All language subtitles for Lou Grant s02e21 Marathon

Yes, I'm calling from the church. I'd
like to confirm... Hey, I've been

the wrong amount for two hours. Well,
can you tell me approximately how much

money was missing?

Was it over a thousand dollars?

Hi, Luke.

Morning, Rossi. How you doing? Okay.

You know, I was kind of surprised to see
Billy's story on page one. You know,

the thing about the Koreans in L .A.

Why surprised?

Well, it just wasn't up to our usual
standard.

It's kind of unfair to her, you know, to
put it on page one.

I appreciate the way you and Billy look
out for one another.

She said the same thing about your
story.

Oh, yeah?

Well,

in her case, it's jealousy.

This is the man you gotta look out for.
This is Lou Grant, our city editor.

Andrew Tyler.

Hello. How are you? Andrew's our new
intern. He's gonna be stuck with us for

about three months.

I don't feel stuck. I'm looking forward
to it.

Where'd you go to school?

USC. I'm a junior in journalism.

Well, I'm glad you're interested in
newspapers.

So many young people in journalism, all
they want is TV.

That's sort of where I'm headed.

Really? Mm -hmm.

What are you doing here?

Well, I was told that this was the best
training ground if you wanted to go into

television news.

Oh.

Not bad if you want to work on
newspapers, either.

I've got some news you won't find in
that edition.

Oh, really?

Am I supposed to guess what it is?

We may be losing an editor.

Which one?

Well, I'll give you a hint.

He's got a nice sense of humor, a sharp
blue pencil, and he was born wearing a

vest.

Donovan? He got offered a really good
job.

Modeling clothes in a department store
window?

Sacramento. Press secretary to the
governor.

We're going to do a follow -up on the
maternity care story. Get a statement

the hospital.

Okay.

Some guy's trying to climb the Bancroft
building.

What do you mean, on the outside?

How high is that, 60 stories?

He must be crazy. Maybe he's afraid of
elevators.

Fire department's trying to haul him
down. Get somebody over there.

Weber?

Weber!

Consider me Weber. What's up, Driscoll?

What are you doing here? It's my day
off, but I'm covering for Weber. He and

old lady are breaking up today. They're
dividing the furniture into dishes. What

do you need? Well, some character
mistook the bankrupt building for Mount

Can you get over there?

I'm awake.

What'd I do?

This expanse of ice here. I hate to be a
tough guy to you, but I'm not going to

pay for your class reunion.

Class reunion?

That's right. Who are you kidding?

That's a bar in El Segundo where I took
a source.

Yeah. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I'll bring one. We'll be right up.

Bar.

It's a bar.

Too bad about Donovan, huh?

What about him?

I mean about his going to Sacramento to
work for the governor.

Why am I always the last to hear about
these things?

Hi, Dolores. Billy Newman. Just making
my monthly call to request an interview

with Mr. Cabaretta.

That's right. I don't give up.

Oh, come on, Dolores. We'd really like
to hear his side of the story.

Isn't he a little bugged with all this
bad press, the FBI saying all those

things?

No, no. I just want to ask him what he's
doing in California. I'm not going to

do a job on him.

Well, be a pal and tell him I called,
okay?

You got my numbers?

Thanks, Dolores.

Talk to you next month.

You know, you get a lot more out of
those people if you aren't so sweet.

got to take a hard line.

The Joe Rossi School of Diplomacy?

It gets results.

If being obnoxious is just a tactic, how
come you never turn it off?

I'm waiting for the right moment.

He won't go. Why would Donovan want to
leave the trip?

Sounds like a good job.

If you like politics.

They'll kick his teeth in.

If he takes the job, try to be nice to
him. Maybe he'll stay.

What am I not nice?

I'm always nice.

Now, gentlemen, in today's luncheon
meeting, I hope we can look forward to

something a little bit different.

Me too. I'm sure turn a meatloaf.

How many are coming?

There'll be six of us, three editors and
three reporters.

Good. Now, please, let's try to stay on
the subject.

Last month, we got off on fly casting
and electric cars and the Rams.

No more talk about the Rams and their
tight ends.

Quite right. Oh, and one more thing.

We will have some tourists in the
building today.

Don't we always?

A group of prominent businessmen from
Sweden with a guide from the State

Department. Now, if they happen to pop
into the newsroom, please don't growl at

them. I may be visiting Scandinavia next
summer.

Yes.

All right.

Mr. Grant, that was Mr. Donovan. He says
you'd better get down to the newsroom

right away.

6 and 411 proceed to Rodriguez area.
Divert traffic moving north on Worcester

Boulevard. Assist fire and rescue
units... What's going on?

A tunnel collapsed near Chatsworth. Some
construction in the foothills. Anybody

hurt? Well, there's some men trapped
inside, but we don't know how many.

Did they say Rodriguez area?

Yeah.

Worcester Boulevard. Going into the
foothills.

Must be around here.

Right. Mr. Donovan. What? I've got a
line to the sheriff's office in

I figured the whole city would be trying
to call them. Grab that, will you,

Rossi? See what you can get. Not bad,
Andrew.

You want me out there, Art? I'm free.

I may need you and Rossi here. I'm going
to send a couple of science writers.

What do we got in the building?

There are men trapped inside.

How many, officer?

Well, is it like two men or 20?

You don't know.

Hey, Sweeney, Castillo.

At least they'll understand the
technical side. It might have been one

methane explosions.

What about us? You're staying.

What is it, Art?

There's been a tunnel collapse in the
Rodriguez foothills. That's too bad.

not your fault. I'm sending you both out
there. Take the animal.

What's all the excitement?

I'll cave in on some workers in
Chatsworth. It could be bad. I'm sending

and Castillo with animal.

You guys better get going.

Tony, why are you doing that?

Because this is their department.

Sweeney's got the geology and physics,
and Castillo's heavy on the environment.

Send one, keep the other.

Why? Because we need somebody here to
translate all that technical mumbo

as it comes in.

Fine, Castillo, you're staying.

And one photographer's not enough.

Better send two.

Okay, two button pushers. Animal, take
Billings. Sure.

And better send another reporter.

A good one.

How about Rossi? Make it Billings.

Why didn't I think of that?

We'll put Rossi on rewrite.

Come on, Animal.

Hello? If I'm doing the main story, I'll
need someone to make calls for me.

You'll get all the help you need.

We can give him Ryerson and Andrew.

Ryerson be all right?

Fine, fine. Something wrong with you?

What could be wrong?

Tell Leon to bring Rossi all the wire
stuff on this story.

Larson, call the county fire and rescue.

Get what you can and stay on it. They'll
be at the center of this. Andrew.

Yes, sir. Call the California
Transportation Office.

Find out what they know and get the name
of the private firm that's building the

tunnel. Feed everything you get to
Rossi.

I'm going to send for an artist. We may
want to run a map of this place.

Good idea.

You mean I did something right?

I don't believe it. I don't believe you.

Ask a copy boy to bring a TV up here. I
want to see what they're doing with

this.

Here's some background to get us
started.

Good.

Hello. Can I show you something?

What do you got?

Try to take it easy on Donovan, okay?

Because if you don't, we're going to
lose him for sure.

Charlie. I won't bed myself out of shape
because he had a job offer. No special

treatment. That's not my deal.

Thanks, Lou.

I know you'd understand.

How far is it? About 45 miles.

I'll get you there in 20 minutes.

Animal, we're supposed to report the
news, not make it.

Oh, you get that. Take a message and
tell her I'm gone.

In Billy Newman's office?

No, she's not here right now. Can I take
a message?

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh. I see.

Well, it'll be a while. She's on a
breaking story.

I'm sure it is, but there's just no way
to reach her.

Look.

I'm telling you.

This is a major metropolitan newspaper.
There are a lot more important things

than the petty concerns of Vito
Caloretta.

Caloretta. Caloretta.

Dolores, I can't believe it. When?

Oh, this afternoon would be the worst
possible time. I've got to go out to the

Rodriguez area.

But if this turns out to be nothing,
I'll swing by in a couple of hours,

Thanks. If this doesn't work out today,
give me another chance.

Great timing, huh?

Let's go.

Hi,

fellas. Pardon me, sir, but are you the
assistant city editor?

No, I'm the city editor.

He's the assistant.

I beg your pardon.

It's a natural mistake. He dresses
better.

Can you tell us what you do?

Well, I decide what stories the paper
will go after.

I give the reporters their assignments,
and I check the copy when it comes in.

From there...

The painters will go to the copy desk,
where they'll be checked for errors,

spelling, libelous statements, and the
stories are given their headlines.

Thank you.

City desk, Donovan.

Yeah, Driscoll, what's going on?

You're not climbing up the building
after the guy, are you?

Well, how high is he?

About a third of the way, huh?

Well, give it another hour. We're going
for a 1 p .m. deadline.

The rescuers are now approaching the
mouth of the tunnel, getting ready to

burrow in after the trapped workers. As
we understand it, the only possible

chance for the survivors is that they
somehow wound up in an underground

that did not collapse. That way they can
remain alive so long as their air holds

on. The TV's covering this cave -in like
a blanket.

Why don't we just go home?

Here's, we're going to tell the public
something they can't get on the tube.

just what happened out there today, but
why.

Who screwed up and what's his excuse?

Isn't that what you were planning on
doing?

Yeah, yeah.

City Desk, Donovan.

No, I can't talk right now, okay?

Well, I'm still thinking about it. They
want to know by tomorrow.

Okay, so long.

City desk.

Hello, Lou.

Billy. Is Rossi on?

We're all hooked into the same circuit,
Billy. Go ahead.

There are at least seven men trapped
inside. I don't have names yet.

And there's something else I heard.

For some unexplained reason, there are
kids inside.

Kids?

How old are they? How'd they get in
there?

I don't know, but they're in there.
Young people. Students.

Rossi?

Go ahead.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

I'm going to put you on hold for a
second.

Right.

Say, Ross, I got the contractor on the
phone, but I think I'm talking to their

PR guy.

Wait, what's he say? Well, he says that
the Fitzwilliams Construction Company is

not alarmed and is confident that the
rescuers will be successful.

When do they think they'll reach the
workers?

He doesn't know.

Rossi, he's giving me nothing.

Okay, let's shake him up a little.

Ask him why the construction company
allowed students to get in there in the

first place.

And if he says he doesn't know, ask him
why he doesn't know.

All right.

Who did these drawings of the cave -in?

They're pretty good.

McDougal did them.

Not today, George.

I can't deny that I'm angry with you and
the Tribune, Mr. Grant, and I came

close to taking my story to the Times.

It's a bad day today, Mr. Dreyfuss. I
actually decided to cut out the entire

news media from any more press releases,
but there's just too much at stake.

If you won't go, we at least make it
quick.

Certainly. A spaceship carrying the
peace mission from the planet Andromeda

will arrive on the last day of this
month.

At 0430 Greenwich Time at Burbank
Airport.

The President of the United States, Mrs.
Carter, and City Councilman Garbers

will head the welcoming committee.

A reception will be hosted by Henry
Dreyfus at the airport's commuter bar.

Do you have that?

Any questions?

Yeah, how do you get in the building?

How does anybody get in the building?

I think he beams himself in.

Tim.

Lou Grant.

Henry Dreyfuss was in a building again.

I do say.

You always let in the wrong people.

Guys selling lobsters out of suitcases.

Nuts hollering doomsday.

And you keep out the people who have
legitimate appointments.

You stopped Henry Kissinger.

Well, be more careful, will you?

Next time Dreyfus shows up at my desk,
I'll try to hold on to him, and you call

Tim up here. I've got to find out how he
gets in the building.

How do you like the story?

I'm reading it now.

You know, this kid who's climbing the
building is an old fool.

He's been planning this thing for over a
year.

He talked to his kid brother and his
girlfriend. They're quiet, sensible

You know, he made his equipment to fit
the facade of the building he picked

today because the weather was exactly
right.

You know, I dictated that whole piece
off the cuff.

It's been a long time since I did that.

I wish you hadn't. I'm not crazy about
your angle.

What's wrong with it?

I'm afraid you may be glamorizing the
guy. He may be a publicity -happy nut.

Oh, no, no. No, that isn't what I got
from his brother.

I see a cool, thoughtful kid who was
challenged by the building, and he just

climbs it for his own satisfaction.

He may be coolly and thoughtfully trying
to turn himself into a hero.

I don't know what he's like until we
talk to him.

I think you're dead wrong, Art.

After all, I was the guy who was out
there.

Okay, Driscoll, we've got your facts.

Moyers!

What can I do for you? Turn this story
around and tighten it and don't make the

human fly such a sweetheart.

Why don't you just tell her that this
time you want it written in English?

My reporter's instincts tell me I'm
stepping in the middle of something.

Don't worry about it.

Do you want me to go back to the
bankrupt?

No, I already sent somebody else.

You can cut him down.

He was enthusiastic about this story,
and I thought he had a valid angle. How

often does he get a chance to do
anything except pulling facts from the

house? About as often as I get to make a
decision around here without being

second -guessed.

Then you ought to understand. He was
dying to write it, and you chopped his

off. Hey, that's how I saw it.

I think you guys are handling yourselves
exceptionally well.

It's great for the paper's morale to see
the city editors fighting.

Only you're going to have to talk
louder.

I can barely hear you in my office.

Want to get in the pool? Cost you a
buck.

No, no, you guys aren't betting on that,
are you? Yeah, time of arrival within

15 minutes.

That's grisly to even think of something
like that. Why?

Betting on the time they reach the
tunnel workers?

No, no, the time the human fly reaches
the roof.

Who would ever think of betting on the
workers?

That's sick.

I think I'll pass.

We'll see what times are left. Okay.

Yeah, sure.

What can I do for you?

You ever cover cave -in stories like
this one?

Yeah, I did Kathy Fiscus, a little girl
who got stuck in the well.

Was she one of the Floyd Collins cave
-in?

That was in 1925.

Just kidding.

Now, the closest thing to this was the
Seneca Springs, a gas explosion.

Took 16 lives.

I was there when they brought the bodies
out.

It's the kind of story you don't forget.

Sound like a good sidebar.

Yeah. You want me to feed it to Rossi or
Moyers?

No. I want you to do it.

Billy again.

Yeah, Billy, how's it going?

I got a line on the student.

Good. I poked around and I found a van
with a UCLA sticker on it. Inside I

tools, boots, helmets, and textbooks.

They're archaeology students.

College kids.

Yeah, they must have been exploring the
tunnel when the roof fell in.

How many?

I don't know, but I've got a couple of
names.

Here's the van registration.

Arnold Baker, 211 Hamilton Road,
Westwood.

And I found a girl's name inside one of
the textbooks.

Helene with an E on the end, Miller.

Get a line on these kids and send
someone out there to interview the

Make sure they've been notified.

The scene looks like an Appalachian coal
mine disaster, except the foliage is

chaparral and there's a guy moving
through the crowd selling tacos and

They know what caused the cave -in?

They think a gas explosion.

Was that a surprise?

Did they have any warning?

I don't know. I've heard some angry
rumbles about negligence, but up to now,

nothing specific.

I'd follow up on that.

Okay, give it all to Rossi.

Yes.

Yes, Mrs. Pinchot.

Well, I forgot.

We're really snowed under today.

I suggest we cancel lunch.

Well, that is also a good suggestion.

I am resigned to the fact that you're
always going to ask for more and more

money. But is there no way we can be
more efficient?

Automation? Well, we're doing that,
gradually.

We could unload some dead wood.

Uh -oh. I didn't realize this was going
to be a testimonial luncheon to me.

Obviously, I don't mean Mr. Driscoll. He
is an invaluable police reporter, and

the trip would be hurt without him. And
vice versa.

However, we do seem to have a policy of
never.

firing anybody.

Oh, I know.

I find it difficult to discharge people
my husband liked.

Well, in the past, the trip may not have
been careful enough about who it hired,

but now we're just too cautious about
who we fire.

Makes sense to me.

Yes?

Oh, Mr. Grant, it's for you, Billy
Newman.

Why don't you take it on the other
phone?

Yeah, Billy, go ahead.

Lou, I already gave this to Rossi, but I
think you should know. There are

definitely people alive inside the
tunnel.

Workers are still alive.

Go ahead, Billy.

They're getting answering taps from
inside the cave.

The rescue workers are digging furiously
now, but there's danger of another

collapse. More air hoses are being
shoved inside.

How many people are still alive?

Nobody knows, but the tapping has really
fired up the diggers. They're working

like crazy now.

Have you any idea when the rescue team
will reach the trapped men?

Nobody has that answer. What about the
negligence act?

Well, I've been questioning the
secretary of the labor union here. His

Frank Maliaci.

He's right here with me. Mr. Maliaci,
this is my city editor, Lou Grant. Why

don't you tell him what you told me?

Well, there is no question there were
safety violations here.

Maybe eight or ten.

Gross negligence. And when this all
comes out, people are going to jail.

me.

What violations, Mr. Malachi?

Can you be more specific?

There are safety engineers here right
now sniffing around and asking

and we can tell them plenty.

Land their names, please.

There's going to be a major
investigation.

You can put it in your paper. You can
print it.

What were the violations?

They can't get away with this. Heads are
going to roll. You got that, Mr. Grant?

What do you think went wrong?

They're not getting away with a two -bit
fine this time.

If any of our boys are hurt or die,
they'll be held to pay. You got that,

Grant? I hear you, Mr. Malachi.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

Now, Roxanne, show the contestants what
they'll win if they choose the right

curtain. His and her mopeds for fun on
the open road. You want to knock off

TV? You just knocked off the future Mrs.

Donovan. I was looking for a girl with
mopeds like that.

The TV won't cut back to the cave -in
for an hour.

The worst one of these was near Seneca
Springs, San Diego County. They were

about 200 feet. They had one of these
drilling machines blowing away.

It set off sparks, hit a gas block, a
clam, and the whole tunnel became a

fireball. They lost 16 men in that one.
Could it have been avoided?

I guess so, because the company was
fined $10 ,000.

Nobody went to jail, though.

Sounds like somebody had the right
lawyer. Yeah.

Use me.

Really dumps off the page at you,
doesn't it?

If it were physically possible, he'd
hoist himself on his own shoulders and

carry himself around the city room. I'm
just telling you how it hits me. Even if

it is my story, I'm moved by it.

It's powerful, but restrained. Hold it.

Hold it. Where'd you get this quote?
Which one? This one, from Malachi, the

union leader.

No, why? Why? Well, why don't you use
the quote I got from him? It was a lot

stronger.

Malachi said the cutbacks cut the
workers' throats. The company put time

of safety, money ahead of lives.

Too inflammatory. He was frothing at the
mouth. He was not. He was mad, but he

sounded sane enough. Why don't you use
what I gave you? Look, I choose the

material I feel is best. If I don't like
your purple quotes, they're out. Purple

quotes? Look, this story is grimming up
without giving it the needle. I'm giving

you direct quotes. I'm not exaggerating.
Look, it's my name that goes on that

story. You should. You're writing
fiction. What?

Okay, okay, that's enough. No more of
this.

Rossi, go back to your desk. Go.

Sit.

Oh, I love working with that guy. He's
so stimulating.

Listen, did you ever find out what those
archaeology students were doing in

there? Oh, yeah, they were looking for
Indian relics and artifacts.

That idiot.

There's a lot of that stuff around
Chatsworth. They tried to get an

from court to stop the tunnel and lost.

Fitzwilliams and company let him inside
when they started to pick it.

Rossi has it, but he'll use it.

Okay. I'd like you to go out and talk to
the family of one of those kids.

Oh, why do I always get the grave
-digging jobs?

It's woman's work, right? You send me
because I've got the soft touch, is that

it? No.

It's because I have no one else.

Oh. Well, when you put it like that...
There's the address.

Take a photographer.

Who's covering the zoning commission
meeting?

McKendrick.

Very good choice.

Well, that's nice to hear.

That's going to be a story for us.

I'm betting that the developers and the
commission are going to make a deal.

Well, McKendrick should be calling it in
soon.

It's a nice tie.

You know what?

You were really right about the Chinese
story.

What are you talking about, Charlie?

You never should have let us talk you
out of that series on Chinatown. It

have fit in very nicely with all the
interest in China. For example, how do

Chinese Americans feel about the new
relationship with Pei Qi?

I think I was the one that didn't like
that story.

Uh -huh.

Probably wasn't worth the whole series.
You're right.

Donovan. Just a second, Lou.

Interesting thing about a paper like
ours.

Everybody gets a chance to be heard.

You get the feeling that there aren't
any bosses.

Just colleagues.

Hey, Donovan. Would you get this phone?

Excuse me, Charlie.

My colleague is calling.

Here's some pictures from Chatsworth,
Lou. I got a bunch more in the lab.

Look at those faces.

You can see they got family inside.

Lots of anxious people out there.

I'm sending you back.

Get what you can. I'll see you before
deadline.

Okay, Lou.

Got another call from the Bancroft
building. Cops want to arrest the human,

with the crowds in the street, or
cheering him on.

Shouldn't he be on top by now? What's
taking him so long?

Maybe he didn't realize how upset you'd
be if he didn't make it by deadline.

City desk.

Ah, that's too bad.

Okay, better stay home. We'll cover for
you.

Mm -hmm.

What now?

That Dragan, the weather guy, he's got
the flu.

Why do people insist on telling you
their temperature and how many times

threw up?

I have to get somebody else to write the
weather.

Who isn't busy? Anybody?

They're running out of troops.

Don't they have ways of detecting gas in
these excavating jobs?

They used to use canaries, but the birds
are asking too much money now.

Well, they had detecting devices.

Methane gas is odorless and colorless,
but there was no indication of gas

the accident.

There might have been no explosion at
all. There was no evidence of fire or

smoke. Then what caused the collapse?

We don't know yet.

Can we get started? Where's Charlie? He
was talking to a good -looking redhead

when I walked by his office five minutes
ago. Yeah, she works in composing.

Is she a natural redhead?

It's interesting, you know.

Statistics show that men gossip more
than women.

Where'd you hear that?

At the beauty parlor?

Kill, Charlie, kill.

I wish I had his style.

Does she know that he's got two kids and
a copper spaniel?

I'm sorry, sorry.

Sure, Charlie, we understand.

It should happen to us.

Okay, let's get started. Lou, what have
you got?

I think you'd relieve an enormous amount
of tension with this table if you'd

explain what's going on with that lady
in composing.

Nothing is going on. It's a peril
problem.

Pay her whatever she wants.

What do you got, Lou?

At City Hall today, we got the door
slammed in our face.

The zoning commission met with
developers in secret session and shut

press. So what do we got?

We got zip.

Whatever happened to the public's right
to know if a deal is being made?

They're going to be sorry they pulled
this.

Under the headline, zoning commission
holds secret session.

I want three inches of white space.

What do you mean?

Just a headline and then white space.

No copy? No copy.

We'll show our readers just what we got
from that meeting.

Nothing.

Ah, so what have you got in a big one?

Well, they haven't reached the trapped
men yet. Hopefully that'll happen later

today.

The union leader, Malachi, is screaming
negligence. He says that bonus payments

were promised for early completion.

If you can substantiate that, we'll run
it.

Animal took some good pictures.

Listen, if they don't reach those
trapped men before deadline, you better

on to everybody.

Right. The cave -in story needs a paper.
Use the best of the side boys outside

and the rest on pages two and three.

What about Brian Cooper?

Cool.

The human fly.

Ah, yeah, he can lead the second
section.

We make too much of a hero out of Brian,
there'll be a 12 -year -old kid hanging

from every high -rise in the city.

Okay, national.

Hello, Burroughs, Rossi.

Oh, I'm trying to find Burroughs.

No, he's not our usual cop house guy.
Look, this is Joe Rossi from the

Burroughs works for the Tribune. He
should be around there someplace, okay?

Well, is he in the corridor?

Look, do me a favor.

Just walk down the hall to the men's
room, pound on the door, and yell,

Trillion.

Thanks, pal. I'll do the same for you
someday.

Bob, it's turning colder as we await
word from the men inside of the tunnel.

It was warm when I first arrived this
morning, but right now I wish I had

brought a heavy coat. You'd think I'd
learn.

Bob, that's it from the cave -in. This
is Ken Bruegel in Chatsworth. Good job,

Ken. Very thorough coverage.

That's all I can do right now.

Maybe I'll get to the in -depth at 6 o
'clock.

I want to see if Ken brings his heavy
overcoat.

When does fire and rescue say they'll
reach him?

It keeps getting later and later and I'm
coming up on deadline.

Keep in touch.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

Got something new on the human fly.

He found out he was climbing the wrong
building?

The mayor has decided that Brian Cooper
is the city's favorite son.

Like the guy who climbed the trade
center in New York?

All the charges against him have been
dropped, and the cops are now urging him

on floor by floor.

There'll be a brass band waiting for him
when he hits the roof.

Wouldn't be surprised.

This society can never resist a
determined climber.

There's so many people on the roof now.
There may be no room for Cooper.

Mr.

Grant, there are a few details I'd like
you to add to the Andromeda

announcement.

I hope you can squeeze them in before
deadline.

Well, it won't be easy, Mr. Dreyfus, but
we'll certainly try.

After the first summit session, there'll
be a dinner and dance at the Baden

-Baden Hofbrau.

Just a second, Mr. Dreyfus. Let me get
that down.

What are you looking for?

My favorite pencil. I can't find it.

What will this do?

Hey, now.

That was the Bodden, Bodden, Hofbrau.

How do you spell Bodden?

B -A -D -E -N.

And how do you spell the other Bodden?

What's the trouble, Mr. Grant?

Tim.

This is Mr.

Dreyfuss, the guy we were telling you
about.

How do you do, Mr. Dreyfuss? How do you
do?

Tim, he's the one who's always getting
into the building. The guy we want you

keep out.

Why?

Because he's a nuisance.

He bothers us with press releases on
landings from outer space.

Extraterrestrial visitations.

Tim, can you remember that face?

Sure. I see him every day.

He's Mrs. Pinchon's chauffeur.

What makes you think that?

Because he walks in behind her in a dark
suit wearing a little black cap.

Mrs. Pinchon doesn't have a chauffeur.

Why not? She's rich enough.

Where'd he go?

He got me, Mr. Grant.

Go find him and escort him out, and
don't let him in again, Tim.

You can count on it.

City room, Donovan.

Yeah, hold on.

Composing room for you.

Yeah, Bernie, what's up?

Mm -hmm.

That's right.

Three inches of white space.

No copy. That's what he wants.

Nah, people won't think you made a
mistake.

Just tell them it was my fault.

Where's the weather copy?

Oh, yeah.

Van Draken called in sick.

Who'd you send it to?

Nobody. I forgot.

You forgot?

That's right. I forgot. Didn't I tell
you? I'm human. I screwed up.

We have no weather copy and the trib is
folding.

Why are you making such a big deal out
of this? I didn't holler at you for

forgetting. I just said you forgot.

I didn't say you forgot.

I just said you forgot.

What's wrong with that?

You're not wrong, Lou.

I'm wrong.

Donovan, get me some weather copy, will
you?

Boy, I'll be glad when this day is over.

Andrew!

In the wire room, there's a little
machine they'll give you to Mars

Write it up in 25 words or less and copy
today's paper for style.

Okay, Mr. Donovan.

Art.

Lou, I think you ought to hear this.

You know what time it is? It'll just
take a minute.

This is Philip Stroud. He was hurt in a
tunnel accident three days ago in

Chatsworth. One of the supports gave
way.

Four of us got banged up.

They should have shut the job down
because it wasn't safe.

Tell them about your friend.

A couple of the guys...

who were hurt were well enough to go
back to work. They're in there now.

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't use my
name unless you have to.

Give this to Rossi and then call
Fitzwilliam's construction company and

statement from them on this.

Thank you very much, Rob.

There's something more on Brian Cooper.

You're too late.

What is it? The guy's hit a snag.

Evidently, the output of the Bancroft
building changes at the top eight floors

and his equipment doesn't fit.

So what's he doing?

He's making adjustments.

He's got a set of tools with him, and
he's hanging up there bending his gear

fit the new grooves.

He's a gutty kid. I just wish he had a
better sense of timing. We may have to

hold the first edition.

No. Got him in another cave -in over
there. Turn the set on. Another cave

They just announced it on TV. See? They
collapsed on some of the diggers.

And another collapse inside that tunnel.
This time they're going to some of the

rescue parties.

Now, this equipment apparently is not
right for this terrain. We had heard

rumor earlier. Now, unfortunately, it
turns out to be correct.

What are we going to do? It's after 6 o
'clock.

How many men are still inside, we do not
know.

Let's hope just a few or none at all.

But there are some.

We see some of the bodies being brought
out now.

This is an awful setback.

They are right now back to scratch.

We'll switch leads for this go -around.

Sweeney should be calling in with the
details.

We'll do a complete right -through for
the second home edition.

I have the feeling we're going to be
sending out for dinner, Lou.

Maybe breakfast.

We know there are more men trapped
inside. You can see one of them being

out now. This is an awful setback.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on A &E.

Movie stars respond to cavemen. Film at
11.

And now back to our movie.

Boy, they're not covering the story like
we are.

Is there any desk?

Yes, ma 'am, I know. It wasn't a
mistake.

The three inches of white space tell you
what the press got out of that meeting.

Exactly nothing.

We did it to make a point.

Hold on, please.

How many is this, 27?

Switch this to Charlie Hume.

It's his idea. Let him explain it.

Okay, if I had it to do over again,
maybe I wouldn't.

Except that now a lot of people like you
are going to be talking about that

secret meeting.

Bye -bye.

Good evening, Mr. Hill. What are you
doing in town?

Well, I might ask you the same thing,
Mrs. Pinchot.

Well, I was watching the reports of the
cave -in on television. I couldn't leave

the building.

And I knew everybody would be down here
working on nights like this. I find it

hard to go home. We kept on most of the
day, Steph.

I can see that.

We've been remaking page one for the
third time and wrestling with the second

home edition.

Say, what about that young man conning
the building?

He got bogged down, didn't he? Yeah, he
was readjusting his equipment, but when

it got dark, he decided to stop there
and spend the night. He spread a net

between two windows, kind of a hammock.
He was going to sleep up there.

Good heavens, maybe I won the pool.

Well, 100 bucks is 100 bucks.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong
with the copy. I just hate grave

This isn't grave digging.

Let me get all those kids out, okay?

The families aren't so sure of that.

Poor people, they've got children
suffocating in some dirt pile in

and I go knock on the door and ask them
how they feel.

Why is it necessary to hit people when
they'd just rather be left alone?

No, sorry.

When I read your copy, I got the feeling
these people were visited by a friend.

Somebody who shared their grief.

An experience I'd just as soon not fear.

George, you didn't have to come back.

Oh, I thought I'd... Oh, I'm just
standing by in case you want to hold

available. In case you want the lead
story rewritten or clean out the latrine

whatever else I'm required.

You feeling okay?

Oh, you mean if I've lost my grip on the
water wagon, huh? You have a keen eye,

Lou. That's why you are where you are.

And why are you where you are tonight?

I have no idea.

Let me take you up a ride home.

Okay.

I'm heading on home. Can I give you a
lift, George?

Very kind of you.

You think we can't hit back?

Don't waste your pity, Billy. I'm a long
way from being even with this machine.

You think the candy machines are going
to be any more cooperative in

I don't see how they can be any worse.

Have you made a decision?

I was hoping I could use today for quiet
reflection, balance the pros and cons.

That didn't work out, so I figured I
could use this trip to the candy machine

mull things over.

See what happens?

Art, can I say something?

What?

I never give advice about marriages or
career decisions.

But I will give you a hug and say that
whatever you decide, I'm with you.

It's just that the Sacramento job is
very attractive.

On the other hand, you're at the Trib.

Donovan, get your butt in here.

We've got that.

is anticipated within an hour. This is
Ken Bruegel freezing in Chatsworth.

That'll be midnight. Great.

The TV news will miss it. I'll have to
put on the morning report.

Nobody watches that.

We'll have to go after the individual
stories in a hurry if there are any

fatalities. Guess we'll get that
assignment.

We'll send a reporter and a photographer
to every family until we run out of

people.

Charlie, when did you come back?

Forget something?

Ran my errand and then on my way home I
drove by here.

Another sandwich here?

Yeah.

You know, Billy, your story on the
students' families is very nice.

It sure is.

You can get more out of that sort of
interview than I can.

Thank you.

In this kind of situation, people are
just not going to be as candid to a guy.

To a guy?

Are you saying I did well on this story
because I'm a woman?

No. No, it's because you're a smart
writer.

And because you're patient, sensitive.

In other words, my being a woman is an
advantage to me as a reporter.

Is that what you're saying, Rossi? It's
not my skill, it's my gender.

Not exactly.

Does it hurt?

Not at all.

First thing I do in an interview is
flash a little thigh.

You can't win.

We're so busy knocking each other.

This girl uses her sex, this guy's
marriage is in trouble.

It is?

This one's writing is slipping.

Who's drinking, who's cheating, who's
quitting the paper.

Who, who? Tell us.

Gossip, gossip, gossip. It stinks.

Very destructive.

The point is, why do we do it?

Because somebody's got to.

I was on the paper of one of those Ohio
factory towns. You know, 200 ,000 people

who work hard and love football.

I wrote sports, and I kept pushing for a
match between an underrated black

fighter and a local white hope, who I
said had no punch.

Well, they finally matched him, and the
white hope got KO'd.

I went down to his dressing room after
the fight, and he knocked me clear over

training table.

Turned out he had a pretty good point
after all. I hope you ran a retraction.

City desk, yeah.

What?

They're through. The rescue team got
through.

They're starting to bring out people,
including the dead. How many dead?

Two. Two dead.

The injured are coming out first.
They're sliding them out on sleds.

Rosenthal, have you got the names of the
dead workers?

Well, we've got to have them.

Keep this line open. We're on deadline.

Rossi, stay on.

Ted, we'll get fire and rescue.

Ryerson, get all you can from police
speed and feed it to Rossi. Rossi, put a

new lead on your right through. You mean
a right through with my right through?

I want everyone giving whatever they get
to Rossi. In fact, I want the whole

story for our second home addition.

All of it.

And our deadline is now.

One guy is out. They're carrying him to
an ambulance.

It's hot today, Dave.

Say, Catherine, we've got a reporter and
a photographer waiting for him.

Fletcher going in for the next worker.

We're going to have to lock up soon.

Let's give it five more minutes.

Bossy!

Mr. Grant?

Andrew, please call me Lou.

I've been meaning to tell you this ever
since you started, but I never got the

chance.

How did the day compare with your
average day?

Typical.

Nah. They're selling this wild.

Well, it was fantastic.

I mean, I just loved it. You know, if I
thought working on a newspaper was this

exciting, I might forget about TV.

Well, give it some thought, Andrew.

Good night.

Good night, Lou. Good night, Art. Good
night, Andrew.

Good night, Lou.

Wait a minute, Art. I'll walk with you.

Someday, huh?

Yeah.

Look, Art, if you've been offered a job
as city editor on a good paper, I'd

never stand in your way.

But I think you're too good a newspaper
man to end up in political PR.

Maybe I'm not the easiest guy to work
with all the time.

But if I came in tomorrow and you
weren't here, I'd feel rotten.

I know that's as close to a compliment
as you'll ever get, Lou.

Okay, I'll get closer.

You're a good man, Donovan.

In fact, you could be city editor of
this newspaper.

Really? Well, let's say right after I
leave.

Well, I appreciate your saying that, but
I decided to stay two hours ago.

I'll see you in the morning.

Hey, who gets to sleep in?

Who's the city editor?

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