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If Carter and Helene want to think it happened because I was insane, I say let

them.

I could tell you I saw a cock in that inkblot. But why?

I could give you a lot of answers, but none of them apply.

Here are some typical questions the doctors here ask me.

I'm to answer yes or no.

Do I think a large number of people are guilty of bad protection? Do

I believe my sins are unpardonable?

Have I been disappointed in love?

How could I answer?

How could it apply?

I'll tell you what I do.

I try to live in the now. I watch Hummingbird.

I go for a walk during visiting hours.

I see no one I used to know.

But then, I'm not just crazy about a lot of people.

I used to ask questions.

And I got the answer.

If Carter and Helene aren't careful, they'll get the answer too.

People are talking all over town.

I put.

I got you.

Hi to Rick Lacey. Hi to Rick Lacey.

It's Carter Lang's wife.

I have this room for half an hour and you show up 15 minutes late? Well, I was

tied up in traffic.

A little early for a matinee.

I don't do that anymore.

Carter will be happy.

All right, we're ready.

Where's Carter?

Still looking for locations.

Yes, Susanna Wood, director, cut away.

Action, sweetheart.

How does anyone get to the desert?

You drive there. Wait a second. That is so phony, Susanna, I can't believe it.

Man, just talk to me. Tell me about yourself. Talk to me about yourself.

I've got a mole on my left thigh.

I'm terrific in bed.

That's very cute.

But this time you're not testing for a porno. What are you talking about?

I'm talking about your first movie, The Porno. That touch with the dog,

terrific. Where did you see that? Your business manager showed it to me.

I'd change my credit on this one.

Produced by Benjamin Zimbalist Mendenhall.

What do you want from me?

I want the look that's on your face right now.

Now you can start to act.

Did you ever see her series?

Canceled after 13 weeks.

How do you get to the desert?

You drive there.

Is he fucking here?

I can't help admiring the way you reduce everything to its central element.

Paisley, why did you want me to see that test?

Because it's Thursday.

The masseur doesn't come until four, had a couple hours to kill. I thought you'd

be interested.

Would you get it back up to 85?

It comes with the rent.

I don't know if you realize this, but Carter wanted to use you in this picture

very badly.

At one point, he told me to scrap the whole deal just because he wanted to use

you. It's only his third picture. He's still a little insecure as well.

We'll let him use her for a while.

All right.

Forget it.

Erase the tape. Take two.

Want to go to Larry Kulik's party tonight?

Where's Helene? Helene's in bed.

Helene's depressed.

Elaine has these very copious menstruations.

Larry Kulik's a gangster.

A lawyer.

He's a lawyer for gangsters.

Anyway, he's a great admirer of yours.

You know what he told Carter?

What I like about your wife, Carter, is that she's not a cunt.

I said to myself, Kulik, you're going to die.

And suddenly I got it. The whole meaning of life came to him in a blinding flash

right there on the table at Seeders. What was it? I'd like to get into that.

What's that, babe?

I wouldn't call it the impossible dream.

The whole meaning of life. Not that many guys, only six. I had it researched.

How's it going, babe?

Great. How's Carter? Fine.

Mariah, baby, I didn't even know you were in town.

You didn't leave a number. I just assumed you were out looking for

with Carter.

Well, Carter must have told you that we were separated, Freddie.

Well, he might have said something about it, but I never listen to Carter when

he's thinking about a new picture.

And he certainly didn't say anything about your wanting to work again.

It's not a question of a comeback, Freddy. I always wanted to work.

Well, whether it's wanting to work again or wanting to work always, the fact is,

when an actress walks off a picture, people get the idea she doesn't want to

work.

But that was almost a year ago. I was sick. I was upset about Kate. Now, I

haven't walked off any more sets. Now, you know that, Freddy.

I had lunch, Mariah.

had some reason in mind when they told it, you know what I mean?

I mean, it makes you feel as if you might find out the reason.

When I first married Carter and my name began appearing in columns, I received

mail from mad people.

It's no longer necessary for them to even write me.

I know when someone is thinking of me.

I've learned to deal with this.

50 from the magazines.

But I don't do showrooms.

Right now, I think I need to get my weight up a little bit.

Everyone who used to book me said that I was, you know.

My mother died.

I look at a plate of food and I see a

rattlesnake, you know, coiled.

Carter? Carter?

Carter? Is it you?

Camping out?

No, I thought you were looking for locations.

Well, I just got back.

I've been trying to reach you for a week on the telephone.

What for?

Come on, let's just stop that.

I thought we were going to be separated for a while.

That's... That's what you want.

It wasn't me.

I mean, was it me?

No, Mariah.

It's never you.

I guess... I guess we could try.

Only if you want to. Of course I do. Of course I want to. Well, then why don't

you sound like you do?

Carter, I want to.

Maybe it's just not such a good idea.

Do what you want.

How many times have you been out there lately?

Not much at all. Maybe a couple of times all month.

You've been out there four times since Sunday, they called me.

Of course they called you. You were the one who had her committed.

Don't say that word.

I said don't say that word.

And I call to point out unscheduled parental appearances tend to disturb the

child's adjustment.

Adjustment? Adjustment to what? Shock?

Don't you understand? She's not being treated with shock. Oh, no!

How long have you been sleeping outside?

It's too hot in here.

Why don't you turn on the fucking air conditioner?

Details. I was born in Reno, Nevada, and moved nine years later to Silver Wells,

Nevada.

Population then 28, now zero.

We moved down to Silver Wells because my father lost the Reno house in a private

game and happened to remember that he owned this town, Silver Wells.

He had bought it or won it, or maybe his father left it to him.

I'm not sure which, and it doesn't matter to you.

From my mother, I inherited my looks and a tendency to migraine. From my father,

I inherited an optimism which did not leave me until recently.

My mother killed herself by cracking up a car ten miles east of Tonopah.

My father died two years later of peritonitis in Rose de Lima Hospital,

This is not a picture of Silverwell.

You can't mean for me to make decent bloodies with a mixed PC.

Why don't you start with one organic tomato?

Bertie, Jay can call.

He's trying to sell us somebody to score the picture.

I told him we weren't thinking about a score.

I'm thinking about a score.

The Angel Beach original soundtrack grossed over $800 ,000.

That's what I like about you, Carter.

The cult's director with a nose for commerce.

How's that Botticelli child you brought up to Pebble Beach last year?

Still in an institution?

Nicely put, Mother.

BZ said you were in Cozumel.

You can have Cozumel.

Also Machu Picchu.

I can't even dream why you stopped at Cozumel.

I mean, since you can't bear Mexicans.

BZ said it's marvelous.

That's why, Elaine.

BZ likes Mexicans.

I know why BZ likes Mexicans.

Why?

First the mix, now this.

An artificial lemon.

It's a bad joke.

All Beazys, my sirs, are purists.

Or Mexicans.

Don't be draggy, Helene.

Run down the beach and ask Audrey Wise for some lemons.

Do you know what Jerry Wise gave Audrey for her birthday?

Let me guess.

One perfect white rose?

One perfect thousand dollar bill.

Maybe she can buy herself one perfect fuck.

The lemon?

I'll get the goddamn lemons.

That's one less for lunch.

I seem to have come in after the main titles.

Is he going to get the lemons?

Well, isn't he?

Baggage may carry nervous.

Actually, Nelson, this lemon is not artificial.

This lemon is reconstituted.

You know what I'd like to have?

What?

I'd like to have a house on the beach and some rocks.

And on the rocks, I'd like to have some mussels.

And I'd gather them every day and cook them with cake.

That would be very pretty.

You know what the muzzles would turn out to be?

Toxic.

I always have

breakfast out when I'm not shooting.

the Wilshire or the Beverly Hills.

Or Nate Nells when I'm with an agent.

I read the trades.

I like being alone for breakfast.

Or with an agent.

In fact, he doesn't always have breakfast out.

In fact, the only time he had breakfast out in the past year was the day he took

Kate to the hospital.

Why do we always drink California wine?

Because you're so rich.

B .C., where did you find this divine Mr. Goodwin?

Why hasn't he been here all day?

You've met less before, Mother.

You remember his wife?

Felicia.

Charming little thing.

Where is she?

She's still in New York.

Felicia didn't impress you.

Couldn't have been more charmed.

She was like this child.

Funny you should say that.

I bored her.

Don't I bore you.

Admit it.

Carlotta's speaking to you, Mariah.

How much money do you give Busy and Helene to stay married?

I didn't quite get your performance tonight.

I'm sick of everybody's thick arrangement.

You've got a fantastic vocabulary.

I've got a fantastic vocabulary, and I'm also pregnant.

I said I'm also pregnant.

It's not mine.

I suppose you're going to tell me it's not mine. I don't know.

Who was it?

You know.

Les Goodwin's been fired off three scripts this year.

What makes you so sure?

Because I went to this doctor. Who was the doctor?

Dr. Doctor from Wilshire.

A doctor you didn't know?

Mean I'm interested in the mechanics of this how your mind works how you picked

this particular doctor He was near sacks I

was having my hair done at sacks

Moving to the Wilshire.

I'm sorry.

Whatever that means.

That's

the

number. You can call it tomorrow.

It's a number of a doctor who's semi -retired.

Supposed to be the only one in Los Angeles County who does clean work.

Clean work.

Very fast.

Very quiet.

No signing in or out of a hospital.

I'm not interested in reading any blind items about what you're doing in Cedars

-Sinai.

What young director's wife is taking a well -deserved, if somewhat unexpected,

rest. You can forget about that.

Actually, you know, you're not the youngest director I can think of.

Shut up.

I won't do it.

Okay.

You go on and have this, kid.

Now I'll take Kate.

If I go ahead and do this, would you let me keep Kate,

please?

Please?

We'll see.

Please promise me.

I don't promise anything.

and see.

Hello.

I was, um, given this number.

I mean, to call.

Now, who gave you this number?

Um, actually, my husband did.

This one sold this one to an Arab in Tangier for playing fair

back to Paris. And this one stayed with the Arab for seven months.

You'll have to take a look at my new sauna.

Stereo piped in.

Boku fantastic.

Any complications?

Simplicity itself.

The chickie wants the frog. The frog wants the frog.

Hey, Letras, Taser.

We're moving the party back to my house.

I'm going home.

You're not exactly a shot of meth tonight, anyway.

I feel beaucoup fantastic.

Larry Kulik?

Maybe Larry Kulik.

And maybe the chickie.

And maybe the froggy.

So I'll get what they're coming for.

Don't you ever get tired of doing favors for people?

You don't know how tired.

You see, I have to come out here to brush your hair.

You never brush your hair right.

You'll see.

When you come home, I'll wash your hair every morning and brush it dry in the

sun.

My mother used to do that for me.

And she cut my hair in bangs to look like Margaret Sullivan.

Listen.

We'll get a house.

And we'll stay in it. And we'll sleep in the same bed.

We'll grow cucumbers.

And I'll teach you how to pick a home.

Okay?

Hey! No, now stop that! Stop hitting Barbara!

I'm going to have to take you inside.

We definitely would have suggested you wait until tomorrow.

I can't make it tomorrow.

I see.

Oh, and one thing.

If she wakes up at night and says, always, always, it

means she's having a nightmare.

I mean, I don't know if I ever told you that before.

I'm sure you did.

Straight here, Mariah.

Oh, I hope you don't mind my calling you Mariah.

You can call me Jack.

Is that your name?

Oh, wow.

Don't take offense if I ask you something.

What kind of mileage you get on this?

Is that the question?

I'm interested.

Pretty good.

Not too bad.

Fifteen? Twenty?

Eighteen.

Do you ever drive a Camaro?

No.

That's a lease pad I drive.

I'm thinking of getting out of leases.

Picking up a little Camaro.

Think you'll get a Camaro, huh?

I got my eye on this particular Camaro.

The exact model is a pace car, the Indianapolis 5.

Got this friend of mine right here with a sweet deal. It's on the floor much

longer. He almost had to buy it last week.

But lucky for me.

Oh, right here.

Right here in this driveway.

Careful.

Lucky for you, what?

Oh, lucky for me, the guy's credit didn't hold up.

What do you do with the baby?

It's just tissue, Mariah.

Whatever you call it.

coming down to pick up his dead.

All finished?

All set.

Irrigant and tetracycline.

One every six hours.

I'm Earl Shive.

When I paint your car for only... Isn't this a pretty fair movie, Mariah?

Used up five minutes.

I know.

You called me up here to Oxnard so that I could watch you mix drinks?

What the

hell are you doing up here, anyway?

I was on the Ventura Freeway.

An abortion at 5 o 'clock in Playa del Rey.

Hypnosis is a medical art.

You're not a real hypnotist?

What is a real hypnotist?

I'm only here because I read an advertisement.

You think you have to apologize for being here?

No, no. It's talking about taking people back.

Regressing. Regressing them, yeah, when they were fetuses.

Or even further to a previous life.

No, no further. I don't care about further.

You wish to remember what it was like when... When I was a fetus.

You wish to recapture that state of consciousness.

I need to know if they think.

This is a picture of my father and his partner, Benny Austin.

That snake.

Actually, they didn't kill the snake. My mother killed the snake.

But she was the only one...

This is a picture of my mother on her 30th birthday.

And we drove down to Vegas to see Patty Page at the Fremont, and she gave me a

sip of her rum and coke.

Were they happy?

Yeah.

We drove a pickup.

And my father kept a bottle of bourbon on the floorboards.

Didn't you tell me your father used to ball that waitress in his restaurant in

Silverwells? I don't want to talk about that.

Pauline, wasn't it?

No, it was Paulette.

Paulette. Tell me about the place in Silverwell.

Two slots and a crap table.

Two slots and a crap table.

Whatever happened to Pauline?

Paulette, and you know what happened to her?

Tell me again.

Well, she's living in Arizona.

Where? Sun City.

You ever envy Paulette?

No. All in your father?

No.

You ever think about it?

No. On that crap table with the old man, that soft, green -felt crap...

I was experimenting.

I was trying to see how far I could go before breaking down the barrier between

film and real.

And yet the personality constantly shattered the conventional camera

relationship.

That personality being your wife's. But she wasn't my wife yet, no.

You didn't just hire her, Carter. You couldn't have gotten that kind of

performance. Well, that's the whole point of the film.

It wasn't a performance. You mean existentially it was not a performance.

I mean it wasn't a performance. It was not a performance.

This was her life, as it were.

As it were.

Do you remember that day?

Remember? Hell, that was the day your dad and I had the grand opening for the

miniature golf.

And nobody came.

We were ahead of our time, right, ahead of our time.

That was your father's only Waterloo.

He was a man always, 20 years before his time.

I'm not talking only about the miniature golf. I'm talking about the ghost town

scheme, automatic blackjack concept.

Harry Wise could be a rocker fellow in Silverwells today.

There's no Silverwells today. It's in the middle of a mystery. I'm talking

as it was, Mariah.

Silverwells as it was.

Have a thought?

No, thank you.

The minute you called, I... I got together your dad's papers.

Got his mineral certificates.

They're right here. That's not why I called, Benny. Of course you want these

certificates, honey. They're your inheritance. No action now, but... I'd

because I've been thinking about my mother.

Your dad and I once knew a guy, thought his rights were worthless. Turns out he

is sitting on pitchblank.

Benny, you're the only one left who remembers my mother. So loaded with

that the counters were all haywire when...

Jesus, you are Francine's girl.

See you sitting here.

I swear I'm back in silver wells.

Francine and your dad.

There is no silver well.

These were my mother's rings.

And this one, the silver one, is from Mexico.

She always wanted to go to Mexico.

And she wanted to go to Honolulu, too.

And Paris.

She used to enter all these contests where the prize was a two -week trip to

Paris.

And one time, I saved enough money to give her a trip to Paris.

The song she sings all the time.

One fuller used to have 1410.

I don't know him.

One of the great old second unit directors.

There's a new disposal.

No pets.

No children.

I'll take it.

the front porch.

Or it was getting a little, uh, how would you say, uh, conspicuous?

Did I, uh, catch you in the middle of an overdose, Mariah, or what?

If I'd wanted to read my mail, I wouldn't have moved.

It's in principle I'm not grasping, Mariah.

You have a $1 ,500 a month house sitting empty in Beverly Hills.

And you live in a furnished apartment on Fountain Avenue. Did you want to be

closer to Schwab's? Is that it?

I mean, I don't get the joke.

And I've never been much impressed with Catatonia as a lifestyle.

Watch this.

It's her house.

I'm not interested in her house.

You want to know what she's saying?

What is she saying?

She's saying you boys are doing a really outstanding

camera job.

How do you know what she's saying?

Because I saw it at five.

And at seven.

Mrs. Lange.

Oh, Mrs. Lange, I hate to see you go. You've been a perfect hit. But like some

could mention.

Portino, too.

But dear, you haven't been here three months. I'm afraid you'll have to

your cleaning department. Oh. I really am sorry.

Well, as are I.

Who does Carter want for the picture?

Judy Garland.

you want to play next.

Expecting somebody from house and garden?

I think that I will go to New York.

And see some plays?

Mm -hmm.

Maybe do some modeling.

For Avedon and Irving Penn, four collections.

They need a fresh face.

Well, it hasn't been that long. Yes, it has.

Do you think you'd be better off in New York?

Or Silver Wells?

Or Butte, Montana?

You think this is a terrible place and you're mixed up with terrible people and

that's why you feel the way you do?

That's a shell game, thinking that way.

Nothing outside you has got anything to do with how you feel.

You don't know how I feel.

I know how you feel. You feel like I do.

All your life you've been looking for the answer.

You keep going further and further looking for the answer.

What is the question?

I want to tell you something. You stole that line.

My grandfather decided he was going to find the answer.

He was the first Jew in the Pacific Union Club.

and absentee owner of, among other things, about 700 square miles of

Desert.

When he was 54 years old, he had occasion for the first time to inspect

Sonoran holdings.

He got off the train, went to a room at the Hotel San Alberto in Hermosillo,

and shot himself.

Father, as a very young man, converted to Catholicism, studied to be a Jesuit

priest.

When he was 22 years old, he visited Lourdes and lost his faith.

Some years later, marrying Carlotta. Some years after that, dying of acute

alcoholism at a clinic in Lausanne. But, um...

I decided I was going to find the answer to.

And I looked for it.

I looked for it.

No more gender.

No more ego.

Just the ten minutes that could take you right on through to where nobody's

been.

What we all found was... incontrovertible evidence that...

all of it means zero.

I haven't found that.

You will.

I don't ever want to be where you are.

You don't want to be, but you will.

She looks years younger, I must say.

The week at the Colston, she looked that way.

The eyes go first.

The elbows.

Whatever happened to Guatemala?

What Guatemala?

The maid. The one that stole your diagram.

She's working in the massage parlor in the valley.

You know the saddest people in the world.

Oh, no.

You do.

Day of days, Maria.

We'll be late.

Arlene, it's been too long.

Arlene Walsh's new friend.

Watch the action.

Oh, yes.

Oh, she's an actress named Shirley Carroll.

I worked with her once.

She kept a dildo in her dressing room.

Arlene Walsh has more dildos around her house than anybody ever knew.

Vodka rocks.

Look at my new ring.

It's from Carlotta.

A bribe.

Because I told her I was going to spend the spring in London instead of going

out on occasion with Beezy.

Speaking of which, he's rented the most unspeakable house out there.

Everybody else is staying in a motel.

But Beezy says motels make him feel deracinated.

And what he really means is that he can't shuttle his friends in and out

the dailies.

This is no excuse for you to fall apart.

I mean in divorce.

I've done it twice.

I've heard once.

Twice. Beasley says once because that's what he told Carlotta.

You know, you can really tell.

Tell what?

Tell I haven't done my Laszlo in three days.

On the behalf of my client, Mrs. Mariah Lang, who herewith submits a foresaid

petition for dissolution of the marriage contracted between herself and the

aforesaid Carter Lang, in the state of New York, county of Manhattan, this

agreement by the parents with respect to their minor child... Buzzer of the

week. Guess which two dykes were seen feeding each other cheese souffle at La

Scala today?

What are you going to do while we're on location?

Yorkshire and carried around Beverly Hills into magnets and sacks.

Polo lounge for lunch, too. You wouldn't do that.

No, of course I wouldn't do that.

Anything else you wouldn't do?

Mm -hmm.

Lots of things.

Sadomasochism?

Not unless I wanted to.

Deal? Never.

Never deal and never go to the luau.

What else?

Never walk through the sands or Caesars alone after midnight.

I wouldn't borrow furs from a store to go to a party.

And I would never ball at a party.

Did you ever get paid for it?

seven grand already.

When he becomes you, Larry?

Little on the shoulders, darling.

My barber gets his stuff in Paris.

Bronto, wicky, wicky.

How do you keep your tan?

I stay in season.

Hey, babe.

You're gonna come over and use the sauna.

You think I need something?

I think you need something.

Think it over.

I'm a good friend to people I like.

So what if I just put down your independent redevelopment?

What can I do for you?

Why, she isn't Luann's foster mother.

Shut up. I'm Harry Wyatt's daughter.

Francine? Yeah, that's my mother. I'm Mariah.

They used to bring me with them when we used to visit you.

Benny Austin used to come with us?

Benny and I worked fit together at the Nugget. Oh, sure, you can stay in here

unless she sees you. I thought you might know where I could find it.

It's been a long time passing, honey.

I really wanted to find him.

I heard he had a taco franchise in Henderson a while back, but it wasn't

Hey, tell your dad I owe him a Daniels or two, will you?

Okay.

Uh, do you know Benny Austin?

I don't know any Benny person.

Oh, I just thought he might still come around.

I've only been here two weeks.

Well, maybe if he does come around, could you give him a note for me?

You got a process to serve, honey. You serve it in person.

I'm into zinc.

Very confidential still.

That's why it's lucky I ran into you. I'm moving around right now, here,

Jesus, honey, you forget everything we taught you.

Picked up some rights out by Blue Mountain today.

Wait a minute. Hold it now. Hold it.

We're with the shooter now. Don't blow his roll.

We did it.

You even play crap like your mother did. You don't think.

Would you please pay to Mr. Benny Austin?

No.

Yes.

Benny Austin.

Try again, please.

Ask him out.

Guys like that interest me. You'd be surprised.

No, I wouldn't be surprised at all. Who knows? Maybe he needs a favor.

Hello, Benny?

Benny, listen, I'm sorry. I didn't just leave you.

I know you wouldn't run out on me.

I changed your diapers.

You should have told me you were sick, though. I got a good friend. House

at the Nugget.

I just need some rest.

Benny, listen, can you hear me?

Yeah, do you?

Do you remember the last time that we were out just

before Mommy died? I'd just come back from New York, and you and Mommy and

took me to the plane at the Cairn. Just before that, we'd opened Christmas

presents at the house.

Remember that?

Yeah, yeah, you bet, honey.

I'd like to see you. Can I see you tomorrow?

Maybe we could play some blackjack.

And next time, Mom and Ellie, we'll tie one on for your mom and dad, huh? Benny?

I'll see you, honey.

Listen. Keep moving.

702, please.

He took the noon flight back to L .A., honey.

He said you could use the...

Well, they've got to answer. It's an answering service.

This is Mariah Wyeth, Box 8, with any messages?

Nothing?

Thank you.

I'm looking for Carter Lang.

Carter's in his room.

What room is that? Eleven.

Carter, I'm telling you.

They look at the dailies and they want to know why they're not seeing a master,

a two, a close -up, and a reaction on every scene.

I start covering myself that way on every scene.

And we'll bring it in at about 2 -5. We're two days ahead of schedule. We can

afford to give them a little coverage.

Came to see you.

Think I'll tell them to break for lunch? No.

I can get two more setups before lunch.

See you later, Ben.

You only get two towels a week here.

I read it in the trades.

You just came to see me?

I just came to see you.

We're ready with the shot, Carter. It could have lit World War II in the time

it's taken.

You just happened to come to see me because you just happened to find

within 100 miles of here. You just happened to be in Vegas.

You just happened to be in Vegas. I heard all about it. Good morning, Mrs.

Ritchie. Oh, Lester has arranged for you to use the deputy vehicle in the movie

car.

Good girl.

Larry Kulik is your friend.

I never got in bed with him.

Got to get the shot.

shows the desert explication.

It's a lot better for motorcycles to ride on.

Okay, let's, um, let's get back to that thing you said about the bike move.

What did I say?

You said, uh... Don't you use a tape recorder?

No, no, I don't.

What if you started to write the piece and you couldn't read your notes?

That hasn't happened to me yet.

You said the actress in that movie, your wife.

At that time, my wife. At that time, of course.

Was not giving a performance.

Existentially.

She was giving a performance.

What are you doing?

Existentially, I'm getting a hemp.

You know how I am, Maureen.

Now that you've done a few interviews, you feel better?

Jesus Christ, Mariah, I'm shooting.

I've got a 40 -day schedule on a 70 -day picture. I've got a script that doesn't

play. And I hear my ex -wife's in Vegas with a... A gangster, and don't call me

your ex -wife. What did you come here for?

I don't know where else to go.

Oh, really pretty.

Susanna, you're going to love these.

Oh, very nice.

Yes, sir.

Carter, I dropped the wig.

What exactly do you think you're doing?

He doesn't know how to shoot.

Give him back the gun and get off the set.

on the set.

Whoever gave it to you will be fired.

I knew a fucking Susanna.

What about it?

I mean, did you really like it?

Not particularly.

I wonder why not.

You don't have to try and wake me up.

I'm awake.

I'm not trying to wake you up.

You're not asleep.

Why aren't you asleep?

Not asleep because you've been alone here for the last two hours, hating me.

It isn't any good.

Oh.

But you don't want it.

Yes, I do.

It's never been any good.

I'll go back to town tomorrow if you want.

For Kate.

What's the matter?

I can't give it to her.

Love, Nelson.

Why don't you dump the fags?

Soft voices in their sharkskin suits.

Yeah, their alligator shoes with the funny little tassels on them.

Yeah, they got their writs and their motions and their depositions on their

fancy Latin words.

Habeas corpus. You think Marty Rundell got habeas corpus?

Marty Rundell got a .38 dum -dum two inches under his right eye.

Now, there's only one way you're going to nail $2 million.

Let's fuck.

License, please.

Actually, I don't have it with me.

This your car?

Actually, I borrowed it.

why Johnny Waters reported the car stolen?

Because he's a TV personality.

I must say, you don't seem terrifically appreciative.

I was not caring, Elaine. I mean, he can't have it both ways. His car,

his thieves.

Aren't you even interested in how much it costs? How much did it cost?

Of course, the problem was getting the possession off the record.

How much?

A sizable campaign contribution out of Carter's pocket.

Besides pledging Susanna to a telethon for Southern Nevada Cystic Fibrosis.

She can use the exposure.

Of course you're all right. You're perfectly fine.

There's nothing at all off about letting yourself get picked up in a tennis

court at 2 o 'clock in the afternoon by Johnny Waters.

There's nothing wrong there.

I don't want to eat in the whole house.

Pretend you're in Acapulco.

I mean, there's been something distinctly peculiar about your whole

pattern lately.

I would almost go so far as to call it a very self -destructive personality

structure. Don't go out on a limb.

What kind of a fuck is Johnny Waters?

You know, I used to know somebody once.

He used to call me up in the middle of the night.

And he'd say, How much do you want it?

Tell me what you'd do to get it from me.

I can't remember what I would have done to get it from any

of them now.

Back to Carters tonight?

No.

You're going to have to see him tomorrow anyway.

Well, I'll see him tomorrow then.

I mean, it doesn't matter, does it?

You're getting there.

Where? Where I am.

Where you are is shit.

right, you made your point.

What's my point?

You proved it.

You gave me the message you can't be left alone.

Answer me.

What you ask.

I've got to get back to the set.

We'll drop you off at the motel.

I'll stay here Come on, let's go

I'll tell you another iced coffee, but Lee Ewing didn't bring the ice yet.

He's got the school board today.

Where's the school?

Up 147 by 50 miles.

Not many children around.

I used to have one.

She totaled my Chevy.

This latest location may appear to be the California desert.

Ricardo Lang is filming, as always, somewhere in the geography of the human

heart.

This girl's really very acute.

She's a philosopher.

A poetess. Listen to what she says about Mariah.

Cover pretzel. Friday morning.

Lang's ex -wife is on the set.

Easy with her, concerned.

The part of Amelia is not only of an immense professional family... You know,

actually, they call this the rattler room, and they have some kind of boa

there.

Who'd want to look at a rattlesnake?

What does it say about my visual concept?

Don't you have any hobbies or anything?

I mean, I got this place to take care of. I got the restaurant.

I got my hobbies.

I keep busy. You know there's no use in sweeping this porch.

Just look.

You ever made a decision?

About what?

I mean, I made my decision in 61 to meeting down to Barstow.

And I never had one doubt since.

When I went to get the mail, Lester told me this story.

Three days ago, an old man at a trailer park, and he went for a walk. Who's

Lester? Lester Ritchie, the deputy sheriff. Lester.

The point is, this old man at the trailer park went for a walk three days

And before he went for the walk, he told his wife that he was going to ask God

for a message.

Now, between years, there isn't any

punchline. I mean, he never came back from his walk.

And when Lester was out patrolling this morning, he found his body.

Dead, dead, a snake bite.

I'll tell you, there isn't any punchline.

He said he was going to talk to God.

She wants to know if you think God answered.

What do you want?

I can't help you unless you tell me what you want.

Tell me what you feel.

Mr. Ritchie had the whole file of these. He lent them to me.

Where's Carter?

He wasn't here last night. If you look close enough, you can see things.

Yeah, but you have to use the glass.

Where was he?

Maybe it was Susanna. Look at this one.

Does that matter to you?

No.

you can see his false teeth on the pavement.

But you have to use the glass.

There's another one here, somewhere with the snake on the embankment.

When my mother died, my father wrote me a letter.

This is how it ended.

You might call this a bad hand, but God, if there is one in honey, I sincerely

believe there must be some higher power.

Never meant it to set you back in your plans.

Don't let anybody bluff you because, believe me, you're holding all the aces.

I mean, maybe I was holding all the aces.

But what was the game?

Drinks. We need drinks.

We finished The Last Master after you left this afternoon.

Three set -ups in the morning and we are home free. Fantastic.

We need ice.

Oh, I'm going to spend all next week in a jacuzzi.

Susanna's fabulous.

Super good.

What is a nine -letter word for excellent?

Super good.

We're all going to Vegas to celebrate.

I'm not going.

We all are.

It's all planned.

Sylvie Roth's over and Cassie and Leona and... You go ahead. Maybe I'll drive

Mariah over later.

Don't you want to see Leona's opening?

No. I saw the charts today.

Her single stopped at 85.

Exactly what do you want?

Exactly?

Nothing.

My father advised me that life was a craft game.

That was one of the two lessons he taught me.

The other was that overturning a rock was apt to reveal a rattlesnake.

As lessons go, those two seem to hold up, but not to apply.

Came to see if you wanted to go into Vegas with Carter and Helene and Susanna

and Cassie and Leona.

You know I don't.

Look at me, I'll dude it up.

Why aren't you in bed at nine o 'clock?

Why not?

You're a good girl.

Green and a half second on.

Want some? No.

You're still flying.

Someday you'll wake up and you just won't feel

like playing anymore.

Can I have a glass of water?

I won't fake you.

I didn't know that.

I think I'd be here if I didn't know that.

Why are you here?

Nothing is.

You know why.

what you're gonna do.

I'm gonna get Kate.

I'm gonna live alone with Kate.

I'll do some canning.

Sweet India relish.

Pickled peaches.

Apple chutney.

Pomegranate jelly.

Summer squash.

Succotash.

I'm sorry.

Hold on a minute.

Just remember darling, all

the while you...

I did know.

If Carter and Helene want to think it happened because I was insane, I say let

them.

Carter called today, but I saw no point in talking to him.

On the whole, I talked to no one.

I come from trade instead.

On the way you light with strike -filled mason jars on a kitchen windowsill.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters, I know something Carter never

knew, or Elaine, or maybe you.

I know what nothing means.

And keep on playing.

Why?

Why not?