1 00:01:28,375 --> 00:01:31,334 Narrator: Nothing really happens for a reason. 2 00:01:31,375 --> 00:01:32,666 It just happens. 3 00:01:32,708 --> 00:01:35,333 [moaning] 4 00:01:35,374 --> 00:01:36,708 [skyrockets whistling] 5 00:01:36,750 --> 00:01:39,248 Narrator: Take when Carol and I were kids. 6 00:01:39,290 --> 00:01:42,540 On the night of her fourth birthday... 7 00:01:44,749 --> 00:01:47,997 Narrator: Mom made us birthday cake with our dinner. 8 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,581 It was early summer. The air was balmy. 9 00:01:51,623 --> 00:01:52,747 Carol and I were twins, 10 00:01:52,788 --> 00:01:56,205 and the resemblance was indeed strong at that age. 11 00:01:58,455 --> 00:02:00,621 Narrator: What was it that drew mom to that window? 12 00:02:00,662 --> 00:02:02,746 I think she must have suspected dad's high jinx, 13 00:02:02,829 --> 00:02:05,704 the way she grabbed us and tore out of the house. 14 00:02:05,787 --> 00:02:08,411 [skyrockets whistling] 15 00:02:08,495 --> 00:02:10,036 [firecracker explodes] 16 00:02:10,077 --> 00:02:12,453 Narrator: We crossed the street hand-in-hand. 17 00:02:12,536 --> 00:02:14,952 It was an evening of great beauty. 18 00:02:16,452 --> 00:02:17,744 [firecracker explodes] 19 00:02:18,577 --> 00:02:19,744 [firecracker explodes] 20 00:02:22,284 --> 00:02:24,242 What the hell's going on here? 21 00:02:24,284 --> 00:02:25,451 Please... 22 00:02:25,493 --> 00:02:26,910 Yeah, Lou, don't do it. 23 00:02:26,951 --> 00:02:28,825 Aah! 24 00:02:29,658 --> 00:02:31,575 [woman screaming] 25 00:02:33,325 --> 00:02:34,532 Narrator: It was funny. 26 00:02:34,616 --> 00:02:37,782 It was funnier than Charlie Chaplin or Krazy Kat. 27 00:02:37,866 --> 00:02:40,240 The man on the floor didn't have hardly any head at all, 28 00:02:40,324 --> 00:02:43,823 and dad and the woman, they were naked. 29 00:02:43,907 --> 00:02:45,907 Dad went to the electric chair, 30 00:02:45,989 --> 00:02:47,865 and the woman committed suicide. 31 00:02:47,907 --> 00:02:49,071 Mom was scarred for life, 32 00:02:49,155 --> 00:02:53,113 but they were naked and it was funny. 33 00:02:55,404 --> 00:02:58,779 Narrator: It was so funny, I remember-- 34 00:02:58,821 --> 00:03:01,070 I remember that night well. 35 00:05:00,887 --> 00:05:02,928 Narrator: The years went by. 36 00:05:03,011 --> 00:05:04,761 Carol and I did what we said we were going to do 37 00:05:04,803 --> 00:05:05,928 back when we were kids. 38 00:05:06,011 --> 00:05:08,260 We chose to marry someone that no one else wanted-- 39 00:05:08,302 --> 00:05:11,051 Someone scorned and shamed, cast aside. 40 00:05:11,093 --> 00:05:12,051 Your favorite, honey. 41 00:05:12,093 --> 00:05:13,051 Pot roast. 42 00:05:13,135 --> 00:05:15,593 Your son got his report card today. 43 00:05:15,634 --> 00:05:16,634 Yeah? 44 00:05:16,718 --> 00:05:18,885 A "B" in deportment. 45 00:05:18,967 --> 00:05:19,885 That's great. 46 00:05:19,967 --> 00:05:21,508 Yeah, pa. 47 00:05:21,592 --> 00:05:22,884 I gotta fly. 48 00:05:22,966 --> 00:05:24,550 I don't like it when you go out this late 49 00:05:24,633 --> 00:05:25,550 to cover stories. 50 00:05:25,633 --> 00:05:26,842 The city never sleeps. 51 00:05:26,925 --> 00:05:29,007 A reporter's gotta go where the news is. 52 00:05:29,090 --> 00:05:30,632 I'm gonna be into something really big. 53 00:05:30,716 --> 00:05:32,883 It's dangerous what you're up to, isn't it? 54 00:05:32,924 --> 00:05:34,549 I'll be careful, all right? I'll be all right. 55 00:05:34,591 --> 00:05:35,882 I love you so much. 56 00:05:35,964 --> 00:05:38,256 Take care of your mom for me. 57 00:05:38,339 --> 00:05:39,756 I will, pa. 58 00:05:39,798 --> 00:05:41,256 Narrator: The way I played it, 59 00:05:41,298 --> 00:05:43,422 the reporter racket was a life-or-death gamble. 60 00:05:43,505 --> 00:05:45,255 When I hit Chicago I had big plans 61 00:05:45,297 --> 00:05:47,755 on getting all the way to the top. 62 00:05:47,797 --> 00:05:49,629 [playing blues music] 63 00:05:56,628 --> 00:05:58,378 Hey, Marty. 64 00:05:58,462 --> 00:06:00,253 Have a cigarette. 65 00:06:00,336 --> 00:06:02,795 Thanks. 66 00:06:02,837 --> 00:06:04,711 Nailing C.C. Casper, 67 00:06:04,752 --> 00:06:07,252 the top cop in Chicago. 68 00:06:07,335 --> 00:06:08,544 Tell me that doesn't make your heart 69 00:06:08,627 --> 00:06:09,586 beat fast, Marty. 70 00:06:09,669 --> 00:06:11,293 You got names, dates and places 71 00:06:11,376 --> 00:06:13,084 for dope and prostitution payoffs, 72 00:06:13,168 --> 00:06:14,084 and your sources are solid? 73 00:06:14,168 --> 00:06:15,793 I know the drill, Marty. 74 00:06:15,877 --> 00:06:19,125 I had your column for five years, remember? 75 00:06:19,167 --> 00:06:20,125 You know better than anyone. 76 00:06:20,167 --> 00:06:21,709 I can't go to print until you go on tape 77 00:06:21,792 --> 00:06:24,249 in front of McCalister and the newspaper's lawyers. 78 00:06:24,291 --> 00:06:26,624 I'm gonna make you famous, Marty. 79 00:06:26,666 --> 00:06:28,332 They'll be naming streets after you. 80 00:06:28,416 --> 00:06:29,957 Gonna make a movie about you 81 00:06:29,999 --> 00:06:31,832 starring Marlon Brando. 82 00:06:31,874 --> 00:06:33,623 Not unless it's a musical. 83 00:06:33,665 --> 00:06:36,165 All right, here's your end. 84 00:06:37,206 --> 00:06:38,997 Liquid morphine, the kind doctors use. 85 00:06:39,038 --> 00:06:43,205 Administered judiciously, this'll last you quite a while. 86 00:06:44,414 --> 00:06:45,830 You're too hungry, Joseph. 87 00:06:45,913 --> 00:06:47,746 Pump too much of this pure, it'll bury you. 88 00:06:47,788 --> 00:06:50,079 Do I look like I’m in school, Marty? 89 00:06:50,163 --> 00:06:51,037 You give me what I need, 90 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:52,495 I give you what you need 91 00:06:52,579 --> 00:06:53,787 and vice versa. 92 00:06:53,871 --> 00:06:56,370 We're all gonna get fat off this one, Joe. 93 00:06:56,454 --> 00:06:59,286 Now, if you'll excuse me, 94 00:06:59,327 --> 00:07:00,994 I've got to go to confession. 95 00:07:02,411 --> 00:07:03,703 Don't get lost. 96 00:07:13,033 --> 00:07:14,868 Hey, joey. 97 00:07:14,950 --> 00:07:16,784 Hey, hey, hey! 98 00:07:20,366 --> 00:07:23,741 Chief C.C. Casper sends his regards. 99 00:07:23,783 --> 00:07:26,990 I don't know any C.C. Casper. 100 00:07:27,073 --> 00:07:28,240 Aw, come on, fellas. 101 00:07:28,282 --> 00:07:29,407 Ohh! 102 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:31,365 Supposed to be another guy here. 103 00:07:31,449 --> 00:07:32,449 Marty somebody. 104 00:07:32,532 --> 00:07:34,281 Ask him. 105 00:07:34,364 --> 00:07:35,989 [gasping] 106 00:07:39,156 --> 00:07:41,155 Where's Marty? 107 00:07:41,196 --> 00:07:43,029 In the head. 108 00:08:07,444 --> 00:08:09,776 Marty: You run into a lot of jams in this life, 109 00:08:09,818 --> 00:08:12,234 but what you don't want is some trigger-happy Chicago cops 110 00:08:12,317 --> 00:08:15,316 trying to put your lights out. 111 00:08:16,608 --> 00:08:18,567 Where'd he go? 112 00:08:18,650 --> 00:08:20,525 Go that way. 113 00:08:20,567 --> 00:08:23,357 Marty: Three years of work in Chicago up in smoke 114 00:08:23,441 --> 00:08:24,566 in one night. 115 00:08:24,649 --> 00:08:26,357 The dirty cops and the corrupt politicians 116 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:29,231 who ran the city weren't ready to let a reporter get away 117 00:08:29,273 --> 00:08:31,731 with blowing the lid off their entire operation. 118 00:08:44,646 --> 00:08:46,646 Marty: Now I had to spring for safe territory, 119 00:08:46,688 --> 00:08:48,020 and in a hurry. 120 00:09:04,143 --> 00:09:06,643 Next pit stop is Wichita, Kansas. 121 00:09:06,726 --> 00:09:10,643 If you gotta take a leak, do it now. 122 00:09:12,225 --> 00:09:13,725 Marty: I headed for California, 123 00:09:13,767 --> 00:09:16,892 where mom and my sister Carol had landed. 124 00:09:18,182 --> 00:09:21,349 Carol's marriage to a rich lowlife, William Wharton II, 125 00:09:21,433 --> 00:09:23,307 hadn't worked out so well. 126 00:09:23,391 --> 00:09:26,432 Now she was looking after mom. 127 00:09:30,807 --> 00:09:33,222 Mom had stopped moving for a while. 128 00:09:33,264 --> 00:09:34,514 Not because she was content, 129 00:09:34,556 --> 00:09:37,806 but because she was too tired to go on. 130 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,304 The cab fare came to 95 cents. 131 00:09:43,388 --> 00:09:45,928 I had a total of $2.00 in my pocket, 132 00:09:45,970 --> 00:09:49,429 which I gave to the cab driver. 133 00:09:49,470 --> 00:09:50,928 [dog barking] 134 00:09:50,970 --> 00:09:52,927 It did not matter about being broke. 135 00:09:52,969 --> 00:09:55,469 Carol and I were together again 136 00:09:55,511 --> 00:09:56,761 after three long years, 137 00:09:56,845 --> 00:09:59,344 the longest we'd been separated. 138 00:10:00,343 --> 00:10:02,343 Nothing else seemed to matter. 139 00:10:05,093 --> 00:10:07,217 Marty. 140 00:10:07,259 --> 00:10:08,717 Come in. 141 00:10:08,801 --> 00:10:10,050 Come in. 142 00:10:17,966 --> 00:10:19,216 Well... 143 00:10:20,715 --> 00:10:22,298 Let me look at you. 144 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:24,632 You can look at me, Ma. 145 00:10:24,715 --> 00:10:28,131 You can look at me till the cows come home. 146 00:10:28,172 --> 00:10:29,131 I don't believe it. 147 00:10:29,214 --> 00:10:32,673 You're just handsomer than you used to be. 148 00:10:32,756 --> 00:10:34,131 You don't look a day older yourself, Ma. 149 00:10:34,172 --> 00:10:35,130 Where is Carol? 150 00:10:35,171 --> 00:10:36,755 Where is that redheaded sister of mine? 151 00:10:36,839 --> 00:10:38,004 I made you breakfast. 152 00:10:38,046 --> 00:10:40,213 She's still in bed, isn't she? 153 00:10:40,296 --> 00:10:42,087 I've got it all ready. 154 00:10:42,170 --> 00:10:43,504 Which room is hers? 155 00:10:43,546 --> 00:10:44,754 Well, but... 156 00:10:44,838 --> 00:10:47,045 Well, why don't you eat your breakfast first? 157 00:10:47,087 --> 00:10:49,253 'Cause I know you must be tired and hungry. 158 00:10:49,294 --> 00:10:51,128 Listen, I’ve got it special. 159 00:10:51,211 --> 00:10:52,128 I made everything 160 00:10:52,211 --> 00:10:53,128 just the way you like it. 161 00:10:53,211 --> 00:10:54,420 Mom. 162 00:10:55,293 --> 00:10:58,335 She's at the top of the stairs 163 00:10:58,419 --> 00:11:01,043 next to the bathroom. 164 00:11:01,127 --> 00:11:03,167 Marty. 165 00:11:03,251 --> 00:11:04,501 Now, this time, 166 00:11:04,584 --> 00:11:06,042 now, you and Carol 167 00:11:06,126 --> 00:11:07,876 aren't going to get into trouble. 168 00:11:07,959 --> 00:11:09,375 Trouble? 169 00:11:09,458 --> 00:11:11,875 That's a little unfair, mom. 170 00:11:12,958 --> 00:11:13,958 What made you think 171 00:11:14,041 --> 00:11:15,875 that we'd have gotten into any trouble? 172 00:11:15,958 --> 00:11:17,541 Now you listen to me. 173 00:11:17,624 --> 00:11:19,666 I want you to get a job. 174 00:11:19,707 --> 00:11:21,582 You could do it. I know you can. 175 00:11:21,624 --> 00:11:23,456 There's three papers in town. 176 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:25,081 You just-- with your expertise 177 00:11:25,123 --> 00:11:27,581 and your experience and talent and... 178 00:11:28,665 --> 00:11:29,997 Looks. 179 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:30,996 Ma, you're... 180 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,705 You're gonna get me blushing again, 181 00:11:32,789 --> 00:11:33,913 aren't you? 182 00:11:33,955 --> 00:11:34,913 And I want you 183 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:36,163 to bring your family out right away, too. 184 00:11:36,247 --> 00:11:38,538 Why don't we just stop right here, OK? 185 00:11:38,621 --> 00:11:40,204 Let's just stop right here, mother. 186 00:11:40,287 --> 00:11:42,788 Just to set up your own household. 187 00:11:42,830 --> 00:11:43,994 Mother, I’m a big boy now. 188 00:11:44,078 --> 00:11:46,537 You will do it, won't you? 189 00:11:51,285 --> 00:11:52,452 Marty. 190 00:11:52,536 --> 00:11:55,910 You won't stay here a day longer than you have to. 191 00:11:55,952 --> 00:11:58,243 I know you don't mean that, mother. 192 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:00,701 It almost sounds as though 193 00:12:00,743 --> 00:12:01,992 I'm not welcome here, though. 194 00:12:02,076 --> 00:12:05,242 Marty: I looked at her with genuine sorrow. 195 00:12:05,283 --> 00:12:07,409 It's rather sad, you know, when one's own mother fears 196 00:12:07,450 --> 00:12:09,158 or even dislikes him. 197 00:12:09,242 --> 00:12:10,659 It was almost unbearable. 198 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,616 I say this as one who's done a great deal of bearing. 199 00:12:13,658 --> 00:12:16,825 It's just that I got old. 200 00:12:16,907 --> 00:12:21,323 And I can't take the trouble so good anymore like I used to. 201 00:12:21,365 --> 00:12:23,698 As if you ever could. 202 00:12:30,823 --> 00:12:32,072 Marty: Any time I was away from her, 203 00:12:32,114 --> 00:12:33,655 it felt too long. 204 00:12:33,738 --> 00:12:36,613 Especially when I saw her again. 205 00:12:36,696 --> 00:12:38,780 Was she asleep 206 00:12:38,863 --> 00:12:41,445 or was she playing possum? 207 00:13:04,567 --> 00:13:08,024 Mr. Martin Lakewood. 208 00:13:08,108 --> 00:13:12,566 Mrs. Carol Lakewood Wharton. 209 00:13:16,357 --> 00:13:18,357 Sister. 210 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:19,981 Brother. 211 00:13:40,604 --> 00:13:42,770 [Carol laughing] 212 00:13:43,894 --> 00:13:46,894 "once upon a time there was a little boy, 213 00:13:46,936 --> 00:13:49,019 there was a little girl..." 214 00:13:51,727 --> 00:13:54,394 I tell you, this Monroe dame sure gets a lot of ink. 215 00:13:54,477 --> 00:13:57,309 No wonder I can't make a buck. 216 00:13:57,393 --> 00:13:59,851 Guys all expect girls to have tits a mile wide. 217 00:13:59,892 --> 00:14:01,059 She's ruining it for all of us. 218 00:14:01,142 --> 00:14:02,226 Mom: Marty, Carol, breakfast. 219 00:14:02,309 --> 00:14:04,891 God damn her anyway. 220 00:14:04,974 --> 00:14:06,974 I'm gonna slap the hell out of her in a minute. 221 00:14:07,058 --> 00:14:08,809 I will, Marty. 222 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:10,682 I'm sorry. I'm not laughing at you. 223 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:14,516 Marty: I had reason to know her threats were not idle. 224 00:14:14,557 --> 00:14:15,808 Still, I was amused. 225 00:14:15,890 --> 00:14:18,223 It was so incongruous to me. 226 00:14:18,264 --> 00:14:20,431 Such words from such a sweet-faced doll. 227 00:14:20,473 --> 00:14:23,681 Maybe I’m losing my sense of humor. 228 00:14:23,765 --> 00:14:25,138 If I sleep with one more sailor, 229 00:14:25,180 --> 00:14:27,888 I'll start saluting. 230 00:14:27,971 --> 00:14:30,970 So, Marty, what is this beef in Chicago about? 231 00:14:31,012 --> 00:14:32,887 Mom saw the clippings that you sent. 232 00:14:32,970 --> 00:14:33,970 She went on a rampage. 233 00:14:34,012 --> 00:14:36,012 I had the good fortune to ferret out 234 00:14:36,096 --> 00:14:37,638 some smelly figurative bodies 235 00:14:37,679 --> 00:14:39,845 to identify the officeholders responsible for them 236 00:14:39,928 --> 00:14:42,553 and the bigwigs who ran the whole Sheboygan. 237 00:14:42,637 --> 00:14:44,762 Will you give me a ciga-- 238 00:14:49,844 --> 00:14:52,093 Then it turned out that no one was ready 239 00:14:52,134 --> 00:14:53,593 to back my play. 240 00:14:53,635 --> 00:14:55,593 The voters and my editor 241 00:14:55,676 --> 00:14:56,843 and the people who ran things 242 00:14:56,926 --> 00:14:57,926 all thought it was just plain peachy 243 00:14:57,967 --> 00:15:00,759 to let those dirty thieves keep their jobs. 244 00:15:00,801 --> 00:15:02,550 I know, sweetie. 245 00:15:02,634 --> 00:15:05,133 You try lighting a candle 246 00:15:05,175 --> 00:15:07,132 while everyone else is cursing the darkness. 247 00:15:07,174 --> 00:15:09,007 How'd you let yourself get into such hot water? 248 00:15:09,049 --> 00:15:10,174 Marty: It was a question I couldn't answer. 249 00:15:10,257 --> 00:15:12,049 Had I subconsciously wanted the heat? 250 00:15:12,132 --> 00:15:16,048 Had I brought about my own downfall? 251 00:15:16,090 --> 00:15:17,799 Maybe time would take care of her and me, too. 252 00:15:17,881 --> 00:15:19,714 Unless, of course, we changed, 253 00:15:19,756 --> 00:15:23,255 but how could we do that? 254 00:15:25,089 --> 00:15:26,339 Marty. 255 00:15:28,588 --> 00:15:30,004 Marty: from the time we were kids, 256 00:15:30,088 --> 00:15:32,421 carol and I couldn't stay out of trouble. 257 00:15:32,463 --> 00:15:35,003 The kids we grew up with were cousins and second cousins 258 00:15:35,087 --> 00:15:36,087 and friends of cousins. 259 00:15:36,128 --> 00:15:38,212 They all called us strange and different. 260 00:15:38,295 --> 00:15:40,503 Hey, Carol! 261 00:15:41,378 --> 00:15:42,544 Hey! 262 00:15:42,628 --> 00:15:44,461 Hey, cousin Lyle. 263 00:15:44,503 --> 00:15:47,543 Marty: And they were right. We were. 264 00:15:47,585 --> 00:15:49,001 We felt each other's feelings, 265 00:15:49,043 --> 00:15:51,502 we thought each other's thoughts. 266 00:15:51,543 --> 00:15:53,418 We didn't care what anyone thought of us 267 00:15:53,502 --> 00:15:55,542 and that was unforgivable. 268 00:15:55,626 --> 00:15:57,667 For that, we had to be punished. 269 00:16:00,250 --> 00:16:01,916 Tim, you all set? 270 00:16:01,957 --> 00:16:03,750 Yeah. 271 00:16:03,792 --> 00:16:06,166 Come on, help me, guys. 272 00:16:06,249 --> 00:16:07,625 Let go! 273 00:16:07,708 --> 00:16:09,873 Marty! 274 00:16:09,956 --> 00:16:11,123 Stop that! 275 00:16:11,165 --> 00:16:12,499 Carol: Marty! 276 00:16:12,582 --> 00:16:14,457 Marty! 277 00:16:14,499 --> 00:16:17,039 Marty! 278 00:16:17,914 --> 00:16:19,831 Marty! 279 00:16:19,872 --> 00:16:21,039 Marty! 280 00:16:21,081 --> 00:16:24,246 Marty! Get off of me! 281 00:16:24,330 --> 00:16:25,663 Let go of me! 282 00:16:25,705 --> 00:16:26,663 Let go of me! 283 00:16:26,705 --> 00:16:27,954 Marty! 284 00:16:28,038 --> 00:16:29,870 Kill 'em! 285 00:16:29,912 --> 00:16:31,704 Get 'em! 286 00:16:31,746 --> 00:16:34,371 Marty: And there was something wrong, of course: 287 00:16:34,412 --> 00:16:37,828 The deepest, darkest crime two people could ever commit. 288 00:16:37,911 --> 00:16:40,328 We loved each other. It was a lesson 289 00:16:40,411 --> 00:16:42,453 I was ever trying to hammer home to sis. 290 00:16:42,536 --> 00:16:45,327 You may be wrong and exist comfortably 291 00:16:45,410 --> 00:16:46,868 in a world of righteousness, 292 00:16:46,951 --> 00:16:47,868 but you may not be right 293 00:16:47,951 --> 00:16:49,951 and live in a world of error-- 294 00:16:49,993 --> 00:16:52,493 The kind of world that we seemed to live in. 295 00:16:52,576 --> 00:16:53,950 The growing sense of injustice 296 00:16:54,034 --> 00:16:55,785 would just be too much to bear. 297 00:16:55,867 --> 00:16:57,742 You know how you and me look 298 00:16:57,825 --> 00:16:59,784 on those things, Carol. 299 00:16:59,866 --> 00:17:03,075 What we endured was something normal for us, 300 00:17:03,116 --> 00:17:04,407 for those particular times 301 00:17:04,449 --> 00:17:06,449 and those particular situations. 302 00:17:06,532 --> 00:17:09,865 It's just what happened. 303 00:17:09,948 --> 00:17:11,239 We weren't mistreated. 304 00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:12,740 Here, Marty, I want you to take this. 305 00:17:12,782 --> 00:17:14,281 I insist. 306 00:17:14,365 --> 00:17:15,281 I know you're broke, 307 00:17:15,365 --> 00:17:17,073 so you take what you need out of that, 308 00:17:17,114 --> 00:17:19,238 and you send the rest to Glenda and Junior. 309 00:17:19,322 --> 00:17:20,322 You said things were tough. 310 00:17:20,405 --> 00:17:22,364 There's well over three centuries here. 311 00:17:22,447 --> 00:17:23,655 So? 312 00:17:23,739 --> 00:17:25,196 $300 isn't a lot of money. 313 00:17:25,279 --> 00:17:28,196 Not when you've been around the guys I’ve been around. 314 00:17:28,279 --> 00:17:30,196 So there's that alimony that stiff pays you. 315 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:31,571 You can make the rent off of that. 316 00:17:31,654 --> 00:17:32,986 Did you say mom's doctor bills were getting high? 317 00:17:33,028 --> 00:17:34,986 Jesus, what are you, an auditor all of a sudden? 318 00:17:35,070 --> 00:17:36,362 Such a fuss over a couple hundred dollars. 319 00:17:36,403 --> 00:17:37,944 Baby, don't keep me in the dark. 320 00:17:38,028 --> 00:17:39,319 Give me the straight dope. 321 00:17:39,402 --> 00:17:43,694 You see, Marty, I have been saving up for something. 322 00:17:43,736 --> 00:17:45,984 Um, just a couple dollars at a time. 323 00:17:46,068 --> 00:17:47,068 Why didn't you say so? 324 00:17:47,109 --> 00:17:48,777 Because I know you. 325 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,443 I know that if you knew that I needed-- 326 00:17:51,485 --> 00:17:54,233 That I wanted the money for myself, that-- 327 00:17:54,317 --> 00:17:56,484 Marty: I saw something in her face I didn't like. 328 00:17:56,567 --> 00:17:58,067 Baby, what is it you want? 329 00:17:58,150 --> 00:17:59,317 Marty: I couldn't analyze the expression 330 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:00,608 or say why it troubled me. 331 00:18:00,649 --> 00:18:03,899 A mink. But I don't have to have that, Marty. 332 00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:05,358 Anyway, now that you're here, 333 00:18:05,441 --> 00:18:06,690 we're gonna be rolling in the money soon. 334 00:18:06,732 --> 00:18:08,231 Right? 335 00:18:09,148 --> 00:18:10,231 Yeah. 336 00:18:10,315 --> 00:18:12,106 See? 337 00:18:12,190 --> 00:18:13,814 So, you satisfied now, huh? 338 00:18:13,897 --> 00:18:15,064 Yeah, I’m satisfied. 339 00:18:15,105 --> 00:18:16,356 You still haven't leveled with me 340 00:18:16,397 --> 00:18:17,689 on how you're making it 341 00:18:17,773 --> 00:18:18,897 with the local syndicate, though. 342 00:18:18,938 --> 00:18:20,730 Oh, these guys are such a laughable crew, 343 00:18:20,772 --> 00:18:21,813 you could hardly believe it. 344 00:18:21,896 --> 00:18:23,646 Marty: She told me how she staked out some turf 345 00:18:23,730 --> 00:18:25,355 in the local cocktail lounge 346 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:29,645 when they sent some joy boy around to give her the arm. 347 00:18:29,687 --> 00:18:31,895 I'll have a Rob Roy, please. 348 00:18:36,019 --> 00:18:38,186 Ahem. You're sorta cute. 349 00:18:39,728 --> 00:18:40,935 You're not. 350 00:18:41,019 --> 00:18:42,851 What's your name, sweetcheeks? 351 00:18:42,893 --> 00:18:44,310 Who's asking? 352 00:18:44,393 --> 00:18:45,851 Name's Lloyd. 353 00:18:45,893 --> 00:18:48,809 I run this joint for the McCloud outfit. 354 00:18:49,933 --> 00:18:51,768 Lloyd, huh? 355 00:18:52,768 --> 00:18:54,809 Lloyd, why don't you run home to mama 356 00:18:54,892 --> 00:18:56,891 and have her make you some hot milk? 357 00:18:56,932 --> 00:18:58,516 You can't sell that pretty ass of yours 358 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,641 around this town without us taking a cut. 359 00:19:01,725 --> 00:19:02,640 [sizzle] 360 00:19:02,724 --> 00:19:05,307 Aah! 361 00:19:08,307 --> 00:19:11,847 Lloyd, the next time McCloud wants to talk to me, 362 00:19:11,930 --> 00:19:13,181 have him see me in person. 363 00:19:13,264 --> 00:19:14,306 [gagging] 364 00:19:14,348 --> 00:19:15,306 Oh, what's that? 365 00:19:15,389 --> 00:19:19,055 He says he'll buy my drink for me. 366 00:19:20,722 --> 00:19:22,680 [gagging] 367 00:19:29,763 --> 00:19:31,553 Carol: So the two big guns, 368 00:19:31,595 --> 00:19:33,595 mcCloud and his partner Galloway, 369 00:19:33,636 --> 00:19:35,428 they come out to the house. 370 00:19:35,470 --> 00:19:40,010 And I fixed them both a nice, big drink. 371 00:19:45,343 --> 00:19:47,009 Can you imagine? 372 00:19:47,092 --> 00:19:49,551 They gulped it down like little lambs. 373 00:19:49,593 --> 00:19:51,383 [laughs] 374 00:19:51,467 --> 00:19:52,717 [sighs] 375 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:56,342 I do believe they've never heard of chloral hydrate. 376 00:20:24,713 --> 00:20:26,628 Carol: It took the highway patrol 377 00:20:26,712 --> 00:20:29,337 A whole week to find them. 378 00:20:30,670 --> 00:20:32,086 One of them died, 379 00:20:32,128 --> 00:20:34,835 and one of them had to be committed 380 00:20:34,918 --> 00:20:37,085 to the insane asylum. 381 00:20:37,169 --> 00:20:40,376 Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair of guys. 382 00:20:43,376 --> 00:20:45,293 And since then... 383 00:20:45,335 --> 00:20:47,584 Nobody seems to muscle me anymore. 384 00:20:47,667 --> 00:20:49,208 That's my sis. 385 00:20:49,292 --> 00:20:50,833 That's my sweet little sister. 386 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,000 Ha ha! 387 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:54,166 Marty: I went to work the following day 388 00:20:54,249 --> 00:20:56,291 on the first paper I applied to. 389 00:20:56,374 --> 00:20:58,124 I had no difficulty about it. 390 00:20:58,207 --> 00:21:00,291 Not since I was a child, a very small child, 391 00:21:00,374 --> 00:21:02,873 have I had any difficulty in getting work. 392 00:21:02,956 --> 00:21:05,081 It would be strange if I did. 393 00:21:05,165 --> 00:21:06,873 Personably and in intelligence, 394 00:21:06,914 --> 00:21:08,872 I'm a generous cut above the average. 395 00:21:08,913 --> 00:21:12,331 I must admit to this, as immodest as it seems. 396 00:21:12,414 --> 00:21:13,664 When I choose to, 397 00:21:13,748 --> 00:21:16,871 I can be exceedingly ingratiating. 398 00:21:18,538 --> 00:21:20,038 And to top it off, 399 00:21:20,121 --> 00:21:24,454 there was my childhood training by earnest teachers. 400 00:21:24,495 --> 00:21:25,911 One gets work readily 401 00:21:25,995 --> 00:21:28,661 when the penalty for failure was a clubbing. 402 00:21:28,703 --> 00:21:31,910 You learn not to take no for an answer. 403 00:21:34,036 --> 00:21:36,035 It was the best and biggest paper in town, 404 00:21:36,076 --> 00:21:37,410 which is not to say, of course, 405 00:21:37,493 --> 00:21:39,702 that it was either very good or very big. 406 00:21:39,744 --> 00:21:41,660 Most of the other staffers were fair, 407 00:21:41,744 --> 00:21:43,617 about average, I suppose. 408 00:21:43,701 --> 00:21:46,451 They'd been getting by nicely until I came along. 409 00:21:46,534 --> 00:21:48,451 But then there I was-- 410 00:21:48,534 --> 00:21:51,450 A real newspaperman, a towering beacon of ability, 411 00:21:51,491 --> 00:21:52,700 and by comparison, 412 00:21:52,783 --> 00:21:56,240 these average people looked like submoronic dolts. 413 00:22:02,490 --> 00:22:03,864 Marty: Whenever I cared to, 414 00:22:03,947 --> 00:22:05,905 and when I had an amusing objective in mind, 415 00:22:05,989 --> 00:22:08,156 I've always advanced in my work. 416 00:22:08,197 --> 00:22:10,322 But I set an all-time record on the paper. 417 00:22:10,363 --> 00:22:12,946 I was assistant city editor at the end of the first week. 418 00:22:13,030 --> 00:22:15,530 Two weeks later, I made city editor. 419 00:22:19,820 --> 00:22:20,945 Marty: Carol, on the other hand, 420 00:22:21,029 --> 00:22:22,779 had a different experience of employment. 421 00:22:22,862 --> 00:22:25,570 Being sorely undernourished and frequently raped, 422 00:22:25,611 --> 00:22:27,819 she had little energy, time, or appetite 423 00:22:27,902 --> 00:22:29,653 for normal endeavors. 424 00:22:31,777 --> 00:22:34,652 [horn honks] 425 00:22:37,527 --> 00:22:40,109 Marty: While I was going up the ladder, 426 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:43,359 sis was doing her level best to make change. 427 00:22:45,734 --> 00:22:47,275 Man: Now. 428 00:22:50,358 --> 00:22:53,815 Marty: My rise at the sentinel did not bring joy to all. 429 00:22:53,898 --> 00:22:55,566 In fact, the city room was a mess. 430 00:22:55,607 --> 00:22:57,441 All the staffers were jumpy. 431 00:22:57,482 --> 00:22:59,523 The news editor had resigned. 432 00:22:59,606 --> 00:23:02,356 The chief copy editor had reverted to alcoholism. 433 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,273 The publisher no longer made his face to shine upon them. 434 00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:07,647 He griped at everyone, except me. 435 00:23:07,689 --> 00:23:10,022 No one could do anything to please him, 436 00:23:10,105 --> 00:23:11,480 except me. 437 00:23:14,104 --> 00:23:16,104 Mr. Griffith wants to see you. 438 00:23:16,187 --> 00:23:17,730 Yes. 439 00:23:24,978 --> 00:23:27,102 Griffith: uh, have a seat, Marty. 440 00:23:27,144 --> 00:23:28,561 Thanks, Mr. Griffith. 441 00:23:29,977 --> 00:23:32,935 You know, I, uh, canned, uh, Samuelson. 442 00:23:32,977 --> 00:23:35,643 The managing editor. Yeah, I heard about that. 443 00:23:35,727 --> 00:23:37,768 Seemed like an OK Joe. 444 00:23:37,809 --> 00:23:39,768 I guess you had your reasons. 445 00:23:39,809 --> 00:23:42,309 The job is yours, if you want it. 446 00:23:42,350 --> 00:23:44,726 Gee. 447 00:23:44,808 --> 00:23:49,433 You're getting $75 a week. 448 00:23:49,516 --> 00:23:50,725 Well, that goes up. 449 00:23:50,807 --> 00:23:52,849 $82.50. 450 00:23:52,890 --> 00:23:54,973 Samuelson always treated me square. 451 00:23:55,056 --> 00:23:57,181 He was a bum. 452 00:23:57,223 --> 00:23:59,140 He couldn't turn this rag around. 453 00:23:59,223 --> 00:24:00,473 You can. 454 00:24:00,557 --> 00:24:02,764 You know it. I know it. 455 00:24:02,847 --> 00:24:04,431 Start today. 456 00:24:04,514 --> 00:24:05,764 I quit. 457 00:24:05,805 --> 00:24:07,764 What? 458 00:24:07,805 --> 00:24:09,638 You're sick of paying Samuelson $112.50 459 00:24:09,722 --> 00:24:11,305 To do his job? 460 00:24:11,346 --> 00:24:13,846 Looking for the next patsy to hang this rag on? 461 00:24:13,929 --> 00:24:14,971 No, thanks. 462 00:24:15,054 --> 00:24:17,053 If you were half smart, you'd have talked to me 463 00:24:17,137 --> 00:24:19,095 before you gave Samuelson the knife, but you're not. 464 00:24:19,178 --> 00:24:20,304 Are you crazy? 465 00:24:20,345 --> 00:24:22,344 Not crazy enough to keep eating your shit. 466 00:24:22,386 --> 00:24:24,428 You can't just walk out on me-- 467 00:24:24,511 --> 00:24:27,428 Yes! Yes! I can! 468 00:24:27,511 --> 00:24:29,884 I have a guideline for my behavior! 469 00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:30,926 And you, sir, 470 00:24:31,010 --> 00:24:33,468 you have violated commandment one-minus! 471 00:24:33,552 --> 00:24:35,302 What the hell are you talking about? 472 00:24:35,385 --> 00:24:37,092 It is the commandment that has never been written down 473 00:24:37,134 --> 00:24:39,759 because every goddamn fool's supposed to know it! 474 00:24:39,842 --> 00:24:40,759 Yea, verily... 475 00:24:40,842 --> 00:24:43,675 It is the pointed moral of all happening 476 00:24:43,758 --> 00:24:46,425 from the beginning of creation to wit. 477 00:24:46,466 --> 00:24:48,174 Take not advantage of thy neighbor 478 00:24:48,258 --> 00:24:49,466 with his pants down, 479 00:24:49,508 --> 00:24:52,007 for to each man, there comes this season! 480 00:24:52,048 --> 00:24:54,840 And in my house, there are many mansions! 481 00:24:54,881 --> 00:24:56,299 And in those mansions, 482 00:24:56,340 --> 00:24:59,589 there are many men longer-donged than thyself. 483 00:25:03,047 --> 00:25:04,547 Get out! 484 00:25:04,588 --> 00:25:07,422 Get--get--get out! 485 00:25:07,505 --> 00:25:08,547 Get out! 486 00:25:08,588 --> 00:25:10,005 Get out! Get out! 487 00:25:10,088 --> 00:25:12,170 Get out! Get out! Get out! 488 00:25:14,045 --> 00:25:15,962 Marty: I'd like to say I walked out on that dog prick 489 00:25:16,004 --> 00:25:18,461 because he was a wicked old man. 490 00:25:19,586 --> 00:25:22,211 The truth: It was his being certain about me 491 00:25:22,295 --> 00:25:24,336 and my motives that I objected to. 492 00:25:24,378 --> 00:25:26,002 The minute anybody thinks they have me, 493 00:25:26,043 --> 00:25:28,127 thinks they know what makes me tick, 494 00:25:28,168 --> 00:25:29,711 I have to take 'em down. 495 00:25:29,793 --> 00:25:31,043 Nobody knows me. 496 00:25:31,127 --> 00:25:32,751 I do what I do, 497 00:25:32,834 --> 00:25:34,167 and that's it. 498 00:25:36,710 --> 00:25:38,501 But the world hadn't changed. 499 00:25:38,543 --> 00:25:41,166 I still had to turn a buck. 500 00:25:41,250 --> 00:25:43,750 Carol's luck was running bad. 501 00:25:43,791 --> 00:25:46,165 There was no prize chump in the offing. 502 00:25:46,249 --> 00:25:48,957 But what the hell, I thought. 503 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,541 We were bound to get a break before too long. 504 00:25:57,248 --> 00:25:58,498 In point of fact, 505 00:25:58,581 --> 00:26:01,414 opportunity was walking right in my direction. 506 00:26:30,285 --> 00:26:32,660 Well, it if isn't Alice Blueclothes. 507 00:26:33,826 --> 00:26:36,158 Boo, pretty Alice. 508 00:26:38,950 --> 00:26:40,617 Please let go of me. 509 00:26:40,701 --> 00:26:42,865 I don't think so. 510 00:26:44,032 --> 00:26:45,907 What's the matter? Don't you like me? 511 00:26:45,991 --> 00:26:47,991 Let go of me, or I’ll fix you, you see? 512 00:26:48,074 --> 00:26:50,073 Oh, come on. We haven't even had our waltz yet, Alice. 513 00:26:50,115 --> 00:26:51,407 Or would you prefer a square dance? 514 00:26:51,490 --> 00:26:53,407 We could ask these nice people to join in right with us. 515 00:26:53,490 --> 00:26:55,156 Are you gonna lay off me, or what? 516 00:26:55,239 --> 00:26:56,947 You're so nice to the touch, I don't think I am. 517 00:26:56,989 --> 00:26:59,863 Besides, what are you gonna do about it? 518 00:27:03,113 --> 00:27:05,738 Police officer. You're under arrest. 519 00:27:05,821 --> 00:27:08,613 I will go, willingly, gladly. 520 00:27:08,655 --> 00:27:10,654 Lock me up in some cool, dark place, 521 00:27:10,696 --> 00:27:12,320 use handcuffs, but you know what? 522 00:27:12,362 --> 00:27:16,152 You're gonna have to put 'em on yourself. 523 00:27:20,695 --> 00:27:22,111 OK. All right, mister, 524 00:27:22,194 --> 00:27:24,568 I should take you in, but I’m off duty, 525 00:27:24,610 --> 00:27:26,360 and I got better ways to spend my free time. 526 00:27:26,402 --> 00:27:27,610 Is this your car, Alice? 527 00:27:27,694 --> 00:27:28,943 You know, it matches your blush. 528 00:27:28,985 --> 00:27:31,609 Shut up! If you don't promise to behave yourself, 529 00:27:31,693 --> 00:27:32,984 I'll take you in anyway. 530 00:27:33,067 --> 00:27:35,025 The body matches your lines, too. 531 00:27:35,109 --> 00:27:36,276 [sighs] 532 00:27:38,650 --> 00:27:42,149 Are you blond all over or just where it shows? 533 00:27:47,565 --> 00:27:48,940 [horn honks] 534 00:27:49,023 --> 00:27:50,565 [horn honks] 535 00:27:55,398 --> 00:27:58,146 Would you just please go away? 536 00:27:58,230 --> 00:27:59,480 Sure, I will, Alice. 537 00:27:59,563 --> 00:28:02,938 Say it like you mean it, and I will. 538 00:28:03,021 --> 00:28:07,271 I'll go away, and you'll never see me again. Scout's honor. 539 00:28:08,396 --> 00:28:10,229 [horn honks] 540 00:28:13,728 --> 00:28:16,852 Do you-- do you want--ahem. 541 00:28:16,936 --> 00:28:18,061 We could-- 542 00:28:18,144 --> 00:28:19,977 What is it, dear? Spit it out. 543 00:28:20,018 --> 00:28:22,893 We could go somewhere, for a drink. 544 00:28:22,977 --> 00:28:24,519 I'm afraid not. 545 00:28:24,602 --> 00:28:26,726 As a matter of fact, I wouldn't think of it. 546 00:28:26,809 --> 00:28:29,226 I know something of your city, and I know that cops on duty-- 547 00:28:29,268 --> 00:28:30,601 No. I told you I’m not on duty. 548 00:28:30,685 --> 00:28:32,891 And I’m not sure I believe you. 549 00:28:32,933 --> 00:28:34,183 And I know something else. 550 00:28:34,267 --> 00:28:36,975 Local lady cops have to be single. 551 00:28:37,058 --> 00:28:39,100 Marriage is grounds for immediate dismissal. 552 00:28:39,183 --> 00:28:41,974 And one would also be dismissed, 553 00:28:42,015 --> 00:28:43,557 naturally and quite promptly, 554 00:28:43,641 --> 00:28:46,140 if her behavior was slightly less than circumspect. 555 00:28:46,182 --> 00:28:48,973 I mean, she can't sleep around as other women may. 556 00:28:49,056 --> 00:28:51,056 One hint of scandal, and she'd be caught. 557 00:28:51,139 --> 00:28:53,181 But guy cops, they can fuck all they want 558 00:28:53,223 --> 00:28:54,430 or anyone they want. 559 00:28:54,514 --> 00:28:55,846 What's a lady to do? 560 00:28:55,930 --> 00:28:57,888 I mean, what is she to do 561 00:28:57,972 --> 00:29:01,596 if her womanly desires were, shall we say, 562 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,471 A little more extreme than normal ones? 563 00:29:03,554 --> 00:29:06,346 If she was highly sexed, 564 00:29:06,388 --> 00:29:09,178 loaded with all the right equipment, 565 00:29:09,262 --> 00:29:12,011 just aching for a little action, 566 00:29:12,095 --> 00:29:13,512 what then? 567 00:29:26,051 --> 00:29:30,008 I'm sorry, you're gonna have to speak up. 568 00:29:30,092 --> 00:29:32,217 We could go to my place. 569 00:29:32,259 --> 00:29:35,383 Yeah. I'd like to see your house. 570 00:29:35,466 --> 00:29:37,049 I hate taking women to hotels. 571 00:29:37,091 --> 00:29:40,716 No. No, no. I meant we could go to my place 572 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:43,674 and have dinner, and we could talk, and... 573 00:29:43,756 --> 00:29:45,340 It's right on the beach. 574 00:29:45,423 --> 00:29:46,798 We could swim if you want. 575 00:29:46,881 --> 00:29:48,548 I'd love to do all those things. Really. 576 00:29:48,590 --> 00:29:51,130 That would be fantastic. We can do all that after. 577 00:29:51,172 --> 00:29:52,755 I mean, we'll go to bed first, 578 00:29:52,797 --> 00:29:54,673 and then if you're not too tired, 579 00:29:54,755 --> 00:29:56,338 you can make supper. 580 00:29:56,421 --> 00:29:58,380 We can take a walk on the beach. 581 00:29:58,463 --> 00:30:00,672 Heck, we could even talk. 582 00:30:01,588 --> 00:30:03,712 You don't like the sound of that? 583 00:30:03,795 --> 00:30:04,712 That's all right. 584 00:30:04,795 --> 00:30:05,795 I can take a walk up this block, 585 00:30:05,878 --> 00:30:06,962 meet half a dozen women 586 00:30:07,045 --> 00:30:08,379 who'd like the sound of what I just proposed. 587 00:30:08,462 --> 00:30:09,545 I know you could. 588 00:30:09,629 --> 00:30:12,544 I say we just forget it, huh? 589 00:30:13,503 --> 00:30:15,752 Oh, but afterwards, 590 00:30:15,835 --> 00:30:17,710 you wouldn't respect me. 591 00:30:17,751 --> 00:30:21,043 I couldn't respect myself. 592 00:30:21,085 --> 00:30:23,335 You'd think I was terrible. 593 00:30:24,584 --> 00:30:26,875 You are so wrong. 594 00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:28,626 Marty: I really didn't care, you know. 595 00:30:28,709 --> 00:30:30,376 At least, I cared very little. 596 00:30:30,459 --> 00:30:32,166 She was a cop. 597 00:30:32,208 --> 00:30:34,625 Of course, there was a cop that dad had killed. 598 00:30:34,667 --> 00:30:37,416 I wasn't sure that I cared to do anything about that. 599 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:39,624 Wait, sir. 600 00:30:39,707 --> 00:30:41,457 Mister, wait up. 601 00:30:42,540 --> 00:30:44,207 Just wait up, OK? 602 00:30:45,206 --> 00:30:47,206 Don't you go away. 603 00:30:47,248 --> 00:30:50,206 I want you to come home with me right now. 604 00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:51,206 Oh, should I? 605 00:30:51,248 --> 00:30:54,163 Yes. Just come home with me right now. 606 00:30:54,247 --> 00:30:55,247 Come now. 607 00:30:55,330 --> 00:30:57,288 I don't know. I mean, what'll you think of me? 608 00:30:57,372 --> 00:30:58,538 You'll think I’m terrible. 609 00:30:58,622 --> 00:31:00,954 You just better come home with me right now, 610 00:31:00,995 --> 00:31:03,162 or I’ll do it right here. 611 00:31:05,496 --> 00:31:08,411 Marty: Her name was Archer, Lois Archer. 612 00:31:08,495 --> 00:31:09,869 She was 28. 613 00:31:09,953 --> 00:31:11,453 She told me she'd been with the police department 614 00:31:11,495 --> 00:31:12,826 for five years-- 615 00:31:12,868 --> 00:31:15,244 three as a secretary, two as a street cop. 616 00:31:15,327 --> 00:31:16,452 That paid more. 617 00:31:16,535 --> 00:31:18,160 She thought it would be exciting, 618 00:31:18,202 --> 00:31:19,909 but she wasn't the cop type. 619 00:31:19,992 --> 00:31:22,034 She was staying with it because jobs 620 00:31:22,076 --> 00:31:24,201 and good jobs were hard to get out here. 621 00:31:24,243 --> 00:31:25,493 People came for the climate 622 00:31:25,576 --> 00:31:28,617 and were willing to work for next to nothing to remain. 623 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:30,659 She had a brother overseas in the army. 624 00:31:30,741 --> 00:31:32,908 He and she owned a house, jointly. 625 00:31:32,950 --> 00:31:35,616 That's all I was able to find out about her 626 00:31:35,658 --> 00:31:38,449 and all I needed to know. 627 00:31:38,491 --> 00:31:40,406 Woman: ♪ I ♪ 628 00:31:41,365 --> 00:31:43,657 ♪ Reach for you ♪ 629 00:31:44,657 --> 00:31:48,905 ♪ Like I’d reach for a star ♪ 630 00:31:50,364 --> 00:31:53,572 ♪ Worshiping you ♪ 631 00:31:53,656 --> 00:31:56,820 ♪ From afar ♪ 632 00:31:58,279 --> 00:32:01,071 ♪ Living with my ♪ 633 00:32:01,154 --> 00:32:05,111 ♪ Silent love ♪ 634 00:32:12,569 --> 00:32:15,734 You have very pretty skin, Lois-- 635 00:32:16,652 --> 00:32:18,318 A lovely blush. 636 00:32:20,526 --> 00:32:22,525 Not as extensive as my wife's, of course, 637 00:32:22,567 --> 00:32:24,317 but you don't have her area. 638 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:26,692 [laughs] 639 00:32:26,775 --> 00:32:30,233 You are so crazy, honey. 640 00:32:30,274 --> 00:32:33,066 You and your 400-pound wife. 641 00:32:33,107 --> 00:32:35,608 She probably weighs more than that now. 642 00:32:35,691 --> 00:32:38,607 She gets bigger all the time. 643 00:32:38,649 --> 00:32:40,315 Elephantiasis. 644 00:32:40,398 --> 00:32:41,607 It's not fat. 645 00:32:41,690 --> 00:32:43,606 It's growth. 646 00:32:43,648 --> 00:32:46,980 Her head probably weighs more than all of you. 647 00:32:47,022 --> 00:32:49,314 [laughs] 648 00:32:49,356 --> 00:32:51,563 Sure, I’ll bet. 649 00:32:51,647 --> 00:32:56,104 I can just see you marrying a wife like that. 650 00:32:56,188 --> 00:32:58,978 Who else would have married her? 651 00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:01,520 Isn't she entitled to marriage, 652 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,603 to all the things that could have been given to her? 653 00:33:04,686 --> 00:33:05,727 I suppose it would've been better 654 00:33:05,810 --> 00:33:10,228 to put her to sleep at birth like our first kid. 655 00:33:10,269 --> 00:33:11,352 Yeah, sure. 656 00:33:11,435 --> 00:33:13,268 Had to be done. 657 00:33:13,310 --> 00:33:15,185 What kinder thing can you do to a helpless mongoloid? 658 00:33:15,268 --> 00:33:17,726 [chuckles] 659 00:33:17,808 --> 00:33:20,643 And the one you have-- 660 00:33:20,725 --> 00:33:21,725 I suppose he doesn't have 661 00:33:21,808 --> 00:33:24,807 all of his parts, right? 662 00:33:24,891 --> 00:33:26,766 He's my kid, isn't he? 663 00:33:26,849 --> 00:33:29,683 He's bound to have something missing. 664 00:33:29,766 --> 00:33:32,015 Marty, Marty, Marty. 665 00:33:33,098 --> 00:33:36,390 Do you know what I’m going to do to you? 666 00:33:36,432 --> 00:33:39,598 No, that's not the point, really. 667 00:33:40,681 --> 00:33:43,764 It's not what you're going to do to me. 668 00:33:43,847 --> 00:33:45,846 It's what I’m going to do to you. 669 00:33:45,930 --> 00:33:47,639 Marty: Except for the vague sense of uneasiness 670 00:33:47,721 --> 00:33:49,388 of something left undone, 671 00:33:49,430 --> 00:33:50,804 I felt quite happy. 672 00:33:50,888 --> 00:33:52,096 I had Carol. 673 00:33:52,138 --> 00:33:53,512 We were brought together again. 674 00:33:53,596 --> 00:33:54,762 I had Lois. 675 00:33:54,803 --> 00:33:56,720 At least, I would have her for a while. 676 00:33:56,803 --> 00:33:59,054 Oh, I love that. 677 00:33:59,137 --> 00:34:00,094 [laughs] 678 00:34:00,178 --> 00:34:01,220 That's the best. 679 00:34:01,303 --> 00:34:02,511 I know. Listen, the house, 680 00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:04,178 it's on the outskirts of town. 681 00:34:04,220 --> 00:34:06,303 It's not as pricey as it would be in town, 682 00:34:06,345 --> 00:34:08,885 but some people may go for that ocean view. 683 00:34:08,927 --> 00:34:12,093 Hmm. Sounds like a very nice place. 684 00:34:12,177 --> 00:34:14,676 I tell you, doll, this brother angle 685 00:34:14,717 --> 00:34:16,926 presents a bit of a problem. 686 00:34:17,009 --> 00:34:18,551 I don't know, I get the impression 687 00:34:18,593 --> 00:34:21,467 he's a pretty tough customer. 688 00:34:21,550 --> 00:34:23,508 She gets nervous 689 00:34:23,592 --> 00:34:26,758 every time she mentions his name. 690 00:34:27,674 --> 00:34:29,299 I got it all worked out, though. 691 00:34:29,382 --> 00:34:31,674 Marty: The place is worth about thirty grand. 692 00:34:31,757 --> 00:34:33,591 She cables him, says she's got an offer. 693 00:34:33,674 --> 00:34:34,673 He signs the deed. 694 00:34:34,714 --> 00:34:35,756 I stop his clock, 695 00:34:35,839 --> 00:34:38,089 force Lois to sell, and we're thirty grand richer. 696 00:34:38,173 --> 00:34:39,673 The whole thing will take about a month. 697 00:34:39,714 --> 00:34:42,589 Marty, you like this one, don't you? 698 00:34:42,672 --> 00:34:43,713 You like her, huh? 699 00:34:43,755 --> 00:34:45,380 I like everyone, 700 00:34:45,464 --> 00:34:47,922 except, of course, your ex-husband 701 00:34:48,005 --> 00:34:50,296 william Wharton II, 702 00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:53,004 who I owe a visit. 703 00:34:53,087 --> 00:34:55,420 Who I owe some pain. 704 00:34:55,503 --> 00:34:58,212 Aw, jeez, it's almost noon. 705 00:34:58,295 --> 00:35:02,252 I've got to get over to Claire’s and put in my time. 706 00:35:02,294 --> 00:35:03,960 You know, am I off my rocker, 707 00:35:04,002 --> 00:35:04,960 or have you put on a couple of pounds? 708 00:35:05,002 --> 00:35:06,002 Ohh. 709 00:35:06,044 --> 00:35:07,044 Marty, you nut. 710 00:35:07,127 --> 00:35:08,336 No, it looks good on you. 711 00:35:08,419 --> 00:35:09,501 A little too much of mom's feed bag. 712 00:35:09,585 --> 00:35:12,959 That's a very nice thing to say to a girl. 713 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:15,376 Say that to your cop, and she'll pinch you. 714 00:35:15,460 --> 00:35:17,708 Oh, the extra ounces look good on you, kid. 715 00:35:17,750 --> 00:35:19,542 See you. 716 00:35:19,584 --> 00:35:22,292 Stay out of trouble. 717 00:35:22,375 --> 00:35:23,999 Marty: Just for a laugh, 718 00:35:24,082 --> 00:35:25,874 and since I had no office to go to, 719 00:35:25,916 --> 00:35:27,041 no clock to punch, 720 00:35:27,082 --> 00:35:30,498 I figured I’d watch sis ply her chosen trade. 721 00:35:30,582 --> 00:35:36,748 As it turned out, it was a damn good thing I did. 722 00:35:44,580 --> 00:35:45,580 The fat pig in white 723 00:35:45,663 --> 00:35:47,996 had private dick written all over him. 724 00:35:48,038 --> 00:35:49,871 Somebody wanted to do my sister harm, 725 00:35:49,913 --> 00:35:55,078 and I had a pretty good idea who it was. 726 00:36:50,613 --> 00:36:52,778 [person typing] 727 00:36:53,736 --> 00:36:55,903 [wheezing] 728 00:37:04,485 --> 00:37:06,652 [person typing] 729 00:37:30,689 --> 00:37:32,856 [coughs] 730 00:37:33,856 --> 00:37:36,063 [wheezes] 731 00:37:43,854 --> 00:37:45,521 Mr. Krutz. 732 00:37:45,605 --> 00:37:47,229 How do you do? 733 00:37:47,271 --> 00:37:49,103 My name is Marty Grosvenor. 734 00:37:49,145 --> 00:37:50,728 Do I know you? 735 00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:52,853 Our manager's secretary didn't call 736 00:37:52,936 --> 00:37:54,520 and tell you I was going to pay you a call? 737 00:37:54,604 --> 00:37:57,477 No, nobody called. 738 00:37:57,519 --> 00:37:59,144 I'm Mr. Wharton II's west coast representative. 739 00:37:59,186 --> 00:38:01,352 He told me to come down and check with you. 740 00:38:01,436 --> 00:38:03,185 Oh, well, that's just swell. 741 00:38:03,226 --> 00:38:05,393 Uh, please, sit down. 742 00:38:05,476 --> 00:38:07,976 I was just on the case just this morning 743 00:38:08,018 --> 00:38:09,726 trailing Mrs. Wharton. 744 00:38:09,767 --> 00:38:11,100 [coughs] 745 00:38:11,184 --> 00:38:12,225 Tell me-- aren't you fellas 746 00:38:12,309 --> 00:38:13,975 just rushing things just a little bit here? 747 00:38:14,058 --> 00:38:14,975 How's that? 748 00:38:15,058 --> 00:38:17,391 Well, I’ve only been on the case four days, 749 00:38:17,474 --> 00:38:18,849 and I’ve already sent in two reports. 750 00:38:18,932 --> 00:38:20,057 Four days? 751 00:38:20,099 --> 00:38:22,974 Wharton, he likes to put the squeeze on, doesn't he? 752 00:38:23,057 --> 00:38:23,973 And don't I know it. 753 00:38:24,056 --> 00:38:25,432 Ha! 754 00:38:25,473 --> 00:38:27,723 Well, I don't mean to criticize. 755 00:38:27,806 --> 00:38:29,432 The wages are fine, but, you know-- 756 00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:31,055 No. Criticize all you want. 757 00:38:31,139 --> 00:38:33,514 You got every right to, Mr. Krutz. 758 00:38:33,598 --> 00:38:35,639 I don't mean that man ill will, 759 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,513 but, personally, that man is a bastard. 760 00:38:38,555 --> 00:38:40,221 I mean, this case is fact to that point. 761 00:38:40,305 --> 00:38:42,513 You know, you've got something there, 762 00:38:42,555 --> 00:38:45,095 mr., uh, Grosvenor. 763 00:38:45,179 --> 00:38:48,345 I know all about this case, 764 00:38:48,387 --> 00:38:51,137 even if not much of it got into the papers. 765 00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:52,595 You know what I mean? 766 00:38:52,677 --> 00:38:56,844 That guy Wharton was as lowdown as they get. 767 00:38:56,927 --> 00:39:00,759 I mean, he was a washed-up, worn-out punk, 768 00:39:00,801 --> 00:39:03,135 pimping for a living. 769 00:39:03,218 --> 00:39:04,635 And so, somehow, 770 00:39:04,718 --> 00:39:08,842 this--this swell little dame 771 00:39:08,925 --> 00:39:10,009 carol Lakewood, 772 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:12,009 she decides to marry him. 773 00:39:12,092 --> 00:39:14,674 Never will figure that one out. 774 00:39:14,757 --> 00:39:17,592 And she starts to get him back on his feet. 775 00:39:17,674 --> 00:39:20,090 Well, there's nothing he's any good at, 776 00:39:20,174 --> 00:39:22,549 so she supports both of them. 777 00:39:22,591 --> 00:39:25,549 What time she ain't knocking herself out on a job, 778 00:39:25,591 --> 00:39:28,298 she's working to build him up-- 779 00:39:28,381 --> 00:39:31,672 Nursing him, waiting on him hand and foot, 780 00:39:31,755 --> 00:39:35,796 I mean, actually making something out of nothing. 781 00:39:35,838 --> 00:39:36,838 You know what I’m talking about? 782 00:39:36,921 --> 00:39:38,963 And she does so good at it 783 00:39:39,046 --> 00:39:42,962 that his big bucks hoity-toity family back east, 784 00:39:43,004 --> 00:39:45,837 they decide to take him back. 785 00:39:45,879 --> 00:39:47,752 So how does he thank her? 786 00:39:47,836 --> 00:39:49,420 He turns around 787 00:39:49,503 --> 00:39:55,210 and gives her a great big dose of syphilis, 788 00:39:55,294 --> 00:39:59,751 and then, divorces her for having it. 789 00:39:59,835 --> 00:40:05,501 Well, she was too young. She couldn't put up a fight. 790 00:40:06,792 --> 00:40:09,125 [passes gas] 791 00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:12,958 Well, I see you know all the facts, 792 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:13,958 don't you, Mr. Krutz? 793 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,332 You are well-grounded in this case. 794 00:40:16,374 --> 00:40:18,748 Well, yeah, sure. 795 00:40:18,832 --> 00:40:20,457 It's my business. 796 00:40:20,499 --> 00:40:21,457 Know what I mean? 797 00:40:21,499 --> 00:40:22,456 [laughs] 798 00:40:22,498 --> 00:40:25,582 Well, what about your boss, 799 00:40:25,664 --> 00:40:27,331 mr. Grosvenor? 800 00:40:27,373 --> 00:40:30,247 Naturally, I’m glad to have the job--tickled pink-- 801 00:40:30,330 --> 00:40:33,038 But why does he want it done? 802 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:37,037 All this trouble just to save himself a few bucks? 803 00:40:37,079 --> 00:40:38,538 How can he do it? 804 00:40:39,871 --> 00:40:41,413 I wonder. 805 00:40:41,454 --> 00:40:42,787 How can you do it? 806 00:40:43,703 --> 00:40:44,661 Say what? 807 00:40:44,744 --> 00:40:46,828 Tailing an innocent girl for a filthy slug 808 00:40:46,911 --> 00:40:47,911 just to make a buck. 809 00:40:47,995 --> 00:40:51,827 Aw, what the hell. It's my job. 810 00:40:51,869 --> 00:40:54,202 I mean, you know, if I didn't do it, 811 00:40:54,286 --> 00:40:56,327 somebody else would, huh? 812 00:40:56,369 --> 00:40:58,618 Am I right, mister, uh-- what'd you say your name was? 813 00:40:58,701 --> 00:41:01,076 Would somebody else do it? 814 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,659 I mean, how the hell can you be so sure? 815 00:41:03,701 --> 00:41:05,242 Have you ever considered the potential 816 00:41:05,284 --> 00:41:06,741 in a crusade for not doing something 817 00:41:06,825 --> 00:41:08,534 that someone else would do just because you wouldn't? 818 00:41:08,576 --> 00:41:10,617 You simmer down here, mister. 819 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:12,866 I'm afraid I don't like your tone. 820 00:41:12,907 --> 00:41:14,449 I'm afraid that you have sinned! 821 00:41:14,533 --> 00:41:17,533 You've violated section "a" of commandment one-minus. 822 00:41:17,616 --> 00:41:19,240 Yea! 823 00:41:19,282 --> 00:41:20,490 Verily! 824 00:41:20,574 --> 00:41:22,490 Say, you can't blame me for all this! 825 00:41:22,532 --> 00:41:25,197 Yea, verily, so sayeth the lord, 826 00:41:25,281 --> 00:41:27,197 "better the blind man who pisses through a window, 827 00:41:27,281 --> 00:41:30,072 than the knowing servant who opens it for him." 828 00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:32,696 Put it there, Krutz. 829 00:41:45,902 --> 00:41:47,444 Oh, dear. 830 00:41:50,777 --> 00:41:52,111 Oh, dear. 831 00:41:54,193 --> 00:41:55,818 Oh, dear, dear! 832 00:41:58,651 --> 00:41:59,900 [panting] 833 00:41:59,984 --> 00:42:01,276 Oh, dear, dear, dear. 834 00:42:01,317 --> 00:42:02,484 Oh, dear. 835 00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:05,692 Aah! 836 00:42:05,733 --> 00:42:07,358 Yes! 837 00:42:07,441 --> 00:42:09,233 Yes! 838 00:42:09,316 --> 00:42:11,108 Aah! 839 00:42:11,191 --> 00:42:13,566 Aah! 840 00:42:13,607 --> 00:42:17,357 Aah! 841 00:42:17,399 --> 00:42:20,274 Aah! 842 00:42:20,356 --> 00:42:22,647 Aah! 843 00:42:22,730 --> 00:42:24,897 Aah! 844 00:42:24,939 --> 00:42:27,106 [groans] 845 00:42:28,105 --> 00:42:29,980 Uhh... 846 00:42:35,645 --> 00:42:37,812 [groans] 847 00:42:40,187 --> 00:42:41,353 [gurgles] 848 00:42:48,310 --> 00:42:51,519 I'm very upset with you, Marty. 849 00:42:52,726 --> 00:42:53,768 Why's that, mom? 850 00:42:53,810 --> 00:42:55,434 You know what you've done. 851 00:42:55,518 --> 00:42:58,434 You know all the wrong things you do 852 00:42:58,476 --> 00:43:01,309 that you just can't seem to stop doing. 853 00:43:01,351 --> 00:43:02,475 Out with it, mom. What's on your mind? 854 00:43:02,559 --> 00:43:03,641 Why don't you spit it out? 855 00:43:03,683 --> 00:43:04,975 I'm shocked. 856 00:43:05,058 --> 00:43:07,850 You'll get over it, Ma, I promise. 857 00:43:11,182 --> 00:43:13,015 You quit your job at the sentinel-- 858 00:43:13,057 --> 00:43:15,224 Just up and quit. 859 00:43:17,848 --> 00:43:20,889 I didn't want to upset you, Ma. 860 00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:22,223 It just happened. 861 00:43:22,265 --> 00:43:25,430 Mother: You just don't want to amount to anything, do you? 862 00:43:25,514 --> 00:43:28,180 Neither one of you do. 863 00:43:28,264 --> 00:43:29,597 Do everything you can not to. 864 00:43:31,096 --> 00:43:32,263 Well, all I can say is-- 865 00:43:32,346 --> 00:43:33,846 Before you go any further... 866 00:43:33,929 --> 00:43:35,096 OK, before you say another word... 867 00:43:36,054 --> 00:43:37,845 I would like you to establish 868 00:43:37,928 --> 00:43:39,970 your qualifications for saying it. 869 00:43:40,053 --> 00:43:42,345 How do you mean? 870 00:43:42,428 --> 00:43:44,511 Well, I can't make it any plainer, Ma. 871 00:43:44,553 --> 00:43:47,553 I don't want to be more pointed about this, but... 872 00:43:47,635 --> 00:43:48,885 Let's just face facts here. 873 00:43:48,969 --> 00:43:50,511 Why should Carol and I concern ourselves 874 00:43:50,553 --> 00:43:51,843 even in the slightest 875 00:43:51,884 --> 00:43:54,468 with what you think about anything we do? 876 00:43:58,342 --> 00:44:00,592 Why should we listen to you? 877 00:44:05,383 --> 00:44:06,966 Why should anyone? 878 00:44:19,672 --> 00:44:22,256 I did the very best I could raising you kids. 879 00:44:24,089 --> 00:44:25,047 I couldn't help it if-- 880 00:44:25,131 --> 00:44:26,171 We have a long list of all the things 881 00:44:26,213 --> 00:44:27,712 you couldn't help, mother. 882 00:44:27,754 --> 00:44:29,171 Carol and I, we've never blamed you, 883 00:44:29,213 --> 00:44:31,088 and we're never going to. 884 00:44:31,171 --> 00:44:35,003 Now, we can just sit here, and we can enjoy our meal 885 00:44:35,087 --> 00:44:37,587 and have a pleasant evening here at the old homestead, 886 00:44:37,670 --> 00:44:40,586 only you've got to play fair with us. 887 00:44:40,627 --> 00:44:41,752 We don't criticize you, 888 00:44:41,794 --> 00:44:43,211 so why don't you just keep your mouth shut 889 00:44:43,294 --> 00:44:46,544 and forget all about this unpleasant chitchat? 890 00:44:46,626 --> 00:44:49,127 [coughs] 891 00:44:49,168 --> 00:44:50,335 [sets down silverware] 892 00:44:50,418 --> 00:44:53,085 I don't feel like eating. 893 00:45:01,208 --> 00:45:03,250 [clears throat] 894 00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:12,249 I think I’ll have to lie down. 895 00:45:15,123 --> 00:45:16,289 Marty: Mom? 896 00:45:18,331 --> 00:45:20,164 [mother stumbles] 897 00:45:22,913 --> 00:45:26,830 Are you OK? Carol, give me a hand. 898 00:45:26,913 --> 00:45:29,162 Carol, can you give me a hand? 899 00:45:29,204 --> 00:45:30,371 Carol? 900 00:45:31,620 --> 00:45:32,829 Carol! 901 00:45:34,954 --> 00:45:36,619 Sure. 902 00:45:44,035 --> 00:45:45,952 Mother: I can't get my breath. 903 00:45:46,035 --> 00:45:47,410 [coughs] 904 00:45:47,494 --> 00:45:49,034 Marty: Take it easy. You just need to rest. 905 00:45:49,118 --> 00:45:50,118 How's that stuff coming, Carol? 906 00:45:50,159 --> 00:45:51,535 It's coming right up. 907 00:45:51,617 --> 00:45:53,493 This is just the ticket for what ails you, mom. 908 00:45:53,576 --> 00:45:56,242 [breathing heavily] 909 00:45:56,283 --> 00:45:58,325 There you go, mom. You like this stuff, right? 910 00:45:58,408 --> 00:45:59,325 Sure, I do. 911 00:45:59,408 --> 00:46:00,783 Feeling better, mom? 912 00:46:00,825 --> 00:46:02,658 Yeah, a little bit. 913 00:46:04,241 --> 00:46:06,990 Just don't do anything else. 914 00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:09,366 Ahem. 915 00:46:22,405 --> 00:46:24,113 [closes door] 916 00:46:24,196 --> 00:46:25,612 Marty: Blindness, honey. 917 00:46:25,654 --> 00:46:27,821 It's the first step towards sudden brain death. 918 00:46:28,946 --> 00:46:31,778 It's a death for our time-- 919 00:46:31,820 --> 00:46:34,653 A death for people too stupid to appreciate 920 00:46:34,736 --> 00:46:35,986 something more complicated, 921 00:46:36,070 --> 00:46:37,694 worthy of contemporary attitudes 922 00:46:37,735 --> 00:46:39,486 like "let's drop the bomb on Moscow." 923 00:46:39,528 --> 00:46:43,027 And "the poor are better off and happier being poor." 924 00:46:43,069 --> 00:46:44,859 I swear to god, it's my profoundest wish. 925 00:46:44,943 --> 00:46:46,651 I'd like to kill someone really worthwhile. 926 00:46:46,734 --> 00:46:48,734 Yeah. 927 00:46:48,818 --> 00:46:50,776 I feel sorry for old Mr. Krutz. 928 00:46:50,859 --> 00:46:53,526 I wish I could've had him in bed with me. 929 00:46:53,567 --> 00:46:56,150 They're always so happy that way. 930 00:46:56,234 --> 00:46:57,359 Under the circumstances, 931 00:46:57,442 --> 00:46:59,525 I think a little extra alimony's out of the question. 932 00:46:59,607 --> 00:47:01,774 [laughs] 933 00:47:04,982 --> 00:47:06,898 You know... 934 00:47:06,981 --> 00:47:09,398 I hate you going over to Claire’s. 935 00:47:09,482 --> 00:47:10,648 Right now, it's-- 936 00:47:10,731 --> 00:47:11,689 You shouldn't have to. 937 00:47:11,731 --> 00:47:13,647 Don't worry about me, sweetie. 938 00:47:13,688 --> 00:47:15,939 I feel just fine. 939 00:47:16,022 --> 00:47:18,272 Besides, I need my own racket. 940 00:47:18,356 --> 00:47:20,271 Got to work to keep up my self-respect. 941 00:47:21,396 --> 00:47:24,522 Don't wear yourself out. It's not necessary. 942 00:47:24,563 --> 00:47:26,562 This other matter, I’m getting close. 943 00:47:26,603 --> 00:47:27,562 This house deal, 944 00:47:27,645 --> 00:47:30,145 I think I’m going to swing that real soon. 945 00:47:30,229 --> 00:47:31,479 Have you decided what you're going to do with Lois 946 00:47:31,562 --> 00:47:32,479 at the windups? 947 00:47:32,562 --> 00:47:33,811 Call me psychic, 948 00:47:33,894 --> 00:47:37,019 but I don't think I’m going to have to decide. 949 00:47:37,103 --> 00:47:38,019 The fitting thing will be done, 950 00:47:38,103 --> 00:47:41,018 but I’ll have nothing to do with it. 951 00:47:41,102 --> 00:47:43,435 It's going to be a matter of grace. 952 00:47:43,477 --> 00:47:46,643 Whatever you say, sweetie. 953 00:47:46,684 --> 00:47:47,683 It's all right by me. 954 00:47:47,725 --> 00:47:49,892 [car approaches] 955 00:47:49,975 --> 00:47:51,184 That's her. 956 00:47:51,226 --> 00:47:52,892 See you. 957 00:48:14,639 --> 00:48:16,805 [front door opens, footsteps] 958 00:48:20,263 --> 00:48:21,930 Marty: Hey. 959 00:48:24,137 --> 00:48:26,513 What's your sister doing tonight? 960 00:48:26,554 --> 00:48:28,262 She's got a date. 961 00:48:28,346 --> 00:48:29,719 Move over. 962 00:48:40,427 --> 00:48:42,344 [starts engine] 963 00:48:45,592 --> 00:48:46,592 Marty: On the drive to the beach, 964 00:48:46,634 --> 00:48:49,009 lois was pouting and peevish. 965 00:48:49,093 --> 00:48:50,925 I could hear the wheels spinning with irritation 966 00:48:50,966 --> 00:48:52,883 in that cop's mind of hers. 967 00:48:52,966 --> 00:48:56,092 I could have let it go, but what the hell. 968 00:48:58,466 --> 00:49:00,049 What's bugging you, Lois? 969 00:49:00,091 --> 00:49:01,424 Nothing. 970 00:49:01,508 --> 00:49:04,465 Pig's eye. What's eating you? 971 00:49:04,548 --> 00:49:06,381 It's just the way that Carol of yours lives-- 972 00:49:06,423 --> 00:49:07,881 That house, 973 00:49:07,923 --> 00:49:10,423 the slinky dresses she sashays around town in. 974 00:49:10,465 --> 00:49:11,588 You'd think she was royalty. 975 00:49:11,671 --> 00:49:14,880 Well, that's how she is. 976 00:49:14,922 --> 00:49:17,255 She'd die if it had to be any other way. 977 00:49:17,297 --> 00:49:19,296 Stop talking nonsense and just tell me this, Marty. 978 00:49:19,379 --> 00:49:21,254 Just tell me why I should be given this pressure from you 979 00:49:21,296 --> 00:49:23,213 all the time about selling my house 980 00:49:23,296 --> 00:49:25,295 when you could just as well ask that fine sister of yours 981 00:49:25,337 --> 00:49:26,628 to help us go away. 982 00:49:26,669 --> 00:49:28,545 Wait. Now, you... 983 00:49:28,628 --> 00:49:30,462 You want me to ask for money 984 00:49:30,504 --> 00:49:32,960 for us to live on 985 00:49:33,044 --> 00:49:34,794 from my sister? 986 00:49:35,794 --> 00:49:37,627 Really? That's... 987 00:49:40,251 --> 00:49:41,876 [gasps] 988 00:49:41,918 --> 00:49:43,793 That's my proposal, Lois. I'm sorry. 989 00:49:43,876 --> 00:49:45,376 Let's hear your response. 990 00:49:45,418 --> 00:49:47,209 You bastard. 991 00:49:50,542 --> 00:49:52,000 I'm sorry. 992 00:49:52,084 --> 00:49:53,291 How about that? 993 00:49:53,333 --> 00:49:54,291 How about that, Lois? 994 00:49:54,333 --> 00:49:56,124 No, Marty, please. 995 00:49:56,166 --> 00:49:57,665 Is that better? Stop. 996 00:49:57,707 --> 00:49:59,166 It'll show, and I have to work. 997 00:49:59,249 --> 00:50:01,664 Show? My sloe-eyed slut! 998 00:50:01,706 --> 00:50:03,123 My copulating cop! 999 00:50:03,165 --> 00:50:05,332 How about that, Lois? Is that better? 1000 00:50:05,373 --> 00:50:07,372 How about that, huh? How about that, Lois? 1001 00:50:07,414 --> 00:50:10,206 Is that all right? Is that better? 1002 00:50:10,289 --> 00:50:11,872 How about that, Lois? How about that? 1003 00:50:11,955 --> 00:50:13,538 [pants] 1004 00:50:13,621 --> 00:50:15,996 Harder, Marty. 1005 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,205 Harder. 1006 00:50:17,246 --> 00:50:18,913 Lois. 1007 00:50:18,996 --> 00:50:20,828 I'm trying to help you see things clearly here. 1008 00:50:20,912 --> 00:50:21,995 No, no, no, don't talk, darling. 1009 00:50:22,079 --> 00:50:23,537 No. You know what I’m thinking? 1010 00:50:23,620 --> 00:50:24,537 I think I’m going to walk up the highway 1011 00:50:24,620 --> 00:50:26,370 and get myself a cab and get out of here. 1012 00:50:26,454 --> 00:50:27,702 Don't you dare. 1013 00:50:27,786 --> 00:50:29,786 You want me to do this? 1014 00:50:29,869 --> 00:50:32,536 You want it? 1015 00:50:32,619 --> 00:50:35,160 Like that? Like that? 1016 00:50:35,243 --> 00:50:36,826 I'm thinking maybe I ought to leave you out here-- 1017 00:50:36,868 --> 00:50:39,410 Let the kids who play jacks see you in the morning. 1018 00:50:39,494 --> 00:50:41,617 What do you think of that? 1019 00:50:42,992 --> 00:50:45,242 Do whatever you want. 1020 00:50:45,326 --> 00:50:46,534 Are you sure? 1021 00:50:46,575 --> 00:50:48,741 What else is there? 1022 00:50:51,241 --> 00:50:54,033 Truer words were never spoken, babe. 1023 00:50:54,075 --> 00:50:55,033 Come on. 1024 00:50:55,074 --> 00:50:56,407 [moaning] 1025 00:51:08,406 --> 00:51:09,322 Marty: The next morning, 1026 00:51:09,405 --> 00:51:10,530 she phoned in to the department 1027 00:51:10,613 --> 00:51:12,738 and reported herself sick and was given the day off, 1028 00:51:12,821 --> 00:51:15,945 so I kept on staying. 1029 00:51:16,029 --> 00:51:17,362 [laughs] 1030 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,736 It was a pretty wild day. 1031 00:51:26,819 --> 00:51:28,070 A sweetly wild day-- 1032 00:51:28,111 --> 00:51:31,943 A perfect commingling of sweetness and wildness. 1033 00:51:39,318 --> 00:51:41,193 We stripped every damn picture in the house 1034 00:51:41,276 --> 00:51:42,318 from the walls. 1035 00:51:42,359 --> 00:51:43,526 [laughs] 1036 00:51:43,609 --> 00:51:45,442 It was the most hideous kind of crap, those pictures-- 1037 00:51:45,484 --> 00:51:47,275 Cute stuff, dime store junk. 1038 00:51:47,358 --> 00:51:49,442 [laughs] 1039 00:51:52,857 --> 00:51:55,024 [laughs] 1040 00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:06,897 [laughs] 1041 00:52:15,146 --> 00:52:16,979 Marty: We dug up a couple of her brother's rifles 1042 00:52:17,063 --> 00:52:19,479 and lugged the lot down to the beach. 1043 00:52:19,561 --> 00:52:21,103 [laughs] 1044 00:52:28,311 --> 00:52:29,478 [gunshot] 1045 00:52:32,726 --> 00:52:33,893 [gunshot] 1046 00:52:36,601 --> 00:52:38,684 [laughs] 1047 00:52:38,768 --> 00:52:40,933 [gunshot] 1048 00:52:41,017 --> 00:52:42,309 Marty: Then we ate and drank some more 1049 00:52:42,392 --> 00:52:44,392 and had another bath. 1050 00:52:52,183 --> 00:52:54,265 [laughs] 1051 00:52:59,765 --> 00:53:01,972 Marty: She made herself into a pretty peacock. 1052 00:53:07,763 --> 00:53:08,929 [laughs] 1053 00:53:33,510 --> 00:53:36,509 Marty: We said nothing about money all day. 1054 00:53:36,550 --> 00:53:39,800 We were afraid of spoiling that sweet wildness, 1055 00:53:39,884 --> 00:53:44,050 so we still did not speak of money. 1056 00:53:50,007 --> 00:53:51,174 Marty... 1057 00:53:52,049 --> 00:53:53,548 I don't want you slaving away 1058 00:53:53,631 --> 00:53:55,798 over any old newspaper. 1059 00:53:59,630 --> 00:54:03,588 I want us to be all alone-- 1060 00:54:03,671 --> 00:54:04,880 Away... 1061 00:54:06,921 --> 00:54:09,505 Off somewhere by ourselves. 1062 00:54:09,588 --> 00:54:12,837 Well, let's see, then. 1063 00:54:12,879 --> 00:54:14,795 We could... 1064 00:54:16,836 --> 00:54:18,420 Run a dairy. 1065 00:54:18,503 --> 00:54:19,919 None of this mechanized stuff they got these days-- 1066 00:54:20,003 --> 00:54:21,753 All natural, pure milk. 1067 00:54:21,794 --> 00:54:23,711 I'm going to pinch you in a minute, smarty. 1068 00:54:23,752 --> 00:54:26,502 Well, I could finish writing my book. 1069 00:54:27,877 --> 00:54:29,543 We could get pretty rich off that. 1070 00:54:29,626 --> 00:54:30,543 You're writing a book, honey? 1071 00:54:30,626 --> 00:54:32,084 Mmm. 1072 00:54:32,126 --> 00:54:33,084 Tell me about it. 1073 00:54:33,126 --> 00:54:34,334 No, I couldn't. 1074 00:54:35,584 --> 00:54:36,751 No, really, it's nothing. 1075 00:54:36,834 --> 00:54:38,167 It's... 1076 00:54:39,417 --> 00:54:40,958 Just my solution to the deficit crisis-- 1077 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,125 You know, a treatise on taxation sort of thing. 1078 00:54:44,208 --> 00:54:47,041 All right, I call it my cornucopia of constipation 1079 00:54:47,082 --> 00:54:49,540 or the Martin Lakewood bowel movement single tax. 1080 00:54:49,582 --> 00:54:51,581 [laughs] oh. 1081 00:54:51,664 --> 00:54:53,040 Crazy. 1082 00:54:53,081 --> 00:54:54,290 Yeah, doll, it's simple but beautiful. 1083 00:54:54,373 --> 00:54:58,040 I do away with all taxes on food and other necessities, 1084 00:54:58,081 --> 00:54:59,705 and the only levy 1085 00:54:59,788 --> 00:55:01,538 would be on bowel movements. 1086 00:55:01,621 --> 00:55:02,872 What do you think? 1087 00:55:02,955 --> 00:55:05,164 It's really a sensible plan. 1088 00:55:05,247 --> 00:55:06,204 A workable concept, 1089 00:55:06,288 --> 00:55:07,996 as the boys in Washington like to call it. 1090 00:55:08,038 --> 00:55:10,496 You know, it's possibly the most equitable 1091 00:55:10,579 --> 00:55:13,245 and just plan ever invented. 1092 00:55:14,162 --> 00:55:15,495 Listen. 1093 00:55:15,536 --> 00:55:17,454 The less money a man has, the less he eats. 1094 00:55:17,536 --> 00:55:18,578 The less he eats, the less he shits. 1095 00:55:18,661 --> 00:55:19,827 The less he shits, well... 1096 00:55:19,869 --> 00:55:20,827 The less are his taxes. 1097 00:55:20,869 --> 00:55:21,910 Mm-hmm. 1098 00:55:21,994 --> 00:55:23,369 And what if he doesn't have any money at all? 1099 00:55:23,453 --> 00:55:25,077 Well, what does he do now? 1100 00:55:25,161 --> 00:55:26,410 Oh, very funny, Marty. Ha ha. 1101 00:55:26,452 --> 00:55:28,493 No. Who's kidding? 1102 00:55:28,576 --> 00:55:29,868 If it's right to let a man starve to death, 1103 00:55:29,909 --> 00:55:30,868 it must be equally right 1104 00:55:30,909 --> 00:55:32,826 to let him die of constipation. 1105 00:55:32,909 --> 00:55:33,992 It's not equally right. 1106 00:55:34,075 --> 00:55:35,533 It's more right, god damn it. 1107 00:55:35,616 --> 00:55:36,533 [laughing] 1108 00:55:36,616 --> 00:55:38,658 This way, at least he's got a choice-- 1109 00:55:38,742 --> 00:55:40,991 A little control over his own destiny. 1110 00:55:41,074 --> 00:55:42,699 Enough of this unwarranted intrusion 1111 00:55:42,782 --> 00:55:44,366 by government bureaucrats. 1112 00:55:44,450 --> 00:55:46,450 [laughing] 1113 00:55:46,491 --> 00:55:48,823 What, you can deny him food, 1114 00:55:48,865 --> 00:55:51,115 but you can't keep him from holding his bowels? 1115 00:55:51,198 --> 00:55:52,323 Where is the fairness in that? 1116 00:55:52,365 --> 00:55:55,530 People have got to learn about... 1117 00:55:56,530 --> 00:55:57,947 Responsibility. What's so funny? 1118 00:55:58,031 --> 00:55:59,489 People have got to learn about responsibility. 1119 00:55:59,572 --> 00:56:00,739 I think the bowel movement tax 1120 00:56:00,780 --> 00:56:01,738 leads into that direction. 1121 00:56:01,779 --> 00:56:02,946 What is so goddamn funny? 1122 00:56:11,446 --> 00:56:12,362 Ahem. 1123 00:56:12,446 --> 00:56:13,487 It's just a joke. 1124 00:56:13,570 --> 00:56:17,986 It's about the oldest joke in the goddamn world. 1125 00:56:39,524 --> 00:56:40,691 [laughs] 1126 00:56:53,814 --> 00:56:56,481 Do you love me, Marty? 1127 00:56:59,855 --> 00:57:02,272 Do you love me very much? 1128 00:57:02,355 --> 00:57:04,645 Marty: We'd been on this line before-- 1129 00:57:04,729 --> 00:57:07,021 I imagine almost every man has-- 1130 00:57:07,062 --> 00:57:10,271 And I gave her the reply she wanted. 1131 00:57:10,354 --> 00:57:12,519 You know something, Lois? 1132 00:57:14,311 --> 00:57:16,478 I'm afraid I do. 1133 00:57:24,809 --> 00:57:27,642 Do you love me more than anyone? 1134 00:57:28,851 --> 00:57:32,725 Do you love me more than you love your sister? 1135 00:57:32,808 --> 00:57:34,183 Well... 1136 00:57:34,267 --> 00:57:35,183 What do you got to bring her up for? 1137 00:57:35,267 --> 00:57:37,475 Do you, baby? 1138 00:57:38,557 --> 00:57:39,932 Just tell me. 1139 00:57:40,016 --> 00:57:40,932 What? 1140 00:57:41,016 --> 00:57:41,932 Just say it. 1141 00:57:42,016 --> 00:57:44,682 I told you. They're different. 1142 00:57:45,931 --> 00:57:46,889 They're completely different. 1143 00:57:46,931 --> 00:57:49,098 They're two different things. 1144 00:57:50,432 --> 00:57:54,097 One's a glass of milk, one's a highball. 1145 00:57:54,139 --> 00:57:55,097 Ohh. 1146 00:57:55,139 --> 00:57:56,596 Both satisfying in their own ways, 1147 00:57:56,638 --> 00:57:57,763 but they're completely different. 1148 00:57:57,805 --> 00:58:00,221 They're just two different drinks. 1149 00:58:00,304 --> 00:58:03,595 They're two different kinds of love. 1150 00:58:04,679 --> 00:58:07,761 They're not comparable, these two, Lois. 1151 00:58:10,053 --> 00:58:11,137 Why do you have to go do that? 1152 00:58:11,220 --> 00:58:12,137 Why'd you have to do that? 1153 00:58:12,220 --> 00:58:14,552 That--that's so stupid. 1154 00:58:14,593 --> 00:58:17,552 What, do you want to get smacked? 1155 00:58:17,593 --> 00:58:20,177 You talk so mean to me sometimes, Marty. 1156 00:58:20,260 --> 00:58:21,427 I don't go off 1157 00:58:21,509 --> 00:58:24,176 about you and your brother, do I, 1158 00:58:24,260 --> 00:58:26,135 in his cute uniform 1159 00:58:26,218 --> 00:58:27,633 and all this other bullshit, 1160 00:58:27,675 --> 00:58:29,300 but you love him, don't you? 1161 00:58:29,384 --> 00:58:30,467 And I honor that, you know. 1162 00:58:30,550 --> 00:58:32,426 You probably love him more than anyone else. 1163 00:58:32,467 --> 00:58:35,425 I do not! I only love you! 1164 00:58:35,466 --> 00:58:37,466 I love you more than I love anyone else 1165 00:58:37,507 --> 00:58:38,466 in the whole world, 1166 00:58:38,507 --> 00:58:39,549 and I want to hear 1167 00:58:39,632 --> 00:58:42,173 the exact same thing back from you! 1168 00:58:42,215 --> 00:58:43,424 You're going to have to wait a long time 1169 00:58:43,506 --> 00:58:45,840 to hear something like that, Lois. 1170 00:58:45,881 --> 00:58:47,090 [telephone rings] 1171 00:58:47,173 --> 00:58:48,839 Let it go. 1172 00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:50,172 Marty: One ring, and she stopped. 1173 00:58:50,214 --> 00:58:52,672 It was Carol's signal. 1174 00:58:52,755 --> 00:58:53,797 I waited for the next ring. 1175 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,213 That's funny. 1176 00:58:55,255 --> 00:58:57,754 Lois waited for whatever she was waiting for. 1177 00:58:57,838 --> 00:59:00,422 It just stopped. 1178 00:59:03,295 --> 00:59:04,462 [telephone rings] 1179 00:59:06,004 --> 00:59:07,379 Ow! 1180 00:59:08,295 --> 00:59:10,086 What did you pull my hair for? 1181 00:59:10,169 --> 00:59:11,086 Carol: Is that you, Marty? 1182 00:59:11,169 --> 00:59:12,336 Marty: It was Carol. 1183 00:59:12,378 --> 00:59:13,794 She spoke rapidly, 1184 00:59:13,836 --> 00:59:15,627 her voice pitched just above a whisper. 1185 00:59:15,669 --> 00:59:17,043 Marty: I'll get back as soon as I can. 1186 00:59:17,127 --> 00:59:18,793 Lois understands. 1187 00:59:23,001 --> 00:59:24,625 I'm sorry I pulled your hair. 1188 00:59:24,709 --> 00:59:25,625 Is that it? 1189 00:59:25,709 --> 00:59:28,875 My mom just had a mild heart attack. 1190 00:59:28,917 --> 00:59:31,083 Look, she's had them before. It's nothing serious, 1191 00:59:31,125 --> 00:59:32,291 but Carol thinks I ought to be there. 1192 00:59:32,375 --> 00:59:34,166 I think I ought to be there! 1193 00:59:34,250 --> 00:59:35,958 So, that's what Carol thinks? 1194 00:59:36,041 --> 00:59:37,457 Yeah! 1195 00:59:37,498 --> 00:59:38,832 You can just call yourself a cab, 1196 00:59:38,915 --> 00:59:41,332 because you are not using my car 1197 00:59:41,416 --> 00:59:44,123 to go run off to your little Carol! 1198 00:59:44,164 --> 00:59:46,373 I see the way you two sniff around each other. 1199 00:59:46,456 --> 00:59:48,248 You want to know what I think is going on? 1200 00:59:48,331 --> 00:59:49,331 Huh, Marty? 1201 00:59:49,373 --> 00:59:50,622 Do you want to know what I think is going on 1202 00:59:50,705 --> 00:59:52,372 between you and your stupid little Carol? 1203 00:59:52,414 --> 00:59:53,955 Do you? Do you want to know? 1204 00:59:54,038 --> 00:59:55,038 Do you want to know? 1205 00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:56,205 Shut up. 1206 00:59:56,288 --> 00:59:57,662 Hi. Can you please send a taxi 1207 00:59:57,704 --> 01:00:00,162 to 175433 Wildwood Road 1208 01:00:00,246 --> 01:00:02,413 as fast as you can? 1209 01:00:02,495 --> 01:00:03,578 What? Come on, let's hear it! 1210 01:00:03,620 --> 01:00:05,203 What's in that tiny mind of yours, Lois? 1211 01:00:05,245 --> 01:00:07,370 Come on! Come on! 1212 01:00:07,412 --> 01:00:08,703 I think you're fucking her! 1213 01:00:08,786 --> 01:00:11,412 I think you're fucking that little tramp! 1214 01:00:11,453 --> 01:00:12,952 I think you're fucking her 1215 01:00:12,994 --> 01:00:14,910 morning, noon, and night! 1216 01:00:15,785 --> 01:00:16,785 Oh! 1217 01:00:16,827 --> 01:00:17,910 Oh, my god! 1218 01:00:17,994 --> 01:00:20,201 [crying] 1219 01:00:20,284 --> 01:00:21,993 Oh, my god, what am I saying? 1220 01:00:22,034 --> 01:00:24,118 I am so sorry. 1221 01:00:40,031 --> 01:00:41,323 I'm so sorry. 1222 01:00:41,407 --> 01:00:43,614 I'm... 1223 01:00:43,656 --> 01:00:45,323 Baby, I’m sorry. 1224 01:00:46,406 --> 01:00:48,447 You know, I’m sorry I could do something 1225 01:00:48,488 --> 01:00:50,406 to make you say such a thing to me. 1226 01:00:50,488 --> 01:00:52,155 Please forgive me. 1227 01:00:52,239 --> 01:00:53,988 Please forgive me. 1228 01:00:54,071 --> 01:00:56,238 [breathes heavily] 1229 01:00:58,279 --> 01:01:01,362 Y-you can take my car, OK? 1230 01:01:01,404 --> 01:01:02,362 OK? 1231 01:01:02,445 --> 01:01:04,486 Thanks. 1232 01:01:04,528 --> 01:01:06,320 Would you do that, baby? 1233 01:01:06,404 --> 01:01:08,485 You come back, 1234 01:01:08,568 --> 01:01:10,902 because I got such a need for you. 1235 01:01:10,944 --> 01:01:12,069 [crying] 1236 01:01:12,111 --> 01:01:13,277 Shh. 1237 01:01:17,609 --> 01:01:18,776 I'll be back soon. 1238 01:01:22,817 --> 01:01:24,817 Marty: I took her car, naturally. 1239 01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:26,733 She insisted on it. 1240 01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:04,978 Carol? 1241 01:02:06,852 --> 01:02:08,811 Carol? 1242 01:02:21,226 --> 01:02:23,101 You got him, doll. 1243 01:02:23,142 --> 01:02:24,350 He's not gonna hurt you, 1244 01:02:24,433 --> 01:02:26,266 he's not gonna hurt anyone ever again. 1245 01:02:26,350 --> 01:02:28,392 I didn't get him, Marty. 1246 01:02:30,474 --> 01:02:32,556 Well, he's dead. 1247 01:02:34,682 --> 01:02:37,473 At least you could have called me. 1248 01:02:37,515 --> 01:02:40,139 It kind of makes a fella feel inadequate-- 1249 01:02:40,181 --> 01:02:41,597 Taking care of business 1250 01:02:41,681 --> 01:02:42,973 without letting a fella know. 1251 01:02:43,014 --> 01:02:44,888 I didn't do it, Marty. 1252 01:02:44,972 --> 01:02:47,680 It just... I don't know, it just happened. 1253 01:02:47,721 --> 01:02:51,389 It just... It just happened. 1254 01:02:51,471 --> 01:02:52,804 What? What happened? 1255 01:02:52,887 --> 01:02:55,096 Come on, you can tell me. 1256 01:02:57,096 --> 01:03:00,761 Carol: I was coming out of the gin joint downtown. 1257 01:03:04,261 --> 01:03:07,177 And he came up to me. 1258 01:03:07,260 --> 01:03:11,927 He was in from out of town, so I brought him here. 1259 01:03:12,010 --> 01:03:14,550 It was so weird. 1260 01:03:14,634 --> 01:03:16,009 Marty: What was, baby? 1261 01:03:16,051 --> 01:03:18,051 What was weird? 1262 01:03:18,134 --> 01:03:20,342 COME ON, 1263 01:03:21,466 --> 01:03:23,925 yoU CAN TELL ME. I STARTED TO GET 1264 01:03:24,008 --> 01:03:26,590 A LITTLE STIMULATED. 1265 01:03:26,674 --> 01:03:29,966 [MAN MOANING] [CAROL MOANING] 1266 01:03:33,257 --> 01:03:34,965 Yeah, well, he's a big guy. 1267 01:03:35,048 --> 01:03:37,464 It happens. 1268 01:03:37,506 --> 01:03:39,340 And all of a sudden, 1269 01:03:39,423 --> 01:03:41,130 everything that ever happened to us 1270 01:03:41,214 --> 01:03:43,838 with mom and pop and that lady across the street 1271 01:03:43,922 --> 01:03:46,005 and her husband and that look the guy had on his face 1272 01:03:46,047 --> 01:03:47,712 when dad shot him... 1273 01:03:48,587 --> 01:03:49,671 Woman: Aah! 1274 01:03:49,754 --> 01:03:52,380 It all just came back to me. 1275 01:03:55,878 --> 01:03:57,379 Woman: Aah! 1276 01:03:59,379 --> 01:04:00,836 [gunshot] 1277 01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,086 [moaning] 1278 01:04:08,335 --> 01:04:11,085 And all of a sudden, I looked down, 1279 01:04:11,126 --> 01:04:12,709 and the guy is, like, shaking 1280 01:04:12,793 --> 01:04:13,960 as though he's electrocuted, 1281 01:04:14,043 --> 01:04:16,125 and the next thing I know, there's blood coming out 1282 01:04:16,167 --> 01:04:17,875 of his eyes and his ears and his mouth. 1283 01:04:17,959 --> 01:04:20,125 [panting] 1284 01:04:28,499 --> 01:04:30,665 [crying hysterically] 1285 01:04:36,789 --> 01:04:38,789 Marty, look at the guy. He's a bloody mess. 1286 01:04:38,872 --> 01:04:40,872 Well, I got to hand it to you, dear. 1287 01:04:40,914 --> 01:04:42,414 You're probably the first hooker 1288 01:04:42,455 --> 01:04:43,704 in recorded history 1289 01:04:43,788 --> 01:04:46,330 to induce seizures and cerebral hemorrhage. 1290 01:04:48,121 --> 01:04:50,162 Oh, Marty. 1291 01:04:50,245 --> 01:04:52,329 Oh, babe. 1292 01:04:52,412 --> 01:04:53,828 Who was he? 1293 01:04:54,995 --> 01:04:58,577 His name was Barnett Gibons. 1294 01:04:58,661 --> 01:05:00,994 He sold life insurance. 1295 01:05:05,202 --> 01:05:06,701 You're kidding, right? 1296 01:05:06,785 --> 01:05:08,035 No. 1297 01:05:08,077 --> 01:05:10,327 Marty, it's not funny. 1298 01:06:06,817 --> 01:06:09,984 Just another wreck by the side of the road. 1299 01:06:11,401 --> 01:06:13,566 Just hang in there, kiddo. 1300 01:06:13,650 --> 01:06:15,275 It's all gonna be fine. 1301 01:06:15,359 --> 01:06:16,524 Is it, Marty? 1302 01:06:16,566 --> 01:06:18,524 Yeah. I said so, didn't I? 1303 01:06:18,566 --> 01:06:20,440 Of course it is. 1304 01:06:20,523 --> 01:06:22,399 I'm gonna be sick. 1305 01:06:22,482 --> 01:06:24,815 [retching] 1306 01:06:34,605 --> 01:06:37,521 Easy, babe. You're so jumpy. 1307 01:06:37,605 --> 01:06:39,855 I never saw it get to you like that. 1308 01:06:39,897 --> 01:06:42,687 They never went that way before. 1309 01:06:42,771 --> 01:06:45,188 They all gotta go somehow, don't they? 1310 01:06:45,271 --> 01:06:47,437 We all do. 1311 01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,478 It was all written down more than a million years ago 1312 01:06:50,561 --> 01:06:53,395 by a... very funny god. 1313 01:06:53,436 --> 01:06:56,061 You know, in the beginning, there was nothing. 1314 01:06:56,102 --> 01:06:58,936 Then he spoke, and that's when all the shit started. 1315 01:06:59,019 --> 01:07:01,144 We're just pawns, kid. 1316 01:07:01,227 --> 01:07:04,352 You know, players... Playing a part. 1317 01:07:04,434 --> 01:07:06,476 God had to do something to amuse himself, 1318 01:07:06,559 --> 01:07:08,310 so he dreamt us up. 1319 01:07:10,142 --> 01:07:13,142 I hope he got a good laugh, don't you, babe? 1320 01:07:13,184 --> 01:07:15,808 The things you say, Marty. 1321 01:07:27,473 --> 01:07:28,890 You awake? 1322 01:07:32,764 --> 01:07:34,597 How's your sister? 1323 01:07:34,639 --> 01:07:35,764 Forget about her. 1324 01:07:35,847 --> 01:07:37,096 What time is it? 1325 01:07:37,180 --> 01:07:40,096 Forget about all that. I'm your alarm clock. 1326 01:07:40,138 --> 01:07:42,305 You wake up, you cable your brother. 1327 01:07:42,347 --> 01:07:44,470 You tell him you got a buyer. 1328 01:07:44,553 --> 01:07:45,553 You tell him he's gotta fly down here 1329 01:07:45,637 --> 01:07:46,762 to sign the deed. 1330 01:07:46,845 --> 01:07:47,970 Next time I see you, 1331 01:07:48,012 --> 01:07:49,678 you better show me a copy of that cable 1332 01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:51,178 with the right date on it. 1333 01:07:51,261 --> 01:07:53,094 Otherwise, we're washed up. 1334 01:07:55,636 --> 01:07:58,135 Marty: I got away fast, pleased. 1335 01:07:58,218 --> 01:08:00,344 She was certain to relent. 1336 01:08:00,385 --> 01:08:01,885 She had to. 1337 01:08:14,300 --> 01:08:15,633 Marty? 1338 01:08:17,799 --> 01:08:19,132 Marty? 1339 01:08:23,506 --> 01:08:24,924 Marty? 1340 01:08:27,631 --> 01:08:29,589 [door opens] 1341 01:08:29,672 --> 01:08:32,671 Hey. Is it bad? 1342 01:08:32,713 --> 01:08:34,880 It's really bad, Marty. 1343 01:08:34,963 --> 01:08:37,588 I can't get him out of my head. 1344 01:08:37,630 --> 01:08:40,254 Don't. Don't think. 1345 01:08:40,296 --> 01:08:42,962 It was the way it was meant to be. 1346 01:08:43,046 --> 01:08:44,962 Don't remember. That's the best way. 1347 01:08:45,046 --> 01:08:47,461 You'll see it that way. 1348 01:08:47,502 --> 01:08:49,753 But this thing, it'll go away, right? 1349 01:08:49,794 --> 01:08:51,461 This thing in my head? 1350 01:08:51,502 --> 01:08:53,418 They always do, don't they? 1351 01:08:53,501 --> 01:08:55,960 But this one's really bad, Marty. 1352 01:08:56,002 --> 01:08:59,044 This one, it's really bad. 1353 01:09:00,251 --> 01:09:01,876 You know, in the daytime, 1354 01:09:01,918 --> 01:09:05,500 those night things, they just go away. 1355 01:09:05,542 --> 01:09:07,458 And in the nighttime, the day things go. 1356 01:09:07,541 --> 01:09:08,958 Just remember that. 1357 01:09:09,042 --> 01:09:10,000 Yeah. 1358 01:09:10,083 --> 01:09:12,375 Remember that, and it'll all be all right. 1359 01:09:12,416 --> 01:09:15,082 Yeah. That's good, Marty. Tell me a story. 1360 01:09:20,999 --> 01:09:23,706 Once upon a time, there was a... 1361 01:09:23,789 --> 01:09:26,373 A little boy and a little girl. 1362 01:09:26,456 --> 01:09:27,664 You all right? 1363 01:09:27,706 --> 01:09:29,830 The little girl was her mother, and... 1364 01:09:29,872 --> 01:09:31,663 The little boy was her father. 1365 01:09:31,747 --> 01:09:32,747 [door opens] 1366 01:09:32,830 --> 01:09:34,039 And the little girl was... 1367 01:09:34,122 --> 01:09:36,121 Yes, mom? 1368 01:09:36,204 --> 01:09:39,121 I'm sorry. I hope we didn't wake you up, mom. 1369 01:09:39,204 --> 01:09:40,537 Ahh. 1370 01:09:43,411 --> 01:09:47,578 I'll bet you do, just bet you do. 1371 01:09:47,620 --> 01:09:49,827 Of course we do. 1372 01:09:49,911 --> 01:09:52,869 We tried to be as quiet as we could. 1373 01:09:52,952 --> 01:09:53,869 Carol couldn't sleep. 1374 01:09:53,952 --> 01:09:56,327 I came in to tell her a story. 1375 01:09:56,409 --> 01:09:59,243 I know--I know what you were doing! 1376 01:09:59,285 --> 01:10:03,658 Ha! Same thing you've been doing all along, you filth! 1377 01:10:03,742 --> 01:10:06,617 You scum! 1378 01:10:06,658 --> 01:10:08,617 No wonder they all hated you. 1379 01:10:08,700 --> 01:10:10,949 They knew what you were up to. 1380 01:10:11,033 --> 01:10:14,616 You didn't fool them! They could see right through you! 1381 01:10:16,616 --> 01:10:19,573 They should have killed you both. 1382 01:10:19,615 --> 01:10:22,656 They should have just smothered you in your cribs. 1383 01:10:22,740 --> 01:10:24,697 You both should have been strangled at birth! You! 1384 01:10:24,780 --> 01:10:28,156 They should have killed you in your bed! 1385 01:10:28,239 --> 01:10:29,947 [squeals] my babies. 1386 01:10:29,989 --> 01:10:31,779 You're rotten. You're rotten. 1387 01:10:31,863 --> 01:10:33,654 You're both rotten! 1388 01:10:33,696 --> 01:10:35,113 You don't know anything! 1389 01:10:35,155 --> 01:10:36,280 What are you saying?! 1390 01:10:36,322 --> 01:10:37,653 What is she saying?! 1391 01:10:37,737 --> 01:10:40,862 Carol: You're making Marty upset, mom. 1392 01:10:40,945 --> 01:10:43,362 You're making Marty upset. 1393 01:10:43,445 --> 01:10:47,028 I'll do a lot worse than that, a lot worse. 1394 01:10:47,069 --> 01:10:49,361 Get out of here. 1395 01:10:49,444 --> 01:10:51,735 Don't you talk to me like that, you devil. 1396 01:10:51,818 --> 01:10:53,484 Go to your room. 1397 01:10:53,568 --> 01:10:55,902 Don't you try to tell me, Carol! 1398 01:10:55,943 --> 01:10:56,902 I'm your mother! 1399 01:10:56,985 --> 01:10:59,442 You go to your room! 1400 01:10:59,483 --> 01:11:01,026 Go to your room, mom. 1401 01:11:02,775 --> 01:11:03,692 Devil girl! 1402 01:11:03,775 --> 01:11:05,192 Go to your room. 1403 01:11:05,276 --> 01:11:07,108 I didn't mean it. I'm sorry. 1404 01:11:07,150 --> 01:11:08,441 Oh, you meant it. 1405 01:11:08,482 --> 01:11:09,608 No, I didn't. 1406 01:11:09,649 --> 01:11:10,608 You mean it. 1407 01:11:10,649 --> 01:11:11,608 No, I didn't. 1408 01:11:11,649 --> 01:11:12,940 You go to your goddamn room. 1409 01:11:12,982 --> 01:11:14,232 Don't you forget, I’m your mother. 1410 01:11:14,316 --> 01:11:16,857 Are you? 1411 01:11:16,899 --> 01:11:18,190 Were you? 1412 01:11:18,274 --> 01:11:21,189 It's time for you to go to sleep now, mama. 1413 01:11:21,273 --> 01:11:22,731 No. 1414 01:11:22,772 --> 01:11:26,148 Marty! Oh, Carol. 1415 01:11:26,231 --> 01:11:28,605 It's time for you to go to sleep, mama. 1416 01:11:28,688 --> 01:11:31,063 Carol. 1417 01:11:35,062 --> 01:11:38,229 This will make you feel a whole lot better. 1418 01:11:38,271 --> 01:11:40,186 Carol, please. 1419 01:11:40,270 --> 01:11:42,644 This will be good for you, Ma. 1420 01:11:42,728 --> 01:11:44,436 It's just what you need. 1421 01:11:51,435 --> 01:11:53,935 Here you go, mama. 1422 01:11:54,019 --> 01:11:55,517 That's right. 1423 01:11:59,684 --> 01:12:03,641 Drink it all down, mama, like a good girl. 1424 01:12:08,224 --> 01:12:09,515 Yes. 1425 01:12:09,599 --> 01:12:13,182 This one will make you feel a whole lot better. 1426 01:12:20,639 --> 01:12:23,972 I feel--I feel better. 1427 01:12:24,014 --> 01:12:26,264 Thank you, Carol. 1428 01:12:30,221 --> 01:12:31,762 My little girl. 1429 01:13:13,299 --> 01:13:14,756 Marty: figuratively, at least, 1430 01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:17,464 most people do die of over sedation. 1431 01:13:17,548 --> 01:13:19,256 Fumbling about fearfully, 1432 01:13:19,298 --> 01:13:21,505 blindly they grasp the sweet-smelling potions 1433 01:13:21,589 --> 01:13:23,505 handed down to them, never look at the label, 1434 01:13:23,589 --> 01:13:25,754 and suddenly, they're dead. 1435 01:13:25,796 --> 01:13:28,629 They die, natural deaths. 1436 01:13:29,796 --> 01:13:32,670 Everyone knew Mrs. Lakewood had a weak heart. 1437 01:13:32,712 --> 01:13:33,795 Yes. 1438 01:13:33,837 --> 01:13:36,503 I told her that stuff was dangerous, doctor, 1439 01:13:36,545 --> 01:13:38,337 but she kept going on and on, 1440 01:13:38,378 --> 01:13:40,044 "the pain, the pain." 1441 01:13:41,919 --> 01:13:44,128 It seems she passed on quietly. 1442 01:13:44,211 --> 01:13:45,211 That's a blessing. 1443 01:13:45,253 --> 01:13:47,210 Yes, it is, doctor. 1444 01:13:50,918 --> 01:13:52,667 Thank you, Martin. 1445 01:13:52,750 --> 01:13:54,917 That's probably the undertaker. 1446 01:13:59,084 --> 01:14:01,916 Shady grove funeral parlor. You Mr. Lakewood? 1447 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,833 Yeah. My mom's upstairs. 1448 01:14:08,332 --> 01:14:09,707 I'll be running along. 1449 01:14:09,748 --> 01:14:13,206 I'll file the "death by natural causes" forms 1450 01:14:13,290 --> 01:14:15,539 with the county coroner. 1451 01:14:23,746 --> 01:14:25,371 Try not to drop her. 1452 01:14:25,413 --> 01:14:27,412 Don't, Marty. 1453 01:14:27,453 --> 01:14:28,996 Don't what? 1454 01:14:29,079 --> 01:14:30,996 Don't pretend that it doesn't hurt 1455 01:14:31,079 --> 01:14:33,204 to see her like this. 1456 01:14:34,911 --> 01:14:36,828 I know you like to play 1457 01:14:36,911 --> 01:14:39,911 the big old tough, rough guy, 1458 01:14:39,995 --> 01:14:43,493 but deep down, you're just a sentimental slob. 1459 01:14:45,535 --> 01:14:48,159 [telephone rings] 1460 01:14:51,617 --> 01:14:54,243 [ring] 1461 01:14:57,284 --> 01:15:00,242 [ring] 1462 01:15:03,615 --> 01:15:04,574 [ring] 1463 01:15:04,615 --> 01:15:05,574 Hello? 1464 01:15:05,615 --> 01:15:08,157 Lois: It's me. 1465 01:15:08,199 --> 01:15:10,948 I'm really mad at you, Marty, 1466 01:15:10,990 --> 01:15:13,823 about the way you treated me the other night. 1467 01:15:13,865 --> 01:15:15,115 [clicking] 1468 01:15:15,156 --> 01:15:17,363 Hello? 1469 01:15:17,405 --> 01:15:19,030 Marty? 1470 01:15:19,114 --> 01:15:21,989 Marty, we've got some kind of a bad connection. 1471 01:15:22,030 --> 01:15:23,071 Marty... 1472 01:15:23,154 --> 01:15:25,571 Marty, something's wrong. You're scaring me. 1473 01:15:25,654 --> 01:15:26,654 What's happening? 1474 01:15:26,737 --> 01:15:27,654 Bad wires. 1475 01:15:27,737 --> 01:15:29,487 Marty, please, just talk to me 1476 01:15:29,571 --> 01:15:32,070 and tell me what's going on with you. 1477 01:15:32,153 --> 01:15:33,028 Marty? 1478 01:15:33,112 --> 01:15:34,945 Marty? 1479 01:15:35,028 --> 01:15:36,279 Yes, who is this? 1480 01:15:36,361 --> 01:15:37,360 This is Lois. 1481 01:15:37,443 --> 01:15:38,861 Yes, Martin's mentioned you 1482 01:15:38,944 --> 01:15:41,111 many times to me before. 1483 01:15:41,152 --> 01:15:42,485 I'm his sister. 1484 01:15:42,569 --> 01:15:45,110 Is there something wrong? 1485 01:15:45,151 --> 01:15:47,484 Um, yes. Well, you see, 1486 01:15:47,568 --> 01:15:49,526 our mother passed away last night, 1487 01:15:49,568 --> 01:15:52,525 and Martin's taking it particularly hard. 1488 01:15:52,608 --> 01:15:54,859 I'm... I’m so sorry. 1489 01:15:54,900 --> 01:15:56,859 You see, he and mom were so close. 1490 01:15:56,900 --> 01:15:58,691 Yes, I know. 1491 01:15:58,732 --> 01:16:02,440 Will you please tell him that I’m thinking of him? 1492 01:16:02,524 --> 01:16:05,274 Yes, of course. I'll tell him. 1493 01:16:05,356 --> 01:16:08,148 Can you also tell him that I will do that thing 1494 01:16:08,232 --> 01:16:10,148 that he asked me to do? 1495 01:16:10,232 --> 01:16:12,355 Yes, I’ll tell him. 1496 01:16:12,438 --> 01:16:16,273 You'll be sure to do the thing that he wanted, 1497 01:16:16,314 --> 01:16:17,730 just like he asked. 1498 01:16:30,020 --> 01:16:33,061 Well, it looks like you and me. 1499 01:16:33,144 --> 01:16:35,769 When wasn't it ever you and me? 1500 01:16:58,850 --> 01:17:06,015 ♪ The thrill is gone ♪ 1501 01:17:06,932 --> 01:17:14,847 ♪ The thrill is gone ♪ 1502 01:17:16,097 --> 01:17:24,762 ♪ I can see it in your eyes ♪ 1503 01:17:24,804 --> 01:17:33,136 ♪ I can hear it in your sighs ♪ 1504 01:17:33,178 --> 01:17:40,552 ♪ Feel your touch and realize ♪ 1505 01:17:40,593 --> 01:17:43,926 ♪ The thrill ♪ 1506 01:17:44,009 --> 01:17:48,218 ♪ Is gone ♪ 1507 01:17:49,217 --> 01:17:56,299 ♪ The nights are cold ♪ 1508 01:17:56,382 --> 01:18:03,923 ♪ For love is old ♪ 1509 01:18:06,381 --> 01:18:09,964 ♪ Love was grand... ♪ 1510 01:18:10,005 --> 01:18:11,130 Carol: Marty, darling, 1511 01:18:11,172 --> 01:18:13,922 I was starting to tell you about where I’m going 1512 01:18:14,005 --> 01:18:17,546 and what I have to do, but I thought better of it. 1513 01:18:17,629 --> 01:18:19,963 You would only worry, and there really is no need to, 1514 01:18:20,046 --> 01:18:23,088 because I’m going to be perfectly all right. 1515 01:18:23,129 --> 01:18:30,669 ♪ Now it don't appeal to you ♪ 1516 01:18:30,752 --> 01:18:33,877 ♪ The thrill ♪ 1517 01:18:33,961 --> 01:18:38,001 ♪ Is gone ♪ 1518 01:18:38,043 --> 01:18:39,459 Carol: I'm in a little bit of trouble, 1519 01:18:39,501 --> 01:18:41,876 but I know how to handle it. 1520 01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:44,542 I'll be back with you just as soon as I can, 1521 01:18:44,583 --> 01:18:47,542 but I won't be able to be there for the funeral. 1522 01:18:47,625 --> 01:18:50,209 Don't you go either if it bothers you. 1523 01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:53,457 And don't feel bad about what happened to mom. 1524 01:18:53,541 --> 01:18:54,749 Certain things happen 1525 01:18:54,791 --> 01:18:57,999 because they're supposed to happen that way. 1526 01:18:58,083 --> 01:19:00,498 And tell me a story tonight, darling. 1527 01:19:00,581 --> 01:19:02,123 I'll be listening. 1528 01:19:03,456 --> 01:19:07,872 [singing] 1529 01:19:08,664 --> 01:19:17,955 ♪ The thrill is gone ♪ 1530 01:19:24,037 --> 01:19:26,369 Minister: Mrs. Lakewood was a wonderful woman. 1531 01:19:26,410 --> 01:19:29,245 She was a wonderful Christian woman. 1532 01:19:29,327 --> 01:19:30,994 She was a wonderful wife. 1533 01:19:31,078 --> 01:19:33,910 She was a wonderful mother to her two children. 1534 01:19:33,993 --> 01:19:36,326 Beloved of everyone, 1535 01:19:36,409 --> 01:19:37,952 renowned for her generosity, 1536 01:19:37,993 --> 01:19:40,284 she will be sorely missed by everyone 1537 01:19:40,325 --> 01:19:42,076 in this community. 1538 01:19:58,657 --> 01:20:00,532 Marty: I went to the funeral, 1539 01:20:00,573 --> 01:20:02,864 but I couldn't stay all the way through. 1540 01:20:02,906 --> 01:20:05,198 Just as they started to lower mom into the dirt, 1541 01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,863 I, well, let's just say I didn't feel so well. 1542 01:20:08,947 --> 01:20:10,530 So I took a stroll 1543 01:20:10,613 --> 01:20:13,363 through the city of wonderful people. 1544 01:20:13,446 --> 01:20:15,612 It was a crowded city. 1545 01:20:15,695 --> 01:20:17,654 Neighbor elbowed against neighbor, 1546 01:20:17,737 --> 01:20:20,112 yet no one felt the need for room. 1547 01:20:20,154 --> 01:20:23,486 They dwelt peacefully, side by side, 1548 01:20:23,569 --> 01:20:26,361 content with what they had because... 1549 01:20:26,402 --> 01:20:28,694 They were all so wonderful. 1550 01:20:31,110 --> 01:20:33,360 Marty Lakewood? 1551 01:20:33,401 --> 01:20:34,568 Who's asking? 1552 01:20:34,610 --> 01:20:36,776 Lieutenant Harris. 1553 01:20:36,859 --> 01:20:38,734 Is that your mother, Mrs. Eleanor Lakewood, 1554 01:20:38,818 --> 01:20:40,193 being laid to rest over there? 1555 01:20:40,235 --> 01:20:42,609 Yeah, that's my mom. 1556 01:20:42,651 --> 01:20:46,192 And your sister is Mrs. Carol Lakewood Wharton? 1557 01:20:46,275 --> 01:20:48,858 It's a nice badge you got there, lieutenant, 1558 01:20:48,942 --> 01:20:50,274 but what's this all about? 1559 01:20:50,315 --> 01:20:52,149 It's about murder. 1560 01:20:58,481 --> 01:21:00,439 Mr. J. Krutz-- 1561 01:21:00,523 --> 01:21:02,065 Private investigator 1562 01:21:02,148 --> 01:21:04,522 working for a Mr. J.J. Wharton 1563 01:21:04,605 --> 01:21:06,980 of Boston. 1564 01:21:07,064 --> 01:21:09,939 Never laid eyes on him. Who'd he kill? 1565 01:21:10,022 --> 01:21:12,230 Harris: Show him the other photo, captain. 1566 01:21:12,312 --> 01:21:15,813 This is what getting stabbed in the brain looks like. 1567 01:21:19,978 --> 01:21:21,270 Not a pretty picture. 1568 01:21:21,311 --> 01:21:23,603 Hmm. How about this? 1569 01:21:23,645 --> 01:21:26,186 Who's he, another dead private investigator? 1570 01:21:26,269 --> 01:21:27,560 Not a private investigator. 1571 01:21:27,644 --> 01:21:29,228 Just an ace insurance salesman. 1572 01:21:29,310 --> 01:21:31,810 So what's he got to do with Krutz or me? 1573 01:21:31,851 --> 01:21:33,018 Look, fellas, I’m sorry. 1574 01:21:33,101 --> 01:21:34,559 I listen to quiz shows, too, 1575 01:21:34,643 --> 01:21:36,143 but I think I missed the million-dollar question. 1576 01:21:36,185 --> 01:21:38,850 What people like Krutz and Gibons and you 1577 01:21:38,892 --> 01:21:41,892 have in common is her. 1578 01:21:41,934 --> 01:21:44,725 What, my kid sister? 1579 01:21:44,767 --> 01:21:47,390 That beef was for shoplifting in New Orleans. 1580 01:21:47,474 --> 01:21:49,349 Well, it doesn't do her justice. 1581 01:21:49,432 --> 01:21:50,849 You ought to see her in the flesh. 1582 01:21:50,933 --> 01:21:54,140 People who see your sister, like Krutz and Gibons, 1583 01:21:54,224 --> 01:21:56,807 they die or they disappear. 1584 01:21:56,848 --> 01:21:58,598 People die and disappear all the time. 1585 01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:00,347 It doesn't mean she had anything to do with it. 1586 01:22:00,430 --> 01:22:01,430 What is she--god? 1587 01:22:01,472 --> 01:22:02,806 She was here as of noon yesterday, 1588 01:22:02,889 --> 01:22:03,847 the doctor told us that, 1589 01:22:03,931 --> 01:22:05,347 but she didn't go to the funeral. 1590 01:22:05,388 --> 01:22:06,679 She was upset. 1591 01:22:06,721 --> 01:22:08,180 Was Krutz tailing her? 1592 01:22:08,222 --> 01:22:10,805 I don't know. She didn't say anything about it. 1593 01:22:10,846 --> 01:22:14,137 You were seen yakking it up, talking to her in town. 1594 01:22:14,221 --> 01:22:16,553 She's my sister. We're close. We talk. 1595 01:22:16,595 --> 01:22:19,929 We love each other. Is there something wrong with that? 1596 01:22:20,012 --> 01:22:21,844 Not a thing. 1597 01:22:21,928 --> 01:22:23,969 Your sister's a hooker. 1598 01:22:24,053 --> 01:22:25,136 It's my understanding 1599 01:22:25,220 --> 01:22:27,593 that one of Jesus Christ’s best pals was a hooker. 1600 01:22:27,676 --> 01:22:30,052 I didn't grill my sister on where she makes her money 1601 01:22:30,093 --> 01:22:32,177 or where she spends her free time, 1602 01:22:32,260 --> 01:22:33,843 because I thought it was in bad taste, lieutenant. 1603 01:22:33,927 --> 01:22:35,051 Tell me... 1604 01:22:35,134 --> 01:22:36,467 Where is the bitch? 1605 01:22:36,509 --> 01:22:39,092 I don't know. 1606 01:22:39,134 --> 01:22:42,008 I don't understand. You're all brotherly love, 1607 01:22:42,050 --> 01:22:43,674 but you don't know where your sister was 1608 01:22:43,758 --> 01:22:45,674 on the day of your mother's burial. 1609 01:22:45,716 --> 01:22:49,298 No, I don't know. I swear to god, I don't know! 1610 01:22:49,381 --> 01:22:51,216 Bring in a stack of bibles, I’ll swear on that! 1611 01:22:51,257 --> 01:22:53,840 I'll swear on the freckle on the tip of your dick, 1612 01:22:53,882 --> 01:22:54,964 if you can find it! 1613 01:22:55,048 --> 01:22:56,380 Stop shouting. 1614 01:22:56,422 --> 01:22:58,256 Do you want to know what happened, 1615 01:22:58,297 --> 01:22:59,923 do you want to know the trouble 1616 01:23:00,006 --> 01:23:02,588 that your lovely sister is in up to her neck? 1617 01:23:02,630 --> 01:23:04,963 At last, a reason for me being here. Please. 1618 01:23:05,005 --> 01:23:06,588 A couple of nights ago, 1619 01:23:06,630 --> 01:23:08,214 she picked up this guy Gibons 1620 01:23:08,296 --> 01:23:09,670 outside of Claire’s cocktails. 1621 01:23:09,754 --> 01:23:10,962 Krutz over here was tailing her, 1622 01:23:11,046 --> 01:23:12,087 and we're almost certain 1623 01:23:12,129 --> 01:23:14,004 that she got Gibons to knock Krutz off. 1624 01:23:14,046 --> 01:23:16,170 You think she ran away with Gibons? 1625 01:23:16,253 --> 01:23:18,045 We just weren't sure. 1626 01:23:18,128 --> 01:23:20,669 You can't prove my sister knew either of these guys! 1627 01:23:20,711 --> 01:23:22,294 For all you know, Gibons... 1628 01:23:22,377 --> 01:23:24,794 Killed Krutz in some jealous rage 1629 01:23:24,877 --> 01:23:27,044 and tried to pin it on my sister. 1630 01:23:27,085 --> 01:23:28,502 If you knew the types of guys 1631 01:23:28,585 --> 01:23:30,001 my sister had to deal with through her life, 1632 01:23:30,084 --> 01:23:32,626 you wouldn't be so quick to judge her. 1633 01:23:32,709 --> 01:23:34,251 Do you mean any of what you're saying, Lakewood? 1634 01:23:34,292 --> 01:23:36,210 Every last word, captain. 1635 01:23:36,251 --> 01:23:37,209 'Cause if you do, 1636 01:23:37,250 --> 01:23:39,875 you'll contact us if she contacts you? 1637 01:23:39,958 --> 01:23:41,500 Of course I will. I want her name 1638 01:23:41,583 --> 01:23:43,832 cleared out of this mess as soon as possible. 1639 01:23:43,916 --> 01:23:45,166 But you got to do one thing. 1640 01:23:45,249 --> 01:23:46,373 Let's hear it. 1641 01:23:46,457 --> 01:23:48,082 You can't watch me, and you can't tail me. 1642 01:23:48,166 --> 01:23:49,874 'Cause if she did do something wrong 1643 01:23:49,957 --> 01:23:52,664 or if she's scared 'cause she knows someone who did, 1644 01:23:52,748 --> 01:23:55,040 then she's looking for a tail, and she won't contact me. 1645 01:23:55,081 --> 01:23:56,331 She's gonna wait till it's safe. 1646 01:23:56,372 --> 01:23:58,872 All right, Lakewood, you win. No tail. 1647 01:23:58,914 --> 01:24:01,371 But if your sister gets in touch, 1648 01:24:01,413 --> 01:24:03,080 and you don't let us get to talk to her, 1649 01:24:03,164 --> 01:24:05,996 we're gonna have to hammer you. 1650 01:24:06,079 --> 01:24:07,913 You got that? 1651 01:24:07,996 --> 01:24:10,913 Every last word. 1652 01:25:10,570 --> 01:25:13,820 [slow music playing on radio] 1653 01:25:29,358 --> 01:25:31,525 [telephone rings] 1654 01:25:32,734 --> 01:25:34,193 Lois: Hello? 1655 01:25:35,441 --> 01:25:36,816 Yes? 1656 01:25:38,483 --> 01:25:41,733 Yes, this is Martin Lakewood’s residence. 1657 01:25:44,482 --> 01:25:45,648 Yeah. 1658 01:25:45,732 --> 01:25:47,774 Uh, Marty, can you talk? 1659 01:25:47,857 --> 01:25:49,481 It's--it's, um... 1660 01:25:49,564 --> 01:25:52,689 It's some doctor in--in Mexico. 1661 01:25:56,897 --> 01:25:59,063 It's about Carol, darling. 1662 01:26:10,145 --> 01:26:13,394 Baby, I’m so sorry. 1663 01:26:17,685 --> 01:26:19,852 [water dripping] 1664 01:26:23,768 --> 01:26:25,934 [flies buzzing] 1665 01:26:26,018 --> 01:26:28,226 [people speaking Spanish] 1666 01:26:32,975 --> 01:26:34,808 Señor. Señor Lakewood. 1667 01:26:34,892 --> 01:26:37,640 Five months pregnant? 1668 01:26:37,682 --> 01:26:38,807 I don't know. 1669 01:26:38,849 --> 01:26:41,515 She--she tell me she's barely three months. 1670 01:26:41,557 --> 01:26:44,848 She... she no show. She's so small. 1671 01:26:44,890 --> 01:26:46,598 Yeah, well, if you were any type of a real doctor, 1672 01:26:46,681 --> 01:26:47,806 you would know, wouldn't you? 1673 01:26:47,848 --> 01:26:49,514 I am so sorry, señor. 1674 01:26:49,556 --> 01:26:51,223 I tried to do my very best. 1675 01:26:51,264 --> 01:26:53,055 It doesn't really matter, does it? 1676 01:26:53,139 --> 01:26:54,847 You got the wrong number, pal. 1677 01:26:54,889 --> 01:26:56,181 You're talking to the wrong party. 1678 01:26:56,222 --> 01:26:57,472 Wait, wait! 1679 01:26:57,555 --> 01:26:58,637 Wait for what? 1680 01:26:58,721 --> 01:26:59,804 What should I do? 1681 01:26:59,888 --> 01:27:01,013 I don't care what you do. 1682 01:27:01,096 --> 01:27:02,387 I don't know what your grift is, 1683 01:27:02,429 --> 01:27:04,096 but I know there's some kind of racket going on here. 1684 01:27:04,138 --> 01:27:05,428 If you don't leave me alone, 1685 01:27:05,470 --> 01:27:07,220 I'm going to get the authorities on you so fast, 1686 01:27:07,303 --> 01:27:08,928 it's going to make your greasy head spin. 1687 01:27:08,970 --> 01:27:10,762 Abortion's illegal in Mexico, too, you know. 1688 01:27:10,803 --> 01:27:13,886 Last time I looked, it was a catholic country. 1689 01:27:13,969 --> 01:27:17,343 Señor, it has been almost four days. 1690 01:27:17,385 --> 01:27:20,010 Please, the weather, she's so hot. 1691 01:27:20,093 --> 01:27:21,718 And the smell... 1692 01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:25,301 Throw it in the ocean, throw it in a garbage dump, 1693 01:27:25,384 --> 01:27:26,717 throw it in the alley 1694 01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,425 so the little dogs can piss on it, OK? 1695 01:27:28,508 --> 01:27:30,467 You got the wrong party, pal. 1696 01:27:30,550 --> 01:27:31,967 But, señor, she's-- she's your family. 1697 01:27:32,050 --> 01:27:33,758 That hunk of meat you got on your table there 1698 01:27:33,841 --> 01:27:35,257 is not my sister. 1699 01:27:35,299 --> 01:27:37,133 That's not my sister Carol. 1700 01:27:37,216 --> 01:27:39,883 I know exactly where my sister is. 1701 01:27:39,966 --> 01:27:43,132 Please don't call here again. Adios. 1702 01:27:43,174 --> 01:27:45,590 [muttering] 1703 01:27:53,505 --> 01:27:57,046 It's so tough... 1704 01:27:57,088 --> 01:27:58,337 Your sister and your mother-- 1705 01:27:58,379 --> 01:27:59,337 Unh! 1706 01:27:59,379 --> 01:28:01,879 Don't ever, ever feel sorry for me! 1707 01:28:01,962 --> 01:28:03,378 Ever! 1708 01:28:03,420 --> 01:28:04,545 Ever! 1709 01:28:04,587 --> 01:28:07,919 [sobbing] 1710 01:28:09,377 --> 01:28:10,461 Oh. 1711 01:28:10,544 --> 01:28:12,461 I'm sorry. 1712 01:28:12,502 --> 01:28:14,419 Marty: I'm sorry. 1713 01:28:14,461 --> 01:28:15,918 I'm sorry. 1714 01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:17,626 [retching] 1715 01:28:22,084 --> 01:28:25,500 Let's go out to my house, Marty. 1716 01:28:25,584 --> 01:28:27,292 You need to get away. 1717 01:28:27,333 --> 01:28:29,291 Marty: I seemed to be falling into the darkness 1718 01:28:29,374 --> 01:28:31,041 that claimed my sister. 1719 01:28:31,125 --> 01:28:33,916 If Carol was lost, then so was I. 1720 01:28:38,207 --> 01:28:41,082 Carol: Marty! 1721 01:28:53,621 --> 01:28:55,788 [crying] 1722 01:29:00,328 --> 01:29:01,620 Oh! 1723 01:29:02,495 --> 01:29:04,036 Oh! 1724 01:29:04,078 --> 01:29:06,244 [Marty crying] 1725 01:29:08,036 --> 01:29:09,578 [sobs] 1726 01:29:09,661 --> 01:29:14,326 Lois, don't cry. Oh, god, don't cry. Don't-- 1727 01:29:20,451 --> 01:29:22,451 It can't be fixed. 1728 01:29:24,034 --> 01:29:25,992 Oh, Marty... 1729 01:29:28,742 --> 01:29:31,907 How you must hate me. 1730 01:29:31,991 --> 01:29:34,615 I never hated anyone. 1731 01:29:50,905 --> 01:29:53,946 There aren't enough tears for this sorrow. 1732 01:29:54,904 --> 01:29:56,946 Oh, Marty. 1733 01:30:17,943 --> 01:30:19,401 I want to tell you something about my dad. 1734 01:30:19,484 --> 01:30:21,608 What's he got to do with it? 1735 01:30:21,692 --> 01:30:25,984 No, honey, don't tell me one of those crazy stories 1736 01:30:26,067 --> 01:30:29,524 about your past and your family. 1737 01:30:29,607 --> 01:30:32,441 Yeah. It's just a story. It's not true. 1738 01:30:32,524 --> 01:30:36,023 Let's just call it-- call it a story. 1739 01:30:36,107 --> 01:30:38,815 All right then, if you have to. 1740 01:30:38,898 --> 01:30:43,564 He must have known sleeping with another man's wife, 1741 01:30:43,647 --> 01:30:48,105 I mean, a cop's wife, 1742 01:30:48,188 --> 01:30:50,730 would be more trouble than it's worth. 1743 01:30:52,229 --> 01:30:54,730 [stairs creaking softly] 1744 01:31:05,686 --> 01:31:09,560 Now, tell me the truth, Marty. 1745 01:31:09,643 --> 01:31:12,144 You don't think I’m awful, do you? 1746 01:31:15,309 --> 01:31:18,184 That brother of mine, he's just-- 1747 01:31:18,225 --> 01:31:20,517 He's just nothing. 1748 01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:23,474 It takes all kinds to make up the world. 1749 01:31:23,516 --> 01:31:28,183 He's always been so slow and stodgy. 1750 01:31:29,474 --> 01:31:32,348 Bet he moves fast now. 1751 01:31:32,432 --> 01:31:37,431 Told him I got offered $30,000 for this house. 1752 01:31:38,848 --> 01:31:41,806 Yeah, that number will make him move fast all right. 1753 01:31:45,471 --> 01:31:47,847 What the hell is going on here? 1754 01:31:47,930 --> 01:31:50,304 Don't do it! 1755 01:32:28,507 --> 01:32:32,631 Captain miles Archer. 1756 01:32:33,756 --> 01:32:35,715 United State Marine Corps. 1757 01:32:37,548 --> 01:32:39,463 Stationed Hawaii. 1758 01:32:45,588 --> 01:32:47,462 A wedding photo. 1759 01:33:01,335 --> 01:33:03,544 You take a nice photo, Lois. 1760 01:33:31,540 --> 01:33:33,331 Woman: Precinct. Can I help you? 1761 01:33:33,415 --> 01:33:37,831 Police? This is patrolwoman Archer calling from home 1762 01:33:37,872 --> 01:33:41,455 at 175433 Wildwood Road. 1763 01:33:41,539 --> 01:33:44,287 There's been a--a tragic accident. 1764 01:33:44,371 --> 01:33:46,538 A man's been shot. 1765 01:33:46,579 --> 01:33:48,246 It was my husband. 1766 01:33:48,287 --> 01:33:51,037 I was at home with an acquaintance 1767 01:33:51,079 --> 01:33:53,745 and we heard a sound. We thought it was a prowler. 1768 01:33:53,829 --> 01:33:55,786 I shot at a shadow. 1769 01:33:55,828 --> 01:33:58,661 I wasn't expecting a visit from my husband. 1770 01:33:58,744 --> 01:34:00,953 Would you please send a coroner right away? 1771 01:34:08,827 --> 01:34:11,242 It's gonna be all right, Marty. 1772 01:34:16,991 --> 01:34:18,866 Marty: Lois' pals down at headquarters 1773 01:34:18,950 --> 01:34:20,741 kept the heat off us. 1774 01:34:20,783 --> 01:34:22,866 Things went pretty smoothly after that. 1775 01:34:22,908 --> 01:34:26,448 Realtor: The Farrells are lovely people. 1776 01:34:26,532 --> 01:34:28,532 Your house will be in good hands. 1777 01:34:34,823 --> 01:34:36,406 There you go. 1778 01:34:36,489 --> 01:34:39,738 And there you are. 1779 01:34:50,071 --> 01:34:52,277 Marty: These are the things that happened. 1780 01:34:52,361 --> 01:34:54,528 Maybe they could have turned out differently, 1781 01:34:54,569 --> 01:34:56,653 but why think about that? 1782 01:34:56,736 --> 01:34:59,902 This is the game that changes as you play it. 1783 01:35:01,152 --> 01:35:03,152 God made it that way. 1784 01:35:03,235 --> 01:35:06,192 He rigged it. We take the hits. 1785 01:35:09,275 --> 01:35:10,734 Oh, no. 1786 01:35:12,692 --> 01:35:13,692 I love you, Lois. 1787 01:35:13,775 --> 01:35:15,316 Move over. 1788 01:35:25,232 --> 01:35:27,314 Marty: soon there would come night, 1789 01:35:27,398 --> 01:35:29,564 the lawn would be bright in the moonlight. 1790 01:35:29,648 --> 01:35:32,481 The little girl would come trudging across the grass. 1791 01:35:32,564 --> 01:35:35,188 It seemed I could see her coming now. 1792 01:35:35,271 --> 01:35:38,563 She would be frightened because she was alone, 1793 01:35:38,605 --> 01:35:41,021 and then she would not be alone. 1794 01:35:41,105 --> 01:35:43,479 We were going away together. 1795 01:35:43,521 --> 01:35:45,521 We were all going away together. 1796 01:35:45,604 --> 01:35:48,645 ♪ You don't know ♪ 1797 01:35:48,728 --> 01:35:53,062 ♪ What love is ♪ 1798 01:35:53,895 --> 01:35:55,268 ♪ Until you've learned ♪ 1799 01:35:55,352 --> 01:36:02,434 ♪ The meaning of the word ♪ 1800 01:36:02,518 --> 01:36:04,726 ♪ Until you've loved ♪ 1801 01:36:04,768 --> 01:36:10,308 ♪ A love you've had to lose ♪ 1802 01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:16,141 ♪ You don't know ♪ 1803 01:36:16,182 --> 01:36:20,474 ♪ What love is ♪