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Boy, Lou.

Hi, Charlie.

You know, it was really cold out there
on the way to work.

Well, we do have weather in Southern
California, you know.

There was actually a taste of fall in
here.

And it's early, too. It's only January.

Hey, listen, I heard about that judges'
symposium on the radio in the car.

Radio? Is that how you keep up on the
news?

Well, I don't have to stay on top of the
news. I've got you to do that.

Right.

I heard it on TV last night.

Rossi and the animal are on their way.

Good, because Judge Marston is going to
run for governor.

And he's supposed to give his big crime
speech.

What's his position?

Anything that's popular.

Right now, it's lock him up and throw
away the key.

But I sort of like the guy.

He'll be a disaster if he's elected, but
he's a great guy to have drinks with.

Maybe we should elect him to the bar.

Don't look at me like that, Charlie, and
then repeat it later like it was your

joke.

So I talked to all those parole
officers, and next I'm going to a

to talk to some women who've served
time.

That sounds depressing.

How come you're always working on
stories that people don't care about?

If people don't care, I'll make them
care.

You can't believe what these women are
up against.

You know you're cute when you're
zealous.

Why are you always going after downer
subjects? You should be working on stuff

that's fun.

Such as?

Well, you could be an undercover bunny,
ripped a lid off the Playboy Club.

I did all those stories when I worked
for the other side, Donovan. You know,

your kind of stories. The life of a
bachelor, the marina lifestyle, the

scene, looking for action every night.

I don't look for action every night.

I observe Easter.

Will you cut that out?

You can send it to your mother.

Here comes Morrison.

Judge Morrison.

Hey, hi, Pete.

Joe. Of course. What are you going to
tell them in there?

Oh, same old stuff.

Can't ruffle the judicial feathers.

Of course, I'll be terrifically
eloquent.

How about a little something for the
record?

Something for the record.

Yeah. Let's see. Justice that succeeds
begins in the home. Justice that fails

ends up in the courts.

What's that mean?

Nothing, I hope.

You may be running for office, remember?

Hi, fellas. Nice to see you.

Who did it? I don't see him. Where'd he
go?

What?

No,

he didn't.

Which one showed the guy that saved
Martha's life?

This one.

This one.

He has a nice back.

And cute ears.

And this one.

He's not a security man?

No.

Just a guy in the car.

What's the guy's name? He just did his
hero number and split.

He just split?

Journalism won, Rossi. Who, what, when,
where, why? Get the names.

Come on, Lou. I took journalism one.
Matter of fact, I got an A+. He just

vanished into the crowd without a trace.

He didn't even leave a silver bullet?

Nobody knew who he was. Everyone's
attention was on the man with the gun.

we looked around, the guy was gone.

Okay, Rossi.

Journalism 2.

The reporter as detective.

What's in this picture that you've
missed?

Let's see.

Is there a clock with no hands? A teapot
with no spout.

You'll notice that in this shot, the
mystery man is not just knocking the

suspect's gun aside, but actually
appears to be grabbing the gun itself.

does that mean to you?

Fingerprints. The man's fingerprints are
on the barrel of the gun.

Now, the police don't know that. We know
it because we have a picture of it.

I'll get on it.

You want me to go with him?

For what?

To take pictures.

Of what?

Him making a phone call from his desk?

He's just going to call the cops.

Then I'll wait here.

Now, the cops can probably run those
prints through their computers and have

mystery man in a couple of hours.

See? Easy.

Hey, that's pretty good.

Journalism, too.

No good.

What do you mean, no good? Well, they
already dusted the gun, but they tell me

you need a complete set of ten prints to
make an identification.

You gotta be kidding.

A complete set of ten prints.

I wonder how many crooks take the time.

Now what?

Now, we use the resources of a major
newspaper.

We run the story, and we run this.

Blow it up.

Ask our readers, who is this man?

You really want to sell a few extra
papers, don't you? Well, we have a hero

here, and you know what sells more
papers than anything else?

Heroes. Now.

Grizzly sex crimes.

But me, I'm a simple guy.

I love a hero.

I'm Billy Newman from the Trib. I
called. I was going to see Mrs.

Okay, come in.

Thanks.

Bartlett's out.

She'll be back in a couple of minutes.

You can wait anywhere down here. Thank
you.

Hey, what you doing, turkey?

You're tracking dirt all over my carpet.
I just cleaned this carpet. Hey, I

wiped my feet. Yeah.

Yeah, it's so cold, you sure are bad.

Stuff a sock in it, Ellen.

Uh, Mrs. Bartlett's not back yet, huh?

No.

Everyone's in here.

Go on, take a seat.

It's clean.

You're the reporter Bartlett said was
coming?

Yes. My name's Billy.

Okay, Pat, you're on.

Our job interview, Jen. We all share it.

The hardest working dress in town has
gotten the girls eight jobs.

Oh, no, I don't have any stockings. Can
anyone loan me a pair of stockings?

Pat, they're not going to hire you for
your legs on an assembly line.

Are you sure? I just don't want to mess
up this interview.

You won't.

It's running pretty good. All the gears
work, except reverse.

Well, how am I going to pop?

Use the heel.

And what if I have to go in reverse?

Just keep trucking forward, baby.

Okay.

How do I look? Just fine.

Good. All right. Now, do I have
everything?

My application?

My purse?

My keys?

You got your resume?

What's that?

That's a list of the jobs you had before
this.

Oh.

Before this, I was a hooker.

Well, then I guess you don't need a
resume.

Good luck.

Yeah.

The women are very supportive of each
other, and that's very important,

because when you come out of that jail,
Especially if you've been in there for a

few years. You come out with nothing.

No family, no skills, no money, no
confidence.

So do the women get back into society?

Two -thirds end up back inside, unless
they come here.

And then it's one -third.

Then everybody must really be behind you
on this. Sure.

We were doing all right for a while when
we were the in charity.

In Beverly Hills they were giving
parties where we'd bring the girls over,

know, meet a real ex -hooker.

But now that crowd has moved on to
whatever is fashionable, and we're

for ways to pay the rent.

That halfway house is doing such a great
job.

The only trouble is they're almost
broke.

City desk.

Yeah, Tim, what can I do for you?

You see, they really need money, and
they need it fast. He's here now?

Well, send him up. Send him up.

The problem is that they just don't have
the resources to keep going. What's

this for? I thought you said you needed
money.

No. The halfway house needs $500 to pay
this month's rent.

Oh, I don't think I can afford that
much.

No, I'm not taking up a collection
around here. I just thought if I

their financial problems in my story
that people might want to help.

Fine.

Have you heard a word I've said?

Of course.

I'm a city editor. I can talk and work
and listen to you at the same time.

So you think I should write this story?

What story?

Go ahead.

Maybe you'll get a response to it.

Talk about a response to stories. We
must have gotten 200 phone calls on that

who is this man piece we ran.

I just got one from a woman who thought
it might be her husband.

Hasn't seen him in five years.

Just ask us if it turned out to be him
and we'd at least send him home.

All kinds of people out there.

Yeah, but to be the man we're looking
for, he would have had to have been at

hotel at the time of the shooting.

Thanks anyway.

Rossi.

No, if you were the guy, I think you'd
know it.

You know, that picture we ran is
bringing all kinds of nuts out of the

Someone's on his way up. Says he has
information for us.

I'll bet that's him.

I'm Lou Grant. You looking for me?

Yeah.

That guy whose picture's in the paper.
Yeah.

I know him. Oh?

I know him real well.

You sure?

Of course I'm sure.

I saw him every day for three years.

When we served time together, we were
cellmates.

The man that guy gave us matches the
prints on the gun.

William Danvers of San Francisco. Our
hero did hard time for armed robbery.

Was he jumping parole?

No, he was off parole years ago.

Then why the disappearing act?

I have a business number on him in San
Francisco. I'm about to go out to a

booth, put in a long -distance call, and
find out.

Something wrong with the phones we
provide you? Just a little method of

don't know why, but people give you more
in an interview when they know you're

calling from a pay phone.

I guess it's the sound of all that
change clinking down.

You see, they're impressed that a guy
would spend his own money like that just

to talk to him.

I'm impressed that you would spend your
own money like that.

Don't worry, I'll put in a voucher for
it.

Hello, Danvers and Arno. Can I help you?

Wait a second, please. Just a minute. I
haven't finished putting all these coins

in the payphone.

I'm calling from L .A.

I'd like to speak to William Danvers.

I'm sorry. Mr. Danvers is out of town.

Can I speak to Mr. Arno?

This is Joe Rossi of the Los Angeles
Tribune. This is very important.

Well...

In just a moment, I'll put him on.

Hello? Mr. Arno, I'm calling about
William Danvers.

Is it true he was in Los Angeles
yesterday?

Yes, he was.

And was he, would you know, the man who
saved Judge Marston's life?

Yes, he was the one.

You know, a lot of people are grateful
to him for what he did, but he left

rather quickly.

That's the kind of guy he is.

We have also learned that William
Danvers served four years at Folsom

Yes. Were you aware of that, of Danvers'
record?

Of course I'm aware of it.

Look, would it be useless if I were to
tell you a few things about Bill

Because I guess I know him about as well
as anybody does.

No, no, that's why I'm calling.

He's the finest man I know.

Not in spite of the fact he was in jail,
but maybe because he was in jail.

A guy like Bill, with no schooling,
serving time, still built this business.

But by the way, it involves handling
other people's money.

And he's earned the respect of his
community.

Have you got that?

Every word.

What was any of that halfway house you
went to?

Magnum House.

This just came in.

It's closing down.

That can't be. I was just there.

I know they're having money problems,
but... Sounds like you got the lead for

your story.

This is so stupid.

This is one of the few places that's
doing anything for these women. So now

write me an objective piece on the
closing of a halfway house.

Yeah, it'll be objective. It'll have all
the facts.

And those facts are going to break
people's hearts.

I'm going to keep that place open if I
have to raise the money myself.

Lily? What?

Try to take a little more interest in
your work.

This is nice, Lou. The hero who saved
the life of right -wing judge turns out

be an ex -con.

Isn't that terrific?

So who is this fellow, Lou? Well, he
lives up in San Francisco. He has a

successful business, business
management.

Handles the accounts of a lot of well
-off professional people.

From convict to business manager.

From prison to handling other people's
money.

I've known a lot of business managers
who've done it the other way around.

Apparently, this guy got his start by
investing the money of some of the other

prisoners. So his background hasn't
hindered him. No, he's a big success.

You know, this would be a terrific piece
to run along with Billy's story on a

halfway house closing down. You know, on
the one hand, here's an ex -con who

made good and sort of rocks to riches.

Anyway... I figure it's a natural tie
-in with the story of these girls who

to be in jail and are having their
halfway house taken away.

Sounds good.

This does make the front page entirely
local.

All local?

Darn.

Do you mind if we keep the little box
for the weather?

No, that's local. Who?

I put everything I've got into this.
Yeah, but is it any good?

Good night, Donovan.

It's your first time on the night desk?

Don't worry.

Eventually the excitement wears off.

Hi, Klaus. Is my car ready?

Oh, you... Kidding.

Well, you said you'd have it for me
tonight.

A carburetor, too?

Oh.

Yeah.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah. I'll see you tomorrow.

You need a lift?

Would you?

Get that.

You hungry? We can stop for something on
the way.

Oh, no, I feel too grubby to go into a
restaurant.

Yeah, so do I.

Listen, why don't you come over, I'll
fix some eggs. You probably eat out all

the time anyway.

That's right, I do. When I eat home, I
usually have eggs.

Good, then you'll probably like them.

Hi, Sarah.

Buy me a drink?

No,

you got a story, huh?

When I left upstairs, she was just
finishing it. It always takes her longer

it takes me.

She feels she has to suffer to make it
any good.

To me, the story is just a story. I read
yours.

What'd you think?

I think it'll win you a Pulitzer Prize.

Really? No.

Well, you said it's just a story.

Pretty good story.

Oh, how can you miss with irony like
that?

This hard -line judge who says, once a
criminal, always a criminal, show him no

mercy, and has his life saved by an ex
-con.

Beautiful.

You really liked it.

It was okay.

What would have made it better than
okay?

Maybe if you had suffered a little.

Where'd you learn to cook like this?

I was with the AP in Paris for a while.
And you got exposed to French cooking?

I got exposed to a French woman.

Her ex -husband was a chef.

She taught me what he taught her.

And then she taught me what she taught
him.

How to make anything terrific by
sautéing it in butter and onions.

She could make the box the eggs came in
taste delicious.

So what happened?

I gained about 12 pounds.

I mean, between you and the woman.

Well,

she told me, but she forgot to tell her
husband that he was ex.

So he came over and he tried to sauté
me.

He was so upset he forgot the butter and
onions.

Oh, thanks, Donovan.

What for?

For a minute there, I stopped thinking
about the halfway house.

Oh, I'm so depressed.

Hey, come on.

Here's to the seven good years Magnum
House had helping people.

How'd you know it had been there seven
years?

I read your piece.

I didn't say that in my piece.

Well, you should have, but I won't
squeal.

Look, I send him money every so often.
It just happens to be one of the

charities I like.

I also give to a home for exiled kings.

Okay, I won't squeal.

Why are you looking at me funny?

Well, you surprise me, that's all,
Donovan.

It's as if you told me you had two wives
in Mexico or something.

I do have a kid in Venezuela.

It's one of those foster kids you read
the ads about.

I think I got a picture of him.

Is that or is that not the face of a
future urban gorilla?

Why so flip all the time, Donovan? Why
is it always life is a cabaret?

What? You mean life isn't a cabaret?

You don't have to keep calling me
Donovan.

Why don't we call each other Art and
Newman?

Okay, Art.

I... I didn't know that was going to
happen, Newman.

Neither did I.

Maybe. Later.

Yeah, well, can I see you a little
later, Mrs. Pinchot? Because we're on

heavy right now.

Okay, I'll be right up.

Mr. Grant, I would like you to meet Bill
Danvers. Bill Danvers?

Of course.

Now I recognize you from the picture.

It's great meeting you. I thought what
you did was terrific.

Yeah.

Well, how do you feel about the fact
that you wrecked my life?

Mr. Danvers, if you'll calm down, we're
going to understand each other a lot

better. Well, it's a little hard to be
calm.

Do you realize in my business I depend
on people's trust?

But people do trust you.

Yeah, that was before you decided to
inform the world that I was a crook.

But you're not a criminal. You served
your time.

Would you mind telling that to my
clients?

Well, they must have known about your
record.

And where did you get that idea?

Your partner knew.

Yeah, but nobody else did.

Nobody.

Since you printed that story, three of
my clients have taken their accounts

elsewhere and four others are having us
audited.

I'm really sorry.

Yeah, well, sorry doesn't quite do it.

No, no, of course it doesn't.

But there's nothing much we can do about
it. We can't print a retraction saying

we wrote the truth, but we're sorry we
published it.

There's no way to undo this.

So I'm a little late, is that it?

Are you telling me that if I would have
come here before, you wouldn't have

printed that story?

Oh, no, Mr.

Danvers, I'm sorry.

Had you been here before we published
the story, I'm afraid it would have made

little difference.

We'd have run it regardless.

If I had known what this would do to
you, and it were up to me, I wouldn't

pushed for it.

I think what you did is a terrific
thing.

Yeah. Well, in prison, there's a saying.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I'm very sorry we ran it.

Yeah, and a hell of a lot of good it
does me now.

Hi, Bowie.

You see the stack of mail my halfway
house story brought in?

No, where is it?

Here.

The extent of the public's outcry to
closing down that place.

Sometimes it happens that way, Billy.

But I really thought I'd written a good
piece.

It was an excellent piece. It was very
well written.

But people just don't feel the same way
about women who've been in prison as

they do about orphans at Christmastime.

The situation these women are in is as
bad as that.

Worse.

They're not cute.

And they've committed crimes.

So they can never pay for their
mistakes?

Maybe not.

Billy, you have to realize that to the
average person, a woman who has

a crime isn't very human.

It's cold in here.

Well, what did you expect?

They turned off the heat.

Can't somebody light a fire or
something?

What are we going to do to get some heat
in here?

It's burning the place down.

Hey, Cory, any of your turn to do the
fireplace this week?

I don't feel like doing nothing.

I'll start a fire.

I'll help you.

At least we won't have no more work
assignments.

Anybody here from Pat?

She said she was working late.

She gets here when she gets here, and
if, uh...

If she doesn't get here, she misses the
party.

So Pat got the job?

Yeah, in a food processing plant.

I guess she'd rather have a drink after
work than come back to the morgue.

What we're supposed to be doing here
this evening is having a wake, not just

funeral. I'm awake.

Oh, come on.

I just want to thank Billy for bringing
over a couple of extra bottles.

Yeah, yeah.

I'd like to thank her for bringing him.

You're welcome to the wine.

Hey, you can't blame her. He sure is
clean, hey?

Like your threads.

Thank you.

He dresses like Hobie. No, he doesn't.
Who's Hobie? He's got this corner on

Crenshaw. Hobie's got style.

He's got style.

It's not the same.

Sure it is.

No, it isn't.

I'll prove it.

Hey.

You got a purple suit.

No.

All right.

Now that's what I call a fire.

All right.

That's great.

A last night here in the damn fireplace
finally works.

Give me something else to miss.

Of course. On the other hand, I miss
everything.

I even missed prison when I first got
out.

Listen, I think that every once in a
while we should get together and have a

reunion. Yeah, let's just not do it on
street corners. We can get in trouble

that way.

Yeah, I'd like to join you, but I just
don't have time. See, I've just come to

get some of my bags.

Peggy, you can't run out and party. Just
leave me alone, huh?

Okay.

Just don't forget the two bucks you owe
on your room rent.

No, that doesn't matter now. Oh, no.

Uh -uh.

No.

Let's, uh, get it straight, huh?

Hey, where'd you get all that bread?

They paid you in cash?

Yeah. Oh, honey, that food's bad. You
just wasn't my kind of child.

You quit?

Yeah.

After it came out where I had been, they
all started coming down on me.

Who? Oh, all of them.

I'm some kind of freak, you know?

They started handing me, how long you
served and what's he in for?

Why didn't you just say nuts to you?

That's what I said, baby.

Nuts to them?

Next to everyone.

You really showed them, didn't you?

You taught them a lesson by going out
and hooking. Well, at least I'm doing

something I'm good at. Oh, Pat.

Whatever happened at work, I know it
hurt you very badly.

But you always have friends here.

Yeah.

Until they close the place down.

Just yesterday, I was thinking how I had
this great story about a hero ex -con.

I was, I don't know, I was ruining the
guy's life.

Why are you putting it all on yourself,
Lou?

We all thought it was a good story.

Yeah, but I was the one who pushed it.

Only I laid off a little. I admit so
eager.

Stop beating yourself, Lou. It's not
your fault.

It's like Billy.

She's blaming herself that that halfway
house closed down.

She feels that her story wasn't good
enough, and it was. It was a wonderful

story.

I can't think of anybody who could have
written it any better.

You didn't notice what a wonderful
writer she's turned into?

Yes, I have.

Donovan?

Yeah, Lou?

Are you seeing Billy?

Yeah.

You don't have to answer that.

I already did.

Then you don't mind me answering you.

No, go ahead.

Are you crazy?

An office romance right in the newsroom?

Why not?

Look, Billy is special.

I agree.

I couldn't agree more.

She's wonderful.

Boo, she's what I've been looking for,
and she's been right here all the time.

I didn't know you were looking.

Neither did I.

until I met someone who is so
straightforward and real and bright and

fun. Well, there she is.

It's so great the way she's always so
together.

So sort of neat, but soft.

Do you know what I mean?

Well, yeah.

The way she does things.

She's a fine reporter.

I mean the little things.

The way she comes into work in the
morning, sits down at her desk all fresh

alert. The way she throws her purse over
her shoulder when she's going out.

The way she crunches her cereal.

Don't tell me about cereal.

Lou, I'm 37 years old.

I have a bald spot on my head.

It's endearing, but it's still a bald
spot.

I'm lucky I found Billy when I did.

How long has this been going on between
you and Donovan?

Not a bit.

And this has been going on for a few
weeks.

Pretty heavy, huh?

No, we're just dating.

I thought it was more than that.

Neither one of us did it more than that.

Well, this is it.

Get lots of pictures of empty rooms and
things packed. The place nearly

deserted.

Really bleak.

You don't give up, do you?

Charlie, when's the last time you did a
story and couldn't sleep after you

printed it?

Well, I lose sleep over every story we
print.

Remember before I became a managing
editor? I used to be robust.

I'm not talking about taking an extra
hour to fall asleep.

I'm talking about night sweats.

About changing the sheets at four in the
morning. How long's it been since you

did that?

That's been a while.

It's the Danvers thing, huh? Yeah.

Look, I want to do a follow -up on that
story.

Lou. No.

I think we owe it to the guy.

I want people to know how this act of
heroism almost wrecked his life.

Lou, I see a very real danger of
damaging this young man's life even

Plus the possibility that he'd be moved
to bring an invasion of privacy lawsuit

that would make me want to be his
lawyer.

Now, what are your reasons for wanting
to pursue it?

I'm not sleeping, Charlie.

Put Rossi on it.

I was just going up to see you.

Why don't you just get lost, Mr. Rossi?
Listen, my editor wants me to do a

follow -up. You're really unbelievable.

He just thought maybe we could do
something positive. At least correct the

we made. Don't do me any favors, all
right? But it's important, you know,

happened to you since the story first
appeared. Look, I'll tell you what's

happened. You see that woman over there
I was talking to?

Yeah? Yeah. Well, she was my fiancé.

She just broke off her engagement
because of you and your stories.

How's that for a follow -up, Mr. Rossi?

Yeah, I'm in charge of ascending
reporters.

Oh.

Harrison is kind of a hard word.

Denver's girlfriend.

Me?

Yeah, I guess we could meet.

I know Lafayette Park.

How will I know you?

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Me, uh, I'm about 5 '9", and, uh...

Slightly balding and weight is in the
range of chunky.

Yeah, I'll be wearing a brown suit.

Yeah.

Okay.

That was girlfriend.

Fiance. Didn't Rossi say she broke up
with him?

Yeah, that's the one.

I detect a twinge of guilt.

Twinge?

Yeah, I guess you could say that.

Twinge.

Are you Mr.

Grant?

Yes. Leslie Williams.

You said you'd be wearing a brown suit.

I didn't say I'd be holding a brown bag
with a bottle of muscatel in it.

It's cold. Do you mind walking?

Oh, fine.

I want to tell you, your reporter, Ross,
what's his name? Ross.

Yes.

He's already done enough damage.

really sorry for what happened.

Oh, you're sorry?

I was going to be married next month.

I was going to marry this terrific guy,
this kind, warm, and bright man

I thought I knew.

And then a story comes out in your
newspaper and it's all gone?

Everything has changed.

But it doesn't have to be.

Do you want someone to talk you out of
breaking up with Bill?

Because I can say some good things about
him.

He's got guts and intelligence and
integrity.

Look, that's all easy for you to say.

I was in love with him, but I knew him a
year and he didn't tell me about his

background.

Not a clue.

Maybe because he was afraid you'd be
doing exactly what you're doing.

It's not his record that bothers me.

Or maybe it does.

But what really hurts, what really makes
me think he's not the man for me is

that he didn't trust me enough to tell
me.

Okay.

You've got all this to get off your
chest and you're starting to get it off.

Now, I've got to go back to the office.

So why don't you tell the rest of this
to that swell guy?

who'd love nothing better than to hear
from you right about now.

This is not a spat.

We've really broken up.

I realize it would be nice for you right
now if I'd go running back to Bill, but

I don't feel like living my life to
salve your conscience.

Even this once?

You got a minute?

Sure.

Kind of a nice thing happened. You've
heard of the Arnold Frueling Foundation?

Sure.

They've come through with a grant for
Magnum House. Really?

Yeah. So you see, someone does read
articles like the one you wrote.

Sometimes. Arnold Frueling?

No, Mrs. Pinchot.

No, I wouldn't say that I, uh...

Twisted his arm, exactly.

Oh, he might say that I did.

But how did you do it?

Why, Ms. Newman, one of the things you
learn as head of a big newspaper is how

to delegate guilt.

The Fooling Foundation came through with
enough cash flow to keep your halfway

house going for about six months.

Oh. Well, that should give them some
breathing space, at least.

I was quite moved by your article.

I had never really considered the plight
of women who'd been in prison.

It's terrible. It's so hard for them.

You know, we should hire some of these
women here, on the paper.

Well, I don't think there's anything in
our hiring policy to prevent that, is

there, Mr. Hume?

No, absolutely not.

But have we ever hired an ex -convict?

Oh, frankly, I don't know.

I know.

I checked.

How ungracious of you.

Why haven't we, Mr. Hume?

I don't know.

I guess because we just haven't done it.

You realize this young woman has us up
against the wall.

And in the future, if we find any
qualified ex -convicts, I think we

them. Find them?

I'll send you all you want.

Thank you.

I should get up and make dinner.

I can get up and make dinner.

On the other hand, I could just open
another bottle of champagne.

The people at the halfway house were so
ecstatic when I called.

They had only three days left on their
rent.

The first fueling check should come in
before then.

You brought Magnum House back from the
dead.

No, I didn't. Mrs. Pinchot did.

Boy, am I crazy about that woman. She is
so special.

Yes, she is.

This is nice.

Yes, it is.

I really enjoyed our seeing each other.

So, uh...

Let's make it permanent.

Art, are you kidding?

Because you kid a lot, and sometimes
it's hard to tell, and right now I need

know if you're kidding.

I'm not kidding.

What do you think?

I wish you were kidding.

I'm serious, Billy.

Oh, I'm so sorry. You had to spoil this
moment.

Now it's a better moment.

No, no, it's not.

Why not, Billy?

I just... I just don't see permanent
relationships for me.

Never? Well, not now.

Not for a long time.

Well, maybe not ever.

I thought you felt the same way.

I guess I did.

But you can't do the single thing
forever.

Why not?

Because there comes a point when it's
time to settle down.

And I came along at that point.

That isn't what I meant.

But it's true, isn't it?

Oh, look, Art, I think I know you.

I think you've decided you want
something right now, and I fit the bill.

Not perfectly.

All right, not perfectly.

But sometimes people make me feel bad
about being single.

There's all this social pressure to get
married, to settle down.

Everyone knows the pressure's there for
women, but I guess it's there for men,

too.

Maybe that's what you're feeling right
now.

You know, you don't have to get married.

I don't.

No.

I never thought of that.

But you always assumed you did, didn't
you? Deep down, all these years.

If you're like me, you did.

I guess you're right.

You know, I've always enjoyed my life.

My work.

I've always felt a little guilty about
that.

I wonder if I'll enjoy it as much if I
don't feel guilty.

It'd be tough.

You know, it's dangerous to reject your
assistant city editor.

I do edit all your copy.

Whoops. All right, all right.

All right.

I guess I was just panicking.

I could have saddled myself with the
wrong woman.

You want to have dinner Friday night?

All right.

They said I might find you here.

Sit down.

Have a drink.

And please don't tell me any more about
your life.

Scott Rock.

I just talked to Leslie.

You did?

Yeah.

She wants you to stay away from her.

She wants Rossi to stay away from her.
And she wants me to stay away from her.

How are we going to break this to Rossi?

Well, I'm afraid that's going to be your
problem.

Listen, I got some good news for you.

Yeah? Those follow -up articles you
wrote about me made me such a great big

that a lot of people have been calling
the firm.

You got us a lot of new clients.

You're not just saying this.

No, a lot of the old clients have
decided to stick.

Hey, that's great. That's wonderful.

See, that's the best news.

So, in a way, maybe we really did do you
a favor.

I wouldn't go that far.

Well, maybe you did.

Listen, if you're ever in San Francisco,
give me a call.

We'll have dinner. I know some good
spots.

Thanks. Hey, Bill.

We're in L .A.

Why don't we have dinner here?

I know a good place.

Good.

Where?

Right over there.