All language subtitles for Now and Again S01E04

Before, on Now and Again.

The United States government has, since
the conclusion of World War II, spent

billions of dollars in the hopes of one
day actually being able to build a man.

An American man.

A man who could do those things mere,
mortal American men are loath to do.

Travel in dangerous places, take risks,
wage war.

A man with the feet of Michael Jordan.
The strength of Superman. And the

grace...

Let it there.

We know you didn't choose to die, Mr.
Wiseman.

And your husband left you and your
daughter a considerable sum in

in the world would we give you public
interest?

I have no money.

Well, perhaps think about getting a job.

That's all your family.

I know how precious they must be to you.

But your government can't let anyone
know about the existence of this

technology. You reaching out to anyone
from your past absolutely guarantees

immediate and final death.

And the death of whomever you confided
in.

You're stronger than any man on the
planet.

You're faster than any man on the
planet.

I'm not really sure I'm ready for a
mission.

Somewhere along the way, have I
mistakenly given you the impression that

have a say in what you will and won't
do?

You are an experiment.

My experiment.

I will tell you when and what you will
do.

We will develop what we can.

You look beautiful.

In fact, you look more beautiful than
ever.

Thank you.

So are you going to kiss me?

I only get one, right?

Mm -hmm.

Would you mind?

You know the place.

Oh.

Wait a second.

Maybe there's something you want to tell
me.

Maybe there's something I should know.

What do you mean?

I mean you've been gone for eight months
now. It's a long time.

Things happen and people change.

Is there someone new in your life?

No, there's no one in my life.

There's nothing to tell you, nothing
that matters.

Just, I've missed you.

Mr. Wiseman?

Can you hear me?

Mr. Wiseman?

Mr.

Wiseman?

It's a beautiful day in this
neighborhood.

A beautiful day for a neighbor.

Would you be mine?

Could you be mine?

Were you dreaming sweet dreams, Mr.
Wiseman?

Where's that subway train when you need
it?

Mom, I need a check for $158 for the
junior class trip to Washington so I can

see the monument and buy souvenir T
-shirts. And if I don't hand the money

today, they won't let me go. Oh, good
morning to you too, Heather.

I am in my purse.

Oh, God.

I don't think I have $158 in the
checking account.

What? Well, I was expecting a dividend
to come in the mail, but it didn't come

yesterday. All I have is $43 .11.

Mom, this is not funny.

This is an adolescent right of passage
you're screwing around with here.

Don't threaten me with adult -onset
mental illness this early in the

darling. I'm not ready.

I need a check.

I'll write you a check.

Just maybe don't hand it in until the
end of the day or give me a chance to

the money over from the savings account
or maybe sell a stock or something.

Where are we going? Down to the study to
get Daddy's passport. I cannot believe

you're putting me through this. Through
what?

This stress. Never knowing from one
minute to the next when the next hunk of

disposable income will appear.

I can't believe I'm listening to this.
Why? Why can't you believe it? You're

one that brought me up spoiled. It's not
like that was the choice I was in on.

You expect me to make the adjustment,
huh? The same year I have to take my

Heather, get a grip.

Want to give me a hint?

About what?

About why I'm wearing this expensive
suit.

You're wearing that expensive suit
because you're a successful and

man. I am.

Absolutely. I know that because you're
currently in the employ of an even more

successful and accomplished man.

That would be you?

That's the brain I know and love.

So we're pretending to be something
we're not because?

Well, we want to look at some commercial
space for rent.

We do?

Mm -hmm.

As you know, we're hoping to keep this
exclusively a high -tech building with

connections on every floor as well as
fiber optics and C5s. As you can see,

views are spectacular.

and we would be willing to negotiate
build -outs with qualified lessors.

Well, this is fabulous.

It's exactly what we had in mind.

Would it be all right if my associate
and I spent some time up here by

ourselves, soak up the ambiance before
we make our final decision?

I don't see why not.

It's not like there's anything here to
steal.

Forty -five minutes or so? Forty -five
minutes would be perfect.

Oh, I'm expecting another colleague of
mine. If you happen to see him on your

way out... I'll send him right up.

Soak up the what?

What are we doing here?

Needed a place to have a meeting.

A place I could be sure wouldn't be
bugged or wouldn't be watched. What

you so sure that this fills the bill?

Well, if I didn't know I was coming here
until an hour ago, how could anybody

else?

Oh, good.

Company's here.

Be nice.

This fellow's an old friend.

Mr. Murphy.

Dr. Moore.

We meet again. Yes, we do.

Let me introduce.

Michael, right?

Right. I received the birth
announcement.

I'm part of the family.

Okay, and your name again? No one really
knows.

Just call him Murphy.

Anna Lee. That was her name. That was
her name. Anna Lee.

Look, you don't want to do this. I was
32 years old. The Air Force sends me

to college so I can learn Japanese.

So I walk into the classroom and I see
Anna Lee. I can't believe you're telling

me. Oh, man.

Did God have a party the night he cooked
para?

I mean, one look at her and this gal,
man, I mean, she just turns my mind. The

maypole. So?

I start doing what you do.

I make it my business to bump into her
in the hall, sit next to her in class,

and eventually I say, hey, you, me, what
do you think?

Excuse me?

He's showing up at her dorm room at all
hours of the day and night. He's

intimidating her friends. And we don't
know it at that time, but he's got her

phone book.

What, you don't find that romantic?

Well, the point is, who appears and
tells me to lay off?

Or else he's going to bust my freaking
cranium.

Huh? None other than... No.

Not you, Doc.

Did you actually say freaking?

It was a long time ago. I was very
young.

It was great.

Two guys beating the living crap out of
each other. And it wasn't until an hour

later when we were both laying in the
infirmary that we realized that we were

both there on a CIA dime. Remember?

So what happened to Anna Lee?

I don't know.

Ask him.

Six days later, I saw this other girl in
the library.

I heard she works in the trust
department at a bank in Providence,

Helped with kids.

Wow.

Emily.

You heard about Dampinport, right?

Uh -uh.

Died in Abu Dhabi 14 months ago.

Somebody sold a list of agents' covers
to the Saudis. Two days later, they

them hanging from a bridge.

Wow.

Same thing happened in The Hague six
months after that.

Four agents.

Years of work. All of it gone.

Sold for a couple hundred thousand,
we're guessing.

Man, you're just full of good news,
aren't you?

Have you kept in touch with Jimmy Lucek?

J .J.? Man, I haven't heard from him
in...

Forever? Why?

Yeah, well, he left the life three years
ago.

Cashed out and bought a huge penthouse
in Hong Kong.

No sooner does he get there than he's
diagnosed with lupus.

Can't tolerate the sun.

Buys a top -floor apartment in one of
the tallest buildings there is and has

live with the shades drawn all the time.

Really?

How's he getting on?

Other than his health concerns, very
well.

Too well, in fact.

We believe he's developed a lucrative
business inducing his old friends to

state secrets, which he then sells to
our enemies.

That's the reason we call.

Can I count on you?

I'm a pro.

I know who I am.

I know what I do.

Well, I don't.

Who is this guy and what does he do?

I don't really expect you to do it.

We know he was your friend.

Think of it as a training mission for
the kid.

Am I the kid?

I don't mean to seem dense, but am I the
kid?

He's a virgin.

Again, I know I'm interrupting the flow,
but am I the virgin?

So he would actually be handling the
elimination.

Do you have a minute?

What are we talking about here?

An assignment.

What kind of assignment?

Overseas, out of the country.

Ah, aren't you leaving something out?

It's a sleepover assignment.

All the kids have a tough time with that
at first. But what's this about

elimination? What do you mean by
elimination?

Mr. Wiseman, let's stop being coy. You
know exactly what we mean by

You're right, I do. And I won't do it.

Really? Yeah.

This can't be a surprise.

I told you you would be called upon to
do those things normal American men

do. But you never said anything about
elimination!

I can't do that!

So yes, you can.

Any man can, if he has to.

And Mr. Wiseman, you have to.

You made a deal, just like I made a
deal.

Now my marker's being called in, so that
means your marker's being called in.

So you will go and do this little job
for King, Country, and Dr.

Morris. And you will do it swiftly, and
you will do it skillfully.

And in return, you will be allowed to
live another day.

Thanks for coming back. I was afraid I
wasn't going to see you again.

We need to talk.

What's the matter?

You haven't been completely honest with
me.

About what?

About who you are.

About what you've become.

Lisa... Don't take this the wrong way,
but I think I liked it better when you

stayed dead.

Wait a second. Don't say that.

It's bad enough being a widow.

But being a widow who knows that her
late husband is running around with who

knows who, eliminating people... I
haven't eliminated anybody yet.

Come on, Michael. We both know where
this is heading.

But Lisa... Heather's coming.

I don't want her to know her father
commits mortal sins for a living.

It's not my living. It's what I do to
live.

But... Hi, Daddy.

Hi, sweetheart.

How are you?

Daddy, the kids at school are saying you
kill people for a living.

They're wrong, Heather.

I haven't actually killed anybody.

Not yet.

Well, if you do kill somebody, I mean,
could you come into school and talk

it on career day?

Career day?

Good morning.

I'm calling about the exceptional career
opportunity for motivated self

-starters.

Uh -huh.

So what you're saying is that you're
looking for me to make an initial

investment of $50 ,000 so that I can
have my own vending machine route?

Great. My previous employment history?

Now, is that really an issue? I mean, I
freely admit I have never sold

timeshares before.

No, I do.

I absolutely understand the question.

1993. Although that was really more of a
kind of volunteer kind of a thing.

When was the last time I got paid?

Uh, I'm sorry. I'm on the cell and
you're breaking up.

No.

I'm sorry. I did not know that's what
you meant by hostess.

No, I'm not purposely trying to waste
your time.

No. I will not tell you what I'm wearing
right now.

And this is the prime spot, and the
owner is very anxious to have a tenant

here.

But this is just perfect.

Would you mind if my associates and I
took a little look around by ourselves

a half hour or so?

Certainly.

You are shameless.

Lucic lives 46 floors up in the
penthouse of this building, which takes

entire floor and is serviced by its own
elevator.

What are we doing? His rent is probably
killing him.

This elevator is monitored around the
clock by no less than four television

cameras and a like number of
microphones.

Even the outside of the elevator car is
under video surveillance, so no one can

sabotage it.

In addition, this is a very high
security building with 16 cameras in the

doormen, security personnel, etc.

Even the fire escape stairs are
completely monitored.

How do we get in?

Gee, maybe we don't.

Gosh, I was really up for this. All the
utilities, pipes, cables are funneled

through access tunnels that run
underneath all the buildings on the

block. Our idea is to get you into one
of the buildings on the other side of

block and have you make your way through
this tunnel back to the basement in

Lucic's building.

Why? What's in the basement?

An elevator shaft.

But you said... I said that the
elevators were monitored.

I said the outside of the elevator car
was monitored.

I did not say the shaft was monitored.

You see this cable?

Every time this elevator goes up, this
cable goes down.

Every time the elevator goes down, the
cable goes up. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think

I see where you're going here.

You want me to what?

Hold on to a steel cable and have it
pull me 46 stories in the air?

No.

I want him to hold on to a steel cable
and you to hold on to him.

Trying to write my resume.

What's the problem?

The problem is it only takes up a third
of the page.

No matter what I do to the margins,
there's no font big enough to make up

the fact that my life only fills a third
of a page.

Is that bad?

No. No, not really. Not if you're nine.

Well, maybe you just need to elaborate.

Elaborate how?

Well, like this.

Thing from 1981, waitress. June through
August. First of all, don't call

yourself a waitress.

You... Get up for a second.

You were a... hospitality consultant in
the food service industry.

A hospitality consultant?

Don't you read the papers? Nobody has a
job anymore.

Everyone's a consultant.

Really? Absolutely.

And... Let's lose this June through
August thing. Just 1981.

Don't be so specific.

It's the details that'll get you into
trouble. Only offer dates on a need -to

-know basis.

Need -to -know, huh?

And let's list all the languages you
speak fluently.

I don't speak any languages.

Gesundheit. You see?

You're much too modest, Mom.

And what was that musical we went to see
last year?

Les Miserables. Wow, French, too.

You're unstoppable, Mom.

And what was Daddy's favorite breakfast?

Huevos rancheros.

When I get through with you, you'll be
the freaking UN.

Excuse me?

You look like you wanted to ask me
something.

Yeah, well, the obvious thing, probably.

I have a mother. I take her to church
sometimes.

She says to her friends, this is my son.

He works in world affairs.

He makes sure there's a tomorrow for us
to wake up to.

I don't understand.

There really are good guys and bad guys
in this world, Mike. And the bad guys

are badder than anything you can
imagine.

I just... I just don't know if I can do
this.

If you knew you could do it, I'd be
worried.

It's a 14 -hour flight. I suggest you
get all the rest you can.

Boots up front, head in the back.

Frau Weismann, es ist mir klar, dass Sie
ein Vielzahl in Sprachen sprechen.

Gesundheit.

Okay.

So, you want a job in the fashion
accessories business.

It would be helpful to me if we could
fill in some of the blank spots.

Blank spots?

Well, being a...

hospitality consultant in the food
service industry is a laudable job for a

young woman.

Miss Masters. Particularly during the
summers when she's going to college. Let

me explain. And especially if she's
allowed to keep her tips.

Thank you for seeing me. That it hardly
constitutes a work history.

I'm sorry that I wasted your time. Or
for that matter, even a life history.

And you will only be wasting my time if
you insist on leaving before we finish

this meeting.

Thank you.

Now, why don't you tell me who you are,
where you've been, and

why are you here?

I'm Lisa Wiseman. I've been married for
17 years, and I have been a mother for

15 years.

My husband was killed in an accident
about eight months ago, and I need a

I have a worthless degree and no
experience to speak of.

But I am, as they say in the
classifieds, highly motivated.

And, yes, I would be interested in a job
in the fashion accessory business. In

fact, I would be interested in any
business that would have me.

And why would I be interested in hiring
you?

Your ad said mature.

Mature executive assistant.

The truth is I don't actually think of
myself as mature. I think of myself as

not exactly immature, so I thought that
I would qualify by default.

The ad said some other things, too.

Yes, yes, it said something about a
benefits package.

Yeah, it also said 60 words per minute.

Right, right, that would be what the WEM
stood for.

Do you type at all?

Oh, at all I type.

You are very nice.

Taking your time.

Talking to me.

Thank you.

Oh, have you seen my two boys?

No.

Attractive, aren't they? Uh -huh.

One day in 1986, their father comes home
from work and tells me he's fallen in

love with a piano tuner.

A 26 -year -old piano tuner. I mean, I
don't even know where the switch is to

turn off the oil burner in the summer.

I don't know how to fill out my own
taxes, and I certainly don't know how to

make a living.

I always used to make these headbands
and give them to my friends as gifts.

Howie and the boys made such fun of me.

And then one day I thought, why don't I
try selling these?

And so I did to the local beauty parlor.
No, I mean sell.

And then I started selling it to
boutiques.

Think about it.

I'm not going to offer you that job,
Mrs. Weissman.

Yeah, I kind of figured that.

No, not because you can't type. You can
learn to type.

But the truth of it is, as grateful as
you'd be to me today for giving you that

job, that's how much you'd resent me six
months from now when you were bored to

death with it.

Whatever you say.

You're a smart woman.

It oozes out of every pore.

So stop pretending you don't know
anything.

You can't have lived the life you've
lived for 17 years, made a home, raised

family, and not have learned something,
not be interested in something.

Find out what that is, and then find a
way to make a living at it.

That's what the boys do.

Where are we going?

I'm right behind you.

Okay, I'm coming.

I just wanted to let you know that
speech you made on career day, that was

best.

I really have to go.

And bringing in that dead guy as a
visual aid, that was classic.

Excuse me, sweetheart.

Where are you going, Daddy? Are you
leaving?

Everybody sit tight. We've got a scheme
to get you boys through customs and to

where you have to go.

You can thank me later.

Ah, gee, you missed my big entrance.

Yoo -hoo, Reveille.

Come on out, we gotta kill somebody in
cold blood.

Kid, stop getting around and open this
thing.

How you doing?

To be honest with you, I'm a little
stiff.

Ah, killer humor.

One capacity is not what it should be.

It's not karmic justice. It's too many
Cuban stogies.

Need a hand?

No, just a minute.

Are you actually going to be able to do
this? Why, you want to do this yourself?

No.

I'll take that hand now.

Stop looking at me that

way.

Everything's going to be fine.

Come on.

Let's find us an elevator shaft.

How does this work? Am I supposed to say
Shazam or something?

I mean, can't you just twist that lock
apart with your bare hands?

It'll all be over soon.

You know the most shocking part?

20 minutes from now, after you pull that
trigger, your life will be no

different. The world won't end, and your
nose won't grow longer.

The big secret of life, everybody dies,
Michael.

And you know what you discover when
you've been doing this as long as I've

doing it?

Nobody's really that damn important
anyway.

Great men die, and the world goes on.

Bad men die, and the world goes on.

We have our work to do.

This is mine.

It's going to be yours.

Wow.

Makes me wish I used a jaw on a plane.

How are we supposed to get up there?

Grab my feet.

Are you sure this is the best way to do
this?

Don't argue.

The elevator's going to come down any
minute now. When it comes down, we go

Okay.

Houston, we have liftoff.

Oh, man.

How we doing?

Not very well, frankly.

I don't know if I can hold on much
longer like this.

Look above your head. See that bracing?

I'm going to try and get you close
enough so you can grab hold of it. How

going to do that?

I really appreciate you telling me that
everybody dies eventually and nobody

really matters.

Without that little bit of sage wisdom,
what's happening to you now might really

upset me.

I'll make you a deal.

You get me through this, and I'll take
care of the other.

Hey, J .J.

I didn't know that they had funnies in
that paper.

Murphy, how did... I had, uh, some help.

I see.

Uh, I was hoping this was a social call,
but you're here to ask your Uncle Sam,

aren't you?

Well, he did pick up the airfare.

Would you mind terribly, I mean, For old
times' sake, if I...

Go ahead.

Just drop the paper and get up very
slowly.

I don't suppose I could get you to turn
around, could I?

Would you mind if I, uh, washed my
hands?

Seems a bit beside the point, given the
business at hand.

But, have at it.

While you're tidying up, let me ask you
your professional opinion about

something.

A cryptographic code book.

You know, the kind that contains nuclear
launch codes.

How much would such an item be worth to
you and your friends?

What are you doing?

What's going on here?

I'm asking a question.

I'm exploring a possibility.

I'm no spring chicken, my man.

So if J .J. here can make an old civil
servant's retirement just a little bit

more bearable, maybe I wouldn't have to
kill him after all.

He's telling them secrets? That's
treason. One million dollars for each of

I have it here.

It's in the house.

It's in the tape.

And Krugerrand.

I can't do this, Murphy. What do you
mean you can't do this?

Which part of this is making you
uncomfortable?

Having a million dollars to live on?

Or you no longer being an indentured
slave to the United States government? I

can't allow this to happen. I don't
understand you, kid. What are you saying

here? That you'd rather I kill us?

Three million.

But look, he's going to give that to our
enemies.

Security is going to be compromised.
Lives will be lost.

Four million dollars. No, Murphy, I
can't.

You can't kill. You can't not kill. You
can't do much, can you, kid?

I'm giving you a gift.

It's not just the money.

I'm saving you from the life.

You have any idea how long and how well
you can live?

on four million dollars here in asia
doesn't matter to me

i can't do it well what's the
alternative i mean it's not like you're

him or anything what did you do

he's a traitor murphy and you're a
traitor too

oh come on you know better than that
That thing may slow me down a little

It's not going to stop me.

Don't do this, kid.

You're making a huge mistake.

You think killing me, killing this guy,
that you're going to be some kind of big

hero, a big patriot?

You're going to be a garbage man, just
like me.

Somebody everybody needs, but nobody
wants around after the deed is done.

So...

Let's be smart.

Let's get our code book back before this
guy bleeds all over it.

And we'll make a better deal.

A bigger deal.

You've done this before.

Well, I know some people.

Some big money guys.

In The Hague?

In Abu Dhabi?

Well, you know what they say about your
retirement.

It's never too soon to begin saving.

Yeah.

That's what I thought.

Me too.

Morris.

What?

Haven't figured it out yet, Murphy?

Kid's good, isn't he, Murph?

Admit it.

He had you.

Sorry.

Left my blood swabs in my other suit.

So this has all been one big setup.

Well, we had to know.

Good men suffer because of what you did.

Yeah, well, that's too bad.

But we're not in America.

And you have no jurisdiction here.

It took me a really long time to
understand what you meant.

Then it hit me.

The one thing I have always had, always
taken pleasure in, the one thing I

really know something about is homes.

I made a home.

I bought a home. I can sell homes. I
like homes.

And I know you have to go to school, and
I know you have to get a license, and I

know you don't get paid unless you sell
something, until you sell something. And

I am fine with all of that.

Well, that's a very impressive attitude.

Do you have a resume?

No. I'm beginning one.

Today.