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Sorry about that.

Oh, down -thising.

This is all happening so fast.

Shouldn't I be giving you a ring? Meeting your folks?

You made Indian rope burn, didn't you?

What's the matter? Is it against the rules? Not like I noogied him or

Hey, you wake a guy up in the middle of the night to fight for his life, you

can't expect perfection.

Give a person a little notice.

Come on, it's not like I pulled his hair.

This is not working.

What's not working?

Mr. Wiseman, I may seem omnipotent to you, but in point of fact...

I have to answer to a group of powerful men who are monitoring your progress and

mine. And frankly, they're not satisfied.

Not satisfied with what? With me.

Oh, don't misunderstand.

They think my work as a scientist has been most impressive.

They think the actual manufacturing process has been a huge success.

But they're convinced my work as a... I don't know.

Authority figure?

Grand poobah?

Chief Overlord?

Breeder of warriors.

Has been less than successful.

Come again?

When you get down to it, that's what I'm supposed to be doing, Mr. Wiseman.

Creating and cultivating warriors to safeguard the future of our country.

And frankly, after all our many months of training, you're really not much of a

warrior.

Really? I don't know. It's still early in the semester.

And we haven't even gotten to rape and pillage yet.

There's still the final in loot and burn.

You're going to grade on curve, aren't you?

Again, the feeling from on high is this is not working, and it's my fault.

All right, you win.

No more scratching, no more kicking, no more calling the other guy's mother bad

names. From now on, I fight by the book. Too late, Mr. Wiseman.

Your lack of discipline, your lack of diligence, the continued contact with

wife and daughter, they're convinced I can't do this job alone.

And I've come to believe they're right.

Dr. Taylor is an expert in the field of human physiology.

The science of how the muscles and bones and nervous system work together to

create human strength.

My understanding is that he will be with us for approximately three weeks.

I've never met him.

But last night I read his study on maximizing strength thresholds in the

American infantry.

And it's clear to me he knows what he's talking about.

Look, I'm sorry.

I know it's making you nuts that they're sending another guy in here. And I know

that it's probably my fault. Mr. Wiseman, I have made my peace with the

decisions of those above me.

And whatever you have or have not done in the past is irrelevant at this point.

What is important is that from this moment forward, we concentrate on our

And that we show our visiting colleague all the respect to which he's entitled.

I've been instructed to show Dr. Taylor every courtesy.

And accord him the deference I would a superior officer.

And I expect you to do the same.

Fine, sure, I know. But remember how you used to break out in thong every once

in a while?

Yes.

Dr. Taylor, well, show him in.

I'm sorry, I'm not following you.

Whatever.

Just show him in.

Dr. Morris, I presume.

I'm Dr. Taylor.

So... Is it the girl thing, the young thing, or some other thing?

You're Dr. Taylor?

Yes. From Washington.

Is there a problem?

I'm sorry.

Would you excuse me a moment?

Get me the Pentagon.

Sounds as if you're very accomplished.

I suppose.

I'm Michael. Michael Wiseman.

Hi, Michael. I'm Dr. Taylor.

What? It's warm.

Oh.

What's the deal?

There's something hanging from the end of my nose, right?

You are truly unbelievable.

Well, thank you. I've always found myself kind of remarkable.

You know, I've known me all my life, and I for one can barely tear myself away

from me.

Hell, I'm damn near inseparable.

I'm sorry. It's just that where I work, you're all we talk about.

It's like being an art student and finally being able to see the Mona Lisa.

Hey, you're a friend? Call me Mona.

The president says hello.

So I guess he's all yours.

Hey, Doc.

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to present the future realtors

of America, the graduating class of 1999.

I know you all join me in wishing them luck when they take their licensing

exam.

But you really shouldn't have bothered. It's no bother. I cruise all the

graduations. Oh, great.

So when's the big exam?

Um, the state gives the next one in about two weeks. I'm terrified.

I haven't taken a test in a while.

All right. Well, here is a little something that might assuage some of

terror.

What is it? Open it and you will see.

I can't accept it. Sure you can. It's no big deal.

Well, I have always wanted one of these. That's my lucky pencil.

Used it to take the bar a second time.

That is very sweet.

Yeah, just ignore the teeth marks.

Smile!

Copies will be posted on the bulletin board. You can pick them up at your

leisure.

Can you see anything?

No. Yeah, thank God. I thought I was having a stroke.

Here you go.

Heather?

Mom?

You remember Mr. Meisenbach?

Yeah, I guess so.

The last time there was a door and a window between us, remember?

I'm going to get another cupcake.

I am so sorry. No, it's okay. I have a boy about her age.

Of course, I only get to see him on the weekends now.

Which is good, because it's forced both of us to become emotionally more

efficient. I have to compact all of my...

Guilt into two days' worth of overindulgence.

He's forced to jam all of his anger into 48 hours' worth of bad language and

disrespect. Sounds delightful.

I hear it's a phase, which ends when you die.

All of which is just my roundabout way of telling you that I am completely free

during the week.

Look, it's okay. I understand.

I just...

You have to hit the books, I know.

Oh, Gerald.

Listen, good luck on the exam.

And it looks like I'm going to be in the market for a house pretty soon, so

maybe I'll give you a call then.

Well, I wish you luck.

Absolutely.

What was he doing here?

You get that I'm trying to lull you into a sense of overconfidence, don't you?

You know, you caught me off guard. I mean, I am the strongest man in the

I noticed you're not wearing a wedding ring.

Let me give you a little hint.

This kind of behavior can turn a lot of guys off.

Very funny. Is the sense of humor yours, or did we put that in?

Original equipment, thank you very much.

Stop that.

Huh? See how you're using your other hand to help yourself up?

You don't need to do that.

That's the 45 -year -old man in you.

You can get up without that.

Okay.

What's the diff?

There's a huge difference.

I can teach a 170 -pound, 26, 27 -year -old how to fight, how to train, how to

maximize his strength and speed.

There's not much I can offer a middle -aged man who weighs, what?

I don't know.

292.

You remember that?

What you weighed after all these months?

I remember a lot of things.

Well, maybe that's not so helpful.

You're starting to sound like Dr. Morris.

That's a compliment.

He's a very smart man.

Come over here. I want to show you something.

Closer.

Pick me up.

How do you mean?

I mean, lift me.

Remember?

Remember what?

What it feels like.

Look, Dr. Taylor... I mean the two of us combined.

We've got to be pretty close to 292, give or take a couple pounds.

Oh.

Yeah, I guess.

So for the purposes of our work together, let's forget that man.

He's irrelevant.

I'm here to work with the man I see in front of me. The young, athletic man I

see in front of me.

Okay?

Sure.

I'm light as a feather to you, aren't I?

So how strong are you, really?

You want more?

Maybe we should pick this up tomorrow.

Well, it's clear Dr.

Taylor's making progress in the warrior department.

What are you doing here? It's the middle of the night.

You were calling me.

Saying my name in your sleep.

So you do listen.

I never said otherwise.

Only that we didn't watch.

Is there something troubling you?

This... Dr.

Taylor. Mr. Wiseman.

If you're experiencing some discomfort because of a misplaced sense of loyalty

to me, rest assured, I am fine with all this.

If Dr.

Taylor can enhance the value of my project, I'd be a fool to discourage or

thwart her participation in any way. No offense, Doc, but it's not you I'm

worried about.

I don't follow.

She's very beautiful.

I noticed that, yes.

I guess I'm just worried.

About what?

Well, in the nine months since she gave me the big makeover, it's not like I've

been around a lot of women.

For that matter, in the 45 years before that, it's not like I've been around a

lot of women.

Mr. Wiseman, she's just here to teach you, nothing more. I just... I have this

instinct.

It's the way she looks at me, or this thing that's supposed to be me.

No one's ever looked at me like that.

Not even when I was 26.

I guess I'm just afraid that something might happen.

Hmm.

There's a word for that fear.

It's called narcissism.

Fine. Call it whatever you like.

But if there were some way to make a change...

Maybe get a man to take over.

Mr. Wiseman, it must be obvious to even you that this is all happening well

above my head.

But that notwithstanding, I'm still at a loss to understand what the problem is.

I mean, if something did happen, so what?

Doc, I'm a married man.

Mr. Wiseman, that's simply not so.

You're a dead man.

And if your instincts are at all accurate, a very lucky one.

That was delicious.

Thank you.

My pleasure entirely.

I want to come into the city more often.

Nothing better than a leisurely lunch. Would you, Frank?

It's funny, I love being here, but it really makes me miss him.

Coming in at night, meeting him at the office, grabbing dinner, a shower,

Michael falling asleep in the second act.

Man, after my own heart, real patron of the art.

Yeah, well, he did it for me, and that's what made it so special.

Hey, though, remember that time? It must be at least 15 years ago by now.

I got all four of those tickets to Ocala.

Nothing but naked people. Look at you all.

Michael liked that.

Michael liked that.

I was getting ready for bed last night, and it occurred to me that the whole day

had gone by and I hadn't thought of him anymore.

Lisa, we thought that's a good thing.

It hasn't been nine months.

That's it.

I'm done.

Self -pity time is over.

So, who am I this time?

What do you mean?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

CFO of a very big telecommunications firm, very important, very powerful,

deductible. I'm very flattered.

I'm actually this way. Can I put you in a cab?

No, no, I have 20 minutes until the train. I think I'll walk.

No, she's not. May I ask who's calling?

Well, hello, William McHale, a friend of Heather's from school.

William.

William, you are doing fine. Just take a breath.

There you go.

Now, why don't you give me your number so that she can call you back?

Oh, no, hold it.

Okay, great. Shoot.

We forget.

You were great today.

Stamina, concentration.

I don't know how you do it.

I don't know either.

You really have to ask the doc.

He's the one who built it.

All I do is drive the thing.

No, I don't mean the exercise. I mean the rest of it.

You live in this terrarium.

Don't you get lonely?

Don't you go crazy?

I mean, I'm single.

I'm free to come and go as I please, and I get lonely.

I go crazy.

I do have a family, you know.

Yeah, I heard.

I mean, I read about them in your file.

They can't keep you company.

They're not here with you.

Sometimes I pick a year, any year, and I try to make my way through it.

Where were we on New Year's, Valentine's Day, my daughter's birthday?

Wedding anniversary, Lisa's birthday, my birthday.

What grade was my little girl in?

What was her teacher's name?

You hold all that in your head?

I try.

I damn sure try.

What about the here and now?

What about the right this second?

What about it?

Fix the clock.

Uh, Michael, the first thing tomorrow morning.

Dr. Morris?

Dr. Taylor?

What?

So, you were in New York and you didn't call him?

He's never given me his number. So you couldn't just go and knock on his door?

I did that once already, darling.

Invited him to dinner. The man never showed up.

No, perhaps I am old -fashioned, but I do believe in order for a man and a

to have a successful date, both parties have to be in attendance.

Have you called that William boy?

No, and I'm not going to. I don't want to encourage him.

Oh, he seems very nice to me. He's on the A .V. squad, Mom.

I mean, he helps out in the library. Last year, he won a prize for signing

most subscriptions during our school's magazine drive.

I mean, a bicycle tire has more edge.

Edge.

Edge, is that the new criteria?

Edge? Whatever happened to nice?

Nice? You're kidding, right? No.

Nice is nice.

And getting harder to come by, I might add.

Look, I know from where you sit, edge is thrilling and exciting and whatever.

But the older you get, the more you realize that life is full of edge. The

discount stores are bursting with edge. But nice?

They're always sold out of, and if they have it, it's never in your size.

So is that why you keep on throwing the pygmy lawyer back in the remainder bin?

Heather! What?

Gerald Meisenbach is a very nice man. Very nice. And just because of the fact

that he's... A little too short to reach the pedals.

Oh, child.

Whatever. Doesn't change the fact that on the inside... You've seen his...

What are you doing?

You're going to call him just to prove a point?

This is not going to get me to call William.

Just because you like your love life plan doesn't mean that I have to avoid

spice rack.

Hello, Gerald Meisenbach's machine.

This is Lisa Wiseman.

It's Wednesday about 7 .30. I'm getting so sleepy. Let me turn down the TV.

This concludes our broadcast.

So much better.

So I just I just wanted to say hi.

And I want to thank you for that pencil.

Ladies and gentlemen, we stand here about to rejoin Michael and his lovely

Lisa in the sacred bond of holy matrimony.

If anyone here knows a reason that these two people should not be joined

together for all eternity, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Wiseman and Taylor sitting in a tree.

K -I -S -S -I -N -G.

You okay?

What are you doing here?

I wanted to talk to you.

I felt badly about what happened tonight.

It was completely inappropriate, completely unprofessional.

Oh, God.

Oh, man.

Oh, gee.

Oh, my.

Good morning.

I hope I'm not interrupting anything.

No, of course not.

I promise I'll call you tomorrow.

Mm -hmm.

Heather, it's Gerald Meisenbach, your mother's friend.

Hi. Is your mother home?

Yeah. Can I speak with her?

She's studying.

So I take it that's a no.

Well, you don't want her to fail, do you?

Heather, let me be very clear about something.

If you don't let me speak with your mother, I'm just going to keep calling

You see?

In other words, the faster you put your mother on the phone, the faster the two

of us can get off the phone, and the sooner you can call your friends or go

online or order a pizza or... You know what?

For a little guy, you sure play rough.

Mom, it's Mr. Mithem back.

Gerald. Lisa.

So, I got your message.

Oh, good.

Well, anyway, you're welcome.

I'd love to, and I think.

Great.

Welcome and love to for what?

For the pencil.

You called and thanked me for the pencil. Now I'm calling and saying

welcome for the pencil. And the I'd love to part has to do with when you asked

me what I was doing tomorrow night.

Oh, terrific.

And the I think?

The I think's very complicated. The I think depends on whether you meant

tomorrow as in the day after today or tomorrow as in...

Tonight, because I've already erased the messages and I'm unclear as to whether

you called me yesterday or today.

Yesterday. So then, tomorrow's tonight.

It is tomorrow's tonight, or it could be.

What I mean is tonight works for me.

Well, if it works for you, it works for me.

It'd be great. Can I, should I pick you up about 8 o 'clock?

Sure, that'd be nice.

Great.

Six o 'clock.

Quitting time.

Oh, good.

Good work today.

Oh, good.

I thought about what you said yesterday, and I changed my mind and made that

call. You know what I'm talking about, right?

About making that change.

Oh, good.

I knew you'd feel that way.

I'm going to go wait in the kitchen.

I can't stand to see you caged this way.

Oh, good.

Here's the key to the door and the code to the alarm.

I've rigged the security system so that at 8 o 'clock you're safe to leave.

Oh, good.

I was hoping you'd feel that way. Meet me in the corner 65th and 5th.

I'll be waiting.

Mr. Wiseman, your dinner's ready.

Oh, good.

Make it go away or make it better.

Isn't that what love's supposed to do?

Make it go away or make it better.

Cause I would do either one for you.

This is not the way you should see me.

I wasn't sure you were going to come.

Neither was I.

I don't know if the doc finds out. The doc what?

What you did, you did on my orders. My sake, though.

Don't worry about the doc.

He's not worried about you.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means no wonder you're obsessed with who you were instead of who you've

become.

You're locked up all the time. Nothing to do but dwell on the past.

I want to give you a here and now.

I want to give you a right this second.

Help me forget all that.

Is that okay?

I don't know. What are we going to do?

Anything you want.

Anything? Anything.

It's New York. Symphony, the opera, a fabulous hotel.

Anything.

Anything?

Anything.

What, no toast?

To this.

And to nice.

Nice? That's nice.

What?

What what?

It looks like you're someplace else.

No, you know, looking at the city, it reminds me of stuff.

You know, things I've done, places I've been, things I've seen.

Like?

I don't know.

You ever seen old Calcutta?

I've had a really nice time tonight.

Oh, no.

Give

me

a hint.

Huh?

Oh, no. I just...

I just can't help but think about all the other moons I have looked up at.

Really? Yeah.

You mean this isn't your first time?

This isn't your first moon?

Well, this could have a serious effect on the dowry conversation.

I come here a lot. My place is nearby.

Well, I sure didn't mean that the way it sounded.

I'm really glad you called.

Me too.

Are you cold? Yes.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's okay. Whatever it is, it's okay.

You,

sir, are something.

And I gotta believe you must be something.

Yeah. See ya.

Why don't you take my car?

What? No.

It's fine. I'll send for it tomorrow.

I'm just down the street. Gerald, just point me in the direction. I need to be

alone.

And I have a feeling that you wouldn't mind being alone either.

By the way, I'm a really horrible driver.

Joe, can I say one thing to you?

You're wrong.

And I don't care.

We are great together.

And I am perfectly happy to wait until you catch up with me with regard to this

particular line of thinking.

I like that better than night.

I feel funny about leaving you here.

Sure you're going to be okay?

I just need to be alone for a while.

I'll head back to the townhouse in an hour or so.

I think I'll call Washington tomorrow.

See about having myself reassigned.

Having changed that lock and the alarm code, too.

You could be the angel on my shoulder.

All of the other angels.

Make it go away.

This is more than one.

You're not going to tell him?

No.

What would be the point?

He loves her.

Whether I like it or not, whether it's convenient for me or not, the man loves

his wife.

Not your fault, Lieutenant.

You did a fine job.

Thank you, sir.

You really were quite convincing.

It wasn't hard.

Make it go away or make it better.

Isn't that what love's supposed to do?

Just make it go away or make it better.