04:07,083 --> 00:04:10,219 Oh, I'm sure it is, and I'm only sorry my father 100 00:04:10,253 --> 00:04:11,504 didn't get to see it. 101 00:04:11,538 --> 00:04:14,706 Good night, Mr. Lutz. 102 00:04:14,724 --> 00:04:16,642 It's Luntz. 103 00:04:16,676 --> 00:04:20,879 - Hmm? Oh, thank you. - Well, good night, ma'am. 104 00:04:24,351 --> 00:04:29,688 Well, cars will get 100... 105 00:04:29,722 --> 00:04:33,559 200 miles a gallon with this thing. 106 00:04:33,577 --> 00:04:38,080 Did you say 200 miles per gallon? 107 00:04:38,114 --> 00:04:40,282 Yes, ma'am. 108 00:04:40,333 --> 00:04:45,170 Have you told anybody else about this, um, carburetor? 109 00:04:45,205 --> 00:04:47,506 No, ma'am, just your father and your brother, ma'am. 110 00:04:47,541 --> 00:04:51,210 My father and my brother. I see. 111 00:04:51,244 --> 00:04:53,879 Yes, they would have liked this very much. 112 00:04:53,913 --> 00:04:56,015 They would have ruined Morehouse Conglomerated 113 00:04:56,049 --> 00:04:58,017 for this stupid invention. 114 00:04:58,051 --> 00:04:59,418 They saw a world without oil. 115 00:04:59,436 --> 00:05:00,970 The fools! 116 00:05:01,021 --> 00:05:04,273 No, Jonas Morehouse, you can ruin my life, 117 00:05:04,307 --> 00:05:07,309 you can take the only love I ever had and crush it, 118 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,094 but you won't take my riches. 119 00:05:09,112 --> 00:05:10,946 I'm in the driver's seat now. 120 00:05:10,981 --> 00:05:14,400 And I shall have my revenge on you! 121 00:05:14,434 --> 00:05:17,202 (lounge music) 122 00:05:17,237 --> 00:05:19,655 Ma'am? 123 00:05:19,706 --> 00:05:23,108 So, um-- so you're the only one 124 00:05:23,126 --> 00:05:26,211 who knows how to make this carburetor? 125 00:05:26,246 --> 00:05:28,213 - Yes, ma'am. - You know what I think? 126 00:05:28,248 --> 00:05:32,334 I think you should fly to see Devon 127 00:05:32,385 --> 00:05:34,753 - and give him the good news. - Fly? 128 00:05:34,787 --> 00:05:36,589 You know, I have a couple friends in the military. 129 00:05:36,623 --> 00:05:41,293 They can pick you up and take you to fly on my private plane. 130 00:05:41,311 --> 00:05:45,064 Would you like that? 131 00:05:45,098 --> 00:05:47,483 I never been in a private plane before. 132 00:05:47,517 --> 00:05:51,654 Mm. You like to tinker around, do you? 133 00:05:51,688 --> 00:05:53,472 Yeah, I guess I do. 134 00:05:53,490 --> 00:05:57,610 Is that how you came up with your new carburetor? 135 00:05:57,644 --> 00:05:59,478 No, I told you fellas that Mr. Morehouse 136 00:05:59,496 --> 00:06:01,530 had me working on that. It belongs to him now. 137 00:06:01,581 --> 00:06:05,167 You know for a fact he's never laid eyes on it? 138 00:06:05,201 --> 00:06:06,952 Yes, sir. 139 00:06:06,986 --> 00:06:10,122 Who else did you tell it to, Seymour? 140 00:06:11,157 --> 00:06:12,458 Well, my wife. 141 00:06:12,492 --> 00:06:15,260 (soft music) 142 00:06:15,295 --> 00:06:16,845 Well, I showed it to my brother. 143 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,381 144 00:06:19,432 --> 00:06:20,633 And my uncle Nate. 145 00:06:20,667 --> 00:06:23,218 146 00:06:23,269 --> 00:06:27,606 And there's this guy at the hotel who didn't believe me. 147 00:06:27,641 --> 00:06:28,607 I showed it to my mother. 148 00:06:28,642 --> 00:06:32,778 149 00:06:32,812 --> 00:06:36,014 Okay. Here we are. 150 00:06:37,701 --> 00:06:39,568 I don't see any plane around here. 151 00:06:39,619 --> 00:06:43,372 Well, that's because the plane's not here yet. 152 00:06:43,406 --> 00:06:45,857 - Oh. 153 00:06:45,875 --> 00:06:48,327 Is that a gun? Aah, it's a gun! 154 00:06:48,361 --> 00:06:51,463 (stammers) What the-- 155 00:06:51,498 --> 00:06:55,000 (gunshots) 156 00:07:03,259 --> 00:07:05,594 Seymour Luntz? 157 00:07:05,645 --> 00:07:08,714 More like "See less"... 158 00:07:08,732 --> 00:07:13,185 Luntz-es. 159 00:07:13,219 --> 00:07:15,854 He's dead. (chuckles) 160 00:07:24,074 --> 00:07:27,302 (cheerful music) 161 00:07:29,412 --> 00:07:30,842 When are you coming in the water, dad? 162 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:31,461 Hmm? 163 00:07:31,495 --> 00:07:34,664 You can't just sit here and read all day. 164 00:07:37,827 --> 00:07:39,211 Look at you. 165 00:07:39,262 --> 00:07:41,378 You have turned into quite the little woman 166 00:07:41,471 --> 00:07:42,497 now, haven't you? 167 00:07:42,515 --> 00:07:45,667 I'll be heading off to finishing school soon. 168 00:07:45,685 --> 00:07:49,187 If I go east, I can see Aunt Cynthia and Cousin Winston. 169 00:07:49,222 --> 00:07:51,556 I suppose. 170 00:07:51,607 --> 00:07:54,226 Why don't you want me to see Aunt Cynthia? 171 00:07:54,277 --> 00:07:58,063 Your aunt and I don't see eye to eye on much. 172 00:07:58,114 --> 00:08:00,982 But you still like her, don't you? 173 00:08:01,016 --> 00:08:02,484 Do I like her? 174 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:06,119 Fly the ocean 175 00:08:06,174 --> 00:08:08,846 In a silver plane 176 00:08:10,266 --> 00:08:12,466 See the jungle 177 00:08:12,575 --> 00:08:15,534 When it's wet with rain 178 00:08:16,708 --> 00:08:19,443 Just remember, darling, 179 00:08:19,598 --> 00:08:21,720 Till you're home again 180 00:08:22,384 --> 00:08:24,928 You didn't answer. 181 00:08:26,058 --> 00:08:29,711 I love her. 182 00:08:31,415 --> 00:08:32,568 Of course I still loved her. 183 00:08:32,644 --> 00:08:34,276 She was an ever present memory. 184 00:08:35,953 --> 00:08:37,820 But she was back east, 185 00:08:37,838 --> 00:08:40,289 ruthlessly expanding the Morehouse empire, 186 00:08:40,323 --> 00:08:43,042 installing her even more ruthless 15-year-old son Winston 187 00:08:43,093 --> 00:08:46,162 as senior vice-president of public affairs. 188 00:08:46,180 --> 00:08:47,830 I filled my days with important work, 189 00:08:47,848 --> 00:08:49,966 hoping in vain I could forget Cynthia. 190 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,018 I turned to research. 191 00:08:52,052 --> 00:08:54,721 I worked out of my underwater oceanographic laboratory 192 00:08:54,772 --> 00:08:57,390 where I could be alone with just one colleague 193 00:08:57,441 --> 00:09:00,026 and three research assistants, 194 00:09:00,060 --> 00:09:03,279 under the sea, away from Cynthia's spell. 195 00:09:03,313 --> 00:09:05,698 Or so I thought. 196 00:09:05,733 --> 00:09:07,817 Thanks to your family's funding, 197 00:09:07,851 --> 00:09:10,319 my dreams of learning more about these fishies 198 00:09:10,353 --> 00:09:13,522 really has come true. 199 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:18,995 Well... We both share a love of marine life. 200 00:09:19,029 --> 00:09:23,365 Is that all we share, Devon? 201 00:09:23,383 --> 00:09:25,585 Um, I just-- The thing is-- 202 00:09:25,636 --> 00:09:28,037 She still has a power over you. 203 00:09:28,055 --> 00:09:32,058 Oh, Dixie, you know me so well. 204 00:09:32,092 --> 00:09:34,594 (sighs) 205 00:09:34,645 --> 00:09:38,097 Maybe we should just go back to work. 206 00:09:38,148 --> 00:09:40,600 Yeah. Of course. 207 00:09:40,651 --> 00:09:44,487 Who knows how long we're gonna have this anyway? 208 00:09:44,521 --> 00:09:48,224 - Why is that? - The letters. 209 00:09:48,242 --> 00:09:50,559 What letters? 210 00:09:50,577 --> 00:09:53,746 Haven't you read the letters from your sister? 211 00:09:53,781 --> 00:09:58,251 She's been writing one every day this week. 212 00:09:58,285 --> 00:10:01,537 Uh, no, I-- (stammers) 213 00:10:01,572 --> 00:10:04,457 - She's gonna shut us down. - What? 214 00:10:04,508 --> 00:10:06,042 (scoffs) I can't-- 215 00:10:06,076 --> 00:10:10,412 Th-- I-I own half of Morehouse Conglomerated. 216 00:10:10,430 --> 00:10:12,431 She can't-- She w-- Has she gone nuts? 217 00:10:12,466 --> 00:10:16,219 - (crying) - Oh, no. 218 00:10:16,253 --> 00:10:23,192 (both) No! 219 00:10:23,227 --> 00:10:27,113 (laughter) 220 00:10:27,147 --> 00:10:28,614 She had gone mad. 221 00:10:28,649 --> 00:10:32,952 She was consumed by a reckless ambition for power. 222 00:10:32,986 --> 00:10:35,488 She raised her son Winston to worship at the same altar. 223 00:10:35,539 --> 00:10:37,240 - (laughter) - Oh! 224 00:10:37,274 --> 00:10:39,158 (overlapping shouting) 225 00:10:39,209 --> 00:10:40,293 Oh, get out, get out! 226 00:10:40,327 --> 00:10:42,278 Get away! Oh, oh, get it! 227 00:10:42,296 --> 00:10:44,947 Winston, Winston! Aah, aah! 228 00:10:47,467 --> 00:10:50,503 I decided to pay a visit to my company's headquarters 229 00:10:50,554 --> 00:10:54,507 for the first time in 15 years. 230 00:10:54,558 --> 00:10:58,127 We've simply got to apply pressure to these congressmen 231 00:10:58,145 --> 00:11:01,130 to reconsider the Vietnam question. 232 00:11:01,148 --> 00:11:05,401 Now, gentlemen, we all know that this isn't about communism 233 00:11:05,435 --> 00:11:08,988 or ideals or any other of that nonsense. 234 00:11:09,022 --> 00:11:13,693 What we need are bigger and better military contracts. 235 00:11:13,744 --> 00:11:16,863 My 15-year-old boy is correct. 236 00:11:16,914 --> 00:11:19,549 We are no longer just a petroleum company. 237 00:11:19,583 --> 00:11:21,250 Our weapons and arms divisions 238 00:11:21,285 --> 00:11:24,453 accounted for up to 40% of our profits last year. 239 00:11:24,487 --> 00:11:26,873 Hickory dickory dock. 240 00:11:26,924 --> 00:11:29,375 - My God. - Guess who's here. 241 00:11:29,426 --> 00:11:31,210 Who is this man? Call security! 242 00:11:31,261 --> 00:11:33,495 No, no, no. That's not necessary. 243 00:11:33,513 --> 00:11:37,166 Winston, this is your... 244 00:11:37,184 --> 00:11:38,367 uncle, Devon. 245 00:11:38,402 --> 00:11:43,505 How dare you? 246 00:11:43,523 --> 00:11:45,308 Devon, you've been drinking. 247 00:11:45,342 --> 00:11:48,510 What a fine lot you are. 248 00:11:48,528 --> 00:11:50,396 Morehouse Conglomerated? 249 00:11:50,447 --> 00:11:54,183 Shame on you all. 250 00:11:54,201 --> 00:11:55,701 Devon, please, calm down. 251 00:11:55,736 --> 00:11:59,188 Uh, shutting down my research institute? 252 00:11:59,206 --> 00:12:00,740 Oh, you mean your underwater hangout 253 00:12:00,791 --> 00:12:02,325 where you and your tart can play? 254 00:12:02,359 --> 00:12:04,577 That tart has a name! 255 00:12:04,628 --> 00:12:07,897 Dixie Melonworth. Have some respect. 256 00:12:07,931 --> 00:12:10,666 - She's a person. - She is your lover. 257 00:12:10,701 --> 00:12:12,885 She is a legitimate scientist. 258 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,504 For real, like... Bloop, bloop, bloop. 259 00:12:15,538 --> 00:12:18,107 That institute was a money drain. 260 00:12:18,141 --> 00:12:21,510 Our company has decided to go in some new directions, Devon. 261 00:12:21,544 --> 00:12:22,845 Uh, I think you're forgetting 262 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:24,563 one small, tiny, lile detail there, sis. 263 00:12:24,598 --> 00:12:27,316 I own half... 264 00:12:27,351 --> 00:12:29,018 (exhales) 265 00:12:29,052 --> 00:12:31,737 of the controlling interest of this company. 266 00:12:31,772 --> 00:12:33,439 - Impossible! - What was that? 267 00:12:33,490 --> 00:12:35,758 My 15-year-old boy is right. 268 00:12:35,792 --> 00:12:37,460 I've been buying shares of the company 269 00:12:37,494 --> 00:12:39,562 and now own 60% of the business. 270 00:12:39,596 --> 00:12:42,281 You are a minority shareholder. 271 00:12:42,332 --> 00:12:43,616 (dramatic chord) 272 00:12:43,667 --> 00:12:46,285 You're not even on the board anymore. 273 00:12:46,336 --> 00:12:47,503 (laughs) 274 00:12:47,537 --> 00:12:49,338 Winston, stop it. 275 00:12:49,373 --> 00:12:51,924 Cynthia... That's not true, is it? 276 00:12:51,959 --> 00:12:56,379 But that research was important. What... 277 00:12:56,413 --> 00:12:58,580 Wh-- How can we expand into offshore drilling 278 00:12:58,598 --> 00:13:02,301 without understanding the impact, Cynthia? 279 00:13:02,352 --> 00:13:04,437 We're doing this for the world. 280 00:13:04,471 --> 00:13:07,589 (somber music) 281 00:13:07,607 --> 00:13:10,393 We didn't see the need anymore. 282 00:13:10,427 --> 00:13:12,478 You have done nothing... 283 00:13:12,529 --> 00:13:15,064 but bring shame... 284 00:13:15,098 --> 00:13:17,316 to the Morehouse name. 285 00:13:17,367 --> 00:13:19,318 My father had only one child. 286 00:13:19,369 --> 00:13:22,038 And how dare you say his name in here? 287 00:13:22,072 --> 00:13:25,324 The only shame in this room belongs to you, 288 00:13:25,375 --> 00:13:27,710 because you... are... 289 00:13:27,744 --> 00:13:30,179 a... bastard! 290 00:13:30,213 --> 00:13:33,649 (dramatic music) 291 00:13:33,684 --> 00:13:35,351 292 00:13:35,385 --> 00:13:38,137 All right. 293 00:13:38,171 --> 00:13:40,473 Well... 294 00:13:40,507 --> 00:13:42,458 You have demolished me. 295 00:13:42,492 --> 00:13:46,395 You... have won. 296 00:13:46,430 --> 00:13:47,646 (exhaling) 297 00:13:47,681 --> 00:13:50,299 (somber music) 298 00:13:50,317 --> 00:13:51,517 Devon... 299 00:13:51,568 --> 00:13:54,320 Devon! 300 00:13:54,354 --> 00:13:57,606 301 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,159 - Mother! - Aah! 302 00:14:00,193 --> 00:14:01,827 - Devon! - Fetch some water! 303 00:14:04,055 --> 00:14:06,973 (lounge music) 304 00:14:07,008 --> 00:14:14,931 305 00:14:45,179 --> 00:14:46,846 I don't know. 306 00:14:47,159 --> 00:14:50,022 Have I done the right thing, taking the company away 307 00:14:50,078 --> 00:14:52,045 from my own brother? 308 00:14:52,053 --> 00:14:54,129 Well, the poet Ovid mused, 309 00:14:54,183 --> 00:14:57,026 "The wrong is merely the tail 310 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:59,935 "of the same beast as right." 311 00:15:00,728 --> 00:15:02,979 Nonsense. My uncle would have ruined this company 312 00:15:03,030 --> 00:15:06,616 with his research and forward thinking. 313 00:15:06,651 --> 00:15:10,453 Oh, Winston, my dear boy, I hope you're right. 314 00:15:10,488 --> 00:15:11,655 I am. 315 00:15:15,877 --> 00:15:19,496 With Devon out of the way, I-- 316 00:15:19,547 --> 00:15:24,167 we have such great plans for Morehouse Conglomerated. 317 00:15:24,218 --> 00:15:27,470 I must regain my strength first. 318 00:15:27,505 --> 00:15:31,758 Winston, I want you to guide this company going forward. 319 00:15:31,792 --> 00:15:33,626 The Vietnam war is on the horizon, 320 00:15:33,644 --> 00:15:37,097 and this country's thirst for oil is growing. 321 00:15:37,131 --> 00:15:39,599 Morehouse must be in the lead! 322 00:15:44,638 --> 00:15:47,073 Don't you fret, mother dear. 323 00:15:47,108 --> 00:15:48,975 I know what to do. 324 00:15:48,993 --> 00:15:50,360 Father... 325 00:15:50,411 --> 00:15:52,612 See to it that she stays in bed. 326 00:15:52,647 --> 00:15:55,015 I'm... concerned about her health. 327 00:15:55,049 --> 00:15:58,484 I'm... 328 00:15:58,502 --> 00:16:01,621 concerned... 329 00:16:01,655 --> 00:16:05,508 about... 330 00:16:05,543 --> 00:16:07,460 her... 331 00:16:09,714 --> 00:16:10,847 health. 332 00:16:10,881 --> 00:16:13,516 Thank you, Winston. 333 00:16:13,551 --> 00:16:17,220 Darling, will you go check on the casserole please? 334 00:16:17,271 --> 00:16:21,224 Of course, my precious flower. 335 00:16:21,275 --> 00:16:24,894 I shall leave Little Women in your safe company. 336 00:16:24,946 --> 00:16:27,063 You're reading it again? 337 00:16:27,114 --> 00:16:29,015 Louisa May is my guide and my compass. 338 00:16:29,033 --> 00:16:32,068 Yes, you've mentioned. 339 00:16:32,119 --> 00:16:33,987 (sighs) 340 00:16:34,021 --> 00:16:38,858 Your sister, that awful woman... 341 00:16:38,876 --> 00:16:40,827 she's tried to destroy you. 342 00:16:40,861 --> 00:16:44,547 I just-- I just don't understand why. 343 00:16:44,582 --> 00:16:48,218 I don't know. 344 00:16:49,837 --> 00:16:51,171 Look at them. 345 00:16:51,205 --> 00:16:53,473 So content. 346 00:16:53,507 --> 00:16:58,178 They hardly realize the danger ahead. 347 00:16:58,212 --> 00:17:00,430 And it's as if... 348 00:17:00,481 --> 00:17:03,149 we'd only just begun to understand the sea 349 00:17:03,184 --> 00:17:06,552 and all its varied creatures. 350 00:17:06,570 --> 00:17:07,487 (sighs) 351 00:17:07,521 --> 00:17:09,055 Now our research is coming 352 00:17:09,073 --> 00:17:11,658 to a dreadful end. 353 00:17:11,692 --> 00:17:14,194 With Winston at the helm, 354 00:17:14,228 --> 00:17:18,564 Morehouse Conglomerated had lost its soul. 355 00:17:18,582 --> 00:17:22,267 And for the moment, I had lost my soul as well. 356 00:17:23,204 --> 00:17:26,906 - Why? - You're hurting me! 357 00:17:26,924 --> 00:17:29,959 Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Dixie. 358 00:17:30,011 --> 00:17:32,045 It's that tyrant, my sister. 359 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:34,014 She's shutting us down. 360 00:17:34,048 --> 00:17:36,249 You've got to fight her. 361 00:17:36,267 --> 00:17:38,018 How? 362 00:17:38,052 --> 00:17:40,887 You once told me you were a poet. 363 00:17:40,921 --> 00:17:42,472 Well, I... 364 00:17:42,523 --> 00:17:44,641 I mean, I-I dabble in free verse 365 00:17:44,692 --> 00:17:47,694 and every form of poetry that's ever been conceived of, 366 00:17:47,728 --> 00:17:50,263 and I've actually come up with a few new ones myself. 367 00:17:50,281 --> 00:17:52,816 and I do it every day, many hours a day. 368 00:17:52,867 --> 00:17:54,100 It's a discipline for me, 369 00:17:54,118 --> 00:17:56,786 but that was a long time ago. 370 00:17:56,821 --> 00:17:59,372 So with poetry... 371 00:17:59,407 --> 00:18:01,541 you are going to fight your sister 372 00:18:01,575 --> 00:18:04,661 with the power of the word. 373 00:18:04,712 --> 00:18:06,913 Poetry. And novels. 374 00:18:06,947 --> 00:18:09,132 - Yes. - Books about nature. 375 00:18:09,166 --> 00:18:10,166 Yes. 376 00:18:10,217 --> 00:18:12,335 - One-act plays... - Yes. 377 00:18:12,386 --> 00:18:14,671 Children's books, magazine articles. 378 00:18:14,722 --> 00:18:16,122 I could do it. 379 00:18:16,140 --> 00:18:19,642 With my writing, I could crush Cynthia Morehouse 380 00:18:19,677 --> 00:18:24,431 and bring her crawling to me for forgiveness. 381 00:18:24,465 --> 00:18:27,067 (whispering) And the research institute... 382 00:18:27,101 --> 00:18:28,801 It will be saved. 383 00:18:28,819 --> 00:18:30,770 Yes. 384 00:18:30,804 --> 00:18:33,656 But more importantly, I could crush her, 385 00:18:33,691 --> 00:18:36,309 destroy her-- she who has tried to destroy me. 386 00:18:36,327 --> 00:18:38,661 Oh, it's not over yet, Cynthia! 387 00:18:38,696 --> 00:18:41,314 You may oversee the seventh largest company in the world 388 00:18:41,332 --> 00:18:44,000 and have millions of dollars at your disposal, 389 00:18:44,034 --> 00:18:46,652 but now you must face 390 00:18:46,670 --> 00:18:49,956 the wrath of the writer. 391 00:18:57,431 --> 00:18:59,665 With Dr. Melon-cans by my side, 392 00:18:59,683 --> 00:19:01,885 the words came fast. 393 00:19:01,936 --> 00:19:05,688 In 1967, I published Poems for the Forest, 394 00:19:05,723 --> 00:19:08,975 a defiant stance against our industrialized world-- 395 00:19:09,009 --> 00:19:11,177 slightly veiled, but it was there. 396 00:19:11,212 --> 00:19:15,949 Several critics, including Meredith Sennheiser, noticed it. 397 00:19:15,983 --> 00:19:17,367 Genius. 398 00:19:17,401 --> 00:19:19,819 It must have cut Cynthia to the bone. 399 00:19:19,853 --> 00:19:22,238 Dixie thought I could be even more pointed, 400 00:19:22,289 --> 00:19:23,907 so I wrote my breakthrough, 401 00:19:23,958 --> 00:19:26,859 Unto the Sea: An Oceanographic Struggle. 402 00:19:26,877 --> 00:19:31,247 Sennheiser once again praised it with his usual frothy zeal. 403 00:19:31,298 --> 00:19:33,166 Son of a bitch. 404 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:34,868 It caught on fire, 405 00:19:34,902 --> 00:19:38,720 selling over a thousand copies in the first year. 406 00:19:39,714 --> 00:19:43,291 The world was beginning to notice. 407 00:19:43,712 --> 00:19:45,897 We now return to The Talc Munson Show. 408 00:19:46,113 --> 00:19:47,380 We have a new sponsor, 409 00:19:47,414 --> 00:19:50,433 Bagpipes O'Toole Scotch semi-blended. 410 00:19:50,484 --> 00:19:51,768 You know, this is the only scotch 411 00:19:51,819 --> 00:19:54,220 you can find in a can, everybody. 412 00:19:54,238 --> 00:19:57,490 Devon, tell me about your book, Unto the Sea. 413 00:19:57,525 --> 00:20:00,076 Well, Unto the Sea is a warning flare for our planet. 414 00:20:00,110 --> 00:20:02,862 For too long, we have let evil corporations 415 00:20:02,896 --> 00:20:04,364 pollute the air we breathe, 416 00:20:04,398 --> 00:20:06,833 defile our land we tread upon, 417 00:20:06,867 --> 00:20:08,751 and poison our oceans. 418 00:20:08,786 --> 00:20:11,737 Wow, sounds like a real page-turner. 419 00:20:11,755 --> 00:20:13,840 Now, one of the corporations you attack in the book 420 00:20:13,874 --> 00:20:15,871 is Morehouse Conglomerated. 421 00:20:15,967 --> 00:20:18,461 My father and my sister and I 422 00:20:18,512 --> 00:20:20,450 started Morehouse many years ago. 423 00:20:20,910 --> 00:20:26,081 But since then, the company's been on a downward spiral 424 00:20:26,099 --> 00:20:29,051 into the vast pit of nothingness, 425 00:20:29,085 --> 00:20:33,822 where you find the very nature of evil waiting, 426 00:20:33,857 --> 00:20:37,092 - Lurking, to ruin everything... - Oh, turn this off. 427 00:20:37,126 --> 00:20:38,760 He's gone mad. 428 00:20:38,795 --> 00:20:40,796 He's going to bring this whole company down. 429 00:20:40,830 --> 00:20:43,632 Please, mother, he's written one book. 430 00:20:43,666 --> 00:20:46,335 That hardly constitutes a revolution. 431 00:20:46,369 --> 00:20:48,470 Karl Marx only wrote one book. 432 00:20:48,504 --> 00:20:51,373 (chuckles) Well, you know, my sweet, 433 00:20:51,407 --> 00:20:55,077 Marx wrote over 20 books. 434 00:20:55,111 --> 00:20:58,830 Chet, um, go check on dinner, will you? 435 00:20:58,882 --> 00:21:01,750 The nature of a corporation is evil 436 00:21:01,784 --> 00:21:03,168 by its nature. 437 00:21:03,219 --> 00:21:04,803 (interview continues in background) 438 00:21:04,837 --> 00:21:06,471 Thank you, dear. 439 00:21:06,506 --> 00:21:10,792 With some sprinklings of goodness occasionally... 440 00:21:10,810 --> 00:21:12,678 I'm telling you, 441 00:21:12,729 --> 00:21:14,846 People are rising up against this war, 442 00:21:14,898 --> 00:21:16,481 against pollution, 443 00:21:16,516 --> 00:21:19,017 against everything that makes this country great. 444 00:21:19,068 --> 00:21:21,436 And if Devon becomes leader of this rabble, 445 00:21:21,470 --> 00:21:23,655 - he will ruin us! - Mother, please. 446 00:21:23,690 --> 00:21:25,190 You're overreacting. 447 00:21:25,241 --> 00:21:27,642 Perhaps you're a bit jealous of his business partner, 448 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:29,978 Dixie Melonworth. 449 00:21:29,996 --> 00:21:32,831 How dare you? 450 00:21:32,865 --> 00:21:34,666 I could care less about that tramp. 451 00:21:34,701 --> 00:21:36,118 She is a common whore. 452 00:21:36,152 --> 00:21:39,004 And if Devon won't come here, 453 00:21:39,038 --> 00:21:41,957 then I shall go to him. 454 00:21:41,991 --> 00:21:45,961 (dramatic chord) 455 00:21:47,517 --> 00:21:50,226 When The Spoils was completed, I knew I had created 456 00:21:50,261 --> 00:21:52,128 something magically personal, 457 00:21:52,163 --> 00:21:55,598 and of a different order than the normal miniseries. 458 00:21:55,633 --> 00:21:58,234 Alas, it was too good for television, 459 00:21:58,269 --> 00:22:00,653 and so I locked it away. 460 00:22:01,989 --> 00:22:04,157 but you can't lock away a genius. 461 00:22:04,191 --> 00:22:05,942 Mm. 462 00:22:05,976 --> 00:22:08,644 Like a drifter you lock up in a root cellar, 463 00:22:08,662 --> 00:22:10,697 there's always a window to break through 464 00:22:10,748 --> 00:22:15,318 or a rusty tool to dig to freedom. 465 00:22:15,336 --> 00:22:18,704 So was my little drifter, The Spoils of Babylon. 466 00:22:18,901 --> 00:22:20,901 It broke free... 467 00:22:21,265 --> 00:22:23,265 for all to see... 468 00:22:23,311 --> 00:22:24,366 almost... 469 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,737 against my will. 470 00:22:27,154 --> 00:22:30,103 Sync & corrections by dwigt www.addic7ed.com 471 00:22:30,153 --> 00:22:34,703 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 33219