1 00:02:01,259 --> 00:02:02,844 Where did you find him, Chris? 2 00:02:02,860 --> 00:02:04,987 West fork of the No-name. 3 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:08,359 Must've broken off that glacier field up in Box Canyon. 4 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:09,551 Oh, I don't know. 5 00:02:09,581 --> 00:02:12,834 You know, landing the big ones is really the hard part. 6 00:02:12,780 --> 00:02:15,491 He has gentle eyes. 7 00:02:15,661 --> 00:02:17,788 Does he look French to you? 8 00:02:17,781 --> 00:02:20,158 Well, maybe. 9 00:02:20,341 --> 00:02:22,176 Ready in the freezer? 10 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:24,811 Yeah, just one more box of mooseburgers to move around, boss. 11 00:02:24,782 --> 00:02:27,243 Well, step on it there, Dave. We're losin' him here. 12 00:02:27,263 --> 00:02:28,097 Okay, okay. 13 00:02:28,142 --> 00:02:31,062 Hi, Dr. Fleischman. Isn't it stimulating? 14 00:02:31,023 --> 00:02:34,485 All depends, Shelly. This is our stiff, I take it. 15 00:02:34,423 --> 00:02:37,218 He was a fine specimen in his time. 16 00:02:37,183 --> 00:02:39,894 This ice must be, what- six or eight feet thick. 17 00:02:41,224 --> 00:02:44,185 Our guess is he's been frozen a hundred years. Maybe more. 18 00:02:44,145 --> 00:02:47,398 - The leggings are a dead giveaway. - You're joking, right? 19 00:02:47,345 --> 00:02:50,390 No way this body's more than a year old, if it is even a body- 20 00:02:50,345 --> 00:02:52,264 excuse me-which I doubt. 21 00:02:52,265 --> 00:02:55,644 Looks more like a mannequin or a wax dummy maybe. 22 00:02:55,626 --> 00:02:59,546 Well, whatever it is, it's Chris's find. He's donated it to Cicely. 23 00:02:59,466 --> 00:03:02,219 It's a historic landmark. What we plan to do- 24 00:03:02,187 --> 00:03:05,107 Whoa, wait a minute. You have to contact the authorities. 25 00:03:05,067 --> 00:03:08,904 - I thought you said it was a dummy. - If it's not a dummy, it's a body. 26 00:03:08,788 --> 00:03:11,916 If it's a body, it's somebody's body, which means the authorities have to be notified. 27 00:03:11,867 --> 00:03:16,831 As far as I'm concerned, after a hundred years, carrion becomes memorabilia. 28 00:03:16,708 --> 00:03:19,252 Comin' through. Watch your backs. Comin' through. 29 00:03:19,229 --> 00:03:20,980 Hey, be careful, Dave! 30 00:03:20,949 --> 00:03:25,287 Look, even if he is real, he can't be a hundred years old. 31 00:03:25,189 --> 00:03:28,943 I thought cryogenics could preserve a body for centuries, Fleischman. 32 00:03:28,869 --> 00:03:31,414 See, once again a little PBS proves a dangerous thing. 33 00:03:31,390 --> 00:03:35,644 Cryogenics is a laboratory science- liquid helium, controlled conditions. 34 00:03:35,551 --> 00:03:38,137 I mean, in the wild, autolysis and putrefaction... 35 00:03:38,111 --> 00:03:41,072 must follow necrosis like, uh, night follows day. 36 00:03:41,032 --> 00:03:45,578 Animals die here all the time. Has anyone ever seen a frozen moose on a stick? 37 00:03:45,472 --> 00:03:47,600 No. Nature reclaims its own. 38 00:03:47,632 --> 00:03:50,384 How do you explain this? What is it? 39 00:03:50,353 --> 00:03:53,439 - It's his journal. - What? Anyone can own a journal. 40 00:03:53,393 --> 00:03:54,560 It's in French. 41 00:03:54,553 --> 00:03:57,348 You're a Canuck, Holling. Why don't you give it a try? 42 00:03:57,313 --> 00:03:59,690 My French is awful rusty. 43 00:03:59,674 --> 00:04:02,593 Be careful, my friend. You're opening a portal to the past. 44 00:04:02,554 --> 00:04:07,267 Let's see. It's the diary of Pierre Le, uh, Moulin. 45 00:04:07,154 --> 00:04:11,283 - April the 2nd. 1814. - 1814? 46 00:04:11,195 --> 00:04:13,781 Well, come on. If that doesn't tell you something. 47 00:04:13,715 --> 00:04:16,260 "All is lost. Paris fallen. 48 00:04:16,236 --> 00:04:19,281 - Emperor in foul mood." - Emperor? 49 00:04:19,236 --> 00:04:21,155 - What emperor? - Napoleon. 50 00:04:21,116 --> 00:04:23,577 Oh, right. And I'm Pep� Le Pew. 51 00:04:23,557 --> 00:04:25,976 - Keep going, Holling. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 52 00:04:25,916 --> 00:04:28,210 I can't. I'm- I have to get my reading glasses. 53 00:04:28,157 --> 00:04:30,826 - Oh, here. Here. I'll try. - Oh, this oughta be good. 54 00:04:30,797 --> 00:04:33,508 Fleischman, I had a semester at the Sorbonne. 55 00:04:34,037 --> 00:04:38,709 "Emperor still angry with Talleyrand. 56 00:04:38,558 --> 00:04:40,519 Elba not bad." 57 00:04:40,478 --> 00:04:43,565 "Elba not bad"? What is that? The radical chic translation? 58 00:04:43,473 --> 00:04:45,690 "Elba pas mal." 59 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:49,059 - How would you say it, Fleischman? - Who's Elba? 60 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:51,796 She's an island, honey. Oh. 61 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,221 Hey, whatever is in that freezer, I guarantee... 62 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,662 it is not a 200-year-old Frenchman who was buddies with Napoleon. 63 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,395 - Why should we take your word for it? - Fine. 64 00:05:00,321 --> 00:05:02,656 Wheel him out here and turn up the heat, and I'll prove it. 65 00:05:02,681 --> 00:05:06,352 Oh, no. Nobody defrosts Pierre. 66 00:05:11,002 --> 00:05:13,254 Hey, hey! Hold it there. 67 00:05:13,242 --> 00:05:16,579 Go for the back of the knee. Less chance of defacement. 68 00:05:16,483 --> 00:05:18,360 Excuse me. Excuse me. 69 00:05:18,363 --> 00:05:20,782 Dave, we're in the middle of something here. 70 00:05:20,764 --> 00:05:24,726 We're out of fries. Got people to feed. 71 00:05:24,644 --> 00:05:26,146 Drill. 72 00:05:26,164 --> 00:05:28,875 - You're not gonna believe this. - Understatement of the hour. 73 00:05:28,845 --> 00:05:33,641 "June 21, 1815. Terrible storm. 74 00:05:33,525 --> 00:05:36,653 - Made landfall last night." - Landfall? 75 00:05:36,605 --> 00:05:38,941 - Shore. - Shore where? 76 00:05:38,925 --> 00:05:40,593 Here. Here where? 77 00:05:40,606 --> 00:05:43,108 Here, here. Alaska? 78 00:05:43,086 --> 00:05:45,505 Listen to this. "June 28. 79 00:05:45,447 --> 00:05:49,951 Napoleon still depressed over missing Waterloo. " 80 00:05:49,846 --> 00:05:54,560 Oh, wonderful. I- I- love it. I Now Napoleon wasn't at the Battle of Waterloo. 81 00:05:54,448 --> 00:05:58,702 It gets better. "July 11. Fished all morning. 82 00:05:58,608 --> 00:06:03,362 Met Matchka, enchanting native girl. Emperor enthralled." 83 00:06:03,249 --> 00:06:06,002 Hot-blooded little Corsican, wasn't he? 84 00:06:05,929 --> 00:06:07,556 Here's the last entry. 85 00:06:07,569 --> 00:06:11,990 "Two days to coast, then good-bye � l'Alaska. 86 00:06:11,890 --> 00:06:15,060 Sad to leave emperor but miss Paris so." 87 00:06:15,010 --> 00:06:17,513 Come on, you guys. Get serious. 88 00:06:17,490 --> 00:06:20,410 If this dummy is Napoleon�s buddy, then I'm the queen of Spain. 89 00:06:23,091 --> 00:06:24,843 We have skin. 90 00:06:28,571 --> 00:06:31,157 Pierre's the first celebrity we've ever had in Cicely. 91 00:06:31,131 --> 00:06:34,093 Well, the first dead celebrity anyway. 92 00:06:34,292 --> 00:06:36,211 I don't know much about Napoleon. 93 00:06:36,173 --> 00:06:40,469 I always thought it was funny, them naming a guy after a little flaky pastry. 94 00:06:41,814 --> 00:06:46,360 I wonder why he left France. I mean, he was emperor, right? 95 00:06:46,254 --> 00:06:49,716 Who quits the business when they're at the top of the charts? 96 00:06:49,654 --> 00:06:54,326 - Well, he had some troubles at home. - Relationship problems? 97 00:06:55,535 --> 00:06:58,329 No, I was thinking along the lines of a popular revolt. 98 00:06:58,256 --> 00:07:00,216 But now that you mention it, he could have been fleeing... 99 00:07:00,169 --> 00:07:02,136 some bad vibes in the romance department. 100 00:07:03,736 --> 00:07:05,654 What happened? 101 00:07:05,656 --> 00:07:08,534 Well, he had to ditch his beloved Josephine... 102 00:07:08,496 --> 00:07:10,957 because she couldn't bear him children, 103 00:07:10,937 --> 00:07:13,356 and complications ensued. 104 00:07:13,297 --> 00:07:15,758 He dumped her because of that? 105 00:07:15,698 --> 00:07:18,867 It's very important to some men, Shel. Napoleon wanted a son, 106 00:07:18,818 --> 00:07:21,737 an heir to carry on the Bonaparte name. 107 00:07:21,698 --> 00:07:23,616 How's the gooseberry pie today? 108 00:07:24,938 --> 00:07:26,690 - Shel? - Huh? 109 00:07:26,779 --> 00:07:29,990 - Gooseberry pie? - Oh, we-we ran out. 110 00:07:35,859 --> 00:07:38,362 - Mornin', Ruth-Anne. - Oh, hi, Ed. 111 00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:41,260 I can put your name on a waiting list. 112 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:42,972 Oh. Thanks, Ruth-Anne. 113 00:07:42,981 --> 00:07:45,566 - Number 17. - What's the list for? 114 00:07:46,581 --> 00:07:48,667 You didn't come in for books on Napoleon? 115 00:07:49,781 --> 00:07:51,950 No, but that's an excellent idea. 116 00:07:51,941 --> 00:07:54,027 Well, what can I get you then? 117 00:07:54,022 --> 00:07:56,233 Oh, I came in because of the sign in the window. 118 00:07:56,222 --> 00:08:00,977 - "Special on Huggies"? - No, the "Help Wanted" sign. 119 00:08:00,822 --> 00:08:03,951 Oh. Aren't you working for Maurice anymore? 120 00:08:03,903 --> 00:08:08,658 Oh, yeah. Well, he's real busy mapping out the future, 121 00:08:08,503 --> 00:08:11,006 and I could use the extra money. 122 00:08:10,984 --> 00:08:13,987 I just sent my latest script in to a real Hollywood producer. 123 00:08:13,945 --> 00:08:16,114 Is this to a person you know, Ed? 124 00:08:16,105 --> 00:08:19,734 Oh, no. He ran this ad in American Film. 125 00:08:20,985 --> 00:08:22,779 "Write scripts that sell. 126 00:08:22,746 --> 00:08:26,124 Critical analysis of your script, $200." 127 00:08:26,065 --> 00:08:30,445 Two hundred dollars? I assume whoever this is has sold a lot of scripts. 128 00:08:30,346 --> 00:08:32,265 Oh, I hope so. 129 00:08:32,266 --> 00:08:34,769 Were you looking for any kind of help in particular? 130 00:08:34,747 --> 00:08:36,916 I don't have much background in retail work. 131 00:08:36,907 --> 00:08:40,119 Restocking, labeling- you know, general help. 132 00:08:41,827 --> 00:08:43,746 I could do that. 133 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:47,253 Animal, vegetable or mineral, Fleischman? 134 00:08:47,188 --> 00:08:50,317 Animal. Human animal. 135 00:08:50,269 --> 00:08:53,564 Pierre is definitely human. Or was. 136 00:08:53,470 --> 00:08:55,972 All right! Good job, Fleischman. 137 00:08:55,949 --> 00:08:58,661 Great work. Now we can move to phase two. 138 00:08:58,590 --> 00:09:00,676 Well, I don't want to rain on your cadaver, Maurice, 139 00:09:00,670 --> 00:09:03,548 but all we've confirmed is that Pierre was a living, breathing person. 140 00:09:03,510 --> 00:09:05,095 Yeah. What else could there be? 141 00:09:05,111 --> 00:09:07,321 Well, I can't put an estimate on his date of expiration. 142 00:09:07,311 --> 00:09:10,022 - Why not? - I just - I don't have the equipment. 143 00:09:09,991 --> 00:09:14,120 Fleischman! The must crucial piece of equipment in any mission... 144 00:09:14,032 --> 00:09:16,034 is the man in charge. 145 00:09:16,032 --> 00:09:17,826 Now, you're a scientist. 146 00:09:17,792 --> 00:09:20,462 But more important, you're a New Yorker. 147 00:09:20,392 --> 00:09:23,812 You were born with an innate skepticism, 148 00:09:23,713 --> 00:09:28,468 a natural sense of superiority in the way of the world. 149 00:09:28,314 --> 00:09:31,025 You've got all the equipment right here. 150 00:09:30,994 --> 00:09:34,831 All I'm asking is that you use it for me. 151 00:09:34,755 --> 00:09:36,423 For Cicely. 152 00:09:37,794 --> 00:09:40,464 Well, I suppose I could devise a few tests. 153 00:09:40,435 --> 00:09:41,937 I could examine the fabric. 154 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:44,332 Good boy. I knew I could count on you. 155 00:09:44,315 --> 00:09:47,526 I'm gonna put all my plans on hold until you sign off on Frenchie here. 156 00:09:55,076 --> 00:09:57,704 History is powerful stuff. 157 00:09:57,677 --> 00:10:01,473 One day your world's fine; the next, it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. 158 00:10:01,397 --> 00:10:05,485 Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? 159 00:10:05,398 --> 00:10:09,861 Thoughts turn to our refrigerated friend, Pierre Le Moulin. 160 00:10:09,758 --> 00:10:11,427 Pierre the Windmill. 161 00:10:11,398 --> 00:10:13,692 Stepchild to history. 162 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:17,393 Man, if those chapped lips could speak, what would they say? 163 00:10:17,273 --> 00:10:20,282 Bonjour? Mes amis, j'ai faim? 164 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,354 I saw your lips moving from across the room, O'Connell. 165 00:10:26,281 --> 00:10:28,950 Gotten to the part yet where they meet up with Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill? 166 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:32,504 - Oh, Fleischman, park it somewhere else. - Any other bombshells to drop? 167 00:10:32,441 --> 00:10:34,693 - She's pregnant. - Who? 168 00:10:34,642 --> 00:10:36,185 Matchka. 169 00:10:36,842 --> 00:10:39,720 - The little guy finally got one in the oven. - Yeah. 170 00:10:39,682 --> 00:10:42,602 This is almost touching. I mean, really, the na�vet�. 171 00:10:42,522 --> 00:10:46,652 Has anyone stopped to consider the sheer absurdity of what we're talking about? 172 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:49,149 What? You mean Matchka gettin' preggers so quick? 173 00:10:49,123 --> 00:10:51,584 I mean Pierre and Napoleon. How did they get here? 174 00:10:51,563 --> 00:10:53,649 747? QE2? 175 00:10:53,643 --> 00:10:57,272 Where did they sail from? Why? Didn't they read the brochures? 176 00:10:57,164 --> 00:11:01,918 Fleischman, for your information, there was a steady stream of Russians to Alaska by 1800. 177 00:11:01,765 --> 00:11:03,183 Fur traders. 178 00:11:03,205 --> 00:11:07,626 Yeah, Napoleon and Pierre could have pretended they were trappers. That'd work. 179 00:11:07,525 --> 00:11:10,945 - Thanks for sharing. - What is your problem? 180 00:11:12,486 --> 00:11:14,822 Fleischman, why does this bug you so much? 181 00:11:14,766 --> 00:11:17,144 You know why this bugs me so much? Because there's the small matter... 182 00:11:17,086 --> 00:11:18,213 of historic record to deal with. 183 00:11:18,247 --> 00:11:21,417 It is a known fact Napoleon lost at Waterloo, abdicated the throne... 184 00:11:21,367 --> 00:11:24,120 and spent the rest of his life in exile on St. Helena 185 00:11:24,087 --> 00:11:28,842 it is a known fact, O'Connell. Yes. It is in every history book ever written, O'Connell. 186 00:11:28,727 --> 00:11:31,605 Now, who is being naive now, Fleischman? 187 00:11:31,569 --> 00:11:33,696 I bet you think Oswald acted alone. 188 00:11:33,649 --> 00:11:36,360 Here you go, Fleischman. I snipped it off Pierre's sleeve myself. 189 00:11:36,329 --> 00:11:39,249 Kind of makes me feel... unclean. 190 00:11:39,169 --> 00:11:43,757 I'll bet anything there's strands of nylon or rayon in here, some kind of synthetic. 191 00:11:45,090 --> 00:11:47,885 Then we'll see whose version of history stands up. 192 00:11:55,931 --> 00:12:00,352 Would you look at this, Ruth-Anne. That's not a can of peas. 193 00:12:00,252 --> 00:12:02,420 - That's a can of art. - Do you want it? 194 00:12:03,413 --> 00:12:04,622 Could I? 195 00:12:04,653 --> 00:12:06,988 - It's yours. - Right. Thanks. 196 00:12:08,252 --> 00:12:10,505 And this is for your good work today. 197 00:12:11,093 --> 00:12:13,095 See you tomorrow, Ed. 198 00:12:15,294 --> 00:12:18,422 Would you like to come to dinner tonight, Ruth-Anne? I'll cook. 199 00:12:18,373 --> 00:12:21,919 - Don't you have plans? - No, not really. 200 00:12:21,854 --> 00:12:23,940 Well, dinner would be nice, Ed. 201 00:12:29,495 --> 00:12:32,957 - Vegetarian or con carne? - I'm easy. 202 00:12:35,496 --> 00:12:38,374 I won't use the peas. They're for appreciating. 203 00:12:39,857 --> 00:12:42,318 I don't understand. We sterilized the test tubes. 204 00:12:42,257 --> 00:12:46,178 We verified the purity of the reagents. We ran control groups. 205 00:12:46,097 --> 00:12:48,767 - We did everything. - I know. 206 00:12:48,697 --> 00:12:51,283 - Maybe you'll think of something. - What's to think? 207 00:12:51,258 --> 00:12:54,302 I- I've checked this eight times. I've proven it. 208 00:12:54,258 --> 00:12:58,220 Although pathology was never my strong suit, I'm pretty sure the body checks out too. 209 00:12:59,019 --> 00:13:02,189 All right. Here's the deal. 210 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:05,228 Pierre's real. He lived over 176 years ago. 211 00:13:05,139 --> 00:13:07,767 I mean, he may have even written a diary. I can accept that. 212 00:13:07,740 --> 00:13:11,827 H- He's real, but he's a nut. 213 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:16,328 Yeah, yeah, the diary is the manifestation of a highly disturbed personality. 214 00:13:16,221 --> 00:13:19,182 Yes! Okay, um, uh, symptoms. Other than the diary, 215 00:13:19,141 --> 00:13:22,019 what corroborating physical evidence could there be for mental impairment? 216 00:13:21,982 --> 00:13:23,900 A missing frontal lobe, perhaps. 217 00:13:23,902 --> 00:13:27,072 My cousin ate bad berries once. Thought he was a tree. 218 00:13:27,022 --> 00:13:29,107 Diet. Excellent, Marilyn! Excellent! 219 00:13:29,103 --> 00:13:31,355 We remove the stomach, examine its contents. 220 00:13:31,342 --> 00:13:33,762 Wha-What kind of cup did Pierre drink from? 221 00:13:33,743 --> 00:13:35,662 Lead poisoning can produce hallucinations. 222 00:13:35,663 --> 00:13:37,582 There'd be signs of cerebral edema. 223 00:13:37,584 --> 00:13:40,962 The liver, the kidney would have internuclear inclusion bodies. 224 00:13:40,904 --> 00:13:42,906 Maurice will never let you cut him up. 225 00:13:44,865 --> 00:13:46,033 Take a nap. 226 00:13:46,184 --> 00:13:48,436 How can I nap when the course of Western civilization... 227 00:13:48,385 --> 00:13:50,644 as we know it rests on my shoulders? 228 00:13:50,585 --> 00:13:53,088 Do you realize the can of worms that this would open up? 229 00:13:53,025 --> 00:13:55,486 I mean, not to mention what it would do to the textbook industry. 230 00:13:55,466 --> 00:13:57,885 It's like saying the moon is made of green cheese. 231 00:13:57,906 --> 00:14:00,367 Where does that leave Mars? Gorgonzola? 232 00:14:00,346 --> 00:14:04,267 I mean, if Napoleon wasn't at Waterloo, m - maybe Washington never crossed the Delaware. 233 00:14:04,187 --> 00:14:06,564 Maybe Joshua never fought the Battle of Jericho. 234 00:14:06,547 --> 00:14:09,466 It is like opening up a trapdoor to oblivion. 235 00:14:09,428 --> 00:14:12,180 If you can't count on history, what can you count on? I mean, where does it end? 236 00:14:13,628 --> 00:14:16,256 I sound like O'Connell. I mean, she's got everyone convinced... 237 00:14:16,188 --> 00:14:20,526 there's some lost tribe of Napoleons and Matchkas out there spouting Proust. 238 00:14:20,389 --> 00:14:22,850 - Well? - Well what? 239 00:14:22,829 --> 00:14:25,290 There are the Tellakutans. 240 00:14:27,709 --> 00:14:30,254 - Would you like more fruit cocktail? - Oh, no, thanks. 241 00:14:30,230 --> 00:14:32,232 Everything was delicious. 242 00:14:32,230 --> 00:14:35,400 I thought we'd take a little break before dessert. 243 00:14:35,351 --> 00:14:38,103 - Okay. Can I help with the dishes? - Oh, that's okay. 244 00:14:40,871 --> 00:14:42,832 I have instant coffees of the world. 245 00:14:42,791 --> 00:14:45,544 - Wonderful. - What nationality? 246 00:14:46,952 --> 00:14:50,664 - Bavarian chocolate mint? - Good choice. 247 00:14:53,632 --> 00:14:56,635 Just make yourself comfortable. This is only gonna take a second. 248 00:14:56,793 --> 00:14:58,629 Okay. 249 00:15:02,434 --> 00:15:06,105 "To Ed. Best, Woody Allen." 250 00:15:05,994 --> 00:15:10,165 - Isn't that nice. - Yeah. Woody's the greatest. 251 00:15:10,115 --> 00:15:13,118 You know, he has Manhattan, 252 00:15:13,115 --> 00:15:16,160 Ingmar has Sweden, and I have Cicely. 253 00:15:16,115 --> 00:15:19,869 Although I'm gonna have to move to Fairbanks before my dream is realized. 254 00:15:19,756 --> 00:15:22,217 Well, I see you've given this a lot of thought. 255 00:15:22,156 --> 00:15:24,325 Uh-huh. Still, it's hard not to have doubts. 256 00:15:24,317 --> 00:15:28,112 We all have doubts, Ed. When I came north, I was full of' em. 257 00:15:28,037 --> 00:15:30,289 Really? When was that? 258 00:15:30,277 --> 00:15:34,114 1971. Bill's heart finally gave out. 259 00:15:33,998 --> 00:15:37,293 - Who's Bill? - My husband. 260 00:15:38,438 --> 00:15:40,940 The kids were grown. The country was in a mess. 261 00:15:40,919 --> 00:15:44,506 So I put the house on the market, threw some things in the car and hit the road. 262 00:15:44,439 --> 00:15:46,691 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. 263 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,888 One thing led to another, and I ended up in Cicely, Alaska, 264 00:15:50,839 --> 00:15:54,802 with a '61 DeSoto, a cat and $800 in my pocket. 265 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,062 Wow. Where are your kids now? 266 00:15:58,881 --> 00:16:01,258 Rudy's in Portland. He drives a truck, 267 00:16:01,241 --> 00:16:03,827 and he writes pastoral poetry in his spare time. 268 00:16:05,361 --> 00:16:07,322 And Matthew- 269 00:16:09,002 --> 00:16:11,212 That boy had such promise. 270 00:16:11,202 --> 00:16:13,162 What-What happened to him? 271 00:16:14,363 --> 00:16:19,284 He's in Chicago. He's an investment banker. 272 00:16:19,123 --> 00:16:20,958 I'm sorry. 273 00:16:22,523 --> 00:16:25,985 Life's full of surprises, Ed- some happy and some not. 274 00:16:26,884 --> 00:16:28,177 Yeah. 275 00:16:29,964 --> 00:16:31,883 Good coffee. 276 00:16:33,565 --> 00:16:35,483 Well, I sure am pooped. 277 00:16:37,325 --> 00:16:38,493 Good night. 278 00:16:38,526 --> 00:16:41,111 Don't you want to fool around, babe? 279 00:16:41,086 --> 00:16:46,174 It's been a long day, Shelly. I've got a headache. 280 00:16:48,286 --> 00:16:49,913 Holling? Huh? 281 00:16:50,767 --> 00:16:52,394 Is it Pierre? 282 00:16:52,367 --> 00:16:55,662 Having a dead guy in the freezer- that's a real turnoff for you, isn't it? 283 00:16:55,567 --> 00:16:58,487 We've had bodies in the freezer before, Shelly. 284 00:17:01,928 --> 00:17:05,306 You hate my lip gloss. I shouldn't have switched, but Ruth-Anne was out of- 285 00:17:05,249 --> 00:17:09,336 Your lips taste fine, Shelly. It's just that I'm tired. 286 00:17:09,250 --> 00:17:13,003 Let's try to get some sleep. All right? 287 00:17:15,410 --> 00:17:16,995 All right. 288 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:20,897 See you in the morning, Shelly. 289 00:17:32,892 --> 00:17:35,436 So the boy's bona fide, huh? 290 00:17:35,413 --> 00:17:38,082 Well, as far as a medical degree from one of the... 291 00:17:38,013 --> 00:17:41,099 nation's outstanding institutions of higher learning can determine, yes. 292 00:17:41,013 --> 00:17:44,350 But I still think we should turn Pierre over to experts for confirmation. 293 00:17:44,293 --> 00:17:46,504 Let 'em fight for the privilege. 294 00:17:47,574 --> 00:17:49,910 You've done an outstanding job for Cicely, Joel. 295 00:17:51,414 --> 00:17:53,333 I won't forget it. 296 00:17:56,055 --> 00:17:58,558 - Bye, Marilyn. - Bye, Maurice. 297 00:17:58,495 --> 00:18:01,457 - She's here. - Who's here? 298 00:18:04,416 --> 00:18:07,294 There's something wrong with me, Dr. Fleischman. Something basic. 299 00:18:07,257 --> 00:18:10,510 - Okay. Can you give me a bit of a hint? - Yeah. 300 00:18:10,456 --> 00:18:14,085 - Well, like, I'm barren. - Barren? 301 00:18:13,977 --> 00:18:17,063 Yeah, like the Sahara or Death Valley or- 302 00:18:18,017 --> 00:18:21,187 You know, barren - nothing grows, no water, can't get knocked up. 303 00:18:21,138 --> 00:18:23,265 My womb's a sandbox, Dr. Fleischman. 304 00:18:23,258 --> 00:18:26,970 Shelly, one hysterical pregnancy does not imply infertility. 305 00:18:28,179 --> 00:18:30,848 You know how some people walk through poison ivy, 306 00:18:30,779 --> 00:18:33,991 and everybody else gets these big, ugly blotches, but they don't? 307 00:18:33,939 --> 00:18:36,650 - Natural immunity. - Yeah. 308 00:18:36,619 --> 00:18:38,747 Well, that must be what I have with sperm. 309 00:18:38,740 --> 00:18:40,951 I mean, I've been around it a lot, Dr. Fleischman, 310 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:43,361 but the little buggers never take root. 311 00:18:43,340 --> 00:18:46,927 Well, Shelly, you practice some kind of birth control, don't you? 312 00:18:46,861 --> 00:18:49,155 Something. I mean, you use something. 313 00:18:49,141 --> 00:18:52,603 Obviously I don't have to. Is there some way to see... 314 00:18:52,541 --> 00:18:55,795 if maybe just a little, tiny flower could bloom someday? 315 00:18:55,742 --> 00:18:58,703 Well, sure. There's all kinds of tests we can, uh, run. 316 00:18:58,622 --> 00:19:00,874 - It's just, they take time. - I don't care. 317 00:19:00,863 --> 00:19:03,240 Okay, fine. Make an appointment for you and Holling, and we'll- 318 00:19:03,223 --> 00:19:05,684 Holling? He has to be here? 319 00:19:05,664 --> 00:19:09,960 Yes, I definitely need Holling for this, Shelly. I-You need Holling for this. 320 00:19:09,823 --> 00:19:12,785 But I just want the test on me! 321 00:19:12,704 --> 00:19:16,083 Well, they involve a small contribution from the male. 322 00:19:16,024 --> 00:19:18,235 Oh, God! 323 00:19:18,265 --> 00:19:21,393 Shelly, what is the problem in telling Holling? 324 00:19:21,345 --> 00:19:25,725 Because if it turns out to be true, he's gonna dump me like Napoleon dumped Josephine. 325 00:19:25,626 --> 00:19:28,587 - Holling said that? - Well, not in those words. 326 00:19:28,546 --> 00:19:30,214 Well, what words did he use? 327 00:19:30,186 --> 00:19:33,397 None. But ever since that dumb Pierre showed up, 328 00:19:33,347 --> 00:19:36,225 he flips out every time somebody mentions Napoleon. 329 00:19:36,187 --> 00:19:38,731 And then Chris told me what happened to Josephine. 330 00:19:38,708 --> 00:19:41,711 And you put two and two together and came up with 22? 331 00:19:41,708 --> 00:19:43,043 Yeah. 332 00:19:44,588 --> 00:19:46,256 You folks just go on home now. 333 00:19:46,269 --> 00:19:49,689 I have had it. I've been here for two days. I'm worn out. 334 00:19:49,628 --> 00:19:52,756 You can come back and see Pierre some other time. He ain't gonna melt or anything. 335 00:19:52,709 --> 00:19:56,170 I've been showing that piece of frozen French ice since day before yesterday. 336 00:19:56,110 --> 00:19:58,571 - I am worn out. - The price of fame, I take it. 337 00:19:58,550 --> 00:20:01,261 I guess so. Well, what can I get you, Joel? 338 00:20:01,190 --> 00:20:03,776 Actually I'd like to talk to you, Holling, if you have a minute. 339 00:20:03,750 --> 00:20:06,545 - Sure. - Um, it's about Shelly. 340 00:20:06,470 --> 00:20:10,141 Damn. She suspects, doesn't she? 341 00:20:10,031 --> 00:20:13,410 - It's true? - She can read me like an open book. 342 00:20:13,351 --> 00:20:15,603 It's totally absurd, Holling. Shelly's not infertile. 343 00:20:15,592 --> 00:20:17,510 Even if she were, you could always adopt. 344 00:20:17,512 --> 00:20:20,682 - Adopt what? - Children. 345 00:20:20,592 --> 00:20:22,928 I don't want any children. 346 00:20:22,912 --> 00:20:27,375 - What's all this about a barren womb? - Womb? 347 00:20:27,274 --> 00:20:29,901 Yeah, womb. Shelly's womb. 348 00:20:29,874 --> 00:20:31,876 Death Valley. 349 00:20:31,874 --> 00:20:34,752 Maybe you oughta tell me what's on your mind, Holling. 350 00:20:35,834 --> 00:20:40,088 Joel, this is something I have never told anyone. 351 00:20:41,435 --> 00:20:43,980 I planned to take it to the grave with me. 352 00:20:43,955 --> 00:20:47,458 But since Pierre showed up, it's like a sign. 353 00:20:47,396 --> 00:20:49,898 You cannot outrun your past, Joel. 354 00:20:51,276 --> 00:20:54,237 I come from royalty. French royalty. 355 00:20:54,196 --> 00:20:58,659 A direct line from Louis XIV, on my father's side. 356 00:20:58,517 --> 00:21:00,310 Shelly, order up! 357 00:21:00,277 --> 00:21:03,739 You don't believe me, do you? Well, in a normal week, maybe not. 358 00:21:03,677 --> 00:21:07,181 But compared to Pierre, this one's relatively easy to swallow. 359 00:21:07,118 --> 00:21:10,788 Our original name was De Vincoeur. 360 00:21:10,678 --> 00:21:15,516 We're bluebloods, Joel. Aristocrats of the worst kind. 361 00:21:15,439 --> 00:21:19,277 We abused the peasants, raped the countryside. 362 00:21:19,159 --> 00:21:22,121 By the time we got to my Great-great-grandfather Claude, 363 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,626 the family estates had been run to the ground. 364 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,978 The peasants had all fled. There was no one left to abuse, 365 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,175 so Claude came to Canada where he blew the rest of our family money... 366 00:21:32,081 --> 00:21:36,794 gambling, drinking, exploiting the local Indian population. 367 00:21:37,001 --> 00:21:39,671 His son and grandson... 368 00:21:39,642 --> 00:21:42,353 and, yes, even my own father, they were all the same. 369 00:21:42,322 --> 00:21:45,325 Joel, they were awful people. 370 00:21:45,283 --> 00:21:48,453 Hardhearted, despicable creatures, one and all. 371 00:21:48,403 --> 00:21:53,199 Not one ounce of the milk of human kindness in the lot of them. 372 00:21:53,043 --> 00:21:56,463 Which is why, when I came to Alaska, 373 00:21:56,484 --> 00:22:00,321 out of shame and remorse over what my kin had done, 374 00:22:01,765 --> 00:22:05,185 I dropped the "De" from the family name. 375 00:22:06,405 --> 00:22:09,825 - Fantastic. - So you can see my problem then? 376 00:22:09,726 --> 00:22:12,061 No, you're still one step ahead of me there. 377 00:22:12,046 --> 00:22:16,342 Shelly thinks I'm a plain man from a plain stock. 378 00:22:16,246 --> 00:22:18,749 When she finds out that I am aristocratic scum, 379 00:22:18,727 --> 00:22:21,813 it will break her heart and, hence, mine. 380 00:22:21,807 --> 00:22:25,186 Holling, what your family did, your ancestors, has got nothing to do with you. 381 00:22:25,088 --> 00:22:29,300 We are all just genes, Joel. 382 00:22:29,208 --> 00:22:32,002 And this mortal coil, nothing more than a vessel... 383 00:22:31,929 --> 00:22:35,224 by which the gene pool is transported... 384 00:22:35,128 --> 00:22:37,965 from one flower to the next. 385 00:22:37,929 --> 00:22:41,432 And the Vincoeur pool is poisoned. 386 00:22:41,370 --> 00:22:45,707 So what you're saying is your family is like this genetic Chernobyl? 387 00:22:45,610 --> 00:22:48,905 Which is why I desire no heirs. 388 00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:55,213 The De Vincoeur line dies with me. 389 00:23:02,892 --> 00:23:06,020 - Ed? Anyone home? - It's open. 390 00:23:09,893 --> 00:23:13,813 - You all right, Ed? - Yeah, I guess. 391 00:23:13,693 --> 00:23:15,820 I got my script back. 392 00:23:15,814 --> 00:23:19,985 And what did this big shot producer fella have to say? 393 00:23:19,894 --> 00:23:22,897 - He hated it. - Your movie script? 394 00:23:22,815 --> 00:23:26,652 - Yep. Said it sounded familiar. - What's it about? 395 00:23:26,575 --> 00:23:28,869 Nothing much. Just my life. 396 00:23:28,856 --> 00:23:32,157 He said your life sounded familiar? 397 00:23:32,055 --> 00:23:36,643 Yep. He said I had no midpoint, whatever that is. 398 00:23:36,536 --> 00:23:39,622 Well, did he make any helpful suggestions? 399 00:23:39,576 --> 00:23:41,412 Oh, yeah. 400 00:23:41,376 --> 00:23:46,923 To consider a vocation more suitable to my natural abilities. 401 00:23:46,777 --> 00:23:48,737 What are you going to do? 402 00:23:48,777 --> 00:23:54,116 I think this is what they call a critical juncture in a young man's career. 403 00:23:56,498 --> 00:23:58,917 - Ed? - Yeah. 404 00:23:58,899 --> 00:24:01,651 Remember my son I told you about, the investment banker? 405 00:24:01,579 --> 00:24:04,582 - Rudy. - Matthew. 406 00:24:04,539 --> 00:24:07,542 That boy could've been a musician. 407 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:10,255 You should have heard him play the trumpet. 408 00:24:10,220 --> 00:24:12,431 Just like Bix Beiderbecke. 409 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:15,256 Warm, round tone. 410 00:24:16,581 --> 00:24:18,499 I ruined it for him. 411 00:24:18,502 --> 00:24:20,712 To this day, I feel guilty. 412 00:24:22,901 --> 00:24:24,445 Y- You told him to quit? 413 00:24:24,462 --> 00:24:30,134 No. I told him to play all the time. I- I told him how good he was. 414 00:24:29,983 --> 00:24:33,194 You see, Ed, I didn't put anything in his way. 415 00:24:34,143 --> 00:24:36,520 An artist needs obstacles. 416 00:24:36,503 --> 00:24:40,966 He needs to contend... to find out what he's made of. 417 00:24:41,544 --> 00:24:44,463 Matthew didn't have to fight for his art. 418 00:24:44,425 --> 00:24:47,970 Eventually he forgot the horn, went to business school, 419 00:24:47,905 --> 00:24:50,449 and you know the rest. 420 00:24:51,426 --> 00:24:53,219 Was he really good? 421 00:24:53,225 --> 00:24:57,396 Well, I don't know whether he could have earned a living. 422 00:24:57,546 --> 00:25:01,341 But I do know that when he left his music behind, 423 00:25:01,226 --> 00:25:03,729 he left part of his soul. 424 00:25:11,187 --> 00:25:13,690 Comin' to work tomorrow? 425 00:25:13,628 --> 00:25:14,712 Good. 426 00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:28,269 Hey, Fleischman, aren't you going to the meeting? 427 00:25:28,229 --> 00:25:29,939 Are you okay? 428 00:25:31,670 --> 00:25:34,465 Fleischman, you look like your dog just died. 429 00:25:34,390 --> 00:25:36,149 If you had a dog, which is doubtful, 430 00:25:36,111 --> 00:25:38,446 considering your lack of empathy for the animal kingdom. 431 00:25:38,391 --> 00:25:41,895 That's terrific bedside manner, O'Connell. I feel better already. Thanks. 432 00:25:44,992 --> 00:25:49,830 Fleischman, you're just depressed because you think we're all morons for believing in Pierre. 433 00:25:49,713 --> 00:25:51,297 - No. - No? 434 00:25:51,473 --> 00:25:54,893 No. I'm depressed because I believe in Pierre. 435 00:25:54,833 --> 00:25:59,004 All those years of rigorously honed academic skills out the window. 436 00:25:58,874 --> 00:26:01,752 I mean, the painstaking- not to mention the expensive- 437 00:26:01,714 --> 00:26:04,967 development of a state-of-the-art, late-20th-century mind. 438 00:26:04,914 --> 00:26:08,876 In one fell swoop, my whole gestalt is in the toilet. Kaplooey. 439 00:26:10,834 --> 00:26:13,504 Well, Fleischman, I gotta say I'm, uh- 440 00:26:13,435 --> 00:26:15,812 Well, I don't know what the right word is. 441 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:20,836 - What? - Amazed. 442 00:26:22,716 --> 00:26:26,511 What is it around here? The water? The air? 443 00:26:26,397 --> 00:26:28,566 I feel like I'm changing. 444 00:26:28,557 --> 00:26:31,811 I'm mutating in some horribly grotesque way. 445 00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:35,719 I actually- I believe that Napoleon was here instead of at Waterloo. 446 00:26:35,638 --> 00:26:37,598 What happened to me? 447 00:26:38,518 --> 00:26:42,271 My-My faculties, my- my sense of self. 448 00:26:42,199 --> 00:26:44,326 I'm losing it. 449 00:26:46,439 --> 00:26:50,109 I'm glad to see the total meltdown of my psyche is so amusing to you, O'Connell. 450 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,542 Oh, Fleischman, come on. 451 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,772 It's life growth. 452 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,680 Look, you came here with a limited grasp of the world. 453 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,393 What's so wrong with-with losing that? 454 00:27:02,681 --> 00:27:04,433 Huh? Come on. 455 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:11,546 That's great. Thanks again. 456 00:27:14,482 --> 00:27:16,901 We don't have the artist's rendering yet, 457 00:27:16,883 --> 00:27:19,469 but it'll be a tasteful little museum, 458 00:27:19,443 --> 00:27:22,780 featuring Pierre's refrigerated casket, 459 00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:25,895 right in the center of Napoleon Square. 460 00:27:25,844 --> 00:27:30,557 Maurice, I applaud the amount of imagination you've put into this thing- 461 00:27:30,485 --> 00:27:33,196 build a Hyatt, they will come- I think we all agree on that, right? 462 00:27:33,124 --> 00:27:36,586 But, Maurice, tonight I'm troubled. 463 00:27:36,525 --> 00:27:40,070 Chris, we're not gonna do anything to destroy the beauty of Cicely. 464 00:27:39,966 --> 00:27:42,385 That's why we're putting all the parking underground. 465 00:27:42,366 --> 00:27:44,034 I- I understand that, Maurice. 466 00:27:44,046 --> 00:27:48,133 It's not the leveling of a sleepy, little town into a commercial eyesore that bothers me. 467 00:27:48,047 --> 00:27:51,675 - Then what is it? - The metaphysical implications. 468 00:27:51,607 --> 00:27:53,734 Unleashing Pierre changes history, 469 00:27:53,727 --> 00:27:57,022 and that's heavy-duty trampling on the karma of the collective unconscious. 470 00:27:56,928 --> 00:27:59,847 Are we ready to accept responsibility for that? 471 00:27:59,808 --> 00:28:03,437 You wanna find your coordinates, son? You're losing me here. 472 00:28:03,368 --> 00:28:06,746 Maurice, thousands of the old French Guard died at Waterloo. 473 00:28:06,689 --> 00:28:09,441 Thousands of British and Prussians died stopping them. 474 00:28:09,409 --> 00:28:11,911 You take Napoleon out of that loop, and what's left? 475 00:28:11,890 --> 00:28:14,643 Haven't we stripped the meaning of those deaths? 476 00:28:14,610 --> 00:28:16,821 Made a mockery of the bloodshed? 477 00:28:16,770 --> 00:28:21,567 Our lives are fragile things, built on creaky foundations. 478 00:28:21,410 --> 00:28:23,496 You chip away at the edifice of history, 479 00:28:23,491 --> 00:28:27,120 and, well, you weaken one of the few spiritual timbers we have left. 480 00:28:27,012 --> 00:28:30,432 Did George Washington really chop down that cherry tree? 481 00:28:30,372 --> 00:28:33,208 Did Davy Crockett kill a bear when he was only three? 482 00:28:33,132 --> 00:28:34,800 It's pretty unlikely. 483 00:28:34,812 --> 00:28:39,441 It makes our lives a little easier, though, doesn't it? I mean, it's nice to think that. 484 00:28:39,333 --> 00:28:41,919 I'm just saying that revealing Pierre's secret... 485 00:28:41,893 --> 00:28:44,354 might trigger a maelstrom of self-doubt, 486 00:28:44,294 --> 00:28:47,005 releasing untold psychic devastation- 487 00:28:46,974 --> 00:28:49,351 a metaphysical tsunami, if you will. 488 00:28:53,455 --> 00:28:55,415 Thank you, Chris. 489 00:28:55,414 --> 00:28:58,251 Now let's get back to the business at hand, shall we? 490 00:28:58,215 --> 00:29:01,635 No, wait a minute. You know, Chris has a point. 491 00:29:01,576 --> 00:29:03,619 We're only thinking of ourselves. 492 00:29:03,616 --> 00:29:06,327 Yeah. What about Pierre? How would he feel? 493 00:29:06,296 --> 00:29:09,049 He's dead, Shelly. He doesn't feel anything. 494 00:29:10,216 --> 00:29:12,302 Now hold on. I Hold on here! 495 00:29:13,617 --> 00:29:17,037 Sentiment's one thing, but economic development- 496 00:29:16,937 --> 00:29:20,691 controlled economic development- is quite another. 497 00:29:20,618 --> 00:29:22,536 I move we put Pierre back. 498 00:29:22,538 --> 00:29:24,206 Sit down, lady! 499 00:29:25,258 --> 00:29:27,760 There's a motion on the floor. Fleischman. 500 00:29:27,739 --> 00:29:30,700 Yeah, I hate to say this, but I think Maurice may be right. 501 00:29:30,658 --> 00:29:33,328 Now, Pierre has yielded a new truth to the world, 502 00:29:33,259 --> 00:29:35,387 and however ludicrous and personally unsettling... 503 00:29:35,339 --> 00:29:38,676 and regardless of its impact, I think we have an obligation to tell that truth. 504 00:29:38,580 --> 00:29:40,206 - Why? - Yeah, why? 505 00:29:40,220 --> 00:29:42,514 Because the truth belongs to everyone. 506 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:46,004 What would've happened if Newton had decided to keep the law of gravity to himself? 507 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:48,987 The truth initiates events whose impact we can't foresee. 508 00:29:48,941 --> 00:29:51,610 It's our responsibility to just tell it and get out of the way. 509 00:29:51,582 --> 00:29:55,211 There you go, ladies and gentlemen. That's the opinion of a New York doctor. 510 00:29:55,142 --> 00:29:57,603 A Jewish New York doctor. 511 00:30:00,422 --> 00:30:03,926 Joel, I think that you're confusing the truth with facts. 512 00:30:03,863 --> 00:30:06,950 No, the facts change, Chris. The truth is constant. 513 00:30:06,903 --> 00:30:10,198 Oh, on the contrary, my friend, the truth changes. 514 00:30:10,144 --> 00:30:13,105 Oh, yeah? Give me an example. 515 00:30:13,064 --> 00:30:15,608 The truth about Custer. Hero or villain? 516 00:30:15,584 --> 00:30:18,086 Civilizer or agent of genocide? 517 00:30:18,065 --> 00:30:20,776 The truth slips and turns. The facts remain the same. 518 00:30:20,745 --> 00:30:24,624 Yeah? What about light? Particle or wave? 519 00:30:24,506 --> 00:30:26,716 I mean, it exhibits qualities of both. 520 00:30:26,706 --> 00:30:30,042 When the truth is finally known, the facts will be made to accommodate the truth. 521 00:30:30,906 --> 00:30:33,867 Now they're getting into paradox. Dicey stuff. 522 00:30:33,786 --> 00:30:37,123 Well, Joel, let's distinguish paradox from contradiction. 523 00:30:37,067 --> 00:30:39,903 Can something be more than one thing at the same time? 524 00:30:39,827 --> 00:30:41,996 Father, Son and Holy Ghost? 525 00:30:41,987 --> 00:30:45,741 We digress. I offer the poet's vision of the ancient urn. 526 00:30:45,668 --> 00:30:48,003 Truth is beauty, beauty truth. 527 00:30:47,989 --> 00:30:51,075 We can serve and volley semantics all night, Chris. 528 00:30:51,028 --> 00:30:53,489 - The point is, if- - Gentlemen. 529 00:30:53,469 --> 00:30:55,888 Gentlemen, that's quite enough. 530 00:30:55,829 --> 00:30:59,166 Let's, uh, get on with the business at hand, shall we? 531 00:32:09,918 --> 00:32:13,380 - So, what do you think? - About what? 532 00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:15,531 About the Seder. It's Passover. 533 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:17,438 Yeah, I get that part. Where are we? 534 00:32:17,439 --> 00:32:21,443 - Radomysl, Poland. - We're in Poland? 535 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,017 - And who are they? - Your family. 536 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,826 And that's your Grandfather Jack, the one that came to New York... 537 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,886 and started the Fleischman's in Flushing. 538 00:32:31,841 --> 00:32:33,885 You're kidding. 539 00:32:33,881 --> 00:32:36,718 I That's your great-grandfather- Ya'akov ben Y'hoshua. 540 00:32:36,641 --> 00:32:41,354 Wow. I That must be my Great-uncle Joel. 541 00:32:41,242 --> 00:32:43,536 They named me after him. 542 00:32:47,443 --> 00:32:51,363 Wait, wait! Don't drink that. That's for Elijah. Where's your cup? 543 00:32:51,284 --> 00:32:54,912 - This is my cup. - Oh, wait a minute. 544 00:32:56,284 --> 00:32:58,995 They can't see me, Joel. Only you. 545 00:33:00,164 --> 00:33:02,124 You are Elijah? 546 00:33:03,124 --> 00:33:07,087 If you're Elijah, where's the little robes and the long beard? 547 00:33:07,005 --> 00:33:09,007 You don't like my suit? 548 00:33:10,685 --> 00:33:14,814 No, I-I-The suit's fine. I just- I didn't expect- 549 00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:17,186 Come on, Joel. You didn't expect anything. 550 00:33:17,167 --> 00:33:20,378 You fill this cup every year. You open the door. 551 00:33:20,327 --> 00:33:23,205 But you certainly don't expect Elijah to come waltzing in. 552 00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:25,878 It flies in the face of reason. 553 00:33:25,808 --> 00:33:29,019 What are you doing here? I came to see you. 554 00:33:28,968 --> 00:33:31,804 Me? Why? 555 00:33:31,808 --> 00:33:33,977 Why not you? 556 00:33:33,929 --> 00:33:37,516 The question is, what are you going to do about it? 557 00:33:39,889 --> 00:33:42,809 You want to help prepare the way for the Messiah? 558 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:46,066 Maybe you'd rather turn me into an amusement park, Joel. 559 00:33:46,010 --> 00:33:47,720 Sell autographed cups. 560 00:33:47,690 --> 00:33:50,652 "Elijah's back. Fleischman's got him. " 561 00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,657 It's your call, Yo'el. 562 00:33:53,611 --> 00:33:56,823 Make your decision. The clock is ticking. 563 00:34:20,454 --> 00:34:21,956 Yeah. 564 00:34:24,655 --> 00:34:26,865 Fleischman. Can I come in? 565 00:34:28,495 --> 00:34:32,123 - Sure. Come in. You got thin blood, son? - I fell asleep in Holling's freezer. 566 00:34:32,015 --> 00:34:34,226 Oh, well, come on. Let me pour you a drink. 567 00:34:34,216 --> 00:34:37,177 There's nothing like brandy to revive your spirits. 568 00:34:37,136 --> 00:34:40,306 Couple of stiff belts, and you'll be good as new. 569 00:34:40,210 --> 00:34:41,885 Thanks. 570 00:34:43,377 --> 00:34:45,338 You look like you've seen a ghost. 571 00:34:45,337 --> 00:34:48,799 - Yeah, I have. - Oh, yeah? Who? Wellington? 572 00:34:48,697 --> 00:34:51,200 - Elijah. - Who? 573 00:34:51,177 --> 00:34:55,181 He's an Old Testament prophet. He left Earth in a chariot of fire. 574 00:34:55,098 --> 00:34:57,934 He's supposed to come back as an advance man for the Messiah. 575 00:34:57,898 --> 00:35:01,277 - He came to see me in a dream. - Yeah? What'd he want? 576 00:35:01,179 --> 00:35:04,349 I think he was trying to tell me something about Pierre. 577 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:09,805 Joel, that's a little far-fetched. I mean, the time period's all wrong, for one thing. 578 00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:11,914 The Jews believe Elijah's going to come back one day. 579 00:35:11,861 --> 00:35:14,154 The Tellakutans have been waiting for Pierre. 580 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:16,060 I think we oughta turn him over, Maurice. 581 00:35:16,021 --> 00:35:18,357 I fear retribution in a biblical proportion. 582 00:35:18,341 --> 00:35:22,178 I mean, like Old Testament wrath. Yahweh, you know? 583 00:35:22,102 --> 00:35:25,647 Son, you're suffering from hypothermia. 584 00:35:25,581 --> 00:35:29,127 Just take your drink, sip it down... 585 00:35:29,062 --> 00:35:30,605 and clam up. 586 00:35:30,623 --> 00:35:32,875 Now, the way I see it, 587 00:35:35,223 --> 00:35:37,684 the soul is the sacred payload of us all. 588 00:35:37,663 --> 00:35:40,791 The body is simply a delivery vehicle. 589 00:35:40,744 --> 00:35:44,790 Once we've completed our mission, we have absolutely no use for the body at all. 590 00:35:44,704 --> 00:35:48,625 I mean, hell, all those boosters I rode into space... 591 00:35:48,504 --> 00:35:50,798 are now nothing more than pieces... 592 00:35:50,745 --> 00:35:53,957 of a billion-dollar junk heap on the Atlantic Shelf. 593 00:35:53,905 --> 00:35:59,285 Now, if those little Indians want a memento of their sacred legend, 594 00:36:00,066 --> 00:36:02,026 let 'em take a life cast. 595 00:36:02,987 --> 00:36:06,407 But I am not going to allow some half-pint half-breeds... 596 00:36:06,307 --> 00:36:08,267 to talk me into giving up Pierre. 597 00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:14,296 That's more than just a body in that freezer, son. 598 00:36:14,228 --> 00:36:16,397 That is the future. 599 00:36:22,949 --> 00:36:27,537 Holling, if you are gonna dump me for some bimbo with copper plumbing, then get it over with. 600 00:36:27,429 --> 00:36:31,350 Shelly- Otherwise, quit moping around like some sad-eyed little bug... 601 00:36:31,230 --> 00:36:34,400 who'd rather sigh and moan than fool around. 602 00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:38,350 There's something I have to show you. 603 00:36:38,311 --> 00:36:41,272 "De Vincoeur Est Mort. " 604 00:36:41,231 --> 00:36:45,277 That was my great-great-uncle, Gustaf. 605 00:36:45,151 --> 00:36:48,738 His death is still celebrated in some parts of France. 606 00:36:48,672 --> 00:36:52,842 - You mean like Lincoln's birthday? - I mean like the death of Satan. 607 00:36:52,753 --> 00:36:55,172 - Wow. - He had people killed. 608 00:36:55,152 --> 00:36:57,196 He stole other men's wives. 609 00:36:57,193 --> 00:36:59,613 He was an awful, evil, terrible man. 610 00:36:59,553 --> 00:37:01,263 Wow! 611 00:37:03,634 --> 00:37:06,470 Wow! Creepy. 612 00:37:06,754 --> 00:37:10,341 And all this time, I thought it was me. But it was you! 613 00:37:10,274 --> 00:37:13,027 - You put me through a lot, Holling. - I know. 614 00:37:12,995 --> 00:37:16,958 Well, I'm really bummed out you didn't tell me about this before. 615 00:37:16,835 --> 00:37:18,337 I'm your squeeze! 616 00:37:18,315 --> 00:37:21,819 If you don't tell me all the terrible things about you, how am I supposed to find out? 617 00:37:25,316 --> 00:37:26,734 Come here. 618 00:37:34,357 --> 00:37:36,777 I guess your telling me now is something. 619 00:37:36,758 --> 00:37:42,013 But it doesn't make up for 200 years of your family being total jerks. 620 00:37:41,879 --> 00:37:46,049 But... it's a start. 621 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,303 Give it here. 622 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:02,717 - Wow! - Feel that. 623 00:38:04,121 --> 00:38:07,375 - Bands of steel. - Years of labeling. 624 00:38:08,602 --> 00:38:11,646 You think I could ever learn to do that, Ruth-Anne? 625 00:38:11,602 --> 00:38:14,438 Ed, I think you can do anything that you put your mind to. 626 00:38:15,723 --> 00:38:17,975 - Why? - Why not? 627 00:38:19,323 --> 00:38:21,825 No one ever said that to me before, Ruth-Anne. 628 00:38:21,804 --> 00:38:24,515 Well, what have other folks got that you haven't got? 629 00:38:25,243 --> 00:38:26,495 Parents. 630 00:38:26,524 --> 00:38:29,694 They can be as much a hindrance as a help, Ed. Believe me. 631 00:38:29,644 --> 00:38:32,564 Remember what I was telling you yesterday? 632 00:38:32,524 --> 00:38:35,694 There's this screenwriter, William Goldman. 633 00:38:35,645 --> 00:38:38,356 He wrote Butch Cassidy, 634 00:38:38,285 --> 00:38:41,413 um, All the President's Men, Misery. 635 00:38:41,366 --> 00:38:44,119 - Sounds top-notch. - Oh, he is. 636 00:38:44,046 --> 00:38:48,259 You know, he said nobody in Hollywood knows anything. 637 00:38:48,166 --> 00:38:50,335 - But I know something. - What's that? 638 00:38:50,327 --> 00:38:53,913 I'm never paying anyone $200 to read my scripts again. 639 00:38:53,807 --> 00:38:56,894 They can stand in line and see the movie, just like everyone else. 640 00:38:56,847 --> 00:39:00,517 - That's the spirit. - Pass the labeler, please. 641 00:39:07,529 --> 00:39:08,864 Shel? 642 00:39:08,848 --> 00:39:11,017 - Yeah, babe? - More bacon, hon. 643 00:39:10,962 --> 00:39:12,471 Okay. 644 00:39:21,330 --> 00:39:22,832 Yuck. 645 00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:33,454 Holling! 646 00:39:35,292 --> 00:39:38,003 - What happened to him? - He melted. 647 00:39:38,813 --> 00:39:41,232 It was those little Frog Indians. 648 00:39:41,173 --> 00:39:46,261 They defrosted my stiff and hauled him out of here like a side of beef. 649 00:39:46,134 --> 00:39:48,094 Do you know anything about this? 650 00:39:48,093 --> 00:39:50,179 Oh, maybe it's for the best, Maurice. 651 00:39:50,174 --> 00:39:53,094 For the best? 652 00:39:53,014 --> 00:39:56,059 Chris, we were this close. 653 00:39:56,015 --> 00:39:58,142 This close. 654 00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:06,320 I'm gonna cover the muskeg from here to Prudhoe. 655 00:40:06,256 --> 00:40:08,550 I'll find those pygmies. 656 00:40:08,536 --> 00:40:12,791 When I do, I'll bring that stiff back here. 657 00:40:15,097 --> 00:40:19,227 Okay, Fleischman, if you need anything else, speak now. 658 00:40:19,097 --> 00:40:21,975 Because I'm not making a habit of this. 659 00:40:23,138 --> 00:40:27,100 - How old am I, O'Connell? - Twenty-nine. 660 00:40:26,979 --> 00:40:31,066 Wrong. I'm four million years old. 661 00:40:32,059 --> 00:40:35,938 Holling was right. We're all... our genes. 662 00:40:35,859 --> 00:40:40,322 Are you cracking up? Fleischman, you're boiling! 663 00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:43,682 Have you taken any aspirin for that? No. 664 00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:45,956 I've slept in trees. 665 00:40:45,941 --> 00:40:48,026 I have crossed the Negev. 666 00:40:48,021 --> 00:40:50,774 I have run from Cossacks. 667 00:40:50,742 --> 00:40:53,786 It is all me. 668 00:40:55,542 --> 00:40:57,961 The Lord is God. The Lord is one. 669 00:40:57,942 --> 00:41:00,111 Here. Sit up. 670 00:41:00,063 --> 00:41:03,149 Here you go. Take these. 671 00:41:03,102 --> 00:41:05,647 What's my name? 672 00:41:05,623 --> 00:41:07,208 Joel Fleischman. 673 00:41:07,223 --> 00:41:09,142 No, it's Yo'el. 674 00:41:09,143 --> 00:41:13,064 - Who? - Yo'el ben Ya'akov. 675 00:41:12,984 --> 00:41:15,153 Fleischman, you're scaring me. 676 00:41:15,145 --> 00:41:18,273 It's okay, O'Connell. It's me. I'm just free-associating here. 677 00:41:18,224 --> 00:41:21,060 So you're okay? Everything's fine? 678 00:41:21,025 --> 00:41:22,860 - You were raving. - Sorry. 679 00:41:25,826 --> 00:41:27,119 Okay. 680 00:41:27,105 --> 00:41:29,733 Look, I'll come back and check on you in an hour. 681 00:41:29,666 --> 00:41:31,668 You'd better be asleep. 682 00:41:31,666 --> 00:41:35,086 You hear me? Okay? 683 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:37,495 Okay. 684 00:41:43,587 --> 00:41:46,924 It's time for us to say au revoir to Pierre. 685 00:41:48,348 --> 00:41:51,310 Where'd he come from? Where is he going? 686 00:41:51,268 --> 00:41:54,605 I guess we could all ask the same questions of ourselves. 687 00:41:55,949 --> 00:41:59,953 I'm gonna let a fellow Frenchman here have the last words. 688 00:42:01,270 --> 00:42:04,440 "When from a long distant past nothing persists..." 689 00:42:04,391 --> 00:42:07,644 "after the people are dead," 690 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:10,259 "after things are broken and scattered," 691 00:42:10,231 --> 00:42:12,483 "still alone," 692 00:42:12,431 --> 00:42:14,933 "more persistent, more faithful," 693 00:42:14,912 --> 00:42:18,457 "the smell and taste of things remain poised a long, long time..." 694 00:42:18,391 --> 00:42:22,479 "like souls, ready to remind us," 695 00:42:22,392 --> 00:42:25,937 "waiting, hoping for their moment..." 696 00:42:25,833 --> 00:42:28,920 "amid the ruins of all the rest..." 697 00:42:28,873 --> 00:42:32,460 "and bear unfaltering in the tiny..." 698 00:42:32,393 --> 00:42:36,356 "and almost impalpable drop of their essence," 699 00:42:36,274 --> 00:42:38,860 the vast structure of recollection." 700 00:42:38,910 --> 00:42:43,460 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0