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I dare you.

Come on, I dare you.

I dare you.

Okay. John, I don't think you should.

Why not?

Well, because it's illegal.

Good afternoon.

And how may I help you, young lady?

I would like some Benzedrine inhalers for my migraines, please.

Who's your doctor?

Dr. Bennett in Tuxedo Park.

I go to Barnard, but I still go to my family doctor back home.

And how many do you need?

The whole case, please.

Well, you seem like a pretty sensible girl.

I bet they're terrible.

That's good for you, Sadie. Drink your medicine like a good girl.

Helen,

I dare you.

Okay.

Dare me to what?

Ben's a dream, makes me sing.

Patton's 90 miles away from Paris. I don't think Lucian and Jack are going to

make any time for deliberation.

Well, they should have appraised General Patton of their plans.

Still, sailing a freighter across the ocean is really something.

Not like they ran away to join the war. They just simply ran away.

Well, Joanie, I mean, there's still you both in the Atlantic.

Give them a little bit of credit.

There are other threats from below.

There was a fire in the traveling circus, and they saved the lion,

but, this is a very big but, the hippos were boiled in their tanks.

The hippos were boiled in their tanks.

The sailors are back.

Jack!

I thought you had to sail to be a sailor.

Missus? I spent the entire day learning work. Where is my black veil?

Ordinarily, when a going whale... party is thrown in one's honor, it's customary

for one to actually go away.

We fucked up. We got kicked off the ship.

No, you fucked up. I thought you were desperate to get away from Dave.

I am, I am. We'll catch you next week. Yeah, we'll sign on and we'll leave

tomorrow. Don't expect another going away party. You guys have had one too

Bond voyages without actually taking a voyage.

Tomorrow. Definitely tomorrow. Yes, we are definitely leaving tomorrow.

Do you miss me, Joe?

How long is this voyage going to last?

One day, maybe two.

Can I at least buy you a Bon Voyage drink?

Good people, aren't they?

I dare you to cast aspersions on my red wine.

I thought we were doing something tonight.

I am doing something. I'm getting wet.

Put one for me, will you?

Good people?

What?

Miracle.

He didn't go.

Now, Dave, it's not like Lucian has just risen from the dead.

What are you doing here?

That was my question.

We, uh, got in a little beef.

We're gonna leave tomorrow.

Tomorrow. And tomorrow.

And tomorrow.

Well, I am delighted that you didn't ship out.

Delighted?

Yes.

to talk.

Dave, what is the point of fixating on Lucian like this?

The point?

Maybe I am fixating, but everyone's drawn to him.

And you are.

Admit it. Come on, admit it, Alan. No, no, I... No, Lucian is the social

butterfly.

And Lou found you, and he found Jack, and he found Joan. And Lou made this

scene happen because of this amazing thing that he has.

And anyway, I saw him first.

I wanted him first.

I saw him at Camp Hilo.

Did I tell you that I was his camp counselor?

Yeah, several times.

So what doesn't bother you in the slightest that he uses you to do

Not if it keeps us close, Alan. I will do anything to keep us close.

Oh, he's always been a devil.

You know, naughtiest boy in the camp.

You think it's a little drastic sailing all the way to France just to get away

from Dave?

It's not drastic when Dave quit teaching English in St. Louis to become a

janitor in New York just to be near me.

I'm not holding Dave up as the standard of reasonable behavior.

Why do you let him write your freshman lit papers when you're more than capable

of discoursing on the great freshman themes?

Dave gets a kick out of doing it for me.

Who am I to deny him such simple pleasures?

Because Dave expects something from the deal.

That, Lucian, is reasonable.

Dave's pathetic, you know.

The idiot.

He's the hunchback of Notre Dame without the heart. Yes, Dave is pathetic.

But he is a person, not a literary conceit.

That's why I gotta get out of here.

You do not need to sail to France, cheap melodramatics.

You pretend like you're running away from the problem, but the truth is, you,

Lucian, are creating it.

Bill, I don't know what to do.

It's simple. Stop using Dave.

Politely pull him aside and tell him to leave you alone, clean and simple.

Take care of this, Lucian. These theatrics are becoming a real bore.

Have you the audio themes entertained?

Amateur theatrics.

Freshman theatrics. Doesn't even aspire to the sophomoric.

Strictly nowhere.

You must leave fine.

But do it soon, Lucian. Before something nasty happens here.

I'm serious.

I think he knows how you feel, Dad.

I'm never sure if I accurately convey my feelings.

to round up some more scratch for some booze.

You need about a buck.

I'm flush.

I'll cover it.

Here.

Here, here, here. No, I'm coping.

I told him I wasn't here.

Let's just go get the booze.

It's a liquor store, Lou.

It's not Timbuktu.

I'll be right back with the booze, all right?

Hurry back.

Now, here is a nice little item about a conflagration in a traveling circus.

The firefighters managed to save the lions, but the hippos were boiled in

tanks. Who says we aren't making sacrifices on the home front?

Yes.

The hippos were boiled in their tanks.

Awfully rank.

My empathy is bottomless for the poor hippopotamus.

Touché.

It's too bad that you were not a man.

Ah, Bill, nobody's perfect.

Bottoms up.

I can't think of anyone except for you.

You've ruined me.

Oh, Dave, you've ruined your song.

No.

I did everything that you asked me to do, Lucian.

You encouraged me.

Now I'm discouraging you.

I'm never going to be what you want.

Oh, no.

No, but you are.

You are. You're exactly what I want. Wave, I'm not a queer, all right?

Find someone else.

But I found you.

I'm talking to Bill Avenue.

It doesn't have anything to do with Bill.

I like you.

I really do.

I just don't like you like that.

You can hang out with Bill, and you can hang out with Alan, but if I want to

hang out with you, then I've got to do all kinds of shit.

I've got to earn your fucking favors, Lucian.

I'm sorry about that.

Stop,

Dave. I love you, I love you.

Lucian, Lucian.

You have me. You have me.

I went to the park to talk, and I wanted to get him to stop obsessing.

And he kissed me, and he wouldn't stop.

And he tried to fuck me, and he wouldn't stop.

Even after I shot him, he wouldn't stop.

I rolled his body into the Hudson.

I guess I should have stayed here.

They'll probably give me the chair for the phone.

Don't be absurd.

They don't fry freshman literature students.

You need to call your mother and ask her for some money and get a lawyer and

turn yourself in.

God damn it.

Here's your cigarette.

The last one.

I thought this was going to end badly.

Bullseye.

Where is the brood?

The brood is out playing with the neighborhood urchins.

So do they have ruins down in Guatemala?

It's all ruins.

Or it all will be, given enough time.

Ah, just like people.

Yes.

But people decay more promptly than Mayan temples.

I told Lee that I would meet him down at the station.

And what does your young man make of the Mayans?

Well, I have yet to inquire about his preference in lost civilizations.

Ah, but he must like ruins.

Yes.

He likes me tolerably enough.

We have reached an accommodation.

Well, that must be nice when sex can be so tolerably accommodated.

You have a nice vacation, dear.

You too.

But I'm not going anywhere, remember?

A vacation from me.

Staying behind is not a vacation.

Envy and resentment, Joanie, is only possible because you cannot see your own

space, time, location.

William, I see my FaceTime location, and I am angry about being left behind.

I thought you said Lucian and Alan were driving down to visit.

Well, if you really thought so, you'd stay to see your oldest friends,

you? Well, very tempting, but... But other activities are more tempting.

Goodbye, dear.

Bye, little B.

Did you see the flock of vultures?

Nope.

The flock of vultures.

A brood of vultures.

A brood of brooding vultures.

One must be very careful to call a predator by its proper plural, don't you

think, Lee?

Oh, God!

It's so good to see you.

Oh, I haven't seen you in so long, you guys.

And you, I haven't seen you since... Since, uh, prison. Prison run.

Where's Bill?

Bill's in Guatemala with his boyfriend.

Guatemala? Yeah.

It's ridiculous, huh?

So we missed Willie?

He's not in his book?

Well, consider yourself lucky.

Bill's been acting like a schoolgirl in the lab.

What a faggy jag. We only have three, four days' time before we have to get

to the crib.

Why are you leaving so soon?

I have to get back to work on Monday as the newly appointed junior editor of the

United Press International.

A foreign correspondent.

That's right, a correspondent in a foreign country.

How utterly deafening.

Thank you.

So, Lucian, are you completely rehabilitated?

John, I wrote Bill we were coming. I don't understand how he could just

You know what? Forget about that because we are going to have a kiss.

Hey, Julie.

Hey,

kiddo. How about a kiss? I collect kisses from sweet little girls.

Thank you very much. Hi there. I'm Alan. I met you both when you were very, very

little. It was back in Texas.

Very, very, very pretty green dress.

It's pink.

It is pink.

What a pretty pink dress.

How pretty?

Too, too pretty. You and your pink dress are just too, too pretty.

Just like your mom.

She's going to give you some competition, Joan.

Pam, out of the running.

So, uh, how are you?

How am I?

I live in a Mexican slum.

My husband has run off with another man.

And I've been too busy with my children to go down to the pharmacy and refill my

dexedrine. Let me introduce you to a friend.

Benny, Joan. Joan, Benny.

Benny!

Thank you. Well, I would like to propose a toast.

Absolutely. To my two favorite boys.

This is going to be kicks. What should we do?

I have a friend with a bar down the street. We could go for free drinks.

Okay. Yeah.

I have to get a baby. I don't know.

Well, I'll watch the kid.

I'd like to stay and wash off some of this road grime.

Yeah?

It's my pleasure. Not too much pleasure, Al?

Easy on the pederast?

Yeah, not to worry, Lou.

I like your genius for the perverse.

Drugs are really cheap.

Bill can get his morphine over the counter.

He can carry his guns anywhere he wants. And he can shoot them in the house.

That's what Willie likes about you.

What about me?

that are evil.

But you know all about that.

About that?

Dave.

You think about him? It?

You mean do I feel guilty about it?

He tried to fuck me.

And he fucked me.

Two years and no money.

Well, Dave's really fucked. He's dead.

I paid for it.

Two years?

Could have been a lot worse.

You feel like going upstairs to my apartment for a drink?

You can bring your friend in.

and see why you shouldn't have yours.

I think that's between Bill and his men.

Fuck me.

Fuck me.

Say you'll never... What? Fuck me?

Fuck me.

Five, six, three, four.

Use me.

Lucian can write a song about anything.

Really?

Well, then why don't you sing us a volcano song?

A volcano song?

Yeah, yeah.

Paracoutine, halfway to Guadalajara.

A real fire and brimstone, hot lava volcano, is that it?

When it erupted back in 47, it wiped out a whole town.

It says here the only thing that was left was the church steeple.

I think the volcano might erupt again.

Damn, should we go?

Do we dare?

Yes.

I need some Fire and Burmestown in my life.

I don't think that's a sweet idea.

They're probably evacuating the area.

Well, I personally love bad ideas.

Baby?

Yes, bad ideas are rarely boring.

Adios, gentlemen.

Bye.

Do you, uh... Do you need anything?

Like, uh... Like what?

Like a blanket.

No, I, uh... Got my bedroom.

Oh. Okay.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Okay. Okay.

Bye. Good night.

Well, uh... Leave early for the volcano.

Yes.

Think the kids will be okay?

Sure they will.

They'll survive without me.

Could have brought them along. I don't mind. Man, they were wailing. Wow.

Well, what about me?

I need this vacation. I might start screaming my head off.

Why does Bill get to have all the fun?

I'm entitled to sing the body electric.

The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them, and charge them full

with the charge of my soul.

Alan, care for a cocktail?

Shit, the Federales.

Do you mean the man?

Si, el hombre.

Waving me over. I wouldn't pull over.

I ain't pulling over, my dear.

Buenos dias, senor.

Los papeles.

You want a drink?

They want

money? I have money.

There you go.

Give him your cash.

I don't have that much on me.

You want my clothes?

Don't give him your clothes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Listen, don't give him your clothes.

No, you'll like it. You'll look good in it.

There you go.

He's crazy.

No, no, no. He's crazy.

You want my shoes?

New York City shoes?

I don't think he gets it.

You want the whole hip outfit.

Is that right?

No, no.

It's good.

Wait a minute.

I don't think that's a good idea.

Voila.

Go to hell.

Let's go.

Oh,

Jesus.

Did you ever keep your hands to yourself?

I thought a little companionship might be nice.

I agreed to sleep with you twice a week. I've already slept with you twice this

week. It deals a deal.

There's no need to be small about this.

Let's just try and keep things on a friendly basis.

tomorrow if you keep your hands to yourself in the meantime.

Water, water everywhere.

And now the job's a dream.

Drink this.

Why didn't we ever get together?

You know, before all that.

Before? Well, before the whole Dave thing.

Oh, the whole Dave thing. Yeah.

Everyone spent that whole summer talking about and analyzing that whole Dave

thing.

So that's why you didn't date me.

I didn't dig you because you went to prison before I got a chance to do any

digging.

I mean, no.

Okay.

Okay.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Scratch a bohemian and you got a voice, girl.

Then I'm a bohemian or a boy scout, but still, I still sort of have these true

blue feelings for Willie.

Oh, come on, he's still my friend.

Hey!

Fucking Mexico.

It's a beat place.

Yes, it is. I've had my fill.

If you're so unhappy, then leave.

With me.

With us.

Bill can't go back to the States. He had that heroin conviction.

You're clean.

I'm polluted.

Your record's clean. You don't have to stay.

I can't leave, Bill.

I left, Bill.

Bill was sucking me dry. Bill is a psychic vampire.

That's his phrase.

Why do you stay with him?

Bill has great potential.

He doesn't write anything except letters.

Alan, did you just come down here to give advice to the Lovelorn?

Why not? Who isn't Lovelorn?

Lucian has great potential.

Yeah.

He did.

Before he stabbed Dave to death.

Lucian has a tender spirit.

Slightly arrogant. Slightly humble.

Slightly beautiful. Slightly daring. Slightly brilliant.

I try to see the world through Lucian's eyes.

I dream about him. Real.

Sleepy time. I can't control my subconscious dreams.

If he had any idea that the madness went on in my head, he would detect me as a

psychic vampire is my phrase.

And I know that it's all too hopeless even to be hopeless, love. I'm not Dave.

But Lucian is my best friend.

All the same.

Yeah, we are the love bomb.

That was brilliant.

He'll spread the word and a horde will descend.

Well, not all of us are so stingy with our faith. We did make a deal.

Yes, we did.

And tonight at midnight, it is the beginning of a new week.

Wait up, Lee.

Welcome, Maria.

We are going the right way.

Well,

the volcano has gone back to sleep, but it's still smoking.

We can go to the town and work it out.

Oh, yes.

Hey, the volcano god's at peace. Be thankful.

Utterly fucking boring. We need to get the volcano god good and goddamn angry.

Should we go for a stroll?

Sure.

Come on, Alan.

No, thanks.

Hey, watch out for the volcano god.

He's lurking in all that old lava.

I thought you wanted to.

Wanted to what?

You know.

Fuck.

You had your chance yesterday and you turned into a Boy Scout.

I'm not a Boy Scout now.

Exactly, not now.

I don't need another person in my life taking me for granted.

Would you kill Alan if he tried to fuck you?

Alan's hip enough to keep his love for me unrequited.

Yeah, Alan's smart enough not to act like Dave.

Why are you so obsessed with Dave? I'm not obsessed with Dave. I'm just

You killed an aspiring lover.

I think perversely attractive.

What about my unrequited love for you?

You aren't the unrequited type, Lucien.

Some volcano.

We never even made it all the way to the volcano.

We should have hiked up the cinder cone. We got close enough.

No, Al, we drove all the way out here. We didn't even make it to the top.

Lucian, there's close enough and there's too far. You always want to go too far.

There's wanting and then there's going.

Mexico's pretty fucking complicated.

Like what?

Like Joan.

What's complicated about it? You have the hots for her.

That's as basic as it gets. That's fundamental chemistry.

Bill's what makes it complicated.

You don't seem to be acting unduly inhibited.

The fuck do you know, Al? You never coveted about his wife before.

I have been in love situations that didn't work out. It's the same thing.

I was trying to think about what it would be like if I stayed with her. I

it's great now, but it would be...

If they stayed together, it would stay great.

You know?

Those kids.

Well, Joan takes care of the kids.

Yeah, with Bill's allowance money.

That's less than you make at UPI.

She loves Bill, though.

But he's worn her out.

I got a girlfriend back in the city anyway. Well, Lou, what is the deal? Are

trying to talk yourself into something or out?

I don't know.

Hey, there's my bathing beauty.

You're worn out bathing beauty.

I'm just worried about you.

I'm sorry.

Don't be boring.

You want to go first, Will?

Yeah.

Come on, Alan.

Go ahead.

You two worn out?

No time.

No, I didn't think you'd do that.

So what do you think the Pacific is?

I don't know, we could float.

Float a boat away.

And find out... I've been trapped in sorrow.

You never know.

I'm gonna step out.

Joan?

Joan?

Joan? Joan?

What happened?

I don't know. It got tight, so I got out. She wanted to float with the

current. Joan!

Did she swim? I don't know. She was.

Joan?

You shouldn't have let her along. I didn't leave her. You got her in the

didn't you? You know I didn't leave her.

What are you doing?

What does it look like I'm doing?

I'm staring into the abyss.

Honey, if you stare into the abyss long enough, it stares back into you.

Oh, it has.

It has.

Nothing as simple as you and I.

We're both doomed.

How am I doomed?

Deep stuff.

What's your doom?

Maybe you are.

Why don't you come back to New York?

Come back how?

You can come back with us.

With me.

I can't make bills.

with you.

Not realistic.

We're both luckless.

I'm faithful and you're too faithless.

What about Willie?

Running off into the jungle with another little boy friend?

He's not exactly faithful.

Willie always comes back.

And at the end of the road...

What about? What do we do?

What do I do?

The old game.

One of the kicks.

You've always done well in New York.

Are you ready for me and my children?

Are you ready for that?

Are you?

Does that bother you?

Not too much.

You seemed like you liked it before.

That's all right.

That's all the questions. What are you fishing around for?

Nothing. I'm just trying to be personable.

Affectionate.

Save the affection for your kids.

Maybe your wife would like some too.

Johnny has my affection.

If you love your wife so much, then why are you here with me?

Just to get back to where you started from.

Where's your brother?

Upstairs. He's upstairs?

Is your daddy back?

No. He's not?

Do you go get Billy for me? Go get your brother.

Oh, it's so good to see you.

All the way to Mexico, no Willie.

I think he's avoiding us.

Yeah, we have that in common.

Well, it's a long way back to the Apple.

I can't believe you're not coming with us.

You want to get back in the car?

Grab the kids.

Jump in your car.

Sure.

Just, uh... We could just leave Bill a note.

Dear Bill, taking the kids, gone to New York. Adios.

Why not?

The car's right there. I'll loan you a piece of paper for the note.

No.

Wow. See you.

I would say drive carefully, but it doesn't seem to apply.

I have carelessness, you know, without a care.

You're fucking exciting.

I tried to get her to come back.

How hard did you try?

I tried.

I fucking tried, I did.

She loves Bill.

She's got those two kids. It's not like she's free, you know what I mean?

You want to have a solution?

Stop at a fucking church.

You're right.

I should have just grabbed her and those kids and thrown them in the backseat.

So turn around.

You missed Alan and Lucian.

Oh, what a pity.

How was their visit?

We went to the volcano in Paraclete.

And?

And how was your trip?

Everything about Guatemala was nasty and unreliable.

At the end of the road, there was only mud and mosquitoes and a mad doctor.

And how was your pretty boy?

Well, he was personal and he wasn't dispensing his favors.

He was nice to Papa twice a week, only because I was footing the bill.

He was far more lawyerly than lustful.

He cried breach of contract every time I asked for something more.

I never understood your taste in men.

Did you pay the rent?

With what?

My allowance does not come in until the 15th.

Well, that must crimp the style of a sugar daddy.

Perhaps your paramour thinks you're impecunious.

Quanto dinero, to be nice to Papa.

Twice a week.

I enjoyed seeing Ellen.

And Lucia.

I enjoyed it very much.

Just go back to New York.

Lucien is a tourist.

You are an Aztec pyramid, local color.

What are you?

A scorpion slithering across your crumbling steps.

We really do need money.

We need food.

Yes.

And gin.

And gin.

I will sell her down.

Cheers.

Fucking luck.

Oh, our luck's been good.

Don't be perverse, all right?

Well, think about it. New York, Mexico City, back to Texas.

Dear Jerry, it's been flawless.

Yeah, until now.

Karmic wheel's turned, my friend.

No, the karmic wheel has stopped, Al.

It's all the same thing. You know, as Bill says, better get comfortable with

your space -time location.

This is not my space -time location.

It's fucking nowhere, man.

It's a dog, Bill.

Yes, well, I don't like it much either, but it is an automatic, and it's worth

400 pesos.

Maybe not that much, but I think I know a buyer.

Why don't you bring it over to my place tomorrow night? Thank you, Herb. To my

self -interest, Bill, you need drinking money.

Yes.

Hola. Hola.

Can I buy you a drink, sir?

You sell the gun first and then start standing around.

So what can I get you?

Tequila, please.

I didn't expect you back tonight.

Love's labor is lost.

Bill, I don't want much from you. I just want your arms around me sometimes.

All right.

I'll send you back a truck.

There you go. That should be enough.

All right.

Here, take it.

If you need more, I'll wire it back to you from the city, all right?

You're doing it again.

Doing what again?

Abandoning.

Man, don't be a queen. Who knows how long it's going to take to fix the dear

chariot.

I gotta get back to my job.

Abandoning.

Look, man, I recognize my space -time location. I truly do.

Not here.

See you back in the city?

I had a strange dream last night.

I dreamt I gave birth to a large spider.

What do you suppose that means?

Well, the Freudian interpretation would be that I want to have sex with my

father.

Say, Bill, does the Oedipal complex get reversed for facts?

Well, speaking from personal experience...

I never wanted to fuck my father.

The knife sharpener's here.

Joanie, look.

An honest -to -goodness Boy Scout knife.

Lucian used to have a knife like that.

He used to open wine bottles with it.

Think I'll go get the knife sharpened.

You did it.

Está bien, señor.

Hello, Herb.

Jen?

Herb?

Ben, I see you got the gun.

Yes.

Lee? Hello?

So, is the buyer here?

Depends on who's buying what.

Joni, you know Lee.

By reputation.

Listen, I don't know where Mark is, but I gotta go to him, Bar.

You know Marv, right? Yeah, sure. We're stationed in Germany together.

All right. Bill, you know a good thing?

Like a pig in a trough.

Heard you go down and tend to the bar, and I will come down with your

as soon as I have negotiated Swindle.

Perfect.

Swindle?

Marv's the standard guy.

It is a fair gun for a fair price.

I live my life by the Boy Scout code.

I know my guns.

Bullshit. You don't even know the Boy Scout motto, Weisenheimer.

Yes.

Be prepared.

Were you a Boy Scout, Lee?

No, I was never a Boy Scout.

Oh, really? Well, then Bill here could teach you not tying.

Or wrestling holds, if he hasn't already.

Didn't you two bone up on your wilderness lore down there in the

Jungle was fucking ghastly.

I don't understand. The jungle was ghastly or the fucking was ghastly.

Joanie. I love travel stories, especially ghastly fucking ones.

You've got some mouth on you, Mrs. Burroughs.

Do I not compare to some other mouths?

And where those mouths have been.

Well.

I'm so bored.

Well then, my dear, why don't we show the boys here our William Tell Act?

Okay, Bill.

Let's show them our little parlor trick, shall we?

Right there.

Johnny.

I'll, uh, go get that medical student who lived out in the world. I'll call an

ambulance. Johnny, she's gonna be fine.

Come on.

Hey, car.

Yes? What was the name of that friend of yours down in Mexico?

The one you just visited?

Burroughs, right.

Bad news, I think.

This just came over the wire.