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Our security will be doing extra time with patrols on every floor.

Have you considered moving into the hotel yourself while the conference is

on? I've already taken a room.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to keep looking over your shoulder.

Relax, Christine.

Come on.

My people know what to do.

Besides, you've got enough on your plate dealing with all these diplomats.

We only have one thing in common. They each think I've given the others a

room. Come on, you love it.

Yeah. Now I know why some men try to keep women out of the executive suite.

That we won't find out how much fun it is.

How are you going to keep her down on the farm after she sat behind the

manager's desk?

Thank you.

Here they come.

Thank you, Madam President. Welcome to the St. Gregory.

I'm Christine Francis, acting general manager.

Thank you, Ms. Francis.

May I present Billy Griffin, our hotel's chief of security.

My aide, Colonel Vargas. Ms. Francis.

If you'll come this way.

Excuse me.

A few citizens exercising

their right of a gentleman.

I don't think you'll need that cannon under your arm.

It's just a tool of the trade.

I got it, Albert.

I've been carrying bags for 30 years, Kendall.

There was a day I couldn't carry my own weight.

Come on, Albert.

Let me help. I mean, that's what I'm here for. For my last day.

I don't want anyone to say I fell down on the job on my last day.

Okay, take it up.

A little more on the right.

A little more, a little more.

That's good. That's great.

Thank you.

Peter, I thought you weren't coming back until tomorrow.

I figured I'd... Better be here before you raffle the place off.

Wasn't that why you left me in charge?

The drawing's this afternoon.

I'm surprised you didn't put up traffic signals. I've never seen it so busy.

How many rooms did the conference take?

207.

More than expected.

We can handle it. I got the chemical engineers out with an hour to spare.

What, can the kitchen? I've instructed Marcel to increase his staff and up the

banquet and lunch page.

I think we've just discovered how dispensable I am.

Not to me, Peter.

So, did you miss me?

Maybe you could have stayed away at the convention a little longer.

I'm getting used to running this place.

You wouldn't want to tell me about it tonight over dinner, would you?

You wouldn't have any strenuous objections, would you?

None you couldn't handle.

I was thinking maybe somewhere quiet, away from the hotel, where we could

Without it all being business?

Without any of it being business.

And I thought we might use some of these to advertise in the better American

magazines.

Owen, what do you think?

This should attract a few American tourists.

After you just declared martial law, tourists get a little jumpy when they

tanks in the streets.

You know that's only until the elections.

People have always been loyal to me.

You mean loyal to Carlos Delgado.

My husband bequeathed power to me before he died.

It isn't necessary for a bodyguard to ask such questions.

Well, is that all I am?

A bodyguard?

Colonel, will you excuse ourselves?

I shall be in my room if you need me, Senora Presidente.

You didn't need to talk to me like that in front of the colonel.

I thought we were friends.

The only friends you can afford, Francesca.

are the soldiers I train and the guns I buy.

Is that why you wanted to come with me?

Are you afraid for my safety?

This is my country. I was born here.

I wanted to see it again.

Owen, America is your country no longer.

You belong with me.

You make it sound as if I could never come home again.

I mean only that I trust you and I depend on you.

And that I can never come home again.

And you should have seen the way the boss looked at Christine this morning.

I don't know. He seems to prefer being loose and fiancé -free.

Give him time.

He's still hurting from his first trip to the altar.

He's going to be hurting even more if Christine gets hired away from him. Look

how well she handled the international conference.

45.

That was the real international conference.

1945?

Flags everywhere you looked.

50 countries started the United Nations right here in our backyard.

You've really seen all the greats walk through those doors, haven't you,

Joe Lewis, Harry Truman, Princess Grace, Winston Churchill with his big cigar.

They all look for me to step up and greet them personally.

It's water under the bridge now.

Well, at least you'll be nice and warm working inside in the cloakroom this

winter.

I'm a doorman.

A doorman belongs out there on the door.

Albert, you know the only reason they moved you... My arthritis, I know.

Never had much of a job till I came to the St. Gregory.

Standing out there every day made me feel I was special.

Now, Albert, you'll always be special to us. Now, don't get sentimental on me.

I guess the cloakroom's not so bad.

I won't have to carry bags anymore.

Or wear that heavy uniform.

No, I...

I won't have to wear my uniform.

I was hoping we would find something more romantic to do this afternoon.

Can't they wait till tonight? You've got a press conference.

Couldn't we skate for a few hours?

Find a quiet place in the bay.

Pretend it's starlit night.

Well, you're the boss, Madam President.

It's up to you.

Press conference.

But I promised the French minister the Macau tweet. I am sorry, Mr. Shawcross.

Our computer did not catch the double booking. But he always stays in the

I know. He's an old friend. I will explain it to him personally. I might

known this would happen while Mr. McDermott was away.

Funny, I had a feeling all week something really important was going to

It already has.

You been running the St. Gregory?

I wasn't thinking about the St. Gregory.

Well, there I go again, always bringing up hotel business.

Oh, you're not so bad.

I always wondered, how'd you get started in the first place?

I was a bellhop who got ambitious.

Oh, it really wasn't that simple.

I had some luck.

After I left home, before I went to Cornell, I got a job as a bellman in

Manhattan.

One night I put a drunk to bed.

Did everyone get that kind of service?

It was a quiet night.

I'd had a lot of practice doing the same thing at home for my old man for years.

Anyway, this guy turned out to be a journalist.

He wrote about what I did, called us the hotel that cared.

And you were promoted.

Well, mostly I just got noticed.

That's the first time you've ever mentioned your father to me.

There's nothing much to tell.

Working the farm squeezed all the life out of him.

He'd say he didn't care, but I knew he cared.

That's why he drank himself crazy.

Must have been hard for you and your mother.

And my brother.

Never knew you had a brother.

Yeah, I haven't seen him in over 20 years.

Kind of hard to talk about him now.

Sometimes it's good to talk.

Christine, going to New York was good for me. It gave me a chance to breathe,

think.

About? About us.

Not how I've kept us apart.

I always believed you did it because we worked together.

Yeah, it was part of it.

But losing my family should have taught me something. Sometimes we put up great

big fences around ourselves.

All the time wishing somebody would tear them down.

When I was in New York, I kept saying to myself, enjoy while you can, St.

Gregory, because when I get back, she's mine.

I love it.

Consider me at your service.

How is your service these days?

Pretty good.

What's up for Mr.

Shawcross? Hmm?

The conference guy?

What was his problem?

Oh, um... The French minister usually stays in the Macau, but it was

double -booked.

I don't want to talk about that.

But you didn't move with the other party?

Wedding? Hmm?

Couldn't have had all those people.

You know that.

We give precedence to diplomats.

Peter, you sound like the Spanish Inquisition.

I'm just surprised at what you're handling.

How can you tell me what I should have

done without knowing the circumstances?

Christine, let's not argue now.

It's the business of judgments, you know that.

Well, I know as long as I'm general manager.

I set the policies, not you.

That gives you the right to criticize my judgments?

Don't be so sensitive. I just happen to be responsible for the St. Gregory and

everything that goes on inside it.

What does that make me, a glorified secretary?

When you run your own hotel, you'll find out that it's a mistake to mix business

and personal feelings.

Just like tonight was a mistake?

Christine, why are you talking like this?

Because I don't know how to talk to you anymore.

You just can't forget the office, can you?

I tried to tonight.

Yeah, maybe you did.

I'm sorry, Peter.

The way I feel right now... Yeah.

Peter?

What's the matter?

No kind words of welcome for your long -lost prodigal brother?

Well, he's done all right, little brother.

Just a room I use sometimes.

I thought you were dead.

You don't have to say you miss me, Peter. I wouldn't want you to lie.

I heard you got yourself involved in some war in Africa.

What's that?

Yesterday's headlines.

I've been working Central America since Carlos Delgado hired me.

And now you're his wife's bodyguard.

Oh, bodyguard, soldier, fortune, mercenary.

The profession of arms, Peter.

Is that why you're here?

To protect her?

Well, when I heard Francesca was flying north, I just figured I'd tag along.

I've been wanting to see you for a long time.

You don't mind too much, do you?

I'm glad you came back, Owen.

Let's don't lie.

You're my brother.

Your brother who ran out on you.

We managed all right, even after we lost the farm.

Scotch okay?

A little water.

You know something funny?

I miss the old place sometimes.

It was a bit late. You were always trying to run away from it.

Yeah, well, I was younger then. I'm stupid.

Peter, do you remember that little box canyon?

We used to paddle the raft in there. We talked about buying it and putting in a

few head of cattle and some game birds.

Last I heard, they ripped it apart for the mine.

Oh, that's too bad.

I missed you on the whitewater oar.

Nobody could swing an oar like you.

I've missed you in a lot more places than that, Peter.

Has it been that bad?

Not when you live from day to day like I do.

And, Albert, I think you should call Dr.

Collins about your arthritis. You were talking and turning all night last

I'm fine, Doris.

Don't worry.

All right. Have a lovely day, dear.

Albert, who is that young man?

Well, he's just a trainee. I'm breaking him in.

Lucky young man.

He's learning from the best.

Oh, don't forget to bring your coat home tonight so I can sew the button on,

okay?

Okay.

I didn't expect you to grow up.

What?

Oh, I spent the night here at the hotel.

You look tired. Are you okay?

Still jet -lagged, I guess.

Christine, I'm sorry I blew up at you last night.

No, I'm the one who should apologize.

I made the wrong decision, and then I made everything worse by acting like a

temperamental child.

I had no right to second -guess you.

You used your judgment.

That's why I put you in charge.

I wish you hadn't left last night.

So do I.

It's been more than 20 years, but I knew him right away.

You can't hide family from family.

It seemed like every night the old man would be drunk, Mom would be sick, and

Owen would just go for Dad, sometimes with his fists.

Yeah, we played out some scenes like that in our house, too.

I remember the night Dad died.

He staggered out of the house, and Owen went after him to bring him back.

Peter. He found him down by the river.

Dad must have fallen.

His head was split open.

I'm sorry.

Ancient history now.

Owen disappeared a couple of days later.

He ran away.

I guess he couldn't stand to stay and look after Mom.

Well, it sounds like you had to grow up real fast.

Oh, Owen did, too, in his own way.

When he came back to Mom's funeral, he was wearing a green beret uniform.

I don't know if I could forgive a brother who ran out like that.

That's the trouble.

I can't.

Megan? Hi.

Hi, Doris. Hi, Doris. First time in years Albert ever forgot his lunch.

Doris, you make me yearn for the days when lunch was thought out instead of

thought out.

But, honey, where is he? He's supposed to be on door duty.

Well, Doris... I guess it's the excitement of the new baby makes him

He can't wait to hold her. And the grandchildren just love seeing Albert in

wonderful coat.

It's such a shame he had to... Doris, why don't you lead Albert's lunch with

I'll make sure he gets it.

Would you, Julie?

Got to rush, pick up the twins from school.

He hasn't told her yet, has he?

Got it, missus.

Don't you have boats down there?

Sure.

With machine guns on deck.

What the hell happened to your hand?

Oh, I was once interrogated by a chain smoker.

Couldn't seem to find an ashtray.

For God's sake, Owen, what the hell are you doing in that business?

Well, Uncle Sam's army suggested I find alternative employment.

They told me you got into trouble with an officer.

Well, he was a stupid fool to let good men die.

Somebody punched him out.

Turned out to be me.

Anyway, I was better off in Africa with the dogs of war.

Even dogs in war get homesick.

Listen, I came to see you, that's all.

I know about your life.

And your woman.

Yeah, I saw the two of you together.

She looks like a special lady. She is.

She know about me?

Not yet.

Huh?

Same old Peter.

Always be careful, huh? I'd like you to meet her.

Huh?

That sounds almost like an invitation to stay a while.

I asked you to stay once before.

I'm sorry, Peter.

You should never have had to take care of Mom by yourself.

You were supposed to be my big brother.

Yeah, well, I've never forgiven myself either.

For whatever that's worth.

She... She wanted you to have this.

It's going to take a lot more than that to save me, little brother.

How many demonstrations are they planning?

No, I will not let them make me cancel my visit.

All right.

As soon as you know.

You know something?

Peter doesn't hate me.

We're going to spend a lot of time together.

It might not be possible.

What are you talking about?

Colonel Vargas received word that my opposition is planning some

They want to close down the capital.

Well, can't Vargas handle it?

Things could get violent.

You're the only one I trust.

I just can't go back now.

I need to be with Peter.

And I need you to go back to keep my enemies under control while I'm away.

Francesca, I put a gun in my hand a long time ago.

Maybe now it's time for me to put it down.

And do what?

Come home.

Did you forget why you ran away in the first place?

Don't you understand?

My life is being handed back to me.

I understand that if you stay, you will tell your brother.

You're too honest.

I know you.

I'll tell him the truth.

Dad was drunk, crazy drunk.

Oh, and let the dead lie in peace.

Oh, God, if I could tell Peter, if I could just make him understand, if I...

Stop torturing yourself.

It was an accident.

Was it?

Or did I really want the old man to slip on those rocks?

Please don't.

No, a thousand times.

I'd wish that he was dead.

Then, that night... You know you didn't mean to... Say it.

Go on, say it.

Say it, and we'll both know I can never come home again.

Say.

Say that I killed my father.

That I killed my father.

All right, thank them.

Christine, I want to... I'd love to talk to you.

You first.

Peter, last night you told me about that journalist who wrote about the hotel

that cares.

Mm -hmm.

I like to think that describes St. Gregory.

We got a fine hotel.

It's a fine hotel because it's like the man who runs it.

You've taught me so much.

I'll always be grateful.

But last night, something happened between us that had nothing to do with

hotel.

Look, there's somebody I want to tell you about. If you'd just be patient.

been patient.

I'm going to break all the rules of our relationship, Peter.

But I'll go crazy if I don't.

I need you to tell me now whether there's really something between us or

If you can't, I'm walking out that door.

And I won't be back.

All right, there's no hotel business here.

Just talk.

I don't just want you to talk.

I want you to want.

I want, damn it.

Is that what you want to hear?

I want.

Why are you getting so mad?

Is that so hard to say?

I guess it is for me.

I got a pretty lousy track record in the relationship department.

I'd never hurt you the way your wife did. The way we didn't hurt each other

night? Last night, we let work come between us.

Right now, here, they're just us.

It's always been difficult for me to talk honestly with you without pulling

back. And now I want to, but I can't. Something's happened.

What is it? Something I've got to take care of myself. I can't expect you...

I want you to expect, ask, demand.

That would mean I could expect...

Fighting or making love, are those our only choices?

Can't you tell me what you feel about us?

Christine, it's tough for me. If you could just give me some time.

How much time do you need?

A couple of days?

Yes, a couple of days. And after that, another week?

A year?

Christine, please don't.

I don't want to hurt you or pressure you, Peter.

But you just... You can't give yourself to anyone, can you?

You're hiding in some lonely place.

And no one's ever going to reach you.

How can I tell Doris to take away my uniform and put them in the cloakroom?

Albert, you mean a hell of a lot more to your family than a lot of gold braid.

You don't understand, Julie.

Times have changed.

You're going to run your own five -star one of these days.

But for me, getting that doorman's uniform is like climbing the highest

mountain.

Thank you.

Surprise. Hi.

The twins insisted on seeing their grandfather.

But, Megan, he's still not on duty at the door.

Honey, what's going on?

Daddy!

Hey, Owen. Oh, Peter.

I had to come and tell you.

I'm leaving.

But you said... Yeah, I know what I said.

But I got to take care of business for Francesca.

Oh, don't go. You don't belong down there.

It's the only place I do belong, Peter.

This is not so bad.

Francesca's giving me a home.

Because you carry a gun for her?

Oh, and take a chance. Why don't you start your life over again in your own

country? And do what?

Sit around telling boring stories about old wars?

I'll help you.

Yeah, it's too late, Peter.

The hell it's too late.

It was worth coming back just to see you again.

Take care of yourself.

I never told you, did I?

What the old man said that time he ran the truck off the road and we had to

carry him home.

He said the only good thing he'd ever done in his life was bring the two of us

into the world.

He loved us.

He just never said so.

Curse of the McDermott's.

Never tell anyone what you're feeling.

That's your brother?

Yeah, I started to tell you.

Then I kept interrupting, didn't I?

But you know something, Peter?

You could still have told me if you'd really wanted to.

The truth is, you don't share anything at all, do you?

Thank you, sir.

You know what Darcy said.

What's so bad?

30 years or so in those big buttons. Time for a change.

That's one good woman I got.

And we're going to give you both the best fettuccine romano you ever had next

Saturday night.

Thanks, Dave.

Well, maybe it's for the best.

I just want the grandchildren to know they can expect more out of life than a

doorman's uniform.

Come on, Albert. Don't put yourself down.

Oh, no, I'm not.

I'm proud of what I've done here.

I just want the kids to feel the same pride in whatever they do when they grow

up.

But I sure do wish the new baby could have seen me in my coat.

Customer.

Oh, yes, sir.

A

lot

of people weren't too fond of your late husband, Madam President.

Excuse me.

I wanted to ask you something.

Sure, why not?

Peter said he'd like us to meet.

He did?

I was worried.

Is he in trouble, you being here?

I just came back to mend an old family fence.

Other than that, Peter's fine.

I'm glad.

I needed to know.

Stupid damn fool. You almost killed an innocent man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I

thought he was reaching for a gun.

I'm responsible for Francesca. You've never been responsible for anything in

your life.

Oh, and you wrote the book on responsibility, didn't you, brother?

Did you ever think about all those years when you were still a wet -nosed kid

and I had to quit school to help keep that farm going?

For God's sake, I know that. Don't you judge me.

I'd do enough of that myself because of the old man.

Well, that wasn't your fault.

Oh. That's very generous of you, Peter.

Don't you remember that night?

Don't you remember how I kept yelling at him and yelling at him, and finally he

stormed out?

You and Mom sitting there pretending to finish your dinner like nothing was

happening, nothing had gone wrong.

What are you talking about?

Did something else happen?

No.

You always said you found him out cold down by the river.

Yeah, he...

He must have wandered down there and slipped on the rocks.

What's eating you?

Joey's talking about being judged.

I thought you meant because you left me alone to look after Mom, but the way you

talk about Dad, anybody thinks... I can't go on living with this alone.

Dad was out of his mind.

He was still drunk when I found him.

God, no.

He kept yelling at me.

He kept blaming me. He kept blaming me for everything.

He swung at me.

You killed him? I just tried to push him away.

You killed him? No, I never meant to hurt him. He slipped.

You bastard!

I could kill you myself!

Peter. Not now. Now, Peter.

I know this is the wrong time. I know your brother's here.

But I need to say something to you.

Say what you have to.

I've got no life as long as we go on like this.

I... I've been so afraid to make a decision.

But now... Christine, don't do anything.

It's impossible for us to go on working side by side like this.

I want a clean break.

You can't mean that. I do.

I'm leaving.

I'm leaving the St. Gregory.

Did Owen ask you to call me?

You know better than that. Then why?

Because he told me about your father a long time ago.

This is family business. Stay out of it.

He said it was an accident.

If you could have seen how he suffered all these years, you would have believed

him.

You're in love with him, aren't you?

Is that so hard to understand?

I know how much pain you're in.

But it will pass.

After Carlos died, I learned that tragedy is like a sickness.

And it passes.

Peter, it was an accident.

But you can't leave.

It's always the time for letting go.

Not for you and Peter.

When I see the two of you together, I see what's missing in my own life.

What are you talking about? Love, Christine.

Unspoken, maybe, but you and Peter have it in buckets.

All the business success in the world doesn't come close to that.

Hi, this is Christine Francis. I'm away from the phone right now, but if you'll

leave a message, I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

I know I left a couple of messages already, but I need you to call.

Please.

Will you call me?

Oh, Mark.

I feel as if a part of me has just died.

Mr. McDermott? Give me a wait, Dave. I wanted to talk to you about a public

relations matter. It's late. I got to...

This is real important to somebody we all care about.

Better put your coat on, Albert. It's getting chilly outside.

Doris always picks me up.

Traffic's pretty heavy tonight. She could be late. You really should put

coat on, Albert. What are you guys talking about?

Are dormant emeritus going around without his coat?

Dormant emeritus?

What would the mayor say?

There you go. I don't understand.

What? You are now officially the St. Gregory Public Relations Consultant,

entrusted with greeting one and all as they enter these hallowed walls.

No lifting luggage. Just a smile and a big hello.

It's magnificent.

Mr. McDermott remembered we still had some old pre -war uniforms in the

warehouse.

You mean I'm really... Dodge doesn't know?

A few hours ago, somebody I care about very much told me she was walking out of

my life.

I don't want to lose you, too.

You didn't kill the old man.

He destroyed himself a long time before that night.

Thanks for saying that, Peter.

Maybe one day I'll believe it.

Don't go back.

Stay here.

Yeah, I have to go.

Jessica's got too many enemies.

But you want to stay.

It's just a dream, Peter.

I can accept what I have.

I'm not going to let you get yourself killed.

Look, this is my life.

I mean, right or wrong, it's what I do.

Besides, we're both going to live a thousand years. You know that.

One of those years.

Come home again?

Yeah, I will.

I'd wait another lifetime if you'd ask me that.

I never thought I could.

Maybe because of Christine.

I just want to be truthful about my feelings.

Shouldn't you be telling her?

Yeah, I'm going to.

I love you, Owen.

Who is it?

Peter.

Can I come in?

Let me out, please.

I've been a fool, Chris.

I've tried to walk away from my own feelings all my life.

It's no use. We don't make each other happy anymore.

We used to.

We can again.

I don't blame you for being angry with me. I'm not angry.

I'm not anything, really.

I just feel tired and I want to be alone.

All right.

I'll go.

If you tell me it doesn't matter.

What doesn't matter? How we feel about each other.

It matters, but it's too late.

Not if you give me another chance.

Don't you see?

The only reason why you're saying that is because I pressured you into it.

We don't have anything unless it's given freely by both of us.