All language subtitles for Twice in a Lifetime s01e15 Birds of Paradise

He should be here by now.

Good morning, Mr. Stanford.

We're ready for you. What's so good
about it? And what is so good about my

being linked again?

I called ahead.

Asked them to make sure they got you
here on time. You don't ask.

You tell.

Time is money in this business. In the
past fiscal quarter, I have made more

money for my clients in 30 -second
increments than any other director in

industry. And I didn't do that by being
late.

Fire them. Where is my latte?

Where is... Sorry, Rexy, I couldn't
resist.

How's my bad boy director?

Bad boy is not how I refer to myself,
Michael. Neither is Rexy.

I'm not toxic. You are to me.

Get me another latte!

Another latte!

Okay, guys, come on. We don't have much
time here. What do you think? They over

the top enough for you? Follow me. What
is that?

It's our badger. It's our hunting
badger. It looks like a skunk. It's not.

our badger.

Look, lollipops, I'm selling happy
badger cereal, not stink flakes.

Pet names.

I love that.

You know, you got a little badger in
you.

Can I call you that? You can call
yourself unemployed. You're fired.

Wreck. It's a simple mistake. I'll pick
it up.

It's a simple mistake, and it's your
last one. Now, you and your light little

loafers can tippy -toe on out of here.

You know, I put up with your abuse, your
attitude, your homophobic little

remarks, and I've risen above it all
with wit and personal charm.

But when you attack my
professionalism... Get off my set!

Now!

Let's go, everybody!

We're late!

Chop, chop!

Roll camera!

Roll playback!

Action!

This isn't Swan Lake, you know? It's not
Swan Lake. All you have to do is start

here at Happy Badger Mountain, do your
little happy dance from Badger Mountain

there, and ta -da, it's a camera. Just
turn the camera, all right? It's all

little pea brain has to remember.

You think you can do that?

All right, everybody, let's go. I want
everybody up.

We'll see.

One thing's for sure.

Sure made a mess of take one.

You will go back on all your memories of
Jack to change the course of your life.

bring agent in the universe.

The red X at your feet.

Yeah, I know what a mark is, but I'm...
Good.

Find it.

What is this?

Is this some kind of joke?

Oh, afraid not.

Think of it as an audition.

The most important one of your life.

An audition?

What? I'm not prepared for it. You are.

Rolling. Name?

Uh... You do know your name, don't you?

Rex Stanford.

Now, tell him a little bit about
yourself. Anything.

Family? Friends?

Interest?

Dreams.

Aspirations. What you do for fun.

What makes your heart race and your
spirit fly.

I make commercials.

In fact, my after -sales increase is not
the best in the business.

Oh, dear.

Wow. What the... Don't say it.

It can happen.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

That is Othniel, your judge.

My... My judge.

This is the real deal, isn't it?

I'm dead.

Yes, Mr.

Stanford. The real deal.

You're deader than a doornail.

Can you tell me...

One good reason not to condemn your soul
for all eternity?

I want a Cleo. Three years in a row.

Wrong answer.

1973. A small summer theater in eastern
Vermont.

Rex was an aspiring young actor working
for Peanuts.

A starving actor?

Our Mr.

Stanford?

Hard to believe.

You only do that for love.

That's right, Your Honor.

He loved every second of it.

And the experience was made even more
sweet because he could share it with his

true soulmate, Sarah Carlyle.

They shared their love of the theater,
their love of each other.

Where did you get that footage?

That's Sarah.

And me.

Oh, Sarah.

She's so young, she's so beautiful.

What happened to Sarah?

She dumped me.

Oh, really?

It's a career move, Sarah.

After a while, if I push hard enough, I
can be directing. The money is

unbelievable. We'll be rich.

I've already accepted the job.

And I want you to come with me.

No, Rex.

My life is here doing something I love.

Our life is here.

Not mine.

I'm leaving, Sarah.

Sarah, you'll come back to me.

Sooner or later, you're going to realize
I was right.

You're going to come back.

Do you still believe that she dumped
you, Mr. Stanford?

Yeah, I wasn't wrong. The last time I
saw Sarah, she was playing the skunk.

Badger. Whatever.

I mean, what kind of life is that?

The kind that pays the bills to support
your son.

Oh.

Sarah had a... Had a child?

Yes.

Your child.

A boy.

Why didn't she tell me?

Sarah was the... The best thing that
ever happened to me.

The only person I ever loved.

You can change that, you know.

I... Oh.

Oh, you're... I... Listen, I would... I
would do anything to have a chance to

change what I did.

So be it.

You will have three days, and three days
only, to repair the damage that you did

to your own soul and to Thaddeus.

No one will recognize you.

You are a free agent in the universe.

The blessing of God Almighty and his
court.

Oh, no.

He has forbidden him to appear on the
stage.

Sorry,

I didn't mean that.

Charles.

Charles.

Charles. Yes,

Charles, you are my dresser. Dress me
this cape.

A lion.

A lion. I never get used to this stupid
cape.

Here, it ties on somewhere underneath my
armpit at the back.

I've never been able to tie this thing
to save my own life.

You can see it right at the back. Watch
my hair.

I'm sorry.

Underneath. Underneath.

Around the front and then underneath the
armpit.

Get back. Watch the sword.

There's a sword there. Watch it. Sorry.

You all right, Charles?

You look as if you've seen a ghost.

Have you?

There are ghosts in this theater.

Why don't you sit down?

Let's go. We have to run.

Charles is ill.

No, no, I'm fine.

Sarah.

No, you're not fine.

You look like death warned over.

You.

Gotta go.

My entrance.

Did James ever go through my cues with
you before he left? He promised me he

would. He also promised me a new nose,
but he didn't get me one, did he?

This one makes me look like a duck
-billed platypus.

James. Come alive, Charles.

James.

Your friend.

James. James, my friend.

I see. Oh, I see. You think that I'm...
No, you think that I'm... Get off the

stage, you fat buffoon!

You're going to tell me I got sent back
20 years to Woosera and I'm a dresser? A

game dresser?

It's a... festival.

I'm joining the company of guards
tomorrow.

I agree. Would a designer ever heard of
Velcro?

Velcro? What is Velcro?

It's a lacing process that they used at
another time.

Ow! Ow!

You're hurting me.

Just inhale, Victoria.

Got it.

You look beautiful, Vic.

Hello.

Hello.

He'll never get into anything that small
again. She's going to marry a banker,

blimp up to a size 22, and make his life
a living hell.

You are so funny.

Well, let's go pick a few pockets in my
handsome cut purse.

Tracy and Hepburn.

Got your watch.

How'd you know?

Probably.

No, Tracy and Hepburn. How'd you know
that?

Tracy and Hepburn.

Did you check my breeches, Charles?

No, I could not.

You, where have you been?

I'm a cadet of Gascon. Look at me.

I'm a master, and they all think I'm
gay. More to the point, he... Me.

thinks I'm gay. Now, how am I going to
get me to listen to me when he thinks

one of them?

Them?

Guy who's a little light in the loafer?

Think of this as a lesson in tolerance,
Rex.

Judge Othniel goes for that kind of
thing.

Likes to put the loafer on the other
foot, so to speak. I need some help

don't know anything about costumes.

Oh, that explains a lot.

I'll have a word with your other half
about that.

Lyle, James is not my other half.

No need to be ashamed.

Meantime, these last three shows are
most likely going to be my last three

at Chivalo.

My legs aren't what they used to be, and
neither is my concentration.

If you and I got muddled up in a costume
change, I'd be lost.

I'll go over my cues tonight.

He's leaving us, you know.

He told me this afternoon.

And he plans to tell his pretty young
lady friend tonight.

You should have seen him as he ran
through one of my rehearsals for me.

He was very good, you know.

He's scared.

Well, I wish he'd stay for the rest of
the season.

But he's off in three days.

To make a mark for himself as a gopher
in the fascinating world of television

commercials. It's a big ad agency.

He may be running errands today, but in
five years he'll be directing. Inside of

ten, he'll be pulling down six figures.
What kind of a life is that?

If he'd stayed, he could have soared on
the words of some of the best works ever

written.

Anyway, I suppose I'll have to find
another bit.

In Death of a Salesman? That's right.

We're going to close the season with it.

You mean you would have cast me?

I mean Rex?

As this long? He's got the goods.

But you have to want it.

In your heart.

That's what drives actors on.

You can't teach that.

No.

I have to blow my nose.

Death of a Salesman.

That could be your autobiography.

I had no idea he thought I could play
Biff.

Amazing what you can learn the second
time around.

How are you finding the smell of the
grease paint?

It's comforting.

Very familiar.

Still, I don't know how you expect me to
convince myself that becoming an actor

is a good career choice.

Is that what I expect?

That's what I'm getting from this so
far.

Look at Lionel. He's as good as they
come.

He spends half of every year collecting
unemployment, for God's sakes.

For God's sake?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just saying
that I'm having a hard time convincing

myself that living like that is any
better than living the way I live.

Living is the key word in that sentence,
Rex.

See, you weren't a very happy person the
way you turned out. You became

arrogant, took out your frustrations on
everyone around you. I understand that,

and I agree with that. But if I let them
take on the world with a child and no

money, what's going to happen to them?

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just making some
final adjustments.

Uh, they can't see me when I'm dressed
like this. Yeah, so?

So they think you're a little odd.

I have one thing I will keep.

One thing as I enter before God,

saluting, sweeping away the stars, and

that is... That is?

Hey, Sarah.

Hi, Charles.

What's the matter?

Nothing.

Would you like some help?

No.

What is it, sweetheart?

Rex.

Leaving me to take some stupid job.

He told you already?

Nobody's going to.

I heard Lionel tell you he was.

He had his reason.

But that's what I came to talk to you
about.

What? What, a coward he is? No, he's not
a coward.

Then why is he leaving?

I thought he loved me.

Oh, he does love you.

With all his heart.

And you love him, too, right?

Yeah. Well, so it's simple.

You'll both be incredibly happy if you
just go with him.

But I love it here.

I thought he did too.

Look, this is fun and all fair, but it's
not the real world.

And Rex has potential. I wouldn't be
surprised if he became a huge success.

In commercial?

Yes.

Anyone can do that.

It's debatable.

Why would I want that? Money,
securities, what everyone wants.

You're starting to sound exactly like
him.

Only because he's right.

But he'll never be happy unless you're
with him.

Think of your child, Sarah.

I have years before I think about
children.

I'm an actress, Carol.

I love what I do.

I'm alive when I'm on stage.

To reach people, make them laugh.

Touch their hearts.

When I'm acting, it's like I understand
what God had in mind for me.

It just feels right, and I know that Rex
feels the same way.

That's why I fell in love with him.

I can't help it if he's scared, but I'm
not, and I'm not going to give it up.

Lionel wants Charles to learn his cues.

We're enlisted to help.

What's going on?

We were just talking.

What do you think with you guys? Can't
you ever just keep your mouth shut?

Sarah, wait up.

He's rather particular about his cues.
The last time he missed an entrance

because of a dresser, he was playing
Frankenstein in upstate New York. What

happened?

They found him three days later in a
snowbank in Buffalo.

We need to talk. Not now, Rex.

She thinks I'm a jerk thanks to you.

That went well. Oh, yeah. She wouldn't
even listen.

Didn't you learn anything in court?

Sarah has a gift.

You did too, but you threw yours away.
Why?

I told you, acting is a ridiculous
career.

Why? I told you. But you didn't tell me
the truth.

Why, Rex?

Because I was afraid, all right?

That this wasn't enough. That I wasn't
good enough for Sarah.

I knew she wouldn't come with me.

And I was afraid.

that she would see that I'm not the man
she thought I was.

And so I left her because I didn't
deserve her love. I left her before she

leave me.

A crimson bell in my heart.

And when I think of you, I tremble.

And the bell swings.

And rings Roxanne, Roxanne.

Well, he dives into me, knocking me into
the first row.

I looked up, and there she was, my sweet
Melissa.

It was instantaneous.

We were married a year later, and the
rest, as they say, is history.

How romantic.

Well, things like that happen only once
in a lifetime, my dear.

You have to seize those moments and hold
on to them.

Some of this stuff might be worth some
money, Lionel.

I suppose.

Most of it's just plaster and plywood
and... bobbles and beads.

How long were you married?

Forever.

There.

We are.

Many summers ago.

She's beautiful.

Oh, yes.

What's with the dress?

Oh, well, we were having it up on tour
with Charlie Zant.

The first time we played this place, it
was still more of a barn than a theater.

Is that a tractor?

Mm -hmm.

And the cows.

We had to fight them to get onto the
stage.

Oh, the smell of the manure and the roar
of the crowd.

So we loved the place. We made an offer
on it.

And they accepted.

We were amazed.

I was scared to death. I couldn't see
beyond the first row. But Melissa was

it was the right move.

Live by faith, she said.

Not by sight.

That's beautiful.

I love it.

She turned my face into the wind

and pushed me on.

Live by faith.

She was my... my son.

Lionel?

Are you asleep like that?

Lionel?

I don't feel anything.

Lionel? No.

Lionel?

Lionel? Lionel.

That

was

fun. I love his stories.

Yeah, Whittle, you've heard them 30
times.

Listen to you.

What? You've already got one foot out
the door.

I was going to tell you about it after
Cyrano closed.

I'm sorry the cat had to get out of the
bag like that.

I was going to get a bottle of wine so
that we could celebrate.

I'm not going with you, Rex. I haven't
even told you about it yet.

She's not going with you, Rex.

Charles, would you please excuse us?
This is between me and Sarah.

He tried to convince me to go.

Yeah, well, he's a wise man.

No, I'm wrong.

Thanks for making me see that.

What do you mean you're wrong?

This is a real career move for me,
Sarah.

I mean, after a while, I bet I could get
you a job there, too. I'm not going.

She's not going, Rex, and neither should
you.

Excuse me, but I think I know what's
best for my life. You don't have a clue,

but Sarah does. She knows what's going
to happen. She knows that if you take

this job, it won't be long before your
heart shrinks down to the size of an ice

cube. I do? Yeah, you do. And I know
you'll get addicted to the money and

an egotistical tyrant that no one can
stand to be around.

Look, I don't need some old queen
telling me how to live my life. Rex!

Queen, that's not you.

Oh, yes, it is.

He doesn't want to see it, but it's
there.

And soon he won't be able to hide it, or
want to hide it, because the only way

he can feel superior is to pick on
people he considers weaker. Well, I got

secret for you, pal.

There isn't enough money in the world to
make you feel like a big man, and it

doesn't come from a bank.

It comes from the heart.

And, buddy, you are down to your last
dime.

You walk out on her, you're bankrupt.

You'll never meet another woman like
her.

What do you see in this guy, anyway?

I don't get it.

That's it, lollipop.

Rex!

He provoked me.

He's a defenseless old man.

Defenseless? Oh!

What are you doing?

I'm going to pound some sense into him.
What's he going to do?

He's fighting a girl! Ten girls to you,
buddy.

I'm taking the job.

I'm sorry, Sarah.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I wanted to do better by honest, I did.

Look, go away, have your baby, and never
tell him.

He'll never be there for you anyway.

That's the second time you've mentioned
a child.

I know.

I got a big mouth and a bad temper.

You're better off without me.

I mean, you're better... Better off
without any of us guys.

You're not gay, are you?

Uh, I mean, uh... Yes.

Yes,

I am. I'm gay.

The shirt, the shoes, my Streisand
record collection. Come on.

I'm as gay as a garden party.

Why do you say that?

Thank you, Charles.

Whoever or whatever you are.

For being my knight in shining armor.

I only wish that Rex were half the man
you are.

Interesting technique.

I got to use some help with my technique
last night.

Sometimes the direct approach isn't
necessarily the best.

You know, I don't get this at all,
Jones.

Seeing her has only made me fall in love
with her that much more again.

In this world, this was the last place I
was ever really happy.

But he's going to leave her again. And I
know what he's thinking.

There's no security here.

He wants to be safe. He wants to be in
control.

I don't know what to do now. I think I
only made it worse.

Lionel.

That's not my shirt, is it?

No, this belongs to Rex.

You forgot my water last night.

Your water?

Yes.

In one act alone, I have to fight a
hundred men, learn Roxanne loves me not,

lead the cadets in the song, and finish
with a long speech.

I always need my water in the wings, and
I only drink my own spring water.

Nothing else.

This is clean. It's no chemical taste.
You know, you could sell this in little

bottles. You could put a label on this.
You could make a fortune.

Oh, dear boy.

Why would people want to buy water in
little bottles?

So, um... He's still leaving us, our
young Rex?

Yeah.

he loves her.

Possibly not.

If he had stayed, would you really have
cast him as Ben?

Yes.

Comforting these old ghosts.

Charles!

Let me help you with that. Charles!

You're gonna miss your entrance.

I'm not gonna miss anything. The word is
going.

I'm not going to miss my entrance. I
already have missed my entrance. I'm

I'm sorry, Lionel. I'll get it. I'll get
it. I'll get it.

You could have made it. I could have
hooked your kid for him. You are not my

dresser. You are, however, my
understudy. And as such, it is your duty

that my dresser knows his cues. You will
take Charles through my cues tomorrow

until he knows them by heart.

This is my last shot at this thing, and
I'm not going to let you ruin it.

Let us go, please.

Get off the stage, you fat buffoon!

I'm the fat buffoon. Or will be soon.

Late. I'm sick.

I'm pregnant.

You knew that before me, Hal.

Well, sometimes God lets you know things
that...

So that you can get help that sometimes
you never knew you needed.

Why do I always sound like a fool when I
talk to you?

It's all right.

I understand.

But you mustn't tell Rex.

Oh, but I think... No.

Please don't tell him.

I don't want a man who doesn't want me.

Or my baby.

Promise me.

I see you are a bird lover, sir,
providing yourself an ample courage for

your office.

You asked, did you not ask, my dear? Why
against one stinger they send a hundred

swords? Because this stinger they know
to be a friend of Cyrano.

Well, what do you do next?

I meet Lionel stage right.

Left.

Left, right.

I meet him left, right. And then off
with the blue cape, on with the gold

number, check his makeup, dab his sweat,
go stage left, hang up blue cape.

Yeah, and meet the poets.

Right, poets.

They're always a mess.

They're always a mess.

All right, next cue.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I love this one.

It is my pleasure to displease. I love
hatred. I love how it feels to face a

thousand angry eyes.

Well, isn't that the truth?

Yo, where are you?

What do you do next?

Huh? What do you do next?

Listen.

I have an idea.

The only way I'm going to learn these
cues is for you to run it from the top.

The whole thing? Yeah, come on. I mean,
I don't want to end up in a snowbank in

Buffalo, right?

Come on, how many chances do we have
left to get this right?

One. One, precisely, my dear Watson.

So we'll go from the top with the
blocking.

That's the only way I'll get my timing
down.

Let's see, I'm okay up until about mid
-play, so let's pick it up from the

man in the moon scene.

I don't know that.

You know every word.

Look, I don't know it, okay? So you're
wrong. I can't remember.

If I'm alive, it's a miracle.

I was dropped from the moon.

There I was.

Way up there, hanging, clinging to the
saffron -colored

balls.

Sorry if I'm behaving strangely.

I just arrived by moonbeam.

You can imagine how Stardock clouds
one's vision.

The stars are my boots from wading
through the Milky Way.

The hair, a comet's tail.

Go on, my boy, go on.

Reach for the stars.

Look at this.

A stag in my trousers, where the great
bear tried to bite me. I escaped only to

have Sagittarius snatch me up, stretch
me in his bow, and shoot me like an

directly into the scales of Monsieur
Libra.

Stars, with that which is unspoiled.

One thing as I enter before God,
saluting and sweeping away the stars

that which is unspoiled and unspotted
from the world, and all my own.

And that is...

My

white plume.

My dear friends, you have just witnessed
something extraordinary.

Talent.

Wondrous, blossoming talent.

Blown in on God's breath and reaching
for the light.

I need not tell you how inspiring it was
or how important it is to preserve it.

And I saw something that I'll steal for
my next performance as well.

That, however, will not be this evening.

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, Ciano
will be played by Rex Stanford.

Surprised?

I never knew I had that in me.

Your performance?

I just saw it but I can actually
remember it.

Is that possible?

Not only possible but logical.

You are what you were Rex.

Your life today is what you brought with
you from yesterday.

What time's curtain?

See you then.

Break a leg, young sir.

Thank you, ma 'am.

St. Genesis.

The patron saint of actors.

He's always watched over me.

You have your innocence in young Sarah.

Drinking every moment of life.

Tonight and always.

I'll see you on the other side of the
lights.

It's like a leg.

I love you, Sarah.

I love you, Rick.

I'll be right there.

Well,

it's about that time.

I'm really doing it. Yes, you are.

I don't think I'm ever going to be the
same after that.

Thank you.

I'm sorry about the fight.

Apology accepted.

Energy, my lad.

Energy.

Break a leg, Tad.

Live your life.

Enjoy your new memories.

Don't forget all your old ones.

Including you?

Yes. But I won't forget you.

Or that nose.

Now go. Take two as up.

This is your cue, buddy.

Let's fly.