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I guess that's how you can afford suits
like the one you're wearing.

I'm not the guy who's got the Rolls
Royce parked around the corner, huh?

Wait a minute. I'm not the guy.

Hey.

Hey, you.

You old enough to be looking at that?

Yeah.

Put it back.

I'm 18.

You gotta be 42 to look at that.

I got 52.

Good morning, Mr. Brown.

Oh, hi, Mrs. Finch.

Want a trip?

No, thank you. I'll get that free.

Time's up.

Thank you.

You know, on my way to work this
morning, I was held up. 20 minutes by

construction.

That's not my department.

Well, I have an idea for a series of
articles. I'd like you and Mr. Hugh to

up to the office later on.

After you've finished your paperwork,
that is.

Well, where have you been?

Why would you go if you've been drinking
coffee for three hours?

Oh, well, you shouldn't leave your stand
open.

This is the third time in the last month
I've done this. I'm tired of doing it.

Well, I got an answer for you. What?
Don't do it.

People will rob you blind.

No, they won't. Why aren't you trusting
me?

Ain't that at all. It's just that people
know what I would do to them if I

caught them stealing from me.

Word in the street is, I killed a guy
with my bare hands.

Did you?

No, it was one guy.

And I just beat him intensely.

But you know how people love to
exaggerate.

I live in the Mission Heights District.

You know where all this new
development's going on. Yeah.

See, and I've been living there a long
time.

I mean, a long time.

And I've been seeing all this building
going on and tearing down, and it just

seems to be getting closer and closer to
where I live.

You gotta move, huh? No, I ain't gonna
move.

No way I'm gonna move.

Sometimes it can be good to move. I went
through it myself.

No way.

That's a special reason.

Maybe we can talk about it later. I've
got a meeting.

Oh, sure.

An important man like you must have lots
of meetings.

Earl, maybe you should talk about this
with a lawyer or something. Forget it.

Forget our ass.

The way you work, I pass an old Mexican
church.

It's not a building particularly
distinctive architecturally, but it has

certain character and quaintness.

I always get a sense of security driving
by and seeing it standing there.

I can remember seeing it even when I was
a little girl.

Well, to make my point, this morning it
wasn't there.

Overnight it had been reduced to a pile
of pink adobe rubble.

Los Angeles, the disposable city.

That church ought to have been saved.

I know what you mean.

Mr. Hume probably knows what I'm leading
up to.

Every few years, I go on a rampage
trying to save some of the history of

city. Oh, yeah.

I remember that last rampage.

Well, I hardly think rampage is an
accurate word.

That's right. Come to think of it, it
wasn't a rampage.

Well, anyway, we don't always succeed in
trying to save our landmarks and

traditions, but it's always certainly
worth a try.

One thing you can say for San Francisco.

When you're out there, you get the
feeling that they're really proud of

past. Too many people in L .A. think new
is good, even if it's ugly.

So, gentlemen, I feel a rampage coming
on.

That downtown demolition derby.

Let's look into it.

I've got somebody to put on it right
away.

He's got somebody to put on it right
away.

Who? Me.

What do you know about L .A.? That's
just it.

Nothing. I want to see L .A. before they
tear it down.

Lou, you better hurry up and get over to
Dodger Stadium.

Why? Because it's been there for 15
years.

Its days are numbered.

I don't know why they want to tear it
down.

They're going to knock this building
down too.

What are these guys going to eat when a
mission comes down?

Well, it's going to be a revolving
restaurant on top of the new building.

It's an old Armitage trademark. If this
was ancient Egypt, Armitage would have

one stuck on top of the Great Pyramid,
slowly turning.

Yeah. Swell view of the Nile while you
dine. Sammy Sphinx on the piano. Come

Hey, this Angel's Mission is a great old
place. Come on, you've got to see it.

Help yourself to pray, boys.

Is that all you're having? You'd like to
come back in a sec?

Hey, Captain.

Hello, Dennis.

I eat here all the time.

Get your clothes here, too?

Dennis, good to see you again. Yeah.

You need some friends?

Grab a drink, Ellis.

Oh, we'll pray, of course.

When a man's hungry, we don't ask
payment or prayer.

We'll grab.

He's my city editor.

Oh, this is the guy.

Well, everybody's welcome, no matter
what.

Joe Ross.

Grab a drink.

It's history.

Nice young fella.

Comes down sometimes just to swap
stories with the boys.

I'll bet he's got some great ones.

They love him.

Haven't seen you in a long time. How you
been, Fitz?

Thank you.

What brings you fellas down?

We're doing a series on how the city's
changing.

Mission Heights Renewal.

Yeah, kind of looking for an angle.

Something that seems to have escaped us
so far.

Excuse me, Governor. I see a friend of
mine.

Excuse me.

I hope you've closed your stand down.

It don't matter.

I've got big shots to fill in for me
while I eat.

Big executives.

You live around here?

Across the street.

Across the street.

What are you going to do when they tear
that down?

I told you, I'm not going nowhere.

You must have gotten an eviction notice.

Sure, I've gotten an eviction notice,
but I tore it up.

Tearing it up won't change a thing,
Earl.

Other people get that piece of paper.
They pack up and they leave and they

that building down.

But not me. I'm not budging.

I'm not leaving.

Hey, Earl.

I heard of a place over on 10th Street.

Our kind of price, you can move in
tomorrow.

Captain, I've been telling you, I've got
a place.

And I'm telling you, you won't have for
long.

They're pulling it all down, whether you
like it or not.

That's what I've been trying to get
across to him.

Like hell.

Like hell, they will.

We're trying to help you.

Doing what?

We'd like to do a story about you.

But you're having to move.

You want to know about me?

You want to write about me?

Yeah.

That's it.

That's all.

Well, here I am, mister.

Come on up and take a good look.

That's who I am.

But what I am is on these walls.

You mean to tell me you're going to tear
down a man's life?

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

If you feel it's not your kind of story,
I'll assign Billy.

No, no, I can see it's got a great human
interest angle. I'll write it. What's

the matter? What's bothering you?

I just know how it's going to end.

Maybe not.

Well, you heard the guy say his whole
life's on those walls, and the

are ready to chew it up. Yeah, I heard.

So when am I going to see some copy?

Late today.

All right.

I'll budget your first assignment for
tomorrow.

Ten books plus art, okay?

Okay.

Okay.

Budget meeting in 40 minutes. Here's the
menu so far.

What's the art editor's number?

703. She's in Venice.

Italy, not California.

I need an art expert's opinion as to
whether something is good.

Well, can't go wrong with a bullfight
poster.

If you're starting an art collection,
you're smart if you get some advice.

I bought what I thought was a pastel
one. It turned out to be a limbo with

over it.

Well, who should I call?

Anybody know a gallery owner?

Well, there's a heavy weight on the
paper in the local art scene.

You're kidding.

He means Mrs. Pinchot.

Thank God.

Yeah, she really knows her onions.

I showed her some oil paintings my wife
and I bought.

She hated them.

blows your mind, huh?

I don't know if I would use those words,
Dennis.

But yes, it blows my mind.

I shot two rolls of color for Sunday.

They're in the wash.

I'd like to see them as soon as
possible.

What's the matter with the dog?

Bonnie, stop that.

I'm coming to you.

Dogs like me.

Why don't you try changing your socks?

Socks.

Mr. Grant, I think you've stumbled onto
a treasure.

Really? No kidding?

Are you sure?

Well, I'll know when I see the real
thing.

Remarkable. Just remarkable.

The problem is there's no way to
separate it from the walls.

It's all part of the walls.

And the building is on a block slated
for demolition.

Part of the Mission Heights project.

Entire army is just tearing down a
couple of blocks and...

It's going to put up a half a million
square feet of office space.

Julie, would you get me Tyler Armitage?
Try the museum first.

Such an emotional impact.

Do you say this man's never had any
formal entrainment?

He said no.

What's his name?

Earl Humphrey.

You know him?

I don't think so.

He runs a newsstand on the corner.

Well, of course.

I just didn't know his name.

Yes, Julie.

Oh, put him right through.

Hello, Tyler.

Margaret, you must have been reading my
mind. I was just about to call you.

The new Botticelli is in place.

It is.

Well, I've sent out invitations to the
press preview, of course, but certain

special people I wanted to call
personally.

Margaret, do you know that I've been
trying to get this painting for 12

How very pleased you must be.

Pleased? I was excited as a kid. It's
the crowning jewel of my collection.

I look forward to seeing it.

Now, I would like to return the favor.

I have something.

that I think you, as an art patron,
should see.

Well, I'd love to, but I'm going to New
York right after the opening.

Well, New York will always be there.

Won't this?

Perhaps not, Tyler, and that's why I
think it's so important you see this

you go.

I'll have my secretary call your office
with the address.

Now, I'll come see the Botticelli, and
you come see the Humphrey.

Oh, Earl Humphrey.

Well, he's new.

Thank you, Carla.

And now, I think it's time I saw Earl
Humphrey's work.

My shell.

Good God.

The photographs didn't do this justice.

You're the first people ever to see
this.

Carla.

Position. Vulnerability. This is a

beautiful woman.

My wife.

Over here is how she looked on our
wedding day.

And the children.

There never was no children.

About eight months after we got married.

She was in a grocery store but got held
up.

They were shooting and she got killed.

They never caught her.

She died right away.

I carried the hate inside me a long
time.

I guess I went crazy.

It all sorts of bad things.

Prison is where I first started drawing
on walls.

It helped ease the devils out of my
head, just imagining what our lives

have been if that bullet hadn't taken
you.

It's all here.

The Saturday nights we never had.

The Sunday mornings that never came.

Raised kid would never be born.

Us, growing old together.

I come home here, and she's here with
me.

We go through all of the loving and the
grieving and the fighting we could have

done.

And that's it.

I guess that's smart. That must be
better than that.

It's all those bulldozers heading up.

Taking machines to stir up dust.

They're really going to do it, huh?

Really going to tear it down?

Not if we have anything to say about it.

But it's under wars.

You can't move the whole building.

Why not?

They moved those mammoth Egyptian
sculptors to keep them from flooding

built the Aswan Dam.

Governments were behind that project.

Art is art.

You don't turn it over to bulldozers.

You're saying what?

That this is art?

Yeah.

I would sure say that.

Well, it ain't art.

It's art, Mr. Humphrey.

No, it ain't. It's just something I did.

I didn't mean it to be fancied, to be
looked at.

It's just only for myself.

It only have meaning for me.

Isn't that what art is?

Lou, what is she talking about?

What does she mean?

I guess that you're an artist.

You hear what they're saying, girl?

They must be crazier than I am.

They're calling me a nutter.

Yeah? I read the latest installment of
your Mission Heights series.

Nice. Just nice?

Well, it wasn't your usual style.

What do you mean by that?

Well, it had a kind of sensitivity.

It was warmer than usual. Like you
really cared about Earl Humphrey and

he's done.

Rothick, I think your closet's lofty.

Never mind.

I've got to finish this.

What are you being so huffy about?

Because it frustrates me that all this
terrific writing is all for nothing.

What do you mean, nothing?

Look, I've been working urban renewal in
this city on and off for over two

years. And if there's one thing I've
learned...

is that nothing is going to stop it. Not
this, not you, not Lou, not Mrs.

Pinchot, not lawyers.

I don't know. What about public opinion?

It isn't worth diddly. It didn't make
any difference in the Elysian Terrace

Project that they had 5 ,000 signatures,
four city councilmen, a congressman,

and two supervisors against it.

Yeah, but did they have Joe Rossi?

A piece on police in various cities
having trouble getting insurance

Well, you know how they drive.

No, no, no. Not car insurance.

Liability insurance.

Like in case of false arrest.

Or accidentally shooting somebody in the
head.

Now, for example, a school teacher in
Connecticut was picked up by a stolen

wrap. That was a computer error.

But when she was in the holding cell,
some school children were marched

the station on a field trip.

Of course, some of them knew her.

Pretty quick, it was all over town. She
was in the slammer for grand theft auto.

I think I saw that on I Love Lucy about
15 years ago.

Anyway, it illustrates the kind of
problems the cops have.

Now, she's suing for big bucks.

Insurance companies are getting edgy.

Collins wrote a good piece on it, about
eight books.

I like Collins too bad, below the fold.

Give it five inches and a run over.

Where's tomorrow's Humphrey story?

It's not there.

I thought Billy was going to do a story
on primitive artists.

Compare Humphrey to them. She did.

It was terrific. I killed it.

Wait a minute. Am I hearing right?

A live city editor looking right at me
with a lock on a page one story?

Kills it?

I figure we've taken it as far as we
should.

From what I hear, our readers are eating
it up.

Lou, it's your kind of story.

Sentimental slop.

There's good slop, and then there's
this.

I thought it was terrific when we had a
human interest story on Earl, that we

were doing what we could to save those
walls of his. But after six days, let's

stop milking it. Leave the poor guy
alone already.

Well, if we're going to have to restrict
ourselves to news, there's going to be

a lot of blank pages.

I'll tell you something else.

We've led Earl into believing that we're
going to pull off this miracle. We

can't in any way, shape, or form
guarantee that his building won't come

his art will be saved.

He's on cloud nine, Charlie, and we put
him there without a net.

Okay, I agree with you. We'll kill the
story.

Leaves us with a hole.

What's Farn got?

Well, it's about time he got to Farn
around here.

We have a choice between political
unrest in El Salvador and two nuns

across Brazil.

The nuns might be okay.

Only if they're on the same bike.

Sorry, Louie, I have no choice. We'll
have to go with Earl.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here
on D &D.

If court is our only option, we'll go to
court.

That's our first move.

I'll see if I can get a judge to grant
us a 30 -day injunction against tearing

down Earl's building. Good. That'll buy
us a little time to launch a more

permanent course of action.

Are you sure you want to do this?

Yes, of course I am.

I would be remiss if I didn't bring up
the fact that a great deal of revenue

comes to us through real estate
advertising from the Tyler Armitage

The advertising department is already a
little worried about a reduction in

lineage. A noticeable reduction.

Thank you, Mr. Sackler. You have done
your legal department duty.

We're talking about a great deal of
money.

No, Mr. Sackler. You are talking about a
great deal of money.

I'm talking about stopping a barbaric
destruction of something that may be

beyond price.

Of course. I'll see to it immediately.

What is this word here?

Ah, it's yeskura.

That light and shadow, like in here.

You mean I did that?

Aye, madame.

And this man painted this 500 years ago?

That's right.

Was he black?

No.

Which ones in here were black?

Oh, none in that particular book.

Not too many black artists.

Is that what you're saying?

Not during the Renaissance.

Not during that Renaissance, anyway.

Fine French champagne and plastic
glasses.

That tells you something about Mr.
Armitage.

You think he knows about the injunction
to stop the project?

Oh, I think he knows.

You'd never guess it from the friendly
greeting again, would you?

All these belong to him.

And yours is just a small part of his
collection. Here are several paintings

sculptures on loan to other museums.

That's nice of him.

Oh, Mr. Grant.

He doesn't do it to be nice.

The money he saves on the tax write
-offs would heat Nova Scotia for the

So would the chili on his cracker.

Isn't that Mr. Humphrey over there?

It sure is.

That's great. Thank you.

Good evening. Hi, Earl. Nice crowd.

Good evening. Yes, it is.

I didn't know you were coming.

Mr. Armitage sent his white car for me.

Big car.

Lack of finish.

You understand he owns the building you
live in?

Oh, I know that.

First thing he said.

Earl,

so good to see you. Eden.

I'm worried about him.

You think he can't handle the attention?

What's going to happen if it all crashes
around his ears?

Oh, Mr. Grant, don't be so pessimistic.

It may not happen.

Astonishing, isn't it?

Painted over 500 years ago for a Medici
chapel.

Right. In the old Renaissance.

Would it surprise you to discover that
your work has much in common with his?

It sure would.

Color?

Rhythmic line, of course, but something
more.

I saw it immediately.

Love.

Botticelli has painted love's triumph
over death.

And that's what your work is all about,
isn't it?

I think it's time we had a closer look
at the old master, don't you?

And you don't mean Botticelli.

That wasn't meant as an idle offer.

What do you think of this man here?

He wants to buy my art.

Oh, yeah? How much do you offer?

$5 ,000.

That's a lot of money for my pictures.

Well, it's not a lot of money to save
some trouble when you want to knock down

building.

I'm a collector of art, Mr. Grant.

Oh, yeah?

You're going to hang Earl's work in
here?

I don't exactly know what I'd do with
it. I'll have to find an appropriate

setting. Oh, well, I couldn't sell it
anyway.

It'd be like... Selling my family.

Why don't you think about it, huh?

I don't have to.

I'll tell you what, though.

I'll paint you something else.

Something smaller, say for $200.

Something nice.

How about a big yellow bulldozer?

It's your murals that I'm interested in.
The mural that I saw.

Now, I have to go to New York at noon
tomorrow.

Why don't you think it over and call me
in the morning?

I won't, James. Bye -bye.

Mr. Humphrey.

I have a precise schedule to meet when I
start building a new project.

And there's just no way of delaying
without it costing many tens of

dollars. You talking about tearing my
building down?

Once the project is started, you must
understand, there's just no stopping.

Don't injunctions stop them?

If you can get them.

I'm not worried.

You forget I got these good people on my
side.

And a big news dealer.

No, sir.

I ain't worried two bits, boys.

My feeling ain't coming down. Ain't that
right, Lou?

Preview. Get your pitch out here.

Sackler hasn't called from port? No. I
told you five minutes ago he hadn't

called. Charlie Hill, Mrs. Pigeon? No.

Sam Engle called.

Who's Sam Engle?

A jockey's agent. It was a wrong number.

What's the matter with you?

I'd like to hear the judge has granted
that injunction. That building is

supposed to come down today, according
to Armitage's schedule.

Merrill is down there selling newspapers
like he may have a place to go home to

tonight.

Tribune. Get the Tribune here.

I got it, Earl. I got it.

The injunction.

Call me later and I'll explain it. Okay.

Hurry up, honey. I'm closing up.

It's a holiday.

And you heard?

It's injunction day.

What wonderful news.

I think we just squeaked in. Someone
said that the records were due on

Humphrey's block before noon.

Well, the important thing is, you did
it.

Now we have 30 days to get busy.

I just wish that Armitage hadn't been in
New York. I'd much rather have served

him personally instead of having to give
that to one of his assistants.

Well, that's legal, isn't it? Oh,
absolutely.

I could have given that to his
secretary. The law says anyone empowered

on his behalf during his absence.

Well, then what are you worried about?

I don't know.

I guess Lou's anxiety must have rubbed
off on me.

But there's no basis for Mr. Grant's
concern, is there? Not now. We just

ourselves 30 days.

In honor of our victory today, I think
we ought to have champagne before lunch.

How about instead of lunch? I hate to
disappoint you, but they don't have

champagne. Oh.

Guess it'll have to be scotch.

Same. I'll have a root beer. Not too
strong.

White wine.

Oh, well, Mr. Rossi, what were you
saying about the lack of the power of

press?

Guess I underestimated myself.

Well, I guess we've got a lot of firsts
to drink to today.

Oh, this is only a beginning. We've only
got a 30 -day injunction.

We still have plenty of work to do. But
it is a step.

Come, come, my good man.

Take haste.

Here's to the trip.

Here's to Mrs. Pinchot.

Here's to good writing.

Here's to Earl's balls.

God bless us every one.

It's too bad Earl can't be here with us
to enjoy this.

Injunction.

Adjunction.

Succeeded junction.

It's all music in my head, girl.

Bulldozers, back off!

People trying to stuff around here.

It's getting so bad, you can't have a
quiet conversation.

Oh, darling.

It don't seem ever like it was so long
ago.

Still up here.

Sure, I'm up here.

It's my home.

Holy mackerel. Look at this.

He's made a move to get out.

Okay, buddy. Come on. Let's go. Let's
move. Come on.

What are you doing? Get out of here.
I'll call the cops. Come on.

Take your hands off me. What do you
think you're doing?

The building's coming down in about ten
minutes. We don't want to get anybody

hurt now. Get out of here. You guys are
crazy.

No,

no, no. Right at the old guy. Come on.
You don't understand it. Go, Toby.

Go back.

Lou Grant. We'll continue in a moment.
You're on A &E.

he's ever done.

Excuse me.

Yeah, Rachel?

Mr. Hume, there's a long distance call
for you from New York. Mrs. Pinchot

in, and he asked that it be transferred
to you. Who is it?

Turner Armitage.

Armitage calling from New York. Wonder
what he wants.

Probably wants to holler a little.

Okay, put him on.

Hello? Yeah, Mr. Armitage, this is
Charles Hume.

Mr. Hume, I want you to know that I am
not responsible for this.

Responsible for what?

What's the matter?

I wouldn't break the law. Now, I admit
that I was upset when you got the

injunction, but I have too much respect
for the courts, Mr. Hume. I wouldn't do

a thing like this.

Do a thing like what, Mr. Armit?

The building.

The building with Mr. Humphrey's mural.

It was demolished.

There was a foul -up in communications
between my office and the wrecking crew.

Had I been there, this would not have
happened, I swear it.

Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't.

Mr. Hume, I am sorry.

I'm sorry, too.

I want your people to know that.

Unfortunately, I cannot undo things that
have been done.

These things do happen.

Yeah, so I've heard.

Goodbye, Mr. Armitage.

Buck, what is it?

Said there was a mix -up, some follow
-up at the company. Nobody told the

wrecking crew when they got the
injunction.

Not in time, anyway.

What?

Earl's building went?

Said he was sorry. Kept apologizing.

Sounded sincere.

That's Swell.

Just Swell.

He's sincere. He's sorry.

Not a lot of good that's going to do.
Charlie, we had an injunction. I know

we've had an injunction. What are you
yelling at me for?

Charlie.

What do you think this is doing to Earl?

What?

Where's Ross?

City Hall. Why? They went ahead and tore
Earl's building down.

What about the injunction? Exactly.

What about the injunction?

Billy, have you seen the animal?

He's out cruising somewhere. What's
wrong? They just turned Earl Humphrey's

murals into powder.

They knocked his building down? All
those beautiful pictures?

How could they?

They got word about the injunction too
late, they said.

Give me the animal.

Uh -huh.

Uh -huh.

Yeah.

No, Lou. No sign of Earl.

Nobody has seen him?

Some workers.

They chased him off the rubble about an
hour ago. Said he was acting crazy.

Well, check around.

You got any hot film?

No, I already dropped it off. I'm clear
for maybe half an hour.

Well, call me if you find anything.

Sure will, Lou.

40 minutes ago. How upset was he? Not as
angry as I've ever seen anybody.

He grabbed the kitchen knife and ran out
of here. And you let him?

Well, what was I supposed to do?

Would you like to try to take a knife
away from him?

Didn't say anything.

Well, something about they killed her
twice.

He kept saying that. I don't know what
that means.

I think I do.

What are you saying?

A knife?

Are you sure?

Oh, Mike.

No, no.

Come on in. We'll do something.

Who's he talking to, Panama?

Earl was just at the mission. He left
with a knife in the kitchen.

Sounds like he went a little nuts.

Should we call the cops?

I don't want to make that call to you.

Do you think he'd hurt himself?

No, I don't think he would.

He might go after Armitage.

Really?

Armitage? You think he'd actually try
and knock him off?

No way. Armitage is in the east, and
Earl knows that.

Who else? There's no one else.

A lady.

A 500 -year -old lady.

The body jelly.

Call the Armidage Wing at the museum.
Give them Earl's description.

Don't wait.

The guards will try to grab him, and
he'll probably freak out.

Get Animal back. Tell them to take me
off out front.

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Grant.

Get away! Get away!

Don't do it!

I know what happened, but don't do
something you're going to regret.

Amy ain't going to regret it.

I'm just paying homageage back.

I'm going to kill her the way he killed
Petrus. I'm going to end what I feel.

Earl, don't.

Armitage, he can't feel.

Don't you know that?

If you cut that up, he'll just go out
and buy something else.

He said he loved her.

Oh, he just loved what she cost him,
that's all.

Look at her, Earl.

She's beautiful.

You couldn't hurt her.

Think of the man who painted her.

That's his feelings up there.

That man's long gone dead.

The picture's still alive, though. Huh?

The man is dust.

But the picture is as alive today as the
day he painted it.

You think you're an artist?

Why you say that?

Are you an artist, Earl?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm an artist.

And you're gonna do that?

I don't think you want to do that
anymore, Earl.

Now, we have to figure out a way for you
to back down

gracefully.

Now, how are we going to do that?

You got me.

Well, just give me a minute to think.
Just give me a minute now.

Now, the painting's still going to be
there.

Now, let's just...

Let's just figure it out.

I got it.

No, that's not it.

Come on, Earl, help me out.

I'm not going to help you. You're too
dumb to figure out a reason why I

shouldn't chop up a beautiful thing like
this.

You're sneaky, Lou.

I'm polite enough that if you want one,
I'll join you.

You know, I go by Earl's newsstand every
morning and every night.

It's just not the same.

I miss that old character.

You hear from him? No, I haven't heard
from him since Armitage paid him off.

The animal told me that he took part of
the money and got himself a new loft.

I'm thinking I might look him up.

The assignment to you.

working today.

Don't have it working.

What do you think?

I think you're great, Earl.

I think you're the greatest.

What do you know about anything?

You're just a kid.

Well, I'm not a kid and I think the same
thing.

You know, if you're having a hard time
getting started, Earl, whenever I'm

stuck, I've got this little trick that
works for me. What's that?

I say to myself, what's the worst that
could happen?

Could be garbage.

Oh, yeah.

I guess old Botticelli had his slow
days, too.

Uh -huh.

When are you going to start using these
canvases?

As soon as I use up these rolls.

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