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Room service, the ambassador wants to try a California champagne.

And that's dark raisins for Mr. Don Rickles, not light.

Oui, monsieur.

Le banquet du console français?

Nous avons déjà réservé votre place, monsieur.

Yes, Madam, the Van Cleef representatives are here, and you can

necklace for the opera.

I'm sorry, sir. You would have had to have been in town in 1906.

We're hosting the tea for the survivors of the earthquake.

Yes, sir.

I hope we'll all still be here next year, too.

What has happened to our new owner and his general manager the morning after

opening night at the symphony?

Cows came home before they did. Those two have been to more opening nights

a rented tuxedo. That's life in the executive suite. How sweet it is.

I loved last night.

Keeping you out till 2 a .m.? For, uh, afterwards.

We're late.

Oh, we still have ten minutes before the sales meeting.

I used to spend those ten minutes breathing Victoria every week.

Oh, I know how you feel, Peter.

I miss her so much myself.

Victoria dying.

That's the one thing that could never happen.

Maybe that's why we've all been driving ourselves so hard.

Helps keep us going.

Well, better get this beauty into the garage.

Hey. Hmm?

I love you.

I love you, too.

Morning. Good morning.

I was sorry you couldn't make it last night.

Oh, I had some personal business.

But I enjoy being with you in the morning.

I have a lot of energy, and that turns me on.

We're going to have a nice party.

You know, you don't have to talk this way anymore, not since last month.

I don't mean to sound so professional.

It would help if I knew your last name.

No names.

Whatever you want, Angel.

The other people we know are past.

Everything.

It's just what I want, to forget everything.

And they should all be arriving tonight.

Victoria's father -in -law, the executor to her estate, and the president of

Cabot Enterprises himself?

Oh, talk about VIPs.

You've arranged for our best suites?

Taken care of.

Now, Scat, your general manager has work to do. Can I even sit on my own couch?

My couch?

You asked me to take over your office, Peter.

It seems wrong, moving into Victoria's suite.

You're penthouse now.

You're co -owner.

Yeah, I've been putting this off too long. I'll move in today.

Sorry I've been getting into your hair.

You can get into my hair any time.

The diamond inventory.

The diamond inventory.

Well, I figured out at least one thing about my mystery man.

You're an architect.

I was going to tell you that today. In fact, I've wanted to tell you about

myself for a while now.

Go ahead.

Well, I was divorced. It was messy.

My wife was... Sleeping around, but you were still crazy about her, right?

I kind of fell apart emotionally.

So why a hooker?

Why me?

That I don't know.

Kindness of my friends was driving me crazy. I needed to drop out, be

So you picked up a girl in a bar not knowing she was a professional.

I picked up a very classy lady in this very classy hotel.

You're nice.

I like being with you.

Nice enough for you to stop seeing other men while you're seeing me.

Don't get possessive. I am bought and paid for by the hour.

You're really as tough as you act.

Tougher.

Much tougher.

You really haven't done much of this kind of thing before, have you? Does it

show?

Like a neon sign.

I like it.

I'll see you tonight.

What's going on?

Hmm?

You must be McDermott.

Who are you?

I'm Charles Cabot.

Oh, Mr. Cabot, we weren't expecting you until tonight.

A good commander always arrives when the troops least expect him.

Well, fortunately, I got my discharge several years ago.

Is there something you need up here?

Just moving in.

Moving in?

Since I'm representing Victoria's family... I thought I ought to have her

place.

Well, this is a little embarrassing.

This is my suite now.

It is?

Mm -hmm.

Well, it doesn't appear occupied.

Well, out of respect to Victoria's memory, Elvis is about to move in.

And so was I.

One of us will just have to pack his bags, I guess, eh?

Well, Victoria's instructions were very specific.

You're familiar with her will, I'm sure.

Of course. Say no more.

I hope this doesn't mean you can't put me up.

No, I've arranged the presidential suite. You'll be very comfortable.

I'm sure I will.

There's no better inn in the world than a Cabot Hotel.

Am I not right, Mr.

McDermott?

I don't believe it, Alan.

Caroline, what are you doing here?

Whining and dining Brazilians. We got that contract to build a whole city down

there. I'm very proud of you.

And I'm very worried about you.

You quit your job, you don't see friends.

Well, I've been okay.

Living here, working out of a small office.

Get a few commissions, you know.

Shopping malls, stuff like that.

You're a better architect than that. When are you coming back to the firm?

Gee, I'm sorry, love. I've got to run. Alan, wait.

Look, I saw you go through hell with the divorce.

I haven't tried to see you because I know you wanted to be alone.

But isn't it time you stop hiding out in this hotel and come back into the

world?

Your father's already given me that ledger. But thank you for caring.

Bit awkward, isn't it?

Victoria leaving half the St. Gregory to you and half to her family.

Well, that's why I want to work with you all as closely as possible.

Good man.

You know she named my cousin Jessica as executor. She'll be here to nag the

Jake.

Whatever any of you need, just ask.

Mind if I ask how much you know about me?

Well, enough to know that you're the money man in the family.

Money and family.

Two most important things in the world.

You were married once, weren't you?

We had a few good years.

My wife died.

Took me a long time to pick myself up again.

Then my son was killed in an accident.

I had such hopes for him.

Losing him almost killed me, too.

I'm sorry.

Point is...

I could never have recovered without the love and support of my family.

I have the feeling you're trying to tell me something.

Simply that I love my family. I enjoy making money for them.

Alas, I do not enjoy sharing that money with outsiders.

You think I'm an outsider?

I think you're an ambitious, brilliant man who deserves a hotel of his own.

I want to help you get it.

Are you suggesting that... I'm offering current market value for your holdings,

plus a million dollars.

Oh, you want to buy me out.

You're a good hotel man.

You lack only one essential to be co -owner of the St. Gregory.

Your name isn't Cabot.

Well, I may be an outsider to you, but the St. Gregory means everything to me.

You'll be a very rich man.

No way am I going to sell.

Can't we agree to work together?

Think it over, McDermott.

Great to see you again, Jake. How's life in Vermont?

Still got my health and a country inn where George Washington stayed.

What more could a hotel man want?

Jake, you didn't leave your brown bag in the car.

Right here, Jess.

My family doesn't think I can even handle my own baggage these days.

Now, that's very unfair, dear.

The infamous Mr.

McDermott? Uh -huh.

Peter, Jessica Cabot. Hello.

Jessica will be administering Victoria's estate.

Confidentially, she's also one of the family power brokers.

Jake always did exaggerate.

So did Charles.

You don't have your horns and your tail showing.

I hope I'm not disappointing you.

I'll make up my own mind about you.

That's all I ask. Why don't I show you up to your suite?

Oh, thanks, but why don't you see Jake get settled in? I'll find my own way.

You might have warned me.

I didn't find out myself what Charlie had planned until Jess told me on the

plane. I feel used.

Does she want me to sell, too?

Difficult to figure.

Jessica is the biggest Cabot stockholder after Charlie.

She's only interested in her family, her law practice, and her dividends.

What about you, Jake? What do you think?

I think you better not be fooled by our family's fine manners.

Well, I'm not.

If anybody's going to stick a knife between my shoulder blades, nobody will

it with greater gallantry than the Cabots, huh?

I decided I didn't like the way I talked to you this morning.

I was being possessive.

That was pure hard -boiled call -girl stuff.

No reason to treat you like that.

I'm sorry.

The name is Alan Gray.

Well, I'm glad you finally told me.

Now we can buckle it down our armor.

Michelle.

Michelle Brandon.

Alan.

Oh. I think this dress will clinch my commission south of the border.

Caroline.

Caroline Edmonds, Michelle Brandon.

Hello. Hello.

Alan, why don't you come down to Daddy's yacht tomorrow for lunch?

Pier 39.

Say, 1 o 'clock.

If I can.

Now that I've found you, Alan.

Don't be a stranger.

Beautiful woman.

Caroline's like a sister.

Her father and I put up a lot of buildings together.

Maybe you'll build me a house someday.

Something traditional.

You got it.

That's nice to dream, isn't it?

I've been doing a lot of that lately.

Not knowing your name, wondering who you were, pretending... to be a part of

your life.

You are part of my life.

How did you get started in all of this?

Probably a dumb question.

You're right.

It's a dumb question.

And what do you want to hear about first?

The father who died in prison or the uncle who raped me when I was 12?

I'm sorry.

I made my own choices.

I didn't mean to snap at you.

Look, why don't we go back to your room and be nice to each other?

Michelle, I feel closer to you than anyone.

Let's not get too heavy, okay?

I love you.

Too heavy?

Alan, you pay me to make love with you.

None of that matters.

Are you really serious?

I've never been more serious in my life.

I'm in love with you, Michelle.

Caught me on my way to the ballet.

I really don't have much time to talk.

Well, this won't take a minute.

I'm turning your offer down, but I want to reassure you... The queen is dead.

Long live the king. Believe me, I understand how you feel about your

glad you turned me down. We don't have to pretend any longer.

Pretend? Pretend you didn't manipulate and coerce Victoria into leaving you

the St. Gregory.

Well, you know better than that. Cabots don't leave their hotels to outsiders.

I believe you wormed your way into Victoria's confidence while she was in a

weakened emotional and physical state.

Well, that's pretty damn defensive.

Maybe you don't like me, but... You're finished here, McDermott.

I'm going to use all the power of my family to have you thrown out of this

if it's the last thing I do.

I'm Victoria's father -in -law.

I ran the St. Gregory myself for years, and I guided Victoria's management of it

after my son died.

I'm telling you, Peter McDermott is a good man.

He seems competent.

Victoria certainly trusted him. Victoria was a cabinet by marriage only. She was

unorthodox, trusted an outsider.

Outsider, my eye.

He owns half this place, and you'll never force him out.

I will.

If the family backs me.

Not while I'm chairman.

Chairman Emeritus.

An honorary title, and you know it.

Jesse and I control the voting stock.

Aren't you taking me for granted?

I'm Victoria's executor, but I haven't said I'll support you. You will, after

I've shown you this.

Come on in, devil.

Welcome to hell.

Thanks for letting me come down.

It's important we talk together honestly about how we're going to work together.

We're not going to work together.

I've had a confidential investigation run on you. Who the hell do you think

are, Charlie? The Spanish Inquisition? You were assistant manager a few years

back in New Orleans, where you were fired in ignominy.

After being found flagrante delicto in a bedroom with a woman guest.

It wasn't the way you make it sound.

I was in love.

While you were married?

My wife was in the hospital and I... That justifies adultery, does it?

And let's be frank about your wife.

She was drying out. An alcoholic.

That's all a long time ago.

Look, I don't mind answering your questions.

The result?

Public embarrassment at the hotel.

Dismissal and blacklisting by all the major hotels until he conned Victoria

hiring him. Your ethical standards aren't any higher today.

Do you deny that you're involved with your general manager, Christine Francis?

Involved?

Sexually. That's the most blatant misrepresentation of facts I've ever

Easy, Jake. I'll handle Charlie.

You'll handle nothing, Uncle. You're not competent.

Not competent?

I was confident enough to build hotels all over the world before you were born.

But not to run a Vermont country inn today.

The family has been subsidizing you for the past year.

Well, you don't care who you hurt, do you?

Sometimes we have to hurt the ones we love the most for the greater good of

family. Where do you stand in all this? Honestly, Charlie.

Sometimes I think you deserve a testimonial plaque from Simon Legree.

But I've never known him to be wrong about anything to do with the hotel

business.

I still own half the St. Gregory and nobody's going to make me sell.

Chew on that, Charlie.

Alan, you went into a depression when you found your wife with another guy.

I gave you affection.

Someone to talk to.

You're just grateful.

Some of that's true.

But I also know we have a lot more than that between us.

Look, when a guy likes me, that's terrific.

I make a lot of money, I feel great.

But I've got to be in control. I lose control, sayonara.

Control? Is that what's important?

It's the only way I know to keep from getting hurt. Last night you said...

wake up! It's morning!

Look, you were about to pay me.

Don't take loving words whispered in the middle of the night so seriously.

It wasn't all an act.

You meant some of those words.

Angel, I've had rave reviews for my acting in the best beds in town.

This must be the young girl you made general manager.

Now I see why.

I'm getting pretty tired of your hostile attitude, Cabot. You're not Perry Mason

and we're not on trial.

You will be.

You're out of your mind. You think you were blacklisted before?

By the time I'm through with you, you'll be lucky to get a job as a janitor in a

motel in Guatemala.

I've missed you, Alan.

Not just at the office.

You've been a good friend, Caroline.

No more of a friend than you were when you twisted Daddy's arm to let me join

the firm.

Well, I want to thank you for twisting my arm to get me out of the hotel.

Uh, look, Caroline.

You know, I know what you need. You need a vacation.

Sounds tempting.

So tempt yourself aboard for a long weekend.

We'll sail up the coast.

You know, I should have met you a long time ago, before I got married.

You're not married anymore, are you?

Don't say anything.

I've waited a long time.

And there's no one else in your life now, is there?

Anyhow, it looks like I might be a psych major.

I don't believe you.

Oh, I've got the experience.

True. Tell me about this guy.

Would you believe he loves me?

Good guys don't fall for you when you're in the line.

Uh -uh. You're more likely to find a weirdo who beats you up than a guy who

gives you disease.

Look, it took me a lot of therapy to figure that out.

You're lucky, Linda. You got out.

So can you.

Go back to school. Why not? I'm doing it.

You want to know the truth?

I hate what I do.

Maybe I even hate myself.

But I'm scared of getting out.

Does that make any sense?

You know, sometimes I think that I hooked for all those years because I

like I was in control or had control over my life.

And over men.

Look, you need help.

Look how unhappy you are.

Look, I have a therapist. I can get... No.

Alan's better than a therapist.

He treats me like I'm somebody.

You are somebody.

If you could just like yourself a little more.

I even enjoy making love with him.

You know, I haven't been with any other guys while I've been seeing him.

I'm starting to feel again.

So maybe give him a chance.

No way.

No, I am not going to lose control.

I'm supposed to see him tonight.

I'm going to stop this thing dead in its tracks.

Why haven't you applied for the job as Christine's assistant?

Because I'm not sure if I really want to be in the executive suite anymore.

I thought that was what you wanted.

Mr. McDermott was all set to put you behind Christine's desk when it looked

she was leaving. Yeah, I know, I know.

But believe it or not...

I think I'd miss the lobby. The lobby?

Yeah, you know, the gas, the excitement, being at the center of things.

It's a feeling that really turns me on. So you want to stay on reservation?

No way.

I need to get out from behind this desk.

I just wish I knew what I wanted so I could go after it.

Boy, do I know that feeling.

Apply for the job, Julie.

It'll be a promotion, and you're the obvious first choice.

Maybe I ought to let someone else go for it.

Someone who really wants to move upstairs.

Mr. McDermott is just out here. Thank you, Kai.

Well, they've started to arrive.

Biggest group of diamond merchants in years.

Oh, don't let the cabins get you down. Have I been wrong, Christine?

Have I been acting like I'm the only one who counts around here?

No.

You've always been open to other people. You took me in, didn't you?

Well, maybe it's a mistake to have anything or anyone come into your life

mean so much you can't let go.

Well, you know I didn't mean it that way.

If I ever lost you... Then tell me, Peter, over and over.

And over.

Where have you been? I've been trying to find you all day. Come in.

Right.

Look, we're down to the office, and I started messing around with this.

You did say you wanted a traditional house, didn't you?

Did anyone say anything about money? Why don't we just get business out of the

way first?

What are we talking about?

Well, I'll do anything you want. I mean, it'll cost you, but it'll be worth it.

Michelle, what's going on?

Just showing you what I am, and don't try and make me into anything different.

Oh, for God's sake! Do you see this?

Who do you think paid for it? Or this, huh?

I'm a whore, Alan! You're a woman!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Really, I am.

Why would you ever love anyone like me?

Why does anyone love anybody?

Maybe we're two people who are tired of being lonely.

No, no, no, it'll never work. We're from two different worlds.

Michelle? No!

It's me.

Fault you had last night.

It's no use, Alan.

I'm not going to be around here much longer anyway. I'm trying to get out of

this lousy life.

It's about going home to Chicago.

You can't run away from your feelings. Why not? I've spent my whole life doing

exactly that.

Okay, I'll be right there.

Oh, he's a friend, honey. Why don't you take this and color the flowers, okay?

Okay. All right.

My daughter.

Remember the night I couldn't see you?

It was her birthday party.

Well, you should have told me.

Told you what?

That I once loved a guy, had his baby, and he ran out on us? You should have

told me you had a child.

No, but... difference does it make? Well, who's the father?

Oh, he's nothing. He's... Oh, I get it.

Your hooker has an illegitimate child, and suddenly that makes me dirty.

Well, I may love you, Ellen, but my daughter means more to me than my life.

Well, at least that's the first time you've said you love me.

Well, I've been fighting it, but it doesn't really seem to matter now, does

It matters. You don't see just a little child there, do you? You see every man I

ever slept with who might have been her father.

It scares me.

I don't know how to handle this. I didn't count on a child.

Most men don't.

I think you better leave.

After I pass the bar exam, I gotta be real careful about choosing a law firm.

Don't you think? Don't you think? Meg, am I boring you? Oh, no, no, no. I'm

excited as you about getting out of law school.

I was just thinking about Julie.

Julie?

Remember when I got so upset because Mr. McDermott was going to promote her over

me? Yeah.

Well, I never let anybody know I had any ambitions of my own.

That's going to change.

Great. When I'm settled and you're in school full -time... I'm not going back

school full -time.

I know what I want now, and school's only part of it.

Ann, I've decided to enroll in business school.

Night classes. Well, good for you. I didn't know you were interested in

management.

Do you want some tea? Oh, no, thanks.

Neither did I, until it suddenly hit me what I really wanted was... what the job

as your assistant.

You want to work in the executive offices?

Dave's going to be a lawyer soon. It's time I made something of my own life.

Well, this is unexpected, Megan.

Look, I know you've been getting a lot of applications, but Julie said she

didn't want the job, so I figured go for it.

Well, I'll think about it, okay?

Okay. I'll get you my application form this afternoon.

What did your attorney say?

Cabot doesn't have any kind of case against me, but he could tie me up in

probate court for years.

Effectively blocking you from your 50 %? Especially with Cousin Jessica

administering Victoria's estate.

I have to line up my own cabots on my side.

What are you trying to do, poison me? This coffee's got no sugar.

That coffee's tea, and I don't take sugar in my tea.

You've just drunk my tea. It's not your office anymore.

Now what?

That brings out the beast in me.

You should be worrying about that lawsuit.

I always had a yen for you, you know.

Took you long enough to tell me.

Worth the wait.

Someone could come in. Okay, okay, but we're still on for tomorrow night, huh?

I wouldn't miss it.

I still have a yin for you, especially when you do that.

It's Alan.

I want to apologize.

Look, I'm tired.

I've decided to leave town tomorrow.

Please go away.

Look, don't you want something better for yourself?

For your daughter?

Michelle, look, don't be afraid of loving me. I'm not going to hurt you.

am afraid. God, I'm afraid.

It's going to be all right.

I promise. It's going to be all right.

I do love you. Please don't leave me.

Please.

I don't want to be alone.

Please.

Sorry

to

interrupt your nightcaps, but you'll be hearing from our lawyers tomorrow.

Not after I make a few calls back east on Peter's behalf.

Before you do, I suggest you think about your precious country inn.

What are you babbling about?

You're overextended.

Too many debts.

I've only borrowed from the family.

And I've bought your notes up from the family.

Fight me and I'll throw you out of your own inn.

You do that to your own flesh and blood?

Sorry, Jake, but I have to crack the whip on this one.

Damn it, Cabot. Why can't we try and understand each other?

I love the St. Gregory the same way you love your family.

Maybe we are alike, McDermott. You're a fighter, but I still think you've got

the conscience of a fox in a chicken coop. It'll be your eggs broken in

Not with my witness.

What witness?

Someone who was present when you forced your plans on Victoria.

Undue influence, the law calls it.

Where are you going to find anybody low enough to lie like that?

No lie.

My witness is right here.

Aren't you, Kite?

Mr. Cabot lied.

I told him nothing bad.

You didn't have to. Telling him that I used to work late with Victoria was

enough. But she was sometimes tired after a long day.

Charlie's lawyers always could twist a fellow's meaning.

They'll get doctors to testify that Victoria was sick, claim you unduly

influenced her to leave you the hotel.

They'll be thrown out of court.

If it's only Kai's testimony, can you vouch for all your employees?

If you've got Charlie's money, it can get people to swear to anything you

I am sorry, Mr. McDermott.

That's okay, Kai.

I'm going to need your help, Jake.

I want you to convene a special family meeting.

Charlie's running the show now.

Not if we fight him.

You saw the way he walked all over me.

He'll take away my inn if I go up against him.

Peter, that inn means everything to me. Jake, I need you.

be lost without my inn.

Suddenly I'm very tired.

I guess I'm too old to fight anymore.

Christine, we've worked together for three years now.

We both know I'm the right person to be your assistant.

I've never seen you like this.

You're so ambitious, so assertive.

It's not easy for me to be assertive, but I've changed.

Dave won't need me to support him much longer.

And I can't go on being a bystander in someone else's world.

You won't be.

When you get your MBA, right now, you don't have the training or the

qualifications.

Like you didn't?

What?

You always said that Mr. McDermott took a whopping chance on you when you got

off that bus from Oklahoma.

Christine, I really want this job.

I want the same chance he gave you.

I appreciate you meeting me. I didn't think you'd want to talk to me.

Alan told you all about me, didn't he?

Naturally, you disapprove.

Do you really expect it to last?

I'm in love with Alan.

This is a chance for me to start a whole new life.

It's Alan's life, too.

He's got a career, a social position.

He can't be tied down by a woman like you.

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

I don't want to see him hurt.

You are killing his chance for a decent future with you.

I can give Alan his own child.

Every time he looks at yours, you know what he'll be thinking.

Yeah, I know.

I believe you really do love him.

It's too bad we all have to live in the real world.

Don't forget, dinner tonight.

Maybe we should stay in. We need to talk about the Cabot lawsuit.

We will, but we also need time for ourselves.

I've arranged something special.

Really, Peter? I'd have been happy fixing pizza in the kitchen.

We've been planning this for a week.

I'm not going to let the Cabots...

Ruin our evening long as we have a quiet table

What

did you say about a quiet table

I don't believe what's happened. You know, Christine's going to hire a new

assistant. Yeah, but she hasn't called me yet.

You're expecting her to call you?

I'm first in line, aren't I?

Julie, you didn't want the job.

Yeah, but as you said, it is a promotion.

And Mr. McDermott did pick me to take over Christine's desk, so I figure

call me as soon as she needs me.

Julie, she already called.

She called me.

I don't get it.

Christine hired me.

Thank you.

I feel as if I'm living a fairy tale tonight.

We've even got our own ochre upstairs.

Don't think about Cabot tonight.

What are we going to do, Peter?

I... I'm going to be Charles Cabot because I have to.

We've got a thousand things to do around here.

We're going to do what Victoria always dreamed of doing.

Make the St. Gregory the finest hotel in the world.

We'll do it, Peter.

I know we will.

Caroline.

Michelle called me.

Said I should be here for you. I woke up and she wasn't... Why would she call

you?

She knows how much I care about you.

You talk to her. How could you? Where's she gone?

Chicago. She's taking the late flight with her daughter.

It's for the best.

Now you can start life again.

She took the house with her.

First thing we need to do is find you an apartment.

She took the house.

She does love me.

What are you doing?

I'm going to bring her back.

You'll never catch her plane. That's crazy.

Right. I'm crazy.

Michelle's crazy. I intend to go to Chicago and bring her back.

We can both be crazy together.

She left me because she was afraid of loving me.

But I intend to find her.

I don't care where she's gone. I'm going to find her and I'm going to bring her

home.

But, Barney, no one invited guests.

Oh, but I wanted you to meet Deputy Sheriff Anderson.

I know the deputy.

What's going on here?

Well, he's just changed the locks on your penthouse, sealed your files.

What the hell are you talking about?

As the executor of Victoria's estate, I'm placing your co -ownership claim on

St. Gregory officially in hiatus.

Here's the court order.

You've just been evicted.

I'd say this party's over.

Wouldn't you?