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If there's anything more we could do for you or your boys, Mr. Allen, just let

us know. Well, thanks, Miss Frances. The itinerary's all set.

Senior boys' weekend is the highlight of their year at the academy.

I thought this was a cultural field trip.

Well, it is, officially.

Unofficially, it's just a few hand -picked, sex -crazed 17 -year -olds

the big city with their football coach.

Well, enjoy yourself, coach.

Looks like you're going to have your hands full.

It's a good thing we only do this once a year.

Come on, fellas, pick up your tongues.

Come on, let's go get settled in.

Excuse me, I think you're getting left behind.

Come on, Martin, let's get it in gear.

Thanks.

Did Mr. Livingston check in yet?

Arthur, I presume.

How cute.

Not yet.

Good. He loves the personal touch.

Mr. Danning, you're needed in the kitchen right away.

Thanks.

Cover for me, will you?

I'm Howard Livingston. I have a restaurant... Mr. Livingston.

Yes. Hello, I'm T .C. Babcock.

Welcome to the St. Gregory.

Well, thank you. Is Mr.

Danning going to... He apologizes, but he was called away. He asked me to

personally show you to your room.

Mr. Livingston's key, please.

Of course.

This way, please.

Boy, bring Mr. Livingston's luggage along, please.

Yes, sir.

Did we get somebody new in guest relations?

All the things I never expected to see Brad doing.

Running a winery.

Been difficult for him, Peter.

One thing after another, nothing working.

This is something he's really enjoying.

Well, I wish you'd let me put in a word with a sommelier.

Wonderful. The apple and oak are very prominent.

I'll take a dozen cases, Mr. Carlton.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

You won't be sorry.

Congratulations. A dozen cases?

What do you think of that?

Well, I think we need to celebrate over lunch.

Of course we need to celebrate, and you need to pick up the check.

Okay?

Now, look, Martin, we plan to get a little action this weekend, so listen

Yeah, you get in the way and you're gonna be in trouble.

Now, if I come back to the room with the girl and you're there, just excuse

yourself. Go for a walk, understand?

A long walk. And if we're out somewhere or run across anything, don't even hang

around. Just fade away.

And if a tragedy of tragedies happens and you happen to be turning and I have

someone in the room, you'll find my tie knotted conspicuously on the doorknob.

Get it?

What if the girl gets bored talking about the 49ers?

Well, well, look at this.

Coach's little girl.

What are you doing here at the hotel, Beth?

Meeting my father for the weekend, if it's any of your business.

Coach is always singing about his boys.

Going to leave your door open tonight?

No. But if you sleepwalk, leave your window open.

Ouch!

I suppose you snore, too.

Okay.

When is a U -turn legal?

In a business district.

Come on, Dave.

They did not ask me that.

Well, it can't hurt to know it anyway.

Did you know it?

My driver's license has another three years to go.

Maybe I will not get license.

Come on, Don, you've got to.

Yeah, that way your next worry couldn't be saving enough money to buy a car.

You give up?

In a traffic -controlled intersection perpendicular to a one -way street, When

turning in the direction of the one -way traffic.

Want another?

To the Carleton Winery, the best good vineyard in California.

From your mouth to the wine steward's ears.

You know, you have to come up and visit us, Peter.

Yes, the only time we can see you is when we come to the city.

Give me a break. This is the first time since the army we've been within a

thousand miles of each other.

Then you have no excuse.

Maybe come this spring when things get a little easier around here, I can take a

couple of days and...

Hey.

Huh?

Where'd you disappear to?

I'm sorry.

All right.

Hi.

Oh, hi.

I'm surprised to see you on this trip.

Headmaster overruled your father.

Said that a jock's only trip was discriminatory.

So where are you going today?

I thought I'd go to the museum.

Ooh, that sounds like fun.

Hey, maybe you'd like... Listen,

I'd better go.

Have fun.

Where's he going?

Museum. That figures.

Oh, Dad.

little appetizer before dinner. What a nice idea.

I love caviar.

Thank you.

That looks fabulous.

Enjoy.

You shouldn't have.

You mean you?

Well, I didn't order it.

Well, neither did I.

Then who?

Peter looks terrific, doesn't he?

He always has.

You two must have been murder with the women in Europe.

Oh, he was all right.

I was terrific.

Until they sent me to Nam.

Why didn't he get sent over?

They needed him to train

copter pilots lucky guy

He's not as lucky as I am.

It's happening again, isn't it?

No, I'm okay.

No, you're not.

I said I'm okay.

I'll go down for a drink.

I'll meet you later in the Carlisle room. All right?

Lost your classmates again?

Oh, hi. Hi.

Um, I was just in a meeting.

I saw your group heading upstairs.

Yeah, I've been kind of going it alone.

Not the social type, huh?

Not really, I guess.

I'm Christine Francis.

Martin Fowler.

Wouldn't you be having a little more fun if you were with your friends?

I suppose, but I'm kind of used to being alone.

Oh, no.

Remember, you are never alone at the St. Gregory.

If you need anything, you call me, okay?

Okay.

Hi. Did you have a good time today?

Not bad.

I ended up shopping.

I didn't really feel like going cruising with the boys.

Yeah, me neither.

How come you're here anyway?

Oh, my father asked me to come.

Now that I'm living with my mother, I don't get to see him very much.

Oh, yeah, right.

So are you having dinner with the guys?

I don't know. I haven't really thought about it.

I don't have any plans.

Plans? For what?

Martin and I were just talking about having dinner.

Really? Yeah, well, actually, it's probably better if I just stick with the

others. I'll see you.

What do you have against him, Daddy?

He's one -dimensional. He's got no spine.

You mean he won't play your run and sweat and everybody jump on the

Stupidity. He's fast. He might have had some ability.

Oh, right.

Right. He should sacrifice himself so that he can contribute to your team.

A kid like him would get a lot out of my program.

You can't stand to have anybody say no to you, can you, Daddy?

May I help you, sir?

May I have a table over in that area, please? Certainly.

Good evening, sir. May I bring you a cocktail?

Water? Sir?

May I have some water?

Certainly, sir.

The last time I asked for water, you said I could die first.

Oh, Ho Chi Minh.

My name is Dung Thanh, sir.

You haven't changed.

A little older.

Just like me.

I'm sorry, sir.

I don't know you.

Excuse me, sir. Is there a problem?

Is there a problem, sir?

Hey, Martin.

Hey,

what are you... Hey,

what are you... Come on, leave me alone. What do you think you're doing?

Get his head.

Come on, this is really stupid.

Hey, Mark, relax.

Let me maybe take a look at your key legs there and decide to steal your

virginity.

More adult behavior by Benham Academy's finest.

Come on, you guys, open up the door. Joke's over.

Come on, open up the door.

One thing about being the general manager is everyone tells me everything

goes on around here.

Even when it isn't your business?

Like, for instance, I was stopped this morning by the maitre d' in the Carlisle

room. It was nothing, Peter. Brad, this is me. Come on.

When I was a prisoner, there was a young Vietnamese who used to hang around the

camp.

He's the vindictive little bastard who used to spit on us and whip us, the

waiter you grabbed last night.

So after I get back to the States, I bounce around from one thing to another.

And just when I think I'm getting it all together, he turns up.

And all the memories start flooding back.

Now, I feel I can make it right, Peter.

I've got to.

Don't do anything stupid.

Let me help you. It's not your fight.

It's my hotel, and the war's long over.

Not in here, it isn't.

I've lived with it for too long.

I've got to put it behind me, Peter.

I have no other choice.

Right this way, please.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey, where are you going with those?

Just picking up the slack.

Careful,

Dave. Your shoes need to shine.

A friend of mine, Mr. Carlton, says he knows you from Vietnam.

Mr. McDermott, I am good waiter for you.

We have met Japan long ago in Vietnam, and I live behind.

I know, but Mr. Carlton is still carrying it with him.

It is part of all our lives, but I become American soon, and

my son is American.

So I never think about Vietnam.

I'm not here to judge you, Tan.

I'm concerned with my employees' present and future, not their past.

I am good waiter, and I make no trouble.

Just make sure you stay away from trouble, too.

What are you going to do, Brad?

Well, I've got to be able to live without the memories. I've got to even

Getting back at that man isn't going to undo what happened to you in Vietnam.

He's the only thing I can get a hold of.

You'd almost licked it, Brad.

All the therapy, all the work.

Don't let it gobble you back up.

Let's not kid ourselves.

All the therapy did was got me to look past it.

But when I saw him...

How'd it go, Martin?

Did Beth take you in out of the cold last night?

Oh, come on, Sam, give him a break. Maybe Beth didn't like what she saw.

What, are you kidding?

Quit talking Sylvester Stallone here.

Hi,

Martin.

Hi, Christine.

Got a big day planned?

I guess.

Well, if you get back early, why don't you come up to my office?

I promised you the tour of the hotel.

Remember?

Oh, yeah.

Thanks. Maybe I will.

Good.

I'd stay away from those animals if I were you.

I taught them everything I know.

It's a shame you didn't teach them how to be nicer to each other.

Yes?

I'm looking for Duong Thanh.

He not home.

May I come in?

Where is he?

He got phone call.

Went to hotel.

Please. No, hurt my husband.

War long time ago.

He very angry then.

American planes bomb his village.

Kill his mother and father.

For long time he hate all Americans.

He wants to live in peace now.

I'm glad he's been able to forget.

This memo says that T .C. Babcock settled a fight between the pastry chef

the chief engineer.

Yeah, they're acting like brothers again.

Your new guy's really great.

My guy? I don't know who the hell T .C. Babcock is.

You mean you didn't hire him?

No. Mrs. Cabot?

I think I've got a little investigating to do.

Here we go.

How'd you do?

Please, my P .O.

Oh, hi.

How'd it go together?

Well, Candlestick Park and Keyser Stadium aren't exactly my ideas in San

Francisco. I know what you mean.

Tonight they're going over to North Beach for dinner in the exotic dancing

circuit.

Not your cup of tea either, huh?

They kind of made it clear I wasn't invited anyway.

Oh.

I tell you what, I've got a lot of work to do.

Instead of that tour I promised you, why don't the two of us have dinner later?

Really?

You and me?

Unless you'd rather be alone.

Oh, no, no.

You don't mind if we go Dutch, do you?

Wouldn't have it any other way.

Great, I'll see you then.

Good.

Around eight?

Fred, this is crazy.

It was war.

But it's over.

Let it go.

Stay out of my way on this, Wendy.

It's not your business.

What do you mean it's not my business?

You're my husband.

You're the father of my son.

I live what you live.

You'll never live, Vietnam.

You never saw that prison that I called home.

That I almost died in.

That I carried back here with me.

You can't understand.

Maybe it's because I told him I wouldn't play on his damn football team.

Maybe he's afraid something will happen between me and Beth. I don't know. Beth?

His daughter.

She's really nice.

Have you told her that?

God, no.

And all that reading you do, have you ever come across the one about faint

never won fair lady?

That's me, faint heart.

I'm just plain afraid.

I've never been with a girl before.

You know, had sex or anything.

That's nothing to be ashamed of.

It is if you feel like you're the only kid on the face of the earth who has it.

I just don't fit in, not with girls, not with a coach's boy.

What are you doing here?

Having dinner.

Don't be smart.

You're supposed to stay with the group.

Well, I didn't want to go with them.

I don't care what you want. Excuse me.

Mr. Allen, we are in the middle of dinner.

This boy is my responsibility, not yours.

Martin, let's go.

Martin?

Come on.

This is McDermott, Claude.

I want you to send your waiter, Duong Tan, home right away.

Right, and tell him to stay there.

Just do it.

Please, all right?

Go back to your room.

I'll find him.

Do you know his worst memories aren't even of the POW camp?

I know.

He told me once about the village his group bombed by mistake.

Can you imagine carrying that guilt around all these years?

In his own desperate way. I think he's trying to deal with it now.

Please help him, Peter.

I'll try.

You've changed, Daddy.

Ever since you and Mom got a divorce, you haven't been the same.

You never used to be so hard on everybody.

Like your friend Martin? Yeah.

I've been dealing with kids like him longer than you've been living.

Why don't you just let me handle it?

Because you're not being fair. Why are you riding him so hard?

He needs it.

He needs to be pushed.

Well, you're not pushing him where he wants to go.

I've heard enough out of you. No.

You've just heard more than you'd like.

You never talked back to me like this until you started living with your

I feel like such a jerk.

Seems to me it's your coach who should feel like a jerk.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Giving up?

I just don't relate to people very well.

You're relating to me.

Well, it's not the same.

No? Am I less important than your teacher and your classmates?

You know what I mean.

And I know that confrontations are hard.

But you can't go through life trying to stay out of everyone's way. It's not

possible.

Start standing up for yourself, Martin.

Bet it helps you like yourself a little more.

He's not here.

I've sent him away.

Whose side are you on?

There are no sides anymore, Brad.

You're fighting yourself now.

You don't know what you're talking about. You weren't there, remember?

Okay, then I can be more objective than you.

You've got to stop ripping open old wounds.

Not until it's finished.

In my mind.

And in here.

And when's that going to be?

What do you have to do before it ends?

He was there.

He understands.

It was a war that never began and a war that never ended.

Well, it will if you let it.

I can't.

Hi. Hi.

You want to talk for a minute?

Sure.

I feel really badly about what happened.

It's no one's fault but mine.

I let everyone walk all over me.

It's time to face up to what I am.

Try to change it.

Come on.

You don't have to change what you are, just how you feel about what you are.

You've always been so nice to me.

I've always liked you.

I've always... I mean, I've...

Martin,

you can say it. I won't hurt you.

I've always liked you, too, a lot.

Hi, hon. I just wanted to... Daddy, I invited him in.

Get out!

Get out of here.

I'll leave when Beth asks me to leave.

You'll leave when I tell you to.

Mr. Allen, you can't just keep... No!

And don't ever, ever talk back to me again. Don't

ever!

There's no show out here.

Go on back to bed.

Go on back to bed!

It is between me and him. And I go and talk.

No, it's no good.

He's too angry.

I think very dangerous.

This must end.

Too much fear and too much hatred.

I must make peace.

And I go to him.

Please, no.

He may be hurt you.

The bad dream must come to end.

It has for you.

He must deal with his own dreams.

They are not his alone.

We are all part of the same terrible past.

If we are to live new life, we must be free of the past.

The path is too heavy on us.

We make right.

You make right.

Good morning,

Mr. Minkoff. Good morning. Very loud today?

Yes, sir. I'll be filling in. Good. May I have some coffee?

Hey,

it's him.

Who?

T .C. Babcock.

He helped me spot a thief last night.

You're the young man everyone's been talking about.

Yes, sir.

Tell me, is my job safe?

Mr.

McDermott's office.

Who's calling, please?

Just a minute.

It's Mrs. Tan.

She says it's important.

Mrs. Tan?

I'm sorry I disturbed you, but I'm very worried.

What happened?

My husband go to hotel to see that man, Mr. Carlton.

I tell him could be very dangerous.

Well, don't worry. I'll take care of it.

Please, Mr. McDermott.

I know one my husband hurt.

I know.

You know, it really sticks in my throat.

We destroy a village here, we destroy a village there, but we never go after the

power.

Maybe they were afraid that would end it.

And meanwhile, the poor stiffs who are fighting in the South keep on dying.

And the peace talks go on and on.

And the politicians sit around arguing about the shape of the table while the

men who are doing their dirty work keep on dying.

And I live.

I live through that horror of that camp, and I come home to a hero's welcome,

and you know what happens?

I try telling a congressman what's really going on over there.

And he doesn't want to listen.

No one wants to listen.

Except you.

You're listening now, aren't you?

The boy said you'd be out here.

Well, it's nothing like a good run in the morning.

Mind if we talk about Martin Fowler?

The kid has to learn to respect authority.

Strikes me as the type who does.

Don't lecture me, Miss Francis. I deal with kids every day.

Then you should know that not all kids are interested in football.

Football builds character.

If you have the ability and you don't use it, that's...

That's cowardly. I push him, hoping he's going to fight back. That's bull.

I heard he fought back last night and you knocked him down the hallway.

You're just a little man who likes pushing people around.

The trouble is, the only people you're pushing around are kids.

Anyone in there?

You satisfied now?

You all right, Tom?

We make peace.

Very close.

You make peace with this?

He did not hurt me.

Too much pain already.

You don't need more.

And maybe it can be over.

Maybe it can be over now.

I need to talk to you.

I don't know why you're always picking on me, but I want you to stop.

I'm a good student. I don't cause any trouble.

All I want is to be left alone.

You know...

I think the reason why the other guys give me such a hard time is because they

see you doing it.

I know you don't like me, and that's okay.

All I'm asking is that you give me a chance.

Ignore me if you want, but don't set the example that I'm fair game for

everyone.

Think I don't like you?

It's pretty obvious.

I like you, okay?

My daughter likes you, too.

More than she likes me right now.

You're coming here to confront me.

Shows me that she's right. So is Miss Francis.

You're not afraid to go through life without a pat on the back, and I think I

treat you the way I do because I resent that.

Why?

I always had people standing behind me telling me how great I was.

Little League.

In high school, college, people liked me because I could run fast and hit hard.

I always thought a pro career was a cinch, and it wasn't.

All of a sudden, the people behind me were gone, and I had to face the real

world.

Coach... So, I figured I'd teach sports.

Those that can do.

And those that can't teach.

Well, that's fine until a kid comes along who shows signs

of being smart and independent.

Two qualities I couldn't find in myself.

So I sit on them.

Sit hard.

Hell of a teacher, huh?

I'm sorry, Martin.

Hey, coach.

It's okay.

Maybe it's a good thing what you've been doing.

I know what it's like now to get by with no one on my side.

You'll do okay.

You will do okay, Martin.

You realize that as a non -employee performing employees' duties, you've

us up to enormous potential liability.

Yes, sir.

Not to mention what could have happened to our reputation if you'd failed to

uphold our standards.

Yes, sir.

Yes, this is McDermott. I'm sending down a man by the name of T .C. Babcock.

I'd like you to meet with him and see if we have something he can do around

here.

Thank you.

I'm sure you know where personnel is, Mr. Babcock.

Yes, sir.

Thank you so much, Mr. McDermott.

Leaving?

It seemed like the longest weekend of my whole life.

If this is the worst weekend you ever had, you'd be a very lucky guy.

Thanks for everything.

For what?

We never did get dessert.

Hey, keep in touch. I expect big things from you.

I will.

I expect an invitation to come up and sample the new harvest.

Oh, you know, you don't have to wait for an invitation, Peter.

Bye. Bye.