All language subtitles for family_affair_s01e25_the_way_it_was

Oh, French.

Good afternoon, sir. And may I ask how
you achieved the ringing of the

sir? Well, I used my elbow. I found out
if you try with your nose that it

flattens out before you can make
electrical contact.

Well, I deduce that you plan working at
home.

That's right. For the next few days,
they're putting up a new building next

the office. Right now, they've reached
that stage where they're using

jackhammers. Well, may I remind you,
today's Friday, sir?

Friday. Yes, and precisely...

20 minutes, the children will be home
from school.

They'll be here tomorrow, Sunday, and
all of next week. Oh, yeah, vacation.

Well, you can keep them quiet.

Yes, sir.

Just explain. I've got... This is
important work.

Yes, sir.

You look doubtful.

Now, French, you know as well as I do
that between us, we can keep three kids

reason to be quiet, can't we?

Oh, yes, sir.

be quiet, then how can we watch TV?

Easy. We just watch the picture. We
don't have to listen to the sound.

It's no fun like this.

Yeah. It's like sitting with the lights
on, but you're in the dark.

Maybe we should do something else.

Okay.

Can we answer the phone before we
discuss that noise, sir? Yes, please.

Davis residence.

It's a young lady for Miss Sissy, sir.
The same one who calls incessantly from

the moment she comes home from school
until bedtime.

Sissy's got her own phone. Why don't
they yak on that?

Well, Miss Sissy is discussing something
with a young man on her phone, sir.

Sissy!

Pick up the extension on this phone!

The other sound you hear, sir, is the
television from the den.

Buffy and Jody seem to have turned it
on.

Would you please turn it off?

Yes, thank you.

Miss Buffy slammed the door on her
finger, sir.

Oh, I'm sorry, Buffy. I know how those
things hurt, gee.

What are you crying about, then?

Jody wrecked my whole arm putting on a
splint.

Well, when you bust your finger or
something, somebody gots to put on

Jody meant well, sir, but exercised poor
judgment. He fastened the injured

finger to a broom.

Isn't it about time they went to bed?

I thought she just answered that thing.

I fancy she did, sir. Miss Sissy
believes in short conversations, but

Sissy can't talk anymore, Lessie. She's
gonna do her homework now.

Aren't you, Sissy?

It's Friday.

Now, furthermore, Lessie, from now on...
What?

I said I'm sorry to break up whatever
you have going with Lessie.

This is Norm Braley.

Norm Braley?

Where you been all these years?

Outdoors, Bill.

I've been operating a series of summer
camps for kids.

That sounds great. When are we going to
see you?

Well, maybe sooner than you think.

We've known each other too long to be
beating around the bush.

I called you for a reason.

Yeah, well... You will be

in dire straits if you touch your sister
with that weapon.

Norm, I'm sorry. I didn't hear a word
you said.

I understand you have three kids.

I'm running camps for kids.

You getting the picture?

Yeah, but it's not summer now.

Well, that's right, but school's out
next week.

I'm sort of drumming up business for
these shorter vacations.

You got him, Norm.

I heard you have an older girl. She
could be one of our counselors.

I said they're all yours.

Well, the two little ones can, and...
Did I hear you correctly?

Right. When can you collect them?

Tomorrow?

That's fine. It's great.

Listen, Norm, we can talk about the
details of this thing later.

Listen,

call me about 9, 9 .30, huh?

Right, Norm.

Thanks a lot for calling.

Great to hear from you.

Sir, the crash was a rather inexpensive
vase. The one with the butterfly.

Oh, that. I never liked it anyway.

However, the carnage was occasioned by
the pursuit of Miss Buffy by Master Jody

with the intent to do bodily harm.

She stepped on her last ping -pong ball
and smashed it, Uncle Bill.

I did not. I sat on it and smashed it.

Aren't you mad at us, Uncle Bill?

Let's just say I'm projecting into the
future.

Thank you.

Goodbye, Uncle Bill.

Be good, kid.

Have fun.

Goodbye.

This is the part that's the hardest.

Taking the kids away from their parents.

Well, we just want what's best for them.

Okay, kids, let's go.

Bye, Uncle Bill. Bye, Bill.

Nice,

quiet breakfast on the terrace, sir.
French,

you are twisting my arm.

Excellent breakfast, French.

Thank you, sir.

What are the plans for today?

Well, I'm going to work right here in
complete peace and quiet.

And... Hey.

Precisely, sir.

Sure. With the kids gone, I've got the
evening free for a date.

Perhaps a theater, sir. Then I could
prepare a late supper, and we might have

wine, brandy.

Right, right.

Now, see if you can get some theater
tickets, maybe one of those off

things. I'm going to call Marie
Stafford.

You know where to call about the
tickets?

Oh, yes, sir.

Oh, Marie's a lot of fun.

French, this is the way it used to be.

It promises to be a most enjoyable week,
sir.

Come on, you guys. It's time to police
the camp.

Oh, I see you still have French.

How'd you know?

The music, he remembered.

Oh, yeah, he made himself scarce, too.

Oh, excuse me, just a minute.

Problem? No, no, I thought we'd hear
something from the kids and so, but

nothing. French says not to worry. Well,
in the pictures that you showed me,

they look like fine, healthy children. I
wouldn't worry. Oh, I'm not worrying.

It's just that you'd think they could
send a postcard or call, maybe.

How marvelous.

Why, he even remembered the brandy with
Belle Paisa and water biscuits.

And, uh, it's been quite a while.

Well, you know, it's been...

It's one thing or another.

Yes, I know.

Lovely music.

We owe it to French not to waste it.
You're right.

Now, give me credit for something. I own
the hi -fi.

You know, I've just about given up on
you, Mr. Davis. Oh, you don't want to do

that, miss.

I've been very, very busy.

Maybe, but sometimes people change.

Not me. Not me. Not for one minute. I
might get a little fatter, a little

thinner, get a few more gray hairs, but
deep down, you are dealing with the same

basic guy. Got that?

Oh, wait a minute. Excuse me. Hey.

You seen that?

Uh, yes. That's the picture you have in
your wallet. I saw it at dinner tonight,

during intermission, and now.

Oh, you didn't see these? No.

You didn't see these. Look at there.

Thank you.

Nothing. I just wondered what you were
doing.

Well, I was reading a novel, sir.

With the children gone, I find the
household chores just a few minutes in

Well, that's okay. I... I just thought
it was so quiet.

Yeah.

Yes, well... Well, perhaps I could pace
up and down in my room, sir. The sound

might give you the illusion of activity.

Uncle Bill.

Boy, you sure write slow, Buffy.

Lights out, you guys.

It's too early.

It's too early. Aren't you even going to
tell us a story like Uncle Bill does?

You've got your stories at the campfire.

Come on, help me out, you guys. Jody, go
to your tent.

I've got five other tents to police.

Jody, I know what we could tell Uncle
Bill in the...

Not even a postcard?

No, sir.

Of course, it's possible the children
are so thoroughly occupied at camp they

have no time to write.

Yeah, sure.

Still, you'd think... Well, work's
coming along fine. That's something.

Let me see that stuff.

I've looked through them twice.

I was successful in obtaining...

Two tickets for Man is a Fool for
tonight, sir. Shall we call Miss

again? Oh, no, not her. She's changed.

Yes, from what you tell me, sir, hers is
a frothy attitude.

She seems to have a tendency to dismiss
the things that matter.

Yeah. Listen, I'm going to call Olivia
Muirfield. Now, she's a lot of fun.

Besides, she's sensible.

Sir, we might explain.

We're calling at the last moment.

Because we've only just been able to
procure the theater tickets.

That's good thinking, French.

We're having a lot of fun this week,
huh?

We are indeed, sir.

The play didn't bring that out, Bill.

Well... Oh, that music.

French remembered.

Still nothing from the kids.

Not very hard to write a postcard or
call up.

I well remember.

French made the most wonderful fondue
and champagne.

Marvelous taste.

Yeah. Now, listen, getting back to what
we were saying about the play. Now, if

that guy, that guy playing the father,
if he was the kid's father, I'm his

It's the author's point of view, Bill.

Oh, Bill.

French remembered our song.

Yeah.

Well, if he's got that kind of point of
view, he shouldn't be writing about

kids.

Let's dance.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, a seven -year -old kid's got a
lot more sense than that.

What seven -year -old kid?

The kid in the play, honey. The father
treated him like he didn't have a brain

in his head.

But a seven -year -old child does have a
rather limited vocabulary.

Oh, you should hear Jody and Buffy.

I mean, kids aren't... You can't treat
them like they were household pets or

something. They're human beings, honey.

It's like you and me, except in smaller
packages.

All right, Bill, anything you say.

Oh, now, now, come on. Don't just give
in like that. If you think I'm wrong,

so. But I'm telling you that I think I'm
right in this case. Now, a seven -year

-old kid.

The kid's supposed to be seven in a
play, right?

Now, don't you think he'd understand a
word like communicate?

I suppose he might.

Well, of course he would.

Here, hold that.

Go to your seat.

Now, take a look at this. Now, that's
Buffy's spelling paper, see?

Form, look, play, glass, coat, remember.

Three syllables.

That's quite a word, remember.

Now, that's Jody's. Let, flee, formal,
like, sorry, that.

Ah, now.

Buffy did that. She's six.

Six.

That.

Now, you want to see what a 15 -year
-old can do?

This is Sissy's composition for English
class, What My Vacation Meant to Me.

Let's read that.

Come on, read it.

Stop being so busy so we can get this
letter sent.

boy, we got. And Buffy's got very good
reflexes, too, for a little girl. Well,

so is Sissy, for that matter. She's got
very good reflexes. Of course, she's

getting a little bit ladylike now, you
know, a little too grown up for touch

football. Now, I want to show you this.

See, Jody got this for doing the most
push -ups in his age group in school.

It's, um, it's very pretty. Isn't that
pretty?

Push -up champion.

Oh, I gotta show you that plaque that
Buffy got. No.

Thank you, but I really do have to be
going.

I'm a working girl, you know.

Well, gee, you have to go already. Seems
like you just got here.

Well, no, it's been hours.

Well, thank you for the marvelous
midnight supper.

Good night.

Oh, you don't have to show me out. I
know the way.

Bye.

Boy, she changed.

what an isolated place this apartment
is. You can't even hear the traffic down

below. True, sir.

Oh, there's nothing in the mail, sir.

You sure?

Quite.

But we must presume the children are
thoughtless, sir.

I mean, well, every nanny in the park
assures me of that fact.

You've been talking to the nannies about
not hearing from the kids?

Oh, purely as research, sir.

I now have time to take long walks
and...

Well, conversation ensues when one
plants one's person upon a park bench.

Well, you'd think I'd just send one
little card, that's all.

If you're about to telephone the camp,
sir, they have no instrument with which

to answer.

You called?

Yes, sir. I reached a village called
Quihonsic. The operator assures me the

children arrive there safely.

The camp uses that telephone in an
emergency for calls to the outside

at least they're safe.

Oh, excuse me, sir.

Oh, that's all right.

I was looking around.

Yes, sir. Are you looking for something,
Frank?

Oh, no, sir, no. I was... Well,

I fancied I heard something in you.

Well, I guess even Mrs. Beasley misses
him now.

Yes, sir.

Mrs. Beasley.

A thought just struck me. Well, later.
Later.

Now, French, you know Buffy never goes
anywhere without Mrs. Beasley.

Precisely. She must be miserable up
there without her.

Exactly. Psychologically, the child
should not be separated from the doll.

yet. Exactly, sir. So that only leaves
one course open. We've got to get the

doll up there to the camp even if
there's only a few days left for

True, sir.

Shall I purchase two tickets to
Kwihonsik, sir? Right. Two tickets for

Kwihonsik.

Did you call about the tickets?

Yes, sir. We're to pick them up at the
airport.

Oh, wait a minute.

Forgot Mrs. Beasley.

Good. Hi, Mr. French.

Where are you going?

We missed you.

What are the suitcases for?

Hey, what are you doing here?

Aren't you glad to see us? What do you
mean, am I glad to see you?

Why don't you take Mrs. Beasley with
you?

Well, sis, how come you brought him home
so early?

Well, Mr. Bailey said that anybody who
wanted to leave early could because he

had special cards leaving to take back
some of the kids. So?

The ones that could only stay a few
days.

So when you didn't write us, we came
back.

What do you mean I didn't write to you?

Well, we didn't get any letters.

Did you write?

Well... Did you write?

Why, I fancy I was so preoccupied with
not having heard from them, I neglected

to.

Good heaven, what an impasse.

Anyway, we missed you.

So we came home.

Have another pancake.